A Swordmaster, Ghola and the Kwisatz Haderach! (application)

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Strange.

Duncan Idaho, Mentat, Swordmaster of Ginaz, protector of the Atreides line and ghola number.. 489 (give or take a few, it was hard to keep track after so long) AND the ultimate Kwisatz Haderach (ftw!), stood in the sorting room. He wasn’t easily confused, but he could find no recollection of such a room across the vastness of his memories. Where was he? Was this some trick of Erasmus? A final strike against humanity?

It had just been revealed that he was in fact the ultimate Kwisatz Haderach, and had merged with the flowmetal skin of the robot Erasmus in order to bring humanity to it’s next pinnacle.

Or something like that.

State your name.

He blinked, running his fingers through his wiry dark hair, a habit from ghola 470.  “Duncan Idaho. I was also called Hayt, but that was.. before.”

1. What is your favorite cheese? Why is it your favorite?

The Mentat part of his mind scanned the document and was stymied by the strange and illogical nature of the questions. “I.. cheese? I’m not sure what that has to do with anything, but there was a soft white cheese I enjoyed on Caladan. Went well with pundi rice wine.” 

2. Who would you kill first, Barney or Carrottop? 

His brow furrowed. “Barney,” he answered without hesitation. Ghola 312 had an irrational fear of purple incorporated into his makeup by the Tlieaxu. He wasn’t sure why. 

3. What time is it where you are?

“The end of the war,” he said. “The fifteen thousand year conflict against the thinking machines had come to a close. Or seven thirty.”

4. If you were Albus Dumbledore returned from the dead, which member of the Order of the Phoenix would you sexually harass? How would you harass them? If you are Albus Dumbledore, please answer as if you were Sirius Black.

Duncan grinned wickedly, “I would take only what was offered,” he answered, recalling Hayt’s reply to a flustered Alia.

5. If you are pushing to be in:

1. Slytherin - please state the clever, witty name of the bar in which you bartend, in the dark.

“The No-Ship Lollipop,” he stated. It wasn’t particularly clever, but the title amused him.

2. Gryffindor – Debate whether Harry should ultimately end up married to Fred or George. Use examples from a variety of world mythologies to bolster your argument.

Duncan shook his head. “Questions of breeding and marriage are better left to the Bene Gesserit.. or others who are more interested in focusing particular genetic lines. I have no interest in them.” Never mind that he was a tad defensive because his previous gholas had been used as part of Leto II’s breeding program. Nope.

3. Ravenclaw – You guys are supposed to be smart. Explain why my desk is inundated with paperwork at all times, even though I’m constantly disposing of it.

The Mentat frowned, “It is a universal constant. The paperwork will always outpace your work and your desk will always remain over capacity. Destroy your desk and the paperwork will follow.”

4. Hufflepuff – Prove you are not useless.

“I am Duncan Idaho. I am a Ginaz trained Swordmaster for House Atreides, a Mentat, and the ultimate Kwisatz Haderach. I am far from useless. So there."

I have read the hogwarts_hocus faq, and understand it is a crazy, cracktastic sorting community and RPG.   Super_sword

 I have read the hogwarts_hocus rules and agree to abide by each and every one of them.   Super_sword
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"A mutant?" Duncan thought about it and she was right after a fashion. His genetic structure had been altered at a very basic level when it had been brought to the Tlieaxu, just as hers obviously had when they grafted wings onto her body.

"I suppose it's a form of mutation. And what do you mean, magic?"

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"You know, magic? Wands and weird words and stuff happens? Check it out, I learned this one before I even came here: Sihal novarum chinoth!"

With a puff of pink smoke and a noise, she disappeared from where she had stood--hovered--and reappeared almost instantaneously several meters back. "You know, magic."

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He shifted fluidly into a ready stance, something sharp and shiny dropping into his hand as Megan reappeared. She meant him no harm, but the reflexes of a Ginaz trained swordmaster didn't dull easily, even after hundreds of gholas.

"I have seen the weirding ways of a Bene Gesserit that make them seem to disappear with their speed. I have never seen anything like this. And you learned this before you came here?"

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He wasn't the only one with battle instincts. Megan was not a born fighter, but she'd had to learn the hard way. When she saw the sword, her Souldagger instinctively popped into her hand, but she was able to wrestle with the cold, empty part of her to send it back to wherever it came from a second later. She'd surprised the guy, that's all. He wasn't going to hurt her, and it only affected magic stuff anyway. There was no use risking Dark Pixie or whatever Santo called her when she got like that.

"Yeah," she said, shrugging. "It's kind of complicated. Went to Limbo, got part of my soul ripped out and replaced with dark magic, and then the person who took it taught me to teleport. But you can learn it here without all of that! I like it better, actually. It's a lot less painful and scary. You just wave a wand and bam! You can make stuff float or make water appear out of nowhere or turn a ball of paper into a mouse."

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He gave a small smile before concealing his own weapon again. She meant no harm, but he would not apologize for the instincts that were hammered into him on Ginaz. He could understand feeling part of a soul being ripped away. Being forced to kill Leto, losing Hwi..

No. He would not dwell on such things.

"Is there a reason we are here to learn such magic? Who is in control?"

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"Well, I came here to learn protective magic to help my friends and me because so many people hate us, but plenty of people just show up and don't really know why, but I think most of them end up liking it okay here anyway. There's a talking hat and a Furby who seem to run things around here so that's pretty weird, but you wouldn't really think a magic school would be a normal place, would you?" She shrugged, lighting on the ground and picking at lint on her sleeve. "I mean, I don't know. But it's really a nice place! Mostly!"

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"Helping and protecting your friends is a noble thing. Why do people hate you? Is it over a particular matter?"

Naturally his first thoughts ran towards matters of honor and vendetta when it came to disagreements. After all, it's what he lived and breathed. In a few of his lives anyway.

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"Oh, you know. It's the whole mutant thing." She shrugged again. It was kind of nice that people here didn't make a whole big issue out of that, or didn't get why people would be freaked out. And on the other hand, it got kind of wearying to explain. But, Megan being Megan, it didn't stop her. "They don't like that we're different. Some of us look different, most of us do stuff they can't, and they're scared. And you know how scared people are, all they want to do is hit things and blow stuff up and it's really bad all around. So if I can help defend my friends, that's good, right?"

She smiled brightly again. "So you're all about nobility, then? And protecting? Because if you are, I think I know where you should go while you're here. Oh, speaking of being here and not being here, sometimes people turn into popcorn here, like, big kernels of it." She held her arms out to demonstrate. "It's weird. But it's not like being dead, not really. At least, that's what I've heard."

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"It is a common failing of humanity to distrust what it does not understand," Duncan noted with a smile. "And yes, it is a good thing if you wish to defend your friends."

The Mentat frowned, flowmetal rippling acrossing his skin for an instant. "They become popcorn?"

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((Did a little digging, let me know if I've screwed up and I can delete and repost. Between you, Vladdie, and the return of Paul, I've got such a hankering to reread Dune. ETA: aaaand oh hey, it would be helpful if I posted what I intended to.))

She beamed. "See, that's what I thought."

Megan nodded emphatically. "Oh yeah, all the time. And they come back, and it's all buttery and salty and gross, and sometimes they don't remember things but sometimes they do. I don't really know why. And I don't get why it's popcorn, either, instead of some other snack food. And why snack foods, really, I--" Stop, breathe, realize that other people liked talking, too. "Sorry," she said, giggling and a little embarassed. "I talk a lot. Just tell me to shut up if it's too much, it's okay. Really. By the way, what's up with your skin? Not that I think it's weird or anything! I have a friend who's made of rock and another one who's a lizard and another one of mercury, so I'm used to that sort of thing. I'm just curious. Is it part of being the quiz-thingy?"

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He couldn't resist a chuckle. She reminded him of the younger ghola-Jessica. "Not at all. You have taught me a great deal Megan and for that I am grateful. The more I can learn of my new surroundings the better."

Glancing down at his hands, Duncan shook his head. "It is.. a facet of it. In my universe, the humans were at war with thinking machines. For thousands of generations, humanity was enslaved by the Overmind. Until the Butlerian Jihad against them. But the Overmind was not utterly crushed, it simply fled known space. I merged with one of the sentient robots to finally end the war. His flowmetal skin merged over my own as part of that merging."

((The Super Short Cliff Notes version!))

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"You're welcome! Wow, that's kind of freaky. I mean, the machine thing. We've got some artificial intelligences back where I come from, which I don't think is where most of the people here come from since they don't know about mutants, but most of them mind their own business. So are you two people now? Or is it just the skin thing? Because I'm fine with that either way. Unless the machine mind is like, 'grr, kill all humans' which would make things really awkward if it's sharing a mind and body with you. So I think I'm going to vote you into Gryffindor, okay? It's where brave people are supposed to go, and I'm there and I can tell you that it's a pretty nice place to be."

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Erasmus chuckled deep in his memories. He liked her earnest nature, her very human nature, even if her genes were somewhat mis-sequenced.

"Erasmus, the sentient one I merged with, lives in my Other Memories. They are the voices of all of my previous lives, going back nearly a thousand years. So.. yes and no. And no, his fascination with humans is of an academic vein." He hadn't exactly argued when the Overmind was exterminating humans either, but there was no sense in belaboring the issue. The war was over.

"Thank you. It seems like a good and noble House."

Vote: Gryffindor

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"Oh, wow. That's so cool! So if you've lived a bunch of lives, do you remember all the stuff from them? Or do you have to relearn stuff every time? Because I bet that would get old after the eighty billionth time you've had to relearn which way is left and which way is right."

Re: Vote: Gryffindor

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((ooc : Gah! Sorry I'm so late!))

"At one point, I did not recall my other lives. When a ghola is created, they do not automatically remember, it must be triggered in their cellular memories. It is not a pleasant process, but it is necessary. But each life presents a new opportunity to learn and to grow."

Re: Vote: Gryffindor

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((No worries! God knows I've been slow the past few days.))

"Oh. Well, that's weird, and I'm sorry it's not pleasant. But speaking of learning, you'll get to learn magic here and it should be a lot more fun! I hope you get to remember it next time, too, and that it's not too bad to remember."