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okay but in the LWW movie when the fox is brought to The White Witch and he says “forgive me, your majesty” and she says “don’t waste my time with flattery” and then he says “not to seem rude, but I wasn’t actually talking to you” and looks at Edmund? literal chills every time a 10/10 artistic decision

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I feel like Peter Pevensie would constantly have his hands covered in bandaids like it could be from paper cuts, the friction from a sword handle, punching a wall , or just getting into a fight but he always has bandaids on them and it's super weird for everyone when he dosent have bandaids on his hands.

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Narnia Incorrect Quotes 873/?

Edmund: Look, we all have a role in this team

Edmund: Lucy comes up with dumb ideas

Edmund: Susan tells us why they won't work

Edmund: Peter convinces us to do them any way

Edmund: And I make sure those dumb ideas actually work out

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To the Glistening Eastern Sea i give you Queen Lucy, The Valiant.

Here is my playlist inspired by Lucy's life. Each song has a meaning here are a few of the most important ones.

1 Seven by Sleeping At Least. Lucy's is an adventures spirt, just like the seventh enneagram personality type. She doesn't sit still and is always ready to go racing off.

3 Savage Daughter by Sarah Hester Ross. This song appears on both Susan and Lucy's playlists. They are not perfect lady's of the court. the two queens are wild and full of more fight then their bodies can hold.

7 Touch The Sky by Julie Fowlis. She is so restless. Lucy needs to see the world. Laugh with the people around her as she lives her life to the fullest.

8 Teir Abhaile Riu by Celtic Woman. they say when Lucy came back to England she danced in a way no one could understand but that always worked with the music. She would have danced hill the sun rose when the court musicians played this song.

9 There Beneath by The Oh Hellos. The deep appreciation and love that Lucy has for Narnia in rivaled by no one. She treasures each blade of grass and each leaf on the tree.

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I mean, are we really sure Edmund Pevensie was That Bad?

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To the Great Western Wood I give you King Edmund, The Just.

Here is my 10 song playlist inspired by Edmunds life. Each song has a meaning here are a few of the most important ones.

1 Six by Sleeping At Least. This is Edmund's personality Type based of of the enneagram test.

4 Wolves Of The Revaluation by The Acrcdian Wild. Edmund is roped and tricked into betraying his family and Aslan. in the lyrics of this song you can find his struggle with those forces.

5 Heirloom by Sleeping At Least. Edmund was shaped by his family and how lost he felt in it. In the beginning he stood in Peters shadow but this song is meant to be Peter telling Edmund that he is so much more.

9 Thus Always To Tyrants by The Oh Hellos. An upbeat song for Edmund calling his people out of the shadows once the White Witch is dead. He calls them forward to revel and leave the evils that has been over them for so ling.

10 Brother Stand Beside Me by Heather Dale. This song is on both Edmond and Peters playlists. Its meant to be like a battle song written about and for them.

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Peter became a tall and deep-chested man and a great warrior, and he was called King Peter the Magnificient

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To the Radiant Southern Sun I give you Queen Susan, The Gentle.

Here is my 10 song playlist inspired by Susans life. Each song has a meaning here are a few of the most important ones.

1 Two by Sleeping At Least. This is Susan's personality type based on the enneagram. She is a kind and caring person. She would do anything for the people around her. Her title is "The Gentle" and that is no mistake.

4 Ready Now by Dodie. Because of her caring nature, Narnians go to Susan when they are hurt. This song is meant to be from the perspective of some Susan is helping.

5 Scarborough Fair by Nati Dredd and Cullen Vance. sirens taught Susan to sing. She sings and writes beautiful songs for the Court to hear like this one.

8 Savage Daughter by Sarah Hester Ross. This song appears on both Susan and Lucy's playlists. They are not perfect lady's of the court. the two queens are wild and full of more fight then their bodies can hold.

10 Come And Be Welcome by Heather Dale. Another beautiful Ballad that Susan would have written to welcome people into the halls of Care Paravel. A kind queen all would be welcome in her court.

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to the Clear Northern Sky…

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Susan Pevensie comes back from Narnia and tries to forget, not because she doesn't believe in Narnia anymore, but because it hurts too much thinking about what she lost.

In Narnia, she was revered, respected. People wrote songs about her, asked for her hand in marriage. She was with her siblings, and she was free, and she could finally stop worrying about her brothers dying in an air raid. She had a people she protected, a land she ruled, and family to look after. She was respected in courts and battefields alike.

Narnia brought other problems, of course. Not all her suitors were kind about her rejection, and Peter and Edmund were expected to lead armies, which meant they were always in the line of fire. More than once had they come home with grave injuries that took months to recover from, even with Lucy's secret potion.

It is this Narnia Susan vividly remembers just aftee she comes back, a wild and savage land where magic roams free, but evil roams free too. It is the Narnia of eternal winter, of giants and ogres, of Aslan dying on the Stone Table. The Narnia of Telmarines, of dead friends, of failed sieges.

England forces her back into obedience, into a mold. Tells her to behave in a way expected of a young lady. Lucy can stay wild a little longer, but Susan has an education to focus on, men to impress. England tells her she is below her brothers again, should get married and have kids.

So Susan tries to forget, convincing herself that the stiff upper lip, tight collars, kneelong skirts, ridicule from adults when she speaks her mind and forced silence is better than the freedom she had in Narnia.

For that freedom had to be paid for in blood. At least in England her family and friends don't risk dying, not after the war.

She alienates from her brothers and sister further. She tells them Narnia was a game, a fantasy. But the difference in faith is also due tk the way she has to hide how it changed her. Peter, Lucy and Edmund do not have to. The boys write long essays about justice and religion, join the fencing team. Lucy dances everywhere she goes and is known to never wear shoes if she can help it.

But the archery club at school will not accept Susan. Neither will the debate team. Her teachers are annoyed with the fact she never slips up, disgruntled at the fact a woman runs rings around them intelectually. Susan is a young woman after a time of war, and all of society would rather she shut up and do what she is told.

Soon, Susan has new friends, new things that matter. All these adult thoughts she can only discuss with her brothers and sister drive her crazy, and there is no one around that takes them seriously. And so she tries to grow up as fast as possible, get to an age where people listen to her again. She forgets so that she doesn't have to deal with the feeling she was meant for much more, to ease the mourning of all that she lost when she kissed Caspian goodbye.

All the Pevensies start forgetting Narnia slowly, the memories fading. Soon none of them remember the names of their generals at Beruna. They forget the smell of battle, the weight of an iron sword in their hands. But they all still walk as if their crowns are on their heads, and ride horses in a way none of their instructors understand. It takes a while before they are back to their Narnian levels, but it is clear to them someone has instructed them before. None of them can figure out what commands they use, however. Is it western style, perhaps? Or maybe rodeo? They cannot have been taught in England, not with the amount of control they can exert with and without saddles, the sense of balance. Some of their teachers are astonished by their academic growth, but others attribute it to the lax education standards after the war. Susan is sold short most often, but all the Pevensie children suffer from arguments with teachers and attitude problems. Teachers generally don't like it if you behave like you are older or more important than them. It's worse because they are almost never wrong, even though all of them feel the effects that having a teenage brain has on their speed of thought and the coherence of their arguments.

The Pevensies deal with these remnants of Narnia in different ways. Susan becomes an actress. She picks West End over Oxford because the stage is a place she is allowed to be free. And since Narnia, dry textbooks don't thrill her like they used to, while the fantasy concepts of spirits and courts and magic and other things thespians work with entince her all the more. Inside her is a longing to become someone else. She knows where it comes from, but she doesn't want to acknowledge it.

Susan plays a queen often, or a diplomat, or a model. Something about her performances have audiences hooked, convinced she was royalty in a different life.

Remembering Narnia hurts. She scolds someone for being reckless with the stage props while teaching them the correct way for a full minute before realizing the person in question is older than her, and doesn't listen to a young woman. He has the same name as her younger brother.

So Susan forgets. But as she carves her way into the elite of old Hollywood, years later, she begins to remember as well. What it's like to have a voice. How it feels like to have people listen.

When Lucy, Edmund and Peter die in the train accident, Susan weeps for days. She knows what she has lost in them. She is now the only person fluent in their interpersonal language, the only one that still remembers the mating call of the centaurs, what jokes a forest spirit makes. She is now truly alone in the world.

Narnia comes rushing back to her during this grieving period. Eventually, she remembers that she used to have a voice, a crown, lovers of whatever gender she wanted. And also how Narnia would have you pay for freedom in blood. They gave up on that freedom to protect her siblings. only to lose them anyways. Suddenly, Susan remembers how Narnia was fair, how a bargain struck was a bargain kept. She remembers the nymphs, the trees in spring. She remembers the beauty of it all.

Later, when Susan is a grown woman and an arrived actor in Hollywood, Aslan begins returning to her dreams. He never speaks to her, but the sight of him gives her strenght. She was once Susan the Gentle, who accompanied Aslan to his death. It is time she returns to being that person.

After the Stonewall riots and during the AIDS epidemic, Susan is the only actress willing to make a public stand. It costs her 2 box office hits and a 3 month ban from the tabloids. But she remembers justice, and the price of freedom. Others start looking to her for wisdom, just like they did all those years ago. Susan feels her quiet strenght returning, her faith slowly coming back.

She stops wishing she could forget Narnia. The magic that was responsible for the memory faded with time. Maybe it was just to protect her from mourning a world where she was so much more.

When Susan looks at the boys coming back from wars in Korea and Vietnam, she recognizes the look in their eyes. Reflected in their behaviour is a maturity that shouldn't be present in teenagers. The loss of innocence, the unrepairable damage to their childhood illusions. It is a look she spent her twenties avoiding mirrors for, because she knew what it meant. No matter what she told herself then, she believed in Narnia. She still does now.

She knows her siblings are in a different place now, and that she revoked her faith in that place, but slowly, as the years grey her hair and wrinkle her face, she begins to believe she may one day join them there. She remembers Aslan as a kind lion, even if he wasn't a tame one.

She grew old in Narnia once, after all. She hopes to die there.

Once a queen of Narnia, always a queen of Narnia

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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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Narnia Incorrect Quotes 781/?

Edmund: I'm going out

Peter: Where?

Edmund: Either to get ice cream with Lucy or to commit a felony. I'll decide in the car.

Peter: Okay, be home by nine

Edmund: Cool

Susan:...

Susan: Why do you encourage this?

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To the Clear Northern Sky i give you Hight King Peter, The Magnificent.

Here is my 10 song playlist inspired by Peters life. Each song has a meaning, here are a few of the most important ones.

1 Eight by Sleeping At Last. This song is Peters personality type on the Enneagram. He is a fighter, a worrier king who got his crown through war. Its a look into his mind.

5 Hammer Ant The Anvil by The Longest Johns. After they defeated the White Witch each of the four rulers learned new skills to help their people. Peter became a blacksmith.

6 Brother Stand Beside Me by Heather Dale. This song is on both Edmond and Peters playlists. Its meant to be like a battle song written about and for them.

8 Blood Upon The Snow by Hozier and Bear McCreary. The moment I heard this song I thought of the wars Peter had to fight. From the White Witch to the Giants uprising, this is the perfect battle song.

10 New River by The Oh Hellos. Narnia had changed when Peter came back during Prince Caspian. This song is about renewal and the change that happened in Peter and his kingdom.

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The Pevensie children are too old for their age.

Their mom notices, at the dinner table. She sees no nagging children, no stupid fights. She sees Lucy eating and speaking with perfect manners, Edmund analysing the economy and war with concerning skill, Susan being gracious but poised, like a diplomat.

Their father sees it in Peters eyes the first time they get into a fight. When he moves to punish Edmund for speaking out of turn, Peter calls him out on it. When his gaze meet his eldest son's, he's leveled by the war he sees behind it, the tensed muscle in his arm, the knuckles white around his knife. He's seen that before, in other soldiers. He doesn't know how to react.

Other children notice, too. Talking to all the Pevensie kids at the same time is like being the only one left out of a secret, and the way they touch and tease each other speaks of a history far deeper than their polite demeneor lets on. And when they walk they fall in line, as if there is a natural hierarchy between them.

The first time anyone picks a fight with Edmund, Peter comes home with a three week suspension and blood around his mouth. He looks more alive than you've seen him in weeks.

When Susan gets back in the pool after Narnia, she wins all the contests. Coaches can't explain how to beat her, because they don't understand how she's doing it, either. She seems to almost disappear when underwater.

Lucy, always gay and golden-haired, starts dancing, and never misses a step. She moves with an elegance that no 10 year old should have, and all the girls want to be friends with her

Edmund soon becomes the best student in his faculty. He always seems to know the right thing to say, and teachers laud his ability to think through complex problems. His mouth does get him in trouble sometimes, but the boy seems uncatchable, always talking his way through the cracks. And if not?

No one actively fears Peter, but everyone is a little scared of him sometimes. He's tall for his age, sure, but there is something else, some other air that seems to give him an authority far beyond what's normal for a teenage boy. He's nice enough, but teachers can't stand it, and bullies learn very quickly that pissing him off means missing teeth and black eyes.

The Pevensies are not quite inhuman, but not fully mortal, either

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We shall have Spring again

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Peter Pevensie in (according to AI)

Lion witch and the wardrobe

Prince Caspian

The end of the golden age

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Narnia Incorrect Quotes 729/?

Peter: I don't think you guys are getting enough sleep

Susan, bent over books in the library: Sometimes when we sneeze, our eyes close

Edmund: *nodding furiously*