I realized something...
In a recent reblog about Dune and Chani, I was discussing with OP that the issue isn't that Chani should have been left alone, but both that:
despite what OP was sayaing abt execution being dunt Pt2's failing bc Chani was never important canonically to warrant a change anyway
AND that issue, I thought, was that Chani needed some sort of agency bc of how..."shiny native helpmeet" Herbert already made Chani in a story against imperialist dictators as if gender wasn't already an intrinsic layer of such history and politics
And that I needed to then question why I was so opposed to Alicent's HotD rewrite (even though I've said it several times jic, to myself bc that's just how critical thinking works) in a way that I am not for Chani's when both of their original stories had them arguably stereotypical.
Besides how I don't actually think bk!Alicent was all that stereotypical or that i her case this would be a bad thing:
book!Chani wasn't that politically active or unique as book!Alicent
bkAlicent is part of the ruling class, goes even higher, able to practice real political authority more than Chani ever does while being a woman. Chani is part of the exploited/oppressed class of indigenous folks so her role in the 1st 2 books is *so* questionable
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