Comments | ficbyzana: Once a Queen

ficbyzana

Once a Queen

Nov 22, 2009 18:20

Title: Once a King or Queen in Narnia
Author: Zana
Fandoms: The Chronicles of Narnia and The Professionals
For those who aren't familiar with it: The Professionals is a British show from the 1970s. Bodie and Doyle are counterterror agents in CI5, which is headed up by George Cowley. Susan and Jax are minor characters.
Spoilers: For The Last ( Read more... )

Comments 12

firlefanzine November 23 2009, 07:36:02 UTC

Could you please give a short overview of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' - of course I can google.... - but maybe the bits I need for this story?

I'm probably the only one in the world who has no clue about it...

ficbyzana November 23 2009, 15:08:44 UTC

Sure! The books were so much a part of my childhood that I just assume everyone knows them -- sorry ( ... )

firlefanzine November 23 2009, 16:42:01 UTC

"I hope that helps, and that I haven't overwhelmed you with details!"
Of course not! Thank you!
That sounds just like the kind of books I would have read as a child.
And I'm very curious about your story! :-)
Will tell you!

tears_of_nienna November 23 2009, 07:58:41 UTC

It's been a long, long time since a fic really got to me like this one did. You struck the perfect tone with it--even after so many years in our world, she really is still the Queen she once was, and I can really feel it in the character.

It hurts that Susan's life is so defined by the funerals that go on around her--and that the first funeral of the story should be for three friends, like her three siblings. But it's defined, too, by her years as a Queen, and I love the strength that it gives her when things are the hardest. I love that she cries first for the others, because they can't, but by the end she's learned how to cry for herself again.

The idea of her clinging to what she sees as her last scrap of innocence, in case she should be allowed back to Narnia...oh, wow. That was brilliant and heart-wrenching. And I loved the conversations with Cowley about God and morality, Susan trying to put her thoughts into words that this world understands.

Sometimes she hated that Aslan lived and her siblings didn’t.That line took my ( ... )

ficbyzana November 24 2009, 02:11:09 UTC

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it!

And so now I am sitting here, smiling and sniffling, and I just want to read it all over again.

I don't think an author can ask for higher praise. :)

miwahni November 23 2009, 11:53:24 UTC

I'm sitting here in total awe of this story. Cowley being the moral compass of CI5, the Narnia elements, the glimpses of the other agents going about their business around her, while Susan appears aloof and detached from it all. As though all passion in Susan died when she left Narnia. Even her grief for Williams seems muted.
I'm glad she woke up at the end.

ficbyzana November 24 2009, 02:13:27 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was a pleasure to write!

gilda_elise November 23 2009, 12:04:31 UTC

I don't know too much about Narnia but I found this a joy to read, anyway. Though there's little of Bodie and Doyle on the face of it, yet they're always there, somehow moving the story along yet not part of it at all.

ficbyzana November 24 2009, 02:16:36 UTC

I'm thrilled you like it! You're right, Bodie and Doyle are so much a part of CI5, they wouldn't stay in the background for long. :)

inlovewithboth November 23 2009, 17:28:18 UTC

I have never read a story like this, in all my years of reading fan fiction. And I don't think I've ever read a story from Susan's viewpoint before either. Wow.

ficbyzana November 24 2009, 02:18:22 UTC

I have never read a story like this, in all my years of reading fan fiction.

It's exciting to be told I've written something new! I'm glad you enjoyed it.