fic: Even to the edge of doom, Narnia, Caspian/Lucy, 6/10

[lotesse]

Even to the edge of doom (13445 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 6/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

Comments

[greghousesgf]

thank you for posting this!
The Last Battle was the only Narnia book I dislike, for many reasons.

[lotesse]

Thanks so much for reading and commenting on this story! This is the part of the AU divergence that I didn't have a grip on, the last time I tried to write it. A romance, and also a thing one wants to correct: that gets you a whole AU.

I adore the first three Narnia books (LWW, PC, VDT) with all my heart and soul. SC and HHB both have bits that I like a great deal, but the tone shifts in those books, imo, to be more didactic and critical toward child characters and readers, and the bacchanal aspect of Narnia fades from the foreground, a change I dislike. MN and, much more so, LB get religious in a way that I just can't with, and I have to admit that I never quite bonded with any of the non-Pevensie English characters quite as hard.

The eucatastrophic end of LB meant a lot to me, as a child who was afraid of death. But the body of LB is so much that critical didactism of Lewis', that I so dislike, and has so little of wild, free Narnia.

I'd be interested to hear more on your thoughts about LB. Where does it rub you the wrong way?

[greghousesgf]

every objection you have to LB is one I share. It also seems senselessly sadistic to kill off the parents in the train wreck, especially since they had no idea Narnia existed. And I intensely dislike the depiction of Heaven as a place where everybody does nothing but run and eat fruit. A writer as devout and imaginative as C.S. Lewis and he couldn't come with anything better than that? Running and eating fruit is not Heaven, it's a very cheap weight loss spa.