Ahhh... the trifecta

[razielim]

Remember that time Rodrigo Borgia sold his son Cesare's soul to the devil in exchange for the papacy, and sweet loyal young Cesare had to grow up with a distant father who hated and feared him, and even tried to have him killed? And then Cesare grew up to be unnaturally handsome, charming, and talented and spitefully went on a big murderous campaign to conquer all of Italy, tormenting his father whenever he ran into him in the hallways of the Vatican? Hmmmmm, yeah I have a type.

Oh boy here we go. Raziel, Jason, meet your new brother. He's pretty much exactly like you, except with less patricide/fratricide attempts to his name.

Comments

[panisdead]

<3 <3 <3

Solidarity.

[razielim]

:D <3

[liriaen]

oh boy, here we go - impossible to evade the allure.

[razielim]

It's also been pointed out to me that they all dress in a lot of black and red. Maybe I'm a lot more simple than I thought.

[liriaen]

A classic combination of psychological drama *g* Nothing wrong with that! Cesare picked up the habit of black in France, and it suited his purpose; he was quite peacocky colourful before, that 1498 trip to woo his bride was a lot like a travelling circus sideshow. But afterwards... ahhhhh. Black, or sometimes shades of dark violet like bruises. :D

[razielim]

I don't know if I've ever really read that before, but wine-dark or occasionally peacocky was the impression I'd always had, aside from the cardinal robes. I think I just picked that up from reading Cantarella so I guess it seems she did her research on costumes very thoroughly.

It's only in AssCreed that he goes full RedBlack. But he's also the main villain there, so I'm not the biggest fan of AC Cesare. But also I have played the Renaissance Italy games like 50000000000 times each so its portrayals are enmeshed and impossible to ignore.

Speaking of cardinal robes, no one should ever look as hot, lithe, and dtf in them as Higuri draws Cesare. Even with the hat. It's simply unfair. All those people in fandom running around with priest kink don't know what they're missing in Cardinal Kink Land.

[liriaen]

Higuri did her research! Although Fuyumi is closer, with respect to local differences in dress, and also the cardinals' robes in Fuyumi are more accurate. Sadly so, because they're just massive swathes of cloth, and not very flattering - remember the Cardinals in the "Name of the Rose" movie, from the 80s? More like that. Higuri's cardinals robes may be a tad too 19th century BUT OH SO VERY HOT YES YES YES. *peers from behind hands*

[spiralicious]

I think I might need to read this.

[razielim]

If it didn’t age well, don’t come after me! Also, fair warning that it might look deliciously gay in some parts but those are all typical 00s era lies.