Question:
Will this work- a redemption of Susan story?
Abbie
2012-10-11 02:32:45 UTC
Ok I want to write a continual of the Narnia series since my favourite character has been shut out. I won't go into a big debate about my thoughts on why Susan isn't tree but I'm writing a story and it is eight years after the Last Battle. Narnia's first princess is now six years old and lives her mum'll magical stories about when her aunt and uncles were little children and how her Mother is actually high Queen. I figure the best belief in the world is a child's and so Susan's belief in her old life is strong enough for her to come home and find a note stabbed into the door with a neat, red plumed arrow... Yeh hers.
Basically I know all of narnia was supposedly destroyed when they all went to heaven of its meant to be like Noah's arc there will be a population in the old narnia again. What is going to happen is a mass accident and seven or eight other humans find themselves dead along with our little royal family. The scraps left behind in real narnia have been invaded relentlessly through the holes the telmarjnes first came through and so the Queen has to take her place in charge and leads the recently dead people as the stranded narnia a who have also repented back to true narnia.
Will this work, I'm not a fan of going too far off the story but I want to let Susan have a chance to shine for once. And little Princess Lucinda Eddie-Paige will meet her namesakes.
Three answers:
Darth Eugene Vader
2012-10-11 17:30:39 UTC
You can make it work.

* Eight years after The Last Battle, Susan Pevensie has grown up on Earth, married, and have a child (Lucinda Eddie-Paige).

* The loss of her brothers, sister and other friends have made Susan meditate in her life, priorities, beliefs and is now a strong beliver in Christ (which revealed Himself to her as Aslan when she was a young teenager).



What you need to set well in your story is how to reconnect Susan to Narnia, I mean:

* The old Narnia world / realm that Susan ruled in / traveled to (refer to The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian, and The Horse and His Boy) is destroyed at The Last Battle. Susan can not travel back to "old" Narnia like in the CS Lewis novels.

* The "new" Narnia or the heaven Narnia where Susan's brothers and sister went at the end of the Last Battle is equivalent to heaven, so to get there Susan and Lucinda would have to die.



Option 1: Travel to New Narnia

* Susan and Lucinda have an accident and fall into a comma, clinically dying for a few moments but the doctors where able to bring back them to life here on Earth.

* During that short time they experience a long adventure at "new" Narnia (remember that time in Narnia runs at a different rate than time on Earth). Those few seconds "dead" become weeks or months in "new" Narnia.

* However, "new" Narnia is Heavens, there is no evil in Heavens, there would be no evil witch, or evil ruler to fight against in "new" Narnia.

* The story would be Susan meeting again with Peter, Edmund and Lucy; and Lucinda getting to know her aunt and uncles. They tell old adventures to Lucinda and we to read what other events ocurred in "old" Narnia during the years the four Pevensies where Kings and Queens of Narnia, similar to The Horse and His Boy.



Option 2:

CS Lewis did not included traveling to the past in his Chronicles of Narnia novels, that would be something new from you.

* Susan and Lucinda find a way back to old Narnia arriving in a unknown time in the past, probably:

*** After the events of "Silver Chair" but

*** before the events of "The Last Battle".



The story would present Narnia ruled by a grand son or great grandson of King Caspian X who needs help to deal with a big problem. He is not Prince Tirian (the protagonist of The Last Battle), Tirian is not born yet. Therefore the destruction of old Narnia narrated in The Last Battle is still in the Narnia's future (but in Susan's past).

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I know strictly narnia is destroyed but there HAS to be something left.

* I consider the islands, the sea, Archenland, and lands beyond there also destroyed after the events of The Last Battle. Narnia was a world, a complete planet, not just a continent. every land or place at "old" Narnia was destroyed.



* The "Wood between the Worlds" is another location, not part of the Narnia "planet"; therefore it is still there. However, the pool (or pond) that connected from the Woods to Narnia is dry now, since "old" Narnia was destroyed.

* If Susan and Lucinda get to the "Wood between the Worlds" they could visit another world, (like when Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer visited Charn), but they can not get into Narnia (old Narnia) anymore (unless traveling back in time).



Maybe a few Narnians were somehow left behind in another world and it is up to Susan and Lucinda to find them going through the "Wood between the Worlds", but how to lead them to New Narnia? Leave that to Aslan.
vampirelover
2012-10-11 02:39:43 UTC
Just a quick comment

In the end of the 'Last Battle' Narnia is destroyed and all the Pevensie children are dead( they die in a train crash), Susan and Peter are too old to go back to Narnia before the train accident which is why they aren't there and if your are writing a story it has to be before this. I would recommend that you write a story about Jill and Eustace because they have been to Narnia 2 times I think and they dont really finish with Narnia.





In the other answer, OPTION 2 would be IMPOSSIBLE to travel back in time because SUSAN IS DEAD. It can't happen. She has gone to the Narnia version of heaven. (Darth Eugene Vader answer)

You would be able to do a version where she has Lucinda in the Narnia heaven because it has all the same attributes of Narnia but you can do more there. I don't know if it would be possible in the context of things to give her a child but it could work if you wan't it to.
nocilla
2016-09-19 01:44:33 UTC
My daughter was once born in January of 1987, it was once a laugh been a tender mother in the ones days i like each factor of the ninety"s so did my children, however i just like the 60s and the 70's to, however sure i suppose the ninety rock's.


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