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YOUNG ROYALS 3.01 | 3.02

#besties #love them #young royals

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I love this fucking gif so much. Violence and killing and destruction

#😂😂

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#I expect every fic to have lip biting from now on btw #young royals #wilhelm young royals

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Fics That I Won't Write For Wille's Month But You Can If You Want To

Feel free to use any of these ideas, which vary in quality. 🤭 Maybe there's a good one? Who knows!

Sandwich

Wilhelm declares it to be the Month of Sandwiches: he makes a different kind of sandwich for Simon every day for a month and Simon rates them.

Summer

Wilhelm has an amazing summer with Simon but it's coming to an end. He says, “I wish this summer would never end,” and then when he wakes up the next day, it's the same day again, and again, etc, groundhog day style

Literature

Wilhelm studies literature in university and ends up teaching it back at Hillerska.

Revolution

The monarchy is abolished. Twenty years later, Wilhelm is interviewed about it.

Cooking/Baking

Wilhelm goes to culinary school with Felice and becomes a pastry chef in her restaurant.

Video games

AU where Wilhelm is a virtual reality video game character that Simon falls in love with (or the other way around)

Erik

Wilhelm finds Erik's letter to his future self.

Wedding/Engagement

5 times Wilhelm and Simon are guests at weddings and one time they have their own kind of wedding.

Riding

5 times Simon watches Wilhelm ride a horse and one time Wilhelm rides Simon.

Secret

Wilhelm nervously tells Simon about a secret fantasy he has. Simon is very much into it.

Future

Future Wilmon AU. Year 2222. Wilmon in space.

Social media

Maddie sends Wilhelm a link to a tumblr blog about the Swedish royal family. He has many thoughts and feelings about it.

Lake

Late in the summer, Wilhelm and Simon return to Hillerska to go swimming again in the lake.

Mental health

Adult Wilhelm starts a foundation to support youth mental health initiatives.

Fashion/style

Missing moment: the origins of The Pink Sweater and The Studded Jacket

Friends

Felice is going through a very tough time and good friend Wilhelm is there to support her.

Joy

Wilhelm is a new father realizing all the ways his son's childhood will be very different from his own.

Soulmates

Simon asks Wilhelm, “Do you believe in soulmates?”

Frogs

Wilmon have a baby and Wilhelm can't help but buy every tiny frog-themed item of clothing he can find. Frog onesies, frog booties, frog hats, etc.

Movie

Adult Wilhelm learns that someone wants to make a movie about his life.

Family

The first conversation Wilhelm has with his parents after driving away.

Party

Felice, Simon, and Sara organize a belated birthday party for Wilhelm at the karaoke place.

Freedom

Wilhelm and Simon go on a late night summer bike ride around Bjärstad.

Vacation/holiday

Wilhelm tries to learn Spanish in preparation for a trip to Venezuela with the Erikssons.

Hands

Simon watches Wilhelm do things with his hands.

Date

Wilhelm plans the perfect date but everything goes wrong.

Dream

AU where Wilhelm's dreams keep coming true.

Birthday

Missing moment: What happens to the gifts that Wilhelm flung about on his birthday?

Music

It's the 90s and Wilmon have been forced apart and now go to different schools, but they have a secret long distance relationship via letters and mix tapes.

Fantasy/fairytale

Simon has been turned into a frog by the evil wizard August and Wilhelm goes on a long and dangerous quest to lift the curse. He talks to Simon the whole time and Simon ribbits back.

#ooh i am already writing one of these! #love the others #young royals #willemonth2024

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#love them so much #young royals #yr s3 spoilers

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3x05

#evil #young royals #yr s3 spoilers

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The four parallel stories in YR - short version

In season 2, Felice gave up on the "royal" fullbred horse, just as Simon gave up on the royal family in season 3.

In season 2, Sara clung to Rousseau despite the pain, just like Wille thought being a perfect crown prince would make everything better in s3.

But in the end Sara and Wille let go too. They all let go of what hurt them.

Which gave them something else instead: love, friendship and found family.

Look at them all! No more ties of any kind, no more red suit jackets of pain. Shirt buttons open, voices free, love blossoming.

#love this! #young royals

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I think one of the main factors of Wille finally breaking the cycle and getting out of the monarchy this season is Kristina’s health going downhill.

In s1, Kristina is presented as this unbreaking monarch and hard mother. She’s mad at Wille for the fight, takes a drastic measure and sends him away, and doesn’t ever break in face of Wille’s pleases to come back home to his family. When Erik dies, she barely breaks, expecting Wille to be as "strong" as she is. And then when the video comes out, when Wille is broken down by it and needs comfort and reassurance, she’s still unbreaking, pushing through and "solving" the problem easily. Kristina is his mother sometimes, especially when things go well, but he first and most important aspect she always puts foreword is that of a strong Queen who takes care of her country.

S2 is in the same vein, but as Wille molds more to her requests as a Queen, we see a bit more her motherly side. She’s still a strong Queen, a ruler who doesn’t back down from threats (Wille going to Instagram and abdicating) and solves those issues. By the end of the series, she was proud of him, showing how she still came on top, how her ways will make someone else be unbreaking, forming her son after her ways. Until the speech.

The speech breaks Kristina, and I think that this in turn breaks Wille’s illusions too. Because how can he, who doesn’t even like the monarchy in the way his mother clearly does, be expected to stay strong and just in front of difficulties and change? How can Wille, be able to do that, when they need some unbreaking version of Crown Prince Wilhelm? How can he survive this institution if his mother can’t? When Wille is already feeling so beaten down by it, and then he’s expected to take on the role in the next year at earliest? Seeing how impossible the role is for someone who was as strong in her convictions and as ruthless is keeping the good image of the crown break down from it gives absolutely no hope to Wille that he could ever have done it himself, unless he were to choose the path where he would decided to kill Wille to only leave place to Crown Prince Wilhelm.

And we saw it this season, Crown Prince Wilhelm is not a nice, caring, just and loving leader. Crown Prince Wilhelm is someone who is forced into a role he doesn’t want and can’t fit in, no matter how hard he tries. Crown Prince Wilhelm is the worst parts of Wille, someone that can’t grow and expand into the beautiful person Wille can be. Crown Prince Wilhelm would become just like his mother, except he is already starting to crumble. But Wille, on the other hand, is who he can be now that he’s decided to come out of there. Now that he’s rejecting that life for himself, if we can even call it a life. Wille is who he can be now that he decided he was more important than an institution that doesn’t care about individuals, that traps them and breaks them without giving them the choice to think if they want this.

#yesss #wille thought he was alone #that everyone else was fine and it was just him who struggled with it #kristina's breakdown on top of the erik revelations make him realise #no one can be happy in this system #yr s3 spoilers #yr analysis

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Wilhelm & Simon 1.03 || 3.03

Bonus:

#my oh my all the things the music room has witnessed 😭🥺🥰 #<prev tag #young royals #wilmon

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#the way we don't know if his anxiety actually lessened or if he just. got forced into hiding it better #<prev tag #PAIN

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about simon’s social media plotline

instead of deleting it, why didn’t simon just temporarily deactivate his instagram/make a private account?

all season, simon has been trying to find workarounds to his worsening situation when it comes to outside pressures and an increasingly stifling environment. he tries to find ways to still be himself and have some sense of freedom, even with all the criticism and negativity being hurled his way.

he’s hit with a barrage of hate comments everywhere? fine. he’ll reply to some of them, just to make sure that everyone gets a sense of who he really is. but he soon finds that when he does so, he’s only met with even more hatred and people coming for his throat. and wille himself tells him replying will only make things worse, so he should try to refrain from doing so.

okay, then. he might not be able to directly comment and tell the world who he is and how all of this is making him feel, but he can show them. so he uploads the video of him singing, the thing he loves most in the world, and he expresses himself through that original song. but that doesn’t work either, and wille tells that simon shouldn’t be posting those things on social media because they can easily be misinterpreted and cause harmful speculations and media attention. and to make things worse, there’s a whole new barrage of hate comments, this time leaning into more sinister territory.

but simon is not going to give up so easily— even if tons of people online are telling him that he’s a golddigger and pathetic and chasing fame, he knows that those aren’t his intentions. he’s with wille because he loves him, and he’s not looking for fame or wealth out of it. and all simon wants out of life is to make some positive change in the world. so of course he can’t help himself when he adds himself to the post of the picture he took with the younger boy who looks up to him. he’s hopeful and a little giddy about it all, because he is making a change. he is helping and inspiring others. he wants to share that with others.

and then simon goes home to find that an anonymous stranger has thrown a rock through his window, into his house.

simon loves his family dearly. he would do anything for them. and someone he likely doesn’t even know hated him enough to threaten his family’s safety, his mother’s safety, by finding his house and breaking the window with the rock. being harassed on social media and in person by reporters fucking sucks, but in simon’s mind, at least that’s only affecting him. but this? this is too far. this is his family, and they’re unintentional targets now, too. they aren’t even safe in their own home anymore, where they’ve lived in the last fourteen years.

so when jan olof and farima come by and tell simon to delete his social media accounts for his own safety— not temporarily deactivate, not make private, specifically delete— simon does it. because private accounts and deactivations are workarounds, and to simon, workarounds have only made things worse. it’s not just him on the line anymore, it’s his family and safety and his relationship with wille altogether, so he does exactly what the royal court says and deletes his accounts. workarounds just aren’t worth it.

okay, but why is deleting his instagram account such a big deal? he can always make a new one, so why does it matter?

one of the first times that we get a deeper look into who simon is, not coincidentally, through the contents of his instagram account! when wille is lurking on simon’s profile, we get a solid introduction into the key aspects and people in simon’s life. he he has two best friends who he adores, he loves his sister and his mother, and even his bio says “music makes my world go round”.

but looking past that aspect for now, we also get to see who simon is outside of social media and these close relationships: he’s very outspoken, doesn’t let others silence him (even in his very first scene, he sings louder when vincent makes fun of him), is unafraid to call others out on their bullshit and has strong values that he’s quick to share.

but throughout season three, as simon is faced with more and more pressure and cruelty on behalf of the public and royal court, he starts losing himself. he finds that singing isn’t as enjoyable anymore, he becomes quieter and quieter. he initially fights back when he feels that the royal court is being unreasonable, like when he was first told by wille about being careful on social media, but eventually just reaches a point where he stops and just takes it. he ends up going against his own values just for the sake of not fighting with wille during the sit-in, despite clearly being bothered by it. and of course, this isn’t helped by the fact that he’s not on speaking terms with sara again until much later and his relationship with his mom is strained until mid-season, so a integral part of his support system isn’t able to help him until he was a little too deep into all this.

so looking back at the social media aspect, simon deleting his instagram accounts is the nail in the coffin. he publicly displays his unabashed love for his family, friends, and music through his posts, all of which are essential to his sense of self and who he is as a person, and we see him literally delete it all. this drives home the point that simon is deleting himself, and marks one of his lowest points in terms of losing and changing himself to try and fit into a space that will never be made for someone like him. square peg in a circular hole.

so yes, realistically, simon deleting instagram is a sad thing to see, although not necessarily earth-shattering. but metaphorically? it’s everything.

why were there only hate comments? sweden is very progressive in terms of queer rights and social acceptance, so it couldn’t have been that bad.

of course, i can’t speak for lisa and the rest of the team, but i feel that this was an intentional detail. because the truth is, there probably weren’t only hate comments! we even see the initial response after simon posts the clip of him singing, and it’s positive.

but as an overall society, we tend to take criticism harder than we do compliments. you likely don’t remember that one time last week where a stranger complimented your hair or outfit or handwriting, whatever it may be, but you probably do remember the last time someone told you that your efforts weren’t enough. you probably remember the last time you got a bad review or a bad grade on something you tried hard on, or when someone made fun of your interests. and speaking as a teenager, i can confirm that this is a huge thing to us as well— we want to be accepted and complimented, we want to be wanted, and when we aren’t, it feels like it’s the end of the world.

so of course simon would take all those disgusting comments to heart. anyone would, especially when they haven’t had any time to prepare for it. so as more and more hate comments roll in, it’s harder to pay attention to the positivity that may also be there. from simon’s point of view, the hate is everywhere and too much to ignore, so that’s what we get to see. we see criticism and threats and people being mean, because those are the responses and the view that affect simon the most.

tldr; simon deleted his instagram because he felt that using another workaround in deactivation/private acc would be a risk, it’s a big deal because by literally deleting his social media the writers show that simon is deleting himself, and there’s mostly hate comments because through simon’s pov those are the ones that are the most impactful.

#perfectly put #yr analysis #young royals

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Am editing. Have just discovered I've used the phrase 'he'd be lying if he said that...' four times in three pages.

Think this one might need some more editing, lads. 🫣

#my writing #not yr

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#i will never be over this scene #so soft #<<prev tags

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YOUNG ROYALS 3.04

#gorgeous gifs #but also #omar's acting?! #how is this 24 yr old man who definitely isn't simon eriksson #so totally a 16 yr old kid in these gifs #it's like magic #young royals

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i can never write a soulmates au cause i very quickly stop thinking about romance and start thinking about the sociological implications of a world where soulmates are a confirmed verifiable thing

#oh god this #I find something inherently creepy about soulmate universes #I know they're harmless #but they're like the opposite of romance to me