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So, I've tried being into RPF but for the most part, even though it doesn't offend me I've sort of fallen out of the habit. I am usually into a specific period/group of people which is not the current trendy one so there wasn't much point if no one else cared.

Anyway, now that I'm in the Narnia fandom too, Skandar/Will is getting hard to ignore. And unlike that other group of pairings I like, this one is pretty popular. And I'm starting to think the writers might be on to something.



Believe it or not, normally, I don’t jump to such conclusions unless the evidence is overwhelming.

When I used to write David Bowie/Lou Reed, I did so because it was hard to ignore.

1) Both men claimed to be bisexual.
2) Both men claimed to have slept with men.
3) Backed up by other men claiming to have slept with them.
4) One wrote a song in which he heavily implies he has slept with the other.
5) Someone made a movie in which it is claimed that their fictional avatars had an affair and no one was the slightest bit surprised by it. And of all the things that happened in the movie that both guys denied happened in real life, they never said anything about *that*.
6) There are real life pictures of them kissing on the lips.

So I usually need Ben Affleck/Matt Damon, or Lindsay Lohan/Samantha Ronson or Britney/Madonna levels of evidence before I get behind an RPS pairing for serious.

Seems like Will/Skandar is approaching that. I’m not going to be tin hattish about it because there are alternate explanations for a lot of it and I'm not a shipper exactly, I just think it makes sense but I will say that if they come out as a couple any time in the future, or if a future biography admits there was something going on, I won’t be the slightest bit surprised.

1) We’re all pretty sure Will is gay or bi. He did have a girlfriend for awhile but he may have only just begun to discover that he’s gay or bi.

The Evidence So Far: The scarves. His taste in clothing in general. Admitting he’d quite like to collect vintage teapots. Constantly touching Ben "Dorian Gray" Barnes during interviews. He lived on Christopher Street (one of America’s Gayest Streets) while undergoing his boxing training (and a reporter says to him during an interview “that sounds so butch” as if he and the reporter are sharing some inside joke). While he was living there, he attended the book release party for Perry Moore’s (who is gay) book which happens to concern a gay subject.

And then there was the debacle with the British newspaper reporter who attempted to out him by quoting a tv interview in which Will is asked a question that led to a response that kinda…made him sound gay, and this article states that C.S Lewis might not approve of Will’s lifestyle and that if the Narnia movies were as phenomenally popular as the Harry Potter movies, Will might find himself the center of some negative attention. In the tv interview, when Will responds with the “gay” answer, Georgie looks at him as if he’s just spilled the beans about something they were told to keep quiet. No one from the films made any statements confirming or denying it.

2) Skandar reports that during the initial read throughs of the Wardrobe script, he kept getting nervous because Will was always staring at him (if this sounds creepy, remember Will was quite a bit younger at the start too and Skandar was older than Edmund).
3) The thing with the shirts and the way they argue like an old married couple.
4) The Bungy Jumping Story. It sounds exactly like a first date scenario. I mean, if you were going to film a movie about the making of the Narnia movies and you wanted to throw in gay subtext between the two of them, The Bungy Jumping Story is exactly the kind of thing you’d make up. People would watch it and go “this is totally some kind of symbolic interpretation of them falling in love”.
5) Movie!Peter and Edmund look like they either want to date or are already doing it. I mean, the looks the characters keep exchanging. Their eyes just lock onto each other in a way that they don’t with anyone else. That level of intensity is NOT from the books and it comes across as a bit too intense for simply “close brothers who have been through some scary stuff together”. And since we can assume that the filmmakers are not trying to push incestuous subtext , it must be the two actors broadcasting their own attraction without realizing it. The bit at the end of PC where they’re almost holding hands is probably meant to refer to the fact that Edmund refuses to hold Peter’s hand at the start of the movie but still. Practically. Holding. Hands.

I can’t help thinking of what Cuaron said of the “pollinating” going on during the filming of “Prisoner of Azkaban”.

There are other explanations, of course.

1) Will is gay/bi but doesn’t realize it.
2) Will is straight but both weirder and more naïve than we realized and doesn’t understand how gay he seems. He went to Moore’s party to be polite, because he was the only cast member in NYC at the time. He paid for Skandar at the bungy jump because he thinks of him as a little brother. Etc, etc.
3) The actors are confused about the subtext they’re supposed to be playing and are actually less talented than we thought they were. Or we're all just reading way too much into everything.
4) Will has agreed to let people think he’s gay to throw them off the scent of something much worse. Although what that could be, I can't imagine.
5) The director and actors are all in on a scheme to play Edmund and Peter as gay lovers as some kind of subversive practical joke, thought up by someone who hates C.S Lewis. Another legacy of Father Hooper? Douglas Gresham harboring a secret thirst for revenge- all these years he’s been pretending he liked his stepfather when in reality he hated him and wants nothimg more than to see the Lewis estate go down in flames. Or maybe it was Phillip Pullman in the library with the candlestick.

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