#dysfunctional otp

“Please,” he whispered. “Do not pity me for this last turn of fate. Remember all the good fortune I had, for many years, and that I was the most powerful and illustrious man in the world. And even now I have not fallen ignobly.“

“Yes,” I said, through my tears. They were blurring my vision of his face, while he still lived and his lips still moved. “No. You have been given an honourable death. The Gods granted you that one last gift.“

Per it being Mermay (oh god) I’m digging through stuff for Oath so I can work on it! Alas a lot of older stuff was from before Pearl’s redesign, so... feels weird including that? 

They shared a hunger for life. Excess was for both Cleopatra and Antony a natural, joyful expression of that hunger - whether making love night and day, feasting on impossible rarities, giving each other fabulous gifts or just playing the fool. Their appetites were well matched, their ambitions on a similarly grand scale, and instinctively they responded to one another. Nobody else would ever be as close to either of them as they would become to the other, although the mutual realization of that truth still lay some way in the future.

“I love her”

“I know, and I’m sorry for you. It means there’s no saving you”

“From what”

“I love her”

“I know, and I’m sorry for you. It means there’s no saving you”

“From what”

Cleopatra/Caesar’s a pretty simpleish answer, found in quotes from Stacy Schiff’s excellent Cleopatra biography:

Caesar was very nearly deified in the last years of his life. Cleopatra was born a goddess.

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To those who lined up for a view, on shore and along the causeways, Caesar and Cleopatra represented not a romance, but a sort of magical apparition from another world, the earthly visitation of two living gods.

Cleopatra was “Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator” aka Cleopatra the Goddess who loves her father. She (And most Ptolemaic Queens) were heavily associated with the Goddess Isis. 

Caesar was, in fact, deified after his death.

Hence “OTP Gods that are way better than you”.

Coin of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, dated to a year or so before their suicide.