• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    16 days ago

    Hello Emperor Tiberius.

    spoiler

    doesn’t want the job of Emperor-heir

    Emperor Augustus says fine, fuck you, I won’t give you the job

    happy for a few years

    Augustus comes back, says “Everyone else died, I need you to take the job”

    plead not to get the job

    Augustus forces you to divorce your wife who you love and take the job anyway

    become Emperor when Augustus dies

    immediately plead for the Senate to take up its ancient prerogatives and rule

    Senate refuses because they’ve all been replaced with lazy bootlicking bastards by Augustus before you came into power

    spend a few years being a miserable and sad bastard but doing your job competently

    finally get sick of it and retire to an island with near-zero communication with the outside world, because fuck everyone else

    word gets to you that the guy you left in charge is just slaughtering people in preparation for a coup

    go back to Rome reluctantly

    execute a bunch of the stupid bastards who let it happen

    die miserable, just as you lived

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      execute a bunch of the stupid bastards who let it happen

      die miserable, just as you lived

      Yeah that sounds like the end of my term of office.