Blame Be_The_Moon -- Egotistical Meme

[rthstewart]

So my whining in the previous post generated a Harold and Morgan Plot The Narnia Census comment fic courtesy of autumnia  keeperofqkeys and min023 I burned the dinner but it was fun.  On the plus side, thanks for the lovely comments.  I'm at 7,337 words, of which I'll probably use most of it, and I'm not half done, so that means probably another two parter.  The problem is

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[rthstewart]

Well, funny thing with the burial customs and questions. I actually did (really) write about the death of one of the Guards -- Merle, the Boarhound, is Edmund's first Guard. They are together for 7 years and then Merle dies in an ambush and Edmund is all angsty for a while before he and Jalur come to their understanding. It's in the chapters of The Palace Guard story, Jalur and the Just King, though Merle actually appears as a character in the earlier chapters. He's a bit deficient, Merle, is. As for the dead soldiers, again, angst doesn't come naturally to me, so writing of all those farewells was as hard on me as it was on the characters. Really hard. Chapter 19 is dealing with Narnian deaths, Hound, Satyr, and Centaur, plus I'm discussing but not writing the death of 4 other unnamed unseen characters -- that's just an excuse for Peter to get drunk on Dwarf Lightning and more death worldbuilding.

As for Tebbitt, he's a Londoner, the middle boy in a family of girls, so he has some of that don't know what I'll do with my life, just go along to get along sort of mien. In this, his background is probably a lot like his inspiration. He read (was reading) English literature at University (King's College, London). The day the war broke out and with a good head for heights and pretty nerveless, signed up for the RAF. He has plenty of kills but got unlucky and was shot down in Sicily, I think, or maybe Palestine or North Africa or Malta and spent 6 months in a hospital in Sussex getting stitched up. A friend of his mother's recommended him to the BSC and he's been kicking up his heels ever since.

[metonomia]

TEBBITTTTT. I'm pretty sure that at least half of why I love him so much is entirely attributed to the fact that he was reading literature. <3333

And I'm REALLY excited for the Narnian death customs.