1960s Dune AU

1960s Dune AU

1960s AU--Paul Atreides and Irulan Corrino come from a similar background and share similar interests. Her feelings have slowly deepened into love, but Paul is drawn to Chani, a passionate civil rights activist. When Paul's father, Senator Leto Atreides, is assassinated while contesting a presidential election, Paul, who's been in the armed forces until then (Vietnam) steps in, along with his mother, to fight for his father's causes, which include civil rights, thus bringing him close to Chani. In the meantime, Irulan, who's working as a journalist, discovers her father had something to do with Senator Atreides' assassination...and a crooked businessman, Vladimir Harkonnen was also involved. Should she go to Paul, who's trying to get to the truth of his father's assassination, or should she help her father?

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How do Irulan's sisters react to her wedding Paul? What if they wrote to her about it and Paul reads the letters? Plus Margot Fenring offering expert advice on seduction to Irulan? Again read by Paul?

A la Jack and Jackie AU in canon era

As Padishah Emperor, Paul is supposed to traverse the entire empre, accompanied by his wife, Irulan. He's still in love with Chani and determined to only have a marriage in name with Irulan. On one of the planets they visit, where the people, not just the nobles or the wealthy, are connoisseurs of art and literature, and enjoy the good life, Paul is very surprised to take second place to his wife. They gush over her clothes and sense of style and the prince of that planet has the temerity to not only praise his wife's learning and beauty at a state banquet, he also dances with her, to Paul's fury. He is almost on the point of declaring a jihad when...

19th century AU

Give me an AU where Irulan is the Empress of a constitutional empire and Paul Atreides is her charismatic, married, wildly popular PM. His father, who would have been PM, was assassinated by a right-wing movement led by the Harkonnens. He has a younger sister, whom he's bringing up; a mother, who's trying yo recover from the death of her husband, and a wife who's just lost their baby. And he has a very confrontational relationship with the other players in the political arena, and his young, beautiful and intelligent Empress.

In which canon-era Paul actually grows up and shares knowledge of Chani's death in childbirth with her. This also leads to an adult conversation with Irulan--he agrees to consummate their marriage and have kids with her who will be brought up to appreciate the Fremen and offworlder heritage. He enlists Irulan's help in ending the jihad diplomatically.

Also, Irulan has her own issues. She's grown up in a hostile home environment, where she was forced to observe and report to her mother on her father having sex with his concubines. How does this affect her attitude to sex? How did Shaddam react to a family of five girls? How did her mother die? What his her own attitude to childbirth?

ASOIAF Cold War AU

Jon and Sansa are sent as moles to spy on the enemy. To deflect suspicion, they pose as husband and wife.

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Jon and Sansa are married and he works for an espionage agency as station chief. Sansa, as his wife, also does her bit for her country.