&&. announcing his royal highness, ( ignác esterházy-koháry ), the ( 35 ) year old ( crown prince ) of ( slovakia ). he is often confused with ( henry cavill ). some say that he is ( conceited & meddlesome ), but he is actually ( ebullient & passionate ).
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the house of esterházy-koháry is what you would consider old. even on european standards. old and connected, drops of royal blood here and there, the members are 100th in-line for thrones even they don’t know of. and ignác is in the middle of it all as the next head of family. as the next king of slovakia.
in order to understand ignác, you have to understand the way the house of esterházy-koháry exists. their world is one of potential. the esterházy-koháry family could rule over three kingdoms. they could be a powerful dynasty. they could be feared. but there are tiny tiny little small minuscule details that make it not so. let’s take a look.
another branch of the family controls czechia and the relationship between second cousins is anything but warm. the boys of the family have habsburg blood running through their veins, blood that could have, under different circumstances, put them on the throne of hungary in the 1910s.
but now they “only” have slovakia and western transdanubia. and ignác, for one, is not certain that is right.
growing up ignác was often confused by the way things were. why a family that should have had control over certain regions did not have it. if the control passed down from father to son, why weren’t they holding the whole cake ? the confusion eventually evolved into understanding of history and politics — but the gnawing sense that it wasn’t fair or right remained. this lingering notion will become important later once we have inspected the dynamic between the two eldest boys of the esterházy-koháry family.
the bratislava castle was never quiet. the king’s family consisted of five rowdy boys. there was no chance of peace and quiet. ignác was by no means the worst but he had a bad habit of knowing exactly what to say to his siblings to make them ten times worse. a bit of teasing or suggesting an activity that he knew would get his younger siblings in trouble. as a child it was a way to test his capabilities and limits as a leader and as a teenager it was purely for his own amusement. in adulthood he still sort of keeps it up but now it’s just to see if his siblings have gotten better at critical thinking — he no longer lets things escalate far.
ignác and alexander were, have always been, are and will be a package deal. alexander barely needs to hear the first notes of ignác’s voice in order to know what he’s about to attempt. ignác barely needs to see alexander’s face to know exactly what his brother is feeling. their thought-processes differ greatly but they complete each other. where one lacks the ability the other makes up for it. ignác is skilled at seeing the big picture and predicting cause-and-effect while alexander knows exactly where to press and what to utilize to get the desired effect.
despite their different approaches to work, the brothers are definitely alike. they both easily wear a smile and they have a hard time saying no to adventures — and trouble.
ignác is fairly easy-going. he cares very little for the petty rules of conduct the royal world is full of. he will let things slide easily — never has he been in a situation where someone apologizing for their lack of tact has mattered. his laid-backness is often confused with humility when in fact it’s just apathy.
he enjoys people. he enjoys assessing them, he enjoys listening to them, he enjoys talking to them. all sorts of people. he tends to mold himself to fit each social situation. he knows his most authentic self can be too disruptive. for example, he doesn’t believe in useless pleasantries and exaggerated gratitude — but he will play along and dance to the other’s tune if he knows those things are important to the other.
he will never admit it, but he loves attention. maybe that is exactly what draws him to big crowds. it certainly is what makes him smile for the cameras. ignác has never struggled with the lack of privacy his title brought about. the perks were too massive to be overshadowed by something inconvenient. the paparazzi pictures have never stopped him from doing what he ( and sasha ) wants. sometimes slip ups happen and he says the wrong thing to the reporters — nothing rude but just something they cling to and misinterpret until there is a big story to write about. he might innocently praise a co-chair of an event and watch it turn into speculation of a romance. he might call a friend handsome and watch his sexuality be put into question. most of the stories leave him bemused. perhaps the only story he would have preferred to keep from the tabloids was a rumoured love triangle involving a woman and alexander. the questions regarding the situation were awkward and they were a bit too close to the truth.
ignác esterházy-koháry is a man of great ambition with an enabler of a brother. it is a very dangerous combination because he cannot recognize his limits and, frankly, there is no one to tell him what they are.
HEADCANONS
he received his ground education in bratislava, he did upper secondary school in western transdanubia to appease his mother, and proceeded to get his bachelour’s from the ludwig maximilian university of munich ( first for economics but proceeded to do a double degree, economics + political science ), he took a break from studying and then went to get his master’s degree in economics from the university of beijing
2006-2012: munich ( he took his time )
2013-2015: beijing,
he can speak slovakian, hungarian, english, german, czech and a bit of polish — the latter because slovakian is close enough and it required little effort to get the hang of them. he honestly is not that studious, he just likes to talk. a lot. so while he is rather shit at grammar, he can produce speech a lot in the languages he has dabbled in.
he has two holiday homes to his name, houses that are his and do not belong to the crown. one on the côte d’azur, near antibes, and one in bulgaria on the coast of the black sea. the one in france is for partying and letting loose, yachting and all that while the one in bulgaria is for peace and quiet.
