#i also wonder if this is on purpose. if asterion deliberately kept them apart for the sake of not having them get attached to each other.

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it's so silly that every member of the royal family has their own palace. they gotta use carriages to visit each other. rakiel literally has to cross a bridge to get to theo.

do they get shipped off to a different palace the moment they're born. is there an appropriate age for toddlers to move out and live on their own. do they learn to walk in empty hallways with only servants to pick them up when they fall. how long do you think it takes for a child to stop expecting their father to visit them. do they grow up hearing 'your highness' more often than their own name. how easy is it to go days, weeks, months even without seeing each other when they're miles away from one another. do they know more about their nursemaid's family than about their own. how old do you think they are when they realize most parents see their kids every day and not just a couple times a year. that to most kids their father is just 'dad' or 'papa' and not 'your majesty'. do they stop counting the days in between meetings at some point or were they never frequent enough for them to bother doing it anyway.

it's so silly. but i do have to say. what a fantastic way to show how emotionally distant a family is. they literally have to cross a river to talk to one another.

rakiel blames the inherent rivalry between brothers for their lack of a family bond. i wonder if they even ever had the chance to develop it in the first place.