more Narniafic

[elizabeth_hoot]

Crazy midterms are crazy. I've read Orlando and Wide Sargasso Sea in the last three days and far prefer the latter. It has no genderswapping (that was awesome), but it doesn't snap my suspension of disbelief either. So!

The first is more Narniafic, because the recent post inspired even more Cor/Aravis love, and my brain started coming up with

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[irnan]

Ach, Lasaraleen. I can never decide if I like her or not - after all, she did help Aravis. This, though, is simply fabulous, and very her, the self-centredness, the way she only really hears what Aravis says when she's talking about clothes. Cor and Aravis are perfect as well, the quarrelling making them sound almost like children, and then: they're getting married!

And that perfect last line.

[elizabeth_hoot]

I'm pretty ambivalent about her myself -- she's selfish and shallow, yes, but she's also good-hearted and loyal. (And I think that Susan becomes a British version of Lasaraleen, so it winds up with The Susan Problem too.)

Thank you! I had a lot of fun trying to capture her voice as well as Cor and Aravis'. Heeeeh, there were about three different drafts figuring out the reveal, but I liked this best. And I really can't imagine Aravis as less than hardcore in anything. Including fluff. :D

[moonspinner]

Hearts.

I love Las. She's a Spoiled Sweet Libby and I have a soft heart for Spoiled Sweet Libbies. I think you really got her voice down pat. Also - hurray for more Aravis/Las friendship fics! I think I like them almost more than I like Aravis/Cor fics. :D

[elizabeth_hoot]

Thank you!

I love-dislike Lasaraleen. She's very Spoiled Sweet -- not a Libby at all, I don't think -- and while I think she's also shallow and selfish, she's well-meaning enough to sort of make up for it. (Unless you're her slave, in which case ... uh, yikes.)

Lasaraleen and Aravis must have had this hilarious Odd Couple friendship -- I'm not sure they knew each other particularly well, but they were undoubtedly affectionate for all that. You're right that we don't see much of them together, or just Lasaraleen.

(Also, I want Cor and/or Corin dealing with Lasaraleen, just for the funny. Oh Lord, Corin/Lasaraleen would be the most hilarious pairing ever.)

[spritl]

I really like this. The turbulent relationship between Aravis and Cor was captured well. I like the OT3 thing you have going on with Aravis and the twins, especially from Las's point of view. You wrote Las without making her out to be some amoral bitch. Too many people project Las as Last Battle!Susan when they are not the same character at all. However this...

“Aravis!” she cried happily, and a wonderful little slave kept them from creasing one another’s gowns.

Wrong and weird. Las won't think of this handmaiden as a slave anymore you'll think of your phone as a machine. You won't say, "my wonderful machine gives me call waiting" or "my wonderful machine is more fuel efficient than my neighbour's own machine".

[elizabeth_hoot]

Oh, thank you!

Heh, I'm pretty sure that Lasaraleen ends up a rabid Cor/Aravis/Corin OT3 shipper. And yeah, too often Lasaraleen is a horribly horrible person instead of a rather sweet girl with some horrible values. Though I do think that Susan's 'fall' was from ~Queen Susan~ to a sort of British Lasaraleen, obviously they're not the same person.

Hm, I'm pretty sure Lasaraleen and Aravis and Rabadash refer to their slaves as slaves in the book. Personally, I was thinking of it more like referring to my computer as a wonderful machine or my cat as a wonderful creature, which are both things I've heard and said.

[spritl]

Lasaraleen seems to be a sweet girl brought up in a twisted society and Lewis makes a point of saying that both she and Aravis are rather silly in their own way. But Susan is a stupid girl who doesn't have the advantage of society or her life experiences to excuse her actions. That, to me, is the difference.

Interesting. I just ran a quick word search of the story on my PC and even though the word 'slave' is used several times, it's mostly from the narrative's perspective. In fact, Aravis only uses the word in actual speech twice: when she meets Shasta, and when she is talking about the secretary that forged the letter for her.