#august young royals

[echo-and-dust]

from dawning realization to absolute fear in his eyes.. (props to malte he is such a good actor)

something something you made your bed now you gotta lie in it

[frogprincesnowglobe]

August actually getting some proper therapy Season 3 Episode 3

[yooboointhemood]

Vincent to Simon in ep 4

[insomnaticwriter]

AUGUST REALIZING AND SEEING HIS FUTURE AND THEN NILS AND VINCENT AUTOMATICALLY SAYING ITS BETTER FOR THEM IS SO SO SO SO SO THEM CODED I CANT-

[hilliska]

I just wanted to talk about the moment right before Wille's speech at the end of episode six.

Because this scene (or rather, the bits right before) is usually mentioned as proof that Wille hates public speaking, that he’s got severe anxiety over it, and that he overcame it in this moment.

But look at him. LOOK AT HIM.

(gif by @lasaraconor)

Look at Wille. That is not an anxious boy who overcomes his fear of public speaking, that is a confident crown prince flexing on August, again, and bigger and better than ever before. It is, if you’ll allow me the pun, his crowning glory.

Because Wille knows, as we all do, what will happen when he doesn’t speech. August will take over. And Wille knows, as we all do, that August wants that, and he wants it really badly. He’d love nothing more than the chance to show the Queen that not only is he up for the task, he will do it better than Wille, who doesn’t take his role seriously and is generally more of an embarrassment than an asset to the Royal Family (as per August’s opinion).

(look at him he's so happy to get to take the stage)

And Wille gives it to him.

He tells Jan-Olof he’s not feeling up to the task of speeching. Jan-Olof talks to the Queen. August is informed there’s a change of plans. His moment is near, his chance to shine-

And Wille takes it away.

And honestly, for all the shotgun-talk, this is the cruelest I’ve seen Wille act. He even lets August get up, lets him make it almost to the stage before he gets up and overtakes August, making it look like it’s AUGUST who misunderstood the program, rather than Wille going offscript (already).

He humiliates August in front of the entire nation and he doesn’t even bat an eye.

Wille told Felice “I’m gonna take away everything he cares about - (…) being a prefect and the team captain, and the power.”

And by god he DID.

[fairylwt]

young royals characters as textposts

[aledlastbestie]

August getting the crown was a way to punish him for everything he's done

Since season 1 they have been repeating the same phrase "the crown is a privilege, not a punishment", Wille always felt the crown was a punishment while for August it was a privilege, when he still could not fully understand what it really meant to have it.

August had idealized the crown and Wille's life. Wille had his parents, he had Erik as a brother and he had the crown; In August's eyes, Wille had it all, but the reality was that Wille's life was much more complicated and stressful than August believed.

In his last conversation with Vincent and Nils, when August tells them that he is Wille's spare, his friends tell him something like "that's actually a bad thing, being just his cousin you enjoyed the privileges of being related to the royal family without the responsibilities, pressures, obligations, etc. This is going to be better for us because we are your friends and we can enjoy the privileges of being 'the friend of' but you are now going to have the entire burden of the title on your shoulders."

This is when the series shows us that that phrase that they had been telling us since season 1 was not true since the crown is a punishment.

Everything August believed the crown was was fantasy and idealization but the reality of what it means to be the crown prince is much more complex and harsh.

Wille managed to be free by leaving the crown and in a way imprisoning August. He could not report him to the police and have him go to jail for the crime he committed, but he could arrest him with that title and condemn him to an unhappy life.

Now Wille is free but August is not

[jflower278]

IM SERIOUS THE GUY WHO PLAYS AUGUST IN YOUNG ROYALS NEEDS TO WIN AN AWARD FOR HIS PERFORMACE LIKE GIVE HIM HIS TENS HIS FLOWERS MALTE GARDINGER YOU ATE THAT ROLE UP ESPECIALLY IN SEASON 3

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

So at what point do we think Nils and Vincent figured out August was the one that leaked the video?

They're not stupid. At least not socially. In fact, throughout the series we see that they are socially very intelligent, regardless of their book smarts. They prove time and time again that they can read social situations, that they can read August like a book. They are probably the most socially aware people in their group, actually, having figured out how close they want to be to royalty for the perks, before even royalty has figured it out for themselves.

There's almost no way they didn't figure it out. They saw the sudden and direct shift in Wilhelm and August's dynamic after the video. Nils himself comments on the difference in season three, mentioning to Wilhelm that he and August "used to be close." Surely Nils was a little suspicious after Wille abruptly shut him down and all but refused to speak with his own cousin.

Wilhelm and August physically fought each other. Nils and Vincent watched it happen. They know August, and they know he doesn't resort to violence. In fact, personally I'm not sure if August would be able to fight anyone considering he got his ass whooped by both Simon and Wilhelm. And, sure, Wille is "known" for beating people up, but not beating up his family. He spends most of his time protecting his family, including (begrudgingly) August.

So, they know both of those boys, know they wouldn't fight each other for no reason, and yet they do. They do fight each other, and Nils and Vincent watch completely dumbfounded.

The moment I went "oh they probably know" is when they were genuinely surprised August was going to Wilhelm's birthday, and they were decidedly not when August showed back up at school early. They knew. They were so aware that August being there just didn't make sense.

Do they know? They have to know. When did they figure it out? What was the moment they realized?

[urmumhasacrushonme]

[paranoiacally-anxious]

“We need more complex characters!!¡¡!”

Bitch, be for real, you couldn't handle him:

[hillerska-official]

Frog Prince thoughts

In season 2 we talked a lot about the glass of the snowglobe breaking was symbolic of Wille being freed in some sense, but what we saw in season 3 was that wasn't actually enough. For Wille to truly be happy the whole thing had to go (as it finally does in the last episode).

Erik gave that snowglobe to Wille just as he passed down the crown prince title. Wille, in turn, did not pass it down to anybody, but rather tossed it altogether, and it's Kristina and Ludvig who give a NEW frog prince to August.

Metaphors that become increasingly clear as they reach their end Mine Beloved

[rhetorical-conscience]

Young Royals Characters as John Mulaney (because it was bound to happen eventually)

Simon:

Wilhelm:

Erik:

August:

Sara:

Ayub:

Nils:

Malin:

Kristina:

[heartbreakprincewille]

I was watching the scene where Wille points the gun at August and it's such a brilliant scene for many reasons but the one that hit me the most is that Simon got to see the degree to which Wille was affected by the video.

In the Music Room fight that went down between them in the last episode, Simon basically says that Wille had it easy in terms of facing the repercussions of the video as compared to Simon. And Wille is rightfully offended because Simon fails to understand that just because the manner in which they both suffered was different, it doesn't mean that the suffering itself was any less for Wilhelm.

Like, when Wilhelm points the gun at August, the anger that flashes on his face is not some sort of a "quarrel" between the Royals, it's Wilhelm's pain resurfacing in the form of sheer anger, all the sleepless nights and tears bubbling and making their way into his voice. It's so evident in that scene, how Wilhelm was deeply affected by everything that went down and now that Simon had a chance to bring some justice to both of them, August snooped in and took that chance away from them. Like, Simon must have finally understood that the game is not rigged just for him, but Wilhelm is as much of a victim as Simon is. That Wilhelm's hurt ran so deep that he was ready to blow off his own cousin's head. And it could be one of the realizations that helped Simon understand that it's not him vs Wille, they both were equally devastated by August's actions and even more so, Wille's loyalty will always lie with what's right, and with Simon.

[allweleftunspoken]

this was peak cinema

[dusty-daydreams]

Think about how in episode 2, when Wille is going off on August about August talking to Simon, and August’s response is “You’re not King yet”

It’s telling about August’s relationship to power that he doesn’t think people in general have the power to draw boundaries like: Hey person that posted my underage sex tape that I didn’t consent too - don’t talk to my boyfriend whose privacy and sexuality you also violated.

No the only person with the power to decide what August can and can’t do is the monarch

Also thinking about King August ten or twenty years down the line discovering just how little actual meaningful power the monarch has