#Hillerska choir

[young-royals-confessions]

Confessing this anonymously for understandable reasons. First time I watched YR, I couldn’t understand how Simon was credible as the star of the school choir. Omar Rudberg has a good voice, but it’s very obviously a “pop music” voice. Choral music, at least at a high level, is a totally different type of vocal training.

It’s something I can hand wave away, upon rewatching. Because Simon is supposed to be a diamond in the rough who had no formal vocal training prior to starting at Hillerska a little over a month previously. So he would have the raw talent, but not the trained “choral/classical” sound.

But the first time watching the show, every solo of Simon’s made me think “This guy isn’t credible.” I just never admitted it because i know a lot of my fellow fans adore Omar’s music and his voice.

#simon eriksson #omar rudberg #choral music #young royals #hillerska choir

[raincitygirl76]

I just realized something. Hillerska must provide a fair bit of employment in Bjarstad. That bus stop can’t only be there for non-boarding students. There would be administrative staff, cooks, cleaners, groundskeepers, maintenance people. Plus occasional extra labour (from local catering companies, presumably) whenever Hillerska is having a special event like Parents Day or the jubilee.

And big regular orders to Bjarstad supermarkets, not to mention local tradespeople being called in whenever there’s a specialist problem the regular maintenance staff can’t fix. They’re old buildings. There would inevitably be plumbers, electricians, carpenters needed from time to time.

Adults Simon and Sara run into on campus would also be adults they’d run into in town. Which must have gotten seriously awkward for Simon after August leaked that fucking sex tape.

Also, while the housemasters and housemistresses would obviously have to live on campus, I doubt Hillerska would have room to house every teacher. Particularly the ones who have families of their own. And even if there was room, many teachers might prefer to have separation between work and the rest of their life. So they would live in Bjarstad.

Presumably teachers with families could send their own kids to Hillerska as non-boarders for free. That might even be a perk of teaching there. I wonder if the non-boarding kids of Hillerska teachers are treated with as much contempt as Simon and Sara.

Please note, I have discovered from helpful Swedish watchers of the show that none of the Hillerska students pay tuition to attend. It is illegal in Sweden to charge for schooling. Private boarding schools gets around this law by charging exorbitant amounts of money to the parents of boarders, theoretically for their room and board only. In practice, for the experience of upper class solidarity and an exclusive education. So non-boarders like Simon and Sara are seen as freeloaders by many of the boarders.

Please note, though, that Hillerska would receive revenue from the state for educating each and every student. I highly doubt those payments would cover all the fancy extras Hillerska offers. But Linda Eriksson is a taxpayer, and her taxes are helping to cover the expense of educating her non-boarding kids.

Also, private Swedish boarding schools can pick and choose which non-boarding applicants they will accept, unlike public schools which have to educate everyone. So I guess they’d pick the cream of the crop of Bjarstad locals, kids who stand out in some way, and will enhance the school’s standing.

Simon presumably for his musical talent, Sara probably for her grades. Or maybe on compassionate grounds, since she got bullied so unmercifully for years at the local public school. Hillerska could pat itself on the back for rescuing the poor girl from the scourge that is public education.

The above is my understanding from what I have picked up on Tumblr from Swedes. It’s entirely possible I didn’t get it all right. I’m just a Canadian, after all! If I misunderstood anything, please let me know and I’ll edit.

#queue #young royals #simon eriksson #sara eriksson #hillerska choir #Hillerska #Bjarstad young royals #swedish facts #real sweden #swedish stuff #education in sweden #education #the show is about the class system

[simons-purplehoodie]

With season two being in November what are two songs you would love to see Simon / The choir do in the show ?

Oooh this is such a good question! Imagine Simon singing Revolution, the voices of the choir supporting the song as it echos through the church, Simon’s voice rising above the voices of the choir. I’d die 🫢

Okay other songs though, here we go. If you lovely people could do me a favor and imagine these songs in a full choral arrangement, with multiple layered harmonies, voices blending and echoing together, and Simon as the soloist:

Almost Heaven by Isak Danielson

Let the River In by Dotan

Only the Brave by Louis Tomlinson

Turning Page by Sleeping At Last

#young royals #Simon Eriksson #Hillerska choir #young royals season 2 #ask

[learnthebreakdown]

The scene where the choir starts singing Simon's song instead of the og Hillerska song makes me so emotional. A lot of the show's classism/racism/prejudice is primarily shown through Simon's treatment, which I think as a fandom we often forget because it's become so normalized throughout the show. But think about it y'all- from day one Simon is bullied EVERYDAY day at his school for his socioeconomic class and values. That is EXHAUSTING, that slowly eats away at a person, and the fact that he manages to keep his sense of self throughout that at age 16 is impressive. And in season 3 that got compounded with the vulgar homophobic, racist, and classist hate comments he got from the public. He is constantly the one challenging that school's insane archaic and prejudiced values, despite the bullying. That school has NOT been kind to him, but when they sing the song that he was initially not allowed to sing, he sees that something he did at that school mattered. It did influence people, his bravery did change things. Simon Eriksson you will ALWAYS be famous.

#young royals #simon eriksson #simon's song

[othervee]

Finale thoughts!

Interesting to find out that Hillerska has had multiple warnings over several years and still didn't pull their heads in. Clearly they thought they were invincible.

Vincent and Nils stepping up to the plate when they see August's genuine distress, the way Vincent is stroking his arm. There's real friendship and love to be found, but you only see it when you're honest. Similarly, their reactions when they find out that August is backup. August receiving the posioned chalice. What else can he do now, though? He's lost Arnas, or at least part of it. He has to do the military service; he's in the position Wille has been in.

Haha, the housemaster having a drink with the boys. What else is he going to do?

Loved the scene with Felice dragging Wille to the party. Her facial expressions, she's so cute. Wille negotiating with Malin shows a level of maturity, but the male bodyguard is SO not impressed as he follows them to the palace, LOL.

LOVE that Simon brought Rosh and Ayub to the white party. And Ayub reassuring Rosh, after Stella shows herself for who she is. She's chosen the Hillerska way, all the way.

The scene between Wille and August in the clubroom. He didn't know it, but that was the closure he needed. THat they both needed. They've made peace, they can even develop a familial relationship again into the future, but right now this is as close to peace as they can have at this stage.

Nils, you giant dork. And also... They're shocked he didn't say anything earlier,  but would things have been different if he had?

No Royal house, no Prince, no socialist, no drama. No before. No later. Only now. As the previous song said, back to basics. Back to the pure connection they have with each other.

The lake scene. So beautiful.

Simon's Song! Did Felice initiate that, do we think? A few of the choir were smiling at Simon. Nice to see they all (or most of them) wanted that and not the musty old version.

Oh, Kristina, that really is too little too late, but I'm glad you came through in the end.

The little token the Queen and Duke put around August's neck is a frog prince. The symbolism would be a sledgehammer if the direction or script drew attention to that, but they don't.

In the car, Wille beginning to feel the panic attack happening, the constriction of the collar around his neck, and realising what that means. This is an unhealthy system and if he stays in it, this will be his life. The constriction, the desperation, literally struggling to breathe. Echoing Simon's words to him, "I've seen how it makes you feel". Being calm because he's no longer coming from a place of despair, a place where he has no control. And Kristina knows it. It was important for Wille to tell his parents he loves them. He's coming to terms and making peace with everyone.

That closing scene, oh my god. The montage was cheesy as fuck and I am here for it. The dialogue and the execution were not cheesy. They established the important things. Wille is doing this for his sake, not for Simon's. For the first time in his life he is making an informed, calm, active choice.

Simon's FACE. OMG. The shock, barely daring to believe it, but knowing when Wille says 'For my own sake' that this is it. It's real. And then! The tears, the gasping, the incredulous joy! Omar is a natural who stepped it up even more this season, and I do hope he continues to take on acting roles because he is amazing.

Wille's FACE. The joy but more importantly the PEACE.  His entire being, his posture, his aura changes and he radiates rightness. Edvin is incredible.

Also? They both look so, SO beautiful in this episode. This closing sequence, but really the entire episode.

Heading off into the sun, in white, whooping and cheering, Felice with her legs up on the dashboard, free.

And now I want LOADS of future fic about The Adventures of Wille, Simon, Sara och Felice. Tack, Lisa, for leaving it so open for us to do that!

#young royals #young royals analysis #yr s3 spoilers #young royals season 3 spoilers #omar rudberg #edvin ryding #prince wilhelm #simon eriksson #young royals finale

[daylightaftertherain]

shoutout to the choir teacher who probably knew exactly who simon's song was about and went "add a 'hillerska' at the end so people think you're singing about the school" and literally the only time that worked was on the boy the song's actually about

#sure sure wille in his revenge era but wille just being fucking clueless 95% of the time>> #simon literally went *sings gorgeous song about pining and thinking about the memory of being in love* hillerska~ #and wille fell for it #yr s2 spoilers #young royals

[etvie]

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.

#young royals #simon eriksson #omar rudberg

[themarsbar]

Getting emotional about Wille seeing Simon sing for the first time.

How many times are Wille’s feelings and agency dismissed just in the first ten minutes? A decision was made to move him to Hillerska, he was completely excluded from the discussion, all his protests are promptly ignored, his anxiety about the situation is brushed off with a literal slap and he’s forced to speak to the nation and pretend that he’s okay with all of that. He doesn’t go down without a fight but his attempts are feeble. He’s had an entire system against him all his life and that system is also his family.

And then he starts at this school where he has no reason not to expect everyone to be complicit with that system (why should he?), and here comes this (cute) choir boy who’s so beautifully defiant, so unafraid to literally raise his voice to make himself be heard and respected. It’s all Wille has been trying to do and this boy does it with such grace and with such power, and so naturally I bet that for a moment it made Wille feel like he could do anything.

Of course he’s immediately smitten here, of course

#simon has been bringing out wille’s strength from the start #guess who’s doing a rewatch and is feeling sooo normal about it #young royals #yr #wilmon #my post

[extranjeraprimavera]

I just watched season 1 of Young Royals again and I was noticing how much Wille's desire to be normal drives him towards Simon. Wille wanted normality enough that he asked to go to a normal school with normal kids instead of Hillerska where Erik (and Kristina?) went so it was a conscious choice not to go there. As soon as he arrives he tests out Walter and Henry to see whether they'll treat him normally and they fail dismally. He's immediately attracted to Simon's looks and talent through the choir's performance but it's Simon's willingness to confront the rich kids' prejudices and point out that the royal family receive the largest amount of taxpayer money of anyone in the country that really cements Wille's attraction. Wille has had a lifetime of seeing that the way people relate to him is "fake" because of his position as prince - he intensely feels that people aren't seeing him as a person, only a figurehead and means to social advancement and other advantages. He probably subconsciously desires to be seen and known for who he is rather than the position he holds and Simon provides that in spades. Simon's confident disapproval of the monarchy just means that Wille can trust Simon to relate to Wille for the person he is. Simon's reluctance to be a secret, unwillingness to forgive Wille's denial that it's him in the video and criticism that Wille wants everything on his own terms only makes it more certain to Wille that Simon's one of the few people he's ever met that is real with him and treats him normally, that he can actually trust.

#young royals #prince wilhelm #simon x wilhelm #simon eriksson #wilmon #young royals simon #young royals wilhelm

[young-royals-confessions]

How do I know Omar was sick in Remember scene? I'm a dinosaur in the fandom, Omar's hardcore (but quiet) fan and have a good memory.

Omar had an interview on youtube for brazilian channel Febre Teen back in 2021 (aired in 2022) where he answered some questions. Among other things he speaks a bit about his favourite song from S1, his experience with the choir and also mentions being sick while recording Remember.

Here's the interview, it's short and in English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TgKnZTVABk

#omar rudberg #simon eriksson #hillerska choir #yr s1 #young royals

[wings-of-a-storm]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how far Wille and Simon have come during these two seasons of Young Royals. It makes you want to re-watch all those little moments that began it all between them, right? Especially since Wille had to work so hard to break through Simon’s guard in the battleground of their school and earn his trust that he wasn’t just another one of the a-holes about to humiliate him at any second.

One of my most treasured, subtle moments that I always look forward to seeing in S1 is when you see the process of Wille actually becoming a sanctuary for Simon at school despite the walls Simon built around himself.

That feeling is shown so cleverly and heartwarmingly in the scene where Wille joins the rowing ream for their early morning fitness sessions (albeit late XD) and Simon’s whole demeanour visibly brightens the moment he sees Wille has joined them. IT GETS ME EMOSH EVERY TIME.

Before Wille joins them, we get to watch with him out his window at the team gathering, and it is there that we witness the perfect snapshot of the utter hell Simon goes through every day at that school. You see all the boys collectively ignoring Simon and ostracising him (from first years to seniors). And what rankles is that you can see it isn’t from Simon’s lack of trying -- he actively tries to engage with them and join the circle of bodies but they treat him like he is invisible.

It would be so humiliating and so deeply lonely to be put in that situation time and time again -- and this is just one morning of many! At the end of this new humiliation, you can see the resigned look on Simon’s face as he has to once again choke it all down and bring his armour out to emotionally survive another day of his school peers signalling to him that he is worthless -- not worth saying hello to, not worth talking to, not worth even acknowledging.

And here is the awful truth -- that shit is traumatising, no matter how strong you think you are being in the face of it! Simon is an incredibly strong, grounded, independent boy with a good support network at home, but he has to endure this bullying every day alone amongst the boys. He may be able to scoff at their behaviour in his head because he is far more emotionally intelligent, but the fact of the matter is that when you have to endure constant slights every day like that, it can absolutely erode your self-confidence and slowly condition your subconscious into reconsidering that maybe there is something fundamentally unlikable about you after all. Repetition is a powerful force.

Simon has only been in that environment at Hillerska for a month or two, but it would still be affecting him on some level because how could it not? The only real safe space for him at school is with his sister (and probably choir and the music room).

Until he meets Wille.

And this is why I love this scene so much! Because you truly get to witness how much Wille’s presence  starts to give Simon peace even at this early stage of their friendship. Because there Simon is, jogging in a group that doesn’t want him there, exerting mental energy into keeping his armour up so he doesn’t have to feel how shit it makes him feel, when out of nowhere he hears a cheerful “Hi!” from beside him and it is Wille.

The way Simon’s whole face lights up when he realises he is no longer alone in the group because Wille is there (insert all the crush feelings), gets me evvvvvvvery time. Simon’s face is actual sunshine!

(^ Apologies to Prince Wilhelm for these unflattering screenshots of him, but the smile he brings out of Simon is the real flattering thing here, sir!)

You can totally understand why Simon’s face turns into sunshine at the sight and sound of Wille being there though -- Wille is the first person that morning to acknowledge his existence, and above that, sound genuinely happy for the chance to hang out with him during training. Talk about suddenly feeling like a human being again! And feeling much safer in the presence of a known ally. (And then of course add in that Simon is already crushing on Wille by this point). No wonder Simon can’t stop smiling.

Then of course, the training continues on and we get to see all of Simon’s surreptitious stares at Wille who no doubt looks so cute to him in Struggletown (coz even princes can’t do planking exercises without sweating and groaning like a muppet). You can see how much Simon is enjoying just being around Wille during training. He looks like he is actually having fun at school for one of the very rare occasions outside of choir practice. And since Wille is right there opposite him in the grind, you can tell that Wille has spent every chance he had to claim his space beside Simon, and gosh that must feel so awesome for Simon considering he started the morning with no one acknowledging his existence or wanting him there.

We are witnessing such pure friendship here, and it hurts from how good it feeeeeeels.

Having this new friendship/sanctuary at school for the times when he is away from his sister must have made getting off the bus at school so much more bearable for Simon, you know? It’s no wonder Simon was crushing on Wille so hard by episode two. And I reallllllly, really love that about their dynamic -- how from the beginning they found a bit of peace in each other in a school that they struggle emotionally to be at. And it just keeps on growing from there. T_T <3

Okay, my emotions have been satisfactorily spilled. Thank you for the indulgence. XD

#Young Royals #Wilmon #Wilhelm x Simon #the feels are real #they are back to consuming all of my thoughts #I love their origin story #I shall consume it like air #announce s3 though please and thank you

[probablyjustanotheryrblog]

not me realizing wille has a photo of simon singing in the choir performance hillerska put on to start the year in s1.

sir when did you take that picture-

#wille... #young royals #its cracked im aware #yeah this probably has something to do with yr

[simonsapelsin]

Simon is a Twitch streamer—he starts doing it on a whim and continues to do it seriously when he realizes he can make some decent money, especially when he makes up little songs for tips while he plays. Being a singing gamer—and a really cute one at that—becomes, like, his thing. He has one particular subscriber who watches him every night and is VERY generous with the tips. They leave sweet, awkward, yet not creepy comments in the chat that make Simon smile. But one day his #1 fan stops showing up, and their subscription runs out.

When Wille starts at Hillerska over a year later, he can't believe SuperSimme06 is singing in the choir. His obsession the entire summer when he was 15. He was so heartbroken when the royal accountant cracked down on his spending after they noticed he was spending thousands of krona per week on Twitch credits. It takes him awhile to conjure the nerve to talk to him, but one day at lunch he says, "Hey. It's me. TheFroggyPrince."

#i don't even know how twitch works really #sorry #young royals #fic ideas

[piebingo]

More yr fanfic recommendations here you go!

All my loving (I will send to you) | chaptered | completed | by pagegirlintraining / @pagegirlintraining

“ Especially now that they’d been happily dating again for nearly ten months, Simon could’ve easily just teased Wille about being a drama queen and then kissed the pout off his lips.

He didn’t, though. Instead, he kept staring at Wille’s handwriting, usually scrawly but now tidy and precise, feeling his heart slowly break for the sad, lonely boy who’d written and never sent this letter all those months ago.”

In which Simon finds an unsent love letter from Wille and decides to reply in big style.

I have read this one many times, because it’s just that good. As is everything by this author. This fic is just full of love and sweetness and captures everything I love about wilmon and their love. Do yourself a favour and read it (again, if you’ve already read it).

You’re still the one | chaptered | completed | by queerfrogprince / @thewaterloovases

Simon and Wille meet on tumblr as teenagers, but when they lose contact, Simon doesn't think he'll ever hear from Wille again, much less bump into him in a supermarket in Stockholm one random afternoon. It's been five years, after all. He barely even thinks about Wille anymore.

But, it seems, Wille never stopped thinking about him. Maybe it's not too late to rekindle what they had at fifteen, after all.

AKA Simon has only ever loved two boys: Harry Styles, and Prince Wilhelm of Sweden.

If, like me, you can be a bit hesitant when real people are included in fics, this is one I recommend anyway! It’s really cute and feels a bit like an ode to tumblr. Wilmon starting as best friends will always get me. Also read the second one in the series!

The season of rebirth | chaptered | completed | by notalotgoingonatthisinstant/ @notalotgoingonatthisinstant

Simon knows two things:

1. Wille is the love of his life and Simon would have married him already if not for him being the Crown Prince. Plus, Simon knows that they won’t be treated like a serious couple by a lot of people until then. BUT,

2. Marrying Wille will be a spectacle that will change his life forever and strip him of his civilian identity, apart from giving the Queen and the Court the satisfaction of tiring Simon out.

But Easter is the season of rebirth, and maybe there is something poetic to be said about it triggering the death of Simon's civilian identity and the birth of Prince Simon.

This fic is a pure delight! It’s sweet and funny, and Wille is a little shit and Simon is Simon, and you should really check out this whole series actually.

See you (soon) | chaptered | completed | by gulliblelemon / @gulliblelemon

All of a sudden Wille didn’t hate everything. Or, he still hated most things. But he didn’t hate whoever this person was, singing with all his might on a sunny stage in front of hundreds of boring, judgemental spectators.

OR

Wille never attends Hillerska but is still dragged to the jubilee celebrations, where he sees an angelic choir boy for the first time and maybe falls a little bit in love. He drums up the courage to talk to him, and then does everything in his power to see him again. And Erik is around to tease him a little bit too.

This was very sweet (I like sweet fics, what can I say?) and I loved seeing how they would meet again and again. I love those kind of AU where they meet anyway, even if Wille doesn’t go to Hillerska. I suggest reading the whole series.

Simon-Appreciation-Posts | oneshot | completed | by DrogonTheDragon

Wille didn't mean for it to blow up as it did. He didn’t.

… or

Wille makes a secret Simon Eriksson fan account and it gets a lot more attention than he intended.

Listen, I love me some good media posts in fics, but I love it even more when Wille makes them because he’s obsessed with Simon. He loves to look at pictures of Simon! We’ve seen it! Anyway this a nice fun fic that brings the mood up.

Ours | oneshot | completed | by RubyIntyale / @earlgrey-lateatnight

He leaned over Simon’s bed to grab another pillow, something to rest his back against so the ridge of the mattress would stop digging in so badly.

Huh. That was weird. Why did Simon have…? Oh.

I love love love when people write that missing scene, and this one is amazing.

Other recs: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5

#young royals #wilmon #wilhelm young royals #simon young royals #yr fanfic rec list #queue

[billfarrah]

Something I loved about season 2 is that Hillerska feels more like a real school than ever. I love how often we see the characters in class and how the series uses those situations to set up drama and conversation between the characters - the tension between Wille and Simon in gym class, the literary discussions - and I love that we see more staff members taking an active role in the plot. A criticism I saw in season 1 was that the staff at Hillerska kind of felt like NPCs - just there and didn’t really do anything - and I love that this season we saw Boris and the choir teacher bonding and providing support to Wille and Simon, respectively.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a teen drama series have the characters be in class this often and it just added an extra layer of realism and world-building.

#young royals #can you tell I’ve fallen in love with s2 after my initial reaction l

[myyoungroyalsblog]

I cannot and will not stop thinking about the finale of Young Royals and I keep imagining what happens next for these 4 and...

Right after the ending they go to Sara and Simons home to pack (and let Linda know they are going away on holiday for a bit hehe) and Felice helps Sara pack and Wille helps Simon and they go into his room. Wille obviously sees the fish and greets them and they make out some more, and probably talk more about what this means for them now and what the future holds but it's all fluffy with just a tiny bit of angst cause this situation must be overwhelming (they are finally together and Wille won't be king, it's a lot to take in)

So during the summer holidays they roadtrip around Sweden and maybe go to Felices summer holiday home (because she has one for sure lol) and spend time there as well

Maybe after that they can have sleepovers over at the Erikssons, and invite Rosh and Ayub too and just eat junk food and play games all night

Then school starts again and Hillerska will open, so they go back, Sara will be Felices roommate again AND Simon applies as well and rooms with Wille

Also maybe Wille buys Rousseau to ride him (he picks up this new hobby) and lets Sara ride him too and they bond over it, and Simon and Felice stay in the choir

Two years later they graduate and they all study in the same city, so obviously they get an apartment for themselves

This is what I imagine each would study:

Simon, music

Wille, psychology

Sara, veterinarian

Felice, nutrition and food science

And that's all of my thoughts for now🫶

#i love them so much #what a perfect ending #young royals #yr s3 spoilers #mine #queue