#ghanima

[eternal-prescience]

Ghanima Atreides :

— the Empress, the Spoil of War, the twin sister & wife of the God Emperor of Dune ;

— Aryeh, the Atreides Lioness ;

— One of us had to accept the agony. He was always the stronger.

[winter-wise]

At the end of Children of Dune we find out from Ghanima that Leto runs and runs and runs as the only way to temporarily relieve his horror and grief at the fact that he's giving up any chance of romantic love or having his own family to undergo a millenia-long body horror transformation.

Then in God Emperor Leto is physically no longer able to run. But Siona, descendant of Ghanima, when we first meet her, is running.

[sserenlas]

Ghanima Atreides.

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[estellaestella]

gif: @apaethy

if Denis adapts CHILDREN OF DUNE after DUNE MESSIAH Jacob Anderson would make a great Leto II. With a tiny bit of cgi they could de-age him enough to play Leto II from teenage years and onwards. And Denis can rearrange events so that CHILDREN OF DUNE starts from there, eliminating the need for child actors.

Jacob is mesmerising! And does sorrow so well. And Leto II will have to portray so much pain and loneliness in silence...

[teaandjumpers]

Children of Dune (2003)

[teawizardry]

Paul naming his children:

Lego and Gonorrhea

[lemonomelette]

seeing that you're already doing fanart from the second and third books (which I adore, especially Alia), I wanna see you do Ghanima and Leto II (either in human or God-Emperor form) from Children of Dune

I have a scenario where Ghani and Farad'n are doing long distance, and when he visits for Thanksgiving, he's greeted with this.

[theboywhocan11]

Who was this Desert Demon, this creature able to destroy qanats as though they were false idols to be toppled into the sand? Was it a rogue worm? Was it a third force in rebellion-many people? No one believed it was a worm. The water would kill any worm venturing against a qanat. Many Fremen believed the Desert Demon was actually a revolutionary band bent on overwhelming Alia's Mahdinate and restoring Arrakis to its old ways. Those who believed this said it would be a good thing. Get rid of that greedy apostolic succession which did little else than uphold its own mediocrity. Get back to the true religion which Muad'Dib had espoused.

Ghanima Atreides’ thoughts in reaction to the news of this Desert Demon that’s causing havoc across Arrakis in destroying the qanats that are water channels that turned the desert into lush green lands (Page: 428-429. Novel: Children of Dune. Author: Frank Herbert)