Damn, I love your Jill! There is that thing here which - I actually can't recall at the moment if Eustace has mused on it as well, but I'm not sure - seems quite her own, that feeling of failure, and I really like what you do with that where it's not just a sense of her having failed and so the Pevensies are brought in, but a sort of anger over it, a sense of why the hell is she here if she's not good enough, and I love that. JILL BABY, YOU'RE KICKASS TOO.
Her anger at the Archenlanders, the ease with which she fits into the Narnian party in those terms - there's a way in which Jill, at least - I'm not sure about Eustace, I'd have to go back and really look for it - is far more Narnian than the Pevensies. Or at least, far more this-Narnian. Five years in she's used to the four little gods and the Narnian hatreds and all that, and it's that middle ground between possible-savior-from-England and just-another-Narnian that makes her narration so compelling to me, I think.
And - I don't know if this is what you intended, but I really liked getting her view of Susan. I think that for those of us who dislike the way Jill and others talk about Susan in TLB, it's easy to turn that around and say, well, obviously Jill is silly herself, or Jill doesn't know Susan well enough, or Jill is superficially slut-shaming Susan, or what have you. But I don't see any of that here, despite the fact that Jill is indeed ripping into Susan for things Jill herself definitely doesn't understand. It goes back to that middle-ground place of hers, but on the England side this time - she's a Friend of Narnia but Not a Pevensie, never a queen, very much less in the crowd in some ways.
Basically, what I'm saying is I really like your Jill, and moar please :D
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Date: 2011-12-28 06:26 am (UTC)Her anger at the Archenlanders, the ease with which she fits into the Narnian party in those terms - there's a way in which Jill, at least - I'm not sure about Eustace, I'd have to go back and really look for it - is far more Narnian than the Pevensies. Or at least, far more this-Narnian. Five years in she's used to the four little gods and the Narnian hatreds and all that, and it's that middle ground between possible-savior-from-England and just-another-Narnian that makes her narration so compelling to me, I think.
And - I don't know if this is what you intended, but I really liked getting her view of Susan. I think that for those of us who dislike the way Jill and others talk about Susan in TLB, it's easy to turn that around and say, well, obviously Jill is silly herself, or Jill doesn't know Susan well enough, or Jill is superficially slut-shaming Susan, or what have you. But I don't see any of that here, despite the fact that Jill is indeed ripping into Susan for things Jill herself definitely doesn't understand. It goes back to that middle-ground place of hers, but on the England side this time - she's a Friend of Narnia but Not a Pevensie, never a queen, very much less in the crowd in some ways.
Basically, what I'm saying is I really like your Jill, and moar please :D