Fair point -- Mary is obviously not doing her job as protector and defender at the moment! I think I need to write something from her POV, and also from Laurie's (because Laurie brings out Mary's better side, even pre-Narnia), to give a more rounded picture of why she's like this and how she's trying to justify her choices to herself. But yeah, she gets a lot better in Narnia... and then she stays better (because I did not like Peter's behavior in the Disney Prince Caspian any more than you did).
Stephen has a lot of Susan's tendency to accept the status quo and kind of flow along with it -- a passive temperament, if you will. It's interesting to think of how that might play out in a boy instead of a girl. Also (and this will come up when they get to Narnia, assuming I keep writing this AU), he does not like fighting or killing. He will fight, especially under Mary's command, but war is never his forte.
I am surprised by how easy it is to write Edith, actually -- she's by far the most distinct of the four siblings at the moment, though I am working on the others. Laurie, oddly enough, is the most vague, perhaps because he's the least obviously different from his canon counterpart.
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:48 am (UTC)Stephen has a lot of Susan's tendency to accept the status quo and kind of flow along with it -- a passive temperament, if you will. It's interesting to think of how that might play out in a boy instead of a girl. Also (and this will come up when they get to Narnia, assuming I keep writing this AU), he does not like fighting or killing. He will fight, especially under Mary's command, but war is never his forte.
I am surprised by how easy it is to write Edith, actually -- she's by far the most distinct of the four siblings at the moment, though I am working on the others. Laurie, oddly enough, is the most vague, perhaps because he's the least obviously different from his canon counterpart.