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be_themoon.
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What Dreams May Come: In which Susan Pevensie hires the Inception team to wake her brother from a coma. (1,650 words)
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So the thing is,be_themoon's prompts included immortal Pevensies in England, Susan & Edmund close relationship stuff, other Pevensies surviving the train crash, and crossovers -- with any fandom.
On a seemingly unrelated note, some years ago I wrote a series of Inception 3-sentence ficathon fills forbe_themoon, which both utterly failed to stick to the three-sentence limit and wound up turning into a single unified fic. (Dreamers of the Day, if you're feeling curious.)
OBVIOUSLY I was going to write an Inception crossover with Susan and Edmund getting involved in dreamshare! The only question was what gimmick to use. My initial thought was to have them be a two-person extraction team, but I got a little hung up on how they'd get into that line of work and also what roles they'd play, so I set the idea aside for my subconscious to chew over.
A couple weeks later, I woke up one morning and knew with utter certainty that Susan and Edmund weren't dream thieves. Instead, Susan would hire the Inception crew (sans Dom and Yusuf, who are respectively retired and not interested in field work) to wake Edmund from the coma he'd been stuck in since the train crash in 1949.
After that it was just finding the time to write. :)
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Some additional thoughts: the McGuffin that extractors use to enter dreams is called a PASIV, which is basically a silver briefcase that acts as a multi-person IV dispenser for a drug called Somnacin. Dreamsharing technology is never explained beyond that and might as well be magic. Given that, I spent a while toying with the idea that it may literally be magic. The theory goes that the initial PASIV prototypes contained magic dust from Atlantis or some other world, but manipulated and tweaked to allow mental travel to "inner" worlds rather than physical travel to other physical universes. And then after a while new PASIVs wouldn't even need the dust since the power of ritual and belief would make the spell go on its own.
There wasn't really a place to work that in to the story as it currently exists, but if I write a continuation, that might well come into play at some point. I also wanted to do more with Susan being an excellent manor house manager because of her prior experience as chatelaine of Cair Paravel, and some thoughts on that being a very complicated skill set that doesn't have a lot of immediately obvious translations to modern life because it's a weird combination of extensive HR/management skills and also a lot of intensely practical yet outdated technical knowledge about farming and cooking and architecture and so on. But again, no place in the story as it currently stands.
Speaking of continuations, there are two main paths that could take. In one, Edmund is experiencing a pleasant near-death experience where he's right up against the borders of Aslan's Country. The second path has Edmund trapped in an extremely unpleasant near-death experience, built partly from residual guilt and partly from, you know, the fact that Jadis is still canonically alive at the end of TLB and her bodiless spirit might well know how to trap Edmund's wandering not-quite-dead soul. *evil laughter*
But mostly I just wanted to write Ariadne being her canonical curious and observant self, and Susan being mysterious and competent and caring deeply about her family. Which I think I managed. :)
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What Dreams May Come: In which Susan Pevensie hires the Inception team to wake her brother from a coma. (1,650 words)
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So the thing is,
On a seemingly unrelated note, some years ago I wrote a series of Inception 3-sentence ficathon fills for
be_themoon, which both utterly failed to stick to the three-sentence limit and wound up turning into a single unified fic. (Dreamers of the Day, if you're feeling curious.)OBVIOUSLY I was going to write an Inception crossover with Susan and Edmund getting involved in dreamshare! The only question was what gimmick to use. My initial thought was to have them be a two-person extraction team, but I got a little hung up on how they'd get into that line of work and also what roles they'd play, so I set the idea aside for my subconscious to chew over.
A couple weeks later, I woke up one morning and knew with utter certainty that Susan and Edmund weren't dream thieves. Instead, Susan would hire the Inception crew (sans Dom and Yusuf, who are respectively retired and not interested in field work) to wake Edmund from the coma he'd been stuck in since the train crash in 1949.
After that it was just finding the time to write. :)
...
Some additional thoughts: the McGuffin that extractors use to enter dreams is called a PASIV, which is basically a silver briefcase that acts as a multi-person IV dispenser for a drug called Somnacin. Dreamsharing technology is never explained beyond that and might as well be magic. Given that, I spent a while toying with the idea that it may literally be magic. The theory goes that the initial PASIV prototypes contained magic dust from Atlantis or some other world, but manipulated and tweaked to allow mental travel to "inner" worlds rather than physical travel to other physical universes. And then after a while new PASIVs wouldn't even need the dust since the power of ritual and belief would make the spell go on its own.
There wasn't really a place to work that in to the story as it currently exists, but if I write a continuation, that might well come into play at some point. I also wanted to do more with Susan being an excellent manor house manager because of her prior experience as chatelaine of Cair Paravel, and some thoughts on that being a very complicated skill set that doesn't have a lot of immediately obvious translations to modern life because it's a weird combination of extensive HR/management skills and also a lot of intensely practical yet outdated technical knowledge about farming and cooking and architecture and so on. But again, no place in the story as it currently stands.
Speaking of continuations, there are two main paths that could take. In one, Edmund is experiencing a pleasant near-death experience where he's right up against the borders of Aslan's Country. The second path has Edmund trapped in an extremely unpleasant near-death experience, built partly from residual guilt and partly from, you know, the fact that Jadis is still canonically alive at the end of TLB and her bodiless spirit might well know how to trap Edmund's wandering not-quite-dead soul. *evil laughter*
But mostly I just wanted to write Ariadne being her canonical curious and observant self, and Susan being mysterious and competent and caring deeply about her family. Which I think I managed. :)
