#st alia of the knife

[catofoldstones]

Ah yes Dune, we have witch bitch wizard Mother of the millennium, narrative successor accidental-deliberate genocidal religious despot, eldest daughter traumacore war criminal princess, the only one who can think straight but is doomed by falling in love with the said prophet-despot, 4 year old space cocaine abomination turned cult-leader, and fridged malewife. Family of all time truly.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Alia in the womb: Bro, stop being such a whinny little bitch and found your empire already. I need to start pre-ordering my regency wardrobe.

[theicarusconstellation]

when i say “sad boy/girl hours” i mean i’m thinking about alia atreides at sixteen fucking years old saying,

“i wish i could burn this thing out of me…but i’m sister to an emperor who is worshipped as a god. people fear me. i never wanted to be feared. i don’t want to be part of history; i just want to be loved. and love.”

[lunamond]

I had been the author of unalterable evils, and I lived in daily fear lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness.

[Frankenstein by Mary Shelley // Dune by Frank Herbert, Chapter 3, 22, 40, 41, 45]

[ewehen]

alia of the knife??!!!!??? It’s more likely than u think

[mylittlepond]

"Religious mana was thrust upon me," Paul said. "I did not seek it." And he thought: There! Let this man-fish think himself victorious in our battle of words! "Then why have you not disavowed it, Sire?" Edric asked. "Because of my sister Alia," Paul said, watching Edric carefully. "She is a goddess. Let me urge caution where Alia is concerned lest she strike you dead with her glance"

[longwaytogallifrey]

i'm sure this has already been discussed, but for as fun as creepy psychic fetus alia was in dune p2, i would have KILLED to see how a more book-accurate film managed 4-year-old reverend mother abomination child alia bullying the emperor while seated on his own throne, kicking her heels and making fun of baron harkonnen before killing his ass with a gom jabbar literally just like

[hlblng]

I just want to be loved....

My girl, my beautiful precious abomination, the most specialest demi goddess of Arrakis: Alia Atreides.

One of my favourite characters of all time. Costume design concept 1 out of ????

[antigonenikk]

st. alia of the knife

“She is living proof that the 'analytic' has limits. She represents ultimate tension. She is the virgin-harlot - witty, vulgur, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.”

[b1tches-br0es-nonbinaryh0es]

Alia to the Emperor after killing the Baron:

[nitronine]

I fucking love Alia btw. Yes she did all that shit but no she didn’t. Yes she did

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

So what if Mozart was composing symphonies at 6. Alia Atreides was orchestrating the downfall of a vast galactic empire from the comfort of her mother's womb.

[theicarusconstellation]

yeah so alia atreides never wanted to be part of history. she never wanted to be feared. just btw. she just wanted to be loved. and love. if you even care.

[lunamond]

I've been rereading Dune while also rereading some greek tragedies, specifically Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.

I don't know if I just have Dune brainrott, but Paul is so Oedipus coded???

Both of them rulers haunted by prophecy and fate since birth. Desperately trying to prevent the horrible future they have forseseen/been foretold from happening. But it all still came to pass, no matter how hard they tried??? Just the self-fulfilling prophecy of it all.

I'm just looking at the way Oedipus is described prior and after his downfall, and it fits Paul so well.

— Dune messiah spoilers —

Also, the way both of their stories end?

Oedipus gouging out his eyes with the broaches of his dead mother/wife vs. Paul knowingly allowing the plot to go through, resulting in his eyes being burned out ???

Blinding themselves after they realise the futility of all their desperate attempts to go against their preordained fate??? Realising that in a way they themselves have become responsible for it???

Doing it as a sort of repentance for their sins???

After they leave blind and broken into exile. The only person who keeps believing in them being their sister/daughter???

(I know Alia isn't literally Paul's daughter, but he absolutely took on a paternal role for her and took on the emotional role of a spouse for Jessica)

And after they are gone, both their legacies are forever tainted by their actions???

[phoenix-kite]

Dune Movie Fans

So excited for the people who have never read the books to see Leto the second become a sandworm, Jamis come back as a clone and profess his undying love for Paul, and Alia get possessed by the late Baron Harkonnen.

[mylittlepond]

// If I Killed Someone For You by Alec Benjamin //