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midnightwinterhawk · 4 days ago

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The People* have been asking and I have finally done it! (*a handful of friends)

Here is a canon compliant and canon divergent/adjacent list. I capped it at 20 which wounds my soul but that just means I'll need to do a part two sometime.

It also pains me to do it but I'm excluding one of my favorite fics because I've decided to do a modern AU list next.

Dedicated with special thanks to the terrible enablers in the FeydPaul server.

As with anything Dune, mind the tags.

Last Stand of the Sardaukar by AnimationFan2006

2k | Mature | Sardaukar

The Last Stand of the Sardaukar as witnessed by the Last Bashar...

The desert shall take the weak…

Obsidian and Wisteria by ashleigh

53k | Explicit | FeydPaul

The wedding of Princess Irulan gathers the lords and their families of the Imperium together for the first time in living memory.

Maybe I'll Show You the Way by battle_cat (@fuckyeahisawthat)

27k | Explicit | Paul/Chani

He doesn’t have to be doing this. She was born on the front lines, and she’ll be in this fight until they win or someone kills her. He could have gotten off-world by now, gone to live a safe life somewhere else. But he’s here, beside her.

If you saw that two-minute montage of Paul and Chani falling in love while fighting in a guerrilla war together and thought "I would like a novella-length elaboration on that theme," this is the fic for you. There's drama, action, romance, Fremen culture, politics, and meditations on what it means to be part of a generations-long armed resistance movement. Also, they fuck.

The Duke, The Baron, His Madonna & Her Monster by @darthpeezy

87k | Explicit | FeydPaul

Before he was named Harkonnen and long before he was inducted as Na-Baron, he was Feyd-Rautha Rabban, unimportant second son of an unimportant Count ruling over an unimportant fiefdom. The history of Empire would remember him as the most prolific killer in human history.

At the center of Imperial power, he would encounter another who he was inextricably drawn to. A boy with green eyes and a hawk as his heraldry that challenged Feyd at every step. It would not be the last time Feyd-Rautha met Paul Atreides.

Were the currents to time kinder, it would have ended then. But theirs was a union ten thousand years in the making. The shackles of fate are not quite so easy to break and the Known Universe bled for it.

Or, Feyd is down bad for Paul, Paul is equally obsessed, and everyone else suffers.

what gentle violence (a future untold series) by @desert-mouse

10k | Explicit | FeydPaul

"You would’ve been a prize,” Feyd said. He drew back, hovering above Paul. Their noses brushed. When Feyd spoke again, his raspy voice hummed against Paul’s mouth. “If the Bene Gesserit would’ve had their way, if you’d been mine, Giedi Prime would’ve called you god and Arrakis would’ve called our child messiah.”

“And what would you have called me?” Paul asked.

heshiigiishii by doomcountry

5.4k | Mature | FeydPaul

Feyd-Rautha dreams of his bride.

in its own house (here we aren't, so quickly series) by en passant (@katabaesis)

7.5k | Mature | FeydPaul

the ego is not master in its own house - Sigmund Freud, 1917

Feyd-Rautha does not die in the duel, and things change. Both Paul and Feyd go on some journeys of self-discovery and in some ways, self-annihilation.

I Learned The Voices Died With Me (I Learned The Voices Died With Me series) by @foxgloveinspace

30k | Explicit | FeydPaul

He could still feel sand beneath his finger nails, and despite the fact that he had many dreams come true, none had felt so real, and to have dreams within his dreams was unheard of. He flipped his hands over, resting his palms against his knees, his real skin and flesh knees, warm beneath his hands and slid his eyes shut. He took a deep breath, kept taking them until they didn’t shake him to his core, let himself get lost in the rhythm. When he opened his eyes again, he was still in his room, and nothing had changed. It was early, early enough that even the kitchen servants would just be waking up. He was so much colder than he had been in years. - After a year of being the Padishah Emperor, Paul Atreides wakes up as a seventeen year old again. He doesn't know how he got there, but he's willing to do anything too keep his father from going back to Arrakis, even if that anything is a plan that he had thought of years ago and never thought would come to fruition.

shadowplay by @hootaran

3k | Mature | FeydPaul

“What's this play about again?” Paul asks, remembering some of the details but more so to fill a bit of the uncomfortable space between him and the murmuring guests dotting the lobby, darting their eyes at him from under harsh makeup and brocades. One woman narrows ink-lined eyes at him.

“It's a simple story, really,” Feyd answers softly, following his line of sight and flashing a grin at the woman, who—thankfully—responds with a tight smile and looks away sheepishly. “A fairy tale. A princess is locked away in the mountains and waits her whole life for someone to save her, and eventually someone does. But it…goes wrong. You'll see. It's better experienced than explained.

feyd-rautha takes paul to see a harkonnen shadow puppet show on giedi prime.

Like A Slow Blade by @jolinarjackson, @acabspocky

77k | Mature | Paul & Gurney, FeydPaul

After House Atreides suffers a devastating attack by House Harkonnen on Arrakis, a now orphaned Paul is forced into an arrangement to live as Baron Harkonnen’s ward, alongside the Baron’s nephew Feyd-Rautha. With only Gurney remaining as his protection and Feyd-Rautha unexpectedly becoming something like an ally, Paul is determined to find a way to escape before they lose their lives… or themselves.

salt water and sand by @ladybundle

7k | Teen | Feyd & Paul

This planet is too cold and wet. Feyd’s boots sink into the soft, damp sand as he makes his way towards the rocks. The thick mist clings heavily to his body, dampening his jacket. It's like walking through a fucking cloud. When he reaches the rocks, it becomes clear that they are actually a series of small pools with odd sorts of vegetation in the clear water. Feyd crouches beside one curiously, sticking his finger into the pool and then bringing it to his lips. He licks his wet finger, wrinkling his nose immediately at the awful taste.

“You can’t drink salt water.”

Feyd jumps a little at the sound of Paul Atreides’ imperious voice.

the sweetest thing by ladybundle

17k | Explicit | FeydPaul

“You wanted to kiss me before,” Paul says, referring to when they came in. “You like kissing?”

Feyd doesn’t say anything. He wants to reach forward and grab him, pull him close and feel his unblemished skin under his mouth, his teeth. Feyd does like kissing. But he’s not going to say that. He already feels a little unbalanced, cock definitely interested now, breath picking up as Paul moves closer. He smells good.

———

The Atreides and Harkonnen houses are joined by marriage after all.

Corrida by mnabokov

19k | Explicit | FeydPaul

“It is not a good morning,” Gurney growled, “When the son of Duke Leto is to be married to a Harkonnen.”

lost in the citadel by nighimpossible

11k | Explicit | FeydPaul

Lady Jessica, the royal concubine of Duke Leto and wife in all but name, bore her first child on January 1st, 10175. The Bene Gesserit were pleased with the result and considered Lady Jessica’s mission complete. But there was a great secret that House Atreides held during these first fragile years of the child’s life: though no one knew it at the time, Muad’dib Atreides had been brought into this world. The name Muad’dib was born with has been stricken from the interstellar record, and not a single scholar in present day knows what Duke Leto and Lady Jessica originally selected. What we do know is that by age three, Leto and Jessica started referring to Muad’dib as Paul.

By the time Muad’dib turned five years of age, the Bene Gesserit knew that they had been fooled.

— From “Manual of Muad’dib” by the Princess Irulan

AFAB Paul Atreides is forced to wed Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen after centuries of careful breeding by the Bene Gesserit falls into place.

A Time to Rise and a Time to Fall (orphan_account)

14k | Explicit | Paul/Duncan

Duncan Idaho's mission to the desert planet of Arrakis to find the Fremen is overshadowed by Paul's prescience dreams.

bloodright (bloodrites series) by @rebelontherocks

9k | Explicit | FeydPaul

Feyd-Rautha sees the future and it changes everything. Paul finds freedom in captivity.

bloodties (bloodrites series) by rebelontherocks

13k | Explicit | FeydPaul

“I’ll teach you how to resist the Voice,” he said, turning Feyd-Rautha’s head this way and that, as if examining an animal before deciding whether to buy it. “Why?” “Because it will be more rewarding for us both when you give in of your own free will.” --- Feyd-Rautha is spared, and given new purpose. The blood will flow same as it always has.

And a few of my favorite WIPs (as of post date)

The Archer (The Prey) by doeheart

14/15 | 63k | Teen | Paul/Duncan

Duncan reaches up to cup Paul’s face; he brushes a thumb over Paul’s cheek. He tilts Paul’s face this way and that.

“You look like you never sleep.”

Paul can barely breathe. He doesn’t know what to say. He hasn't slept, not well, anyway. He wakes up early or in fits in the night, and he can never escape those strange dreams. They’re getting harder to shake during the day.

Duncan’s hand drops away.

“You can stay with me,” Duncan offers. “Anytime you need. Tonight, if you want. If it will help you sleep.”

***

Paul has trouble sleeping. More accurately, he has trouble with his dreams. Duncan Idaho notices something off with his boy, and he offers Paul a place to stay. Paul only has to take him up on it.

All Paths Lead Into Darkness by @kalipeda

21/? | 26k | Explicit | FeydPaul

He who can destroy a thing controls it.

This Paul knows.

Yet slowly, despite all of his efforts, he is being corroded away by this thing that exists between them. This terrible, agonizing thing.

Truly, it is the slow blade which penetrates the shield.

Maktub by @lacrymosa-91

8/? | 36k | Explicit | FeydPaul

The threads the Bene Gesserit weave are intricate and ever enduring, schemes within schemes, contingencies within contingencies.

Jessica gives birth to a son instead of a daughter despite explicitly given orders. It should have altered the path forced upon her, the sacrifice that was to be made of her child in the hands of a brutal and violent house. Instead her choice triggers a dormant Bene Gesserit gene engineering not witnessed for millennia.

—o0o—

Paul can feel himself hyperventilating, mind spinning from the sheer implications of everything he has just heard.

“The Reverent Mother instructed me explicitly. We were to let him touch you. It was a curious sight, the way he held you, almost despite himself…so incongruously gentle for such a brutal creature.” She nearly smiles and Paul shakes with the sudden urge to snarl in her face. “Your fever broke. You settled calm for the first time in weeks.”

“This is a lie-“

“You are connected now. A change has been triggered in you and in the Na-Baron Harkonnen as well. The Reverent Mother says it is in your blood. There is no cure for it.”

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