Yo forgive the fact that i recorded this on an iphone in an amc, but can we like… discuss for a second
Feyd-Rautha, if he had a single second to live, would’ve started making out with Paul. This man has never been turned on more in his fucking life then fighting his predestined Cousin-Soulmate over who gets to be the Father of the Kwisach Haderach
You know he was pissed as fuck that Jessica ruined the plan. Man would’ve been SO HYPE to make Super Messiah Babies with Paul(ine)
Just to be sure, to be sure everyone knew just how lost he was
ᴘʟᴏᴛ: Feyd-Rautha is used to getting exactly what he wants when he wants it. Considering the feelings of another is foreign to him, but he wants to know you. He desires you in every way, so much so he cannot fathom things not going his way. Instead of lashing out Feyd chooses distance. Only his choice of bride is unpopular and his distance leaves you vulnerable.
I love that as much as I adore Feyd, I also see his strong chemistry with Paul so whenever I imagine myself in Dune universe, it looks like this:
Hi, so this is my boyfriend Feyd-Rautha, and this his Feyd's boyfriend, Paul, and here's Chani who is Paul's girlfriend, and that's Irulan who's Paul wife and this is Rabban who is my boyfriend and also a brother of my other boyfriend.
"...."
And here's Paul's friend, Duncan Idaho, and Paul's sister, Alia...
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dune - All Media Types, Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Paul Atreides/Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
Characters: Jessica (Dune), Unnamed Bene Gesserit, Vladimir Harkonnen
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Incest, Dream Sharing, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Kinda, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen Has a Heart, Paul Atreides Is Determined To Get The Weird Boy From His Dreams Out Of There
Summary:
The dreams came along with the bad decisions, he thought he was being plagued with an intricate form of punishment for a few days, where all he saw was tempests of sand and destruction. The whole universe, all he knew and most of what he didn’t, wrecked by a war coming over the land like a torrid wind trailing the remnant of souls by the million.
Then he started discerning faces, more like a face, a boy, close to his age, youth bared by worry. He’d seen him as a contorted horror, filled with too much destiny for his frail shoulders, in the previous dreams. But in those ones he was out of it, laying down seemingly next to Feyd himself, black curls covering the pillows. The vision was strangely peaceful, cultivating in him a strange feeling, like looking forwards to an unmarked day he only knew would come : hope.
Dune brain rot is real, and it changed me from a fanfiction lurker to a fanfiction writer 😅
This fic is rated M and will have multiple chapters (slow burn). Please read over the tags before diving in!
(also Paul has 2 hands: one for Chani and one for Feyd)
Summary: After being caught by Harkonnen troops during a spice raid, Paul Atreides is given to the house’s heir, Feyd-Rautha, as a coming-of-age gift. While being held captive, the complex truth about Paul’s anatomy is discovered by the Bene Gesserit, who use his opportune capture to achieve their breeding program’s intended Kwisatz Haderach. When his prescience begins to show him new visions of an alternate future, Paul realizes that in order to regain control of his destiny, he must gain control of the Harkonnen heir.
I cannot stop thinking how House Atreides has really died with Leto. All the inhibitions from Lady Jessica’s hunger for power and passion were removed and she truly became her father’s daughter. The further Paul was from the times his father was guiding him, the more he leaned into anger and cruelty. Reverend Mother Mohiam doomed them all when she advised to wipe out that line. Atreides and Harkonnen were supposed to balance each other, and her fear of Atreides incomplacency lead to full loss of control. Maybe Lady Jessica and Leto actually made someone who’d be able to become a saviour, but everyone who was involved in the making of the saviour has fucked him up beyond recognition - because the balance was lost.
And on this note, I can’t stop thinking about how Feyd-Rautha and Paul are really meant to be for peace; war is a result of many centuries of a feud between their houses, and an alliance - a union of resources, mind you - would change the political landscape in the universe. Sure, it makes sense why House Corrino fuiled that rivalry, because such alliance would drastically shift the power dynamics in the Lanstraad.
And it doesn’t matter if Paul, or Feyd-Rautha, or their offspring would become Kvizats Haderach - an all-knowing being would rise to the throne and elevate Fremen with less blood then a desert prophet if they had this power.
But Jessica is her mothers’s daughter because she seeks power before purpose, and is her father’s daughter because she doesn’t care about the cost of power, so; their love story with Leto could be described as something you would leave as a warning on a nuclear waste site: love was there. It didn’t save anyone. On every chance it could save us, love only lead to more destruction.