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katabay · 11 months

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narrator voice: brutus was not.

this is playing off a few things historically: that a lot of cassius' early life before his introduction into the military/political theater under crassus during the doomed parthian campaign is non existent, which also means that this space is my sandbox to play it!

my favorite historical pairs to work with (in regards to romans, anyway) tend to fit into a gladiator/statesman dynamic, so cassius and brutus, agrippa and octavian, but also pompey and crassus fit into that mold as well (even when they're fighting with each other, the behaviors and methods they use tend to reflect the general thematic archetype)

what's really fun to sink my teeth into is how one of cassius' strengths (knowing when to step back) is also a great flaw because he consistently gave way to brutus, but brutus wasn't a good general and he's not the greatest decision maker, and letting brutus make the call frequently resulted in Worse Consequences. and somehow. brutus goes down in history as the idealized figure. what a fucking tragedy!

A Conspirator's Realism: Cassius Settles for the Second Rank, Luciano Canfora

this scene would.......probably take place around the same time brutus is having his hot girl summer being a loan shark to compliment his historical counterpart's financial adventures in salamis.

#republikang romano remixed #komiks tag #long post #EHRUGHGHHHHH okay. there we go. wahoo #this is a rough draft for now but some day i will finish it #it feels. in my heart. like a full color comic sequence. but i cant decided on blue green or green blue. for the third color #bad governance the series

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katabay · 10 months

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CYCLES OF VIOLENCE AND REVENGE

or: a scene where sulla and crasso measure each other up and decide to use each other

republikang romano remixed returns!

ALRIGHT SO the historical parallel for scene is crassus siding with & supporting sulla during sulla's civil war. the very brief summary of events are that crassus' family were victims to political violence (cinna, marius) while crassus survived on account of his age and went on to give everyone a very bad day.

but this is also fiction, it's set in the philippines, I get to throw in some teleserye drama if I want to.

originally, the line about crasso's age was supposed to be, 'you WERE so young,' but I fucked up the tense and wrote 'you ARE so young,' by accident. which is. not wrong, crasso is in his early-mid 20s here. he IS young, and it adds in some fun subtext because sulla's going to fuck crasso over later and turn his attentions to pompeyo, who is younger than crasso. subtext, baby!

speaking of the philippines tho, the thing about the tapping and the chicks is that if someone is murdered, you put chicks on the casket because the tapping of the pecking is supposed to eat away at the guilty party's conscience. it's also eating away at crasso because he's haunted (read: traumatized) by being forced to watch his family get murdered. the chicks are just vibing.

Plutarch, Life of Crassus

#republikang romano remixed #komiks tag #you know crasso is technically a single dad in this comic. he's raising his dead brother's kids.#crasso immediately clocks the tense that sulla uses and goes. huh. alright.#it doesnt go well tho. sulla's the only motherfucker in this city who can put him in the ground #it's a character building moment tho! no one else is ever going to have power over him again. fucking RIP pompeyo #bad governance the series

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katabay · 9 months

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testing out some brushes I think I want to use for when I actually start posting bad governance in narrative order, which took a slight detour because I had to do some math with character ages and events and oh I hate doing math so much

so! do you ever realize you're definitely going to get dumped but you're stuck waiting it out because you're not really in a position to do anything about it except sit there and deal with it

ofc you can always just. ditch the party.

this is playing off of the historical dynamic between sulla, pompey, and crassus because sulla sure loved playing favorites, and it was never crassus. however a man doesn't need to be a favorite to make use of him, etc etc and favoritism doesn't last forever, but I'll get into that later

Sulla: The Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson

Plutarch, Pompey

#bad governance the series #republikang romano remixed #komiks tag #i am so. sleepy. right now #anyway i was blocking out the years and i realized that i needed to actually pay attention to who was what age #especially with cesar #but also with crasso's career trajectory #since he was originally planning on becoming a lawyer but SOMEONE ruined that for him so he became a teacher instead #and then decided pivot over to businessman for a bit (in sugar ofc) before going back to politics #THEE ideal crassus-pompey song is hatef--k by the bravery btw

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katabay · 10 months

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At any rate, from this or some other cause (Augustus) became ill, and sending for his associates, he told them all his wishes, adding finally: "I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble." He did not thereby refer literally to the appearance of its buildings, but rather to the strength of the empire. Cassius Dio 56.30

ALRIGHTY SO I actually decided midway through this scene to re-do the entire thing to parallel an earlier scene where two men make a promise to each other that has horrifying after consequences for everyone else (because when those in power make deals for their own gain, it's people who never had a say who suffer for it)

this was like, 70% finished when I decided to rewrite the scene, so I'm posting it anyway bc I still kind of like it. meet Vipsanio and Octavio! (based on the historical Octavian and Agrippa)

so while I'm ultimately scrapping this scene, I do think there is something fun to what resembles a love confession to a childhood friend while waiting for a late night bus manifesting later as something truly awful. like, this looks like a confession of love and a promise of devotion, but what it actually is: a promise to inflict whatever violence octavio wants onto whoever gets in his way.

what I'm saying is that vipsanio is going to be the executioner to octavio's future EJK reign of terror (with anthony, since that'll be the narrative arc paralleling to the historical octavian and mark antony's use of proscriptions)

#republikang romano remixed #komiks tag #terrible terrible people #diktador dynast arc 😐 im not. saying. there are modern political parallels with dictators and their sons i am thinking about #but. well. WELL YOU KNOW. (head in hands)#like to be clear vipsanio IS in love with octavio but that redeems no one. love was here and it made them WORSE #bad governance the series

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katabay · 11 months

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a gritty filipino drama but it's also the late roman republic

you know how the iron heart has all their characters named the way they are? same idea, except I'm also speed running the narrative arc of the late roman republic and throwing it right into the crime/gangster genre

this "photo" of the three of them is probably a little bit haunted too, lbr.

#suerhdhghghhh I have been having. a Time™ these last few days. would love to Stop Having A Time™#Republikang Romano Remixed #bad governance the series

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katabay · 8 months

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crasso has +100% immunity to any and all rumors, but he draws the line at anything that might cause people to think that ciceron is the father of either of his kids. anyone else would be fine, but he draws the line at ciceron on account of Disliking Ciceron So So SO Much

so!! I finished the first draft of bad governance! which means now I get to edit everyone's dialogue and sometimes during the course of editing, you come across a scene that accidentally sounds like a B plot to a teleserye (you know how they can get). like, I know i have to cut it from the final draft, but it can live on as a comic for my own amusement

the historical dynamic this is based on is extremely funny to me btw

Plutarch, Crassus

Publius Crassus - ‘optimus adulescens’ and his unfortunate career, Ireneusz Łuć

unintentionally this gets into some historical parentage drama, cicero made about publius' (peter, in this story) father being someone other than crassus

Plutarch, Cicero

(the running bit for bad governance is that no one is entirely sure what's going on with crasso's household. crasso calls marcus and peter his sons, but marcus rotates between calling crasso 'dad,' 'kuya,' 'tiyo,' and 'nanay.' no one in that house clarifies anything to anyone else.)

#bad governance the series #republikang romano remixed #ANYWAY that's where ive been for the last week #i had to do. research. on the government for a minute. and also pull up martial law records. this story gets. uh. grim in places #so we gotta. hold on to the levity while we can. (<< said by me. gripping the sink while staring into a mirror)#(bro i was doing research on a famine my mom lived through and i want the marcos admin 2.0 to walk into the ocean immediately)#you might also wonder what crasso's gender is if you follow along with my posting elsewhere. great question!#komiks tag

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katabay · 11 months

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to follow up crasso, pompeyo, and cesar: a "newspaper article" on cassio and brutus!

in a shoutout to both shakespeare and his historical counter part (regarding the thematic importance of his eye sight) cassio's got glasses! his eyes are sensitive to bright lights (fucking RIP buddy) so he wears sunglasses all the time. this is a surprise tool that will help us later. not him, tho.

EDIT: AH. It should read: a very public falling out. oh well! next time I'll proof read it, probably. I just wanted to draw Cassio 😔

#there's a food place in cebu called orange brutus and it cracks me up bc of the orange julius situation #thinking abt giving one of them a lip scar #porcia and tertulla are also in this! they are lesbians #similarly brutus and cassio are fucking #they've also broken up twice #Republikang Romano Remixed #bad governance the series

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brother-emperors · 9 months

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hello! just wanted to say that i love your republikang romano remixed comics! it's the way the politics feel deeply haunted i think, and also the really nice flow of visuals and dialogue

thank you so much!!! real talk tho, politics ARE so haunted

#it's just repeating cycles of violence #I think a lot abt the senate hearings (PH for everyone who forgets there are countries besides the US) earlier this year #and since im FROM there it was like. I knew abt it. but it kind of felt like sitting in a graveyard u kno.#where people unearth the wrongs that have been going on for decades that got buried under fear and violence #just a load of ghosts and bodies and buses of missing people and shallow graves all the time #all the political disappearances the govt wont acknowledge. the ejks.#its just a terrible haunted fucked up torment nexus machine for real #(narrator voice: and for some reason he decided he wanted to draw comics abt the torment nexus machine)#ask tag

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