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[bedlamsbard]

Because I just love those moments when my brain drops bits of Warsverse history on me. This one having to do with Peter's spectacularly bad taste in men, or at least his proclivity for sleeping with people who want to kill him. (I think it's Edmund who floats the idea that Peter actually knows they want to kill him, he's just always hoping he'll be proven wrong.)

This one doesn't want to kill Peter. This one wants Peter to kill his siblings.

I think we can all guess just about how well this is going to end.

(To be fair, not everyone Peter sleeps with wants to kill him and/or take over his country. It's just that the numbers tend to add up after a while. Osumare Seaworth, for example. He never wanted to or tried to kill Peter. I mean, he pretty much shoved Narnia into a war that could easily have destroyed the entire country, but that was mostly just an accident. There are some other people too, but they're just names on a page at the moment; no personality or story yet.

...suddenly I want the story where Corin of Archenland tries to seduce Peter, which is probably right before HHB. I mean, it's not all that smart to send your ward, crown prince of a neighboring country, into a more-or-less unfriendly country. And Peter did pretty much flee for the North and the giants... Keyword here being tries; Peter's reaction is pretty much something along the lines of "OH HELL NO" because contrary to what his siblings say, he's not completely stupid. And Corin's not his type. It's not the political ramifications he's worried about.)

Comments

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Peter subconsciously hopes they'll kill him and thus free him from Narnia...? I'd investigate the mood he's in when he hooks up with which people.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's that desperate.

Upcoming fic: the one in which two separate groups of people try to kill Peter in the same night. That incident doesn't do much for his psyche.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I think there should be some hits on his family, both together and separately, because *that* would be an effort to destabilize both him and the country...and it would be interesting to watch him react. :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Must Be Tuesday -- the WIP with the assassination attempts -- is kind of interesting, because one of the attempts is personal (and is, uh, one of his lovers, who tries to kill him in bed -- Peter drinks heavily) and one is just business. Except for the fact that they got one of his bodyguards to betray him.

Peter is pissed, and then he's depressed, and Edmund is going, "Dude, get OUT of the room with the FOUR DEAD BODIES."

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

...Wait, CORIN tries to seduce Peter? B-But, Corin is like....TEN in H&HB! O____O

And LOL at your brain.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

And that would be why Peter said "NO" very firmly.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I can actually see that happening, though.

"You wanna...you know?"

"NO."

"Okay, can I box you?" *bouncy puppy dog eyes*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

"NO. I am going to go north to fight giants, and you CANNOT COME. Edmund, you deal with him, he won't try and crawl into your bed."

"He might try Susan's, though."

"Well, that's her problem. If I have to fight one more bloody tournament, I'm going to...go start a war."

"You are going to go start a war."

"It's been brewing for fourteen years now! So I'm not really...starting it."

"YOU IDIOT."

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

"I'd rather get into Queen Lucy's bed. She's more like a real boy." *shit-eating grin*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Firmly, from both brothers: "Lucy is not a boy."

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

*clueless expression* "...really?"

"REALLY. Now OUT."

"...awwww."

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

"Please tell me we can send him back to Archenland."

"We can't send him back to Archenland, Lune will just invade again."

"Maybe you could sell him to the Calormenes."

"Don't tempt me."

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

"Don't you have anything better to do? Go punch out your brother's lights or something. Kids."

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I feel I should do something more with the Narnia-Archenland conflict. *muses*

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

That is gross. Utterly and completely gross. And I'm very glad that Peter turned him down. XD

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I think my Cor and Corin are slightly older -- probably around thirteen or fourteen by HHB. *checks*

WHOA. I DID NOT REALIZE THAT THERE WAS DESCRIPTION OF CALORMENE ARMS AND ARMOR IN HHB. I mean, of course this changes by sixteen hundred years later, but what, I am distracted now, crap, I may have to rethink the entire strategy depending on what HHB says.

Note to self: reread HHB.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHHAHA, nice. XD

Yeah, they probably are a LITTLe older, but that doesn't change the obvious pedophilia. Even if its with consent. O_____O

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

By doing some very fast and loose math with the vague dates in HHB and Lewis's timeline, Cor and Corin are fourteen in HHB.

Of course, in "In a Dry Month" Peter is all of fifteen (maybe sixteen) and Osumare Seaworth is twenty-eight. I'm just saying. *shrug*

Corin has nothing going for him, though.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

OH WOW. D: That is awkward. XD

Hahahah, Corin kinda is....Corin. Yeah. But Cor and Aravis on the other hand...LOL. My only canon OTP, being that it is basically the only canon pairing XD

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I get out of this by very seldom dropping actual ages and just dropping the number of years into the Golden Age. Which kind of negates the awkwardness, because the ages in Narnia are one of those things that's up for debate.

You know, when you're Peter and your usual type happens to be very competent warrior types, the young prince of Archenland is not really up to standard.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that does make sense. I always thought their reign was unusually short anyways. I mean, sure, there were always kings and such (like Cambyses?) who didn't last very long, but with the kind of awesomeness of pwnful!Pevensies they had it OUGHT to have lasted much longer, Aslan be damned.

Hahahhaa, word.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

One can always assume that the years in Narnia are longer than Earth years, and so maybe they were there for...fifty years, instead of fifteen. *shr88g*

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

LOL, that works out quite awesome :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Although I don't feel that way; my assumption is that the fifteen years of the Golden Age might not necessarily be as great as it seems to be thirteen hundred years later, but bracketed as it is by the Long Winter and the Dying Times, it looks really freaking good. And my Golden Age actually was pretty good, of course -- aside from the constant warfare.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, it's the Golden Age after all. The relative high point.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

This is true.

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Corin, like, 12? And Peter was 24?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Lewis's timeline puts HHB at the year before the White Stag incident (if my memory serves me right; if it doesn't, well, that's how it got timed out in the Warsverse) so Peter is actually 28 or 29. And we don't know Corin's age, but I wouldn't put him past 14 or 15 at most.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, peter/corin! i forgot about that. also i want to do a follow-up scene to voyeur!corin where he says to cor, "dude, it's true! the pevensies are doing it," and cor is like, "whatchoo talkin about, willis?!"

I TURN MY BACK FOR LIKE TWELVE SECONDS AND WARSVERSE GROWS AN EXTRA CRAZY. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. WHAT.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I just gaze in mild bemusement...I've no idea what's going on any more, if I ever did. :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It's the Ocean's 11 AU monster we've got going on in a comment thread on Lass's journal. Last time I counted it was 40K, and that was around Christmas. I'm sure it's over that now.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i kind of want arthur/caspian and caspian/morgana. because dude, if caspian can put up with morgana, i think he can deal with susan.

AND THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT MORE CRAZY TO GO. which crazy is it this time?

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

I TOO WANT ARTHUR/CASPIAN.

it's the crazy where his lovers tell him to kill his siblings, though to be fair the crazy has been building up for a while. ;-O

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i want uther and lune throwing down. possibly miraz, too.

...not sure why, though.

there is so much crazy in the warsverse! for example, the hour plus i spent in my natural disasters class writing peter/susan pegging. my trauma, it could not be quantified, and yet my pen kept moving.

susan is very aggressive, for those wondering. *stares at ceiling* my prof was talking about earthquakes, i got that much out of the class.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

OH MAN YEAH. probably somewhere expensive, and they talk in VEILED THREATS delivered in a polite and casual tone. it's all "the courvoisier here is excellent, i quite recommend it," and lune is like, "i heard about that debacle at your charity function, what a shame."

and uther is like, "yes, it was unfortunate but nothing we couldn't handle." he smiles an unctuous smile and continues, "we can handle quite a lot, as you know."

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

and then lune lets his voice go ice cold and adds, "oh, yes, my sons did say the police did get there very quickly to dispose of those mobsters that somehow found their way in. why, if cor and corin hadn't been there, i don't know what would have happened.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

So what happens to the one who tries to get him to kill his family? How does that go down? Is he vaguely tempted?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

He is not tempted mostly because if his siblings died, Peter would have to rule Narnia all by himself, and he has had ENOUGH of that, thank you very much. Also because he loves his siblings.

It ends badly. Probably in either exiles or executions.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

*huggles Peter* Of course he loves his sibs.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It's either that or he really doesn't want the work. *grins*