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Okay so when a bird painting says it’d sell you to satan for one corn chip everyone laughs, but when I, Edmund Pevensie—
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Some more headcanons when the Pevensies come back to England:
-All of them have a strange lisp from living in Narnia for so long. When they are together, they will often speak Narnian, and when asked about the origins of the strange language no one else understands, all they give you is a mysyerious smile.
-It is absolutely impossible to get a rise out of Susan. When taunted, ridiculed or tested by other girls who envy her confidence, all she will do is smile and offer some words of advice. She has dealt with threats far more serious and deadly than high school British kids, and she finds their little power plays nothing but funny Soon, it becomes an unwritten rule not to mess with her. She'll smile back and kill you with kindness.
-Edmund and Peter spend the first few weeks learning how to walk without a sword at their side. All their adult lives, they've worn one, and they still compensate for the weight slightly. Especially Peter, commander of the armies, feels extremely naked without his blade.
-Lucy has the hardest time getting used to England again. The girls her age are mean and stupid, and she finds it hard not to call them out on it. Her intelligence is often mistaken for arrogance. She throws herself into dancing, the one thing Narnia has given her that is of use in the normal world.
-Edmund is completely changed, overnight it seems. Where he was first a nagging, annoying brat, he now seems a beacon of calmness and wit, able to solve any problem. The bond with his brother Peter is so strong the two seem to be able to read each others minds. This is especially true during fencing class, where they are the two best students by a distance. They move so in sync some people wonder if they are twins
-The first time the Pevensies ride horses together again the rest of class gasps audibly. They all seem to grow taller in the sadle, and they communicate with their horses in a way that seems impossible.
-Peter never gets used to the disrespect other kids show him, and will respond to every insult with a blow. He doesn't get over what they have lost , and writes story after story about the most beautiful imaginary world he calls Narnia. His teachers, from English to theology to history, all agree that he should be a writer. But the fighting only gets worse. Soon, kids have to gang up on him to even be able to touch him. And when Edmund decides to help, it's basically a wrap. He is far smarter than he lets on, and his back is always so straight it seems like he is 3 inches taller than his classmates. Bullies learn to avoid him, and he is fiercly loyal to his friends, even if that gets him in trouble.
-There is a rumour that the Pevensies are royals or at least nobles . No one knows from where, but the war could have changed things. Either way, they are everyone's favorite gossip subject.
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Eldest Sibling Tournament — Round 2
Yo, my Narnia fans! I love Tadashi, but Peter is the superior big bro. Peter slew the a wolf to protect his siblings, a talking wolf that scared the crap out of him. He accepted Edmund back with open arms after he had betrayed them all for Turkish Delight. He went to war for his family and the people of Narnia. He is a king, literally.
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i know the pevensies had it bad for being treated as children all over again after growing into adults in narnia but i'm starting to realize that eustace also got the short end of the stick after his trip; like imagine becoming a dragon and battling it out with a sea serpent only to be fucking bullied at school again. eustace is a stronger man than me because that would have become my villain origin story
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Lucy is everyone's favorite sibling
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Ok we all talk about the Pevensies’ trauma at returning to Earth at the end of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and their trouble readjusting to life there again but think of all the funny/good parts too
- They return from the country, and their mom is surprised when all her children hug her at the station. Even Peter, who thinks he’s all grown up. Even Edmund, who went away surly and withdrawn. She doesn’t know her children haven’t seen her in over a decade.
- They miss their dear Cair Paravel, but they absolutely do not miss its chamber pots. Indoor plumbing is amazing.
- It takes a while to remember how modern technology works, though. How many heart attacks did the siblings give their parents or the professor because they walked into a dark room only to turn on the light and find the children sitting there in the dark. (They were by the window! There was still plenty of light from the sunset! They would have gotten a candle in a minute!) The kids sheepishly remember oh yeah electricity is a thing.
- (Edmund has a new electric torch in Prince Caspian. He was so excited to get that torch. Almost more excited than you’d think a kid his age would be, and his parents expect Peter at least to tease him, but the siblings all agree light in your hand at the touch of a switch is terrific.)
- Suddenly getting really high grades in some subjects and terrible in others. Their grammar, reading comprehension, spelling, vocab, even penmanship? Amazing. History and geography? They don’t remember anything. One time in class Susan forgets Earth is round and wants to die.
- Also they can never remember what the date is supposed to be because Narnia uses different months and years. They can estimate time really well by looking at the sun though, and Edmund at least can always tell which way is north etc without thinking about it (again, using the sun)
- Okay but how many times did they go to pick something up or reach something and realize they are so much shorter and less muscled than they expect? It’s a common sight to see Peter climbing on counters to reach a top cabinet, grumbling about how he’s High King this is demeaning. (No he never takes the extra five seconds to grab a stool. He will climb that shelf.)
- Peter and Susan being delighted because they are no longer almost thirty. (In a few years Edmund and Lucy will tease them about being old and their parents will not understand.)
- Lucy doesn’t have to deal with periods anymore for a few years yet. Susan might not either. Heck yeah
- Lucy loves to climb into her siblings’ laps and be cuddled. In Narnia she eventually she grew too big, but now she is small and snuggleable again. Peter is her favorite, and if she’s upset, he’ll tickle her and tell bad jokes until she’s smiling again, but really she loves cuddling with all her family. She grew up without her parents; how many times did she just want to crawl into her mom’s lap and her mom was a world away? Imagine the first time she realizes she can now. Or, imagine one day, a cold and grey sort of day, when the rain is pattering against the windows, and it sounds like the rain on the windows of the Professor’s house, that first day they went exploring. It sounds like the day they played hide and seek. It sounds so like the rain on the windows of Cair Paravel, that if Lucy closes her eyes she can imagine she’s back there, having tea and chatting with Mr. Tumnus before the fireplace of her room, and soon the rain will stop, and they will go out on the balcony and wave to the naiads and the dryads and the mermaids, who have come out to enjoy the rain and visit one other on the banks of the Great River winding past Cair Paravel down to the sea.
- But if Lucy looks out the window, all she’ll see is the rain over London, so it’s not only a cold and grey sort of day, it’s a lonely sort of day too.
- Susan and Edmund are playing chess in the living room (and they must have studied with Professor Kirke, thinks their mother, because they certainly weren’t that good when they left). Lucy goes over to Edmund, and oh dear, thinks their mother, now he’s going to call her a baby and be horrible to her, but instead he picks her up and puts her on his lap without even taking his eyes off the chessboard; it’s simply a matter of course.
- “Doesn’t the rain sound familiar?” says Lucy in a solemn, wistful way.
- Their mother doesn’t know what that means, but her siblings must, because Susan says, “Yes, Lu, it does,” and Edmund gives her a little hug with his free arm as she tucks herself under his chin to watch the chess match.
- (Five minutes later there is a crash from the next room as Peter falls off a counter. Their mother does not understand the words he must have picked up from the Professor, but he’s grounded for them anyway. His siblings have no respect for their High King, because they refuse to stop laughing.)
uh since this is getting way more notes than I thought it would I guess I should have mentioned y'all are allowed to add onto this. please tell me your soft Pevensie headcanons
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Just for fun
Fun fact: I’ve gotten TWO hate comments for putting them in chronological order, which I only did so that people could think in terms of which comes first chronologically.
As someone who absolutely likes them better in publication order, where do y’all get off? You just see someone on the internet and wanna say something upsetting? ?¿???
ALSO the 100+ people giving fun opinions in the tags are my favorite, ily <33. Tell me all abt why TSC should be on top. I am kissing you on the forehead.
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The Pevensie kids are otherwordly in more ways than the naked eye reveals.
For starters, with all the years they have spent around great cats, they are absolutely silent when they walk. They can stalk and prowl like no one's business, and once, when a girl pissed off Lucy, she showed her her teeth.
When a shrink asks her why she is scared of cats, so many years later , she remembers the white flash in the schoolyard, the sudden certainty of death.
Second of all, they don't seem to leave footprints in snow. In the winters of Narnia, magic was all around Cair Paravel, benign spirits showing them how to leave no traces, go unseen in the great white. Some swear they move without touching the earth. No one is sure enough to rebutt them.
The Pevensies are unbeatable in snowball fights. Especially Susan can throw like a honkball pitcher, able to single out and pick off targets that should be out of reach.
When the boys drink alcohol for the first time, at ages 17 and 15, they turn out to have great tolerance, something no one their age should have. Yet Peter and Edmund can beat anyone in a drinking game. And no one understands how Susan puts away bottles and bottles of wine without ever slurring her words or losing her razor sharp mind.
The boys that keep pouring her more wine, hoping to take her home drunk, leave disappointed every night.
They have a tolerance for other substances, too.
When someone gets the bright idea to roofie Lucy at age 16, he ends up with a nail through his foot, hanging from the highest tree in London.
Lucy shows up the next day with dirt under her nails and a hammer in her backpack. The teachers take one look at Peter, who stares back with a glare that could refreeze Narnia, and decide not to say a word.
They're all insanely strong swimmers. Susan won prizes before, but now she's breaking records. Edmund saves a man twice his weight from drowing, dragging him along across a cold lake for half a mile.
No one understands how the scrawny, 5"9 kid pulled that off. Or how he manages to hold his breath for so long.
And then there is the question of their minds.
Suddenly, Edmund can beat even the most experienced men in chess. He goes on to become champion of the region and then of the whole of England.
Peter, once a mediocre student, is now a stunningly good writer. When his professor reads his essay for Ethics, he weeps, something that has not happened in his entire career.
Susan becomes known as the best problem solver in school. She's able to resolve many conflicts, not in the least because she's so attractive men stop thinking about fighting the second she steps into a room. But underneath the beauty resides a smooth operator. Her professors don't doubt for a second she'll be a brilliant politician.
Lucy no longer has the child like innocence from before the war. Her sense of wonder never left her, though. The centaurs have taught her astronomy. The boarding school telescope goes missing an awful lot, as does she and her brothers and sister on bright nights. They never get caught.
They've changed. And they hold onto these pieces of Narnia, because it is all they have left.
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In Prince Caspian Susan literally throws an arrow fast and hard enough to pierce through a man’s armor and kill him. Savage.
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What’s even more savage is the way she stabs the first guy in the crotch before using the same arrow to kill the second guy. Susan’s not messing around.
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My history teacher told me once that people use to give kings titles ironically. Like if he was a great king they would called him “X the Terrible”
Lets just say that’s what they were going for here
Here’s the thing though: this isn’t sarcastic. Susan is the gentle one, the one who doesn’t go to battle. But when she does…. oh boy. If she’s the least scary Pevensie, I’d hate to see what the others can do.
oh she IS
did you see the boys with a sword? edmund is canonically the best swordfighter in all of narnia, lucy is the best warrior they’ve ever seen and susan is the best archer - those are statements made by various different characters and the narrator, at one point two telmarine soldiers shit their collective pants when they see Edmund, who looks at this point about 11 years old, and isn’t even armed, only accompanied by a giant and another narnian, two creatures the telmarines aren’t scared of
susan is a pacifist, and she’s the least terrifying one because she’s the social one who does all of the organising, the balls, the audiences - she’s hard to get to fight, unlike the others, that’s an aspect of why she’s gentle.
edmund fights using two swords and no shield, lucy is fast and agile and can throw that dagger with a precision that honestly scares me, peter took on the white witch one on one and CAME OUT ALIVE, if I had to choose between who’s the least terrifying from a warrior’s perspective, i’d pick susan too.
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What difficulties do you think the Pevensies had reintegrating into 1940's British society and dealing with being de-aged after growing into adults, running an entire country for 15 or so years and fighting a war or five?
first, i love your salt. it’s something i always appreciate. second, thank you for asking me this question because i know i’ve made a post or two about this before but i always have tons of new ideas ready to be posted.
honestly, what difficulties wouldn’t the pevensies have experienced? since you specifically addressed the de-aging and the reintegration into english society, i’ll focus on those two but man, those definitely would have been the hardest things to re-adapt to, if you ask me.
concerning the de-aging: it would have been so difficult. they were literally going through puberty twice. peter and edmund had to go through the voice-cracking process once again. susan and lucy had to grow into their bodies once again. it would have been so traumatizing, to say the least. they would have had to go from seeing their bodies steadily age from directly to a child’s and having to age once again. like, it’s just so difficult to process or even so much as put into words how absolutely insane that would have been. and there was the consatnt fear of their bodies not developing the same way as before. what if the boys suddenly couldn’t grow facial hair for some strange reason? or the girls wouldn’t get any taller for another strange reason? those would have been such unfathomable questions to think of but nobody has ever aged then de-aged just to age again and the human body is a total phenomenon to the early twentieth-century so those could have very well been legitimate fears for those kids.
and the fact that now that they’re children they’re going to be treated differently? also a side-effect of de-aging. it would have been so difficult for them to switch from being respected for their wisdom and intelligence that they had shown from a young age in their rule to being belittled and held with gloved hands by those around them. little lucy and edmund would hate having conversations about the truths of life being immediately hushed when they would walk in. they knew everything about births and consumations and death and so forth. they had seen it all. susan and peter would have hated the switch between “you’re too old for x, y, and z” and “you’re too young for a, b, and c” because they knew that while everyone was trying to show them that they were older and were to act as so, they knew that they were still children and they were being treated as children would be. just the lack of respect and few responsibilities they were trusted with would have driven them insane. the one big thing the prince caspian film had gotten correct had been that frustration of being treated like children when they had been adults before and i don’t doubt all of the pevensies had experienced that feeling, even disbelieving susan.
the reintegration into english society would have been a roller coaster ride too. they had spent fifteen years away from advanced technology and had most likely forgotten everything outside of indoor plumbing and water irrigation and such. returning to a world where trains and telephones and cars existed would have been absolutely terrifying. just imagine them seeing their first telephone in the professor’s house upon their return from narnia and being so amazed by it. later they would re-adapt to such technology and all of their memories of using said technology would have returned but freshly arrived from narnia? it would have been as if they were there when that technology had been first invented and released to the public.
let’s not forget that in narnia they were the monarchs and controlled more of the country and it’s society. it would have been so frustrating for lucy and susan to be seen as lesser than their brothers and unable to participate in everything their brothers were allowed to participate in like it would have been in narnia. and they all would have been irritated by the children their age being so….childish. and their frustration over how the world was going on with the wars and stilted politicians only out for themselves. it would have led to a ton of “well, if we were back in narnia, we would have resolved this conflict easily without so much bloodshed and animosity.” i feel like with every reevalution of english society they would have missed narnia more and more.
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(Part 1) Ok, so I know this is totally unprompted, but the other day I was rewatching Prince Caspian and you know how in the opening scene with the Pevancies back in London Peter get in a fight because the guy shoved him and then wanted Peter to apologize. And then he asks his siblings "don't you ever get tired of being treated like children?" So based off that scene it made me think: what if Peter still acts like the High King of Narnia while in school and what not in London?
(Part 2) Peter walks like a king, talks like a king, treats other people like a king (this isn’t necessarily a negative thing, Peter was a good king and certainly not rude to his subject). But this reputation of being so noble all the time makes all the other boys give them the nick name “king Peter” they say it to each other in passing with a snicker. “Look here comes King Peter” And maybe one day Edmund over hears the other boys and laughs too because they have no idea how right they are.
omg i love this! i can totally see it. thanks for sending haha. but yeah i can totally see it
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So, I was watching LWW on Netflix, and I realized that Lucy basically knew her way around a wood she’s been through twice. Like imagine her having amazing navigational skills. She only ever needs to be somewhere once to understand the layout of the area. And Edmund sends her on missions to look out for areas and bring back the best areas to infiltrate a castle or something. And Susan sitting down with her and learning all the best routes by sea because she needs good proof before talking to some merchants. Peter is in denial because he doesn’t like his baby sister going anywhere alone like that, but he can’t deny her talent.
This throws their endless wandering around the forest in PC into a new light.
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The Afterwards
Susan Headcanons
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There are all these stories. Countless stories. About Susan after the railway accident. Sincerely, not one of us can feel completely the overwhelming grief she felt. To have your entire family just disappear. Or I hope no one can truly relate to those events. For Susan never wished such upon anyone ever.
Let’s talk about how Susan finally made it to Narnia.
- Susan Pevensie was eighty-seven years old when she finally did
- She had no children and she never married
- Susan during her life was a woman of many trades
- She was a nurse for years, but eventually found a knack for antiques and historical research
- She journeyed all across Europe, and even Morocco, Turkey, and the Americas
- Susan was a friend of so many, but there was one dear person in her life since she was twenty
- It was her that reluctantly and with great pain asked for Susan to be institutionalized
- Susan was losing her way down paths that were taken for decades before
- The longest she had been missing was three days which caused a police search
- When she was placed in a rest home she brought few belongings
- Her friend insisted more, but it seemed that she only held value to four things
- A lion bookend that was missing its match
- A marble knight chess piece
- A worn copy of Alice in Wonderland, and inside countless pressed flowers
- A photo of her family
- The entire uprooting of her life and the adjustment did not bother her much
- For she was poised when it came to change
- She had to be
- After about a year, Susan was getting worse
- The doctors called them delusions related to the nature of dementia that could possibly be Alzheimer’s disease
- It was the logical explanation
- She would be wondering the halls in the flowing nightgown she always choose to wear
- There was one particular nurse she often come to every night she worked
- She would just sit down and ask about her day
- The nurse often helped Susan take care of her long-flowing and now silver hair
- Susan often gave advice about suitors
- One of other the nurses discovered the reason behind how Susan exclusively sought for her
- She looked like Lucy
- This tore at the nurse for she knew that Susan’s family all died in a train crash many years ago
- The nurse spoke with her often and Susan gave very elaborate stories about life in a castle, her brothers were kings, and all of the journeys with creatures and talking animals
- About the places she has been and especially about a rather exotic city called Tashbaan and her certain predicament about a suitor
- The nurse thought it was about Morocco
- “No, Calormen. Quite similar to Morocco in terms of style of buildings, but still very different. More hostile and tense.”
- As the nurse listen to the stories she realized that this was much more that delusions
- They were too elaborate and sincere
- These had to be memories
- Once that struck her, she marched in outside of the time of her shift to a care planning meeting with the doctors
- She insisted on keeping her off medications for Susan was never harming anything
- “Let her reminisce her memories because they feel like coming home to her.”
- They listened to the night-shift nurse, until the falls started
- One fall caused her to stay in the hospital for week
- When she returned, the nurse notice the hospice orders
- A few months later she was bedbound, but still smiling, always talking, always nurturing
- Finally the nurse asked about Narnia
- And Susan told her about finding a new world in a wardrobe
- And the brave journey to defeat a Witch
- And becoming a queen
- When Susan spoke about this land, it was the only time she could be fully understood by others
- The nurse had a vacation planned and that first night off she would herself in one vivid dream
- About a Lion
- Her small trip to France was mostly spent at many cafes where she wrote journals until her hand became numb
- When she returned to work Susan had declined to a point there was a vigil
- Susan friend stopped by many of times during the day, but that one night she was compelled to just stay
- Surrounded only by her friend and the nurse Susan finally made it to Narnia
- Her last words to the nurse where slow and broken, but the nurse understood
- “There are more to life than only of this world. Keep your mind and heart open dear. Further up and further in.”
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Once is Always
The first day back in England, every one of the Pevensie children managed an extravagant fall.
Their legs are shorter than they should be, but they can’t say this out loud.
Weeks go by. Eventually, they all relearn how to walk.
But there are other, stranger things they can’t relearn.
Like how:
Lucy is eight.
Lucy is twenty-three.
She can’t remember how to be small and unimportant, or how to play children’s games. Fifteen years in another world have left her used to being listened to, relied upon. The horrors of war are far less frightening than the horror of ignorance, of tiny uncalloused hands. Or waking in the night remembering the culture, the world she left behind.
Like how:
And Susan is twelve - nearly - thirty.
With small children of her own under her care. She can’t forget the feel of them growing inside her.
She can’t unlearn the way her ears are always listening for them. Years later she is still celebrating birthdays for people who live only in her memory, only knee high. At night she’d kept awake wondering about the strangers she gave birth too.
So she keeps trying to forget.
For the boys it is different. But not better:
Peter is thirteen and full of anger. The adults call it puberty. The adults don’t realize the shadow in his eyes is the same shadow in the eyes of returning soldiers. High King Peter, with so many lives under his command now commands nothing, and knows nothing. Responsibility and questions weigh on him.
But Edmund wakes up one day and realizes that after so many years no stranger can ever go to war with him about a child betraying his family for roses and sugar. His worst mistake weighs only on his mind now. And somehow, it’s this small silver lining that lets him pull their family back from the brink. He is no longer the broken one, no longer haunted by a child he no longer is.
Even so.
The Pevensie’s are adrift in a world of smoke and debris, and the rolling empty countryside. The war here is not fought with swords and fangs, but gas, and fire from above.
A fate worse than death is not being turned to stone.
There is no Lion coming at the eleventh hour to save them all. No lion except the one they carry inside themselves.
And that would have to be enough.
So each Pevensie found a way to matter, to change, to save.
And a little bit of Aslan crept in around the corners when they needed him most.
There was a snap and a growl to Lucy her mother had never seen.
A spine of unyielding stone in Susan.
A soft listening silence in Edmund.
And in Peter a flash of fang, and reckless hope.
The Pevensies are not in Narnia.
So they took part of it with them.