i have never written a character that flirts with as many people as peter pevensie

[bedlamsbard]

...I see Jack Sparrow just arrived in Narnia.

Dust 11: in which Peter flirts with men in prison and ends up in chains. Although those two events aren't related.

Yeah. Yeah, my High King of Narnia flirts with pirates, mercenaries, and noblemen with criminal connections.

You'd think he would have moved on from the pirate thing, though. I happen to know that at least two of the men he slept with during the Golden Age were pirates. (On the bright side, though, neither Osumare Seaworth nor Eskil Sigurdsson tried to kill him. So perhaps the pirates are the safer option.)

I haven't worked on Dust all day because I've been in a weird headspace because of last night. (Which, you know, for timing, came right in the middle of Peter's brain starting to work.) But I have read the entire of Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Rape of the Lock, done my laundry, knitted almost half of my Noble Cowl, finished reading Carnage and Culture, came up with names for two of the main characters in the colonial fantasy novel, and watched episodes of Numb3rs, Bones, Friday Night Lights, Flashpoint, and CSI:NY.

But now I've written another 500 words of Dust 11, which has me mostly convinced me that Peter has finally got his brain working, and also that my character Finch may be Jack Sparrow in disguise. (Hey, remember when I wrote PotC? Now there's a flashback for you.)

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[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Bedlam, I appear to have reached the point where I think of your Peter as a personal friend of mine. I was down by the lake for Australia Day, and the Army had their crack parachuting team out doing displays, and my internal monologue went something like:

Me: Ooh, I reckon Peter would like this! [and Brain threw up the mental image of your Peter, not mine] Pity he's not here!
Me: *eyeroll* Nah, he'd hate standing around watching other people show off. Besides, he'd probably be sarcastic about good talent wasted on public displays.
Me: wait. We do realise he's a fictional character, yes? Not even my personal version of a fictional character?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*smirks* I subscribe to this school of thought (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/159302.html) regarding chaaracter, although I'm not so active about it. Perhaps it's catching...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Oooh, looks interesting! *saves*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

All her meta is fun and interesting and good. I'm planning on doing this (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/292838.html) for Water when all my betas get back to me, and for Dust at some point in time.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Uh, wow. That's really bloody effective. I got a third of the way through and went 'OH, I remember when I used to do this'. Halfway through, Susan Pevensie slapped me upside the head and ordered me to stop faffing about and, in the following order, empty the diswasher, pay my rent, and get on the bus and go out to Woden and get my lease signed.

Lesson: Susan values efficiency. Which I knew, but evidently having her around could be beneficial. I don't think we're going to be very friendly, though.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I tried it with Anakin Skywalker, back when I was in SW. I used to do it in PE, and he just told me to suck it up and run harder, I should see what Jedi training is like.

[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's cause the pirates have less reason to kill him? I mean, they're not exactly posed to gain any political advantage from killing him (being, y'know, pirates, they're not posed to take over Narnia...). Unless of course, they were promised forgivness if they killed him for someone else. Huh.

Maybe they're just smexier. :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

No, that was the political exile Peter was sleeping with. Clearly our boy has impeccable taste. *rolls eyes* (That's Raedwulf of Northhope, in the WIP "Must Be Tuesday", where there are two completely unrelated assassination attempts and betrayals in one night, and Peter drinks heavily.)

Maybe it's just because he flirts with anything that moves.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Is this an intentional, calculated flirting, or is he just Captain Jack (Sparrow, Harkness, whatever)?

I started wondering if he ever flirted with women, aside from his fiances, but then I remembered him wandering down the street kissing all the prostitutes. That was good times.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Man, Peter just flirts with everyone. The only time I think he didn't was when he was (well, is) in the RAF, because he actually does like his job.

What's kind of surprising me is that he's aware of it; he's not doing it unconsciously. He's doing it on purpose, which means he has a purpose in mind.

Which makes one wonder exactly when and where he picked that habit up.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Which makes one wonder exactly when and where he picked that habit up.

Edmund.

Except I'm not sure if I'm getting Mata Hari Edmund from you or from someone else. Anyway, You're not a slut if you're doing it for your country. :)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Mata Hari Edmund's me, but Peter was a flirt long before Edmund -- I don't think Edmund does flirt, not the way Peter does all the time. (Especially since Peter does it when it's really, really politically inadvisable. Also it gets him nearly killed.)

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Question then, just for fun. How was Peter's flirting affecting everything in PC? Because you know sexual tension makes everything more fun.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I think he was too pissed off to flirt in PC; I don't think he did it at all in England after LWW, and that held over through most of PC until after they'd already won. (He also starts out just this angry in Dust and then it fades as he gets more comfortable in Narnia again.)

Curiously, Peta pretty much starts flirting as soon as she arrives in Narnia. I think it's her more or less going, "OH MY GOD YES," and then she hits Caspian over the head and carries him off to her cave...literally.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think that sort of all the time and utterly indiscriminate flirting would have carried well in '40s England

and then she hits Caspian over the head and carries him off to her cave...literally. Made all the more funy by latent claustrophobia!

Speaking of Peta, I've got 20 pages left on Be Like Water, then I'll send you the over all notes.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I mean, it's not that Peter doesn't go out and get himself laid in England, it just doesn't happen all the time, and for a few years there he completely shuts down the charm. (For very valid reasons.) And then he turns it back on again, although it doesn't come across quite as much as flirting. Nearly getting killed multiple times will do that to you.

(The one time he plays his tricks within the RAF, though, is when he and a bunch of his fellow officers are at a pub, and one drunk guy is going on about something or other, why would any man want to look at another man, let alone sleep with him -- and Peter, who's fairly drunk himself, comes up to him and tells him why, his voice very low and very intimate, and when he's done talking, half the guys there have hard-ons. And then Peter realizes what he's just done and walks out.)

Sweet, I look forward to it!

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

Also, Peta wouldn't have been as free to flirt back in England, without getting a hell of a reputation. She gets back to Narnia, and she's High Queen and can do whatever thehell she wants, with whoever she wants, and no one can really say anything about it. Or if they do, she can now threaten them with pointy objects.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Peta goes a little crazy in Narnia, this is true. And she's kind of interesting, too; even as a woman in a very male-oriented position, she still embraces and accepts her sexuality, although she doesn't make an issue out of it.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Peter's such a slut. And I say that with love.

Eskil Sigurdsson is such a norwegian/nordic name! It makes me happy=P

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I have never met or wrote a character who sleeps around as much as Peter does. (Although not as much in England as in Narnia.)

Probably because Sigurdsson is one of the Ansketts longshipmen who came in with Edeny Yricsdottir when she defected to Narnia!

...my Peter icon is way too dramatic for this.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

And where does Edeny Yricsdottir come from?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Here (http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/267137.html?thread=1507969#t1507969).