Hi Alice!!! I just read your Edmund and Caspian friendship hc and loved it! And I was just wondering if you have some hc's about Edmund's infamous suitors? We always see Susan with her suitors but not so much as Ed with his :) Thanks ❤️
Hehe, thank you!!! And yesssss, oh my gosh, can you imagine?
Edmund’s first suitor appeared when he was only twelve
He had a bit of a growth spurt, and puberty was starting to hit
And he caught the eye of this princess who was 11
There was only a year difference, but she had a hopeless crush on him
She would follow him around EVERYWHERE
During important meetings, she would attend despite not having the need to just to stare at Edmund
Edmund didn’t actually know what was up until he told Peter how this girl was creeping him out, and Peter just laughed
He told Edmund exactly what was happening, and Edmund had never turned so red from embarrassment
Thankfully, Peter was more in the spotlight and his next suitor didn’t appear until he was sixteen
She was a lady from another smaller province and she had a very...peculiar way of complimenting him
“Oh, Edmund...your brown eyes remind me of the twigs in my garden.”
“My lord, your skin is as white as paper...it makes you so beautiful and fragile.”
“King Edmund, your ears are quite outstanding aren’t they!”
He was never quite sure if she was insulting him or complimenting him
Edmund tried to squash her advances by pushing one of his knights onto her
Turns out his knight was far more interested and actually ended up courting the girl
His next notable suitor came when he was eighteen
He had just come of age in Narnia, and a ball was held in his honor
He got the usual attention from young ladies, but at that point he had learned how to politely decline
Or sick Lucy and Susan on them--both were effective
One widow in her forties seemed to wave them off and give him some peace at the ball
She was really sweet to him, and Edmund pitied her since she had just lost her husband and never had the chance to have children
She extended her visit at Cair, and she and Edmund actually got along well
He thought of her as a mother figure...but she--er--had some other intentions
It wasn’t until Susan gently broke the news to Edmund
He was sooo horrified, and slightly disgusted
After some help from Peter, the lady finally left Edmund alone
After the initial shock died down, his siblings had a good laugh about it...and he couldn’t help joining along
When he was in his early twenties, he had one suitor that nearly caused a fire
She was not very nice at all, but she appeared to be in front of Edmund
She flirted with him horribly...honestly, she was very bad
Edmund tried so many things...gently letting her down, bluntly letting her down
He tried to get Susan, Lucy, and even Peter to discourage her
He got so desperate, he asked one of his good lady friends to act as his suitor for a short while
Not even that pushed her off
In the end, he went to her father and told him what had happened
His suitor came storming in a horrifically ugly dress with so many feathers and claimed that she would start a war based on unrequited love
Of course, the others in the room chuckled at her expense
Her hand motions grew more animated, and she didn’t see the lit candle that caught fire on the feather from her sleeve
She started running around wildly, and would’ve caught the room on fire if Edmund didn’t throw a glass of water on her singed sleeve
She was SOOO angry, but everyone in the room started laughing at the ridiculous situation
Her father apologized to Edmund for her behavior, but she never visited Cair again
None of the Pevensies could say they minded
Sorry ya’ll. My brain came up with some strange things just now. Haha...but I hope it made you laugh a little.
Can we have a long post with Edmund’s suitor stories? Cuz honestly they would be hilarious.