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It's interesting that the way Lewis characterizes both Edmund and Eustace is by having them idealize the wonders of the modern world.

In LWW, Edmund almost turns back from going to the Witch until he starts thinking about all the ways that he could improve Narnia, like putting in roads, and all the things he'll have when he's King. and then in Voyage, Eustace keeps harkening back to all of the conveniences there are in England, like comparing all the ways the Dawn Treader falls short to a modern cruise ship.

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The Pevensie Children

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The first time Peter returns from a solo campaign, Susan can’t help but see monsters in his shadow. Their eyes are ruby-red and silver-sharp, their fangs grazing the back of Peter’s neck. Their claws raze the ground where he steps.

She is happy he is home, back where she can see him, but the smell of blood lingers in the Cair for weeks after Peter returns to his place in their row of thrones. It worries Susan how little he seems to care, even when Lucy and Edmund wrinkle their noses.

He smiles indulgently at her the third time she asks to wash the hair that looks caked with reddish mud out of the corner of her eye. He lets her check his back for unseen slashes, brushes a gentle hand over her hair, and tells her everything is fine and will remain just so.

Susan looks at him, at his eyes, and can see the next northern campaign rushing at her through his dilated pupils. There is joy in his cracked-lips smile, conquest and bloodshed sitting behind his teeth for every laugh over the dinner table. Susan’s dreams fill with distant shadows of massive beings flying overhead and dropping something of blinding pain.

It’s easier to call him Wolfsbane. Wolfsbane, a knight of the court of Narnia, a young man with great potential.

It’s easier than looking at the cresting wave of violence bearing down on him from behind and knowing there is little she can do to stop it from drowning him. Easier than accepting that this is how things will be.

Wolfsbane, not Peter Pevensie formerly of Finchley. Wolfsbane, not Peter, the boy who spun her in circles in a garden far away from here. Wolfsbane, not Pete, the eldest brother with a stubborn streak and soft smiles.

Wolfsbane grins at her siblings from across the table and Susan presses her tongue against her teeth. It’ll pass, she tells herself.

It must.

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Random Edmund Pevensie moments: 268/?

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oh to be a little cat and sit in a windowsill

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Doctors are like: ughhhhh. You're confusing. Come back if you die

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN 2008 | dir. Andrew Adamson

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no you guys don't get it. the pevensies were always fated to die tragically early, these children whose childhoods were torn away by the brutality of world war i and then who died so early into adulthood, before they'd had a chance to live and to grow up -- in 1949, like so many who made it to early adulthood, just, only to be mowed down on the battlefields of europe. the most common age of death in wwii was 19. the siblings represent an entire generation of lost youth, and Narnia is the gift, the fantasy, the parable of heaven that told the survivors these children got to live out full lives in Narnia before perishing tragically young

susan didn’t get “kept out of narnia because she liked girly things.” she survived because she grew up

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some narnia doodles :)

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https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE 2005 | dir. Andrew Adamson

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rip helen pevensie you would have loves slipping through my fingers

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (2005) dir. Andrew Adamson

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one aspect of the narnia films i feel like we don't talk about enough is they're funny too. they're so well written because they're incredibly earnest and heartfelt and brutally sad at times, but they also know just when to drop a funny line to catch you off guard and make you laugh. some of my fav moments:

edmund "perhaps we've been incorrectly labeled" pevensie

"we could all use the fresh air :)" "it's not like there isn't air inside."

[while preparing to run for their lives] "do you think we'll need jam?" "only if the witch serves toast!"

followed by "you should have brought a map" "there wasn't room next to the jam!"

"everyone's staring at us." [the most little sister voice ever] "maybe they think YOU look funny."

peter, full angst mode: "don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?" edmund: "...we ARE kids."

they're literally being pulled into another world and edmund's like shut up i'm NOT holding your hand peter

caspian saying he thought peter would be older and peter immediately being like WELL if you like we can just come back in a few years—

"you are a mouse." "*sigh* i was hoping for something a bit more original." -> "you're a mouse." "you people have no imagination."

reepicheep preparing to kill caspian and asking trufflehunter if he has a good reason for interrupting vs nikabrik immediately saying "he doesn't. go ahead."