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Dec. 12th, 2019 04:42 pmUser Name/Nick: Becky
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E-mail: Bhoadley@gmail.com
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Character Name: Peter Pevensie
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia
Age: 17, nearly 22.
From When?: Just after he and his siblings were 'killed' in a train accident and he ended up in Narnia with 2 of his 3 siblings.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Peter is... very, very literally a knight in shining white armor, with all that entails - and both the good and bad of that play nicely with dragging an inmate into redemption, whether they like it or not. He is rigidly moral, stubborn as hell, has fantastic leadership skills, but takes absolutely no shit. He's managed to learn a thing or three about managing and helping people (knowing when to fight, when to negotiate, when to stand down) from his siblings and his screw ups there, leading an army and leading a nation of very diverse folks. He is very, very emotionally stable, which should prove useful.
Maybe more importantly he is absolutely, utterly, dedicated to saving Susan meaning that he's likely to dig in even harder than usual.
Abilities/Powers: He has fantastic leadership skills, has been alive longer than he is old, and is very good with a sword and on a horse. No powers.
Personality: Peter’s father went to war when Peter was thirteen years old. This leaves him to act as man of the house and, when they’re evacuated from London to Professor Kirke’s, leads them to Narnia. It’s his father being called to war that starts to put Peter into a position of authority, and while he isn’t very good at it, at first, it’s clearly a responsibility that he takes seriously, and that he feels the weight of. We see him, again and again, striving with everything he has, to protect them (Edmund from Jardis, Lucy from Wolves and bears, telling Edmund to get the girls home, while he clearly intends to stay and fight to the death).
It isn’t responsibility he takes on grudgingly or with resentment. Peter’s love of his siblings is boundless, even before they arrive in Narnia. His attempts at being grown-up, his fumbling of his authority, and his assumption of what authority means cause some strain in his relationship with all of them, but most of all with Edmund.
It’s his realization that Edmund going to the White Witch is ultimately his fault that is the start of Peter growing up and into himself, and learning what it really means to be a leader. It’s a lesson that truly strikes home when Edmund says that he believes in Peter’s ability to lead an army into battle against the Jadis. It’s also Edmund who reminds Peter to smile for the morale of their troops, during Peter’s duel with Miraz during their second trip into Narnia. It’s shortly thereafter that Peter, thinking he’s going to die, tries to recognize, verbally, that Edmund has always been there. Edmund tells him to save it for later, again expressing faith in Peter, when Peter isn’t so sure of himself.
Edmund isn’t the only sibling who feature heavily in Peter’s defining moments. It’s saving Lucy, his admitted favorite sister, from wolves that earns Peter the title Wolfsbane. His relationship with her, however, is always a reminder to have faith. It’s her who brings them all to Narnia, in spite of Peter’s dismissal. It’s Lucy who brings Aslan and an army of those the White Witch had turned to stone to save them in battle against her. When they return to Narnia, Lucy claims to see Aslan and, in spite of Peter’s disbelief, again brings him to their aid and ultimate salvation.
It’s Susan’s horn that brings them back to Narnia, and Susan that is often the voice of logic and reason. Unfortunately, Peter doesn’t listen to her when he should (about Caspian, and even the general disapproval of having fights in train stations for minor incidents easily avoided if he’d open his mouth and apologize, whether he feels like it or not) and does when she shouldn’t (when she’s voicing his own doubts). In the end, her logic and reason cause her to relegate Narnia as nothing more than a game they’d played as children. His relationship with Susan is no less loving, but they’re close enough in age and personality that she plays a less obviously influential role on him.
Another set of lessons comes from Caspian.
His first return from Narnia is a bitter pill to swallow; he’s gone from a twenty-eight year old high king, to a thirteen year old schoolboy. Not being listened to, not being taken seriously, and a life that was as dull as toast compared to the one he’d led for fifteen years is not an easy adjustment, and not one that he makes gracefully. He’s, arrogant, easily offended, and generally sort of a dick who says they’ve waited for Aslan long enough - basically giving up his faith. He just doesn’t fit anymore, particularly with his peers, wants desperately to go ‘home’ (Narnia), and it shows.
Being called back to Narnia by Caspian gives Peter a chance to reclaim the better parts of himself. When he arrives he’s delighted, but has something to prove. He butts heads with Caspian, refuses to take his advice or listen to him, and ultimately pushes through with an attack on Miraz’s castle that is devastating. Not only is he forced to retreat, but he is forced into a retreat that leaves his people behind dead, dying, and doomed.
This is the point Peter begins to wake up, and become again the king he’s already been, but seems to have forgotten. It’s a painful lesson, but the cost of his arrogance isn’t something that Peter ignores. He proposes a duel to the death to avoid the cost of more life, and it’s him who picks up the sword and goes to fight the duel. When the betrayal Peter expects comes to pass, Peter works in concert with Caspian. When loss seems inevitable, he doesn’t order another retreat. Instead, with Edmund, Susan, and Caspian, he leads the charge into the oncoming army.
It’s when he stops having something to prove, stops caring about the titles, and is again fighting for his country, his people, what is right, and of course Aslan.
He questions Aslan, doubts his life, doubts his reality, and doubts his ability, but in the end his faith and service are as wholehearted as the love he has for his family, perhaps even more so, though obviously not unwavering.
When Aslan tells him that he won’t be back, because his work there is done Peter’s sad, but there’s no insecurity or resentment. His faith in Aslan has been restored, completely. He hadn’t questioned Aslan when he was told he would be on the throne, he’d simply accepted the prophecy as something that was. He doesn’t question Aslan when he’s told that he wouldn’t be back, in spite of all the doubts along the way. He says his goodbyes, and hands his sword over to Caspian for safekeeping, along with a country that has been far more home to him than the place he was born, and returns to the world he was born in.
The lessons learned seem to be sticking better this time around, though. He isn’t angry, aggressive, or confrontational. There’s still some arrogance in him, and he still has a temper, but both are balanced against the awareness of the possibility of hurting others. He’ll still fight like blazes for what he believes is right and the people he loves. Sometimes what he thinks is right isn’t, sometimes he doesn’t know what right is, and sometimes he forgets everything... but he tries.
Edmund’s fierce loyalty, Lucy’s unswerving faith, Susan’s clear-headed reason and even Caspian’s ability to ask for help, have all impacted Peter. When he’s at his best, it’s because he’s balancing all of those traits in himself, and remembering the things he’s learned along a life longer than he is old. When he’s at his worst, it’s because he’s being a hot headed 22 year old, who has an over-inflated sense of importance and more determination than sense.
Peter is is very used to taking responsibility for others, taking control of situations, and making decisions. He is fiercely loyal to those who have earned his loyalty, and protective of those he loves. He has a fairly rigid code of morality and behavior, and he does his best to adhere to it.
Peter takes himself very seriously, and as a result often comes across as stodgy and uptight. He isn’t at all likely to share his feelings and that can make him seem a bit aloof. He’s grown up once, he’s become mindful of the effects of his actions and emotions on others. He doesn’t see himself as a child, or feel like one. He is used to being respected, and to being listened to. Being dismissed because of his apparent age is something Peter finds loathsome, and frustrating.
He certainly isn’t perfect. He is brash, stubborn, hard-headed and (sometimes) hot-tempered. He doesn’t readily back down from a fight if he believes he’s in the right, and he has more bravery than sense. This has gotten his arse soundly kicked more than once in the ‘real’ world, and other people killed in Narnia. He does tend to learn from his mistakes, and if there are other people at risk he usually thinks things through. If his arse is the only one on the line, all bets are off.
At his point of entrance into the game, he’s been back in London for years, and died. His joy at returning to the place that feels like the only place that he has ever belonged, or ever truly been home, has been replaced by absolute horror of realizing Susan has been left behind. He remembers the train and understands... not everything, but enough. Enough to be desperate to do anything it takes to get Susan back with them.
Barge Reactions: Peter is quite familiar with the concept of a 'multi-verse', and other worlds and traveling between them. He's also very firm in knowing that not all people are humans, or look human. That said, he's likely to have trouble with wolves, werewolves, and anyone openly calling themselves a 'witch' or exercising their will over others. He's not so entrenched in those ideas that he won't be able to get over them, but his initial reaction's unlikely to be positive. Floods and breaches will not likely be mind-shattering (though depending on circumstances may shake or anger him) but a lot of the technology on board will probably take some time. He is, at best, from the 1940s.
Deal: [(WARDENS ONLY) -- He wants Susan with them. He doesn't know everything, but he knows enough to know that she's not there and she SHOULD BE. He's also pretty pissed that she isn't - pissed enough to revert to brash, stubborn, arrogant, and sail right over Aslan's head to make it happen.
History: http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Pevensie
Sample Journal Entry: https://tlvgreatesthitsdw.dreamwidth.org/94691.html?thread=24032995#cmt24032995
Sample RP: https://tlvgreatesthitsdw.dreamwidth.org/94691.html?thread=24016099#cmt24016099
Special Notes:
User DW: N/A
E-mail: Bhoadley@gmail.com
Other Characters: N/A
Character Name: Peter Pevensie
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia
Age: 17, nearly 22.
From When?: Just after he and his siblings were 'killed' in a train accident and he ended up in Narnia with 2 of his 3 siblings.
Inmate/Warden: Warden. Peter is... very, very literally a knight in shining white armor, with all that entails - and both the good and bad of that play nicely with dragging an inmate into redemption, whether they like it or not. He is rigidly moral, stubborn as hell, has fantastic leadership skills, but takes absolutely no shit. He's managed to learn a thing or three about managing and helping people (knowing when to fight, when to negotiate, when to stand down) from his siblings and his screw ups there, leading an army and leading a nation of very diverse folks. He is very, very emotionally stable, which should prove useful.
Maybe more importantly he is absolutely, utterly, dedicated to saving Susan meaning that he's likely to dig in even harder than usual.
Abilities/Powers: He has fantastic leadership skills, has been alive longer than he is old, and is very good with a sword and on a horse. No powers.
Personality: Peter’s father went to war when Peter was thirteen years old. This leaves him to act as man of the house and, when they’re evacuated from London to Professor Kirke’s, leads them to Narnia. It’s his father being called to war that starts to put Peter into a position of authority, and while he isn’t very good at it, at first, it’s clearly a responsibility that he takes seriously, and that he feels the weight of. We see him, again and again, striving with everything he has, to protect them (Edmund from Jardis, Lucy from Wolves and bears, telling Edmund to get the girls home, while he clearly intends to stay and fight to the death).
It isn’t responsibility he takes on grudgingly or with resentment. Peter’s love of his siblings is boundless, even before they arrive in Narnia. His attempts at being grown-up, his fumbling of his authority, and his assumption of what authority means cause some strain in his relationship with all of them, but most of all with Edmund.
It’s his realization that Edmund going to the White Witch is ultimately his fault that is the start of Peter growing up and into himself, and learning what it really means to be a leader. It’s a lesson that truly strikes home when Edmund says that he believes in Peter’s ability to lead an army into battle against the Jadis. It’s also Edmund who reminds Peter to smile for the morale of their troops, during Peter’s duel with Miraz during their second trip into Narnia. It’s shortly thereafter that Peter, thinking he’s going to die, tries to recognize, verbally, that Edmund has always been there. Edmund tells him to save it for later, again expressing faith in Peter, when Peter isn’t so sure of himself.
Edmund isn’t the only sibling who feature heavily in Peter’s defining moments. It’s saving Lucy, his admitted favorite sister, from wolves that earns Peter the title Wolfsbane. His relationship with her, however, is always a reminder to have faith. It’s her who brings them all to Narnia, in spite of Peter’s dismissal. It’s Lucy who brings Aslan and an army of those the White Witch had turned to stone to save them in battle against her. When they return to Narnia, Lucy claims to see Aslan and, in spite of Peter’s disbelief, again brings him to their aid and ultimate salvation.
It’s Susan’s horn that brings them back to Narnia, and Susan that is often the voice of logic and reason. Unfortunately, Peter doesn’t listen to her when he should (about Caspian, and even the general disapproval of having fights in train stations for minor incidents easily avoided if he’d open his mouth and apologize, whether he feels like it or not) and does when she shouldn’t (when she’s voicing his own doubts). In the end, her logic and reason cause her to relegate Narnia as nothing more than a game they’d played as children. His relationship with Susan is no less loving, but they’re close enough in age and personality that she plays a less obviously influential role on him.
Another set of lessons comes from Caspian.
His first return from Narnia is a bitter pill to swallow; he’s gone from a twenty-eight year old high king, to a thirteen year old schoolboy. Not being listened to, not being taken seriously, and a life that was as dull as toast compared to the one he’d led for fifteen years is not an easy adjustment, and not one that he makes gracefully. He’s, arrogant, easily offended, and generally sort of a dick who says they’ve waited for Aslan long enough - basically giving up his faith. He just doesn’t fit anymore, particularly with his peers, wants desperately to go ‘home’ (Narnia), and it shows.
Being called back to Narnia by Caspian gives Peter a chance to reclaim the better parts of himself. When he arrives he’s delighted, but has something to prove. He butts heads with Caspian, refuses to take his advice or listen to him, and ultimately pushes through with an attack on Miraz’s castle that is devastating. Not only is he forced to retreat, but he is forced into a retreat that leaves his people behind dead, dying, and doomed.
This is the point Peter begins to wake up, and become again the king he’s already been, but seems to have forgotten. It’s a painful lesson, but the cost of his arrogance isn’t something that Peter ignores. He proposes a duel to the death to avoid the cost of more life, and it’s him who picks up the sword and goes to fight the duel. When the betrayal Peter expects comes to pass, Peter works in concert with Caspian. When loss seems inevitable, he doesn’t order another retreat. Instead, with Edmund, Susan, and Caspian, he leads the charge into the oncoming army.
It’s when he stops having something to prove, stops caring about the titles, and is again fighting for his country, his people, what is right, and of course Aslan.
He questions Aslan, doubts his life, doubts his reality, and doubts his ability, but in the end his faith and service are as wholehearted as the love he has for his family, perhaps even more so, though obviously not unwavering.
When Aslan tells him that he won’t be back, because his work there is done Peter’s sad, but there’s no insecurity or resentment. His faith in Aslan has been restored, completely. He hadn’t questioned Aslan when he was told he would be on the throne, he’d simply accepted the prophecy as something that was. He doesn’t question Aslan when he’s told that he wouldn’t be back, in spite of all the doubts along the way. He says his goodbyes, and hands his sword over to Caspian for safekeeping, along with a country that has been far more home to him than the place he was born, and returns to the world he was born in.
The lessons learned seem to be sticking better this time around, though. He isn’t angry, aggressive, or confrontational. There’s still some arrogance in him, and he still has a temper, but both are balanced against the awareness of the possibility of hurting others. He’ll still fight like blazes for what he believes is right and the people he loves. Sometimes what he thinks is right isn’t, sometimes he doesn’t know what right is, and sometimes he forgets everything... but he tries.
Edmund’s fierce loyalty, Lucy’s unswerving faith, Susan’s clear-headed reason and even Caspian’s ability to ask for help, have all impacted Peter. When he’s at his best, it’s because he’s balancing all of those traits in himself, and remembering the things he’s learned along a life longer than he is old. When he’s at his worst, it’s because he’s being a hot headed 22 year old, who has an over-inflated sense of importance and more determination than sense.
Peter is is very used to taking responsibility for others, taking control of situations, and making decisions. He is fiercely loyal to those who have earned his loyalty, and protective of those he loves. He has a fairly rigid code of morality and behavior, and he does his best to adhere to it.
Peter takes himself very seriously, and as a result often comes across as stodgy and uptight. He isn’t at all likely to share his feelings and that can make him seem a bit aloof. He’s grown up once, he’s become mindful of the effects of his actions and emotions on others. He doesn’t see himself as a child, or feel like one. He is used to being respected, and to being listened to. Being dismissed because of his apparent age is something Peter finds loathsome, and frustrating.
He certainly isn’t perfect. He is brash, stubborn, hard-headed and (sometimes) hot-tempered. He doesn’t readily back down from a fight if he believes he’s in the right, and he has more bravery than sense. This has gotten his arse soundly kicked more than once in the ‘real’ world, and other people killed in Narnia. He does tend to learn from his mistakes, and if there are other people at risk he usually thinks things through. If his arse is the only one on the line, all bets are off.
At his point of entrance into the game, he’s been back in London for years, and died. His joy at returning to the place that feels like the only place that he has ever belonged, or ever truly been home, has been replaced by absolute horror of realizing Susan has been left behind. He remembers the train and understands... not everything, but enough. Enough to be desperate to do anything it takes to get Susan back with them.
Barge Reactions: Peter is quite familiar with the concept of a 'multi-verse', and other worlds and traveling between them. He's also very firm in knowing that not all people are humans, or look human. That said, he's likely to have trouble with wolves, werewolves, and anyone openly calling themselves a 'witch' or exercising their will over others. He's not so entrenched in those ideas that he won't be able to get over them, but his initial reaction's unlikely to be positive. Floods and breaches will not likely be mind-shattering (though depending on circumstances may shake or anger him) but a lot of the technology on board will probably take some time. He is, at best, from the 1940s.
Deal: [(WARDENS ONLY) -- He wants Susan with them. He doesn't know everything, but he knows enough to know that she's not there and she SHOULD BE. He's also pretty pissed that she isn't - pissed enough to revert to brash, stubborn, arrogant, and sail right over Aslan's head to make it happen.
History: http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Pevensie
Sample Journal Entry: https://tlvgreatesthitsdw.dreamwidth.org/94691.html?thread=24032995#cmt24032995
Sample RP: https://tlvgreatesthitsdw.dreamwidth.org/94691.html?thread=24016099#cmt24016099
Special Notes:
