Hi Elizabeth, 14 years on, I stumbled upon this conversation for the first time, not being a lurker in DreamWidth before. I am utterly with you about Narnia being the whole world in LWW (until we learn at the end that kings and princes from across the sea sought Susan's and Lucy's hands in marriage) but that the broadening and diversification of the world in later books then does beg the question: WTF is she even bothering with Narnia for at all? It's a little land. The idea of her being trapped in Narnia from the point she returns after 900 years to kill the Tree of Protection also occurred to me. So in my head canon (and stories) her 100 years as Queen is in fact her 100 years as chief prisoner (and executioner, always a stigmatised gig in history) and that the act of the tree dying is to seal the borders so that she cannot escape: and indeed to impose always winter, never Christmas. Not her direct doing. She springs a trap. Aslan sacrifices his people (as always) in achievement of his deeper magic and somehow they are still meant to love him and fawn upon him. Okay, okay, I'll pull back on the character hate just a little. Lol. I am not a lover of AU, but in my alternate horror universe, which is not written, Jadis gets to use her Creation-Witness and Apple-Consumption power, her psycho-analytics, her sociopathy and sheer force of personality to subjugate the world. And not through ice and snow. Have a nice day.
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I am utterly with you about Narnia being the whole world in LWW (until we learn at the end that kings and princes from across the sea sought Susan's and Lucy's hands in marriage) but that the broadening and diversification of the world in later books then does beg the question:
WTF is she even bothering with Narnia for at all? It's a little land. The idea of her being trapped in Narnia from the point she returns after 900 years to kill the Tree of Protection also occurred to me. So in my head canon (and stories) her 100 years as Queen is in fact her 100 years as chief prisoner (and executioner, always a stigmatised gig in history) and that the act of the tree dying is to seal the borders so that she cannot escape: and indeed to impose always winter, never Christmas. Not her direct doing. She springs a trap. Aslan sacrifices his people (as always) in achievement of his deeper magic and somehow they are still meant to love him and fawn upon him. Okay, okay, I'll pull back on the character hate just a little. Lol.
I am not a lover of AU, but in my alternate horror universe, which is not written, Jadis gets to use her Creation-Witness and Apple-Consumption power, her psycho-analytics, her sociopathy and sheer force of personality to subjugate the world. And not through ice and snow.
Have a nice day.