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peter, susan, and edmund: it’s ridiculous to say that i have a favorite sibling. i love all lucy’s and non-lucy’s equally
here’s some cryptid pevensie headcanons because the idea lives rent free in my head:
🙧 the first year in narnia, peter quickly learns to be careful of his own strength. at thirteen years old, he can summon up the strength of a fully grown man. it’s humorous at first when he accidentally breaks a glass or throws a battle axe through the target, but as he grows older, his strength grows with him; golden hair and a blue-sky smile belie the strength of river-gods and wolf jaws. it is said that he can best the giants in sheer physical strength, and that the bones of narnia’s enemies seem to crack in two in the high king’s grasp.
🙧 it’s little children who first begin to giggle that queen susan can tell what trouble they’re going to get into before they even start it. they talk of how her eyes seem to cloud over like the the sky before a rainshower and her voice turns firm and unfinching as oak wood, giving them a little fright until she shakes her head and laughs her sunshine laugh, reminding them not to swim very far across the river. mothers know the look in her eyes; soldiers learn to watch for it, to mark the moments where disaster may come swiftly and they must trust in the gentle queen’s uncanny vision.
🙧 it starts out as a game, as a wine-drunk faun sends a goblet flying off the table at a feast one night. edmund catches it without looking, without spilling so much as a drop. at first, he favors it as a party trick, something to make his siblings laugh - he can catch anything with ease, even with his eyes closed. but as he grows older, the quiet king’s eagle-keen senses grow ever sharper. soldiers will sit around their campfires and tell tales of the just king who parries the fastest swing of an enemy’s blade and catches flying arrows by the shaft before they hit their mark.
🙧 lucy learns a language that no one in narnia knows besides the land itself; she learns to speak the language of the trees and the rivers and the sea. she does not realize when she switches tongues; when she first learned to speak it, her siblings feared she was going mad. now all of narnia knows that when the little queen hums and trills in strange, wild tones, the very earth will respond; narnia’s enemies become wary of the ground the walk on and the sea that takes them home, lest the valiant queen speak it to life and bid it swallow them whole.
Thoughts on modern pevensies?
Sounds like fun here are some thoughts:
- Peter drives the car. This is The Rule. Sometimes he’ll swap out with Susan on a long drive, but Lucy is a terrifying driver and no one has a clue how she passed her test. Edmund always means to learn but never does, he just gets Peter or Susan to drive him
- Lucy loves to video everything. Maybe she’s a small vlogger, maybe she just loves filming things to keep the memories. Susan and Edmund act annoyed by it but they don’t really mind
- Edmund plays the bass guitar and while he will show off all day long with music written by others, he is intensely secretive about his own work
- Susan is a brilliant contemporary dancer and Lucy loves to film her performances
- They all often have each other on a call in the background if they’re apart. Even if they’re not talking, they just have one or more of the others in the corner of their screen or in an earphone
- Peter is a great cook, which infuriates Susan because she follows recipes very closely and her food only ever turns out ok, whereas Peter goes on instinct. He taught Lucy to bake, which she loves. Edmund is not allowed to cook because he will set off the smoke alarm
- Edmund and Lucy both love video games. Susan does not. Peter doesn’t really play but he somehow still possesses the magical big brother power of being able to get the younger ones past a hard level, which Edmund finds very suspicious
- Family board game night is a frightening affair. Eustace has been dragged along a few times and he does not understand why they are all fanatically committed to it even though they all end up furious
- As soon as they were all old enough, they started going on road trips together. Their annual road trip is sacrosanct in all of their calendars. The goal is usually to find the strangest, most obscure hidden gems and weird places they can
Peter, fifteen and fresh out of a bloody and brutal war, sneaking out of Cair Paravel in the middle of the night and going to the river, sticking his head into ice-cold water to shock himself out of a nightmare riddled sleep. Narnia won, but at what cost?
Peter, lying in Susan's bed with his fingers curled tightly into the fabric of her skirts, dried tear tracks on his face and Susan singing quietly in an effort to comfort him. Her fingers pick apart the strands of his hair and he falls asleep only to wake up an hour later with screams on his lips.
Peter, wrapping his arms around an Edmund who has returned from war and murmuring frantic thanks to the Gods for keeping him alive. He presses kisses on Edmund's forehead, cheeks, nose and eyelids, and considers the idea of never letting any of his siblings out of his sight ever again.
Peter, sitting on the High King's throne at the age of thirteen and wondering if he is worthy of this, if he deserves this, if he is capable of this. He is thirteen and barely knows anything about anything and he is High King who should know everything about everything is he worthy is he deserving is he capable he does not know—
Peter, in Lucy's room sitting on the floor with his back pressed to her bed, allowing her to braid flowers into his hair as he stares at the wall. The Victory Parade is in a few hours, but they lost many soldiers and people and Peter has lost sleep and sanity and good friends. Narnia has won but Peter has lost.
Peter, carrying a candle to the Castle Library at two in the morning and pulling out a book about children's fables. He cannot sleep, might as well distract himself. The candle dies down and the sun comes up, and Peter drags himself back to his quarters to get ready.
Peter, who locks himself in his chambers and does not come out for days and days, who refuses food and drink and buries himself under his blankets and stares out the window with blank eyes and slack eyebrows, who does not speak and does not cry and pushes his face into his pillow and screams for the nightmares to go away please I'll do better I just want to sleep please stop please—
Peter, who wants peace and contentment, but cannot help but go to war. Peter, who is quiet and introspective but needs to be loud and abrasive because he is High King. Peter, who wishes he could put down the sword that he wields as easily as he breathes.
Peter, who desires peace, but becomes a God of War
Ok we all talk about the Pevensies’ trauma at returning to Earth at the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and their trouble readjusting to life there again but think of all the funny/good parts too
They return from the country, and their mom is surprised when all her children hug her at the station. Even Peter, who thinks he’s all grown up. Even Edmund, who went away surly and withdrawn. She doesn’t know her children haven’t seen her in over a decade.
They miss their dear Cair Paravel, but they absolutely do not miss its chamber pots. Indoor plumbing is amazing.
It takes a while to remember how modern technology works, though. How many heart attacks did the siblings give their parents or the professor because they walked into a dark room only to turn on the light and find the children sitting there in the dark. (They were by the window! There was still plenty of light from the sunset! They would have gotten a candle in a minute!) The kids sheepishly remember oh yeah electricity is a thing.
(Edmund has a new electric torch in Prince Caspian. He was so excited to get that torch. Almost more excited than you’d think a kid his age would be, and his parents expect Peter at least to tease him, but the siblings all agree light in your hand at the touch of a switch is terrific.)
Suddenly getting really high grades in some subjects and terrible in others. Their grammar, reading comprehension, spelling, vocab, even penmanship? Amazing. History and geography? They don’t remember anything. One time in class Susan forgets Earth is round and wants to die.
Also they can never remember what the date is supposed to be because Narnia uses different months and years. They can estimate time really well by looking at the sun though, and Edmund at least can always tell which way is north etc without thinking about it (again, using the sun)
Okay but how many times did they go to pick something up or reach something and realize they are so much shorter and less muscled than they expect? It’s a common sight to see Peter climbing on counters to reach a top cabinet, grumbling about how he’s High King this is demeaning. (No he never takes the extra five seconds to grab a stool. He will climb that shelf.)
Peter and Susan being delighted because they are no longer almost thirty. (In a few years Edmund and Lucy will tease them about being old and their parents will not understand.)
Lucy doesn’t have to deal with periods anymore for a few years yet. Susan might not either. Heck yeah
Lucy loves to climb into her siblings’ laps and be cuddled. In Narnia she eventually she grew too big, but now she is small and snuggleable again. Peter is her favorite, and if she’s upset, he’ll tickle her and tell bad jokes until she’s smiling again, but really she loves cuddling with all her family. She grew up without her parents; how many times did she just want to crawl into her mom’s lap and her mom was a world away? Imagine the first time she realizes she can now. Or, imagine one day, a cold and grey sort of day, when the rain is pattering against the windows, and it sounds like the rain on the windows of the Professor’s house, that first day they went exploring. It sounds like the day they played hide and seek. It sounds so like the rain on the windows of Cair Paravel, that if Lucy closes her eyes she can imagine she’s back there, having tea and chatting with Mr. Tumnus before the fireplace of her room, and soon the rain will stop, and they will go out on the balcony and wave to the naiads and the dryads and the mermaids, who have come out to enjoy the rain and visit one other on the banks of the Great River winding past Cair Paravel down to the sea.
But if Lucy looks out the window, all she’ll see is the rain over London, so it’s not only a cold and grey sort of day, it’s a lonely sort of day too.
Susan and Edmund are playing chess in the living room (and they must have studied with Professor Kirke, thinks their mother, because they certainly weren’t that good when they left). Lucy goes over to Edmund, and oh dear, thinks their mother, now he’s going to call her a baby and be horrible to her, but instead he picks her up and puts her on his lap without even taking his eyes off the chessboard; it’s simply a matter of course.
“Doesn’t the rain sound familiar?” says Lucy in a solemn, wistful way.
Their mother doesn’t know what that means, but her siblings must, because Susan says, “Yes, Lu, it does,” and Edmund gives her a little hug with his free arm as she tucks herself under his chin to watch the chess match.
(Five minutes later there is a crash from the next room as Peter falls off a counter. Their mother does not understand the words he must have picked up from the Professor, but he’s grounded for them anyway. His siblings have no respect for their High King, because they refuse to stop laughing.)
Narnia and Hamilton. I'm in love with this 😍😍❤️
We rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes And if there’s a reason I’m still alive When everyone who loves me has died I’m willing to wait for it.
The Pevensie's Mode of Transport
Peter :
- a car. He owns a red Mercedes-Benz that he loves. Despite this, Peter does like to walk a lot, as he has great enthusiasm for keeping fit, and he wants to help the environment in any way he can, so he only uses it for journeys longer that take 40 minutes or more. Though he loves his car, he is saving to buy a purely electrical one. You secretly love his the Mercedes ( though you'd never admit it) and have to conceal your smug face when he pulls up by your work looking effortlessly handsome - but you allow a small smirk to cross your face at the priceless looks on the faces of nearby girls as you get in the passenger seat and greet him with a kiss.
Susan :
- the bus. Susan takes the bus everywhere. She knows all the buses near her and their routes, and is always a reliable journey planner guide. She thinks it's easier and simpler, and doesn't see the point of having a car. If the bus is late, she just walks. You share this opinion, and will happily walk down the street dressed to the nines for a date. As long as she's there, you don't mind.
Edmund :
- public transport. Like Susan, Edmund knows all the buses and routes, but not just near him, he knows all the buses in London. It's the same for the tube. He uses the underground almost every day. Edmund does however, own a black Triumph Bonneville, so he can drive you to dates or pick you up in style if you need a lift. He also just thinks it looks cool, which it does.
Lucy :
- a bike. Lucy owns a navy blue bike as it's eco and good exercise. She doesn't have a job as she's still at school, and therefore doesn't need anything else. Like her siblings, Lucy does like to walk as often as she can. You own a bike of the same brand but in black, and it looks cute when you go out riding together.
Guardians of Narnia Now Updated!
After months of putting it off, I finally updated The Guardians of Narnia and you can now read Chapter 1 on AO3! Take a look and let me know how y'all like it!
Also, stay tuned for what our guardians look like!
Narnia Incorrect Quotes 234/?
Susan: You use sarcasm to make sure people don't get close
Edmund: I could use a sword if you like
When Mr.Pevensie asks Edmund where his new torch went , Edmund decide to tell the truth "in Narnia" fortunately for the sibling Mr and Mrs.Pevensie just thought that this was a new type of lingo that kids were using. So then saying "lost in Narnia" a common phrase said in the Pevensie household.