I never really caught on to the Lucy/Sea motif and somehow unconsciously I always thought it fit Susan much more, Dawn Treader aside, so this was an attempt to tie the two together, and I'm glad you like it.
One of the things I wanted to get through in this story definitely was the idea that Susan's life isn't suddenly over at 21. I don't think it's achieves anything - punishment or otherwise - to condemn her to living the rest of her life in angst and misery and basically just waiting around for her chance to die so she could be in Aslan's Country. That's the sort of impression I get from certain interpretations in fandom sometimes, that basically after everyone dies, Susan basically will also wait for her own death as if that's the only way her life could become fulfilled now that she's lost everyone. So Aslan's answer in the line you quoted is definitely a reason I wrote this: death is a part of life, and even after people die, it's not a sin for the ones left behind to go on living.
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Date: 2012-09-09 02:22 pm (UTC)One of the things I wanted to get through in this story definitely was the idea that Susan's life isn't suddenly over at 21. I don't think it's achieves anything - punishment or otherwise - to condemn her to living the rest of her life in angst and misery and basically just waiting around for her chance to die so she could be in Aslan's Country. That's the sort of impression I get from certain interpretations in fandom sometimes, that basically after everyone dies, Susan basically will also wait for her own death as if that's the only way her life could become fulfilled now that she's lost everyone. So Aslan's answer in the line you quoted is definitely a reason I wrote this: death is a part of life, and even after people die, it's not a sin for the ones left behind to go on living.