So, it's not what I promised

[rthstewart]

Susan topped off Peter’s glass.  “So, what of this woman roaming Oxfordshire who is a friend of the Professor’s and the very image of Dinan?”

“Who?”

“Peter, you did not just say that.  Dinan.  The Silver Birch?  Your lover for over five years in Narnia!”

“Oh.  Her.”

“Her,” Susan repeated.  Honestly, Peter was so hopelessly male.

Peter

Comments

[l_a_r_m]

LOL PETER FLABBERGASTED AT THE IDEA OF SHARING A LOVER WITH SUSAN. YESSSSSSSSS.

[l_a_r_m]

P.S. Of course Peter/Mary isn't serious, even if I sometimes wish they were, because Peter/Dalia is an OTP. And don't tell me you don't believe in them because I know an OTP when I see one!! Let's not forget who called Peter/Mary in the first place. =]

[rthstewart]

Peter/Mary is no more real than the "marriage ceremony" between Caspian and Lucy when they throw the arm ring up on to the cliff of Dragon Island in Dawn Treader. Sometimes, a ring is just a ring.

[metonomia]

<333333333333 OH SUSAN. I love how Edmund et all have been dancing around this subject with Peter and Susan solves it with a few delicately placed barbs. BEST.

(also, you are the sweetest and most nice, omg, thank you so much for the rec on halfamoon, I was not expecting to see myself in your list there! it kind of made my evening)

[rthstewart]

You are very welcome! I saw the story recc'd recently on someone's LJ and it came back when I was considering halfamoon recs!

And Edmund is totally alarmist. He sits in for the fandom that would be all OMG!!!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN???!!! To which the answer is, nada. Total red herring. I'm very bad.

[rthstewart]

I have missed Susan. And of course, the fun thing about this is that the angst is not over the physical similarity (except for Edmund and he's just paranoid) but that Peter is totally flummoxed by Susan. I am sometimes so immature.

[intrikate88]

I'll just be here, cackling madly that all morning at work. Heh. Oh, Susan.

[rthstewart]

It's been a while since I've been in her head and oh my it is fun. And, going slowly because she is interacting with each of her sibs separately, which I realize is VERY Susan and each interaction is subtly different. And why yes, Susan is very Narnian in her tastes and proclivities.

[intrikate88]

I love it, and look forward to seeing that, because I think she's very attuned to what everyone's buttons are. Whether she's manipulating an opponent or conveying something to Peter, she knows how to get a specific response, simultaneously showing a reflection who she's talking to and concealing her, and showing how she navigates through life, too. Queen Susan the Gentle-as-she-digs-through-everyone's-layers.

[autumnia]

Poor Peter. Susan clearly wins here! The Rat is cleverer than the Crow in this round... to bad she wasn't there when Edmund learned of this interesting detail about the Birch.

[rthstewart]

Srsly. I have had that moment in my head where Peter says, "Who?" for over 2 years. I actually regretted doing the physical similarity later because it was such a total fandom jab for no purpose whatsoever. It is completely gratuitous with Edmund sitting in for any reader who thinks OMG IT MUST MEAN SOMETHING!!! And it's really a study in the four of them. Actually, Peter would not forget the name of a subject, but it's so amusing to make him so vacuously male here I couldn't help it. And Edmund would be all "it's a plot! it's a plot!" to which Lucy responds with a, "nope and Edmund would you please crawl back to solid ground from that very thin tree branch of totally unfounded supposition you are clinging to so precariously?"

And Susan then to deliver the final zinger.

Poor Mary. It's a good thing she doesn't know about this or she'd feel even more insecure than she already does as she learns over and over and over that alas she is not the center of all things or indeed much of anything.

[autumnia]

I was also thinking that with regard to the agreeable and necessary company of women, Peter's been too busy with Nurse Hawkins to bother remembering about Dryads and their nature.