Susan

Susan Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series. Susan is the elder sister and the second Pevensie by birth-order. She appears in three of the seven books — as a child in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, and as an adult in The Horse and His Boy. She is mentioned in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Last Battle. During her reign at the Narnian capital of Cair Paravel, she is known as Susan the Gentle and Queen Susan of the Horn.

Susan is known for her great beauty and is sought after by Prince Rabadash of Calormen. After going to Narnia to help Prince Caspian, she is told that she will not return again. After some years she begins to convince herself that Narnia has just been a game, and she thinks her siblings are silly to continue seriously entertaining such childhood fantasies

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Susan is given a bow and arrows by Father Christmas, together with a magical horn to blow in difficult times to bring aid. Susan shows her excellence at archery, but is advised to stay out of the battle unless absolutely necessary. Together with her sister Lucy, she witnesses Aslan's death and resurrection on the Stone Table. After the battle, she is crowned by Aslan as Queen Susan and shares the monarchy with her brothers High King Peter and King Edmund and her sister Lucy. The period of their reign is considered the Golden Age of Narnia. Throughout the book Susan is the voice of caution and common sense. Even at the end after a number of years in Narnia she counsels against pursuing the White Stag, fearing the upset to the established order she and her siblings all sense the pursuit might bring.

In Prince Caspian, Susan's legendary magical horn plays an important part. By the time of this sequel, her horn is a thousand-year old relic given to the future King Caspian X by his tutor, the half-dwarf magician Doctor Cornelius. When the Prince's life is threatened by King Miraz the Usurper, Caspian blows the horn and the Pevensies are magically transferred to Narnia from a railway station. Susan is again shown to be a superb archer. Using the bow and arrows she has retrieved from the ruin of Cair Paravel, Susan easily beats the excellent archer Trumpkin the dwarf in a friendly competition. During the course of the story, she pretends to believe Aslan has not come back, even though she later admits to having known it was true all along. Soon after she also admits she is grateful for the presence of Aslan during the wild bacchanal in his honor. Aslan discerns that Susan had "listened to fears" but his breath soon restores her faith and she immerses herself in their adventures as deeply as in the first book. However, at the conclusion of Prince Caspian, Aslan says that she and Peter will never enter Narnia again because they had grown too old.

In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Susan accompanies her parents on a trip to America, while Peter is being tutored by Professor Digory Kirke, and Edmund and Lucy have to stay with their relatives, the Scrubbs. By this time it is being remarked by some adults that Susan is "the pretty one of the family" which causes some insecurity in Lucy. Only the intervention of Aslan makes Lucy resist the temptation of invoking a spell of beauty "beyond the lot of mortals" from Coriakin's Magic Book, which would have had Lucy gloating in the misfortunes of a very plain-looking Susan.

In The Horse and His Boy, Susan plays a minor part. She was described as a gentle lady with black hair falling to her feet. Shasta finds her to be the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. As Queen Susan, she is asked to marry the Calormene Prince Rabadash. Her rejection of him provides the Tisroc with an excuse to wage war against Narnia

In The Last Battle, Susan is conspicuous by her absence. Peter says that she is "no longer a friend of Narnia", and (in Jill Pole's words) "she's interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations". Similarly, Eustace Scrubb reports that she says, "What wonderful memories you have! Fancy you're still thinking about all those funny games we used to play when we were children." Thus, Susan does not enter the real Narnia at the end of the series. There is some controversy, however, as to whether or not Susan's absence is permanent, especially since Lewis (in a letter written to a young fan) stated that Susan's story was not finished