Narnia Fic Exchange 2018
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aurillyHi there! This is my most favorite fandom and I love all the wonderful explorations I have read in it. Thank you so much in advance! :)
General
My favorite characters are Edmund and Tirian. I’m really hoping for a story where one of them is the driving protagonist (or Emeth or Bacchus if writing shipfic, or one of my requested crossover characters if writing crossover fic). Shipwise, I love Tirian/Emeth, Edmund/Bacchus, and Edmund/Tirian. My favorite platonic groupings are Edmund&Lucy, as well as Edmund+Dawn Treader ensemble. I also love Tirian's friendships with Eustace and Jill.
I love that being redeemed and growing into a badass warrior king didn't entirely cure Edmund of being a cranky, sarcastic little shit. And Tirian has his flaws, but he's such a great guy, and quite resourceful and clever when you rouse him out of his decadence. I love stories that show an alternate path to his personal growth, without the world ending.
I love stories about people talking and doing new things and being awesome and caring about each other. I love sending characters on adventures they didn't get to have in canon, or extending or reimagining canonical adventures. I love explorations of the neat concepts Lewis introduced but didn't fully explore. Tonally, almost anything goes. Canon divergences and handwaving are extra welcome! I’m fine with any rating.
I love everyone's competency, earnestness and courage when it counts, but also their flaws and sassiness. Where they are understandably frightened or make mistakes or get cranky because camping sucks. Something that keeps that balance would be amazing, as opposed to stories where everyone is preternaturally wise, even-tempered and badass. I love the same balance for Narnia itself—a land that's beautiful but rough around the edges in a way that's real, full of flawed people/creatures, and with magic that isn't always cute and cheerful.
I'm less fond of plotless character studies, wholly quotidian stories set in our world, world-building focused on characters I don't know, and missing scenes (the Golden Age and things like that don't count as missing scenes to me). I don't care about the religious allegories. I love the cool concepts introduced in The Magician's Nephew, like the Wood, the rings, the lamppost creation, dying worlds; however, I’ve never been invested in that book’s characters. Peter and Susan are great as part of the foursome, but I’d prefer Edmund to be the focus.
Optional Crossovers
In addition to the officially requested things below, I would love a crossover about Edmund or Tirian (or Rilian) with any of the characters called out below. As long as people born 1900-1950 remain born sometime during that range, I aggressively don’t care about timelines. Instead of letting timelines limit you, please fudge/shift so that my requested characters are in the story and are around the same age as each other (ie. young and cute or beautiful).
— David Blaize: On the offchance that you’d read this book, I ship Frank/Edmund ridiculously hard (prompts here). Please please pretend David Blaise happened later so he is the same age as Edmund!
— MCU: I’m only really interested in fic about Thor, Loki or Bucky (plus Steve, if you’re writing about Bucky). I’ve got shippy prompts for Bucky/Tirian, Bucky/Rilian and Thor/Tirian here. I’d also love gen fic about Edmund or Tirian having adventures with any of my MCU faves. As the sole exception to my “please handwave so they can be around the same age”, I’m fine with Edmund being a kid while MCU people look their WWII ages, since those canons are quite rooted in the time period. However, something set in 1950s where Edmund meets these guys when he is a grown up again and doesn’t die would be amazing!
— Psmith: Mike and Psmith are my OTP of life. I really want a fic where they go to Narnia and meet one of my faves (Edmund, Tirian, or Rilian)! Or, maybe Tirian or Rilian visit England and Psmith and Mike have to take him in? (I’ve read/written a few about Psmith&Mike&Edmund entirely in our world, so am only really interested in dimension hopping stories). Prompts here. Please please pretend the Psmith books happened later so they are around Edmund or Tirian or Rilian’s age!
Things I Love
— Banter: snarky, dry humour, courtly, fondly exasperated, flirty, people with wildly different speech patterns
— Friendship: hanging out and enjoying one another's company; having one another's backs; odd couples; happy and/or unexpected reunions
— Badassery: competence and resourcefulness; characters using Narnian skills in our world; laughing in the face of danger or absurdity; the pen is mightier than the sword; but swords are more fun
— Adventures: exploring unknown territory; daring rescues or escapes; reluctant allies; sea voyages; realm-hopping; time travel; fish out of water; stranded together
— angst with a happy or hopeful ending
Do Not Wants
— Major character death, the end of Narnia, Aslan’s Country, and the afterlife are my biggest DNWs. I don't even enjoy things like Caspian at the end of Silver Chair. Please let it be clear that the ending of The Last Battle won’t happen (or even ignore the whole book!).
— goofy crack and alternate setting AUs
— Problem of Susan issue fic. Feel free to simply ignore the idea that there was any rift between her and the others.
— underage/overage; pregnancy & babies; Caspian/Susan; non-con; slash pairings I haven't explicitly said I like
— characters written as ace, aro, demi; gender identity headcanons
Request 1: Edmund
Tags: Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Dimension Travel, Wood Between the Worlds, Time Shenanigans
What if, instead of dying, Edmund (plus Lucy?) used the rings to go on non-Narnia adventures? Or maybe there are portals directly from Narnia to other worlds the way there are from England to Narnia and he went during the Golden Age or VotDT? Or maybe it's an exploration of the wood? You could even use Edmund's adventure as a vehicle to do some world-building about the mechanics of dimension travel and portal creation. How do the ponds decide where and when to spit you out? What if the time passage stuff varies depending on the type of portal you use? It could even be a crossover (Game of Thrones would be fun for Edmund to visit! But I’ve only seen the show, not read the books.)
Request 2: Edmund/Tirian
Tags: Narnians In England, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Canon Divergence, Dimension Travel
They’re my two favorite characters, so it would be interesting to see how they’d bounce off each other, especially as a ship. (However, if you’re really not feeling that at all, an adventure that forges a strong friendship with be good, too.)
— Getting together in a scenario where Tirian came to England when they’re both 20-25
— It was Edmund alone who was summoned (alive!) to Narnia to help Tirian, and they actually succeed in making everything fine and the world doesn’t end.
— Or maybe none of the Last Battle happened, and Edmund is brought to Narnia one last time (maybe he can stay this time? Since they’re going to fall in love and all) to help with a plot entirely of your imagining. I’d love if they could teach and impress each other, instead of Tirian being the only one in awe.
Request 3: Tirian
Tags: Narnians In England, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
I’m not really interested in backstory or missing scenes. Since I love him and wish he’d gotten to live his life, what I really want is something set in a canon divergence where the world doesn’t end. Other friendships he could have made, other adventures he could have had, etc.
— I love the scene where Tirian half goes to our world. What if he actually went for real and spent some time here? Or he comes at a different time? It can be a whole ensemble or you can focus on Tirian with just one or two of the Friends of Narnia. What do they do with him, both logistically and activity-wise? What are his impressions of our world and these historical figures vs. what he expected? What does he learn? Does his visit help one of the other Friends with some problem or personal issue they were having?
— Tirian in a Groundhog Day loop in which he slowly learns how to be a better king (and prevent the apocalypse)? Hard mode: he and Edmund are in it together somehow?
Request 4: Emeth/Tirian
Tags: Narnians In Our World, Canon Divergence, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
I loved the conflict Emeth faced between his reason, his duty, his devotion, and his desire to prove himself. He and Tirian are perfect for one another—brave, noble warriors, and all-around lovely guys. I want something where they unambiguously get together (with actual makeouts, or more!) in real life and have a happy/hopeful ending. Enemies to lovers, culture clashes, reluctant allies fall in love, secret forbidden love across enemy lines, brothers in arms, agent falls for mark, differing styles of courtly speech and manners... I love it all!
— What if they had met in Narnia while Emeth was undercover as a merchant, and their love changes the course of the story?
— We know Tirian has been to Calormen. Was it an official trip, or did he go incognito, either for fun or for espionage or a ritual/festival? Did Emeth know who Tirian was, or not? How might this change have affected the later plot? You could focus on the flashbacks, or you could assume the backstory and start the fic when they meet again later on... either way!
— What if (instead of the apocalypse, ugh), Calormen had succeeded in the plot to take over Narnia? Tirian as war prisoner or trophy or slave or sacrifice to Tash, or... Dignity despite humiliation, hurt/comfort... anything! What makes Emeth decide to help? Or does something else happen? How do they fall in love? Maybe they work together to make at least a glimmer of okayness?
— Or maybe it’s Narnia that wins the war, and Emeth who ends up as (kind and noble!) Tirian’s prisoner? Angst because crushing on your prisoner might not be honorable? How do they get past that?
— Exploring differing views about same-sex romance? It doesn't have to be "Calormen=repressed, Narnia=free love" (though it could); maybe Calormen has a complicated Ancient Greek-style undercurrent, or Narnia's never shaken its Victorian influences. Or some other take?
Request 5: Edmund/Bacchus
Tags: Golden Age, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
Bacchus is my favorite god; his whole schtick is delightful. Lifespan incompatibilities depress me, but if you mention that Bacchus will make Edmund immortally young, too, I'd be all for happily ever afters! Otherwise, I mostly ship this in a revelrous, casual way where they fall out of touch before Edmund gets old, not as a long-term monogamous relationship. Please ensure Edmund is at least 17 if/when anything more than kissing happens. However, any rating is welcome for times when he's older!
— Instead of getting on the train and dying, Edmund (and Lucy, if you want) uses the rings to go on adventures to other worlds, and runs into Bacchus again. What is their reunion like? Does he become part of his immortal entourage? (Westeros/Essos is a crossover option; however, I'm only familiar with the show)
— Aslan loves everyone, but Lucy is obviously his favorite. What if Edmund is this god's special favorite? How come? Does Bacchus periodically show up to protect orfuckvisit him, maybe even in our world (what are his 20th century appearances like?)? Other ramifications of being Bacchus's fave?
— In mythology, Bacchus is sometimes depicted as a youth and sometimes as an adult. Does he decide at will? Or does something else cause him to shift? Separately, Aslan once gave Lucy a line about how he looked older because she was older, which... huh. Is this true for Bacchus and his faves, too? Edmund also goes back and forth in age... Basically, a shippy fic that plays with concepts around gods, time shenanigans, and age/appearance would be cool!
— Being the only humans around during their hormonal teenage years must have been hard. I'd love something in which Bacchus relieves Edmund's sexual frustration, either with direct physicality, instruction, or in other ways. Does it happen all at once when Ed goes to his first bacchanal, or is it a slow build over multiple years/visits?
— Bacchus is in charge of rites for young rulers to bond with the land or whatever. Basically, I'm looking for some sort of public and/or private virginity taking ceremony. Is Edmund excited, is it a duty he's been dreading, or something else? Is Bacchus godly and serious, or affectionate and fun? Perhaps they do it on the Stone Table? Tied down with magic vines? Ceremonial wine pouring? Holy semen? Switching? Pre-bathing by the maenads? It's not over until [your choice]? Different details of your choosing? Go all out! No drugs/aphrodisiacs, please (well, a mild wine buzz is fine, since it's Bacchus and all); I want Edmund naturally responsive and overstimulated.
General
My favorite characters are Edmund and Tirian. I’m really hoping for a story where one of them is the driving protagonist (or Emeth or Bacchus if writing shipfic, or one of my requested crossover characters if writing crossover fic). Shipwise, I love Tirian/Emeth, Edmund/Bacchus, and Edmund/Tirian. My favorite platonic groupings are Edmund&Lucy, as well as Edmund+Dawn Treader ensemble. I also love Tirian's friendships with Eustace and Jill.
I love that being redeemed and growing into a badass warrior king didn't entirely cure Edmund of being a cranky, sarcastic little shit. And Tirian has his flaws, but he's such a great guy, and quite resourceful and clever when you rouse him out of his decadence. I love stories that show an alternate path to his personal growth, without the world ending.
I love stories about people talking and doing new things and being awesome and caring about each other. I love sending characters on adventures they didn't get to have in canon, or extending or reimagining canonical adventures. I love explorations of the neat concepts Lewis introduced but didn't fully explore. Tonally, almost anything goes. Canon divergences and handwaving are extra welcome! I’m fine with any rating.
I love everyone's competency, earnestness and courage when it counts, but also their flaws and sassiness. Where they are understandably frightened or make mistakes or get cranky because camping sucks. Something that keeps that balance would be amazing, as opposed to stories where everyone is preternaturally wise, even-tempered and badass. I love the same balance for Narnia itself—a land that's beautiful but rough around the edges in a way that's real, full of flawed people/creatures, and with magic that isn't always cute and cheerful.
I'm less fond of plotless character studies, wholly quotidian stories set in our world, world-building focused on characters I don't know, and missing scenes (the Golden Age and things like that don't count as missing scenes to me). I don't care about the religious allegories. I love the cool concepts introduced in The Magician's Nephew, like the Wood, the rings, the lamppost creation, dying worlds; however, I’ve never been invested in that book’s characters. Peter and Susan are great as part of the foursome, but I’d prefer Edmund to be the focus.
Optional Crossovers
In addition to the officially requested things below, I would love a crossover about Edmund or Tirian (or Rilian) with any of the characters called out below. As long as people born 1900-1950 remain born sometime during that range, I aggressively don’t care about timelines. Instead of letting timelines limit you, please fudge/shift so that my requested characters are in the story and are around the same age as each other (ie. young and cute or beautiful).
— David Blaize: On the offchance that you’d read this book, I ship Frank/Edmund ridiculously hard (prompts here). Please please pretend David Blaise happened later so he is the same age as Edmund!
— MCU: I’m only really interested in fic about Thor, Loki or Bucky (plus Steve, if you’re writing about Bucky). I’ve got shippy prompts for Bucky/Tirian, Bucky/Rilian and Thor/Tirian here. I’d also love gen fic about Edmund or Tirian having adventures with any of my MCU faves. As the sole exception to my “please handwave so they can be around the same age”, I’m fine with Edmund being a kid while MCU people look their WWII ages, since those canons are quite rooted in the time period. However, something set in 1950s where Edmund meets these guys when he is a grown up again and doesn’t die would be amazing!
— Psmith: Mike and Psmith are my OTP of life. I really want a fic where they go to Narnia and meet one of my faves (Edmund, Tirian, or Rilian)! Or, maybe Tirian or Rilian visit England and Psmith and Mike have to take him in? (I’ve read/written a few about Psmith&Mike&Edmund entirely in our world, so am only really interested in dimension hopping stories). Prompts here. Please please pretend the Psmith books happened later so they are around Edmund or Tirian or Rilian’s age!
Things I Love
— Banter: snarky, dry humour, courtly, fondly exasperated, flirty, people with wildly different speech patterns
— Friendship: hanging out and enjoying one another's company; having one another's backs; odd couples; happy and/or unexpected reunions
— Badassery: competence and resourcefulness; characters using Narnian skills in our world; laughing in the face of danger or absurdity; the pen is mightier than the sword; but swords are more fun
— Adventures: exploring unknown territory; daring rescues or escapes; reluctant allies; sea voyages; realm-hopping; time travel; fish out of water; stranded together
— angst with a happy or hopeful ending
Do Not Wants
— Major character death, the end of Narnia, Aslan’s Country, and the afterlife are my biggest DNWs. I don't even enjoy things like Caspian at the end of Silver Chair. Please let it be clear that the ending of The Last Battle won’t happen (or even ignore the whole book!).
— goofy crack and alternate setting AUs
— Problem of Susan issue fic. Feel free to simply ignore the idea that there was any rift between her and the others.
— underage/overage; pregnancy & babies; Caspian/Susan; non-con; slash pairings I haven't explicitly said I like
— characters written as ace, aro, demi; gender identity headcanons
Request 1: Edmund
Tags: Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Dimension Travel, Wood Between the Worlds, Time Shenanigans
What if, instead of dying, Edmund (plus Lucy?) used the rings to go on non-Narnia adventures? Or maybe there are portals directly from Narnia to other worlds the way there are from England to Narnia and he went during the Golden Age or VotDT? Or maybe it's an exploration of the wood? You could even use Edmund's adventure as a vehicle to do some world-building about the mechanics of dimension travel and portal creation. How do the ponds decide where and when to spit you out? What if the time passage stuff varies depending on the type of portal you use? It could even be a crossover (Game of Thrones would be fun for Edmund to visit! But I’ve only seen the show, not read the books.)
Request 2: Edmund/Tirian
Tags: Narnians In England, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Canon Divergence, Dimension Travel
They’re my two favorite characters, so it would be interesting to see how they’d bounce off each other, especially as a ship. (However, if you’re really not feeling that at all, an adventure that forges a strong friendship with be good, too.)
— Getting together in a scenario where Tirian came to England when they’re both 20-25
— It was Edmund alone who was summoned (alive!) to Narnia to help Tirian, and they actually succeed in making everything fine and the world doesn’t end.
— Or maybe none of the Last Battle happened, and Edmund is brought to Narnia one last time (maybe he can stay this time? Since they’re going to fall in love and all) to help with a plot entirely of your imagining. I’d love if they could teach and impress each other, instead of Tirian being the only one in awe.
Request 3: Tirian
Tags: Narnians In England, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
I’m not really interested in backstory or missing scenes. Since I love him and wish he’d gotten to live his life, what I really want is something set in a canon divergence where the world doesn’t end. Other friendships he could have made, other adventures he could have had, etc.
— I love the scene where Tirian half goes to our world. What if he actually went for real and spent some time here? Or he comes at a different time? It can be a whole ensemble or you can focus on Tirian with just one or two of the Friends of Narnia. What do they do with him, both logistically and activity-wise? What are his impressions of our world and these historical figures vs. what he expected? What does he learn? Does his visit help one of the other Friends with some problem or personal issue they were having?
— Tirian in a Groundhog Day loop in which he slowly learns how to be a better king (and prevent the apocalypse)? Hard mode: he and Edmund are in it together somehow?
Request 4: Emeth/Tirian
Tags: Narnians In Our World, Canon Divergence, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
I loved the conflict Emeth faced between his reason, his duty, his devotion, and his desire to prove himself. He and Tirian are perfect for one another—brave, noble warriors, and all-around lovely guys. I want something where they unambiguously get together (with actual makeouts, or more!) in real life and have a happy/hopeful ending. Enemies to lovers, culture clashes, reluctant allies fall in love, secret forbidden love across enemy lines, brothers in arms, agent falls for mark, differing styles of courtly speech and manners... I love it all!
— What if they had met in Narnia while Emeth was undercover as a merchant, and their love changes the course of the story?
— We know Tirian has been to Calormen. Was it an official trip, or did he go incognito, either for fun or for espionage or a ritual/festival? Did Emeth know who Tirian was, or not? How might this change have affected the later plot? You could focus on the flashbacks, or you could assume the backstory and start the fic when they meet again later on... either way!
— What if (instead of the apocalypse, ugh), Calormen had succeeded in the plot to take over Narnia? Tirian as war prisoner or trophy or slave or sacrifice to Tash, or... Dignity despite humiliation, hurt/comfort... anything! What makes Emeth decide to help? Or does something else happen? How do they fall in love? Maybe they work together to make at least a glimmer of okayness?
— Or maybe it’s Narnia that wins the war, and Emeth who ends up as (kind and noble!) Tirian’s prisoner? Angst because crushing on your prisoner might not be honorable? How do they get past that?
— Exploring differing views about same-sex romance? It doesn't have to be "Calormen=repressed, Narnia=free love" (though it could); maybe Calormen has a complicated Ancient Greek-style undercurrent, or Narnia's never shaken its Victorian influences. Or some other take?
Request 5: Edmund/Bacchus
Tags: Golden Age, Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
Bacchus is my favorite god; his whole schtick is delightful. Lifespan incompatibilities depress me, but if you mention that Bacchus will make Edmund immortally young, too, I'd be all for happily ever afters! Otherwise, I mostly ship this in a revelrous, casual way where they fall out of touch before Edmund gets old, not as a long-term monogamous relationship. Please ensure Edmund is at least 17 if/when anything more than kissing happens. However, any rating is welcome for times when he's older!
— Instead of getting on the train and dying, Edmund (and Lucy, if you want) uses the rings to go on adventures to other worlds, and runs into Bacchus again. What is their reunion like? Does he become part of his immortal entourage? (Westeros/Essos is a crossover option; however, I'm only familiar with the show)
— Aslan loves everyone, but Lucy is obviously his favorite. What if Edmund is this god's special favorite? How come? Does Bacchus periodically show up to protect or
— In mythology, Bacchus is sometimes depicted as a youth and sometimes as an adult. Does he decide at will? Or does something else cause him to shift? Separately, Aslan once gave Lucy a line about how he looked older because she was older, which... huh. Is this true for Bacchus and his faves, too? Edmund also goes back and forth in age... Basically, a shippy fic that plays with concepts around gods, time shenanigans, and age/appearance would be cool!
— Being the only humans around during their hormonal teenage years must have been hard. I'd love something in which Bacchus relieves Edmund's sexual frustration, either with direct physicality, instruction, or in other ways. Does it happen all at once when Ed goes to his first bacchanal, or is it a slow build over multiple years/visits?
— Bacchus is in charge of rites for young rulers to bond with the land or whatever. Basically, I'm looking for some sort of public and/or private virginity taking ceremony. Is Edmund excited, is it a duty he's been dreading, or something else? Is Bacchus godly and serious, or affectionate and fun? Perhaps they do it on the Stone Table? Tied down with magic vines? Ceremonial wine pouring? Holy semen? Switching? Pre-bathing by the maenads? It's not over until [your choice]? Different details of your choosing? Go all out! No drugs/aphrodisiacs, please (well, a mild wine buzz is fine, since it's Bacchus and all); I want Edmund naturally responsive and overstimulated.