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* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Shows a remarkable amount of devotion to Paul considering how he treated her. Not abuse exactly, but "not one whiff of tenderness" is a bit hard after effectively kidnapping her.
** [[Fridge Horror]]: One of Irulan's biographical chapter openings mentions having to dodge multiple assassination attempts in childhood, assassination attempts that ''her own father'' may likely have been behind. As well as being raised in a royal cloister by concubines and virtually never seeing her father. Paul may never have shown Irulan any personal tenderness or warmth but by actually making her a responsible part of his household and family (remember that Irulan, not Chani, is effectively Paul's chamberlain), actually talking to her every day, and oh, ''not trying to have her murdered'', Paul actually '''is''' treating Irulan with more kindness than she's ever known before in her life.
** re: 'kidnapping her' -- Irulan had known her entire life that she had exactly zero say in deciding who she would marry, being a nobleman's daughter in an environment rivaled only by Game of Thrones for aristocratic levels of suck. Given that her father just lost a war and got deposed, and her family is about to be dispossessed, an offer of 'How would you like to help the new Emperor solidify his claim with a marriage of state?' is by far a superior offer to anything else she can expect in her current bargaining position, such as 'How'd you like to be a poor exile we stuff in some kind of nunnery that we can never allow to have children with anyone else ever as they might be possible rivals?', or 'How would you like your stabbed corpse to piled right next to your father's?', both of which are actually far more likely options in that kind of situation.
* [[The Woobie]]
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