#stella young royals

[simon-eriksson]

Fredrika & Stella | 3.06

[raincitygirl76]

To be perfectly honest, I found 3.06 a bit of a letdown. All Wilhelm’s problems won’t magically disappear just because he’s abdicating. And I found Kristina’s acquiescence deeply implausible. If someone has acted one way for 17 episodes, it’s tough to believe they’re magically a reformed character in the eighteenth episode.

There were a lot of things I really liked about the episode, don’t get me wrong. But for me, the entire third season didn’t hang together the way the first two seasons did. This last episode felt like such an abrupt tonal transition from the darkness of 3.01 through 3.05.

I loved that the boys (and Sara and Felice) got a happy ending. But I was hoping for….more. This ending didn’t feel entirely earned to me. The first 5 episodes of the season dealt with the downward spiral so well, and then they tried to abruptly bring everything back up again in a single episode.

Apologies if I’m going against the general zeitgeist here. But at this point I’m simultaneously relieved my four faves all got a happy ending, and feeling let down. Because they patched everything up in the space of an hour, and it was a rush.

That said, there were things I thought were spot on. Sara and Felice were note perfect. Nils and Vincent being dismayed about August’s promotion to working royal was great. And Stella and Fredrika being sapphic, but still being classist, snobby bitches. Being queer doesn’t automatically turn someone into a nice person.

But in terms of the central pairing, I’m feeling a bit let down. Like they didn’t quite earn their happy ending and I’m not quite sure it’ll really stick in the long term.

[young-royals-confessions]

I don't understand how Henry, Walter, Stella, and Fredrika are spared so much heat and criticism other characters get for being toxic, privileged, and mean. To be honest I don't see a big difference between their behavior and that of the August / Nils / Vincent crew (who I don't like either). I know it's the point of their characters but I'm still stuck on the comments they all made in the classroom scene in S1, criticizing welfare recipients and especially what Henry said to Simon about what his dad did. Then in s3 the way Stella treated Rosh like a plaything, then were supposed to root for her and Fredrika? Idk. I just don't get the love.

[waltybrainrot]

first and last appearances

(i am so sorry madison but getting a flattering ss of the last scene was impossible)

(thanks for this idea @zee-has-commitment-issues)

[sflow-er]

New post-canon fic: The Windsor

After the formative year at Hillerska that brought Henry Silfverfeldt and Walter Strömbäck into each other’s lives, a lot of people assumed said lives would be upended by romantic feelings sooner or later. An event to celebrate their twenty years of friendship makes Henry think about how those people turned out to be wrong - but only about the feelings.

OR: An aged-up Henry character study, with flashbacks to the years that have passed since the end of canon. Features queerplatonic Walty, reunited childhood friends Henry & Stella, and a whole lot of thoughts on whether noble firstborn sons are allowed to be aroace.

Read chapter 1: Stockholm, August 2040 (part I) on ao3.

[sadhappylady]

For Young Royals Drabble Challenge 2024

@youngroyals-events

Exotic

Stella noticed Sara's new sweater as soon as Felice and Sara entered the library, laughing together. Huh. Sara couldn't afford YSL.

Stella pursed her lips.

It wasn't that she wanted Felice to buy her things. She could afford to buy her own clothes, thank you very much. But why Sara? Why would Felice choose to hang out with Sara when she had Stella and Frederika? Even Madison was tolerable and fun.

Yes, she could admit it was exotic at first hanging out with the poor townie. But now…

"Nice sweater, Sara!" she smiled as Sara and Felice joined her table.

Chapter 3 of What we don't say

[ramblingsfromthytruly]

ok but like marauders young royals au with marylene as stella+fredrika when???

[bluedalahorse]

Vacation - (Stella x Fredrika)

Thank you for your request! I’ve never had a chance to write stedrika before. I thought about their New York trip and decided to have them interact with one of my favorite books by Nancy Garden, hope that’s okay.

Tagging @youngroyals-events because this drabble challenge was their brainchild.

Letters From Annie and Liza (link to AO3)

Read any novel in English this summer. An assignment from another teacher, before Hillerska. Fredrika chooses Annie on My Mind and wonders, later, why it made her chest ache.

Until Stella kisses her.

Fredrika rereads Annie and Liza’s love story en route to New York. A plan takes shape in her mind. A date, copied from the book. It’s the kind of sincerity neither she nor Stella easily expresses.

Her stomach tightens as they enter the Cloisters. What if…?

Then, standing before of the unicorn tapestries, Stella breathes out:

“…so beautiful.”

Maybe they can wear their hearts openly after all.

[yeebeemaxheehee]

young royals finale so good i cried for twenty minutes

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

Thinking about how the biggest difference between Stella being nice to Rosh and Stella being mean to Rosh was the amount of alcohol she'd had.

[young-royals-confessions]

Stella and Federika were always terrible people. It took the 3rd season to give us a clear view of their true colors . They are a watered down version of Vincent & Niels.

I bet Felice had to sit through plenty of tone deaf conversations with them.

[waiting-star]

ok but the way they foreshadowed roshella in s2..... 🍭

[evie-doesnt-write]

Young Royals genuinely did class criticism so fucking well. Many types I see media fall into the ‘both the upper class and lower class are just victims of a system that pits them against each other… the upper class have it just as bad just in different ways’ troupe, and I was afraid that Young Royals would do the same. But instead it ended tackling the subject very well.

Through characters like Stella, Fredrika, Nils and Vincent, we see the students of Hillerska humanised. The audience come to understand these characters as real people who are neither inherently good nor bad. We see how they are the same system that protects them and keeps them on top also hurts them. And both the audience and the show sympathises them.

But the show still holds them accountable. It shows us that by choosing the remain in the system as they are and perpetuate its values, without reexamination or revolution, they will harm not only others (as their privilege exists on the basis of others not having that privilege, on the rights of others), but also themselves.

Unless they breaks out of it, the cycle will continue. They all keep making the same mistakes as those before them for the sake of tradition. They’ll idolise tradition despite how it has hurt and continues to hurt them and how it makes them hurt others. They perpetuate suffering.

Wille and Felice can grow and change, because they question tradition and the system upheld by it, and decide to reject it. They decide on revolution. And as a result both of them end the show happy and free.

[sflow-er]

Hi! 3 and 7 for the ask game?

Hello! Thank you so much for the numbers!

3. Favorite platonic friendship

I hope you don't mind me giving several answers here!

My number one is Sara and Felice. It's not only an amazingly written, genuinely character-driven friendship that evolves through the seasons and fuels both of their own story arcs and individual growth...but also something kind of subversive to see in a story about teenage girls. In so many stories, the popular girl would have also been a mean girl, and Sara would have got the blame for August kissing her in S1, but instead, they made Felice a sweetheart and the girls stick together. In so many stories, their falling out would have been treated as lesser than a romantic breakup, but instead, it was explicitly confirmed as equal or even more substantial in S3. There's just something really beautiful, relatable, and validating about how Sara and Felice's friendship is written throughout the show.

My runner-up is Simon and Ayub, who as you said are just so soft and funny together. Love to see such a sweet, non-toxic, emotionally intimate portrayal of friendship between teenage guys!

And I can't resist adding that I'm partial to the dynamic between Henry and Simon, which started out as starkly antagonistic in S1 (controversial opinion maybe, but Simon did attack Henry's family first) and softened from S2 on. As a politically active leftist who has seen the divisions deepen in real life, I'm nostalgic for a world where those on the opposite ends of the political spectrum could still come together as people. I get that it wasn't necessarily the message the show wanted to leave us with, but even in S3, I did read Henry as having accepted Simon as "their very own soap-box socialist." He seemed sincere asking how the labour movement celebrated on 1 May, and he included Simon in "we're brothers" when interrupting Wilmon in the library. I love that Simon had won him over.

To some extent, Henry seemed to have grown on Simon as well. I would've liked to see an explicit reconciliation between them (and I also wrote one in my post-S1 fic), but Simon didn't seem to need it. I do think there were too many differences for him to see Henry even as a casual friend, but their interactions were amiable towards the end. Hell, he was nowhere near as snarky as he could have been about Henry offering money for the half-eaten lollipop!

So yeah, I think their dynamic is intriguing and something that can definitely be explored further in fic.

7. Character you didn’t initially like/love but have now warmed up to

Stella! I strongly disliked her mean girl ways in S1 - her dig about welfare scammers with a totally unprovoked glare at Simon and Sara, and the meaningful look between her and Fredrika when Sara said she might have to leave Hillerska. In S2, I found myself just waiting for her to turn against Sara, which she very quickly did at the end. Despite putting on a thin veil of female solidarity earlier in the season, she was immediately ready to cast Sara out for (she assumed) getting with Felice's ex, and she even said that thing about secrets when Sara had kept hers. In S3, I liked her little flirtation with Rosh, but then she went and acted like a total asshole at the neon party so...yeah, I did not come out of the final season liking her.

But then. Then there was some discussion on here about the disproportionate amount of hate that Stedrika and Felicia got after S2, which I always found disgraceful even though I didn't much care for Stella or Stedrika. After answering a couple of anons about it and defending the point of having them in the show and even shipping them, I had a sort of epiphany. I realised my own past experiences with mean girls were seriously clouding my view and making me withhold the same grace from her that I readily gave to the male characters. At the end of the day, I still think she is objectively meaner than Henry, but she is a compelling character all the same. I'm even writing her into a fic now!

(Also, it definitely helped that someone on here managed to catch a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot of her and Fredrika kissing at the party before Rosh even gets there. That doesn't excuse her behaviour but does explain it.)

Wow this really turned into a ramble...! Thank you again for enabling it haha.

I'm still open to more asks if anyone wants to send them! (Already answered: 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21)

[itzmoss]

i recently came back from a trip and i saw an interaction at a rest stop and it just stuck in my head cus it was soooo walty coded

basically as i was walking in, a group of friends were walking out

and two boys linked arms and started skipping together

and the girl behind them was just like “NO NO THEY ARE NOT WITH ME THRY ARE NOT WITH ME!”

it was so funny

but yes it was henry and walter and the girl was prolly stella lmaooo

[fan-of-young-royals]

I still don’t understand why Fredrika, Stella and Madison were mad at Sara

I get that they have friend-loyalty to Felice but they seemed to think it was about August even though she literally told them it wasn’t??

Also, even if they did think it was August, none of them liked him anyways and Madison knows that Felice was happy when they broke up