ꜰᴀɪʟꜱᴀꜰᴇ ✧ odin ras petrakis

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It's normal for a Royal family to have many children.

It's normal for the youngest of them to both matter the most, and not at all.

Incubated within the embers and ashes of war, Odin Mikhail ras Petrakis was brought into the world as the final child of King Aristdis rei Petrakis. 
Born shortly after the King's death, the young Prince never knew his father. 
Born the last in line of the Crown branch of the family, he had been told for the entirety of his life that his existence was to serve his brother as King.
It wasn't expected that he would ever rule; With the difference in age between himself and his Brother, as well as the two Sisters ahead of him, it was obvious that any claim to the throne would go to Alexander or Alice's children before it ever went to Odin. 
But -

This is a time where Esshar was wracked with war, with strife, with death and with loss. It was completely possible that he could one day take the throne - That one day, everything in regards to this Kingdom could be in his hands. 

Keeping him locked away for the most of his life was, effectively, a failsafe. Kept inside the castle walls, the young Prince had a flurry of overprotective guards who were tasked with keeping every drop of Blessed blood inside of his body. 

While his older brother was groomed since his birth to rule, Odin was to serve. Loyalty and devotion to his Future King was drilled into him until the thoughts of Alexander's life taking all priority over his own were natural. At the same time that he was ready to die for his brother at any time, the thoughts that he must live in the case that the Petrakis Dynasty needs his body were sewn into his skin with gilded thread.

If a Prince is kept stupid, naive, in love and subservient — He's kept as a fool-proof failsafe in the case that his King falls.