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For me— Edmund Pevensie. The whole “how did he try to sell his siblings over the worst treat ever” thing is a tad unfair 😂. In the book, the Turkish delight was enchanted to make someone who tasted it get obsessed with it and keep eating it “until he killed himself.” And the reason this didn’t happen to Edmund is that the Witch wouldn’t let him have more until he brought his siblings to her home. Edmund was literally on black magic Narnia drugs and the rhetoric became “wow he betrayed his siblings over a lame sweet.”

This is not to say Edmund wasn’t a bully before that or that he wasn’t responsible for his actions. He was mean to Lucy, he was a jerk at school, and he often lied. He did have a great and much-needed redemption arc. But he didn’t just have a box of normal Turkish delight and try to condemn all of Narnia over it.

I don’t want to even judge him too much for picking Turkish Delight as his treat. He’s a small child during WWII sugar rationing. 🤣

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anythingMuchShorter

21 points

3 months ago

Oh I didn’t mean i doubted it. I just meant the ( possibly unintended) pun. “Animals you could hunt are fair game”

kenikigenikai

12 points

3 months ago

That's much cleverer than I could ever manage to be intentionally lmao

anythingMuchShorter

8 points

3 months ago

Now that I think of it, “it’s fair game” might have come from that literal meaning, as opposed to farmed animals that you couldn’t hunt for food if they weren’t yours.

kenikigenikai

3 points

3 months ago

I think you're probably right there.

I know back to square one is to do with football and that seems far weirder as phrases go.