#peter pevensie

[versatan3344]

watching narnia for a thousand time and its still perfect

[always-a-monarch]

Ok so currently on 16k now and here is a snippet that I Had to share bc I am Losing my Mind about Them:

Peter releases a shuddering breath. "I'm not the High King from your stories, Caspian," he whispers. "I'm just me. Just Peter Pevensie from Finchley." He won't meet his eyes. Caspian shrugs. "All I need is you," he says simply. "You are who I called for. I don't need some great king, only my friend." Now, he looks back. "You really mean that?" "Would I have said so if I didn't?" He challenges. "I suppose not." He smiles, thin and wan, but in the dim light of the chamber it feels like a sunbeam.

This is from my current WIP - an au where Caspian visits England pre-LWW when he and the Pevensies are children!

If you enjoyed this, check out my other Narnia fic on ao3!

[the-underlander]

if you squint, caspeter is basically patroclus and achilles

[always-a-monarch]

Narnia ends. They crowd around the door to watch. Peter thinks it's the worst thing he's ever had to witness as it withers and floods, and eventually the sun is put out. Everything is cast in ice. "Peter, High King of Narnia," comes a rumble from beside him. "Shut the Door." It's with a hesitation and a twist in his gut that Peter reaches out through the Doorway, steeling himself against the cold that sinks far deeper than he could have prepared for. At the same time as his fingers land on the handle he takes one last look at the remains, at the empty wasteland, except- It's not empty. There's something shining in a human shape not too far away - a forgotten Star, perhaps? Peter's about to ask Aslan about it when the figure gets closer and he sees a white dress - or, no, a nightgown - and long black hair and he hears her call his name. His Susan, his darling, Gentle sister, stands in the emptiness of the end of Narnia and he wants to shout back to her, can hardly speak for the joy of it. He calls her name, but a greedy gust of wind rips it away as he says it, rattles the Door. Peter grips the handle tighter and braces himself against it, sways forward a little. His eyes remain on Susan. She smiles.

Snippet of the Peter POV of my evil idea where Susan sees the end of Narnia and she and Peter see each other through the Door at the end.

From my Peter fic I hit the ground hard

[always-a-monarch]

Peter is quiet, his face plain. The only thing that betrays the grief Caspian knows must be raging within him is the hand clenched tightly around the pommel of his sword. Caspian reaches out, touches his arm gently. "Peter?" He doesn't move but his mouth tightens, and Caspian follows his gaze to the shallow steps, the raised section of flooring. There's a sort of stump of stone up there. He has a suspicion it might have been a throne, once.

Lil snippet from the current wip, aka the au where Caspian goes to England pre-LWW...

If you like this, check out my other Narnia fic on ao3!

[tending-the-hearth]

there's something very special to me about peter going from "i had it sorted" towards edmund in england during the fight with the other kids to then immediately going "not me, him" during the fight with trumpkin and not pausing before he hands the sword over to edmund and immediately turning to edmund when caspian discusses how they're going to convince miraz to fight in order to waste time

i think it shows how, during their time in narnia, peter learns to both protect his brother and allow his brother to fight his own battles, and when they return to england, peter is thrown back into the "oh god i have to protect my siblings and not let them get involved" headspace he had during their first few weeks in narnia, and that's why he gets upset with edmund during the fight in england.

based on historical stuff, kids returned home from the country after about 6-9 months, so the pevensies were probably at the professor's home for at LEAST six months, so realistically, they've been back in "regular" society for only a few months. i like to think that they sort of stuck with their narnian ways after returning to professor kirk, and he encouraged that, so it's very, very likely that the pevensies struggled a lot returning to going to school and being around their peers.

so peter returning to his fight or flight mode that he was in when they first went to narnia? that is absolutely a possibility.

however, the second they return to narnia, they're back in familiar territory. it's comforting, it's normal, they're back, so peter is able to let go of a bit of that over-protective nature, and they settle back into their dynamic, hence why he hands off the trumpkin fight to edmund, he gives the strategizing reigns to him (sending him to the tower to signal everyone), and letting him be the shit-stirring just king he knows his little brother thrives being.

[ajokewemade-finrodsfriend]

All credit goes to the creator @maddiesouls

[the-halfling-prince]

Something I for some reason didn't notice/fixate on until my most recent rewatch of Prince Caspian is the bit where a break is called during the single combat and Edmund looks back at all the Narnians watching and tells Peter "keep smiling" and Peter raises his sword to the Narnians, keeping his most optimistic face on. Something something you can't let them see your pain, it's bad for morale. Don't let them see you faulter lest they lose their hope.