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

1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

2. One comment and image per user

3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

5. 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

6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

1. Dieselpunk
2. Goosebump Book
3. Deep Space Wonders
4. Fairy Tales
5. A New Sport
6. Monsters are Back to School
7. War and Peace
8. Distant lands
9. Unreal Cartoons
10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
11. Masks
12. Mascots
13. Old Gods, New Jobs
14. Winter Festivities
15. High Tech, Low Life
16. Character Limit
17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
18. Reel to Canvas
19. Cruelly Cute Characters
20. Retro Sci-Fi
21. Get Your Bard On!
22. Busy Bees: Animals with Jobs

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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!