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The answer to the poll!
Don't click on the cut until you've read my previous entry and voted in the poll.
So, who was that mysterious man?
YES. A shoujo version of Julius Caesar.
The complete historical revisionism in the Cleopatra story as told in One Thousand and One Nights made my BRAIN HURTY.
So, who was that mysterious man?
YES. A shoujo version of Julius Caesar.
The complete historical revisionism in the Cleopatra story as told in One Thousand and One Nights made my BRAIN HURTY.
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I couldn't take him seriously at all with all that floaty hair and good-looking stuff going on. XD And Cleopatra being kind at heart! And her brother Ptolemy being a sweet kid led astray by his advisor!
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You know what would make him hotter? Glasses!
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Cleopatra and Ptolemy are two nice, sweet siblings. They are married, so they can jointly rule or some such, but don't consummate the marriage yet. At some point, Cleopatra tells the story of Isis, pregnant with Horus, searching for the body parts of her husband so she can put them back together (IIRC, that sequence of events is out of order :). Caesar and his hair show up, and he is taken with Cleopatra's beauty, but nothing happens and I think Cleopatra declares her love and loyalty for Ptolemy.
Ptolemy falls under the spell of his eeeevil eunuch advisor and starts mistrusting Cleopatra and eventually has her banished, although he feels really bad about it and cries prettily. Caesar shows up again, asking where that real gorgeous sister of Ptolemy's is, and I forgot exactly how Ptolemy explained it.
Cleopatra is, naturally, upset about all of these events because she is nice and sweet and good and loves her brother!husband. She has herself delivered in a chest to Caesar, explains that Ptolemy is under the spell of the advisor, and offers herself to Caesar in exchange for getting her back into the palace and getting rid of the advisor. She strips, they embrace, fade to black.
She's back in the palace, Caesar beats up on the advisor, explaining to Ptolemey that he's to blame for listening to a eunuch in the first place. Cleopatra and Ptolemy go to bed. Ptolemy assumes that Cleopatra banged Caesar and is upset about that, and ... it's a fine line between rough sex and rape in this particular case and it's rather hard to tell which is intended, especially because Cleopatra is willing. It's manhwa, what can I say? The next morning Ptolemy sees Cleopatra's virgin blood on the sheets and is confused. He confronts Caesar, who explained that Cleopatra did indeed make the bargain to bang him, but part of the bargain was that she refused to bang Caesar until her brother had taken her virginity.
I don't remember exactly what happens next, if Ptolemy ends up dead, as he does in history, or not. Caesar and Cleopatra get it on shortly afterward, and Caesar sails away some time later, after Cleopatra's child (misspelled "Caesarian" instead of "Caesarion" in the text) is born. The tale ends there, as the narrative says that although the world and Caesar thought that it was his son, Cleopatra knew the truth, that it was really Ptolemy's son, Horus.
And at that point, cue the mad Sultan being snarky, as he usually is. :)
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What a blond, blond, cat-eyed Roman that is.
Totally going back in time now to get some of that imperial action.
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"I am Genjo" prompted much snickering ;)
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JULIUS CAESER: my hair looks good today
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Not that he had much of a compunction about killing people anyway, so perhaps that's not saying much.
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...I need to get this manhwa.
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