#Also I watched the last episode of Ted Lasso yesterday and it made me realize it was possible some people were actually...

[andthatisnotfake]

I find it interesting and funny (and a bit sad too) when I see posts talking about how Wille saw Simon on a date with someone else and immediately threatened to abdicate. I assume some of these are reductive for comedy, because you all know that that was just the last straw, right?

Wille was forced to go to a boarding school, forced to make a statement in which he said "no one is more disappointed in me than my family" (which was actually written/approved by said family), lost his brother in a tragic accident, had a huge responsibility and even higher expectations suddenly thrown into him, had an intimate video of him leaked for the world to see, was outed by said video, was forced (convinced? manipulated in?) to deny that it was him in the video (which implicitly told him he continued to be am embarrassment and disappointment to his family), lost the boy he loved because of that (which he definitely felt immense guilt over), was left virtually alone for weeks to deal with all of this, which he did by not really processing much of it and funneling all his feelings into the idea of revenge against August, had to hear Simon say he wanted space, and then finally saw Simon on a date with someone else, by which point be lost it. Honestly, what impresses me most is that it took so long.

And the thing is nobody (in the story) understood him. Not only his mother, but everyone else, seemed to view it as a teenager throwing a tantrum for something small and silly, like they had merely said to him that he couldn't go to a party. I thought for a moment that his mother understood him, but no, she didn't and neither did anyone else.

In the end, her suggestion for him to go to therapy ended up helping because it was indeed something that could help him, even if the reason for the suggestion was not the most relevant.

What he needs mostly though is time. He needs time to fully process everything he's been through, to rage and cry and anything else he needs to be. But in order to do that he needs a break. And he just. can't.seem.to catch.one.

Hopefully Simon's love will also help him heal. 💜