History Fanfic / TheFledglingYear

[[DeadFic Last upated March 2017]].

* SpiritedYoungLady: Aravis, Janey.

It can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5653259/1/The-Fledgling-Year here]]. As of November 2013 it has 70 chapters and some 1200 reviews, making it by far the biggest Cor/Aravis fic on the site.

[[caption-width-right:180:The {{fanart}} uploaded as the fic’s official cover art on [[{{Fanfictionnet}} the host site]]. (The cutoff text is the fic’s listed summary.)]]

Does a remarkable job of balancing the adventure and romance plots and keeping them both well-hooked. Extremely well-written, with solid [[WorldBuilding worldbuilding]], heaps of CharacterDevelopment, and a good splash of well-placed dry humor.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Notably averted—even though in [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia the original canon]] everyone seems to love King Lune and the royal family, a major portion of the plot in this fanfic revolves around a conspiracy to kill them off.

* BadassDamsel: Aravis occasionally needs saving by the men of their entourage, but no one doubts she’s a canny, capable swordswoman and able to take care of herself.

* BrutalHonesty: Hana has to pull this out on Aravis on several occasions. Most notable is when Aravis accused her of only wanting to be friends because of the social advantages, after which Hana [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome promptly corrected]] Aravis’ misconceptions about herself.

* OfficialCouple: Cor/Aravis, as per [[Creator/CSLewis Lewis’]] original canon. Or at least, [[WordOfGod the author promises]] they will be [[{{UST}} eventually]].
* OneOfTheBoys: In regards to her relationship with the princes, Aravis flips between this and [[BadassDamsel someone they seem to think is fragile and in need of manly protection, even though she’s generally very capable.]]

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Cor and Aravis again, and Corin and Hana in the background.

* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: As the female characters find out on one cold winter’s night.

It can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5653259/1/The-Fledgling-Year here]]. Currently it has 56 chapters and some 800 reviews, making it by far the biggest Cor/Aravis fic on the site.

Be warned, however; the story undergoes both a serious GenreShift and CerebusSyndrome around Chapter 50; trigger warnings for [[spoiler:Aravis almost being]] raped, [[spoiler:and serious exploration of the trauma resulting from that.]].

* ChivalricRomance: Because the protagonists ''are'' at their core noble heroes wandering through Archenland (sometimes) in disguise, many elements of this genre are prominent in this fic, but downplayed because they aren't romanticized.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: Cor, foiling Aravis as the {{Protagonist}}.

* [[spoiler:NearRapeExperience: Aravis survives one in Chapter 66 by killing Khurshid, the perpetrator. She is deeply traumatized by it.]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Cor and Aravis, naturally (though they start out as VitriolicBestBuds). Corin and Hana to a lesser degree. Absolutely relentless, which makes sense given the only sentence in HHB that explicitly canonizes Cor and Aravis’ romance [[hottip:*:”…when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently”.]]

* ActionPet: Inga, Aravis’ belligerent horse, takes out her fair share of bad guys. Done a little bit with some of the other horses, such as Cor’s stallion Raider. Humorously averted with Corin’s “pretty little mare”.

* BetaCouple: Corin/[[OriginalCharacter Hana]]. Notable for getting almost as much attention in reviews as Cor and Aravis’.

* CannotSpitItOut: As of the chapters numbered in the 50s, this is the point the ShipTease has reached—both Cor and Aravis are in love and [[EveryoneCanSeeIt they’re not the only ones who know it]], but they keep compounding excuses not to admit it to each other.

* ObviousJudas: In-universe: Aravis distrusts [[spoiler:Gyneth]] from the very beginning; she—and vicariously, the audience—expects the eventual FaceHeelTurn, but none of the other characters are suspicious.

* OfficialCouple: Cor/Aravis, as per [[CSLewis Lewis’]] original canon. Or at least, [[WordOfGod the author promises]] they will be [[{{UST}} eventually]].

* ChivalricRomance: Because the protagonists ''are'' at their core noble heroes wandering through Archenland (sometimes) in disguise, many elements of this genre are prominent in this fic, though it’s mostly quite realistic and not actually highly romanticized.

* ProperLady: Aravis when she’s in [[BlueBlood Tarkheena]] mode.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Cor and Aravis, naturally (though they start out as VitriolicBestBuds). Corin and Hana to a lesser degree.

Cor, now of age and first in line to the throne of Archenland, must set out on his “fledgling year”, a twelve-month period in which he and a small entourage tour the country in disguise so that Cor can learn about his people. Aravis comes along, ostensibly to find him a suitable bride. Dragons, assassins, political intrigue, and lots of UnresolvedSexualTension ensue.

A WIP ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Chronicles of Narnia]]'’ fanfiction, set a few years after ''The Horse and His Boy''.

Cor, now of age and first in line to the throne of Archenland, must set out on his “fledgling year”, a twelve-month period in which he and a small entourage tour the country in disguise so that Cor can learn about his people. Aravis comes along, ostensibly to find him a suitable bride. Dragons, assassins, political intrigue, and lots of UnresolvedSexualTension ensue.

[[caption-width-right:180:The {{fanart}} uploaded as the fic’s official cover art on [[{{Fanfictionnet}} the host site]].]]

A WIP ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Chronicles of Narnia]]'' fanfiction, set a few years after ''The Horse and His Boy''.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Notably averted—even though in [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia the original canon]] everyone seems to love King Lune and the royal family, a major portion of the plot in this fanfic revolves around a conspiracy to kill them off.

* OfficialCouple: Cor/Aravis, as per [[CSLewis Lewis’]] original canon. Or at least, [[WordOfGod the author promises]] they will be [[{{UST}} eventually]].
* OneOfTheBoys: In regards to her relationship with the princes, Aravis flips between this and [[BadassDamsel someone they seem to think is fragile and in need of manly protection, even though she’s generally very capable.]]

* HundredPercentApprovalRating: Notably averted—even though in [[TheChroniclesOfNarnia the original canon]] everyone seems to love King Lune and the royal family, a major portion of the plot in this fanfic revolves around a conspiracy to kill them off.

* ObviousJudas: Aravis distrusts [[spoiler:Gyneth]] from the very beginning; she—and vicarious, the audience—expects the eventual FaceHeelTurn, but none of the other characters are suspicious.

Does a remarkable job of balancing the adventure and romance plots and keeping them both well-hooked. Extremely well-written, with solid worldbuilding, heaps of CharacterDevelopment, and a good splash of well-placed dry humor.

* ScarsAreForever: Lots. Aside from the canon scars that Cor and Aravis are [[LampshadeHanging mentioned to have]], many of the characters acquire new ones over the course of their journey. At one point, Aravis jokes that Cor has acquired “a monopoly on the market of roguish facial scars."

* ActionGirl: Aravis.

* ProperLady: Aravis when she’s in Tarkheena mode.

--> “Aravis is fire and ice and rage and she will burn the hearts out of you all—“

* TapOnTheHead: Subverted to play for [[TruthInTelevision realism]]: whenever a character is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they’re typically only out for a moment [[spoiler:(the exception being when Aravis falls off a cliff in chapter 54)]], and usually don’t suffer any permanent damage. The common version of this trope, the “knockout punch” to the jaw, is averted and then {{lampshaded}} by Cor:
--> '''Cor:''' … I barely had time to put my hands up when one of them hit me in the jaw—I could tell they were only common thugs, since even ''I'' know not to punch the face. He fell back yelping about his knuckles …

* WillTheyOrWon’tThey: Cor and Aravis again, and Corin and Hana in the background.

* OfficialCouple: Cor/Aravis, as per [[CSLewis Lewis’]] original canon. Or at least, [[WordOfGod the author promises]] they will be [[UST eventually]].

* WhipItGood: The slavers in chapter 49 subdue their victims with a bullwhip.

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