Caesar Britannicus?

We're busy doing the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman Emperors in my one class, and I discovered that Claudius had a son by his wife, Messalina(?). However, after Messalina was executed, he married Agrippina the Younger who schemed to get her son adopted by Claudius as heir to the throne. That boy was Nero.

Messalina's son died (supposedly of poisoning a few months into Nero's reign) and shortly before his toga virilis. Now my question is, what if Claudius had a) lived long enough that Britannicus (Messalina's son) was of age to succeed; or b) if Claudius had married one of the other possible candidates proposed as Empress after Messalina was divorced, and either way Britannicus were to still become emperor?
 
Someone conveniently recently started a timeline on tuis called "in the name of Rome: or brittanicus lives"

Anyway, brittanicus was poisoned by Nero when agrippinq threatened to support him for emperor. She made her move too early and that's why he was poisoned right before getting his toga virialis.

Have agrippinq wait until he receives his toga of manhood, and then can ice to make him emperor and Nero has a serious problem on his hands because agrippina can act immediately for brittanicus had some significant support.

Titus would stand to benefit a lot as well as his father Vespasian. Titus was friends with brittanicus growing up.
 
We're busy doing the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman Emperors in my one class, and I discovered that Claudius had a son by his wife, Messalina(?).
Well, Messalina had a son, anyway: Considering the rumours about her lifestyle, there were probably doubts about his true paternity...
 
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