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Glam Gladiatrix by Nho Eskape

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American Citizenship Gladiator.

Jesus fucking Christ. I wish all their violent delights violent ends.

Maybe like a Spartacus/Maximus style scene where the gladiators inspire a rebellion. That'd be neat.

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A scene of gladiatorial combat: a murmillo (gladiator equipped with a Roman sword [gladius] and shield [scutum]) does battle with a thraex (gladiator armed in the Thracian style, with a curved sword [sica] and small shield [parmula]). Roman terracotta oil-lamp, artist unknown; ca. 130-200 CE. Now in the Louvre.

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Elaborate lighting, holograms, and cutting-edge visual and sound effects recall the lavish games that were commissioned by Emperor Titus.

“Time travel might still be a thing of the future, but the Colosseum’s brand new multimedia show comes pretty close. Dubbed Sangue e Arena, the production evokes the inaugural games that unfolded in 80 AD to celebrate the completion of the world’s most famous amphitheatre.”

“Elaborate lighting, holograms, and cutting-edge visual and sound effects recall the lavish (and often gruesome) games that were commissioned by Emperor Titus and boasted gladiatorial combats, naval battles, and animal fights, all of which took place within the Colosseum and will be recreated in the immersive spectacle. It’s slated to run every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 27 October of this year.”

An ancient stone relief from the 2nd – 3rd century AD depicting a gladiator fight has been discovered by archaeologists in the huge Ancient Roman city of Nicopolis ad Istrum, whose ruins are located near the city of Veliko Tarnovo...

What’s particularly interesting about this relief is that there are two types of engaged combat on it, one old, one newer.

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Would being forced to be a gladiator be considered some sort of torture? What sort of lasting effects may stay with them??

What people consider tortureusually depends on who you ask. Legally speaking whether something is tortureor abuse depends on who does itrather than on what is done. I’vewritten a little more about the legal definition of torture here.

Legally speaking beingforced to be a gladiator could beconsidered torture, but only if a government or state body was responsible fordoing it.

What regular peopleconsider torture is…….a lot more varied. Unfortunately an awful lot of peoplecan and do accept torture. A lot of people are in favour of it.

If you think thissounds impossible consider things like- oh people excusing police officersbeating up homeless people or using pepper spray against drug dealers who areunarmed and have surrendered. Or all the politicians and journalists whoexcused, belittled and justified the torture of suspected terrorists.

Or hell look up thecurrent Reuters reports on the Philippines’ war on drugs.

I would say that forced gladiatorial combat is torture andslavery. So would Amnesty International. But it would be perfectly realisticfor your world to have characters who don’t think it’s ‘really’ torture.

In terms of physicaleffects think of it as forced labour. Essentially it is.

The exact risks dependon exactly how you’re imagining this in your story. Obviously they could beinjured, but the most likely injuries are going to vary depending on whatthey’re fighting.

A lot of the Romangladiatorial fights were against animals. Some were against humans. The fightswere often uneven with one group outnumbering the other or one group being moreheavily armed and armoured. So injury patterns are going to depend on whatexactly your character was fighting and whether the character was more often inthe group that was ‘supposed’ to win or the group that was supposed to lose.

Realistic long terminjury effects could be pretty varied as a result. I’d say that chronic pain,joint problems and mobility problems are probably all quite likely.

In terms of long term psychologicaleffects it’ll be exactly the same sort of symptoms other torture survivorswould experience. Ihave a post on the most common symptoms here.

Not everyoneexperiences the same symptoms and there’s no way to predict who will get whatsymptoms. So I suggest picking symptoms in a way that best fits the story.Think about the character and what sort of symptoms you think ‘fit’ them. Thinkabout the story itself and whether particular symptoms might fit thematicallyor add to the plot later on.

Survivors of the kindof long term series of traumatic events you’re talking about would havemultiple symptoms. I usually say a minimum of three but it does vary and thelonger your character was enslaved the more symptoms they’d be likely to have.

I also usually suggestusing memory problems if you can because they’re a very common symptom and onethat’s almost never shown in fiction.

Depending on how thesociety the character is in treats ex-gladiators they might also beparticularly prone to social isolation. Basically if the world you’re writingsees gladiators as bad people the character might find themselves extremelyisolated.

I’d suggest not using suicidal urges in this case,for the simple reason that any character who was suicidal while they were agladiator would have so many opportunities to kill themselves that it seemslikely they would have.

You might also want totake a look at myMasterpost on starvation. A lot of enslaved people historically and now areunder fed. This can cause its own set of problems both physical andpsychological. It’s not necessary forthe kind of story line you want to tell but it’s something to be aware of andconsider.

You might also find ithelpful to look through the Masterposts generally: there are a couple ofprofiles of famous torture survivors there and a lot of reviews of torture in fiction with both good and badexamples.

I hope that helps. :)

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