app for Entanglement
Mun:
Your Name: Gazebo
Your Email: gazebomail at gmail dot com
Your AIM: violentgazebo
Character:
Character's Name: Murbella
Character's Fandom: Dune (original series only, NO expanded universe)
Character's Home Universe:(Please either describe a bit of your character's universe or link to a wiki that does so) Dune universe. Also see Dune
Canon Point you're taking him/her/it from: A bit after the end of Chapterhouse: Dune, just to be on the safe side, but not long enough to conflict with the prequel/sequel novels written by Kevin J Anderson (whose work I refuse to accept as Dune canon and prefer not to engage). The Honored Matres and Reverend Mothers are easing past the first shocks of forced mutual assimilation, at least enough for Murbella's absence not to incite intergalactic hostilities.
Method of Arrival on Station: Properly speaking she should still be on Chapterhouse, but we all know how much Murbella cares about propriety. Let's say a small shuttle hails the Senburu Trati'salan in distress. Aboard are Murbella, a pilot, and an acolyte. They were on an errand whose nature they won't elaborate. They're now out of luck.
Physical Appearance: (You may link to a picture if you like. If they'll be gaining new clothes upon arrival, describe them here)
Hair: red. Eyes: were green, then acquired the orange specks characteristic of Honored Matre drug use, now are the blue-in-blue of a spice addict. Skin tone: fair. Physique: lean and muscular, on the rangy side.
She has a certain intensity to her, something I can't quite quantify so I'll let our friend Frank Herbert meander about it: "Her skin glowed with health ... This had impressed itself on Odrade at their first encounter, a thing Lucilla had remarked after capturing Murbella and rescuing Idaho from Gammu. Health lived below the surface in her, there like a lens to focus attention on a deep freshet of vitality. We must have her!" (Chapterhouse: Dune, p. 279)
I interpret this glowing health vitality thing as mainly meaning that Murbella gives an impression of vibrant and intense presence, as though she's just finished a workout that left her invigorated. Feel free to ignore it. Maybe Odrade just has a crush or something.
Personality:
Murbella is a sex ninja.
No, really. She's the product of late-stage, dirty-old-man Frank Herbert's novelistic flair. Murbella was recruited and trained from a young age by the Honored Matres, a violent and barbaric spinoff of the Bene Gesserit order. She excelled and quickly ascended the ranks to become an adept of Hormu, a rank entailing respect and some specialized martial-arts training in excess of the usual Honored Matre outerspacekungfu. Her life got twist-turned upside down when a couple of Bene Gesserit who were up to no good started making trouble in her neighborhood.
OK, the Dune wiki explains what happened there. Long story short, Murbella attempted to use Honored Matre sexual addiction-inducing techniques on a Duncan Idaho ghola, and the result was mutual addiction, as the Idaho ghola had been trained in Bene Gesserit imprinting. The BG Sisterhood promptly whisked Murbella away to their main planetary stronghold, Chapterhouse, where she and Idaho spent the following years cooped up on a no-ship to shield them from detection by the Honored Matres or any other BG opponents. During this time, the BG worked on Murbella to get information about the HM, and eventually (with Idaho's ambivalent assistance) succeeded in turning Murbella's loyalties. Her BG indoctrination culminated in the spice agony, which she survived to become a full Reverend Mother. This augmentation and deepening of power did not come without a loss: her bond with Idaho, whom she'd grown to love, was altered by the newfound distance that Inner Memory gave her.
By the end of the two books in which she appears - and the end of the original six-book Dune series - the BG have triumphed and Murbella has become Mother Commander, combined leader of the Bene Gesserit and leader of the Honored Matres, presiding over a forced assimilation of the Honored Matres into the Bene Gesserit order. She has also given birth to four daughters by Duncan Idaho, all of whom have been promptly taken from her at infancy to be raised and trained by the Sisterhood, so she's got oodles of frustrated maternal instinct. Duncan has stolen the no-ship from Chapterhouse, fleeing with Sheeana and a contingent of BG objectors who feel a merger with the HM will irrevocably compromise the Bene Gesserit order. Murbella accepts Duncan's departure as regrettable but in some ways convenient. She's just pissed that they took the no-ship.
Murbella's personality, after all this history, is a volatile blend of Honored Matre direct aggression and Bene Gesserit calculation. She can assess situations rationally and objectively with Bene Gesserit detachment, but she is likelier to take swift and decisive action than a non-HM sister would be. The greatest asset she possesses to temper her own acerbity is the Inner Memory of her predecessors, especially her immediate predecessor as Mother Superior, Darwi Odrade.
Murbella likes to wear green leotards, perhaps with a red Hormu robe or a black Bene Gesserit robe. She enjoys good food and strenuous exercise. She also enjoys kicking people in the head.
She will be Not Amused to find herself on a station piloted by Guild Navigators. Guild Navigators who have an independent source of melange, at that. She will be even less amused to find that there are sandworms aboard (though once she has accepted she's here for the immediate future, she'll be glad of the worms' presence, since it means continued melange supply). She will be disturbed by Duncan's presence in a pod, and if Entanglement were to later receive a Duncan ghola from any time period, she would likely avoid him. She will engage with Sheeana on guardedly diplomatic terms, once they've gotten past their initial madcap chase through the station to the tune of Yakkity Sax. Sheeana was the alternate candidate for Odrade's successor, the runner-up as it were, disqualified by her taste for weird abstract art that freaked Odrade right out. They both carry head!Odrade and they could have Odrade slumber parties eating chowder and reminiscing about the sea.
Abilities and Skills: (Both human and superhuman. Optional section.)
Quoth the Dune wiki:
"Murbella was raised as an Honored Matre from an early age. She was deemed to be a trainee of particular promise when it was revealed that she possessed physical and mental abilities far above average. Among these abilities were almost unimaginable reflexes, which ran independent of her central nervous system. As was common of females of Honoured Matre heritage, she also possessed the ability to amplify sexual ecstasy to near unimaginable levels."
Like I said, sex ninja.
In practice, I really don't think the sexual imprinting business is going to come into play in Entanglement, unless it's needed offscreen for an NPC. Partly this is because I think it's hilarious and don't think I could write it with a straight face.
The martial arts, however, should come in pretty handy, as should Murbella's tactical acumen as Mother Commander. She's capable of administrating an organization on the vast scale of interplanetary politics, with all the problems of resource allocation and personnel management that this entails. She's likely to be fairly peeved with Enitan et al. She lacks Sheeana's subtlety, and is likelier to present vocal opposition to the hippies.
She is capable of masking her emotions with BG effectiveness - but doesn't always see the point of doing so.
Sample:
Thread here in testrun-box comm.
Your Name: Gazebo
Your Email: gazebomail at gmail dot com
Your AIM: violentgazebo
Character:
Character's Name: Murbella
Character's Fandom: Dune (original series only, NO expanded universe)
Character's Home Universe:(Please either describe a bit of your character's universe or link to a wiki that does so) Dune universe. Also see Dune
Canon Point you're taking him/her/it from: A bit after the end of Chapterhouse: Dune, just to be on the safe side, but not long enough to conflict with the prequel/sequel novels written by Kevin J Anderson (whose work I refuse to accept as Dune canon and prefer not to engage). The Honored Matres and Reverend Mothers are easing past the first shocks of forced mutual assimilation, at least enough for Murbella's absence not to incite intergalactic hostilities.
Method of Arrival on Station: Properly speaking she should still be on Chapterhouse, but we all know how much Murbella cares about propriety. Let's say a small shuttle hails the Senburu Trati'salan in distress. Aboard are Murbella, a pilot, and an acolyte. They were on an errand whose nature they won't elaborate. They're now out of luck.
Physical Appearance: (You may link to a picture if you like. If they'll be gaining new clothes upon arrival, describe them here)
Hair: red. Eyes: were green, then acquired the orange specks characteristic of Honored Matre drug use, now are the blue-in-blue of a spice addict. Skin tone: fair. Physique: lean and muscular, on the rangy side.
She has a certain intensity to her, something I can't quite quantify so I'll let our friend Frank Herbert meander about it: "Her skin glowed with health ... This had impressed itself on Odrade at their first encounter, a thing Lucilla had remarked after capturing Murbella and rescuing Idaho from Gammu. Health lived below the surface in her, there like a lens to focus attention on a deep freshet of vitality. We must have her!" (Chapterhouse: Dune, p. 279)
I interpret this glowing health vitality thing as mainly meaning that Murbella gives an impression of vibrant and intense presence, as though she's just finished a workout that left her invigorated. Feel free to ignore it. Maybe Odrade just has a crush or something.
Personality:
Murbella is a sex ninja.
No, really. She's the product of late-stage, dirty-old-man Frank Herbert's novelistic flair. Murbella was recruited and trained from a young age by the Honored Matres, a violent and barbaric spinoff of the Bene Gesserit order. She excelled and quickly ascended the ranks to become an adept of Hormu, a rank entailing respect and some specialized martial-arts training in excess of the usual Honored Matre outerspacekungfu. Her life got twist-turned upside down when a couple of Bene Gesserit who were up to no good started making trouble in her neighborhood.
OK, the Dune wiki explains what happened there. Long story short, Murbella attempted to use Honored Matre sexual addiction-inducing techniques on a Duncan Idaho ghola, and the result was mutual addiction, as the Idaho ghola had been trained in Bene Gesserit imprinting. The BG Sisterhood promptly whisked Murbella away to their main planetary stronghold, Chapterhouse, where she and Idaho spent the following years cooped up on a no-ship to shield them from detection by the Honored Matres or any other BG opponents. During this time, the BG worked on Murbella to get information about the HM, and eventually (with Idaho's ambivalent assistance) succeeded in turning Murbella's loyalties. Her BG indoctrination culminated in the spice agony, which she survived to become a full Reverend Mother. This augmentation and deepening of power did not come without a loss: her bond with Idaho, whom she'd grown to love, was altered by the newfound distance that Inner Memory gave her.
By the end of the two books in which she appears - and the end of the original six-book Dune series - the BG have triumphed and Murbella has become Mother Commander, combined leader of the Bene Gesserit and leader of the Honored Matres, presiding over a forced assimilation of the Honored Matres into the Bene Gesserit order. She has also given birth to four daughters by Duncan Idaho, all of whom have been promptly taken from her at infancy to be raised and trained by the Sisterhood, so she's got oodles of frustrated maternal instinct. Duncan has stolen the no-ship from Chapterhouse, fleeing with Sheeana and a contingent of BG objectors who feel a merger with the HM will irrevocably compromise the Bene Gesserit order. Murbella accepts Duncan's departure as regrettable but in some ways convenient. She's just pissed that they took the no-ship.
Murbella's personality, after all this history, is a volatile blend of Honored Matre direct aggression and Bene Gesserit calculation. She can assess situations rationally and objectively with Bene Gesserit detachment, but she is likelier to take swift and decisive action than a non-HM sister would be. The greatest asset she possesses to temper her own acerbity is the Inner Memory of her predecessors, especially her immediate predecessor as Mother Superior, Darwi Odrade.
Murbella likes to wear green leotards, perhaps with a red Hormu robe or a black Bene Gesserit robe. She enjoys good food and strenuous exercise. She also enjoys kicking people in the head.
She will be Not Amused to find herself on a station piloted by Guild Navigators. Guild Navigators who have an independent source of melange, at that. She will be even less amused to find that there are sandworms aboard (though once she has accepted she's here for the immediate future, she'll be glad of the worms' presence, since it means continued melange supply). She will be disturbed by Duncan's presence in a pod, and if Entanglement were to later receive a Duncan ghola from any time period, she would likely avoid him. She will engage with Sheeana on guardedly diplomatic terms, once they've gotten past their initial madcap chase through the station to the tune of Yakkity Sax. Sheeana was the alternate candidate for Odrade's successor, the runner-up as it were, disqualified by her taste for weird abstract art that freaked Odrade right out. They both carry head!Odrade and they could have Odrade slumber parties eating chowder and reminiscing about the sea.
Abilities and Skills: (Both human and superhuman. Optional section.)
Quoth the Dune wiki:
"Murbella was raised as an Honored Matre from an early age. She was deemed to be a trainee of particular promise when it was revealed that she possessed physical and mental abilities far above average. Among these abilities were almost unimaginable reflexes, which ran independent of her central nervous system. As was common of females of Honoured Matre heritage, she also possessed the ability to amplify sexual ecstasy to near unimaginable levels."
Like I said, sex ninja.
In practice, I really don't think the sexual imprinting business is going to come into play in Entanglement, unless it's needed offscreen for an NPC. Partly this is because I think it's hilarious and don't think I could write it with a straight face.
The martial arts, however, should come in pretty handy, as should Murbella's tactical acumen as Mother Commander. She's capable of administrating an organization on the vast scale of interplanetary politics, with all the problems of resource allocation and personnel management that this entails. She's likely to be fairly peeved with Enitan et al. She lacks Sheeana's subtlety, and is likelier to present vocal opposition to the hippies.
She is capable of masking her emotions with BG effectiveness - but doesn't always see the point of doing so.
Sample:
Thread here in testrun-box comm.