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Narnian Apocalyptica











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One of the things I actually really liked about the next movie--which had some issues, believe me--was that it actually addressed that, which the books...didn't, really. You had the four kids in London standing around going "You know, it is really damn weird and frustrating to be kids again after being adults and rulers for so long, and this is messing with my head."

Not that I'm in the Narnia fandom, but I don't suppose there are any good fics that deal with this that you could rec? Because now I really want to see them be adults-used-to-ruling-an-entire-kingdom (logistics, supply, maybe even treaties and dealing with hard years of drought or harsh winters) and maybe even having had lovers and killed people and dealt with politics and other experiences that tend to mature you.

And then suddenly being stuck in kid bodies again and having almost no agency of their own and not expected to be able to fight or take care of themselves, and having their opinions not valued and just a whole ball of frustration. And how they deal with it, and maybe going into politics or fudging their age to get into the military or ~something~.

You might try The Stone Gryphon by rthstewart. It's here: http://archiveofourown.org/series/15017

The third part isn't done, but the first two are novel length and complete. I recommend them highly.

Oh, that is interesting. Thank you! :D

*grin* Well, ask and you shall receive, although it's very short...

There's a whole bunch of fic! I was only ever peripheral to Narnia fandom, so I don't have a lot at my fingertips, but let me see if there's any I saved...

Hmm, most of what I had gives nods to the issue but doesn't really dig deeply into that pain, which I gather is what you're looking for. Drat, because I know I've seen some.

Oh, burntcopper wrote several fics in which Edmund and Peter go into the military and are generally considered to be the sort of terrifying bastard you're glad to have on your side but still find terrifying (because they came into basic training having spent several formative years in stab-him-till-he-stays-down warfare), IIRC. And I think those fics play with the issue at least some.

I wrote one Susan fic, Between, which I link also in case it strikes your fancy, although it seems tacky to self-rec. I'll be interested to see whatever recs others have!

Angst is good, but so is determination. *g* I was in the Detective Conan/Case Closed fandom for a while, where the main protagonist is de-aged from 17 to... 8? 9? A kid, anyway. And it helps that he knows a mad scientist inventor, and is a very smart detective, and it's somewhat played for laughs.

But still, there are inventive and interesting ways that he gets around his kid-ness, even uses it to his advantage. And he does this absolutely hilarious kid-imitation, where he's all wide-eyed and cute, and then he turns around is all serious business. Now that'd give you mental whiplash.

If I had the time/inclination to go back and reread the Narnia books, I'd probably be writing the fic where the four of them do a kid-act as a cover, and then get up to their necks in trouble doing stupidly heroic/noble things that their adult lives in Narnia let them get themselves out of again. And the boys make wooden practice swords and the girls teach themselves how to make bows and arrows so they can keep their archery in practice. Like the Secret Seven/Famous Five/etc, but with Sharp Pointy Objects! :D

And also thank you for the burntcopper recs, those are great :D And your fic Between is good and made me so sad for Susan, and also the rest of them, but mainly Susan.

I only really remember not liking Susan, I know at first i *wanted* to like her, because she was an older sister, as I am (why did that matter?), but she turned out to be not the kind of character I want to identify with.

But then... I think she grew up in The Worst Way, into the kind of person people came down on me for not being, too concerned with how she looks, thinking only of the Here and now, and deriding fairy tales as "childish", even though she had lived one.

I got the impression from the book version that the semi-magical animal they were questing after when they stumbled back across the lamp-post, was either a contrivance of Aslan, or Aslan himself in another shape, because It Was Time for their return. Haven't re-read the book in years, though.

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