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borgialucrezia · 2 days ago

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we really don't talk enough about how cesare (who proclaims himself to be honorable) actually has an extreme level of self-absorption and narcissism. they jump out on different situations especially in his vindictive sexual harassment of the women he slept with for wounding his ego. like his abuse of ursula (who was deceived by his chivalrous façade) for leaving him and taking a will of her own vs. his aggressive grabbing of caterina's breast when she taunted him at his sister's wedding (shows that he's still bitter over her rejecting him at forli).

#i'm insane about every aspect of his personality and psychology like i loooove dissecting that side of him #bro could never handle any woman standing up for herself without turning to humiliation and asserting dominance i fear #like neil jordan clearly intended to romanticize him but arnaud's portrayal strives to make him more sinister and layered mwah #mind you cesare's darkness and hypocrisy is all francois' improvisations and we love him for it #the way i'm sooooo turned off by the fandom's persistent narrative of him but then i actually remember how he is and i go like...oh <3 #moslty because they have spent over a decade reducing cesare to a flat “hero” by stripping away his most interesting aspects #my preference for juan among the bros is not only bc his story is moving but also bc his characterization feels very authentic and raw #and by that i mean that his misdeeds are as fleshed out as his human side which makes him extra engaging #he also doesn't have a group of fans always yassifying him mostly bc he isn't “conventionally attractive”#even though neil's intention is to make him the unappealing foil to cesare initially #but shit gets real once you cast insanely talented actors with brains like david and francois #caterina sforza #ursula bonadeo #tw abuse #tw sa #the borgias #cesare borgia #tb text post

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