#august young royals

[kattrinapuppys]

The meme it's funny 😭👊

[weirdgirlvampire]

Ok but what ever happened to roseau

[idoquitelikebread]

*young royals spoilers*

Guys ik augusts the worst. BUT IF HE BUYS HER THE HORSE I WILL LITERALLY CRY TEARS IS THAG WHY HE TOOK OUT THE INHERITANCE IS THIS LOVE

[grunge-gay-bitches]

Remember to close ur curtains

[marylily-my-beloved]

you guys its august, don't forget to close your curtains

[myfavcharacterdidntdrown]

GUYS CLOSE YOUR CURTAINS.

AUGUST IS COMING.

CLOSE YOUR FUCKING CURTAINS.

ITS ALMOST AUGUST.

HE IS COMING FOR YOU.

IM WARNING YALL.

[niamhthefae]

i don't know if this is just me, but i feel like they could have done more with August's eating disorder.

after the strike when he does his whole talk about how he finds it's nice to be hungry and Simon says it sounds like an eating disorder it's not really brought up. i get that there was a lot of other plot things going on and Simon and Wille still hate him a lot, so they probably wouldn't be the ones to say anything but that type of thing isn't just instantly forgotten. i think even if someone had at least said "hey, about what you said the other night, is everything alright?" it would have been better. of course he would deny it, but it feels like it makes more sense.

also, not to feel sorry for August, but I'm scared of what is going to happen to him after the show. like, he has to learn how to be king and everything and that is not a good situation to have a secret eating disorder. Also, i think if it became public the stress would probably send the queen into illness again. and what would happen if he went untreated? what is he got worse and worse until he was too weak to rule. would Wille be forced to step in? would they try to keep it under wraps while they get a doctor and a therapist and people to monitor him? (probably)

the fic writers need to start including this in their post-season 3 fics because EDs don't just disappear and August is going to continue with it if he doesn't get found out/get help, and the added stress of being the monarch of Sweden in training will probably send him spiraling.

[kayzthespaze]

NO SARA!! NOOOOOO!! WHYYYYYYY!! GET AWAY FROM HIM! I FUCKING HATE AUGUST

[mayanayze42]

[piebingo]

I still think daily about this moment.

Sara in s3 became so strong. Strong enough to let go of her loved ones when she could see she was hurting them. Strong enough to accept they might never forgive her. Strong enough to forgive herself and forgive others for things she thought she wouldn’t ever forgive. Strong enough to see value in herself. And strong enough to choose between two loves, and holding down onto what she wants, instead of letting other dictate what she wants.

August asks her in this scene why just because she wants them to stay broken up, they should, and I feel like past-Sara would have definitely let that moment guide her into getting back with August, because she used to let other (more influential) people dictate what it is that she wants. But she finally reached a point where she can say no. Where she can say that indeed, her not wanting to be with August anymore is enough for them to not be together. It’s a really beautiful journey that unfolded within her.

Also that moment in the picture above is just iconic he was crying and getting heartbroken and she just tells him that? I’ve always loved her. You go girl👏

[miss-morgans-lover]

Wilhelm and August both getting put in the therapy room together after their fight is hilarious to me

[lieve-muis]

[isamemario9459]

Do you think Kristina would abdicate rather than let August taint her legacy? Why/why not?

I don't think she'd abdicate. She didn't have much of rebuttal when Wilhelm did which basically already guaranteed August the crown. Also even when the tape got leaked in season 1 Kristina didn't tell Wilhelm, and if Felice never found out he might not have even found out and Kristina would still protect August. It looked like she saw little to no problem with it being him.

Kristina doesn't even know about his substance abuse or eating disorder. She'd have no idea what she's getting into.

[etvie]

Do you think Kristina would abdicate rather than let August taint her legacy? Why/why not?

Thank you very much for the question! 🥰

August being next in line after Wilhelm is actually a plot point that confuses me a bit. Shouldn’t there be an order of succession that everyone is aware of? Apparently not, Kristina explains that they chose August after Wilhelm’s outburst.

So if it’s a choice, we already know where Kristina stands. She appointed him as the spare right after he committed a very serious criminal offense (child pornography/revenge porn) against her own son. She then repeatedly tried to involve him more in the royal family, even in her son’s private birthday dinner.

Personally I don’t understand why the royal court doesn’t think he is a liability (attacking the Crown Prince doesn’t demonstrate loyalty and if people learn about what he did, it will look bad for the monarchy), but Kristina and her staff made their position clear, they chose to back August.

Anyway no one seems to know yet that he is the new heir, so they could still change their mind without any consequence. I’m sure if Kristina wanted, she could get him out of the picture without needing to abdicate.

Also I do hope that August will become a better person. I’m not sure he would taint her legacy. Wilhelm turning on him affected him a lot and then his last scheme made him lose his girlfriend. Maybe it was the lesson he needed.

[kwonzoshi]

I’m sending you an ask just because you used the cutest gif of baby Edvin (and also bc I love talking about Young Royals).

What do you think about August’s future? Could he be happy as heir/king? Has he learned enough from his mistakes to become a good king?

Well, ily and thank you 😘

I think he’s in for a RUDE awakening. He has this unrealistic idea of what being royal is like, and now he’s about to really see it. We actually get a glimpse of this when Jan Olof tells him about a 10 year plan and was SHOOK… idk what he thought it was but it’s definitely not all sunshine and rainbows. Especially since the queen doesn’t want him to reign either.

I don’t think he’d be a good king because he’s selfish. He would use his power for his personal gain. He’d keep up appearances of course, but underneath it all he’s a piece of shit.

[sunnyelfs]

I can't stop thinking about August after what we learned about him in season three

I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but August made a difference. I've seen people say it doesn't matter because he didn't eliminate initiation completely, but I can't agree with that. We've seen through a wide variety of characters that almost no one even cared to make a difference. Generations of students at Hillerska simply turned a blind eye and accepted the status quo. And this is especially interesting in the context of Erik, August, and Wille.

From what we know about the hierarchy at Hillerska, Erik in his third year would have been the most powerful student in the school, much less in Forest Ridge. We know very little about Erik. We could say that he seemed like a pretty confident person, but we can't know for sure if that was the truth or just a facade. What we can say for sure, however, is that if he really wanted to, he could have changed his classmates' minds and removed THAT part in the initiation. He didn't. He didn't even refuse to take part himself, and as far as we know he didn't see a problem with Wille going through the initiation as well.

But August, who was somewhere near the bottom of the hierarchy in his first year, decided to gain power, and what was his goal? To make a difference. Which he did. His motives were mostly selfish, no doubt, but, you know, I genuinely don't care what people are motivated by if their contribution actually helps someone. Yes, he didn't cancel the initiation completely - he couldn't have. In season two, we saw how little it really took for his own friends to oust him as head boy and captain. If he had tried to insist on not doing the first-year initiation at all, he would have met exactly the same resistance from his fellow students because, again, most of them treated the situation as "if we suffered, they should too." In that case, August wouldn't have changed anything at all. But he was clearly able to convince the others that the video part could be left out, and it was accepted.

To be honest, I got the impression from season two that Wilhelm would also be the one to use his power to make changes. We've already seen him convince the Society to turn against Alexander instead of Simon. We've also seen his subtle (and not so subtle) manipulations in season two. Until the final season, I thought that in his third year, Wilhelm would also be the head boy and probably lead the Society, and for his part, do his best to reform their old traditions. Because that's the way these things usually happen: gradually.

I thought about all of this before the final episode and before the fandom discussion, before I found out that the series wasn't at all what I thought it was, so… I guess none of this makes sense.