I was taking notes because otherwise I would have forgotten all the things I wanted to say about this wonderful fic!
I like the tea set detail, and I really like the flags detail -- is that your explanation for the difference in colors in LWW (gold ground for the banners; red for the boys' tabards)? Because I, like the heraldry nerd I am, have been chewing that one over for a while, and I rather like this explanation. (The one I settled on was that the gold/yellow lion on red was the Pevensie family colors; red lion on gold/yellow was Narnia; and red lion on silver/white is Peter's personal colors - that last from his shield.) At least they fixed Lewis's heraldry in the movies - red on green would have looked atrocious, not to mention being terrible inaccurate heraldicly... er, I did mention the nerd part, yes?
Now was the monkey PotC or Borgias inspired, or just, y'know, pirate=monkey?
Ooooh, that bit about the Lone Island's superstition and the Emperor - brill!
Psst, typo - "they were losing at the griffins"
Oh, OW, Peter. Yes. It is hard to imagine a war he didn't fight in - and that he remembers most being sent away -- I can hear the pain and anger in that even as distant as he must be just then.
The details of the sea battle are fantastic. You really get the flavor of it - right down to the sand-buckets and the reward for particular successes.
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Date: 2011-06-11 02:13 am (UTC)I like the tea set detail, and I really like the flags detail -- is that your explanation for the difference in colors in LWW (gold ground for the banners; red for the boys' tabards)? Because I, like the heraldry nerd I am, have been chewing that one over for a while, and I rather like this explanation. (The one I settled on was that the gold/yellow lion on red was the Pevensie family colors; red lion on gold/yellow was Narnia; and red lion on silver/white is Peter's personal colors - that last from his shield.) At least they fixed Lewis's heraldry in the movies - red on green would have looked atrocious, not to mention being terrible inaccurate heraldicly... er, I did mention the nerd part, yes?
Now was the monkey PotC or Borgias inspired, or just, y'know, pirate=monkey?
Ooooh, that bit about the Lone Island's superstition and the Emperor - brill!
Psst, typo - "they were losing at the griffins"
Oh, OW, Peter. Yes. It is hard to imagine a war he didn't fight in - and that he remembers most being sent away -- I can hear the pain and anger in that even as distant as he must be just then.
The details of the sea battle are fantastic. You really get the flavor of it - right down to the sand-buckets and the reward for particular successes.
And I love that last scene ALL OVER AGAIN!