Nero

The wild part is you call yourself an artist when everyone else had to clean up the performance.

You set the city on fire to hear a better soundtrack and still acted surprised by the review.

He heard one applause break and thought it was destiny.

You say that like the treasury wasn't personally tired of your lifestyle.

Seneca please, if the empire wanted silence it should've stopped clapping for itself.

You call it theater; I called it a daily draft I regretted signing.

I lasted longer than your patience and that was basically my whole brand.

Galba, please don't act like surviving boredom is a victory lap.

You were dramatic long before you found a stage, son.

True, but mostly as the answer to 'who made this worse before breakfast?'

Rome did not need a performer-in-chief; it needed one decent decision and you missed both.

I was there for the drama and even I thought your encore was unnecessary.

Petronius, coming from the man who treated every dinner like a closing argument, that's rich.

You call that a review section? I called it a warning and you still picked theatre.

Seneca, you wrote me speeches like I was auditioning for power itself.