Due to the fact i wasn't the crown prince but a spare i always felt like less significant than my older brother and it was proven when i sneaked out of the palace and got kidnapped by a crew of pirates and my parents haven't sent out a search because they still had my younger brother as another spare.
The pirates of the Red spider ship were cruel to me but they didn't sell me as they planned to instead they made me scrub the deck and be the butt of every joke they had. It seemed they really enjoyed to have a defenseless prince to kick around because at first i could barely do anything and they laughed at my pale, soft hands. Their fun came to an end after two years i spent on their ship when the famous captain of Hecata and her crew raided their ship snd taken us prisoners. Now I was a double prisoner!
The crew almost immediately offered me in exchange for their lives as if i were a 'get free out of jail' ticket but she refused. She killed them all and kept me as if i was a nice prize cause i was a prince and possibly because she thought i was handsome. I still scrubbed the deck, ran around by their whims and got degraded but frankly now i got more fit so it wasn't as hard as before and also who wouldn't want to be bossed around by a beautiful pirate lady?
She made me her little prized possession that would run around to her whim but kept me safe from harm cause i sucked at fighting and to my surprise kept me well fed and gave me a big, thick blanket to sleep. Dont get me wrong, i was treated like a prisoner but not in a way that made me want to escape or die, maybe that was the point. Despite the humiliation i felt like i was some kind of a protected lapdog of hers.