Relationships: Marcus Acacius/Lucilla, Emperor Geta & Emperor Caracalla Rating: Mature Chapters: 1/? Words: 5 854/? Warnings: Violence, detailed depictions of physical and mental illness, referenced child abuse, trauma (varied + sexual) Tags: Canon divergence (Macrinus isn't there), "fix-it", found family, accidental adoption, politics and war, healing and learning to trust.
Summary: Taking over the Palatine Hill is not the end of an insurrection, but merely the beginning of a new Roman era. As dust settles, it leaves in its wake triumphant and devastated men on uncertain foundations: what will dawn bring with its first light? What is the will of the people, and how to best guide it when it is known to be so fickle, and so often at odds with its own best interests? How to convince an Empire that it needs no Emperor, when a thousand shadows are watching through the cracks, waiting for an opportunity to claim the throne for themselves?
And what to do with two orphan boys, abandoned by their gods and their people, in this lair of wolves?
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Absolute gems from the old my chem website
MCR5 truthers waking up on Nov. 1 getting ready to speculate a Christmas album
i would like to formally declare that geta and caracalla cannot be villains because:
big brown doe eyes (geta)
malewife tendencies (caracalla)
poor baby has syphilis (caracalla)
poor baby has to babysit and share his empire with his brother who has syphilis (geta)
slutty (both)
would kill for the people they love, even if that includes killing the people they love (both)
sexually non-discriminatory (definitely caracalla, but probably both if we’re being honest)
single dad to a very adorable monkey (caracalla)
single dad to his sick brother (geta)
big fans of watching sweaty men go at it in a huge arena (both)
just wants everyone to acknowledge his pretty rings (geta)
hot as fuck, but in a menacing kind of way (geta)
brothers by chance, besties by choice (both)
girls emperors just wanna have fun (both)
confused as to why everyone doesn’t love them as much as they love themselves, and also incredibly hurt by that fact (both)
first people to ever celebrate brat summer (both)
king of having homoerotic tension with people who genuinely hate him and want to see him dead (geta)
adorably excitable, especially when bloodshed occurs, but like, hey, we all have our quirks (both)
big himbo-in-denial energy, doesn’t know poetry, but pretends he’s still very smart boy, very brilliant emperor (geta)
they’ll work it out in the remix (both)
Me: time for bed…. My brain: domestic Hannigram screencap edits, but if they’d been actual murder husbands since the start
Born to read a fanfiction about Caracella and Getas complex trauma ,and sibling rivalry.
Forced to only find incest fanfiction.
Caracalla: who is your favourite gladiator?
Geta: obviously its the one who rides rhinos
Caracalla: that's such a basic fucking bitch answer
Geta: oh you wanna real answer brother?
Geta: a guy who recited a poem and bit a monkey
Caracalla:...
Geta: look it up. that's my favourite gladiator
look at my emperor dawg, rome is gonna fall
so i can't stop writing about brutus- shocker, i know. i wrote this piece about brutus' story in the eyes of the people vs the soil he was buried in. first line(s) is from that one person yelling at their cat iykyk