𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐃 | ❝Hope is good, Hope will never disgrace, but make no mistake, Hope will hit you in the face!❞
In which the Just King becomes betrothed to a princess from a neighboring kingdom, only to fall in love with the prin...
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IN EDMUND PEVENSIE'S OPINION, life was unbearably unappealing. It was boring, redundant, and trivial, not to mention unfair, unnecessarily complicated, and boring. Did he already say it was boring? Because it was. Life was so very boring and filled with endless disappointments.
Well, this life was, at least.
Wait, was that not obvious already?
You'll have to forgive Edmund. He had a habit of always assuming everyone was on the same page as him when in reality, there were plenty of people who found it laborious and even vexatious to keep up with the Just King.
Now, that was something Edmund hadn't been called in ages. The Just King. The name stirred something deep within him, though he struggled to articulate what that feeling was. Nostalgic, longing, perhaps even bittersweet. Oh, how he missed the days where he reigned as Narnia's Just King. For 15 years, Edmund ruled and guided Narnia from the comfort of Cair Paravel alongside his siblings, and it was nothing short of paradise.
Yes, you read that correctly. The Pevensies were the Kings and Queens of Narnia for 15 golden years. Alongside his siblings, Edmund lived out his teenage years and blossomed into adulthood in Narnia. He should have been a full-fledged adult and ruler of Narnia today, but instead, he was living in Finchley, England (again) as a teenager (again).
Yeah, it's a long story.
Once upon a time, the Pevensies were sent away to live in the English countryside with a man called Professor Kirke while their father was drafted to the ongoing war. They were to live with Professor Kirke until it was safe to return home to their mother again. In the months they lived there, Edmund's youngest sister, Lucy stumbled upon a wooden wardrobe in the spare room that magically transported her to a land called Narnia. Eventually, Lucy managed to drag all of her siblings with her to Narnia, where they ended the 100-year winter by defeating Jadis the White Witch and going to war. They were crowned as the four Kings and Queens of Narnia, and they were the ones responsible for restoring Narnia to its former glory alongside a whimsical lion deity named Aslan.
Some time into their rule, Edmund was persuaded into an arranged marriage to a princess of a dying kingdom called Wysteria. Marriage was the last thing on his mind as a teenager, but as a king, he recognized that it was the right thing to do. His future queen was Princess Odette Dunbar, who was fussy, melodramatic, but kind-hearted nonetheless. She was the daughter of King David and Queen Lydia, and her lady-in-waiting was a timid handmaid named Hope Edwards.
