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The Protagonist of Forgotten Affinity
(I forgot the crack on their right eye on the bust drawing)
Leto Richwald is a living statue that got reanimated by a necromancer. He woke up with no memories, and only learned his name from the plate on the stone where he stood. He is not very good at feelings and such, being that he has no experience dealing with them. He has a hard time with fine movements and feels more comfortable when his hands are covered up, being as they move in a weird way, in his opinion. He has a natural tendency to protect, being that every time someone has tried to hurt them, they have not been injured since he is stone.
Questions: If you have any questions, please ask away. If it spoils a major plot point, I will give a vague answer. If it is inappropriate, I will give you a random fact about the story or a character that is not at all related to the question.
[Extra]: He can not feel pain, he has a natural draw to the color blue, he likes shiny things,he can not see out of his right eye too well, reading is not his strong suit, he likes fluffy things and silk, they use he/they pronouns, and his hands have a ruff texture so he scratches and rips things easily. They can also not feel pain.
Русское лето.
Russian summer
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a hero.” —Dune, Frank Herbert
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[They] think to trick me by making me distrust your mother. They don’t know that I’d sooner distrust myself.
Lady Jessica & Duke Leto Dune, Frank Herbert
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
I'm rereading Dune in honour of the movie, and I had genuinely forgotten how absolutely vicious Leto's wit can be. Two examples:
Halleck stirred, said: "I think what rankles, Sire, is that we've had no volunteers from the other Great Houses. They address you as "Leto the Just" and promise eternal friendship, but only as long as it doesn't cost them anything."
"They don't yet know who's going to win this exchange," the Duke said. "Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them."
Pretty sure some of the heads of other houses just woke up several planetary systems away in a cold sweat, with the vague feeling of just having been verbally flayed.
"This is a carryall," Hawat said. "It's essentially a large 'thopter, whose sole function is to deliver a factory to spice-rich sands, then to rescue the factory when a sand-worm appears. They always appear. Harvesting the spice is a process of getting in and getting out with as much as possible."
"Admirably suited to Harkonnen morality," the Duke said.
I think the Baron is beyond feeling someone else roasting him from a system away, as it happens far too often, but still.
Finally, a gentler example:
"Gurney, take care of that smuggler situation first."
" 'I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land,' " Halleck intoned.
"Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed," the Duke said.
I wish we'd had time to see this in the movie, because even though a fair amount of this is him putting on a bit of a show for his men, it's still hilarious.
What if I’m not the future of House Atreides? Dune (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve