For all that Lucy and Edmund are the sibling pair who arguably get the most on-page interaction in the books -- the opening sections of LWW, the lovely bit in PC where he decides to believe her about Aslan though he can't see anything himself, the entirety of VDT -- they are not really beloved of fic writers, are they? This goes for my work too, alas! I really must remedy that, as I ought to remedy various other lapses of attention. But I did finally write an Edmund!POV story, which I had been meaning to do for years, so there's that at least. :-)
He is very much a young teenage boy, easily embarrassed by all manner of things (and carrying the burden of a still-unstable country on top of that), but that little exchange about no, he couldn't write that law because it would be wrong does encapsulate my core understanding of him. Of course, the general enthusiasm for let's-make-it-work projects also speaks to a key aspect of his personality -- the part that memorizes railway schedules and thinks about building proper roads while he's stumbling through snow on his way to the Witch's castle -- which is why it's easy for Tumnus to divert him into organizing a proper distribution method for proclamations and other official announcements, and also why Lucy is able to argue him around to agreeing that it's more practical to make use of an existing communication channel than to try inventing a new thing with no supporting cultural context.
(Tumnus is acting a little bit as an authorial stand-in here, at least in the sense of an adult looking at a teenager with sympathetic amusement. *wry*)
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Date: 2014-07-06 02:57 am (UTC)For all that Lucy and Edmund are the sibling pair who arguably get the most on-page interaction in the books -- the opening sections of LWW, the lovely bit in PC where he decides to believe her about Aslan though he can't see anything himself, the entirety of VDT -- they are not really beloved of fic writers, are they? This goes for my work too, alas! I really must remedy that, as I ought to remedy various other lapses of attention. But I did finally write an Edmund!POV story, which I had been meaning to do for years, so there's that at least. :-)
He is very much a young teenage boy, easily embarrassed by all manner of things (and carrying the burden of a still-unstable country on top of that), but that little exchange about no, he couldn't write that law because it would be wrong does encapsulate my core understanding of him. Of course, the general enthusiasm for let's-make-it-work projects also speaks to a key aspect of his personality -- the part that memorizes railway schedules and thinks about building proper roads while he's stumbling through snow on his way to the Witch's castle -- which is why it's easy for Tumnus to divert him into organizing a proper distribution method for proclamations and other official announcements, and also why Lucy is able to argue him around to agreeing that it's more practical to make use of an existing communication channel than to try inventing a new thing with no supporting cultural context.
(Tumnus is acting a little bit as an authorial stand-in here, at least in the sense of an adult looking at a teenager with sympathetic amusement. *wry*)