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Feliciano, on the other hand, is endlessly adoring of Romulus, so there’s nothing to worry about. He’s essentially this proxy for Romulus to appreciate the softer side of himself, which he allegedly destroyed when he killed Mamarce. I love this fucked up family.

Holy shit I just realized the implications of that for Lovino. Lovino wants nothing more than to be what Romulus was, but is impeded by his own inferiority complex, part of which comes from his perception that Romulus loved Feliciano more. So Lovino is trying to earn Romulus’ love posthumously without realizing that whatever love Romulus may have held back was because he saw too much of himself in Lovino. Thank you for making me realize this anon.

Revels in humans’ perceptions of him as a god and all the fantastical legends they attach to him

Terminally in love with Helena (Ancient Greece but more specifically Athens). He will do fucking anything for that lady he loves her so much. It’s very difficult for him to be apart from her for a long period of time because he feels like she’s the only one in front of whom he doesn’t have to keep up the whole act of being more than a man.

Side note on the above: writing Tears for Iphigenia (a fic where—without spoiling anything—Romulus is an absolute dick to Helena) DESTROYED me because I love shipping them so much. These two are my Odysseus and Penelope but if if Odysseus and Penelope were both extremely ambitious and kind of heartless at times and blinded by their pride and low-key dysfunctional as fuck sometimes

It’s just like Romulus thought in the Tyrrheniad: “What a fine wife she would make, he thought dismally, if they were both mortal and free of such troubles as plague or war.” (Chapter 10)

This is alluded to in a few of my fics, but was romantically fascinated by Carthage’s daughter, Iberia. This is the origin of the myth of Romulus and Dido

Just as well, Romulus’ murder of Mamarce is the origin of the Romulus and Remus myth

At once, he respects Germania and sees him as beneath him. I imagine Germania was captured at the battle of Strasbourg in 357 AD, lived as a slave to Romulus and worked as a bodyguard until he escaped in 410 during the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths. On one hand, Romulus admired him, thinking of him like a barbarian Sparta, feared and renowned for his strength and military prowess. Yet unlike Sparta, who declined and died without Romulus being a major factor in it, Romulus feels that Germania can never achieve the prestige he deserves because of how insanely powerful Romulus is. In any other age, he feels that Germania could have been great, but the stars were not in his favor, and so he was a slave to Rome. It’s like how Ajax would have been the Best of the Greeks in the Iliad if not for Achilles but I only say that because I have Madeline Miller on the brain.

As far as body type goes he’s got a nice mix of muscle and fat. Buff dad bod if that makes sense? (I cannot tell whether this is because I go feral for that body type or because I literally plugged my boyfriend’s stats in for Romulus when I wrote the wrestling scene in the Tyrrheniad since he’s the same height and also a wrestler)

Not a headcanon but shoutout to the wrestler boyfriend for how much he contributed to Romulus. Back when I was writing the Tyrrheniad I consulted him on everything from wrestling techniques to how it feels to be so terminally in love with someone (in Romulus’ case, Helena) that you feel like you’re gonna explode. Wrestler boyfriend is the unsung hero of this blog fr.

Wrestler boyfriend also says that Romulus would be an ass guy and not a tits guy and I can’t really argue with that

Feliciano, on the other hand, is endlessly adoring of Romulus, so there’s nothing to worry about. He’s essentially this proxy for Romulus to appreciate the softer side of himself, which he allegedly destroyed when he killed Mamarce. I love this fucked up family.

Holy shit I just realized the implications of that for Lovino. Lovino wants nothing more than to be what Romulus was, but is impeded by his own inferiority complex, part of which comes from his perception that Romulus loved Feliciano more. So Lovino is trying to earn Romulus’ love posthumously without realizing that whatever love Romulus may have held back was because he saw too much of himself in Lovino. Thank you for making me realize this anon.

Revels in humans’ perceptions of him as a god and all the fantastical legends they attach to him

Terminally in love with Helena (Ancient Greece but more specifically Athens). He will do fucking anything for that lady he loves her so much. It’s very difficult for him to be apart from her for a long period of time because he feels like she’s the only one in front of whom he doesn’t have to keep up the whole act of being more than a man.

Side note on the above: writing Tears for Iphigenia (a fic where—without spoiling anything—Romulus is an absolute dick to Helena) DESTROYED me because I love shipping them so much. These two are my Odysseus and Penelope but if if Odysseus and Penelope were both extremely ambitious and kind of heartless at times and blinded by their pride and low-key dysfunctional as fuck sometimes

It’s just like Romulus thought in the Tyrrheniad: “What a fine wife she would make, he thought dismally, if they were both mortal and free of such troubles as plague or war.” (Chapter 10)

This is alluded to in a few of my fics, but was romantically fascinated by Carthage’s daughter, Iberia. This is the origin of the myth of Romulus and Dido

Just as well, Romulus’ murder of Mamarce is the origin of the Romulus and Remus myth

At once, he respects Germania and sees him as beneath him. I imagine Germania was captured at the battle of Strasbourg in 357 AD, lived as a slave to Romulus and worked as a bodyguard until he escaped in 410 during the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths. On one hand, Romulus admired him, thinking of him like a barbarian Sparta, feared and renowned for his strength and military prowess. Yet unlike Sparta, who declined and died without Romulus being a major factor in it, Romulus feels that Germania can never achieve the prestige he deserves because of how insanely powerful Romulus is. In any other age, he feels that Germania could have been great, but the stars were not in his favor, and so he was a slave to Rome. It’s like how Ajax would have been the Best of the Greeks in the Iliad if not for Achilles but I only say that because I have Madeline Miller on the brain.

As far as body type goes he’s got a nice mix of muscle and fat. Buff dad bod if that makes sense? (I cannot tell whether this is because I go feral for that body type or because I literally plugged my boyfriend’s stats in for Romulus when I wrote the wrestling scene in the Tyrrheniad since he’s the same height and also a wrestler)

Not a headcanon but shoutout to the wrestler boyfriend for how much he contributed to Romulus. Back when I was writing the Tyrrheniad I consulted him on everything from wrestling techniques to how it feels to be so terminally in love with someone (in Romulus’ case, Helena) that you feel like you’re gonna explode. Wrestler boyfriend is the unsung hero of this blog fr.

Wrestler boyfriend also says that Romulus would be an ass guy and not a tits guy and I can’t really argue with that