#ch: commodus

[levithestripper]

now why did no one tell me how hot commodus is in the first gladiator movie?????? y'all can keep ginger joseph quinn for yourselves i want HIM

[bloodywondersden]

Joaquin Phoenix as Emperor Commodus in Gladiator.

[griefprofiled]

-- NPC / CAMEO TIME

COMMODUS DOVECOTE

Younger brother of Clemensia by two years, the two siblings always had precious little in common. Straying from the expected career in Energy, by twenty-five he had snaked his way into taking over an entire company and became both an oil magnate and one of the most powerful men in Capitol. Using both his old name and old money, with his ambition and ruthless business acumen; he rose to become one of the kingpins of the city.

His friendly relationship with Snow, which is based more in high society requirement and a shared tilt towards the absolute mercilessness of similar personality type, even before his daughter married Aurelius Snow, meant he was far above the law in almost every sense.

Several victors have fallen prey to his capricious mood and paid for it, either with others lives or their own; the incident easily swept under the rug as his money runs half the city and he's smart about it, never targeting ones who are required by the propaganda machine in any true way.

Tacita's maternal grandfather, in the au where Capitol topples and the new games are run, he is one of the instrumental pieces on the board behind the crackdown against Coin; using his own granddaughter as pawn in order to secure the Capitol and the old order.