whenever i picture the mechanisms none of the characters are exactly like the actors. my brain has put together The Platonic Ideal for each of them except for toy soldier who i am unable to imagine as anything other than jessica law in a mustache
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Dune x Avatar the Last Airbender crossover that absolutely no one asked for
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Paul Atreides : in this AU, Paul is the Avatar instead of the Kwisach Haderack. Fire Avatar before Yangchen. At age 17, he's already been trained in firebending by Gurney Haddock, waterbending by Duncan Idaho, and airbending by Thufir Hawat.
The four nations are at a time of peace united under the Earth Kingdom Emperor Shaddam. Duke Leto (Paul's father) owns the Caladan fiefdom, which is a group of volcanic islands (which will one day be called the Fire Nation). Like in Dune, Leto is given the land Arrakis, which is a desert area filled with spice.
Spice, in this crossover, grants mortals heightened spiritual awareness. Humans can see and even talk to spirits. The Fremen, a tribe of desert sandbenders, use the spice for many religious purposes. They live in catacombs under the sands of Arrakis. They are very proud the spice. The Harkonnens have had charge over the spice production for generations, until the Emperor stationed Duke Leto Atreides over it.
In an extremely oversimplified way of putting it, things then play out along the storyline of Dune. Some differences, however, are that Jessica (Paul's mother) is a Fire Sage instead of a Bene Gesserit. Chani becomes Paul's sandbending/earthbending teacher. Alina, still strange because of overexposure to spice, is closer to an Azula figure. Her fire is white and causes damage to spirits instead of physical damage.
Due to corrupt intentions of the sandbenders, the murder of Jessica, and Paul's growing instability, he and Alina wipe out many of the Fremen, destroy the Harkonnens, and unite remnants of their late father's fief into the Fire Nation.
Avatar Paul Muad'dib Atreides becomes the first Fire Lord of the Fire Nation.
If anyone actually wants me to write this out with more detail, I absolutely will. However until that request comes, I'm not going to recount the entirety of Dune on a whim.
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There’s like. Something there in what Gwen says about how being spiderman is fundamentally isolating because no one knows who you truly are, and you’re so used to working alone and how every spiderman seemed to carry that baggage w them into the multiverse. The way Jess and Miguel are both really bad at mentoring, at facilitating an environment that would help their youngest members grow, despite both being extremely competent at their jobs. The way Gwen’s afraid to let down Jess and confide in her and in so doing, makes things worse. The way Miguel starts having a breakdown in his nasty rant at Miles and starts screaming about how he’s the one who’s been keeping it all together. How that’s fundamentally untrue but he undeniably feels that way, and it’s taken a huge toll on both him and the people he’s supposed to lead. The way the spider society doesn’t so much enact teamwork as it does just throwing lots of talented individuals at one problem (which is why they can’t catch Miles, they don’t work together), how different we see the teamwork to be when Miles leads in his group. Like they all feel so fundamentally isolated despite having literally the most in common that they could with another person.
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Y’know, I’m not convinced that the revived Ultimate Peter is actually Ultimate Peter. He says he wouldn’t remember his entire life the way he does if he were a clone, but…every Peter clone was created inheriting the original’s memory. Most notably, Jessica Drew, who was absent from that function and would’ve pointed it out
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