#14 is Water Crusade, a Paul/Feyd-Rautha fic I wrote for New Year’s Resolution 2012. I actually mostly wrote this during Yuletide, but ran out of time to polish it during Yuletide itself.
1. I like the way Paul totally doesn’t understand what Feyd-Rautha is telling him about getting perved on at first, but eventually over the years comes to realize what’s going on.
2. I like how Feyd-Rautha gets this tiny moment of redemption while still remaining true to both canon characterization and canon events.
3. Along the same lines — I’d been thinking a lot of Ted Chiang’s time-travel stories while writing this (”Story of Your Life,” “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” both of which I highly recommend, although maybe don’t read them both at the same time, as it’s basically the same story) and the idea of those stories: how events may be fixed (that is, you can't escape fate), but the way we give meaning to those events can make all the difference, especially on the individual level. I am rather pleased with how I transferred those ideas to the universe of Dune, which is all about how the inescapability of fate, but which never makes that connection.
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1. I like the way Paul totally doesn’t understand what Feyd-Rautha is telling him about getting perved on at first, but eventually over the years comes to realize what’s going on.
2. I like how Feyd-Rautha gets this tiny moment of redemption while still remaining true to both canon characterization and canon events.
3. Along the same lines — I’d been thinking a lot of Ted Chiang’s time-travel stories while writing this (”Story of Your Life,” “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” both of which I highly recommend, although maybe don’t read them both at the same time, as it’s basically the same story) and the idea of those stories: how events may be fixed (that is, you can't escape fate), but the way we give meaning to those events can make all the difference, especially on the individual level. I am rather pleased with how I transferred those ideas to the universe of Dune, which is all about how the inescapability of fate, but which never makes that connection.