Narnia Fic Challenge

Title: Details, details, you breathe in when I exhale
Author: canttakeabreath
Recipient: kitsuneasika
Rating: PG-13
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Hints of incest, spoilers for the entire series.
Summary: And Susan holds them all together.
Author’s Notes: Title from "Siberia" by Lights. Ooodles of love to [redacted] for the beta, and [redacted] for the push ♥.

( Details, details, you breathe in when I exhale )

Original Prompt that we sent you: I'd love a fic centered around either Peter/Susan and/or a friendship between Susan and Lucy— if you can manage both, that would be fantastic and I would love you forever and ever. I'd like it best if it spanned over the years, from their rule as Kings and Queens until Susan's eventual redemption, but I'll take anything where they're all reunited again gladly. (In the case of the Lucy+Susan friendship, I also don't mind it only being set in the Golden Age.)

Title: rise after a thousand years
Author: ilysia_039
Recipient: snacky
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Second person POV. You have been warned.
Summary: There is magic, after all, and then there is magic. One is Aslan’s sort; the other, Jadis’. Both are dangerous, both are subtle and twisting and embedded in the fabric of this world.

( rise after a thousand years )

Original Prompt that we sent you:: I'd love some previously untold Narnian adventures - stories from the Golden Age, or stories from Caspian's reign, Caspian and Rilian bonding, sea voyages or other journeys out of Narnia. Maybe an unexplored island we didn't read about in VDT? What's up north besides the giants?

I'd love to read about a threat to Narnia that the Pevensies faced during their reign - perhaps another evil trying to infiltrate Narnia - and how they all worked together to stop it.

Ship-wise, I'd always love some Caspian/Peter, if you're so inclined. Maybe an AU where the Pevensies stay in Narnia after PC? Or an AU where Caspian finds his way into England for a while.

I love Susan best of all, so anything featuring her in a starring and completely awesome role would make me happy. I'd love to see her in Calormene, before everything went so wrong with Rabadash. Or a story about Susan as Queen interacting with the Narnians - what makes her the Gentle Queen?

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever:

1) I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
And set my teeth in the silver of the moon
-- e.e. cummings

2) For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
-- ee cummings

3) I woke up and one of us was crying.
-- Elvis Costello

Title: Forgiveness
Author: snitchnipped
Recipient: animus_wyrmis
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: None.
Summary:you will remember / for we in our youth / did these things // yes many and beautiful things —Sappho 24A, trans. Anne Carson
Author’s notes: Many thanks to my beta, who also gave me the direction on how to approach this thing, though she probably doesn’t realize it.

( Forgiveness )

Original Prompt that we sent you:

What I want: I never have anything in mind so let me tell you some things I like!

- I like girls more than boys! The women of Narnia interest me far more than the men. I also much prefer femslash (Lucy/Sea Girl for example!) to slash if you are so inclined
- I prefer bookverse to movieverse

Some things that interest me include:
-I like stories where Susan gets to move on and have a life after Narnia and after LB, and where she gets to be happy.
-I like stories about how Polly grew up and became very adventurous and traveled around the world learning about magic (or science, or anything else) and writing terribly silly letters home to Digory
-I like stories where characters have more magical adventures after Narnia, whether they like to admit to it or not.
-I am a fan of other characters who Don't Quite Understand, especially in a Susan/OC or Lucy/OC sense.
-On the Narnian side I am interested in journeys and in queens. I also find Lucy's relationship to Aslan to be very interesting and I subscribe to the Susan the Spymistress theory instead of the Edmund the Spymaster one.

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: you will remember / for we in our youth / did these things // yes many and beautiful things (Sappho 24A, trans. Anne Carson)

Title: The First Day
Author: lauraandrews
Recipient: tantella
Rating: K
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for The Magicians Nephew.
Summary: Have you ever wondered what Frank and Helen did on their first day as King and Queen of Narnia? A short story, told from Helen's POV.
Author's Notes: This story DOES have HTML tags.

( The First Day )

Original Prompt that we sent you: The Customs and Habits of Marsh-Wiggles; growing up in hiding in Miraz’s Narnia; a pre-conquest Narnian monarch who was less than honorable / effective; Helen’s first day as queen; Bism; Ramandu after the Dawn Treader leaves with his daughter; anything from Charn or Calormen; backstories of any minor character.

Title: How Prince Col Came to Leave Narnia
Author: bedlamsbard
Recipient: therck
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: mention of underage arranged marriage in a historical context
Summary: Listen now. I will tell you a story that is never told among the Narnian kind, for there are none remaining in Narnia who remember such things.
Author’s Notes: Thanks to [redacted] for the beta!


( How Prince Col Came to Leave Narnia )


Original Prompt that we sent you: What I want: I'm interested in the parts of Narnian history we know little or nothing about-- Frank and Helen's great-grandchildren, the arrival of Caspian's ancestors, Rilian's reign (or his descendants' reigns), the origins of the other humans in the Narnian world, any gap. I'm also curious about the point of view of ordinary Narnians if the gaps in history don't work.
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: "History never looks like history when you are living through it." John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

Title: Truth, Remembrance, Love
Author: crescent_gaia
Recipient: amine_eyes
Rating: PGish
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: It is set after The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, so a bit spoilerish for the movie.
Summary: Set a month after being back from Narnia, chaos happens, and then Susan and Edmund have a nice talk.


( Truth, Remembrance, Love )


Original Prompt that we sent you:
What I want: Edmund, Susan, Mrs Pevensie, Aravis, Cor (any of the above! :) )
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: telling the truth, growing up is an adventure, dresses, disguises, (any of the above :) )

Title: In Exile
Author: therck
Recipient: edenfalling
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for the ending of Prince Caspian and for the premise of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (book continuity for both)
Summary: This isn't the way Prunaprismia ever imagined her life going.
Author's Notes: Thanks to my beta readers. All remaining errors are mine. This story didn't go where I expected it to (and it kept trying to go even further off course). I hope it's acceptable to my recipient anyway.

( In Exile )

Original Prompt that we sent you: Here are some semi-specific prompts, in case any of them ping you:

1. The first post-Winter interaction between Narnia and Archenland - the Pevensies meeting Lune (and his wife!), Narnians having to relearn how to deal with the surrounding human-dominated lands, etc. Friendship or tension are both fine. (Or the first post-Winter interaction with any other country, since I am sure Narnia's sudden reappearance after a century of magical isolation -- which probably upset the climate of the surrounding lands -- must have been of interest to almost everyone.)

2. What happened in Narnia in the years around the death of the Tree of Protection? Did Jadis kill it (by magic or by proxy), or it just died of old age? How soon thereafter did she enter Narnia, and did she do so via subterfuge or via conquest? Who set up the resistance and how? (Clearly a resistance exists, along with a black market of some sort, by the time the Pevensies arrive.)

3. Caspian fighting giants before VoDT, maybe using the war to help unite Telmarine Narnia with Old Narnia. Or just tensions between Telmarine Narnia and Old Narnia during his reign. How did his marriage to the Star's Daughter help or hinder his efforts to hold his people together? How often did people try to set his cousin -- Miraz and Prunaprismia's unnamed son -- up as a figurehead king with themselves as regents? Stuff like that.

4. What led to the Telmarine invasion and conquest of Narnia? Aslan says it was a famine, but famine alone is unlikely to lead to the entirety of a settled people migrating to a new country; some must have stayed in Telmar. Was it a regional thing, or did families split down the middle? Also, was Caspian I royalty before the invasion? How quickly (and why) did the Narnian Telmarines lose contact with their home country? That entire episode is crying out for exploration.

5. Susan and Lucy going on an adventure as two sisters together. Ambushes! Captures! Daring escapes and rescues! Deceit and diplomacy! Expressions of love, faith, and trust in each other! Basically, you know those epic brotherly devotion/adventure fics? Write me one of those, but with sisters instead. Preferably in the Narnian world, but if you can find a way to play out something from that genre in England, that would be awesome too.

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: "....for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike." (I can't help it; I love that quote.) Swords. Knife-fights. Epic speeches before battles. Conversations about love wherein the word itself is never spoken but the sentiment is nonetheless clearly expressed and understood by both parties. Politics. Arguments. Magic.

"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

I don't know, I am just throwing ideas around! Hopefully something will click for you!

Title: Fragile Layers
Author: ceitfianna
Recipient: ilysia_039
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Set during Horse and his Boy
Summary: Hayat lives in Tashbaan and wonders about the Northerners that she is cooking for. When one of them comes to visit her, her views on her neighbors to the North change.
Author’s Notes: I read the prompt and thought of conversations that happen in kitchens and this was the story that resulted from it. The food in this fic was inspired by my own experience with Moroccan cooking, it made me hungry as I wrote it. The first proverb is Berber and the second is Arabic. The heavy use of proverbs in The Horse and his Boy sent me out looking for appropriate ones.


( Fragile Layers )

Original Prompt that we sent you: What I want: Let's talk about Calormen! Alternatively: one or more of the Pevensies attempts to explain Narnian theology to an outsider. Predictably, it doesn't go overly well. Feel free to be as creative as you like with the prompt.
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: "No mortal power may stay her spinning wheel./The nations rise and fall by her decree./None may foresee where she will set her heel:/she passes, and things pass." -Dante's Inferno Canto VII 82-85; politics; religion.