r/CuratedTumblr • u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr • 11h ago

Shitposting Trapped in the Prison of the Plot

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u/slasher1337 10h ago

I don't get that last one. Just kill the vizier

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u/Warprince01 10h ago

Notice how they couldn’t light the cigar on their own? Its a metaphor for how they now rely on the Vizier’s power. 

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u/RemoteAd7823 thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind 10h ago

Executing a key administrator immediately after a coup is how you get instability in your realm.

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u/jman12234 10h ago

The vizier is also not the point. The vizier is only an outgrowth of the system of betrayal and death the new king has found himself in. Killing him does nothing to fix thr problem.

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u/Asheyguru 10h ago

Sounds like something an evil vizier would say

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u/slasher1337 10h ago

Is vizier a key administrator? Cause iirc vizier is like a political advisor or a secretary. So it will make my job harder but thats it. As long as im smart with it. Executing someone for no reason would bring bad publicity. Faking a suicide might be best

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u/RikuAotsuki 8h ago

IIRC the vizier was basically the ruler's representative at times too, not just an advisor/secretary. "Evil vizier" wouldn't be a trope if it wasn't a role with enough importance/power to be a problem

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u/KrunkyKreb 10h ago

it’s just like reforming a presidential cabinet in the U.S…

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u/Pteraxii .tumblr.com 10h ago

That's every coup ever, though? They ALWAYS turn on the people who put them into power.

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u/really_stupidfrog 9h ago

Everyone knows that the key to stopping cycles of violence is by just killing another guy. Obviously once you kill one more guy it'll all be good to go. Well, after you kill just one more. 

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u/Zepangolynn 9h ago

This will only mark the narrative point of increasing paranoia and assassinations leading into your own dissolving sanity and eventual loss of power.

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u/odrain16 8h ago

Ah I see. Systematically killing/sending away 1 by 1 everyone that once helped you archive you current position, and with them goes bit by bit of your sanity, one spillage at a time; leaving behind a yawing abyss where Paranoia can make a beautiful nest.  All while you get increasingly more open panning shots of your throne room to represent you growing solitude

A classic form of the Villainous third arc breakdown.

Good taste sir, good taste

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u/Stretch2194 4h ago

Death begets death begets death