#micke young royals

[piebingo]

I really really loved this moment. Micke confirms that he has the same diagnosis as Sara, and her being so scared she'd end up like him. I loved that he reassured her that no, just because they are alike she will not end up like him, but he also put on his father hat and helped her gain confidence to not make the same mistakes as her. Ultimately, Micke isn't to change and get better but still gives Sara the tools to make sure she has a chance at fighting battles he keeps on losing. And although it hurts Sara so much to see that he missed her exam to go back to his bad habits, his teachings worked and she was able to push through and get her license anyway. It was a really beautiful storyline.

#young royals #sara young royals #micke young royals #yr s3 spoilers

[toofacedbiitch]

#micke eriksson #yr #yr season 3 #yr s3 spoilers #micke young royals #I was so disappointed with him #Like why #wille x simon #simon eriksson #simon young royals #simon yr #Sara deserved better #Sara Erickson #Sara Young Royals #august x sara

[young-royals-confessions]

It occured to me that we were never directly told that Simon and Sara’s father is an addict. The word addict wasn't used - we came to it ourselves. First we don’t see him at dinner table with the rest of the family. Then Henry asks Simon what his father does for living. Then we learn that some Mike deals booze to children and makes Simon sad. Then Simon comes to this Mike for the booze (and calls him father), and after that returns for the pills. Then Sara tells Felice her father is a bad person that can’t take care of himself and makes it everyone else’s problem. Then Simon finds him totally passed out on the couch and steals his meds. And then when Mike confronts him and asks if he started taking Simon calls him pathetic and says that he’s not stupid and knows that he couldn’t quit taking for the sake of his own children. And thus we come to the conclusion that he is actually an addict.

That being said, I can only judge the English version, not the original one. And now I'm curious: is it so in Swedish as well?

#micke young royals

[missmeganlee]

I think it’s so sad that Micke says “you can count on your old man” to Simon when Simon is asking him for booze. A son should be able to count on his father for things like picking him up/dropping him off at a friends house, giving him lunch money when he needs it, or you know just being there for advice when he needs it. A father should not be his son’s alcohol dealer. A good father, a decent father, wouldn’t provide his son or his son’s friends with booze especially when the father won’t even be there to regulate their drinking. And I think that’s the saddest thing of all, is that Micke thinks he’s being a good father by providing Simon with the booze

#young royals #simon eriksson #micke young royals #young royals analysis

[insomnaticwilmon]

so… no Micke at all huh? So that man had absolutely nothing to say about the video? Nothing?

#micke young royals #young royals

[youngroyalsrewatch]

Thinking about Micke today because of @missmeganlee 's post.

Wouldn't it be so great if Micke actually got his shit together and we get to see them actually jam? Micke with a guitar, Wille on the piano, and Simon singing.

#young royals #micke young royals #simon eriksson #prince wilhelm

[greywaronan]

Simon looking scared of Wille when he’s threatening august in the final ep.. thinking about that s1 Wille/ Simon’s dad comparison gif set VERY HARD rn

#please does anyone know the one I mean #with wille grabbing Simon in s1 and it showing micke doing the same…. thinking #hopefully they explore wille’s violent side and simon’s reaction to that more in s3 #young royals #young royals spoilers #young royals s2 #simon eriksson #micke young royals

[augustsbeleaguredcockandlefthand]

thinking about that scene where simon pays his dad back for the alcohol and god fucking damnit. he looks so young yk?? and his little cries too where it’s just like are you back there? did you go back to when you were smaller and still thought the world of ur dad? is it familiar again? do u know this better than his hugs? with him shoving u around and grabbing at ur face is this a homecoming? do u miss ur dad still? does this hurt but does this feel like old times? will any amount of words strung together in sentences designed to hit ur dad where it hurts change the way u loved him and he hurt u anyways? simon and his dad make me feel things can u tell

#simon eriksson #simon young royals #simon yr #young royals #micke #micke young royals #micke yr #just broken families and broken dads that break their sons

[heartbreakprincewille]

One thing I can't stop thinking about is how Wille canonically has not consumed alcohol or any substances since when Simon had to come and rescue him from the football field scene. He didn't consumed anything in the Hillerska parties and even denied booze offered by Vincent. Like, either he swore them off after he realised that how much trouble he caused to Simon and then all the Alexander debacle, or he didn't like it anyways and he took them only because he is "supposed" to and that incident was the last straw for Wille. Either way, it's just so fascinating to me because Wille isn't even aware about Simon's trauma associated with substances because of Micke, and yet he subconsciously did the exact thing Simon was expecting Micke to do since years. Like, we all know that this boy is ready to give up his position to be with Simon, but he is also unknowingly making choices for Simon's well-being. They are just so perfect for each other.

#just in my feels here don't mind me #young royals #wilmon #prince wilhelm #simon eriksson #wilhelm x simon #i'm not sure if he swore them off for good or we'll see him around booze again in s3 but yeah it's my headcanon that he gave them up #and i'm not saying that he shouldn't #it's his choice #but it's kinda interesting as a parellel to Micke

[piebingo]

I wonder where Simon got his sass from.

#this was so funny #micke young royals #august young royals #yr s3 spoilers

[thatsmybook]

Though Young Royals is primarily about imperfect teenagers, it is also about imperfect parents. It's about generational trauma and the breaking of those cycles to choose the life they want to lead. "We can't choose what lives we are born into," says Boris "but we can choose how to live our lives".

All five of the lead characters' parents have impactful stories. Micke is my favourite for how he tells Sara, (paraphrasing) "You may have inherited my diagnosis, but you are not me (so you won't end up making my mistakes)."

Whereas the Queen, Poppe, and Smysan want Wille and Felice to be just like them. Felice breaks from being who her mum wants her to be in season one. She then breaks from what her dad expects her to do (conform to the white environment and work ten times as hard to be as good) by being honest about the school he loves and stopping the conforming cycle.

August's dad was a drug addict and took his own life. There's a hope in season 3 that August has become aware of his own mental health struggles and has started to open up to a therapist. We don't see him take any drugs as coping mechanisms is season 3. Maybe he will break the cycle and overcome the trauma of his dad's death.

Simon accepts his imperfect parents. He gives his mum grace for putting up with their troubles with their dad. He wants to have a relationship with his dad and goes to him for help even though he is wary of him. But, he doesn't drink or take drugs at all, probably because his dad did. He 'deals with' and protects his sister in areas where his mum is not able to. He gives them all second chances. He accepts their failings but doesn't duplicate them in his own life. He chooses differently in his own life.

Wille's struggle is probably the hardest of them all because, as Sara says in Season 1, "Isn't that the point of the Royal Family? That they do not change." The RF's cycle of generational trauma is so rigid and long standing. There is no blueprint for what Wille is trying to do to break the cycle. Choosing not to be like his mum and his brother is monumental and unprecedented. As Simon said in season 1, "You are brave".

Some of the time in YR, we as an audience defend the teenagers for their mistakes because of their age. But the reality is, that even the adults make mistakes. Because they're human.

#young royals #young royals analysis #parents in young royals #Poppe and Smysan Ehrencrona #Linda and Micke Eriksson #Kristina and Ludvik #Carl Johan Horn of Årnäs #inherited trauma

[dusty-daydreams]

I can’t help but wonder if what happened at the end of episode 5 triggered Simon’s trauma with his dad.

It seemed like they were trying to tone down Micke this season - make him a disappointing alcoholic rather than the abusive drug addict they implied he was in season 1 - but the fact of the matter was Micke didn’t blink an eye at slamming his son against walls and grabbing his face violently. Suggesting that Micke had been violent with Simon before.

Then we have Wille who bottles everything up until he bursts into a violent rage. He bottles up his pain at his parents until he is yelling at them and smashing presents in front of his shell shocked boyfriend. He escalated to the point he threatened someone with a gun. Frankly it makes me wonder if the nightclub fight that started everything was the result of Wille bottling his stress until someone harassing him at a club made him explode.

In some ways both Simon and Sara have partnered up with people like their father.

Sara has found herself with an addict.

Simon has found himself with someone who explodes violently.

I hope it gets resolved it just makes me sad

#young royals #yr s3 spoilers #simon eriksson #Simon #sara eriksson #Wille #prince wilhelm #August #micke eriksson #repeating patterns #cw addiction #cw abuse #meta

[young-royals-confessions]

HI confessions blog. Lately I noticed there has been an uptick in hating on people who think that Micke was wrong to sell alcohol to kids. I've seen it here and on other sites. Is it a cultural thing or something? It gets me down.

#hmm i haven't seen this #micke young royals #young royals #yr s1

[raincitygirl76]

Speaking as of March 17, the day before 3.06 drops, I don't see August's arc in 3.01 to 3.05 as a redemption arc. Yeah, he's done one more genuinely nice thing in his life than before S3: for his third years, walking back from the homophobic sexual degradation that he experienced in his own initiation as a first year. Go him.

That's a good thing he's done, no question. But he still organized terrifying initiations (even if they weren't quite as bad as his own), he still got booze from Simon for the initiation party that he'd never had any intention of paying for.

August also allowed his lawyer to make that outrageous statement in 3.01 denying that the video was defamatory. The only reason he's not in jail awaiting trial on CP charges is because he has money and connections to make his criminal act disappear. That's not original, about the money and connections, but I forget who said it first. @unfortunate17 or @billfarrah , maybe... He was also smug rather than penitent while everybody was signing the paperwork.

Also, August persists in walking all over Sara's boundaries. He visits her at Micke's without warning, and doesn't apologize for the position he put her in. He uses that Conversation to remind her that she and he have similar dads, except Micke is alive and Carl Johan is dead. He's trying to play on Sara's sympathy. Even though the whole reason she feels she has to live with Micke is because of august's past bad actions.

And he repeatedly defies her wishes about not wanting to read his first year letter. He follows her out to the dumpster and insists on reading it to her to tug on her heartstrings. Even after she was clear she didn't want to read it and gave it back to him.

Now, was August being manipulative in S3 on purpose? No. But he and Sara aren't an example of a healthy relationship just because in S3 Wilhelm and Simon have an unhealthy relationship. I know I shouldn't use the word healthy, but at the moment I can't think of a suitable synonym.

So yeah, now he's done exactly two nice things in his life that we know of:

Buying Sara for Rousseau

Dialling back the sexual intimidation on the Forest Ridge initiations when he was a third year. Although the initiations August presided over were no walk in the park, so let's not give him too much credit.

I'm not saying he's a soulless monster. He's only 18 going on 19, he has time to improve before we write him off altogether. But he has STILL never apologized to Simon and Wilhelm for the sexual violation he inflicted on them. As soon as the NDA was safely signed, his own bad actions regarding the video were in August's rear view mirror.

So yeah, he listened to Boris and he tried to do a nice thing or two. But he’s still August.

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[insomnaticwilmon]

I haven’t heard this being talked about but just in case I’m sorry if this has been talked to death.

I wonder how Micke, Simons dad reacted to the video, we don’t see him past episode 5 and we don’t see his reaction to the tape being released or him confronting Simon or Linda about it at all. Would he critic Linda’s parenting choices and judge her for raising a kid who goes and has sex or would he judge Simon for not only stealing drugs and selling them but also having a tape being released or would he blame himself? It would be interesting to see a scene where he mentions the tape, it doesn’t have to be serious it could just be something like “well I see you’ve been having fun at school” something to make us cringe but also realize that he’s trying.. any thoughts?

#young royals #simon eriksson #linda eriksson #Micke eriksson #Micke young royals #young royals Simon #sara eriksson #wille #prince wilhelm #wilmon

[youngroyalsrewatch]

What did Micke hide?

Doing my usual Sunday night YR watch and I just noticed this. First of all, how did I not see this until now? And secondly, what did Micke hide under the pillow? It looks like he pulled something off the wall and I think I hear a rustling noise, like a paper may be? a photograph? I am so confused.

#I need Felice and her detective skills #please i need answers #young royals #young royals netflix #simon eriksson #micke eriksson #micke young royals