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Richie werewolf transformation

actors love to make their characters subtextually gay not just because they’re a little gay themselves though that often is the case but rather because having a secret is like energy drink to acting, and being gay is the easiest most obvious secret. whenever you’re unsure of your character’s motivations consider: maybe they are gay? see where that takes you. should be pretty far

its been what? 5 years and i still think about druck s3 regularly.

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YOUNG ROYALS 1.02 | 3.03

the handhold being on dnpcrafts is so funny, like they will be gay on camera but ONLY to worship satan

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An analysis of Wille arriving at Hillerska with Erik‘s car vs. leaving in Sara‘s car

Lisa Ambjörn herself asked for this, and she shall receive.

The first time we see Wilhelm arrive at Hillerska it is with Erik. They arrive in an expensive sports car. Wille doesn‘t know what the future has to offer for him, but he knows he doesn‘t want to be at the school. The last time we see Wilhelm in a car, he is leaving Hillerska behind. He has just renounced the throne. He sits in an old Volvo with his chosen family. He has finally grown up.

Wilhelm started a revolution at Hillerska which led to the school shutting down. Erik‘s car is a symbol for the old system and they‘re leaving everything behind in Sara’s car. It‘s a fresh start.

The sports car represents not only Erik, but Wilhelm‘s position as a prince. It symbolises his privileges, his position in the upper class. His family has money and he benefits from it. And yet, while Erik seems to be enjoying himself in the wind, he isn‘t happy. This is one of our first glimpses at the fact that Wille feels trapped in the postion he is in.

The old Volvo can also be seen as a representation of Wilhelm‘s feelings. It being an old and not super expensive car is obviously a literal cosquence of it coming from Micke. But it can also mean more: Wilhelm has decided to leave the title of Crown Prince behind. It’s a common car - all Wille wants is to live a normal and common life. He has also decided to bridge over the class differences between Simon and himself. Wilhelm is now in a place where he‘s willing to unlearn his own classist views and privileges. They‘re willing to compromise, they‘ll make it work.

Apart from the cars‘ price classes it‘s also important to mention the type of car they‘re driving. Erik drives an open-roof Cabrio while Sara drives a car with a closed roof. The roof represents the public eye. Wille was uncomfortable at the beginning. He didn‘t want to be perceived by the public, but he had no choice and nowhere to hide or escape to.

Now, in the end, he has renounced his title and he chooses not to be in the public eye any longer. The car roof is closed, and he finally has a way to hide. But Wilhelm chooses to do the opposite. He leans out the window. He is ready to face the world and to finally be his true self. And he has not only Simon in his arms to help him, but Felice and Sara are with him as well. They have become family. Wille is finally free.

ABDICATION TRUERS HOW ARE WE FEELING?

The sneaky hetero paralles

I've been wondering if Henry and Walter are some kind of hetero, toxic parallels to Wilhelm and Simon.

Henry and Walter usually sit next to Simon at lunch. They alternate who sits right next to him, and sometimes he even sits between them.

Henry is a noble, a firstborn son, who knows the rules AND plays by them. Henry thus represents how Wilhelm as a cishet prince SHOULD behave, according to the unwritten rules; be classy and write poems to girls, don’t spread gossip to everyone, participate in the traditions. Be clueless about the queer literature he's reading.

Henry even looks a bit like the prince you'd expect: Blond! With a reddish tint to allude to Wille's light auburn hair. Sorry to stir the hair colour pot but it's important here.

Just to make sure we get the parallel, Henry often wear Wille's colours, and sometimes Simon's colours, to show the connection.

Henry foreshadows what Wille will do just moments later. Run off and not participate in class.

His constant cockblocking represents the joint effort of Forest Ridge, and even the Royal House itself, of shaping Wilhelm into a heterosexual model prince. And maybe even Wille's inner conflict - he did prevent the Felice experiment from going any further.

Henry works hard to befriend Wille. Just like Wille works hard to consolidate his title with who he is. But it doesn't work. He don't want the shallow friendship Henry offers. He doesn't want that life. He wants to be normal, have real friends, he wants to be his authentic self. He'll never be friends with Henry, because Henry represents everything he hates about his position.

But Henry is paying close attention to Simon, and to Wille's relationship with him. Here he's standing right next to Wille, looking at Simon too.

The toxic, hetero version of His Royal Highness Prince Wilhelm warms up to Simon after a while though, as the gif shows. Wille spent all of season 2 reaching a point where crown prince Wilhelm may hug Simon as much as he wants. It's an interesting foreshadowing to the season 3 tease too. And Henry is even on Simon's team when Simon throws his blue ball(s) in Wille's face, the day after Skogsbacken/Forest Ridge celebrated Wille's heterosexual hookup.

Henry also follows Wille's lead in challenging the Forest Ridge hierarchy - Henry complains about having to move when Vincent wants the couch, in the scene where Wille plays chess with Alexander and loses, in episode 1 of season 2. Vincent (who is August's toxic parallel) explains what will happen then: System collapse.

Sadly there are fewer gifs of Walter! I found this that shows us that Walter is paralleling Simon. He's standing next to Wille when Wille clicks the link, reading comments about the video with him and Simon. Simon is talking to his family, so Walter is a stand-in here. And Walter IS talking to Henry, Wille's parallel character! They can talk because they're NOT queer, they're NOT in a secret relationship. They can be seen together because they're cishet, they're what Wille and Simon should be; just friends. At the same time they represent the freedom to not hide that Simon and eventually Wille wants as an out queer couple. Everything all at once.

Walter is far less cultured than Henry, perhaps third generation wealth considering his dad went to Hillerska. He has dark hair like Simon, but lighter. He doesn't follow the upper class rules, he breaks them often, just like Simon.

Walter's behaviour gets Henry into trouble twice. First he makes Henry laugh about Vincent's shitty peptalk before the rowing competition. Henry denies he laughed. A neat little foreshadowing that the rowing competition ended with Wille being even more heartbroken from watching Marcus kiss Simon. And Wille didn't smile moments earlier either, when Simon sat down with a supressed smile from the praise from the choir director - pretty sure Wille thought Marcus caused that smile.

The second time Walter got Henry into trouble was when he spread the gossip about Wille's hookup with Felice. This is a toxic, hetero parallel, showing us how Simon is supposed to behave. But it may also be what Simon secretly wanted for himself - that his relationship wouldn't have to be secret, that there weren't different rules for same-sex relationships. A parallel to show us how those traditions exclude queer relationships.

Walter and Henry even had a small argument, to foreshadow the more serious changing room fight between Simon and Wille the next day.

In the beginning of s2e4, Walter sits next to Simon at the lunch table and they're discussing the Valentine letters. He says: "You need good odds, you can't bet everything on one girl. If she says no, you have no Plan B. Girls like a little bit of competition, so they’ll just like you even more.”

This is also how tradition dictates Simon should behave. He's a catch and girls should compete for him. And there is a sort of competition between Wilhelm and Marcus! But it's not real and it doesn't work like that at all – Simon is not shallow like that, he has real feelings for Wilhelm. It was never a competition - again, the parallel shows us the contrast between social expectations and Simon's reality.

Nobody cheered louder than Walter, who began singing the Forest Ridge song when Simon were leaving. It was clearly a no homo celebration, as much as it was excluding the day student Simon. He’s a shitty parallel for sure! Someone you don’t want to be at all. But he does foreshadow many events with the way he paralles Simon!

I suspect Walty may represent the kind of friendships Wilhelm is supposed to form at Hillerska. Wilhelm may be friends with non-noble boys, but he should be careful with his secrets (that’s why the Society is just for noble first-born sons). Except hookups, they’re shared on the table for social cred. Just, shallow friendships with shallow people. What a life to aspire to! /j

To be serious, this kind of "friendships" isn't something Wille wants at all. He rejected Henry and Walter right from the start. He hates his own position as prince, he hates the shallow yes-people surrounding him, and when he tried to play chess by the upper class rules, he lost: He managed to oust August as prefect, but it turned out Vincent was even worse.

we really used to have it all huh. that stupid clown movie was everywhere, you could get merch at h&m…

Young Royals 03.06