Eulogy (A Narnia Fic)

[turkeyish]

The Master List for the 2009 Narnia Fic Exchange is here. As the Beastie Boys once said, Ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out! My fic was originally posted here.

Title: Eulogy
Author: turkeyish
Recipient: caramelsilver
Rating: G
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: None
Summary: “My brothers,” Susan says quietly at the funeral, “were always two bodies, one soul.”

Original Prompt:
What I want:

Comments

[caramelsilver]

Oh I have to tell you again how much I just love love love this story! I want to marry this fic, it's so fabulous! *hugs*

[turkeyish]

i'm sooo glad you like it, bb! i loved your prompt (especially that quote - oh eliot!), and it felt really good to get back to writing narnia. :D

[muselives]

This... wow. I can't even... I'll have to reread it for it all to sink in but wow. Beautiful, beautiful use of the day/night metaphor. There's jus so much to this story, so many layers, the characterization from the humor down to the sorrow, and you sum it up perfectly in Susan's voice, they really are two bodies, one soul.

[turkeyish]

thanks so much for your comment! i'm really glad you like it - i'm quite proud of this, and i think it's my favorite fic out of all the ones i've written. :D

[lving_darkness]

I don't know how i missed this. but wow. just wow. oh, my two boys, you do them such justice. Edmund and Peter, they are here they come right of the page, they are just so wonderfully real; it makes my heart ache. They words you use, the way you constructed the sentences and paragraphs, they all give way to such a wonderful fluid flow that really lends itself to a complete submerge in this coordinated tale of compare and contrast.

I love the contrast that you have, how on the surface they do seem so different, but then there are those moments when the do just seem to be one, i.e. Peter fighting for Edmund, Edmund eating Peter's treats. I am always saddened by Susan, as you well know, but that line she whispers at the end it the epitome of what every writer needs to know about the brothers King. They may be different in body, one "light" and one "dark" but they are one soul, because they are Narnia. Before their sisters, before their subjects, those two are Narnia.

"That’s idiotic," Edmund says, "because you