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Maybe Wille is thinking of his mom, who did fuck him over, but who he keeps trying to reach anyway 😢

During that classroom scene in S3E1, when Felice says, “…they think it’s degrading to miss someone who’s fucked you over so damn hard.”

And Simon replies, “well it is degrading.” His face looks so small like he’s not just talking about Sara. Then we get that great cut to Wille’s equally somber expression and I’m just :((( about it all :(

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I actually think this is spot on. I’ve always thought the little tussle between Wille and August to hold his luggage - in the very first episode when Wille is being dropped to Hillerska … was foreshadowing. Well August ‘wins’ in that scene. He literally takes the baggage off Wille’s hands, while Wille is saying “I can do it”

The ink heart drawing and what it means

Simon draws a heart on Wille's hand, and it's very cute and teenager of him, but he's also creating a symbol of their love. On Wille's left hand, the one on the side of the heart.

He's doing it with his hand on Wille's left wrist, over Erik's clock. Which is covered by his pink sweater. Red is the colour of trauma in YR, and Wille is literally wearing a fair coloured version of it.

Wille didn't reject the tattoo idea, he said his mother would cut his head off if he got one. Decapitating Royals, another nod to the French revolution.

It tells us that it's what she's trying to do - murder their love. Because it's making her sick. Literally. That's her feelings about her son's sexuality and his love for Simon.

Near the end of episode 1, Wille fondles the hand with the heart drawing. He's revelling in the love he and Simon shares. He wishes it was permanent. But he's not allowed. And it's already fading.

Wille loves Simon and can't let that happen. But look what we see in the foreground when he's reaching for the pen: Erik’s watch!

He's choosing the pen, to ink the symbol of love into his skin again.

He’s choosing Simon’s love. He redraws the heart that was faded. He leaves his survivor guilt behind. That's a massive amount of foreshadowing!

He's so happy too! Loving Simon makes him happy. Love makes him happy. And he's never had that before.

But of course, the red lights are inescapable. They're shaped like a crown, the red light of the trauma it causes right behind him.

And in the very next scene, he recieves a message from Farima about "concerning news" with an order to call her.

What a moodkill.

Kristina says "One day you'll be a wonderful king, Wilhelm."

Wille replies "What happens if I don't want that?"

His mother is the monarchy. As simon told him in season 2, he is the monarchy.

Crown Prince Wilhelm will have to decapitate himself- not literally of course, it's a liberation, not death - so he can make that love permanent.

He needs to renounce his right to the line of succession. Only then can he get his and Simon's love inked it into his hand and his heart forever.

And now we know this is what Wille wants. He wants Simon. He wants love, without the burden of legacy and survivors guilt.

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My silly little S3 trailer observations:

1) Simon goes to the palace wearing his sweatshirt and button-down combo, then he buttons up his shirt to appear more formal

2) I think all this is the same evening, yes the hallway hanky-panky too. Seems like the same vibe and the white shirts are their uniform shirts imo…

3) The same paparazzi clicking Wille, and then Simon, as they return to Hillerska

4) “Can’t we forget about what has happened, for one night?” seems to refer to this night. There seems to be some tension between Wille and Simon… and Wille is drinking again after abstaining all of S2 💀 . Then they sneak out to the lakeside..

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I sometimes sympathize with Queen Kristina in S2 and then I remember this:

Jan-Olof would have never had the guts to try to use physical force on the Crown Prince unless the Queen explicitly allowed it. On her own son. And had his own security detail do it.

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Season 3 theme (maybe duh) : “The price you pay for honesty”

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I know shit hit the fan in S2 Episode 5, but in hindsight it’s so brilliant that Simon and Wille were in such a good place when Simon gave what turned out to be the only performance of “Simon’s song”. <royal court = 💩 >

The intense eye contact and shy smiles and Simon literally singing a love song to Wille at the fucking Valentine’s ball. Marcus who?

Also so glad that Simon got his moment to show his talent in front of the whole school and got such mad applause that the headmistress was actually whooping(!)

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Wille to Simon after coming back from winter break:

“Phew! Royal scandal averted. Can we go back to eye fucking in class pls?”

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“Does that make you horny?”

“Just shut up”

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he’s giving absolute loser here 😍

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Is it even

A Hillerska event if

Wille & Simon

Don’t sneak away

To make out in corners

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Ok this kiss is getting a little frisky considering they are literally outside. These two never had any chill tbh.

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What Marcus was trying say when he bought up Micke was basically this: “Simon you’ve got major daddy issues… falling in love with a hot-and-cold, denies-your-existence, literal prince like Wilhelm”

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Coming to Simon’s rowing match, kissing him and saying “We’ll get them next year!” was such a boyfriend thing to do though

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If August is next in line to Wilhelm, could August’s father have been next in line to Kristina? And getting removed from line of succession after Erik and Wilhelm were born was what drove him to addiction and bankruptcy? Omg I think I’m unhinged 🤪

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Even though Wille was fully committed to Project Takedown-August all through Season 2, he never again used August’s money situation against him.

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As much as Valter and Henry and the boys are friendly with Wilhelm, Wilhelm is also a constant source of gossip for them. They’ve literally seen how much he’s controlled by the Royal Family, seen him forced to go to hillerska, seen him go through the backlash of the video, how he was pressured to hide his sexuality, how he’s constantly followed by bodyguards. They’ve even seen him almost get pulled out of the school over some drama they can only conjecture about.

Even after all that obvious trauma, Wilhelm’s life is still a little like celebrity gossip at that school. Henry just couldn’t resist the urge to snitch and the entire school somehow found out about Felice the very next day.

No wonder he says “At some point I’d like to walk into a room and not have everyone staring at me” or something like that to Nils later that day.

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Another little parallel in this scene is how Simon was the one asking Wilhelm to stay in bed in S1 (“We can cut class”), and now Wilhelm is asking Simon stay a little longer because they don’t have class that day.

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