Dear NFE Writer!
Note: I am repurposing my stock Yuletide letter here, which is why some of the sections may seem slightly off-topic for a single fandom exchange.
Hi, and thank you in advance for writing a story for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write context-free porn, I'll be thrilled just to get a response to one of my prompts. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to talk about things I love and I figure more details are better than fewer.)
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General Information:
1. I will read anything when it comes to pairings -- het, slash, femslash, threesomes, poly, whatever, so long as you put in a bit of character development so the relationships don't seem to come out of nowhere -- but I prefer gen, and I tend to skim sex scenes because the non-sex parts of the story are almost always more interesting to me. So while you can do whatever you like with background pairings, they are not what I am most interested in.
2. I read all kinds of genres and moods, from schmoopy fluff to angsty deathfic, but my favorite endings are bittersweet (...okay, bittersweet leaning toward happy) and a little complicated.
3. I fall in love with worlds and themes as much as I fall in love with characters, if not more, so any world-building you can sneak in around the edges of a story will be received with great joy. I am also totally open to OCs and/or the development of canon characters who might as well be OCs, as you may note from the structure of several prompts.
4. Stuff I really, really like: This can be boiled down to, 'Please treat characters as intelligent people who have understandable motives for their actions, please take the worlds seriously as settings, and please remember that there's more to life than sex. Also, ethics, metaphysics, and world-building are dead cool.'
The long version: I like character development; world-building; explanation of plot holes in canon; subtle humor; good spelling and grammar; a sense of wonder; writing that evokes an emotional reaction as well as telling a story; close relationships that don't necessarily involve sex (i.e., friendship, families, teachers and students, coworkers, traveling companions, soldiers in the same cause, etc.); the consequences of actions and choices; a sense of place and time; dialogue that conveys character as well as plot information; politics; ethics; people being intelligent even if they make bad choices; people trying to do the right thing even if they make bad choices; conflict because of opposing goals that both have points in their favor; a lack of simple solutions; female characters treated as people instead of plot devices; male characters treated as people instead of plot devices; ideas that make me stop and think; the nature of memory; the nature of truth; possession; soul-searching; non-gratuitous torture (...I have a kink, shut up); war and battles; hand-to-hand fighting; swordfights; peace and diplomacy; magic that's properly magical and strange or magic that's explained as a science (but not both at once); books and reading; people exploring a new country/world/city; linguistics and languages; early Industrial Revolution technology (or whatever technology is suitable to the milieu); people using logic to investigate a problem; and fires, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
5. Stuff I'm not so keen on: obvious authorial hatred for characters I like and/or find interesting (which is generally all of them); sex or romantic love with no in-story justification (unless the people in question are already a canon couple); gratuitous angst/torture/rape (i.e., bad stuff that comes out of nowhere and is not necessary to make the plot or character arc work); idiot plots (i.e., problems that could be solved in five minutes if the characters asked one or two obvious questions); and predestination, prophecies, and anything else that denies free will.
6. If you want to know more about my general approach to Narnia, all my fanfic is available on this masterlist. Some of my meta posts are also listed there, down at the bottom of the page.
The three most important things to note are as follows:
A) The books are my canon, not any of their various adaptations to film.
B) My personal stance on the Pevensies after their initial return from Narnia is that they really did become children again, in mind as well as in body. So they are children who remember being adults, but those memories are filtered through children's brains and general perspective on the world. The only prompt for which this might be relevant is the sedoretu AU prompt, but I figure that since this seems to be a minority viewpoint in the fandom and I'm asking for a tailored gift, I might as well mention it.
C) I am not Christian. However, Lewis's use of Christian mythology is central to the series, which I find creates an interesting tension for many writers that doesn't occur in stories built on mythologies that aren't in widespread current use. So while I prefer stories that stick to the general canon assertions that Aslan is a god and a Christ-analogue, that he created the Narnian world, and that he is good (but not safe), I would also prefer stories that acknowledge the existence of other gods in the Narnian world, in the world of England, in Charn, and any other worlds that become relevant. I would like a recognition that good does not always equal right, ethics are complicated and often situational, and there isn't always one right answer. And I do not want to be preached at.
Thank you for your consideration!
Okay. On to specific prompts.
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Aravis Meets Rabadash:
Prompt: I would like a story in which Aravis meets Rabadash prior to the events of HHB. Maybe he comes to Calavar for some reason. Maybe they attend the same party at the Lake of Mezreel. Maybe we go a little AU and Aravis tries to follow her brother off to the western rebellions, where Rabadash is leading part of the army. There are many options! I just want to see them interact in Calormen at a time when Aravis has no reason to think ill of him, and am fine with any pretext you can come up with to make that happen.
Thoughts: The main qualification I make to this prompt is that I don't want Rabadash to be consciously cruel to Aravis. I don't mind if he's dismissive -- in fact, that's his most likely response, since I'm sure he's not accustomed to or interested in dealing with young girls! And of course it is in-character for him to be cruel to people around her, which Aravis may or may not notice since this is before her character arc in HHB about learning to treat servants as people. I also request that Rabadash neither propose nor countenance an offer of marriage involving Aravis. Beyond that I leave the details up to you, though if you can work in Hwin or Lasaraleen somehow, that would be lovely.
Mostly I want to see Aravis and Rabadash in a situation I have yet to see explored in Narnia fanfic, and to get a bunch of world-building about Calormen around the edges. Also, please note that while I have some highly elaborated headcanons about Calormen, and you have my enthusiastic approval to use them, you also have my enthusiastic approval to ignore them and invent your own. I love any and all attempts to create a full and functional society from the hints and glimpses Lewis gives us. :)
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Dwarf Culture Under the Telmarines:
Prompt: I would like a story about Nikabrik, Trumpkin, and Narnian dwarf culture in the decades leading up to Prince Caspian, with a particular focus on how (and why) Jadis was remembered among some dwarf factions with so much more fervor than Aslan. I'd also be interested in knowing how a Black Dwarf and a Red Dwarf came to be living together with a Talking Badger, because that seems like an unusual arrangement even among the people who lived in hiding.
(Note: This request is for book!verse rather than any of the film versions of PC.)
Thoughts: So basically, I am fascinated by the cultural transmission and alteration of history and folklore, and while it's made textually explicit that Talking Beasts pride themselves on accurate memories, I am pretty sure Narnian Dwarfs are more like humans in that their stories shift over the generations. Additionally, some of them were clearly allied with Jadis and there's textual prejudice between them and Talking Beasts, as per Mr. Beaver's ugly words in LWW about things that look human but aren't. The "dark" Beasts seem to have been accepted back into regular Narnian culture by Caspian's day, but there are clearly a bunch of "dark" Beings -- werewolves, hags, etc. -- who remain outsiders. And I wonder if that's somehow inherent to their nature, or if it's continuing prejudice.
Nikabrik is a fascinating person to me, because while Trumpkin clearly thinks all the ancient stories are made up, Nikabrik is quite sure that Jadis, at least, is real. He doesn't jump to summoning her immediately, though; that waits until the war is in dire straits, after the attempt to summon the "bright" figures from history/mythology apparently fails. But he clearly maintains contacts among the outcast Beings, since he was able to bring in a hag and a werewolf on relatively short notice -- especially since they don't seem to have been part of the army beforehand. But so far as I can tell, neither Trumpkin nor Trufflehunter had any idea about those connections, which is interesting since he'd lived with those two for years.
Um. Also the Dwarfs get really bad treatment later on in TLB, and I'd like to see them taken on their own terms and treated as a people with their own rich, thriving culture, even during the generations in hiding. I mean, they probably had an easier time of it than some of the Talking Beasts. And I guess I'm also curious why the Old Narnians seem not to have kept contact with Archenland, nor asked for help during the war against Miraz. (The Doylist reason is obviously that Lewis hadn't invented Archenland yet, but from a Watsonian perspective, that needs explaining.)
This has devolved into rambling, sorry. Anyway, Dwarfs! Culture! Jadis! Prejudice! Nikabrik torn between two factions! Hopefully you can dig some inspiration out of this mess. *wry*
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The Mysterious Mrs. Lefay:
Prompt: I would like a story about what on earth Mrs. Lefay did to get herself thrown in prison -- and precisely how much the various members of the Ketterly family knew about it and/or were tangentially involved. If you can work in some experiments with the box from Atlantis, that would be even more appreciated!
Thoughts: Because the Ketterly family is fascinating and we know so little about them -- and even the little we do know is suspect, as Uncle Andrew is hardly what I'd call a reliable narrator. Also because I adore morally ambiguous women and/or outright female villains, and I really like stories that make the Pevensies' version of England into a world filled with subtle, shadowy (perhaps fading?) magic of its own. I mean, apparently Atlantis was real in this world, as were some of E. Nesbit's books! You could really go places with that, if you wanted.
My touchstones for the Ketterly family's history with magic are two of
rthstewart's fics: Mazy Rings, Troublesome Things and At An In-Between Place, both of which focus on Letty. (Who is awesome.) But I'm not married to that interpretation, and would be equally happy to read a story that completely contradicts those two. And if you'd prefer to focus on Andrew and Mrs. Lefay, that's also fine! I just would strongly prefer a story centered around one or more of the female characters, with Andrew in a supporting role, rather than a story centered around Andrew himself.
I'm not hugely concerned with tone here. This could be anything from farce to subtle creeping horror, depending on how you want to play it, and I will still clap with glee. :)
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Rilian's Everyday Life While Enchanted:
Prompt: I would like a story about Rilian's decade under enchantment. He canonically didn't spend all his time in Underworld -- we first meet him and the Lady of the Green Kirtle riding on the road from Harfang, and he himself says she takes him aboveground to accustom his eyes to sunlight, though he's not allowed to show his face or speak to anyone on those trips. He also seems to have a position of some minor authority in the Lady's city, though what exactly he uses it for is anyone's guess. So I would like to see some of his day-to-day life under the Lady's spell, and through that, some of the world he and the Lady moved in.
(Note: You can go as dark as you want in the background, for obvious reasons, but the foreground should be practical details and worldbuilding rather than angst or mindscrew, please!)
Thoughts: Obviously any response to this prompt should have a creepy undertone, because Rilian is not in his right mind (and if his relationship with the Lady is in any way sexual, that's rape), but as stated above, I'm more interested in everyday practical details. In other words, where did the Lady take him on those trips? What did he DO all day underground? How did the food and clothes and supplies (and horses!) get to Underworld? What kind of diplomatic relationships does the Lady have with other people who live north (and/or west) of Narnia? (Secondarily, who are those people? We know about Harfang, but a castle like that can't exist in isolation; it needs a society to support it.) There's a very medieval romance feel to the Lady, her environs, and her spells, and I'd like to see them through a more realistic lens.
I am inclined to think that Rilian didn't age while enchanted (except maybe in his one hour of freedom each night), which might make for extra background creepiness if anyone notices that aspect of the spell and the Lady either handwaves it or makes him forget.
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Sedoretu AU:
Prompt: I freely admit this is kind of a weird prompt, but somebody put the idea in my mind a while back on Tumblr and I want to see someone tackle it. Namely: let's do a sedoretu AU. :)
A sedoretu, for those who aren't familiar with the term, is a very specific kind of polyamorous relationship created by Ursula Le Guin in some of her science fiction. I want to see that applied to Narnia. Is it a custom only in Narnia? Sure, why not. A custom only among certain subsets of Narnians? Sure, why not. A custom spread through the entire Narnian world? Sure, why not. (But please not only in Calormen; that has unfortunate implications.) A custom from Earth that somehow got lost in the Narnian world? Sure, why not.
The main point is to explore interpersonal relationships and social structures through the lens of this specific and somewhat complicated pattern. Pick any characters you want to focus on, though I have listed some potential starter ideas below. :)
Thoughts: Actually, you know what? Rather than copypaste the whole thing, I'm just going to direct you to this post and its comment threads. That should give you an idea of some of the flavors I'm looking for in this prompt. :D
But please don't feel constrained by the options in that post! If you have another idea, go for it! In this case, I am all in favor of weird random side-corners, minor characters, and OCs. I am also totally cool with stories set in other worlds such as Earth or Charn or even somewhere else people might have gone via the Rings whether during a canon interstice (oh hey, what if Letty had an adventure that involved a world where sedoretu were the norm?) or post-canon with Susan (and/or some AU survivors of TLB) going on an inter-dimensional adventure.
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Hi, and thank you in advance for writing a story for me! I'm pretty easy to please -- unless you write context-free porn, I'll be thrilled just to get a response to one of my prompts. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version. (I am sorry for the tl;dr, but I like to talk about things I love and I figure more details are better than fewer.)
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General Information:
1. I will read anything when it comes to pairings -- het, slash, femslash, threesomes, poly, whatever, so long as you put in a bit of character development so the relationships don't seem to come out of nowhere -- but I prefer gen, and I tend to skim sex scenes because the non-sex parts of the story are almost always more interesting to me. So while you can do whatever you like with background pairings, they are not what I am most interested in.
2. I read all kinds of genres and moods, from schmoopy fluff to angsty deathfic, but my favorite endings are bittersweet (...okay, bittersweet leaning toward happy) and a little complicated.
3. I fall in love with worlds and themes as much as I fall in love with characters, if not more, so any world-building you can sneak in around the edges of a story will be received with great joy. I am also totally open to OCs and/or the development of canon characters who might as well be OCs, as you may note from the structure of several prompts.
4. Stuff I really, really like: This can be boiled down to, 'Please treat characters as intelligent people who have understandable motives for their actions, please take the worlds seriously as settings, and please remember that there's more to life than sex. Also, ethics, metaphysics, and world-building are dead cool.'
The long version: I like character development; world-building; explanation of plot holes in canon; subtle humor; good spelling and grammar; a sense of wonder; writing that evokes an emotional reaction as well as telling a story; close relationships that don't necessarily involve sex (i.e., friendship, families, teachers and students, coworkers, traveling companions, soldiers in the same cause, etc.); the consequences of actions and choices; a sense of place and time; dialogue that conveys character as well as plot information; politics; ethics; people being intelligent even if they make bad choices; people trying to do the right thing even if they make bad choices; conflict because of opposing goals that both have points in their favor; a lack of simple solutions; female characters treated as people instead of plot devices; male characters treated as people instead of plot devices; ideas that make me stop and think; the nature of memory; the nature of truth; possession; soul-searching; non-gratuitous torture (...I have a kink, shut up); war and battles; hand-to-hand fighting; swordfights; peace and diplomacy; magic that's properly magical and strange or magic that's explained as a science (but not both at once); books and reading; people exploring a new country/world/city; linguistics and languages; early Industrial Revolution technology (or whatever technology is suitable to the milieu); people using logic to investigate a problem; and fires, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
5. Stuff I'm not so keen on: obvious authorial hatred for characters I like and/or find interesting (which is generally all of them); sex or romantic love with no in-story justification (unless the people in question are already a canon couple); gratuitous angst/torture/rape (i.e., bad stuff that comes out of nowhere and is not necessary to make the plot or character arc work); idiot plots (i.e., problems that could be solved in five minutes if the characters asked one or two obvious questions); and predestination, prophecies, and anything else that denies free will.
6. If you want to know more about my general approach to Narnia, all my fanfic is available on this masterlist. Some of my meta posts are also listed there, down at the bottom of the page.
The three most important things to note are as follows:
A) The books are my canon, not any of their various adaptations to film.
B) My personal stance on the Pevensies after their initial return from Narnia is that they really did become children again, in mind as well as in body. So they are children who remember being adults, but those memories are filtered through children's brains and general perspective on the world. The only prompt for which this might be relevant is the sedoretu AU prompt, but I figure that since this seems to be a minority viewpoint in the fandom and I'm asking for a tailored gift, I might as well mention it.
C) I am not Christian. However, Lewis's use of Christian mythology is central to the series, which I find creates an interesting tension for many writers that doesn't occur in stories built on mythologies that aren't in widespread current use. So while I prefer stories that stick to the general canon assertions that Aslan is a god and a Christ-analogue, that he created the Narnian world, and that he is good (but not safe), I would also prefer stories that acknowledge the existence of other gods in the Narnian world, in the world of England, in Charn, and any other worlds that become relevant. I would like a recognition that good does not always equal right, ethics are complicated and often situational, and there isn't always one right answer. And I do not want to be preached at.
Thank you for your consideration!
Okay. On to specific prompts.
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Aravis Meets Rabadash:
Prompt: I would like a story in which Aravis meets Rabadash prior to the events of HHB. Maybe he comes to Calavar for some reason. Maybe they attend the same party at the Lake of Mezreel. Maybe we go a little AU and Aravis tries to follow her brother off to the western rebellions, where Rabadash is leading part of the army. There are many options! I just want to see them interact in Calormen at a time when Aravis has no reason to think ill of him, and am fine with any pretext you can come up with to make that happen.
Thoughts: The main qualification I make to this prompt is that I don't want Rabadash to be consciously cruel to Aravis. I don't mind if he's dismissive -- in fact, that's his most likely response, since I'm sure he's not accustomed to or interested in dealing with young girls! And of course it is in-character for him to be cruel to people around her, which Aravis may or may not notice since this is before her character arc in HHB about learning to treat servants as people. I also request that Rabadash neither propose nor countenance an offer of marriage involving Aravis. Beyond that I leave the details up to you, though if you can work in Hwin or Lasaraleen somehow, that would be lovely.
Mostly I want to see Aravis and Rabadash in a situation I have yet to see explored in Narnia fanfic, and to get a bunch of world-building about Calormen around the edges. Also, please note that while I have some highly elaborated headcanons about Calormen, and you have my enthusiastic approval to use them, you also have my enthusiastic approval to ignore them and invent your own. I love any and all attempts to create a full and functional society from the hints and glimpses Lewis gives us. :)
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Dwarf Culture Under the Telmarines:
Prompt: I would like a story about Nikabrik, Trumpkin, and Narnian dwarf culture in the decades leading up to Prince Caspian, with a particular focus on how (and why) Jadis was remembered among some dwarf factions with so much more fervor than Aslan. I'd also be interested in knowing how a Black Dwarf and a Red Dwarf came to be living together with a Talking Badger, because that seems like an unusual arrangement even among the people who lived in hiding.
(Note: This request is for book!verse rather than any of the film versions of PC.)
Thoughts: So basically, I am fascinated by the cultural transmission and alteration of history and folklore, and while it's made textually explicit that Talking Beasts pride themselves on accurate memories, I am pretty sure Narnian Dwarfs are more like humans in that their stories shift over the generations. Additionally, some of them were clearly allied with Jadis and there's textual prejudice between them and Talking Beasts, as per Mr. Beaver's ugly words in LWW about things that look human but aren't. The "dark" Beasts seem to have been accepted back into regular Narnian culture by Caspian's day, but there are clearly a bunch of "dark" Beings -- werewolves, hags, etc. -- who remain outsiders. And I wonder if that's somehow inherent to their nature, or if it's continuing prejudice.
Nikabrik is a fascinating person to me, because while Trumpkin clearly thinks all the ancient stories are made up, Nikabrik is quite sure that Jadis, at least, is real. He doesn't jump to summoning her immediately, though; that waits until the war is in dire straits, after the attempt to summon the "bright" figures from history/mythology apparently fails. But he clearly maintains contacts among the outcast Beings, since he was able to bring in a hag and a werewolf on relatively short notice -- especially since they don't seem to have been part of the army beforehand. But so far as I can tell, neither Trumpkin nor Trufflehunter had any idea about those connections, which is interesting since he'd lived with those two for years.
Um. Also the Dwarfs get really bad treatment later on in TLB, and I'd like to see them taken on their own terms and treated as a people with their own rich, thriving culture, even during the generations in hiding. I mean, they probably had an easier time of it than some of the Talking Beasts. And I guess I'm also curious why the Old Narnians seem not to have kept contact with Archenland, nor asked for help during the war against Miraz. (The Doylist reason is obviously that Lewis hadn't invented Archenland yet, but from a Watsonian perspective, that needs explaining.)
This has devolved into rambling, sorry. Anyway, Dwarfs! Culture! Jadis! Prejudice! Nikabrik torn between two factions! Hopefully you can dig some inspiration out of this mess. *wry*
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The Mysterious Mrs. Lefay:
Prompt: I would like a story about what on earth Mrs. Lefay did to get herself thrown in prison -- and precisely how much the various members of the Ketterly family knew about it and/or were tangentially involved. If you can work in some experiments with the box from Atlantis, that would be even more appreciated!
Thoughts: Because the Ketterly family is fascinating and we know so little about them -- and even the little we do know is suspect, as Uncle Andrew is hardly what I'd call a reliable narrator. Also because I adore morally ambiguous women and/or outright female villains, and I really like stories that make the Pevensies' version of England into a world filled with subtle, shadowy (perhaps fading?) magic of its own. I mean, apparently Atlantis was real in this world, as were some of E. Nesbit's books! You could really go places with that, if you wanted.
My touchstones for the Ketterly family's history with magic are two of
rthstewart's fics: Mazy Rings, Troublesome Things and At An In-Between Place, both of which focus on Letty. (Who is awesome.) But I'm not married to that interpretation, and would be equally happy to read a story that completely contradicts those two. And if you'd prefer to focus on Andrew and Mrs. Lefay, that's also fine! I just would strongly prefer a story centered around one or more of the female characters, with Andrew in a supporting role, rather than a story centered around Andrew himself.
I'm not hugely concerned with tone here. This could be anything from farce to subtle creeping horror, depending on how you want to play it, and I will still clap with glee. :)
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Rilian's Everyday Life While Enchanted:
Prompt: I would like a story about Rilian's decade under enchantment. He canonically didn't spend all his time in Underworld -- we first meet him and the Lady of the Green Kirtle riding on the road from Harfang, and he himself says she takes him aboveground to accustom his eyes to sunlight, though he's not allowed to show his face or speak to anyone on those trips. He also seems to have a position of some minor authority in the Lady's city, though what exactly he uses it for is anyone's guess. So I would like to see some of his day-to-day life under the Lady's spell, and through that, some of the world he and the Lady moved in.
(Note: You can go as dark as you want in the background, for obvious reasons, but the foreground should be practical details and worldbuilding rather than angst or mindscrew, please!)
Thoughts: Obviously any response to this prompt should have a creepy undertone, because Rilian is not in his right mind (and if his relationship with the Lady is in any way sexual, that's rape), but as stated above, I'm more interested in everyday practical details. In other words, where did the Lady take him on those trips? What did he DO all day underground? How did the food and clothes and supplies (and horses!) get to Underworld? What kind of diplomatic relationships does the Lady have with other people who live north (and/or west) of Narnia? (Secondarily, who are those people? We know about Harfang, but a castle like that can't exist in isolation; it needs a society to support it.) There's a very medieval romance feel to the Lady, her environs, and her spells, and I'd like to see them through a more realistic lens.
I am inclined to think that Rilian didn't age while enchanted (except maybe in his one hour of freedom each night), which might make for extra background creepiness if anyone notices that aspect of the spell and the Lady either handwaves it or makes him forget.
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Sedoretu AU:
Prompt: I freely admit this is kind of a weird prompt, but somebody put the idea in my mind a while back on Tumblr and I want to see someone tackle it. Namely: let's do a sedoretu AU. :)
A sedoretu, for those who aren't familiar with the term, is a very specific kind of polyamorous relationship created by Ursula Le Guin in some of her science fiction. I want to see that applied to Narnia. Is it a custom only in Narnia? Sure, why not. A custom only among certain subsets of Narnians? Sure, why not. A custom spread through the entire Narnian world? Sure, why not. (But please not only in Calormen; that has unfortunate implications.) A custom from Earth that somehow got lost in the Narnian world? Sure, why not.
The main point is to explore interpersonal relationships and social structures through the lens of this specific and somewhat complicated pattern. Pick any characters you want to focus on, though I have listed some potential starter ideas below. :)
Thoughts: Actually, you know what? Rather than copypaste the whole thing, I'm just going to direct you to this post and its comment threads. That should give you an idea of some of the flavors I'm looking for in this prompt. :D
But please don't feel constrained by the options in that post! If you have another idea, go for it! In this case, I am all in favor of weird random side-corners, minor characters, and OCs. I am also totally cool with stories set in other worlds such as Earth or Charn or even somewhere else people might have gone via the Rings whether during a canon interstice (oh hey, what if Letty had an adventure that involved a world where sedoretu were the norm?) or post-canon with Susan (and/or some AU survivors of TLB) going on an inter-dimensional adventure.
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