Not AU exactly -- AW through a blurry, malfunctioning telescope

[rthstewart]

In the following, we now cover 15-16 years, and this goes places I did not intend, and we end up not in AU exactly, but maybe. It's not what I'd intended. The first part is re-hash of the commentfic and I blame lady_songsmith for the prompt that took us to the Amazon and then anastigmatfic for where we’ve ended up, however improbably. The very end is new.

Comments

[autumnia]

I don't think it's necessarily that Peter is out of character. We've seen his views on the world and life change over the course of the summer in TSG (such as the warning Edmund gives Susan that the High King with his many titles have suddenly become anti-colonial).

Maybe it is because Peter doesn't know everything that's going on. He knows in Narnia, Edmund and Susan were involved in those grey areas of right and wrong and they did it to protect their home and people. As you state in TQSiT, Edmund would not lie to Peter if asked and yet, Peter seemed to prefer to not know about all those things his siblings did to keep things safe. So I think his impression of Susan's work is influenced by how much/little he actually knows. In the end, what Susan is doing Here is the same as what she was doing There -- the same reasons, the same goals. The only difference is that she's now serving England instead of Narnia, and he should remember that England will forever be Home now that they're not allowed to return to their kingdom.

(I hope that came out clearly.. I'm having trouble trying to articulate my thoughts on this very well.)

[rthstewart]

Very clear! You are so wonderful. I so appreciate you sharing your thoughts on all this.