#ally met edvin and omar

[royalwilmon]

hi friends i’m not dead i’m in line at the tonight show

[royalwilmon]

right, so. yesterday was the best day of my entire life. taking a mid-week vacation day on a whim, i hopped on a five hour train ride from boston late wednesday night on the off chance that maybe i might get a standby ticket to see edvin and omar. but never in a million billion trillion years did i think i would get the opportunity not only to see them, but also MEET them and have an honest to goodness real conversation. i got the chance to thank them profusely for all they have done for me these past two years. something that i never thought would be remotely possible given that they're almost always an ocean away. it meant the WORLD.

the tonight show was so so so cool to provide this opportunity to me and my nine incredible new friends (being secretly paraded around rockefeller center, i mean. what a wild bonding experience?!!). kirstin documented our day beginning when we started waiting in the standby line at 4:45am in this twitter thread if anyone is curious as to how this All Happened. and i'll absolutely answer questions if people have them. im still in total shock and disbelief and sdfhoihsdiosdf holy SHIT, y'know.

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[royalwilmon]

hi, first of all: so happy for you that you got to meet e & o yesterday!!!

you said we could ask questions, so i actually have one if you feel comfortable to share ofc:

what did you tell them and what did they answer? 🥺

hi omg thank you!!!!!! ofc!!!!

the memory is honestly Already getting fuzzy but okay first thing that happened they each hugged me and asked me how i was doing and i just made some sort of noise that wasnt a word and they laughed. i told them that i was from boston and that i got there at midnight and started waiting at NBC at 5am and they were all cute about it like "thank you for coming, oh my god". and then im majorly paraphrasing here but i said something along the lines of "i just wanted to thank you guys. these past two years have been the best of my life and ive changed so much through loving YR and i'm a different and better person because of it" and they both were like "thank you, youre so sweet". then i talked for a bit about groupchats/fandom friends and how ive met people from around the globe that i talk to every day and how im so grateful to them for indirectly introducing me to my favorite people and i just couldnt thank them enough for that. at this point i was tripping over my words a lot and both edvin and omar were putting their hands on my arms which did not help my speaking thing. edvin said "youre so sweet" at least three times. edvin asked if i wanted to take a picture and i think i just laughed. i turned around to pose with them and right before they took the pic i muttered "holy fuck" under my breath and edvin laughed and said something along the lines of "trust me we feel the same". after the pics i said thank you like eight times and as i was walking away they were like "oh say hi to the groupchat from us!!!!" and god i wish i was allowed to have my phone to record it but alas, phones were a strict no-no

sorry thats a big chunk of text but its all this weird fuzzy memory already, like. such a blur

the Thing about the interaction i keep telling people is something y'all probably already know from pictures and videos but i'm just going to confirm it. edvin looks at you while you're talking like every word you say is the most important word he's ever heard. i'll never in my life recover from actually being on the other end of that.

and omar was ALL smiles. he was just so clearly OVERJOYED to be there talking to people, like. so happy. he's an actual puppy dog, so adorable, my heart melted. also, it might be because im short but he's not as Small as he was in my mind!! sorry to confirm that omar is in fact normal sized

okay thats all my brain is letting me remember right now, lmk if y'all wanna know more!!

[royalwilmon]

Is Omar even more beautiful in real life????

I know it seems impossible but the answer is yes. Good lord it’s true what they say, that man’s skin is FLAWLESS wtf. And the curlssssssss the curls the curls 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[royalwilmon]

Saw your reblog about you meeting Edvin and Omar in ny and never feel weird for sharing that pic. So happy that you got to experience that. I get it tho - I got to go clubbing with Omar and his friends after a wild series of events and it feels weird to talk about. But also I wanna be grateful, yet not braggy? So I dont mention it on my main lol… Anyway I just wanted to say I get the feeling but I love that pic and want the entire story of yours at some point.

oh my godddddddd what a TIME that must’ve been holy shit !!!!!!!!!!! god i totally get how like… it’s something that feels weird to talk about? it’s a can of worms and with your story especially i betcha it opens you up for a lot of weird questions, lol. but GOD don’t you also kinda wanna talk about it All The Time??!

i’m at least very very very fortunate that when i met edvin and omar, i was selected with nine other people in the line and now over a year later, we still have an active groupchat, so we are constantly texting each other like “hey remember that time we MET edvin and omar” and we can talk about it and get excited constantly without feeling weird bc we all shared the experience. if i came here and blabbered about every time i felt Some Sorta Way about the experience, y’all would absolutely hate me haha. my pics are my phone wallpaper, i feel insane about it Daily 😅

but ahhhhh i mean. i do love talking about it. it was the best day of my wholeeee life. i’ll tag this ask with the tag i used for That Day, i talked about the experience in some of the asks and posts from back then, when the memories were Fresh. but i always wanna talk about it. yeah for sure it feels weird bc i worry how it comes off to other people but. always wanna talk

[royalwilmon]

So so happy for you meeting the boys ☺️ what were they like? i’m going to be honest Omar scares me the most to meet because he is lowkey intimidating

thank you oh my god they were everything and more, and i mean that so so so much. the two of them were both so attentive and patient and happy and just. very very clearly surprised and overjoyed at how much Love the city had for them, and visibly grateful to hear us say how much they mean to us in words.

I've said it a few times, but I can't stress enough how much I mean it. Edvin's eye contact is so genuine, and feeling so seen and heard by him was a feeling that I still can't shake, in the best way imaginable. That is a man that KNOWS how to listen. He is also great at carrying a conversation when it's clear the other person is having trouble getting words out, which I definitely appreciated, haha. Also, I kinda blacked out when they hugged me, so I didn't physically register any of it, but the people I was with said Edvin was very warm and gave Very good hugs.

I can't imagine a less intimidating person than Omar, to be honest with you. I meant it when I said that boy was all smiles. I get the feeling that he's definitely the type of person who feeds off the energy in a room before reflecting it back tenfold, if that makes sense. Everybody was so happy and excited to see him, so he was radiant with joy. And his smile is so fucking contagious, so then I'm smiling and then he's smiling and soon everyone is smiling, y'know? Basically, do not be scared to meet him, because as excited as you might be, he'll return that excitement times ten.

tldr if you get the opportunity to meet edvin and omar, do it, they couldn't be more lovely

[royalwilmon]

It's a good thing you wrote down what happened if the memory already has begun to fade. A trick to keep the memories is to retell it out loud. It doesn't matter if you're alone, the point is that saying it out loud is a memory tool. The more times you retell the event, the better you'll keep the memory.

It sounds so wonderful, I hope you're able to keep it as a dear memory for years to come. 💜💜💜

i have a ramble-y audio message saved in whatsapp from when i was walking to the train in the pouring rain immediately after the show that captured it all pretty well. i'm definitely gonna hang on to it!!!!

also, most of the ten of us who did the meet and greet already have a cute little group chat and we've been starting to kinda strategically reach out to people at nbc asking about the footage from the meet and greet, because there were a LOT of people filming and taking pictures while we talked. at least ten people with phones and cameras out the whole time. we only got emailed one picture each and we know more exists, we are just hoping there's a way for us to see it. i'm crossing my fingers that some of it will make its way back to me, i'd love to have more to remember all of this by.

but if none of that works out, i'm sure i'll remember it plenty :)))) definitely not an experience im likely to forget, ever ever ever.

thank youuuuuuu 💙💙💙

[royalwilmon]

YOU DESERVE THIS SO MUCH

sdfkjdsfoidsfjiofhoifdshd thank you i love you i cant believe this all i just. mmmmmmmmm 💀😭💀

[royalwilmon]

Congrats! Happy you could meet them! And I must agree Omar is even more beautiful in real life. I meet him too. I can’t comprehend how that is possible but he is.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! right, like. if he's already the most beautiful person I can comprehend just based on pictures, surely that's as good as it gets, right????? WRONG, he's somehow even more stunning , i do not understand i will never understand aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

LOVEEEEEEE that you met him too and LOVE that you agree 😭

[royalwilmon]

aaah omg so happy for you that you met the boys in nyc!! has it reached your brain yet? ;) oh and also thank you for sharing so many details, i love them, i relate to them and they're big fun to read!

the way you described how you felt during it: YES

edvin looks at you while you're talking like every word you say is the most important word he's ever heard. i'll never in my life recover from actually being on the other end of that. - truest thing ever, yes he does :')

AHHHH yeah no it absolutely has not reached my brain, I've been in absolute disbelief since i heard they'd even be in the same time zone as me, not to mention the same state / city / building / ROOM

i love love love that you got to meet them too and that the details are relatable because it solidifies in my mind a little that i didn't just make the whole thing up in a really elaborate dream. although. still not totally convinced on that front.

god, edvin listening to me. seriously, my biggest takeaway.

[royalwilmon]

hi friends i am dead sorry for the misinformation

hi friends i’m not dead i’m in line at the tonight show

[royalwilmon]

literally what the fuck

hi friends i’m not dead i’m in line at the tonight show