Meta: Why I don't like the Peter/Susan pairing

[caramelsilver]

Some of you (and when I say some of you I guess I only mean be_themoon) might remember a while back when I said I'd written down why I didn't like the Peter/Susan ship, but was unsure of posting it cause I didn't want to offend anybody. Well, it's a few months later and I've continued to think about it and I now completely know the reason why I don't like

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[notoriousreign]

I don't like it either. I don't like to ship any of the Pevensies together and usually it's because of the incest. But from what I've learned from my Wincest friends, I can accept the pairing. It's like you said though, with Peter and Susan, it just doesn't seem right to break up a four-person group dynamic. =P

[caramelsilver]

*nods* With Wincest you can kinda buy it because of their seriously fucked up childhood and only having each other and stuff, but in Narnia... well they aren't alone, there's four of them and that's why it seems wrong. (to me)

[notoriousreign]

Yeah, exactly. While I don't ship it, I can get why people do with Wincest. It's always just been the two of them. When it's a duo it's more understandable than when it's three or more.

Also, I really just don't care for incest. >_O

[caramelsilver]

Agreed, I don't ship it either but it doesn't stop me from seeing why some people do.

And yeah, don't fancy the incest much, at least not in Narnia.

(For some reason I really like girl!Sam/Dean to my great shame. But we don't talk about that)

[lizzie_marie_23]

I love the four of them as a group because they're all just so human if that makes any sense. And while I would never write Susan/Peter fic myself, I don't mind reading it.

But I can totally see where you're coming from with them not clicking with each other. I mostly like the stories where they all go off on a grand adventure together, or the ones where Susan grows apart from the rest of them. I guess I'm an angster at heart. ;)

[caramelsilver]

Maybe it is that I simply do not like romance mixed with my Narnia. It's not that kind of love that interests me. It's all about the family love.

My favorite kind of stories is when they are all being awesome together.

The only story I read where there's Peter/Susan is bedlamsbard's Dust in the Air, because that story is epic in its own right that I can ignore the pretty heavy subtext.

[katakokk]

I like Peter/Susan to a degree, like, I'm not a huge, huge, huge fan of it but I like it well enough. I get what you're saying about the pairing sort of leaving out Edmund and Lucy, but I feel like I can explain why I still like it and how I feel it doesn't exclude the younger two.

I like Peter/Susan by themselves as a stand alone pairing, but I also like it (squick warning: discussion of polyamorous relationships ahead) sort of layered wih Pevencest in general. Obviously not explicit orgies because I just can't do that, but in the subtextual kind of way, brushing hands and such. To me, Peter/Susan is a part of the more all-encompassing Pevencest relationship, but they also have a bit of a special connection because of them being forbidden from Narnia earlier than their youger siblings.

[caramelsilver]

I actually, to my shame, do not have a problem with Pevensie OT4, because that does not disrupt the dynamic. (And I'm all about the dynamic!)

[katakokk]

Oh gosh there are so many things that I do not squick over that I probably should. The dynamic is very, very important! But have you seen bedlamsbard's Junior Pevensie verse at houseofpevensie? Loads and loads of squick worthy stuff, but the dynamic of the entire Pevensie clan is great, so I have no problem with the incest and stuff.

[caramelsilver]

Hello!

Thank you for coming and commenting. I was serious when I said I wondered why you ship it. (It's always interesting to find out why people ship what they ship.)

I can understand the shallow, but maybe I was watching the movies wrong, for I can't say I saw the spark.

And I''m really glad that no one got offended. That really was a concern of mine before posting.

Yes, friend away! New Narnia friends are always fun! Especially since I really do talk a lot of Narnia =)