'THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THE ADVENTURE BEGINS'

𝖈𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊 ♥︎ 𝓲'𝓶 𝓷𝓸 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓳𝓮𝓬𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼 "If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." - C. S. Lewis

[narniadreams]

what if........ i told you i love edmund pevensie unconditionally and with all my heart? then what?

[ my edits - my writings - my ramblings - all other tags ]

[zannolin]

everyone shut up RIGHT NOWWWWW i got a real one (well, half, I've been told it was a stuffer) of susan's arrows from production i may die

[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

...I may have found yet another stunning edition og the narnia books... this time of both LWW and PC

Yet another uk set unfortunately but I love them and figured out how to display them

Ignore aslan, he got booted from where pc is and i dont know where to put him. Also not sure about the pc placement. We'll see.

And that gorgeous copy of mn is right below them

[crierthrice]

Maybe if I wish hard enough, I'll wake up in the timeline where C.S. Lewis wrote an eighth Narnia book, centered on Susan and her journeying through different worlds to reunite with her family.

[the-underlander]

people always characterize susan as a mother figure, and certainly many characters in the books see her that way (the narnians especially). but in my opinion, when it comes to the pevensies and how they see it, peter's the mother (especially in the years following the narnian war). the one whose word they can't really go against because once it's decided it's decided. "high king" means final word. susan is the more like the “firstborn.” the one peter leaves in charge when he can’t be somewhere. the one who knows her younger siblings regard her as lesser in authority. who knows they'd feel safer if it were peter and not her around. who tries to make up for it when they want peter instead. who knows how fragile her control over them is. yet, she knows them in some ways more than peter does. peter knows them instinctually, like a parent might, but susan's been there for ed and lucy at their ugliest. she's fought with them and that fighting means there's aspects of them she gets to glimpse that peter doesn't. for that reason, when they're too embarrassed to tell peter something, it's always su they go to. su who keeps their secrets and will take the fall for them if need be. who would never turn them away from her door. because she's one of them and they know she'll advocate for them. god i love susan.

[nothinggold13]

"'Cause I want to be the one after your own heart, And I might doubt the process like I doubted the start, So I'm begging, 'oh, mercy,' I'm begging, 'oh, mercy...'" Downstairs // Twenty One Pilots

[zannolin]

the costuming detail in narnia makes me go bonkers sometimes tho likeeee. they're wearing clothes from their golden age selves in the second film, and lucy who was famously the warrior queen? her dress is actually pants under an overskirt. the white witch's icicle crown slowly melts away to nothing as spring breaks and aslan's power overcomes her own. she wears his shorn mane as a symbolic part of her battle garb. caspian wears the same shirt under his armor for almost the entirety of the movie. it's his fucking pajama shirt. because that's the only thing he was wearing when he escaped.

[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

Fifteen years of memories do not just vanish. The years themselves may, leaving an eight, nine, twelve, thirteen year old body in the place where a twenty three, twenty four, twenty seven, twenty eight year old just stood. But the memories always remain. Somewhere.

Often they slip away from their hosts; there is not enough room for fifteen extra years in such small bodies after all, and though they may leave such marks behind as might be called scars, no longer obediently responding to their hosts recalls, no longer within hearing distance at all. 

Memories are creatures of habit, they go to the places where they were born, where they played out over and over again. The Pevensies fifteen years slip away, they slip away back to the Cair; they haunt her halls like ghosts, appearing for a slip second in the corners of their friends eyes, and wail unhearable laments when they die as Narnia destabilizes in the wake of her monarchs’ disappearance. 

The Narnians were not wrong when they said the isle is full of ghosts.

[mary-philbin]

“To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern sun, Queen Susan the Gentle. And to the clear northern skies, I give you King Peter the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.”

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (2005) dir. Andrew Adamson

[the-underlander]

lucy looking up to peter. seeing in him not just her older brother, the closest thing she has to a father (she doesn't really remember her father), but he's aslan's chosen one. every time she wants to fight, to learn to pick up a sword, he refuses and it vexes her, but she is defenseless when he asks her to trust him, when he asks her if she thinks aslan chose poorly when he chose him to protect narnia--protect her. and she has to begrudgingly say "no." and he's the only one lucy truly respects in this way, and she worries about her bloodlust. wondering if peter knows, if he would despise her, for how eager she is to taste war. how she's grown wilder in his absence. how her heart quickens at the sight of violence. how some deep part of her wants to scream and rampage against the injustices of the world. against their enemies. the hunger of the lioness. and she's jealous of him. so jealous. of his power and of his office. that aslan trusted him to care for their people. why did he give him the sword and her the cordial? why did he not trust her to fight for and protect their people? didn't aslan think she was brave enough? hadn't she proved herself?

and she doesn't know that peter looks up to her, too. that he sees her as wise beyond her years. seeks her counsel. that while lucy is wishing to join a battle, he is longing for home whenever he goes out to fight. that he cannot allow himself to fail. that he is constantly guilty. constantly wondering if he's doing right by his people. that the only person that makes him really forget is lucy. and he sings her songs to comfort himself when he's far off in another country. and she brings him closest to who he might have been if he hadn't had to grow up so fast. with her games and chases and pranks and jokes. that his heart bursts with love at the sight of her. when she saves him from boring meetings and the burden of his own crown. that he tries to write songs and poetry and feels as if they're never good or clever enough. not like lucy's. that he seeks escape from his own throne and uses art to make the darkness surrounding him beautiful. like she does. that he's jealous of her. so jealous. of how free she is. how aslan revealed himself to her. how certain she is of him. how present aslan is to her. why won't aslan talk to him that way? show himself when he so badly needs him? why does he always have to guess while lucy just knows?

and no matter what they do they're tied to the battlefield. trapped in their roles as perfect mirrors, the high king who wants to be a poet and lover and the high priestess who wants to be a soldier. and for all the praise they get from their people, they can't help but look at each other and feel protective and proud and jealous, jealous, oh so jealous.

[narniadreams]

wholly apart from skanders acting, your tags make so much sense if you remember that prior to this summer, edmund has just been sent to boarding school for the first time, while lucy hasnt started yet, so he's probably like "okay. I am an Older Kid now because im in School. Time to be an Older Kid" and then does the stuff you said in the tags of that gif set.

trueeeeeeee!!!! you are exactly getting my vision!!!! he really wanted to separate himself from lucy and be a part of the big kids. and it doesn't help that he really hated boarding school and got bullied there, so that's the type of behaviour he was seeing and learning. he probably still felt very much like a child there, weak and defenceless, and noticed that being mean gave him a sense of power and authority. plus, that was also what he was picking up from peter and susan, though he probably saw a lot of things as mean when they were just trying to take care of him. no wonder he was such a little brat.

(referring to this post)

[checoleclerc]

Random Edmund Pevensie moments: 379/?

[the-underlander]

no bc this movie is so funny. why is miraz’s first response when susan and peter barge in as caspian is demanding if he killed his father with a sword to his throat, “This used to be a private room.” like he’s so unserious 😭

[the-underlander]

one of my favorite bits in the PC movie is when peter insists they aren’t lost when they’re trying to cross into the Shuddering Woods with Trumpkin and Trumpkin’s like, “Unless I’m mistaken, there’s no crossing in these parts,” in a very Over It expression and then Peter, sassy as ever, goes, “That explains it then, you’re mistaken.” And then they get lost, and when they’re all overlooking the eroded gully, Susan starts textbook quoting the scientific process of rock formation like a National Geographics narrator until peter has to tell her to shut up. like that’s one of the most sibling things ever and it’s so funny.

[zannolin]

wait why is edmund's crown the cheapest? because isn't the design fairly similar to peter's crown? is gold more expensive? then why isn't susan's the most expensive because the design for her crown seems ways more intricate and difficult to replicate? i know nothing about props btw x

so this is just me going off what ive seen and a couple conversations but to my knowledge, edmund's is the simplest (the design isn't very difficult and did not require much upgrading from what it previously was, it doesn't have any additional gems or flowers that need to be made and affixed, etx) and it's just silver plated, not silver and then gold like Peter's and susan's. (don't ask me why it has to be that way, or why he's decided it has to be Real Gold and shit. maybe there's a reason. i don't know it.) the gold does cost more, and Peter's i guess has more sculpting and stuff involved? having seen it there are a LOT more details on it if nothing else. and i would assume it needs more of the materials for the plating due to being larger. susan's, based on what he's said, is the most complex of all the crowns. idr know why Peter's still ended up 100 euros more expensive, but honestly...well. they were all already extremely expensive for me (and most people im sure) during preorders, so now it's a whole other level. i can't claim to know fair pricing for these types of things but i can say it's definitely not anything i can afford anymore.

[rogers-carter]

As opposed to hundreds of years later... when you're younger.

[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

I've been thinking perhaps that the difference between Jill, Eustace, Polly, and Digory’s experience in Narnia and the Pevensies' experience in Narnia contributes to Susan breaking with the friends of narnia.

Like, Narnia is a place they all love obviously, but those four either view it as a nice place to visit (and rescue) or they view it with a kind of religious reverance. And while Eustace experiences losing Caspian, he sees him become young again in Aslan’s Country, and while both Jill and he both lose Rillian and Puddleglum and everyone else, they get to say goodbye with the knowlege they're never going to see them again. And Polly and Digory knew people in Narnia, but again, they both got to say goodbye and also didnt really have the time to build up a great attachment. They're always ready to go home at the end of their adventures, even if it means saying goodbye.

While the Pevensies are Narnia. They lived there for years and years and had whole lives where they forgot England exisited. And worse, they never did get to say goodbye. They didnt know that when they left the Cair, it would be the last time they saw Mr. Tumnus. And they didnt know when they left their companions behind and chased after the white stag that they would never return. They didnt get any goodbyes. They left behind so much unfinished business, not only in their personal lives, but in their roles as Narnias monarchs; they were responsible for the safety of everyone in their narnia and then they get ripped away and, after the return to Narnia in PC, they feel responsible for any harm that came to Narnia after they vanished even though it wasnt their fault. And then they forget it all, only to remember and gain the knowledge that they never got to say goodbye and that theyll never see their friends again and a short while later, both susan and peter learn that theyre not even allowed to visit the grave of their lost home.

And of course Lucy and Edmund adjust to the loss, because they have time and a final visit and the ability to say goodbye. And Peter probably doesn't handle it well, but he has work to throw himself into, he has the expectation of uni and such. And of course they all understand the loss, but they have destractions or closure or something.

So, back to the original point of this post, I think that the non Pevensie Friends of Narnia dont understand why Susan doesnt want to remember everything, or share everything. They dont understand why remembering Narnia would be painful because they dont have any painful memories of Narnia, and while they intellectually understand that the Pevensies were there for much longer, they have trouble actually understanding it, because the pevensies dont look as if theyve lived through those years, and so it just doesnt click that they carry fifteen years of grief along with their fifteen years of adventures.

But regardless of why, their attitude towards Narnia is so different that it begins to grate at Susan. Maybe Jill asks a question Susan refuses to answer one to many time, or maybe the Professor or Polly take her apprent age forgranted and dismiss something. And none of it is malicious and they are trying but they're also human and Narnia makes them exicted and happy and they dont always realize that the Pevensies are aching inside. They dont have these meetings very often after all.

So maybe the friends of narnia stop feeling like a safe place to Susan, because she hasnt moved past her grief and needs someone to talk to and everyone feels so distant from her and she doesnt want to ruin their perception of narnia. And she doesnt mean to break with them all at first, but its easier to say that she doesnt remember something when the others ask, and slowly she "doesnt remember" more and more until she herself almost believes it. And then its just easier not to go. And then its easier to actually try and forget and well, Susan has always liked parties, has always liked dressing well and making herself up. And it does help, dressing up and spending a night out on the town with those girls who would have been her friends in another life, dancing and flirting and joining in on the postwar relief sweeping through the country. And so she does it more and more and if its the one thing from narnia she can bring into this world, well she tries not to think about that too ofte.