Right, I'm aware that Lewis isn't the only one to use that trope. I haven't read any of the others besides Grossman (and my feelings towards that are so strong, negatively, that I'm sure they can be seen from space), although The Fionavar Tapestry is on my to-read pile. It's not really my favorite trope, for various reasons, and it's possible to do some very interesting things with that trope.
The story I'd want to tell doesn't use that trope. I guess I find it hard to think of a way that using that trope wouldn't overwhelm the story; the way it works in Dust is basically as a background note, since Dust is more from the Narnian POV than from the English/Pevensie POV. I've thought about it before -- not in reference to an origfic Dust, but in reference to something else -- and my interest has never been in that kind of coming of age story, just the fallout. In an origfic Dust, it matters less, if at all, since the focus isn't on the saviors, it's on everyone else. Which I guess I didn't really make clear in this post.
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Date: 2013-02-27 07:07 am (UTC)The story I'd want to tell doesn't use that trope. I guess I find it hard to think of a way that using that trope wouldn't overwhelm the story; the way it works in Dust is basically as a background note, since Dust is more from the Narnian POV than from the English/Pevensie POV. I've thought about it before -- not in reference to an origfic Dust, but in reference to something else -- and my interest has never been in that kind of coming of age story, just the fallout. In an origfic Dust, it matters less, if at all, since the focus isn't on the saviors, it's on everyone else. Which I guess I didn't really make clear in this post.