Wheeze 'The diamond was lucky.'
Proceeds to say they were locked up by their own father, stripped of power, unable to eat by themselves, incest with own elder bro, sacrificed self.
Oh yeah. Super lucky.
@AtarashiSekai and @Gurgling I think it's meant as their power was luck. It was mentioned the empire was in a golden age after all so I'm guessing that emperor used the diamond eyed child to make the empire prosper.
@uraumi exactly what I was going to say. Yet another "the gay person is morally corrupt and a sexual abuser" trope... I don't even feel surprised or particularly disappointed since it's the default.
Anyway, you've already said everything I had, so I'll end there.
Okay maybe I'm blind but I didn't see anywhere that the demonized homosexuality. They just said that the prince was "Famous" for his homosexuality. That doesn't imply it was bad. Just that he was flamboyant about publicizing it. Basically he had sex with several villages worth of men to earn that "fame". It was a polite way of giving him the moniker "the village bicycle". They are implying that he didn't hesitate to rape his own brother and *that* was a terrible thing however. So yeah gonna give the author a benefit of the doubt here and say they were implying the church took issues with the raping of one's sibling not with the fact that he rode more guys than Jenna Jameson.