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edenfallingToday is NFE reveal day! I wrote two fics this year: one assignment and one pinch hit. I will talk about each in a separate post.
Bitter Work: Things always work according to their nature. If any Narnian, unbidden, had stolen an apple and planted it here to protect Narnia... (2,075 words, written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
cofax)
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And then I wrote a pinch hit!
Cofax asked for "turn left" AUs and said she was okay with dark and/or apocalyptic scenarios, so I wrote a small shift with potentially huge and ominous consequences. Aslan specifically says in MN that a stolen apple would also have protected Narnia, but it would have done so by making Narnia into a cruel and conquering empire, like Charn. And I cannot help but wonder how the Pevensies would react upon being summoned by a desperate prince of Telmar who wants them to save the world by fighting against the country they ruled for fifteen years. Obviously I didn't get that far along the timeline, but that is the ultimate aim. *evil grin*
I realized, while writing this fic, that I had written surprisingly little about Golden Age Narnia itself. I've done a lot of work with Calormen and Archenland, but I think my longest Pevensie-centric stories are Into Something Rich and Strange and Queen Lucy, the Firebird, and the Death of Koschei the Deathless, and those aren't set in Narnia-proper either! (They take place among the mer-folk and in a made-up country to the northwest of Narnia, respectively.) So I made most of this up as I wrote, with the exception of Anaprisma the Cat, who also appears in The Courting Dance, and King Feyraud of Sarovence, who is mentioned briefly in Commonly to the Wars and In Song and Story. As you can see, I was not making any great effort to remain anonymous. *wry*
Anyway, despite the AU turn this story takes, writing it has firmed my nebulous personal fanon about a lot of things that will help in completing "The Courting Dance." So that is a nice side-benefit!
(I ran too close to the deadline to get this beta-read. Next year, I will try to line beta-readers up in advance in case I grab another pinch hit.)
Bitter Work: Things always work according to their nature. If any Narnian, unbidden, had stolen an apple and planted it here to protect Narnia... (2,075 words, written for
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And then I wrote a pinch hit!
Cofax asked for "turn left" AUs and said she was okay with dark and/or apocalyptic scenarios, so I wrote a small shift with potentially huge and ominous consequences. Aslan specifically says in MN that a stolen apple would also have protected Narnia, but it would have done so by making Narnia into a cruel and conquering empire, like Charn. And I cannot help but wonder how the Pevensies would react upon being summoned by a desperate prince of Telmar who wants them to save the world by fighting against the country they ruled for fifteen years. Obviously I didn't get that far along the timeline, but that is the ultimate aim. *evil grin*
I realized, while writing this fic, that I had written surprisingly little about Golden Age Narnia itself. I've done a lot of work with Calormen and Archenland, but I think my longest Pevensie-centric stories are Into Something Rich and Strange and Queen Lucy, the Firebird, and the Death of Koschei the Deathless, and those aren't set in Narnia-proper either! (They take place among the mer-folk and in a made-up country to the northwest of Narnia, respectively.) So I made most of this up as I wrote, with the exception of Anaprisma the Cat, who also appears in The Courting Dance, and King Feyraud of Sarovence, who is mentioned briefly in Commonly to the Wars and In Song and Story. As you can see, I was not making any great effort to remain anonymous. *wry*
Anyway, despite the AU turn this story takes, writing it has firmed my nebulous personal fanon about a lot of things that will help in completing "The Courting Dance." So that is a nice side-benefit!
(I ran too close to the deadline to get this beta-read. Next year, I will try to line beta-readers up in advance in case I grab another pinch hit.)
