Narnia Fic Challenge

Title: Bow and Blade
Author: ceitfianna
Recipient: snitchnipped
Rating: G
Content/Warnings: None
Summary: Peter and Susan use their diverse skills to mentor a young elf who is a new ambassador. This gives them both a chance to show the importance of their differences. Set during the Golden Age when they’ve learned how best to rule together.
Author’s Note: My prompt asked for a character study of Peter and Susan and mentioned contrasting their fighting styles. From there I had the idea of how they approach the world differently through the lens of archery and swordsmanship and it grew from there. I hope you like it. Thank you to dodger_sister for betaing.


( Bow and Blade… )

Original Prompt that we sent you: Peter and Susan character study. Either England between LWW and PC and/or Golden Age when they’re already adults. Can be deep dialogue, humorous, tragic, or action and adventure... just as long as we see mature minds at work!

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: I’m just going to throw a bunch of stuff out there, take whatever strikes your fancy!

Difference/similarities in personalities. Reflections. Partnerships. Friendships. Weapons of choice. Dogs and cats. Reds, oranges and yellows. Thunder and lightning.

“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.” — William Butler Yeats

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung

Title: Four Beginnings
Author: lady_songsmith
Recipient: ceitfianna
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Battles and death, mostly off-screen.
Summary: Four moments from the first year of the Golden Age.
Author's note: Sorry I didn't give you much Tumnus, but I hope these early portraits fit the bill!

( Four Beginnings... )

Original Prompt that we sent you:

What I want: I'd love some Golden Age adventures. Tumnus is my favorite character and I've love to see what life was like as the Pevensies were learning how to be monarchs. Character interactions especially in terms of friendships and created families are what I love. How does Tumnus fit into the royal family as its clear he does. Show me some of the bumps along the way. If not Tumnus then just how did they figure out how to be monarchs. If you can write complex politics in Narnia, you'll have me hooked as I find them interesting but can't write them. I love slice of life, snapshots, those moments when everything changed. I don't look for Narnia for ships but crushes and smaller romances are of interest to me, just not incest. Its a world I just want to get to know better as I feel like there was never enough of it.

Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: Created families are just as important as those we're born with.

Thank you to whoever ends up writing for me.

Title: On the Other Side of the Wardrobe
Author: ruanchunxian0
Recipient: moriwen1
Rating: G
Summary: They have gone from English children to Narnian monarchs back to English children again. One sleepless night, Lucy and Peter juggle their dual identities, hope for guidance and seek reassurance in each other. A Lucy & Peter siblingfic.
Author’s Notes: Many thanks to rthstewart who created such a magnificent (!!) cast of OC, some of whom are named-dropped in this fic.

( On the Other Side of the Wardrobe )


Original Prompt that we sent you:
What I want: Peter/Lucy siblingfic, either after their return from Narnia or post-Last Battle. (Rthstewart-verse would be extra-awesome, if you're familiar with her works/feel like it. Entirely optional, though.) Plotty or character study is equally fine, as long as it's Valiant!Lucy and Magnificent!Peter.
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever:
I see the grace of God in you
His holy light is shining through
And I am blessed to be with you
O holy child of God! - (not mine, don't know the author)
And now abides faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13)
Miscellaneous prompts (pick and choose as you like; no need to include any or all): scars, checking in all the wardrobes, obedience, war and peace, knucklebones, dancing in the dark

Title: Shadow Play
Author: moriwen1
Recipient: deathsblood
Rating: PG13
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for LWW only. Graphic violence, character death, non-explicit mentions of sexuality, dark themes, brief oblique hints of non-consummated incestuous attraction, starvation, non-graphic self-mutilation, discussion of sexism and fantasy racism, religious deconstruction.
Summary: If Lucy means light, Edmund is her shadow. They are night and day, rebel and queen, brother and sister. Their love endures forever.

( Shadow Play )

Original Prompt that we sent you:
what i want:
Here are some ideas I would be interested in. Of course, feel free to write something entirely different.

-fic about the Telmarines who leave Narnia at the end of PC - what is their first encounter with people from our world like? perhaps they end up meeting one of the Pevensies in their world?

-political manoeuvring and hard reluctant decisions

-tensions among Narnians following loss of a common enemy (Telmarines, Jadis), or
during the conflict (because people are not necessarily very good at putting aside other issues even though technically on one side, and I don't see why Animals should be any different). Maybe some of them don't like that some inexperienced children have been set up as rulers of their country.

-one of the Pevensies questioning their ruling decisions afterwards (in England?) Perhaps the war against the giants which Peter is fighting in HHB was an imperialist one started by Narnia? The morality of this might be questionable during the decolonization debate.

-what do the Pevensies think about contemporary affairs because of their Narnian experiences?

-the experiences of someone in the Narnian world who doesn't worship Aslan, but is nevertheless a good being.
-Aslan as a rather dubious character

-I really enjoy reading Ana Mardoll's deconstructions ([link], so fic related to a point raised in one of them would certainly be welcome.

-perception of the Pevensies after their reigns (Telmarine/Tirian). I am very fond of fictional historical criticism.

-crossovers with Game of Thrones, The Tudors, or The Borgias (Pevensies and Borgias
both trying to outmanoeuvre each other?) would be very welcome, or historical people showing up.

I am perfectly fine with incest.

prompt stuff:

poems: Bertolt Brecht's "A Worker Reads History" , Yahya Kemal's "Ak?nc?lar", Federico García Lorca's "Gacela of the Dark Death"

"It’s an unnatural crime to allow something totally different from yourself
to impose a pattern of living on you." - Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin

"Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial; it is not only the
inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people’s hearts, their memory abides and grows."- Pericles

"I will weep with you for the children of kings if you will weep with me for the children of the people."- Les Misérables

"One should forgive one’s enemies, but not before they are hanged." - Heinrich Heine

"There was a hell that I built long ago and it was a place where everything remained the same forever because I could imagine nothing more horrific, and now I am there." - N.K. Jemisin

"It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on they make society pay dearly." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl." - Nellie McLung

"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image what it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

Title: Common Grounds
Author: freudiancascade
Recipient: tantella/Avia Tantella Scott
Rating: K
Content/Warnings: None
Summary: In which climate change has unfortunate side-effects for Galma, a minor crisis ensues, and Peter learns about trade relations through trial and error.
Author's Notes: Much thanks goes to my betas [redacted 1, 2, & 3]! You ladies are lifesavers! Of course, any errors that still remain are entirely my own.

To my recipient; I hope this scratches your itch for world-building, because it was a lot of fun to finally string these headcanons together into a story! While I am definitely not an expert on Narnian climates, I have spent WAY too much time learning about coffee. As a result, I tried to find real-world geographic parallels to describe each region's beans. Calormen coffee is based off several African blends (taking the acidic bite of Kenyan blends and mellowing it with the smoothness of highland Ethiopian soil). Galman brews, in contrast, would likely taste more like Hawaiian-grown Kona coffee. It's also worth noting that the dwarfish coffee-tasting method that Lucy loves so much is based off a real thing, too: it bears a strong resemblance to how real coffeehouses sample new roasts!


Happy drinking!


( The Common Grounds… )

Original Prompt that we sent you:

What I want: Ultimately I would love it if you wrote something that made you really happy, perhaps that one-shot you've been tossing around but haven't committed to yet? I love any sort of worldbuilding... Tell me more about Galma, the Lone Islands, Calormen, Terebinthia, the Long Winter, the Telmarine oppression, Bism, backstories of any minor character... anything!

Title: Ex Machina
Author: tonzura123
Recipient: autumnia
Rating: K+
Content/Warnings: Violence
Summary: Lucille Pevensie attempts to show off her newly air-ready ship, but ends up dragging her three siblings into a war.
Author’s Notes: Big THANK YOU to all the mods and helpers of this one-shot. And to the person who asked for this, because I've always wanted an excuse to write steampunk. I hope you won't mind that the first thing that came into mind was “steampunk air battle.”

( Ex Machina… )

Original prompt that we sent you:

What I want: Book-verse, preferably. Can be set in our world or in Narnia. AUs are fine.
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: Choose from any below.
* Explorations of lesser known characters or places. For example, tell me about Drinian, Rhince or Peridan, or describe what Archenland is like beyond Anvard.
* What if the Pevensies weren't banned from returning to Narnia? How would events be different in VDT if the older Pevensies were there, or if any of the Four were sent to look for Rilian instead of Eustace and Jill?
* What happened to the Telmarines that left Narnia through the Door in the Air? Were they ever discovered by other people from our world?
* Intrigue, mystery or espionage in Narnia or in Spare Oom.
* Adventures in Aslan's Country
* Steampunk!Narnia

Title: Navigating by Stars
Author: redsnake05
Recipient: therck
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings:
Summary: Jill tries to find her purpose as she, Eustace and Puddleglum search for Rilian. She learns to find her way by new stars, and also finds an answer to something that's been troubling her for a long time. As Puddleglum says, we are all of us between the paws of the Lion.


( Navigating by Stars )


Original Prompt that we sent you:
What I want: character studies, backstory for minor characters, incidents implied in the books but not explicitly explored, Talking Animals being people while definitely not being human, adventures in worlds other than Narnia (have any Narnians crossed into other worlds?). I would prefer gen or bob to romance or porn. I like time travel stories, but I don't see that necessarily working with Narnia. I'm just kind of throwing things out. I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever I get.
Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever: "Broken hearts and dirty windows/Make life difficult to see/That's why last night and this mornin'/Always look the same to me."

Title: The Undercover King
Author: aurilly
Recipient: freudiancascade
Rating: PG
Content/Warnings: none
Summary: Tirian's half-baked scheme for espionage in Calormen gets a much-needed boost when Narnian hero Jill Pole shows up. Little do they know that the fate of the world---the prevention of the apocalypse itself---rests on their success (and also on the lumber tariffs). (pre-Last Battle AU)

( The Undercover King, Part 1… )

Part 2

Title: Always a King
Author: deepdarkwaters
Recipient: rthstewart
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Not sure if they count as spoilers, but fic assumes familiarity with The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter.
Summary: There were wars the Pevensies fought in Narnia, and one in England that they couldn't.
Notes: I went for the crossover angle - not sure it's exactly what you intended, and the timelines are a bit all over the place, but really hope it works for you! Thanks to KG for the beta.

( Always a King… )

Original Prompt that we sent you: What I want: Thank you for writing for me! I like lots of things and would be happy with lots of things. What I don't like is narrow but pretty strongly held.

I love adventure, fairy tales and pagan influences, politics, UST, humour, romance between co-equal partners, worldbuilding, culture clashes, clever dialogue, surprise endings and happy ever afters. I love to laugh. Because I love happy, surprise endings and laughing, I really enjoy stories where nobody dies on the train, or nobody leaves Narnia.

I love cross-overs (Calvin & Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes in Narnia?!); classic Conan Doyle Holmes and Watson or Sherlock and Joan from the new CBS Elementary; Lord of the Rings/Hobbit; Avengers; Lloyd Alexander's Prydain; Bujold; Temeraire; Sara Jane Adventures; Harry Potter; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Warehouse 13; Alice's Adventures; classic children's books like Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, etc.

Quotes/inspiration:

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." Oscar Wilde

"We all know interspecies romance is weird." Tim Burton

"Did someone just call me the wine dude?" he asked in a lazy drawl. "It's Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don't-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus." Rick Riordan

"I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food." Rick Riordan