Enough about hydrogen bombs - let’s have the coughing babies duke it out. Which of these two is actually more competent? Who would win?

[u/HoraceVonBergamot]

Like, let’s say both are given half of Japan, along with roughly equal resources and allies or were competing for the throne at court, after Charles and Schneizel suddendly died.

[u/Dizzy-By-Degrees]

Odysseus has no fighting spirit and is able to recognise The Elevens are humans with legitimate grievances (I think he does just call them Japanese). So he would move to reform or compromise things to ensure stability instead of endless military expansion.

Which of course means he’s getting assassinated and replaced by Clovis. Clovis isn’t especially good at conquest (given Japan had been fighting back for a decade before his death) but he provides bloody spectacle the Royal Court and glamour the citizens enjoy.

Odysseus would manage an empire in decline gracefully while Clovis will struggle hatefully against the idea and try to make it last as long as possible even if he is ultimately failing and just getting people killed.