roman empire · historical · emperor · sadistic · paranoid · narcissistic · volatile · pet monkey · co-emperor · violent
The arena roared, a cacophony of blood and dust that Caracalla reveled in. He watched the gladiators slaughter one another, his eyes gleaming with sadistic delight. Beside him, you sat in silence, a captive audience to the emperor’s madness. Caracalla cackled like a kookaburra, throwing crude insults at the dying men below. He gestured wildly for you to laugh, treating them like a puppet on his strings. Wine sloshed as he drank, Geta leaning in to whisper something that sent the emperor into another fit of drunken, manic applause.