#i guess just because its longer. not to say dune messiah was bad

[cominy-kiwami]

im thinking about house corrino. it would be really easy to write them off as stock Conspirator characters but they have a really nice dynamic around them. they are engaged in high level espionage that involves the murder of prepubescent children, sure, but there’s a nice bright-eyed earnestness to them. they don’t really engage with the high level chess-like conversations, they wear their hearts relatively on their sleeves.

farad’n is like the edgy teenage son, hating on his mom for no reason and wanting to ditch his responsibilities to go make art, wensicia is right there for all of his emotional targetting and chides him exactly like a mother would, and tyekanik is like the stepfather who tries to be the voice of reason and bridge them together in compromise, but still sides with the son more often than not.

when compared to the drama going on in the atreides sphere with the religious prejudice/tensions and vengeful revenants, it’s a nice change of pace. and when they draw direct parallels, like when wensicia mentally cleared farad’n of suspicion in the exact same way alia cleared duncan, it provides a nice contrast and reminds you of just how nightmarish the atreides situation has gotten.