If there's one historical figure I draw parallelisms with Caesar is undoubtedly Napoleon Bonaparte. I can perfectly picture in my mind a young Edward Sallow reading The Sorrows of Young Werther and believing that no one has suffered greater than him and that no one understands history and the human condition like him. Overall I imagine Caesar being a victim of his own dramatism, and his unrelenting narcissism. I imagine him during the years after the First Battle of Hoover Dam, haunted at night by what he did to Joshua Graham, only for that small spark of regret to morph into narcissistic resentment. Why did Joshua make him do that? Why must he suffer for other's failures? After all he'd done for him, how could he abandon him like he did?
I can even envision Caesar as he watches Joshua burn and being thrown into the Grand Canyon thinking "look what you made me do".
Now, before I draw some comparisons between Napoleon and Caesar, I have some Napoleon quotes that I feel could've come out of Caesar's mouth (and they may as well have done so, because I'm sure Caesar appropriates other man's words):
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
All authority is in the throne; and what is the throne? This wooden frame covered with velvet? No, I am the throne.
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
Besides their personalities, Napoleon was ragingly misogynistic, and his views of women and their role in society are not that different from what you imagine Caesar must've thought. There's of course the similarities regarding how both men rose in power thanks to systems they wished to destroy (Napoleon was a son of the French Revolution, and at the same time, the one who put an end to it, and Caesar wouldn't have been allowed to create the Legion if not for the nation he intends to crush as his ultimate goal) and how they were absolutely adored by the military class.
And finally, I totally imagine Caesar writing an angsty romance novel, the same way Napoleon wrote Clisson et Eugénie in 1795, but of course with Joshua Graham as the subject of that tormenting love. Something he kept as a secret but that he believes is the best piece of literature ever written, using convoluted metaphors in place for sex, and of course, being absolute trash if you were to read it.
PS: Not related to Napoleon, but I like to imagine that Caesar tried to read The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes at different points in life, and while he claims it's one of the most important pieces of literature ever written, he never managed to finish it, let alone understand it. He just knows that it has something to do with humans in a state of nature being dumb savages, and has quotes memorized when he wants to impress someone.
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