May. 26th, 2011

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The vast majority of this ficlet is heavily copied and/or paraphrased from the equivalent scene in LWW, because the point is to reflect and comment on canon, not to abandon it utterly. The main changes (beyond the Pevensies' sexes and genders, obviously) are a reversed order of gifts; the removal of Lewis's gender role prescriptivism; a bit of subtle mucking around with his punctuation, capitalization, and sentence phrasing; and some changes to the Beavers' dialogue and actions at the end. Also I changed the simile for describing the red lion on the shield, mostly because I do not find ripe strawberries a particularly intuitive association with tools of war. *wry*

There are two places where "As the Morning and the Night" goes drastically askew to canon. The first is Edith's relationship with Jadis. This -- the meeting with Father Christmas -- is the second. (1,050 words)

[ETA: The AO3 crosspost is now up!]

The Spell Begins To Break )

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I wrote the bit from Father Christmas's speech to Mary up to Mrs. Beaver stepping on her husband's paw back in March, but only got around to the rest of the story tonight.

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Incidentally, my pre-Narnia Mary character study (otherwise known as "How Does Your Garden Grow?") is now at 1,950 words. I just can't figure out how to tie it up properly, which is driving me nuts. Ah well, sooner or later it will come to me.

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