Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (died 44 BC), simply known as Julius Caesar, was the last ruler of the Roman Republic. He wound up as an anachronism in Aruba, 2017, before being returned to his time in Rome by the BSSSD.

Biography

When Julius Caesar was young, he was kidnapped by pirates in exchange for an expensive ransom amounting to 50 talents of silver. His parents paid the price, but not before Caesar declared to his captors that if he was to be freed instead of being killed, they would see him once more to not only take back his silver, but to also crucify them one by one. He was released and when he was capable enough, he delivered on his promise to the pirates.

At some point in time, Zekiel served as one of the assistants of Julius Caesar, who in turn most likely caused the Gallic Wars. Caesar's conquest of Cisalpine Gaul had cost him eight years and the countless deaths of his centurions.

Displaced

Before Caesar's famous march on the Rubicon, Pompey declared that he would take Caesar's head off for going against the Senate of the Roman Republic. In 49 BC, he and his army set up camp in Gaul to prepare for the march. On the night before their departure, Julius Caesar wore his full armor and rode on his steed, when he suddenly found himself on a beach in 2017. This was a result of the BSSSD's

accidental creation of a time storm, resulting into the displacement of Caesar in Aruba, 2017 as an anachronism.

Speculating that he ended up on the beach due to the mischief of the goddess Até, Caesar approached Zack Martin and declared his eventual conquest of the known world. Annoyed, Zack abducted Caesar, tied him up on a chair in his casita, and called Heather Davenport to fill her in on his situation. After Zack exclaimed in dismay on his Caesar salad (who referred to another Caesar), Julius Caesar told his story of when he was abducted by pirates, and later, crucifying them for sparing his life. He used this story to threaten Zack to just get his life over with, before he offered his satchel of gold to Martin, but at the cost of the captor's life. Zack grabbed the satchel from his hip, when the coins fell on the ground and Caesar used the opportunity, as he stood, to hit Martin. He bested his captor and escaped from the casita.

Later afternoon, he was found by the BSSSD attempting to rally a group of Roman soldiers, unaware they were simply a fraternity dressed in togas. He was about to lead his "legion" into battle when they were distracted by their Upswipzapp on their phones. Reluctant to lose to a woman, he was ironically and temporarily incapacitated by Heather and was incarcerated on the Waverider, with Zack tempted to break Caesar as he broke Zack's nose.

When Heather entered Caesar's holding cell, the general asked if the captain would either gloat or grant him the mercy of taking his own life, as being outmatched by a woman nagged him, to which Heather was otherwise interested in neither choice. Feeling that Heather doubts her present course of action and/or she left her decision up to the Three Fates, he tried to get a rise out of her by enumerating his accomplishments and aspirations, and thought that Heather would make a fine queen, who begged to differ.

When the Waverider was deemed fully operational by Naldo Jr., the BSSSD flew to Cisalpine Gaul, 49 BC, where Heather and Sander Heywood placed him on the day right after he was displaced. After using the memory flasher on Caesar, Sander took a quick selfie with him, and unbeknownst to the captain and the historian, had his book titled Rise of Rome stolen by the general, which contained information on the ancient Roman empire, and that the memory flasher did nothing to Caesar. He learned about his assassination in the chapter titled "The Ides of March" and planned to kill two of its biggest conspirators, Cassius and Brutus, before they could assassinate him.

Magna Hesperia



A map of Magna Hesperia.

Aberrant timeline: Thanks to the knowledge from the book Rise of Rome, Caesar was able to empower ancient Rome to such extent that the Roman Empire never fell, and went to conquer the known and unknown world, with his conquest of Magna Hesperia, a Roman-colonized territory of North America that was originally supposed to become the United States, as one of his greatest achievements.

Current timeline: Prior to his march on the Rubicon, Julius anticipated interference and, thus, set a trap by emptying his camp, leaving Rise of Rome on a table in his tent. When two Time Bureau agents led by Brandon Frangipani arrived to retrieve the book, Julius ambushed the trio outside the tent, managing to capture Frangipani while her compatriots fled through a portal back to the Waverider. Deciding to spare Frangipani, Julius held her captive as he began his march towards Rome, only to be attacked by the BSSSD. At the end of the battle, Julius was knocked out by Martin as payback for breaking his nose. Afterwards, the Time Bureau erased the memories of Julius and his army, averting the alternate timeline.

The Rubicon and the civil war

Presumably due to his defiance towards the Senate, Julius Caesar's and his legion's march on the Rubicon ignited a civil war.

Mallus's servant

After the demon Mallus escaped from his his prison, he imbued his powers to Caesar, Freydis, and Blackbeard, making them his worshippers. Mallus sent them to the town of Salvation, North Dakota, 1874, where the three confronted the BSSSD and town sheriff Jonah Hex and gave them their ultimatum for the surrender of the six totems in exchange for sparing their and the townspeople's lives, to which the totem-bearers declined, before Blackbeard declared their return in the following day during high noon.

The next day, the three arrived with their armies of Romans, vikings, and pirates to find Heather holding all six totems, before she turned tail and rode on a horse. Caesar declared war upon the town and went into the nearby tavern with his men, where he battled Zack once more and got his nose broken as karma, but was replenished by Mallus's power a few minutes later. After Mallus finally arrived near the town, Caesar and his allies all stopped fighting and bowed in reverence to their new god. Their power from Mallus disappeared after the six totem-bearers defeated the time demon. Caesar, along with Freydis and Blackbeard, was brought to the Time Bureau by Time Bureau Director Brandon Frangipani and Naldo Montoya Jr., had his memory of the incident wiped, and was returned to his time period.

Dictatorship

At some point, Julius Caesar became the dictator of the Roman Republic.

On March 15, the day known as the Ides of March, 44 BC, Caesar was travelling in the capital when Brutus, Cassius, and several other Senators mobbed Caesar and killed him at the Theatre of Pompey, ending his reign.

Legacy

The Ides of March became notoriously well-known for his death in 44 BC. Caesar's death precipitated the end of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. His autobiography was admired by many for his military and political prowess. Caesar became known in pop culture such as within the expression, "Great Caesar's ghost!"

Personality

Julius Caesar was a man of great pride and megalomaniac ambitions, seeing fit to conquer the whole known world regardless of the location or the time period he was in. His pride was hurt greatly after being defeated by a woman, though seeing as she later sought his advice his opinion changed on trying to make Heather Davenport, the "Amazon warrior" that she is, into his empress to conquer the world with. Julius was unrelenting in his ambitions and focus, refusing to give up, and giving the advice to do the same to Heather. He considered himself fair and truthful, warning his enemies of the impending revenge should they let him ago after a wrongdoing he suffered at their hands.

Abilities

Genius level intellect/Master tactician/Leader: Julius was a man of high intellect, able to become a Consul of Rome, leading its armies, and later take over as a dictator. Even stuck in a foreign place at a different time he was barely distraught and ready to conquer a new world. Julius conquered many territories, most notably Gaul, and took on Rome itself despite the orders of the Senate. Using his experience with taking risks he was able to advice Heather on how to deal with the Time Bureau. Aside from the knowledge of strategy, he was also a direct tactician, baiting the agents of Time Bureau into a trap and capturing one of them.

Indomitable will: Julius never gave up under any circumstances and always sought to take revenge on his enemies. Stuck between a seemingly impossible choice he pressed one, ready to risk everything.

Skilled swordsman: As a member and leader of the Roman army, Julius was trained in swordsmanship, though not on the level of a League of Assassins member, leading to his defeat at the hands of Heather..

Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Julius mastered unarmed combat to such a level that he was able to escape his bounds and to ground Zack Martin, who is a master fighter in his own right, even when Zack had dominated the Roman leader during most of the fight. But he was easily beaten by Heather Davenport and later defeated by Zack in a single punch during their second clash and also got his nose broken. In his third confrontation with Zack, he was easily beaten by the pyromaniac.

Former abilities

Temporal linguistic dysplasia: Due to the nature of anachronisms caused by time travel, Caesar was able to flawlessly speak modern English while in Aruba, 2017, a language that did not exist in the times of Ancient Rome.

Knowledge of future history: Picking up Rise of Rome, Caesar was able to correct his mistakes by seeing how history would unravel.

Equipment

Roman military armor: Caesar wore this whenever he went to war.

Sword: Julius Caesar mainly used a sword as his weapon.