So I was watching The Chronicles of Narnia and now I’m totally shipping Peter/Susan and Edmund/Lucy. What are your thoughts of the Narnia siblings? I think they’re all quite shippable.

Oh yay! Another Pevencest shipper!!!

I sort of feel like it’s impossible not to ship them??? And I don’t just mean because they all grow up in Narnia, with basically no other humans around. (The book mentions other humans but the first movie doesn’t at all.) But also because they’re just all so wonderful and lovely and they have these really interesting relationships with so much potential. (And that goes for Edmund/Susan and Peter/Lucy too, which I have met people who ship those relationships and they make sense too.)

Peter and Susan are just amazing because you have Peter the Magnificent and Susan the Gentle, and like Peter is the high king and the oldest and sort of like the “father” figure and then Susan is such a nurturer and a caretaker and she’s considerate and worrier and just such a mother so they’re like the parents of Edmund and Lucy and of the kingdom too. And I always think of “Gentle” as also meaning gentility, like she’s nobility or an aristocrat, and that ties so much into what Lucy feels about her in the later movies, that she’s an impossible standard of grace and beauty and that just the perfect complement to who Peter is supposed to be. And they just fit together so well and I just have all of these little shippy headcanons that make me giddy of Susan tending to Peter’s wounds after a battle (not that she wouldn’t have been in the action herself, because she would have been), and the two of them decompressing together after a really stressful day of ruling, and Susan always having the best advice, and Susan telling Peter to sleep in for once and then she basically fixes all of the kingdom’s problems and then brings him lunch.

And Peter never meeting anyone who compares to Susan, and Susan never meeting anyone who compares to Peter.

(I have more commentary on them here.)

And then Edmund and Lucy are so different. Edmund is so flawed, and he resents Peter. And Lucy is all heart but she can be insecure and while Peter and Susan are so perfectly complementary, Edmund and Lucy opposites but they still work together in this magical way. Edmund the Just and Lucy the Valiant. Someone “just” needs someone to temper them with mercy. And someone “valiant” needs someone to help them be selfish and suspicious sometimes.

I can just imagine them loving each other so passionately (after a long struggle). And Lucy loves Edmund so much she would forgive him, and I imagine he would need to be with someone like that. And as we’ve seen, Edmund gets into a lot of trouble with the wrong kind of person. Everything went wrong when he turned on Lucy.

Yes, I ship them a lot.

sandalaris
replied to your post “Pevencest tho *.*”

I’m convinced it’s canon. It’s been a while since I read the books, but I remember realizing they were the only humans there in the Lion, the Witch etc and at the end children were mentioned…I think. So yes, I’m convinced they are canon.

If you take the first movie all by itself then the four of them get stranded for over a decade in a world where they are seemingly the only humans. That sounds like unstated canon to me. 

The book mentions men living in other lands. Susan had suitors. But in a way it’s almost better because SHE TURNS THEM ALL DOWN. I guess she was feeling pretty satisfied already. *nudges with elbow*

Can we just take a moment to Peter/Susan and Clary/Sebastian(Jonathan)?

Yes, we can, Anon. We sure can.

And I think it’s totally hilarious that you mentioned those two relationships together because
they so totally and completely different, lol.

The Peter/Susan
shipping is just so smooth and easy. it’s just like, “Of course.” Of
course they would fall in love. Of course they would be together. Peter’s such a dad and Susan is such a mom and I love it.

And
Clary and Jonathan, well….that’s a dark ship but I can’t deny finding
it interesting. (It helps that I strongly dislike Jace/Clary…) I
don’t know it well enough to talk about it too much, but there’s some
fire there. I don’t think I’ve ever done a good job of hiding the fact
that I am absolute trash and I love hate ships, even ones where some
really bad shit has gone down between them.