I never realized how much fun it would be to write Aravis (and Cor), but now I'm a big fan of hers. Lewis left few descriptions of Calormene life in HHB so it was pretty fun to do some worldbuilding here, and see it all from Aravis' view. I think it would be fun to see more about life in the North through her eyes as well, not just in these few short scenes.
Trying to write something set in Ruth's world (per your request) was remarkably difficult given how she had been updating her universe a lot lately, so the best I could do was write Animals that were as Beastly as hers. :-) Cook would be very interesting as an Oragutan -- it's certainly not my first choice as to what kind of Narnian she would actually be.
And I'm glad you liked Aslan here. I was hesitant about how He would come across, given fandom's general reactions to him being the only real God in the Chronicles. As I said to Ruth above, I was inspired by Aslan's talk with Emeth in TLB and hoped this would be taken in the same spirit.
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Date: 2011-09-08 01:39 am (UTC)I never realized how much fun it would be to write Aravis (and Cor), but now I'm a big fan of hers. Lewis left few descriptions of Calormene life in HHB so it was pretty fun to do some worldbuilding here, and see it all from Aravis' view. I think it would be fun to see more about life in the North through her eyes as well, not just in these few short scenes.
Trying to write something set in Ruth's world (per your request) was remarkably difficult given how she had been updating her universe a lot lately, so the best I could do was write Animals that were as Beastly as hers. :-) Cook would be very interesting as an Oragutan -- it's certainly not my first choice as to what kind of Narnian she would actually be.
And I'm glad you liked Aslan here. I was hesitant about how He would come across, given fandom's general reactions to him being the only real God in the Chronicles. As I said to Ruth above, I was inspired by Aslan's talk with Emeth in TLB and hoped this would be taken in the same spirit.