Favorite trope??? Maybe Edmund as spymaster? Polly as suffragist? I had no idea that Edmund as spymaster was a trope when I started writing it myself. I have to say that I don't like a lot of the most common Narnia tropes much myself. I loathe Susan as listmaker, for instance. I don't like Lucy as perpetual child virgin. I don't like the WAAAHHHH I'm NOT KING Peter characterization. And, I'm not crazy about Edmund as sexual abuse victim either.
Aslan: a) a fact about them from my personal canon b) a reason he/she sucks c) a reason he/she is amazing d) a thing that I'd like to see happen to them e) someone that I can't ship that character with
Aslan has a real sense of humor. He likes to laugh and likes it when the Cheetah, Dalia, imitates him, which she does very well. He sucks when he's not clear about what he wants and lets the poor humans and other flounder about trying to figure out what the hell they are supposed to be doing. Also, he's not as astute as he might be where humans are concerned -- he's a Lion, really and truly a Lion, and so human behavior sometimes confounds him. He is amazing because, when the person/Beast/whomever asks, he comes. In my head canon, in my vision, he is not judgmental, he is very gentle and beneficent, and doesn't set up arbitrary tests or obstacles. He acts with purpose.
I'd like to see the Trickster show up Aslan in Tashbaan during HHB, and do more and be more clever because the Trickster is a sneaky bastard and Aslan just isn't cruel. He didn't really turn Rabadash into an Ass -- that was the Trickster, who got to chose his punishment. Similarly, while Aslan administered the "lashings" to Aravis, it was really to satisfy the Trickster who demanded recompense because the slave Aravis drugged, who was later beaten, was one of the Trickster's people. Aravis should know the pain before she again so casually subjects others to that sort of pain. I don't ship Aslan with anyone, except in your stories, Animus!
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Aslan:
a) a fact about them from my personal canon
b) a reason he/she sucks
c) a reason he/she is amazing
d) a thing that I'd like to see happen to them
e) someone that I can't ship that character with
Aslan has a real sense of humor. He likes to laugh and likes it when the Cheetah, Dalia, imitates him, which she does very well. He sucks when he's not clear about what he wants and lets the poor humans and other flounder about trying to figure out what the hell they are supposed to be doing. Also, he's not as astute as he might be where humans are concerned -- he's a Lion, really and truly a Lion, and so human behavior sometimes confounds him. He is amazing because, when the person/Beast/whomever asks, he comes. In my head canon, in my vision, he is not judgmental, he is very gentle and beneficent, and doesn't set up arbitrary tests or obstacles. He acts with purpose.
I'd like to see the Trickster show up Aslan in Tashbaan during HHB, and do more and be more clever because the Trickster is a sneaky bastard and Aslan just isn't cruel. He didn't really turn Rabadash into an Ass -- that was the Trickster, who got to chose his punishment. Similarly, while Aslan administered the "lashings" to Aravis, it was really to satisfy the Trickster who demanded recompense because the slave Aravis drugged, who was later beaten, was one of the Trickster's people. Aravis should know the pain before she again so casually subjects others to that sort of pain. I don't ship Aslan with anyone, except in your stories, Animus!