[Community Challenge 23] Mad Royalty

Theme

We all know the trope: Kings, queens and other royalty gone mad with power or just not right in the head. Ruling over a compliant court who will humor their liege in whatever way they can or risk losing their heads.

This weeks challenge is for you to come up with an emperor, king, queen, prince, princess, duke, etc. who has gone completely bananas and is abusing their power in some eccentric way. Just to be clear, this is not meant to be a bloody or violent challenge. Any king is happy to torture or execute his subjects, but only a mad one will order his duke to stand in a tub of molten cheese for an entire afternoon.

In other words, it’s silly, don’t take it too seriously :)

Midjourney prompt for post image:

a mad king with a bird obsession, wearing feathered garments and a golden crown, sitting on his throne, in a throne room filled with birds and stained with bird poo, guards in bird costumes stand to attention in the background --ar 4:3 --v 6.0

Rules

Follow the community’s rules above all else
One comment and image per user
Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

Prize	Points
Most upvoted	+3 points
Second most upvoted	+1 point
Theme is clear	+1 point
OP’s favorite (me, this week)	+1 point
Most original	+1 point
Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote)	+1 point
Prompt and workflow included	+1 point
Creative abuse of power	+2 points

Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points
Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

And that’s the end of this challenge! Congrats to @Deceptichum for winning this round!

Normally I’d write a personal reply to everyone but I’m feeling a bit down and under the weather. I just want to say thank you to everyone who participated. I enjoyed receiving all of your submissions and I hope to see you again next challenge!