I always seem to get to your posts and comments so late that all I can say is 'I agree with what everyone else said!' but it's still true. I enjoy the adult-ness of your stories as well, or rather, the fact that you allow the characters to act like adults and do adult things in what I think is a very realistic way. Your stories are always very grounded, with little of the fairytale atmosphere about them, which can be a hard thing to find in such a fantastical fandom - but it's what makes them stand out so much, and it's highly appreciated.
I also totally adore your portrayal of Edmund, even more than I enjoy your versions of his siblings. I don't read H&M, so I'm always a bit disappointed to not see more of him in the real-world TSG-verse stories, but what there is is fantastic - the way you portray him as very self-contained fits well with both the ever-popular spymaster concept and the more gentle, compassionate young man he's turned into. To me, it makes sense that the two would go together really, as knowing everyone's secrets and being able to get information out of people without them knowing what you're doing are both things that would benefit from a natural sense of compassion.
This snippet is quite amusing, and a bit thought provoking as well. The bit where Peter was jealous of Susan caught my attention, as it's still so easy to forget that of course their experiences in England would be so different from Narnia, and that they'd all have to go without things they'd been used to. And of course Peter would get a bit tangled in the moral aspects of it (more in terms of not wanting to hurt any potential partners in any way than actually thinking it was 'wrong', of course), and what's expected in this world, while Susan would just go her own way and heaven help anyone who judged her for it!
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I also totally adore your portrayal of Edmund, even more than I enjoy your versions of his siblings. I don't read H&M, so I'm always a bit disappointed to not see more of him in the real-world TSG-verse stories, but what there is is fantastic - the way you portray him as very self-contained fits well with both the ever-popular spymaster concept and the more gentle, compassionate young man he's turned into. To me, it makes sense that the two would go together really, as knowing everyone's secrets and being able to get information out of people without them knowing what you're doing are both things that would benefit from a natural sense of compassion.
This snippet is quite amusing, and a bit thought provoking as well. The bit where Peter was jealous of Susan caught my attention, as it's still so easy to forget that of course their experiences in England would be so different from Narnia, and that they'd all have to go without things they'd been used to. And of course Peter would get a bit tangled in the moral aspects of it (more in terms of not wanting to hurt any potential partners in any way than actually thinking it was 'wrong', of course), and what's expected in this world, while Susan would just go her own way and heaven help anyone who judged her for it!