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* HeroesWantRedheads: Caesar's Gallic mistress is a redhead, and her magnificent hair is the thing he finds most attractive. On the other hand, his own wife, Pompeia Sulla, is also a stunning redhead, and he is completely cold towards ''her'' because she's an [[BrainlessBeauty shallow idiot]].
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Both Sulla and Caesar are so [[{{Bishonen}} beautiful]] as youths that more than a few male characters openly lust after them.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Both Sulla and Caesar are so [[{{Bishonen}} beautiful]] as youths that more than a few male characters [[PrettyBoy openly lust after them.them]].

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* TheAce: Caesar, of course. A strikingly handsome and charismatic genius from boyhood, anything he doesn't excel at is entirely minor and not relevant to the story.

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* TheAce: Caesar, of course. A strikingly handsome and charismatic genius from boyhood, boyhood; anything he doesn't excel at is entirely minor and not relevant to the story.



* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Selling your daughter for political pull and cash, murder, crucifixion, slavery, murder, adultery, murder, arson for profit and of course murder.

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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Selling your daughter for political pull and cash, murder, crucifixion, slavery, murder, adultery, murder, arson for profit profit, noblewomen not having personal names, and of course murder.


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* FreudianExcuse: Servilia is a HateSink, but the fact that neither of her parents loved her would give her a pretty solid one... were it not for the fact that she spurns her mother Livia when she ''does'' make an attempt, and she has a younger sister who grew up in the exact same circumstances and is nothing like her.

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* TheAce: Caesar, of course. A strikingly handsome and charismatic genius from boyhood, anything he doesn't excel at is entirely minor and not relevant to the story.



** Sheltered idealistic LonelyRichKid and bookworm Livia Drusa endures a ForcedMarriage to the increasingly nasty Servilius Caepio thanks to her misguided brother. Marcus eventually comes around, but Livia Drusa's already been broken multiple times by then. In terms of being spared nothing, she's even the mother of another HateSink, Servilia, whose nastiness is apparent with TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior during Livia Drusa's lifetime.

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** Sheltered idealistic LonelyRichKid and bookworm Livia Drusa endures a ForcedMarriage to the increasingly nasty Servilius Caepio thanks to her misguided brother. brother who wants BestFriendsInLaw. Marcus eventually comes around, around to her side, but Livia Drusa's already been broken multiple times by years of unhappiness as well as outright DomesticAbuse by then. In terms of being spared nothing, she's even the mother of another HateSink, Servilia, whose nastiness warped nature is fully apparent with TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior during Livia Drusa's lifetime.



* DaddysGirl: Part of Servilia's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior involves her idolization of her father Caepio and contempt for her mother Livia.

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* DaddysGirl: Part of Servilia's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior involves her idolization of her father Caepio and contempt for her mother Livia. It's entirely one-sided, as Caepio repeatedly shows no interest in returning her affections, warping Servilia still more.



* SexlessMarriage: Not completely sexless but Octavian and Livia much prefer to cuddle together in bed and talk politics. Octavia thinks this is pitiful. YMMV.

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* SexlessMarriage: Not completely sexless but Octavian and Livia much prefer to cuddle together in bed and talk politics. Octavia thinks this is pitiful. YMMV.

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