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TWO WORLDS APART.
dune / book & movies
( sayyadiina, 2024 )

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THEY WERE NOTHING BUT PARTS OF PLANS GREATER THAN THEY'D EVER BE.

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I wish I could make the promise,
I am this and nothing more /
But there's holiness in finding I was something else before
And I held my head in water like I wasn't scared to drown
Like I knew when it was over,
I'd be finished looking down /
Am I someone you believe in? Can I trust what I can't see?
I'm still alive and breathing, you won't take the rest of me.
I can feel it / I know it's true / I can't heal
What I hold on to.

— funny, searows

DO YOU THINK THEY'LL
ACCEPT ME AS THEIR LEADER?

NO, I DON'T THINK SO.

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BUT I DO.

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" No child hates the world without being given a reason for it; neither did Muad'Dib and his most loyal supporter — his messenger; his lover — before all they loved was taken from them. They hated the world for what it had done to them, not for what it was; they hated the injustice once they became victims of it. "

— Sayings of the Blessed Empress
by Princess Irulan

I. Yvette Pandoras was an unfortunate daughter. She had been born out of her mother's wish to have a child of her own; a child who'd belong to her just, not the realm and its people. A child she could hold and love behind closed doors without putting up an act — without making the child a spectacle for others to witness. And with the screams and cries of Lyna Pandoras accompanying the act, the young child was taken from her mother's arms. She was separated from her parents' love and care in an act of mercy; by taking her from her home she'd survive. She would forget her mother's voice and her father's eyes, but she was guaranteed a long, contented life.

II. Yvette Pandoras was a child desperately searching for answers. There was no memory of her life before her departure that Yvette could hold onto during the times when her heart felt heavy and throat sore from swallowing tears and screams. Her fingers tracing her skin softly, she had tried to figure out which of all the features on her face belonged to who. If her eyes, irises uneven and strangely shaped, were from her father or her mother, or from someone before them, or if her brother smiled the same way she did. She knew nothing besides what she was and what her purpose was; why she had spent her childhood with her aunt on a planet far away from Devaron — a place she felt the need to call her home.

III. Yvette Pandoras didn't belong anywhere. The first time Yvette had breathed in the toxins of Devaron's air was when she had been taken from the safety of her mother's womb. Her lungs had been fragile and desperately grasping for air while her screams echoed through the halls of their castle — when her crying was still considered a relief, not an unfortunate occurrence. Yvette knew now that those grasps of air had not only been her sentence, but they'd stay as the only first she'd experience on that planet. Her first steps, her first broken bone, her first kiss; all happening somewhere else. Devaron felt like a place that slipped through her fingers like sand. Each time she thought she could hold onto it — to the picture painted by stories she had only heard before creating memories of her own — it disappeared without her even realising.

IV. Yvette Pandoras was a daughter of the Great Houses; of royal blood that originated from a planet that had been abandoned centuries ago. She was born with a purpose and duties she couldn't escape; duties she had been preparing for all her life. Duties that had caused her despair and anger and duties that required preparations that had separated her from the childhood she could've had. Childhood she dreamed of and in her anger blamed her parents for denying it from her. She, like many children in the Known Universe — children of the Great Houses — were all part of plans greater than they'd ever be. Plans that reached centuries before their birth and would continue even after every last of them would be gone.

V. By these measurements, Yvette Pandoras was no less or no more than Paul Atreides. To the Great Houses they were equals; two children whose lives had been monitored since their existence became known to their mothers, taking their chance for a life of their own choice. They were children, part of plans that wouldn't be known before there was no turning back from the inevitable path. But since the beginning of the time, there had been people who knew more than others — who planned more than others. Plans within plans. And in those plans the rules of the Great Houses no longer existed. In those plans that had existed for centuries, there was a hierarchy — and a place for each player. And those plans would reorganise everything the Known Universe had ever known.

YVETTE  PANDORAS  ✧  the spare
— mehera / the messenger

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PAUL ATREIDES  ✧  the heir
— muad'dib / kwisatz haderach

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playlist.

silent messenger ,  desiderii marginis
babel ,  lustmord
liquid smooth ,  mitski
two-way mirror ,  loathe
below the clavicle , eartheater
naive ,  kalandra
skin , marika hackman
climbing up the walls ,  radiohead
fallen star ,  the neighbourhood
the end ,  daughter
liar , the arcadian wild
family tree (intro) ,  ethel cain
serpents ,  sharon van etten
home ,  aurora
dove (doll ver.) ,  antihoney
children of the empire ,  weyes blood
spectre ,  radiohead
as good a reason ,  paris paloma
who we are ,  hozier
how soon is now? ,  the smiths
fight like gods ,  chelsea wolfe
abbey , mitski
i follow rivers , marika hackman
(nice dream) ,  radiohead
drawn to the blood ,  sufjan stevens
brave new world ,  kalandra
sagrad прекрасный ,  grimes
funny ,  searows

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Dreams are messages from the deep.

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disclaimers.

this fanfiction includes gore, grief, violence, death, mentions of ( possible ) sexual violence, strong language, mental health issues ( depression etc. ), mentions of self harm, religious themes, and possibly more triggering subjects. i won't be putting tw's anywhere else but here, so if any of these topics ( or possible other things that go to the same categories ) make you uncomfortable, don't read this fic !

dune universe, its characters and the plot do not belong to me, but their creator, frank herbert. only yvette, members of house vouyager, valorous and pandoras, and few other oc characters with their plots belong to me.

also the gifs and pictures i've used and will use don't belong to me. the first gif on this chapter was made by MERESIER

BEST READ ! smallest font, times new roman

author's note.

.. hello hello, long time no see. idek what to say- umm thank you for staying for being patient, this long and actually reading this 🤗 no but seriously, i think this is the second or third rewrite and finally starting to like what i've come up with :')

.. i don't want to yap here so i'll try to keep everything short enough. there are some changes from the last time ( éowyn is no longer here ( rip ), yvette has an older brother named marius and some dates have been moved around ) but i think you'll get everything once i start publishing chapters :') overall, i want you to know that i'm very happy with all changes i've made. seeing part 2 in theatres gave me so much motivation and soooo many new ideas for yvette and this fic in general.

.. if you have any questions or want to talk about this fic ( or just dune in general, i love talking about it ), my discord is always open ( ivy4125 ) and so is my instagram dms ( sayyadiina.wp ) !!!

.. ps, if you have tiktok and want to see edits i make of this fic (or any other), follow my account @/sayyadiina.wp
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dedications.

Iadymisery paradiserots camicazii elqctra -blackfyres -inklore xanderherondale fcmmefatvls girldirt -graciesbae venusflu -SPELLONYOU 24gorl bloodwyrms unmooney _____kara______ dhat_pretty_girl -hesperides minasakai filmsivy liesdemise strvkovz velcrovatra Siihayaa targaryenphobic evenfalls

.. thank you everyone who has supported and read this fic, and also thank you everyone who has helped me with it. i wouldn't still be writing this fic without you <3

.. anyways, i hope you enjoy this fic, and if you are an old reader, i hope you enjoy this rewrite :) thank you so so much for reading. i'm just so excited for you to see what i've come up with for each character and this fic.

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THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
book 2 of  the  series