Vesuvia Sabiniana Caesar (Deran)

Her Most Serene Imperial Majesty

The Constitutionale

Vispina Caesar (Grandmother)

Lucius (Grandfather)

Annia (Sister)

Verania (Sister)

Augustus (Brother)

Drusus (Brother)

Albania (Sister)

Lucretia (Sister)

Gallus (Brother)

Hirtius (Brother-In-Law)

Mettius (Brother-In Law)

Drusilla (Sister In Law)

Acilia (Sister In Law)

Spurius (Sister In Law)

Antonia (Sister In Law)

Julianus (Brother In Law)

Macrinia (Sister In Law) †

Macrinia Jr. (Niece)

Gallus Jr. (Nephew)

Quintus (Nephew)

Caius (Nephew)

Marcus (Adoptive Nephew)

Rufia (Niece)

Vagionia (Niece)

Drusus Jr. (Nephew)

Lucia (Niece)

Augustus Jr. (Nephew)

Primus (Nephew)

Cnaeus (Nephew)

Paulus (Nephew)

Vesnia (Niece)

Hirtius Jr. (Nephew)

Agrippa (Husband) †

Germanicus (Son)

Valentinian (Son)

Valeria (Daughter)

Gaius Novius (Son)

Flavonia (Daughter)

Octavia (Daughter)

Flavius (Son)

'Constantine' (Unborn Son) †

### Occupation

Imperatoria (2007-2102) {r. 95 years)Supreme Commander of the Legion of Mars (2007-2102)

Youth Legionary (2005-2007)

Student (1993-2007)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Jenna Coleman

**Vesuvia Sabiniana Caesar** is the 28th sovereign of the Empire of Lettonia, and has served as its *Imperatoria* since March 13, 2007, when her father, Varus Caesar, passed away. Young, intelligent and philosophical, Vesuvia has paved the way for continued Lettonian neutrality, and strength through pacification and peace. She continued attempting to cement her father's legacy via the Caesarian Reforms, and finally managing to push through the 2012 Constitution. She has overseen the steady transformation of the country into a moderate centrist state, the establishment of a small, localized sphere of influence, and the persistence of its neutrality in an ever changing dynamic world. Vesuvia is regarded as quaint, rather quiet, intellectual and political, and serves undyingly as a champion for her people, and fights for them with everything she has.

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## Early Life

Vesuvia Sabiniana Caesar was born around dawn, at the sun's first light on December 18, 1988. She was the eldest daughter of Imperator Varus Caesar, and his third wife, Varia, and despite Varus being 38, Vesuvia was his first child. However, she wouldn't remain an only child for much longer, as within the next seven years, Vesuvia would become the eldest child of eight. She adored each and every one of her siblings, and was very close with them, and her mother, given Varus was often extremely busy attending to matters of government-if he wasn't drowning his sorrows in wine that is. It is recorded that Vesuvia was an incredibly well mannered and well behaved child, as in her words to avoid agitating her father. When she was five, the family would move to the new palace in the new imperial capital of Vindelicorum. However, the family took a huge hit when her final sibling, Gallus, was born in mid 1996.

### Impromptu Maternity

Vesuvia's mother died shortly after the extremely perilous birth, leaving Varus to raise eight children all on his own, while juggling his vision for the Empire. He chose instead to disappear into his wine glass. While governesses did a lot of the heavy lifting, the seven year old crown principissa took on a role, helping out wherever possible. As she grew older she would take on a more direct role on raising her siblings. Part of it was allowed due to her young age, but even from the age of seven or eight, Vesuvia commanded respect from those around her.

Starting from the age of ten, she would organize her siblings school schedules, what lunches they were to be made, when and where they were to be picked up, and even went as far as arranging playdates with their friends. The governesses quite enjoyed the little delegations from the princess, even if in reality they made most executive decisions regarding the children, it reportedly gave the princess a feeling that she was helping.

### The Schooling

While this was happening, Vesuvia was handling her own growing pains and education. It was noted by instructors that the princess was fairly quiet, only had a handful of friends, and excelled in the fields of reading, writing, Latin, English, history and science-yet struggled repeatedly in mathematics. Luckily given her current trend of future careers, the subjects she thrived in were what mattered the most for the heir to the Lettonian throne.

As she became a teenager, she developed another core identity, which was that deep down Vesuvia was a hopeless romantic. She spent her younger years watching disney movies, about princesses falling in love with princes and living happily ever after. She hadn't exactly been informed by her father that love and marriage didn't work like that-and he had been married twice before marrying her own mother. So Vesuvia would go into middle school/junior high an optimist and got a slap in the face.

#### "Boy Troubles?"

Her first partner, whom she dated when she was fourteen turned out to be the typical middle school boy, and took advantage of her to gain popularity points with friends and family. When she found out he was in fact cheating on the literal heir to the throne (note, cheating is described in this sense as kissing another girl) she was heartbroken. However, her siblings and friends at the time hatched what could only be described as the most epic junior high revenge plot *ever*. By that, they found him asleep underneath the bleachers, cutting class and used hair removal cream to take off both of his eyebrows, which was only discovered after he woke up. The boy in question supposedly does not know who did the act to this day.

To be fair, if you're girlfriend is the little heir to the imperial throne, and you kiss other girls you frankly have it coming.

#### High School

As middle school and its seemingly world ending problems turned into high school, Vesuvia's problems seemed to triple. With her father's health declining, she was only fifteen and a freshman in high school when some nobles came to her, and informed her a decision had been reached to begin prepping her to take the throne. A horrified, and scared Vesuvia would begin taking politics courses in her school, and spent countless hours at night going over procedure. She would confront her father about his drinking, and in tears, begged him to stop, as she feared he might not make it to her high school graduation-much less to her wedding. Varus promised to stop and receive help...

He didn't.

The drinking only seemed to get worse from this point onwards, and his decision making became much more erratic and nonsensical. He experienced random abdominal pain, and refused to get medical help despite his children and family begging him to. Vesuvia's grades took a harrowing slump in her junior year as she struggled to handle the stress of her family life, school, and increasing demands from the nobility. Her only escape it seemed was her boyfriend, Agrippa, who was her third partner since she started dating, and the first one who genuinely liked her for who she was, not just for her money and status.

From 2005 to 2007, Vesuvia found another passion, alongside some of her friends and Agrippa: The Youth Legions. Also known as the military youth, it is an extra-curricular offered at most Lettonian high schools for students sixteen and older. Essentially it is a rigorous education and physical training course run by the Legion of Mars to train younger recruits, and discern who may in the future be qualified for proper military service. The members of the Youth Legion are, despite ceremonially being considered 'in the military' not qualified for service until they graduate high school, and are in fact, not allowed to. Vesuvia excelled in the courses, and despite being shorter and lighter than the normal requirements, competed hard to not only fit in, but to prove to herself in a time of self-doubt and lack of confidence in her teenage self, that she was strong in the physical, mental and moral sense.

By the end of her junior year of high school, and beginning of senior year, she was far more confident in herself and in her words, "Ready to take on whatever the world threw at her,".

Her senior year proved to be her most successful, with her partaking in after school theater productions, spearheading a tutoring program at her school, growing her friend circle, and maintaining her best grades, with a 3.75 overall GPA. She obtained her drivers license, and got a small part time job at a local movie theater, which must have been quite the surprise for any Friday night moviegoers. But she wanted to prove she was independent of her status, and that she wasn't some rare antique item who couldn't be interacted with. She succeeded in this regard.

However, seemingly overnight her life would change forever. On March 13, 2007, she went to school as normal. She talked to her friends, went to her classes, kissed her boyfriend, and then went to her history class to give an important end of quarter presentation. However, during the presentation, back home, Varus had collapsed due to sudden acute liver failure, a side effect of his liver and pancreatic cancer. Praetorian Guards rushed to the school, and informed Vesuvia while in the middle of her presentation. On videos now available on the internet, the eighteen year old girl began quivering and shaking as she was informed of her father's sudden death, and her just as sudden ascension to the Imperial throne. She managed to finish her speech, likely an internal coping mechanism before being rushed out of the room, and back to the palace.

## The Vesuvian Age

### The First Months

She was confirmed as the twenty-eighth sovereign of South Lettonia later that day, and she made a televised and radio speech to the nation regarding the matter. Many Lettonians remark hearing her quivering, worried voice and feeling concern. However, many were empathetic, understanding that the girl had just suddenly lost her father to the vicious disease of alcoholism, not an easy problem to mask.

Varus's funeral was held a week later in the Grand Tingitanian Cathedral, and the priests officially, even though by 2007 it was simply ceremonial, deified the former Imperator into the Heavens to rule alongside the Gods. Vesuvia shortly after selected her government advisors, council members and establish a basic policy plan, both foreign and domestic. She intended on continuing her fathers plan with the planned constitution to formalize the limitations on executive power, checks and balances, and lawfully ensure political and civil rights. The Constitutional Convention had been established in 1990, and was still hard at work. On April 2, 2007, Vesuvia would give them a deadline: December 31, 2011. Have the Constitution done by this point, or there will be consequences.

However, Vesuvia needed normality in her new life, and she decided the best way to do this would be to finish high school, and get a basic college degree. So, she delegated much of her authorities to her 79 year old grandfather Lucius, who was still in good health. In most cases, once she completed her homework after school, Vesuvia would spend the night eating dinner in her office, rubber stamping proposed bills or laws to move them forward in the legislative process-though most of her job was given to her relatives to handle, while she grasped the grips of politics.

Vesuvia would graduate high school on May 26, 2007 in a shockingly humble ceremony. Since by December of the previous year she had been accepted into a handful of colleges, she selected Vindelicorum Royal University, one of the finest and most prestigious in the nation. She justified attending college as her ideal degree was in political science, as a way to fine tune her skills and ensure she made the most well rounded decisions.

Vesuvia's official coronation was held on June 1, 2007 in front of the nation, as the now quiet, yet confident Imperatoria was properly sworn in to govern on behalf of the Lettonian people, nation, and under the watchful eyes of the Gods. She worked hard through the winter (Reminder Lettonia is located in the southern hemisphere, seasons are swapped) to ensure the government ran smoothly while she prepared for college.

It became noted during these months just how good of a multitasker Vesuvia was, and how cool under pressure she could be given the circumstances. She managed her undelegated governmental authorities, college preparations, helped her family, and maintained a healthy romantic relationship (to Agrippa), who in August she became engaged to. This multitasking skill would help many in the Lettonian government breathe easy. As she said in a television interview just before departing for college:

*"Actually I quite enjoy the multitasking. Because I'm always doing **something** you know? I'm always reading something, always writing, my hands are always busy, my eyes constantly on the move. I'm never not doing **nothing** and I think that instills a certain... robust work ethic,"*

### College

Vesuvia would begin her freshman year of college in September, and continue to prove her excellent work ethic. Her classes were specifically scheduled to fit her schedule, her needs and her requirements. Vesuvia would get up every morning at dawn, get dressed, discuss the days needs with her advisors over a morning cup of coffee, delegate who needed to do what, when and how, who needed to be where and so forth. Then she would take public transport (trains, subways, buses etc.) while under supervision of Praetorian Guardsmen. She would use this vital time, about twenty-six minutes from the palace to the university to discuss with locals, get their take on the current day to day running of things. She would hear their complaints, their requests, and ensure their voices were heard directly. This was all intentional, and it raised her popularity incredibly. After all, Vesuvia Caesar was never known to be random, even all the way back in elementary and middle school. She did everything with a plan, a backup plan, and five backup plans for her backup plans. She would then spend the day, from eight a.m to six p.m attending classes, and going around campus. She would be regularly spotted conversing freely with instructors and peers, getting their takes on current issues, *especially* in her political science department. To her, all voices had merit, and all voices should be heard, even if she personally didn't agree. Vesuvia had been taught that democracy was venerated, free speech was to be venerated, all people had equal and unbreachable rights. These were all lessons she continues to hold to a high standard for herself.

 File:Via Event.webp  Vesuvia would continue her education at Vindelicorum Royal University for the next six years, while juggling all of her other needs, and marriage and having *five* of her *seven* children. The woman was most certainly not to be trifled with. After all, how many people can remain sane and mentally healthy while obtaining their masters degree in college, raising five children, managing an extremely large and growing extended family, maintaining and nurturing a strong marriage and essentially being the head of the national executive branch? Most likely, not many.

Via would graduate with her masters degree in political science with a minor in economics in May of 2014. She did consider moving on to pursue a doctorate/PhD in political sciences, but chose against the option, preferring to settle in for a slightly less chaotic life. She is supposedly looking for a chance to continue this educational path if she go gets the chance.

### Marriage and Motherhood

As mentioned previously, Vesuvia became engaged to her high school sweetheart Agrippa in August of 2007, just prior to entering college. The couple would marry in January of 2008, during the beginning of her summer holiday in a lavish, yet humble ceremony in Cimbrica. The couple would go on a honeymoon trip to the tropical nation of Tennemagma, where developed a friendship with the soon to be Archduchess Mariana. Despite initial reservations and considering waiting to start a family, Vesuvia announced she was with child the following February.

So now the Imperatoria was working through her freshman year, assisting in running the nation and now her first of many pregnancies. She noted in later interviews that this first one was the hardest as she had never had to worry about the prospect beforehand. However she also remarked that her husband was always available to help, despite continuing his military service-as being the Imperatoria's spouse allows for a flexible schedule, which helped their relationship.

On November 6, born slightly prematurely was Princeps Germanicus, a healthy baby boy at around eight pounds in weight. Vesuvia would later say in a 2016 interview:

> *"I had to miss an exam that I had been studying for about three weeks for. But honestly, once I saw my beautiful Germanicus in my arms, I don't think I really minded all that much,"*
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Despite having the option to have governesses handle most of the work raising the new prince, Vesuvia and Agrippa insisted on active involvements in the mornings and evenings, especially as Agrippa did not sign up for another tour of duty. The parents wanted to be actively involved in their children's lives, to ensure they were properly educated in terms of manners, morality and religion. Vesuvia regularly said how she wanted humble children who were not raised with the platinum spoon in their mouthes, and that "Being royalty is no excuse for treating people around you like dirt,"

#### "A Model for Young Ladies"

Vesuvia and Agrippa would not have children for another two years, but when they did, she had twins. This time it was little Valeria and Valentinian, though the latter was born one minute and thirty-eight seconds before his twin, and loves to brag about it even to this day. Despite both looking like spin images of their father, they were not identical twins. Just shortly after Vesuvia obtained her bachelors degree in political science, Gaius Novius, her fourth child and third son, was born. This was in 2012. There would be a noted trend of skipping a year between children so the parents could adjust and acclimate to the new baby, before adding a new one to their quickly growing family. See, minus their initial reservations, both Vesuvia and Agrippa had long agreed they wanted a large family together, and they were fulfilling that dream. One thing they hadn't expected was the influence this would have on the nation's female population. Many began having larger families while pursuing more ambitious projects such as college degrees, higher employment and more. Vesuvia became a model of inspiration without her intending to for young women across Lettonia.

##### A Family Completed

Vesuvia and Agrippa would have two more children following the obtaining of her masters degree in 2014. There would be Octavia (2015) and Flavius (2016) became adored additions to the royal family, and the official 2016 portraits of the royal couple and their seven children were highly popular purchases. However, soon, multiple personal tragedies would slam the young Imperatoria (note she was only 28 as of the beginning of 2017) which would devastate her, her family, and everything she had been building since her ascension to the throne all the way back in 2007.

### 2017: The Disasters

#### The Baby

In March 2017, Vesuvia was pregnant with her eighth child, pre-emptively named 'Constantine' by the couple out of hope and admiration. At least... that was before a maid on the palace janitorial staff failed to leave out a sign warning that the quartz flooring had been recently polished. Vesuvia slipped, and fell. She was rushed off to the hospital, but it was too late. Her little Constantine had died in her womb just moments after she fell. The couple was devastated and many suggested she delegate her authorities to grieve, but Vesuvia refused. She threw herself into her work, with her promising to get to the grieving process and her husband trying to help her however he best could. However, Agrippa failed to live up to his promises.

#### The Husband

June in 2017 proved to be an incredibly cold month in Lettonia, and given it was the beginning of winter for the country, common cold and influenza cases spiked as temperatures fluctuated on a whim. One of these men would be Agrippa, who fell ill around the third week of June. He would refuse medical care other than cold and cough medication. Many didn't see a problem with this, as many Lettonians simply home treat the cold or the flu with soup, staying in bed, and relaxing. There was little to no concern from anyone in the royal court about his ability to recover, since Agrippa rarely drank, and had never touched a cigar or cigarette in his life, he worked out, had a healthy physique.

However, Agrippa did not get better. Three weeks passed before finally he was convinced to let a doctor see him, and the doctor would later recount from his notes a personal statement from the visit. (This is not known widely IC due to doctor-patient confidentiality):

> *"I think I've known something is wrong with me... the damn cold won't go away no matter what I do. I just don't want Via to worry-she's going through too much right now..."*
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The doctor would run multiple intensive tests on his respiratory and digestive system, and when the results came back, the couple learned it wasn't just a cold or the flu-or if it was it had become something much worse. Agrippa had developed a lower respiratory infection... if not caught early, the condition was known to be a creeping killer. Agrippa's lungs had degraded so much so quickly that the doctors immediately put him on life support, though both Vesuvia and Agrippa insisted on him remaining in the palace. However, they had discovered the LRI too late, and the doctors desperately threw everything they could to try and save him.

But by August, it was clear to quite possibly everyone except Vesuvia: Agrippa was dying.

Perhaps it was out of undying love and loyalty to her husband, or the desperation and refusal to accept the truth, but Vesuvia refused to make funeral arrangements, and she became more aggressive and snappy-even towards her children. She kept saying if he pulled through winter he'd be fine, and the warm temperatures would help him. But on August 30, 2017, Agrippa requested she sit by his bedside. It is unknown what was said in the room that day, but Vesuvia was found crying shortly after, Agrippa lying lifelessly on his bed, having died of cardiac arrest-a complication of his infection.

#### The Breakdown

Vesuvia tried to go back to normal, back to Congress, back to work. She threw herself back into it, ignoring all requests that she seek help and grieve properly from the double loss she had been slammed with. Her mind raged with confusion, anger and despair, all mixing together in a dangerous and destructive powder keg just ready to explode. All that was needed was for someone to unintentionally light the fuse, and the fireworks would go off.

That fuse was lit on October 3, 2017, which was a particularly heavy day in terms of activity from Congress, the judiciary and paperwork overall. Germanicus was struggling in school due to the loss of his father, and he had taken after his mother and not learned to grieve. So his grades had taken a slump which only made her more angry. On October 3, a boy at Germanicus's school who had been picking on other boys began targeting him, mocking his father for not taking medicine and his mother for 'acting stupid' (as school bullies like to do). The bully had been making fun of Germanicus for months, but he did not expect the boy to tackle him to the ground, and punch him repeatedly in the face until he broke his nose and bloodied his face. Germanicus was sent home for the act, and when combining this, and the half a dozen advisors and politicians lobbying in her office that afternoon, sent Vesuvia into a rage. She shouted down the advisors, yelled at her son, and barked like a rabid dog at the politicians, a first for everyone in the room who was used to the quiet, quaint Imperatoria.

A total mental breakdown ensued.

When the following day began and she attempted to return to work as if nothing had happened, the Praetorian Guard forcefully intervened, providing a doctors notice from her personal physician. An outraged Vesuvia attempted to circumvent the problem, so then the unthinkable happened, and for the first and likely only time in modern history, Congress held an emergency session. All 800 members of Congress unanimously voted on an order which dictated that Vesuvia was to take a vacation. Note, it was far from benevolent- her supporters sought to ensure they had a mentally healthy leader in the executive branch, and her opponents wanted Vesuvia out of their hair for a few months or so.

### The Vacation in Madeira

Vesuvia and her family (children specifically) would as a result travel to the Carigdosa Sea, where the royal family had purchased a lavish estate on the coast of the inland sea back in the 1990s as the economy began to re-sustain itself from foreign aid. She was orded to completely cut off from politics and simply focus on herself, and for the first time in over a decade Vesuvia found herself doing nothing at certain points during the day.

Her eight siblings would delegate and divide up her duties and authorities amongst themselves to further prevent the powers vested by the constitution into the executive branch from falling into one person's hands. Lettonians had suffered under autocracy and oppression for long enough, and those in office would ensure it would never happen again.

She would spend the next fourteen months on the Carigdosa Sea, learning new skills, and figuring out who she really was behind the persona she had constructed during her reign thus far. She learned that she loved to write, fish, cook, and found the act of cleaning quite stress relieving. She began daily mediation, a practice she still does to this day and she made time for her children. Her children once again began confiding in her, she was horrified to learn they had become afraid of such a thing, and she conformed her personality during her time away to how she truly wanted to be seen. She longed for the days when she was approachable, and people were more than willing to talk to her. She would later recount that those fourteen months at the Caesar's Carigdosa Estate were some of the best in recent memory as she rediscovered who she was, and how she could be the best public servant for the Lettonian people. However, the concern of the same Lettonian people was mounting, as she remained completely disconnected from social media, and shrouded from the public eye. Journalists and photographers who attempted to speak with her at the estate were politely turned away by the Praetorians. Many rumored she too had died, and it was simply kept under wraps. Many believed she too was sick, or that something else had occurred to keep her out of the limelight for so long.

### Return to the Spotlight

She returned without warning just a few days after her 30th birthday, on December 22, 2018 to make a public speech to the nation via Congress. The entire Congressional Assembly building was up in arms in surprise, welcoming, and confusion. Her address was relatively short, clocking in at around twelve minutes before she finally stepped back. The speech was about plans proposed by the Nova-Foederatii Party to roll back on incredibly popular civil rights reforms. She firmly endorsed the opposition to the initiative, stating that all Lettonians were required by law to have these rights, and the politicians proposing it who breaching the oath they signed when they were elected. However, the final four minutes of the speech were directed to the people, apologizing for disappearing for so long without notice. She stated her belief that she had failed them, and that she hoped deep down they would forgive her transgressions, and that over time, she could once again become the approachable, welcoming leader she had always aspired to be.

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#### Outpour

For the following four days, there was an outpouring of sympathy and warmth from the people. Letters were sent to the palace, thanking her for everything she had done for them, being the inspirational leader she was, and for standing up for their rights, their freedoms and their democracy no matter the cost. Vesuvia would receive over 8,000 letters, and hundreds of thousands of messages of social media. She would personally respond to as many as possible, but in the end, it was simply too many to logically answer. So on New Years Eve, she organized a live stream celebration across social media, where she responded to the rest and read more letters and messages. She shared a champagne with those watching as the clock struck zero to go into 2019. She continued through the night before the guards shut the stream down because she had literally fallen asleep in her chair.

#### Perception

It was exactly what the nation needed in this time from their leader, for them to realize and see that she got their messages, heard their voices, and strived to answer as many as possible. That she would speak to them from her home, share her family with them, share her experiences with them and most importantly that she didn't hide behind a cheap façade, or her wealth and status made her much more... normal in their eyes. She spoke to them without unneeded formality, almost as if she was just a normal person behind all the power and status. Many would remember laughing as they heard her swear while speaking. She spoke like a friend to the people, like how she wanted to be perceived. It was different then even the first few years of her reign and far different then Varus's reign.