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Well, NFE season is upon us, and of course, I'm up to my neck in unnecessary research.

I may or may not have spent 3 hours working on family trees. Or virtual location scouting around England.

However, going through all my past notes and stories, I came across something confusing (and something that I obviously did NOT document well in my notes on how I came to these conclusions).

ANYWAY. For those fanfic writers (or readers who are stickler to details)... what do you have for your Pevensies' birthdays?

Lewis, apparently, dictated a timeline events that someone else published, which makes it both official and non-official. And we know how trustworthy Lewis is at consistency.

Timeline.

Being still somewhat new to the fandom as of a year ago when I started writing, I used this as a guideline and tweaked from there.

In last year's NFE submission, I wrote Edmund having a birthday in March... and I know I went against canon, for in PC, Edmund had received the torch for his birthday right before they head off for the new school term. But, sorry, my Edmund just isn't a Virgo!

In my NBB (which is still looking to be tweaked, so I don't mind changing) I have Susan stating that her birthday is October 12, 1927. And now I'm just arbitrarily choosing birthdays for Peter and Lucy. So, this is what I have:

Peter — July 27, 1926
Susan — October 12, 1927
Edmund — March 12ish (can't decide), 1930
Lucy — February 3, 1932

So, I'm asking you all... how far off base are these?

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FWIW, here are my two cents.

I found the Timeline very, very early in my fanfic process, and so it was Canon for me since forever. For several fics awhile ago I wanted birthdays, and I came up with-

Peter - July 1927
Susan - September 14, 1928
Edmund - Christmas week, 1930
Lucy - end of April, 1932

Which makes them on the young end for LWW, really, but that's what I've worked with. I think the spring/summer/fall/winter, Lucy/Peter/Susan/Edmund is a bit of a trope, at least over at FFnet, and I liked it.

What threw a wrench into that for me was that bit in PC about the torch being for Edmund's birthday a week before, *and* that they were heading back for the *summer* term. Which seems like a really weird time of year for Lucy to start boarding school, but also means that your March is feasible.

Whoa! Does it really say summer term in PC? I missed that completely! Well, that makes me feel a bit better...

I agree, the trope trap is an easy one to fall in. I'm rather close to following it, I noticed, but mine is about 80% based off of astrological signs. My first story was Edmund-centric, and you write what you know, so I made him a fellow Pisces. I arbitrarily gave Susan an October birthday to fit my Big Bang. I believe my original intention was to make her a Scorpio, another water sign, but during the beta process,

rthstewart pointed out that I made her a Libra. Being rather unfamiliar with that sign, I looked it up and was pleased to see that, yep, Susan fits that.

There was no question to me that Peter is a Leo. I decided on July because August is my least favorite month. Lucy needed to be a rather dynamic sign, and I didn't want their birthdays to be so neatly spaced (trope alert!), so I decided she was an early February Aquarian. Other than that, I don't "connect" very well with Lucy, so I'm fine with wherever I put her!

Yup. Last page. (I make notes of important info and page numbers in the front covers of mine.)

Heh heh. I pay no attention whatsoever to astrological signs, so . . . whatever. But Peter's gotta be a Leo. When's Virgo, anyway? Because I have a tendency (trope alert, prob'ly) to make Lucy an Artemis/Diana/virgin huntress of the woods.

Virgo is late August, first 2/3 of September. Virgos are sticklers, very organized, everything in order... basically the complete opposite of Pisces!

Ah, okay. No chance of that being Lucy, then. :-D Which is probably for the best.

Perhaps Sagittarius?

Oh look at that! And could have an almost-Christmas birthday, too. Huh.

Ages.

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