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ALINA ATREIDES SALTBURNT AU ⚜️ THE SAINT OF SALTBURNT cw: incestuous themes, religious themes etc 🕯️ AU ROLE: Sister Alina, eldest daughter of the hyper-elite Atreides dynasty, is a living contradiction: beloved icon and ghostly recluse. Once hailed as the girl born to save the family, she now resides in Saltburnt's private chapel where she lives as part of the elusive Order of the Veiled Heart, a discreet aristocratic Catholic sect known for its luxurious austerity and spiritual elitism. She is both ghost and ornament to the estate: ever-present, yet never truly seen. Draped in high-fashion habits, velvet prayer books tucked into her sleeve, and rosaries heavy with family crests, Alina has become a living myth. She watches Saltburnt’s decadence like a condemned angel behind glass — tragic, and unreachable. 📖 AU BACKSTORY: As the Atreides family’s firstborn, Alina was groomed from birth to be perfect — the kind of girl who curtsied in custom Dior at thirteen and recited prayers in Latin before dessert. She was the one everyone assumed would inherit the family’s influence, charm, and strategic ruthlessness. Alina grew up delicate, devout, and adored — a strange, sickly child whose illness turned her into an object of reverence and mysticism. People said she was chosen, that she glowed, that she spoke to God. She nearly died at thirteen, and when she didn’t, the family called it divine favor. Proof the Atreides were blessed. It was Paul who stayed closest — reading to her, watching over her, brushing her hair while she coughed up blood into silk pillows. Their bond was pure until it wasn’t. She began to fear the thoughts she had when he touched her wrist, when he kissed her forehead, when he held her a little too long. By the time she turned 16, the sickness had passed. A year later, she was a debutante with a promising future in politics or media — wherever her family's shadow wanted her cast. She was sent to, and shown off, at galas and balls. Appeared on the covers of high fashion magazines. She wore powder-blue gowns and looked like porcelain — delicate, regal, detached. Her health was restored, but people still treated her like she was fragile, like she still might break. She learned to lean into it. She never raised her voice. She never needed to. When her family tried to arrange a high-profile engagement for her, she disappeared into the convent. Unforgivingly. Alina remains cloistered now — not just because she chose God, but because she knows she can’t trust what she'd choose if she were free. RUMORS: IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS: LOOKING FOR: VISUALS: profile by tricklet