So, I'm going to muse on Digression 1, rather than work on NFE for the moment and try to stop from angsting all over the place about what is up and done. First off, thanks so much, H. I really and hugely appreciate your thoughtful comments. As to Digression 1, goodness, you are paying close attention!! Closer than I am, at times, but.. well, not completely. Some of this is thought out completely, and other parts, are make it up as I go.
I will say that Peter's calm reaction to Richard in TSG is indicative of his character -- far more so than his reaction to Bacchus in Maenad. The prompt for MotM specifically asked for no slash, and so that's why that was in there. I wanted to acknowledge Bacchus' very, well to borrow from Capt Jack Harkness/Torchwood, omni-sexual view of things, but still stay within the prompt. And, I thought it was funny to have Bacchus say, well, if you don't want women, what about men? Having grounded this Narnia vision in the natural and biological of this world, there is in fact significant data supporting same sex couplings and relationships, particularly m/m, and then of course there are the mythological roots of Bacchus, dryads and the wood folk -- satyrs and fauns. So, it's certainly there in the background and while I don't have a particular story to tell, I could easily see (and assume) same sex bonding for all of the Pevensies in Narnia at some point. In my head canon, I've actually assumed that most of Lucy and Susan's Narnian lovers were in female form (Dryad or otherwise) -- the furthest I took that was the Star story with Lucy and Liliandil. In Spare Oom, I've assumed that Mary has tried to get Polly drunk to seduce her because she will try to get close to any whom Richard loves. And, as you say, I can see Richard trying anything at least once. I would not rule out Dryads, male or female, for Edmund or Peter -- just not during the Spring for Edmund.
Whoa, I'll just delete the long digression on Morgan and Edmund and the significance of "not father, brother, or Peter" and my further digressions on wild dryad tree sex and kingmaking rituals. Stopping now with a huge and sincere thanks.
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I will say that Peter's calm reaction to Richard in TSG is indicative of his character -- far more so than his reaction to Bacchus in Maenad. The prompt for MotM specifically asked for no slash, and so that's why that was in there. I wanted to acknowledge Bacchus' very, well to borrow from Capt Jack Harkness/Torchwood, omni-sexual view of things, but still stay within the prompt. And, I thought it was funny to have Bacchus say, well, if you don't want women, what about men? Having grounded this Narnia vision in the natural and biological of this world, there is in fact significant data supporting same sex couplings and relationships, particularly m/m, and then of course there are the mythological roots of Bacchus, dryads and the wood folk -- satyrs and fauns. So, it's certainly there in the background and while I don't have a particular story to tell, I could easily see (and assume) same sex bonding for all of the Pevensies in Narnia at some point. In my head canon, I've actually assumed that most of Lucy and Susan's Narnian lovers were in female form (Dryad or otherwise) -- the furthest I took that was the Star story with Lucy and Liliandil. In Spare Oom, I've assumed that Mary has tried to get Polly drunk to seduce her because she will try to get close to any whom Richard loves. And, as you say, I can see Richard trying anything at least once. I would not rule out Dryads, male or female, for Edmund or Peter -- just not during the Spring for Edmund.
Whoa, I'll just delete the long digression on Morgan and Edmund and the significance of "not father, brother, or Peter" and my further digressions on wild dryad tree sex and kingmaking rituals. Stopping now with a huge and sincere thanks.