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Is She Really Good at Persuading People?
She's just like incredibly good at acting as though what she wants is what the other person wants. She doesn't really use violence. She gets portrayed in the sources as killing women that she doesn't like, but she almost never uses kind of coercion within male spheres. So there's this whole big deal about her removing soldiers who she thinks are too loyal to Britannicus and putting in people who were loyal to her and Nero. If Claudius was doing this, he would definitely execute them. But she very cleverly kind of shuffle stuff around so that they get to go and be centurion somewhere else and they don't really lose any prestige or any jobs. And therefore nobody can hate her