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#frida’s the cutest though #young royals forever #young royals #yr bts

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so uh. this is a bit late but sorry to anyone following me who doesn’t care about Young Royals 😅. I can’t promise to stop posting about it anytime soon, but I will keep tagging it if you want to blacklist #young royals

#this is my hyperfixation sideblog #psa #the app doesn’t let me underline so you get orange text

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wilhelm's hair kind of reflects his situation

in season one, it's long and youthful. we see him constantly pushing it back. despite the fact that he's not next in line for the throne, he still has responsibilities, still has the pressure to be "perfect" like his brother and keep his life orderly and proper.

in season two, it's been chopped off. he's kind of been stripped of any freedom he has after assuming the role as crown prince. there's bigger expectations placed on him now. but even with this newer, mature haircut, he's constantly trying to fix it, as though something's still not quite right.

at the end of season three, we see wilhelm's hair "unkept" and messy. he's finally able to just let it be, able to live the life he wants and to stop trying to fit into a role he never wanted. he doesn't have to pretend anymore. he's free.

#young royals #yr meta #his s1 hair also felt more rebellious. s1 wille is constantly pushing back against the expectations put on him #the longer hair isn’t very ‘princely’ #he ends s1 by taking steps toward accepting his role amd returns in s2 with a more proper haircut #but it still falls out ofnplace sometimes. his s2 hair was still longer than in s3 #he’s still butting heads with his mother and the royal court #in s3 he’s decided he will be crown prince (and Simon’s boyfriend) and his hair is always in place

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No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

#definitely irl #irl i’m quiet and covered in tattoos #online I just post about boys kissing

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Let’s talk about parallels between Wilhelm and Sara in Season 3 of Young Royals

Because there are so many! This is a continuation of sorts of this meta that I wrote about them being A and B plot protagonists in season 1 and 2. I don’t know that I would describe them exactly that way in season 3, but I do think their plots, character arcs, and themes are meant to mirror each other very closely this season.

One of my favorite things about the parallels between Wilhelm and Sara this season is that comparing them really makes you hold Sara’s friendship with Felice on the same level as Wilhelm’s romantic relationship with Simon (and Sara’s with August) which I think is so important. Both Wilhelm and Sara go through breakups over the course of the season (I think Felice’s reaction especially frames her friendship breakup with Sara similarly to a romantic breakup, which I love). And both of their arcs are about mending those relationships.

Sara and Wilhelm both need to experience the world outside of Hillerska before they can mend those relationships. Sara is able to glimpse some independence, even just through getting her license. The whole world is open to her now, as Felice says in ep 6. I don’t know that she would have been able to make her decision not to go back to August without experiencing that freedom. And Wilhelm also needs to experience the full force of what life in the monarchy would be like before he is able to decide to leave it. Because of this they also act as our window into the two different worlds outside of Hillerska, the palace and Bjarstad. They create the larger context in which we understand Hillerska this season.

I love that both of their journeys of personal growth are symbolized through cars. Wilhelm is always getting trapped with his mom or a member of the court in a fancy car; it’s where almost all of the monarchy’s most onerous instructions on how to live are delivered to him. So it’s huge when he leaves his parents in the chauffeured car at the end of episode 6 and goes to find Simon, Felice and Sara in Sara’s beat up used car. Meanwhile, Sara has traded in horses for the car. This is stated pretty explicitly when her dad asks her if she would like to work with horses and she declines, saying that she has come to realize that horses are simply traded by rich people as status symbols, and her dad suggests she get her drivers license since it will help with any job she wants. In seasons 1 and 2 Rousseau is pretty heavily associated with August, along with the pressures put on August and the other elite kids at Hillerska to conform to expectations (@bluedalahorse has written the Bible on that here), so the fact that Sara swaps out the horse for a car that can take her anywhere feels like a step away from both August and the prescriptive norms of Hillerska.

Sara and Wilhelm both reject what they saw as their destined future. This is obviously really clear for Wilhelm; he assumed he would be prince and then king after Erik died, and his greatest moment of character growth is when he decides he doesn’t have to fulfill that assigned role if it will keep him from being happy and living authentically. I love the scene where Sara talks with her dad about her fears that she will fail in the same ways that he did because she also has autism and adhd. This is a less clear-cut assigned destiny, but that fear of becoming a self fulfilling prophecy is equally overwhelming, especially because Sara has already let down someone she cares about in a way that’s not dissimilar to how her father breaks promises. The fact that she’s able to come to terms with her dad’s influence in her life, but realize she really is in charge of her own future, is really powerful. (I also think it’s such smart writing about the way disability and internalized ableism can really affect your self image).

In order to break free of those predetermined destinies, both Sara and Wilhelm need to see a father/mentor figure as more than black and white. Wilhelm needs to acknowledge that Erik wasn’t perfect, and did help contribute to some of the abusive traditions of Hillerska. Sara needs to recognize that even though her dad isn’t a perfect parent, she still loves him for the care he is able to show to her and wants to have him in her life. I love that both Wilhelm and Sara learn to hold multiple conflicting emotions about their loved ones. They can be disappointed by some of Micke and Erik’s actions, but they can still value their relationships with those family members and recognize them as complex, complete people.

They also both go on a similar journey with how they see August. Wilhelm comes to recognize that August is both a perpetrator and victim of the class system and Hillerska’s systemized abuse. Sara similarly realizes that August is an adult who needs to be responsible for his own emotions. She’s no longer interested in saving him from his complex feelings of guilt, and recognizes his potential to find self healing. Both of those new assessments of August grant him more maturity and complexity than earlier in the show. (They also reflect the way that August grows, in fits and starts, over the course of season 3. If there was a season 4 of the show, I think we would really see August respond to Sara and Wilhelm’s new attitudes towards him in a way that would fuel future character growth).

Viewing Erik, Micke, and August more complexly also allows Sara and Wilhelm to forgive themselves for the ways they are similar to those people. They are able to acknowledge the shame they feel around their actions, but also forgive themselves in the same way that they forgive others.

Both Sara and Wilhelm have specifically let down Simon in pretty big ways (Sara by secretly dating August, Wilhelm by perpetuating the royal family restrictions onto Simon). But they are able to recognize those mistakes and reconcile with Simon.

Wilhelm and Sara both leave the monarchy (Wilhelm literally, Sara by refusing a relationship with August), but they also leave a kind of prescriptive romance behind. Wilhelm says no to having to monitor Simon, to having to roll out his relationship in a certain way to please the court, and to having their future together mapped out and their decision around children made for them. Sara says no to a smaller set of requirements, but the traditional ways that August sees romance are so influenced by the monarchy (which is in turn so influenced patriarchy) that they are similar in some ways. Sara says no to having to do August’s emotional labor, to managing him so that he will fit the image of a good heir. She says no to waiting for him to visit on weekends while he does military service. She says no to this grand plan that he has. (This was @bluedalahorse’s point originally that she shared with me, and honestly I think it's so smart). Wilhelm chooses a romantic relationship that he and Simon are free to create together without rules; Sara chooses a friendship based on honesty and support. Both are valid options that give the characters a sense of peace and freedom. And they would not have been able to make those choices without all of the growth they went through over the course of the season.

I think Sara and Wilhelm's arcs compliment each other so well, and it was one of my favorite things about season 3. I loved watching both of them get to grow so much and end up in such a happy place.

#yr meta #young royals #i love sara’s story

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A future fic where Felice became an internet celebrity with a cooking channel and one of the most successful moments is when she goes live at a guest's house and they prepare a special dish while having a relaxed but deep chat. And to everyone's surprise, one day Felice goes to the house of the former crown prince Wilhelm and her husband Simon and they prepare a typical Venezuelan dish for her while they talk about how they met, Wille's resignation, the harassment they suffered and how it affected Simon and much more. And of course the video becomes the most watched in Sweden, everyone is shocked because since his resignation Wille has never given interviews again and neither he nor Simon have ever made any public statement about their relationship and now here they are being open about all the controversial topics and not only that but they are incredibly in love and cute together.

#imprinting this onto my brain #young royals #yr fic #like when Omar went on that interview where they baked a cake

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#young royals

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#young royals forever #young royals #😥

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Wow! What a lovely observation! Haven't noticed before

https://twitter.com/sickofangst/status/1781809803326853540

Welcome to wonderful world of YR intimacy choreography and I’m pretty sure that you will find several hug analysis here on tumblr.

Also you can see that there is a system to how they hug in the documentary. Also Omar’s smile.

#young royals #young royals forever #i remember reading a hug analysis after s2 #i think wille hugs under when he needs to be comforted and hugs over when he’s doing the comforting #something like that

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there's something so poetic about young royals ending with the four characters who's journeys of finding themselves were so influenced and ruined by hillerska and the system all driving away from it laughing and heading towards something new together. they are literally leaving hillerska and the story they lived there behind

#young royals #yr s3 #beautiful ending

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Omar trying to walk like a nerdy choir kid in episode 1.

Omar saying fuck it, I’m a motherfucking star and so is Simon. Proceeds to walk through hillerska like a supermodel.

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i would like to let you all know that this scene belongs to me. i will never get over it nor will i shut up about it

#young royals #yr s3 #the cutest little bean

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#yr cast #young royals

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Wilmon being best friends as well as lovers ♡ : A compilation ♡ S1 | S3

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#young royals #yr bts