No because I JUST realized that you're on your own kid is Tedros' song like as if it could ever be about someone else (I mean Taylor was clearly talking about my boy).
"I play it cool with the best of them
I waited patiently
He's gonna notice me
It's okay, we're the best of friends
Anyway"
Surrounding himself with the cool kids, playing a part that he dosen't if it even fits him yet and yearning for that pearson to notice you and give you the validation you so desperately crave (his dad, agatha, even sophie at you-know-when).
"From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes
I waited ages to see you there
I search the party of better bodies
Just to learn that you never cared"
The loss of innocence and playfulness replaced with the quiet aftermath of reality.
how utterly alone he has been all these years in a quiet and decadent castle, waiting for ages thinking that maybe in the school he could have it better, with friends.
Or even how eager he was to fall in love unconditionally with someone who didn't seek him just because of his crown just for him to learn that his current girlfriend didn't really care if he lived or died at the Trial. Awkward.
"I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this
I hosted parties and starved my body
Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss"
The struggles of royal life, the epitome of rich people problems but you take away the rich cause his daddy left him nothing but debts and issues.
And still he had to make it do, this boy-king. Copping the only way he knew. wich is to say, it was questionable. Caring for what he thought Good, what his father and every single Ever around taught him Good was. So many questionable choices here.
it was never something he thought to question. He was Good. There was no other option. For what would he do or be if not what people expected him to. So he trained and groomed, gave his blood sweat and tears for that perfect image, even if a precarious one. All of it to go towards the end game: true love, a prosperous Camelot, happy ending. It was all the same in the end.
"The jokes weren't funny, I took the money
My friends from home don't know what to say
I looked around in a blood-soaked gown
And I saw something they can't take away"
To be subject to everyone's opinions on him, the reporters and headlines, the price of a fame he never had the opportunity to ask for and the inherent loneliness that comes with it.
Money and friends from home, well he can't really relate to those.
But even in the midst of a brutal fairytale, soaked on his own blood he finally saw agatha for who she really was, kind and selfless and heroic. And, just like with Yuba's challenges, even if his brain took a while to catch up, something on him already knew.
'"Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
Everything you lose is a step you take
So take the friendship bracelets
Take the moment and taste it
You've got no reason to be afraid
You're on your own, kid
Yeah, you can face this"
Tedros arc is honestly just so sad, he loses it all, his friends (not one of them remains if you don't count bea, reena and the other Ever girlies, agatha and sophie - I'm talking about Chad, Nicholas and the rest of the dead boys club), his crown, his family. Those bridges were literally burned down but that wasn't really a choice of his.
Also that idealized image he had of his dad that he finally let's go of is also one of these losses that take him to that lovely character growth.
There's no way of winning that entire shit show of a fairytale but moving on, step by step.
Appreciating what little he has left. Every aspect and second of it. And realizing that, yes, he was all alone that whole time, but he survived this far. So he's probably gonna be okay.
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