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heliopausa) wrote2013-11-24 09:01 pm
heliopausa) wrote2013-11-24 09:01 pm
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Narnian head-canon week, 3
Today I finally saw Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing, so my mind is full of how humans blunder through their relationships, and sometimes mess them up badly. So...
Third in the series:
Caspian is badly emotionally scarred by his childhood, and by his upbringing (despite the counter-influence of his Nurse and Dr Cornelius) to rule in the manner and mind-set of the tyrannical Telmarine kings. He retains, life-long, a tendency to demand, to browbeat, to bully, and if frustrated, to revert to violence, as shown in his conflict with Edmund in Voyage of the Dawn Treader,and his Miraz-like anger at the end of it, and even more in The Silver Chair, by the obvious distance between him and his son (who cannot even talk with him after his mother's death) and worst, by the account of how he very nearly cut down Drinian with an axe.
I don't doubt he struggled with this, but it was a struggle, for him and for everyone around him, including, sadly, but inevitably, Ramandu's daughter. Rilian is a child of a very difficult marriage, and himself carries many scars from that, even before his capture by the Witch.
Third in the series:
Caspian is badly emotionally scarred by his childhood, and by his upbringing (despite the counter-influence of his Nurse and Dr Cornelius) to rule in the manner and mind-set of the tyrannical Telmarine kings. He retains, life-long, a tendency to demand, to browbeat, to bully, and if frustrated, to revert to violence, as shown in his conflict with Edmund in Voyage of the Dawn Treader,and his Miraz-like anger at the end of it, and even more in The Silver Chair, by the obvious distance between him and his son (who cannot even talk with him after his mother's death) and worst, by the account of how he very nearly cut down Drinian with an axe.
I don't doubt he struggled with this, but it was a struggle, for him and for everyone around him, including, sadly, but inevitably, Ramandu's daughter. Rilian is a child of a very difficult marriage, and himself carries many scars from that, even before his capture by the Witch.