#alia ):

[letsduneit]

dune really explores every possible way someone can die without actually dying. paul's childhood self dies the night his father does. his atreides heritage dies when he seeks revenge. paul himself dies when he drinks the water of life. jessica the wife dies the night leto does. jessica the mother dies when she drinks the water of life. the girl alia could have become dies in the womb. stilgar dies when he becomes a follower. the fremen die when they leave their home to fight paul's war for him. the narrative treats every one of these deaths as a tragedy, as a palpable loss; the ghosts of who these characters were or could have been remain to haunt the narrative long afterwards.

(expanding on my original tags from this post)

[milaisa-art]

Felt like sketching some MMX stuff

[dukesnukes]

JASON ADVENTURES!!! FEATURING ART BY @nuclearnerves OF HIM AND HIS NEIGHBOR!!!!

[nerum09]

Iris, Alia sketch

[winter-wise]

Leto II and Ghanima as twins is an absolute tragedy.

Here is Leto and his sister. They were born together. They share the same ancestral memories. The only other person like them, their aunt, is being driven insane by her own ancestral memories, and she is trying to make them both end up like her. Their mother is dead, their father is gone, and their grandmother left the planet before they were born and does not return to see her grandchildren until they are nine years old.

They grow up together. They talk together in dead languages.

They are trapped together. They are raised as the children of an Emperor father who walked out on them the day they were born. Their carer, Stilgar, occasionally contemplates killing them because he is afraid of what they are. Their grandmother's people want to force them to marry each other and have children together, and they are horrified by this. They love each other, but not that - never that.

The sister of their father's wife - the wife he never loved, the wife who is not their mother but committed herself to raising them - plots to have them killed. They know the only way to survive is to separate.

They have never been apart before.

By the time they reunite a year later, their father has just been murdered. Their aunt immediately kills herself in front of them. Leto Atreides II, aged ten, is the Emperor of most of the universe, and he is no longer human. He will never be alike to his sister again. He will live for thousands of years. He is fond of children - he will never have children of his own.

He runs until he exhausts himself and then he puts his head in his sister's lap and asks her to find a way for him to die.

Ghanima dies first. Spice extends her lifespan, but she dies two centuries later.

Leto will live another 3,300 years without his twin.

3,500 years into Leto's reign, Ghanima's descendant steals Leto's Journals and finds between the pages a strand of Ghanima's hair, a pressed flower that Ghanima once gave Leto, and a poem that Leto wrote when he was told that Ghanima had died.

Siona, descendant of Ghanima, realises how much Leto Atreides II loved his sister, and views it only as a weakness to be exploited.

[dailyrockman]

1575: Alia

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[drawloverlala]

Megaman X8.

[fivepaninis]

Family portrait at your local sci-fi sears

Alia adopted Ciel and Alouette, the four guardians are X's biological kids, Zero is their step-dad, and Axl is everyone's favorite child forever and always

Day 11 - Family

[drunkshogun]

help me, mother! 

Alia Atreides

[opendoorlorien]

Zero after he clears a stage in X6

[eviemaev]

“You were never my friend.”

Alia Atreides and Marie Fenring ( paul of dune )

[letsduneit]

rewatching dune 2 and i completely forgot how batshit insane it is that paul uses his first lines in the movie to try and manifest his mom's miscarriage

[milaisa-art]

Them ♥

[dukesnukes]

SARGE AND ALIA <33

[nerum09]

Girls

[nuclearnerves]

How to bring yourself to tears in one easy step