#felice ehrencrona analysis

[raincitygirl76]

Excellent, thoughtful review, but chock full of spoilers for all of Season 3 of YR.

[allthefakepeople]

there's something about felice in her first real conversation with sara after everything at the white party where she admits to telling the inspector everything and that she's worried that she's the reason the school is shutting down only to have sara say that it's a good thing that she didn't lie which is immediate proof as to *why* sara is the real friend to felice when all of her other friends just got mad at her for telling the truth

[daylightaftertherain]

felice and wille’s dynamic in season one is actually so similar to marcus and simon’s in season 2. wille and simon both remember them from going to the same preschool, and they even introduce the characters with the same question of “you’re so and so’s son/daughter, right?” (erik asks that in s1, and simon asks marcus in s2). marcus and felice both wanted a lot more out of their relationship than wilhelm or simon, and they both kind of assumed the other’s feelings and were much more forward. and both wille and simon use their respective partners/friends to get over each other in s2. it’s an interesting parallel because felice and marcus are what everyone would assume are the best fits for wille and simon (felice comes from nobility, she was in love with wille, and it was a picture perfect match, and marcus was willing to be in a public relationship with simon, he came from a similar background, etc.), but wilmon obviously end up choosing each other, because their relationships with other characters just don’t have the same sparks.

[the-words-we-sung]

The songs of Young Royals - S1E2 & E3

And I'm back with another song analysis article ^^ You can find the first one (in which I covered the songs from S1E1) here. I'm gonna do 2 episodes in this post because there are not many songs in episodes 2 and 3!

No tomorrow, Ty Frankett, Stephane Lo Jacomo and Myariag Summers

I'll be in my feels They know I'm the truth When I'm pullin' up I'm bulletproof I don't really care 'bout the rules The most cool Wilhelm has ever looked ^^ He was all blushing and stressed during lunch about what almost happened with Simon, but here he's collected, alone but looking like he doesn't care and just plays it cool. He's the Prince so I guess it's true that the "rules" don't really apply to him but is he "bulletproof"? Unfortunately the whole debacle that is gonna happen with the sex video will prove that statement wrong... (We also know that most of the students at Hillerska don't care that much about the rules, and August says it himself: they could "murder someone and nobody would say a word")

ALPHA, Yung Titties

ABC I'm the alpha bitch If you wanna know who runs this shit ABC I'm the alpha bitch When I'm in a car, I'm driving When I'm on a date, I'm buying Yes girls!! They run this shit ^^ I like that they choose this song when we see the 4 girls hanging out together. I do like them (Felice, Stella, Frederika and Madison) (putting Sara on the side because *complicated feelings*) They're far from perfect but compared to most of the guys in the school, they're pretty cool. I love Felice and how smart/nice/strong she is, and I love her friendship with Wilhelm later on. I hope she'll become even more badass in season 3!! And Madison is the best (and one of the few people in this school who is not terrible to Simon). The song stops as soon as August arrives and takes a chair to sit next to Wilhelm: because yeah, he's not an "alpha". I like that Madison and Felice don't take shit from August: when he starts mocking Simon and Sara (after Felice invites them to the movie night), they immediately tell him off. Then we see Vincent and Nils join August and start bothering the girls (throwing gums/candies at them) and they're not impressed: it's a very short scene but it highlights the fact that they're not interested in their stupid behavior. It's also the episode in which we see the difference between the girls and the boys when it comes to their relationships: we learn at the beginning that Madison and Nils hooked up during the party, but also that Nils was bragging about it and giving the experience a 9/10 while Madison admits doing it mostly because she was bored and not being at all into Nils. We also see August pursuing Felice who is not interested at all. Who run the world? Girls!!

Äter upp dig, Maxida Märak

Nu ska vi leka hela världen är våran Huh inga hinder är för svåra Flyger över alla jag är lätt som en fjäder Strike like a pro BDSM läder Good boys gone bad Alla ser rött King Kong gone mad Jag är blöt du är naken Okay so it's a bit hard to do this one because it's in Swedish and I'm definitely not there yet with this language ^^' From what I understand with the translated lyrics, it's quite a "sexy" song (with some violent undertones: being a wolf, being naked, being wet, good boys gone bad, etc.). The first sentences are about playing and how they have the whole world, which is interesting because it's the parents day at Hillerska and we are introduced to a lot of upper class people, people who have a lot of money and power. In this sense, they are the people who can use the world as a playground: they have the means for that. They're rich and powerful, they're above. The lyrics are also about getting angry though, "seeing red, King Kong gone mad": a little nod to Simon and Sara being pebbles that are gonna throw the whole machinery off? During the lunch, Sara is going to mess up Felice's family with the riding issue (and they're the richest family apparently!). Wilhelm is also gonna upset the order by not sitting at August's table but choosing instead the one table with a family that doesn't belong to Hillerska's upper class environment. So I guess yeah, things aren't going to go that well. And to top it off, August is gonna learn that his family is in fact broke! Oh, how the rich and mighty have fallen...

Hillerska Song

Hope and faith wherever we roam As we make our way back home Oh, we meet with open hearts Another one in Swedish but with the English subtitles directly in the show so it makes it easier to understand ^^ Simon and Wilhelm look SO happy and smiling and smitten in this scene 💜 I like the idea of making their "way back home" because they're not there yet, but they're getting there: being a safe space, being home for each other. And yeah in this scene they still have "open hearts", because Erik has not died yet, because the sex tape hasn't been made/released yet, because none of the awful stuff that is going to make them close in on themselves has happened yet. And Wilhelm is so cute and happy (and it's gonna become very rare to see him like that afterward) that this song deserves another picture ^^

The songs of Young Royals - part 1

[heliza24]

Analyzing the Sex Scenes in Young Royals (Using Cinematic Language!)- Part 2

(You can read Part 1 here)

Since people seemed to like my first post breaking down the intimacy scenes in Young Royals (thank you all so much for reblogging!) I thought I would write you all a part 2. We've covered a lot of the Simon/Wilhelm scenes already, so this post is going to branch out to include some of the other characters. Writing the first post helped me pinpoint all of the techniques that really make the Simon/Wilhelm scenes special, and I think we can learn a lot about the creators' view of a pairing by looking at the ways in which those cinematic techniques are applied, or omitted, in non-Wilmon intimacy scenes.

But first, let's do one Wilmon scene, because I can't write a post that doesn't include them at all. Let's look at the fish naming scene in 1.5. I think it's one of the most special scenes in the series.

I really like how the needle drop song that's underscored the lead up to this scene (Wilhelm coming to Simon's house, the girls setting up for their sleep over at Manor House) climaxes and ends while Wilhelm's looking around Simon's room for the first time. There's something about it that captures the excitement and anxiety of a new partner seeing your space for the first time. I think you can tell that Simon is cognizant of how small his room must be compared to what Wilhelm is used to. But we can also see how happy Wilhelm is to learn about Simon by being in his space.

The space itself looks inviting and cozy (as Wilhelm says) because of how softly it's lit. I talk a lot about the wonderful golden light in these scenes, and this is probably the best example of it. The strongest light is coming from the fish tank, which helps turns their discussion about the fish into a symbol for their connection. (This symbol reverberates all the way into season 2; Simon refusing to tell Marcus the fish's names tells us all we need to know about their connection, or lack thereof.) The fishtank is also our way into the heightened sound mixing that's present in all of their intimate scenes. You can hear the filter buzz. It's so quiet and not something that you would normally notice. It really pulls you into the closeness of the scene.

I love the way the music comes in right when Wilhelm kisses Simon's neck. It's such a gentle melody, and I think we've heard pieces of it in their previous intimate scenes together. There's also something really interesting happening in the camera work here. It's not unusual for the cameras in Young Royals to be handheld, allowing for some natural movement in shots. But here the camera seems to almost float. As Simon lets himself get carried away by Wilhelm's touch, the camera almost seems to do the same. It moves with the characters, almost becoming part of the choreography of the scene. It really emphasizes how powerful Wilhelm and Simon's connection is.

Ok, now that we've reminded ourselves of the gold standard of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexiness that is Simon and Wilhelm together, let's compare it to a scene that is decidedly not any of those things: Felice and August in 1.3, when she goes to his room to hook up after Sara embarrasses her and Wilhelm rejects her at parents' weekend. The first thing I notice here is that this scene is much darker than any other intimacy scene in the show. (Literally and figuratively, you could say). There's no golden light here, and shadows fall over Felice's face especially, perhaps reflecting her dark state of mind. Unlike in the fish scene between Simon and Wilhelm, the camera itself isn't moving with the characters; instead it is still, dispassionately observing. I'm fairly sure that the music here is used in other places in the show (it's the track Sun After Rain on the season 1 soundtrack); in my mind this melody is associated with scenes in classes and corridors and groups of students. This emphasizes to me that this hookup is less about feeling and more about social standing; Felice is doing this explicitly to regain her footing after begin rejected, and August has always wanted Felice because she is high status. The music also continues into the next scene, where Simon packs his bag to stay overnight at Hillerska with Wilhelm. That continuation of music doesn't happen with any other sex scene, and it emphasizes how unspecial, how unelevated the scene between Felice and August is.

Let's stick with August for a minute, and examine how different his scene with Sara in 2.3 is to his scene with Felice. No matter how you feel about Sara and August in the long run, it's pretty clear to me that the show wants us to believe in their emotional and physical connection in this scene. All of the techniques in lighting, music, and sound that elevate the Simon/Wilhelm scenes (and that were missing in the August/Felice scene) are present here.

August playing innocent and saying he "just wants to talk" when Sara walks in always makes me laugh, because Sir! Your shirt is off and your room is bathed in golden sex light (tm)! But to be serious, I love the way his room is lit here. It looks cozy and inviting in a way that we haven't seen before. And it lets us see him in a whole new, tender light (once again, literal and figurative). I notice the sound shifting around the time August confesses that he feels like "the worst person in the world" and Sara comforts him. At this point in the scene you can hear the rustle of her clothes and the way her hand makes contact with his chest when she touches him. And then the dreamy music starts. This is a different melody than what we've heard in past scenes, but it has the same shimmery quality of the scoring in Simon and Wilhelm's interactions. There's a rising scale embedded in the melody, which makes it feel airy and hopeful. I love that these characters get to be a little silly together, which to me is always evidence of great chemistry. They fumble with the condom but they're laughing together, not at each other. They're working as a team. Sara is right under the golden lamplight for most of the scene and she looks radiant. I'm not fully sure what to make of August turning out the light part way through the scene. In some ways I feel like it amps up the intimacy, pulling us and the camera in even closer so we can see what's happening in the dark. But it could also foreshadow the ways in which the palace's offer is about to corrupt August and ruin the potential of their relationship.

Let's circle back to Felice and Wilhelm and see what happens when the show puts them together in 2.3. This scene is fascinating to me because of the layers of conflicting emotion going on. The lighting in this scene is so interesting! There is a source of golden light: the lamp near the head of Wilhelm's bed. But it doesn't illuminate the whole space. It mainly hits Felice and not Wilhelm. Unfortunately I don't think we get enough Felice development to really know what she's thinking in this scene. But my read of her is that there is at least a small part of her that is genuinely attracted to Wilhelm, even if her logical brain knows that they would be better off as friends. Regardless, I think her feelings in the scene are a lot more genuine than Wilhelm's, who is fully projecting his feelings about Simon onto her. So I think it's significant that she's lit and he's in relative darkness.

The music is high and anticipatory and bright, but after Wilhelm restarts the kiss after Felice stops him, there's a surging bass beat that adds a feeling of danger and uncertainty to the scene. On a blocking level, I think it's very significant that Wilhelm puts Felice into a very stereotypical heterosexual position here, with him on top and her on the bottom. This feels forced and wrong after the more fluid, queer give and take of the Simon/Wilhelm scenes we've seen. (It also really contradicts my personal read of the characters. There are two wolves inside of each of us and one of mine wants to know what would have happened if Felice had ended up on top instead and Henry hadn't interrupted. The other wolf feels like even suggesting something that isn't purely Wilhelm/Simon is blasphemy. I contain multitudes). The transition back into the "real world" when Henry knocks on the door isn't quite as stark as when Malin interrupts Simon and Wilhelm in season 1. The music fades rather than cuts off. I think that reflects the messiness of the way they are caught. That shot of Felice running down the corridor is so chaotic- she wriggles past Henry and cuts across an otherwise perfectly composed frame- and it really makes me feel for her. All of her conflicting feelings and shame are so palpable. One of my big wishes for season 3 is a fulfilling intimate scene for Felice, because I feel so sad about her encounters so far.

That's all I have for now! I hope you found the comparison between Wilmon and the other pairings illuminating. If you have additional thoughts about these scenes I would love to hear them!

(And a little PSA: If you enjoyed me talking about the sex scenes in Young Royals you might also enjoy me writing sex scenes for our Young Royals fic Heart and Homeland. Even though it's an AU we tried hard to capture the sacred tenderness that we love in the show, especially in the Simon and Wilhelm scenes.)

[youweremyversaillesatnight]

i’d like to talk a little about felice’s hair in both season one and season two (yes, including the comment from the housemistress).

we’ve talked this one to death but i’ve gone through every episode and there’s a lot. (i also may have gotten carried away and lost the plot a little)

for starters, in season one, no one says anything regarding hair or a dress code and i looked into lundsberg skola (people have said this is roughly the real life equivalent? i think?) and i couldn’t find a dress code on their website but in all of their photos, the girls have their hair down. i would assume this applies to non-white students as well, although i couldn’t find any pictures.

(taken from lundsberg skola website, skogshult dorm)

and in season one, the hillerska girls do too! maddie is the one who most often wears her hair up, and stella does half-up/half-down styles, but fredrika and sara typically wear their hair down, as do many of the other girls in the background.

even on parent’s day, arguably the most important school event in season one, felice’s hair is down, albeit pulled back.

during the formal dinner at the manor house, too, all the girls have their hair down except for maddie.

and, of course, everyone’s hair is down for lucia.

it’s interesting to me that when we see all of these influential parents, the majority of them wear their hair up, and yet the girls don’t follow suit. i don’t know if it’s a cultural thing, maybe a work dress code, or just different standards as girls/women age, but it does seem a little odd. hillerska is meant to prepare students for their futures as rich and influential individuals, so obviously there’s a higher standard for keeping appearance.

for felice, part of keeping appearance is straightening her hair, at least in season one. considering how her style changes in season two, i wonder if part of having her hair down all the time is showing off how much like everyone else she is (even if it isn’t true). she’s trying so hard to fit in and do what is expected of her in season one, and she’s almost hiding behind her hair a little bit. it might not be physically in her face, but straightening her hair is putting on armor that doesn’t quite fit.

in all of season one, the only time felice has her hair up is during riding, when all the girls have their hair up to keep it out of their faces and under their helmets. there is not a single moment outside of riding or coming back from riding that felice has her hair up. and the only difference between season one and season two is that felice is embracing her natural hair.

i do agree that it would have been nice to get more of felice’s individual storyline in season two, but i’m still holding out hope for season three. in any case, the very first time we see felice in season two, she’s at a salon (with other black women - i saw someone say black-owned as well, which would make sense) getting her hair done.

in season two, though, felice actually wears her hair up far more than in season one. in fact, her hair is up almost all the time. i’m not sure whether this is her choice or not. now that she isn’t hiding behind her hair, there’s no reason to keep it down all the time, but the change still makes me wonder if maybe she's been called out for it more than just the one time we see, since her hair is down for the choir performance/first day of class-

-and not much after that-

-until episode four (and the fact that she wears her natural hair for the ball? so much to say about that that i just don’t have the words for).

and then in episodes five and six-

-her hair is mostly down again. with all the drama in the last two episodes with sara, i wouldn’t be surprised if she’s hiding a little bit and (even if she isn’t straightening her hair) going back to old coping mechanisms by trying to treat her hair like she did before. of course, it could also just be that having her hair up is more comfortable now, or that it gets in her face more if it’s down. there might not be some big explanation. anyway, i can’t imagine that the staff are being more lenient about rules, with the jubilee coming up, so maybe there isn’t a rule at all? we’ll come back to that.

the exception, of course, is breakfast in 205, when the housemistress reminds felice to put her hair up.

i originally assumed that stella put her hair up as well even though she didn't get in trouble because she was, as established by fredrika, still drunk from the night before and also not entirely paying attention. however, considering everyone else has their hair up as well (except for maddie? why? idk) i'm pretty sure i assumed wrong.

now (backing up a bit), interestingly, in the formal dining scene in 202 (and all the other meals in season two), all the girls have their hair up, including felice. this is a direct contrast to season one, where they all have their hair down, as mentioned above. granted, this dinner looks less like a performance than the dinner in season one, but sara is still wearing her gifted dress, so i assume it’s more formal than a standard meal.

with all those things put together, i would almost wonder if hillerska changed their dress code. i can't imagine they would do that halfway through the year (and the fact that many girls still have their hair down in various situations, like the choir performances and during classes makes it seem unlikely), but they might have. lending credence to this is both sara and fredrika putting their hair up at breakfast, and then felice and stella later, but i'm still not entirely sure.

and, of course, whatever restrictions hillerska may or may not have regarding the girls’ hair, it clearly doesn’t include dye, considering stella’s purple bangs (and an extra in season one, i think?)

it definitely seems like there’s a double standard or changing expectation here, especially from season one to season two. if hillerska (or just the manor house) changed their dress code, especially in the middle of the year, there would have to be a reason. and as much as i hate to say it, felice is the only one who gets in trouble and the only one whose hair changes drastically. and given the way felice and alexander are treated in the show, it wouldn’t be entirely out of the realm of possibility that they would change the dress code because they don’t like her hair. i hope it isn’t that, but again, i don’t know. i would love more information on all of this in season three, but even if felice’s storyline gets more time, i don’t know that this specific bit will.

if there is a requirement for the girls' hair at all, changed or not, my best guess would be that it is specific to the manor house and most likely is only in effect during meals/house gatherings and that different activities and the school as a whole have their own uniforms and preferences that are not necessarily the same.

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

hey hi hey, i feel like someone's already asked you this, (if so oops--) but what is your opinion on felices (and all of saras other friends. ex friends??) reaction to saras love confession? i was expecting felice to feel generally just sorry for sara because with her experiences and willes, august is not a nice guy. but instead she seemed..angry?? like sara did something horrible by falling for august, which, even though she may have been a bit blind sighted, isn't something she could control. and then all of felices friends and saras ex-friends (now) kept speaking about loyalty and how a good friend wouldn't do what sara did. i can understand if it was just felice being worried about saras safety or concerned about how the relationship would play out, and maybe also a bit angry because august was a genuine shithead to both her, wille, and simon, but instead it was this whole loyalty thing. it just seemed a bit weird to me i guess.

Hi my love! I don't think anyone's asked me this, actually, and I'm grateful for the brain food.

I think there's very much two sides of a story here. Because for Felice, her anger is completely and utterly justified. Because Sara confessed that she's known about the video since winter, which is when it was posted. So Sara fell in love with August despite knowing exactly what was going on, and having known the entire time. Notice how, at first, when Felice doesn't know Sara knows about the video, she's not angry. She's more panicked. "You can't be in love with August. He's the worst person in the world!" Felice is trying to talk her out of it. She's not angry yet. She does get angry after the shooting range and finding out Sara knew everything. That is justified. Because it means Sara actively ignored all the horrible things August had done to everyone. To Wilhelm, to Simon, and to her.

August hurt Felice. He did horrible things to her. He tried to cheat on her with Sara. So now, it stretches so far beyond "Sara fell in love with a bad guy" and now it's "Sara watched him hurt everyone she cared about and hooked up with him anyway."

But in the case of Stella and Fredrika, it's not justified. Their anger is unfounded. "Girl Code" is a thing they mention, but they're friends with Sara, too. So if they plan to follow "girl code," should they not defend their friend being in love, no matter who it is? They don't know the whole situation. All they know is that Sara hooked up with Felice's ex. An ex Felice didn't even like all that much. They're angry with her and they don't know why.

So Felice probably told them something about loyalty speaking of Wilhelm and Simon. Because Sara's loyalty to her brother had been completely destroyed. Sara betrayed Simon (and Wille) and Felice knows it. But Stella and Fredrika don't know about that. Felice mentions loyalty and they assume she's talking about August being her ex. They roll with what they know, which isn't a lot, and Felice isn't going to tell them the whole story. Felice isn't going to betray Simon and Wille like Sara did. She will never tell Stella and Fredrika the whole story.

It's two sides. Felice's anger is justified. Her feelings of betrayal are justified. The fact that she wants Sara gone is justified. But Stella and Fredrika aren't justified in that anger. Not at this point. They don't have all the facts. They're just going based on what Felice has said, and that's not great considering they were Sara's friends too.

[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.

[retrieve-the-kraken]

no I am not confused per your responder. I am black and have had tracks sewn in many times and I can tell you Felice’s hair is not natural 🙄( the rolling eyes is for your responder not you)

What she has is tracks sewn in to her scalp (im guessing real hair, probably I’m guessing Felice is bougie) to add volume and curls. This is not natural hair LMAO Her “natural” hair would look a lot different. This is just as high maintenance as straightening trust me and maybe more so. I like the idea that she is rebelling against her mom by going to curly hair but it has nothing to do with natural hair. I get why people are confused because she says she straightens her hair etc but weaves and tracks are not natural hair and people who have had them can attest . Thanks for listening unlike your responders

Hi anon, thank you for getting back to me. Also thank you to those who responded on the original ask.

Okay, I really want to understand this. It would help me a lot to have a visual explanation, because I am a visual learner, so I'll probably research this obsessively later on Youtube... but in the meantime I'm gonna report on what I understood from these responses:

Tracks are more like extensions, like sections that are sewn to the scalp, and weaves are more like a full head of hair. Is that correct?

Real hair weaves and tracks are expensive, but Felice can totally afford that.

I get now that what we see is not Felice's natural hair because she's having tracks sewn in (I thought we were seeing her natural hair but she was having sections added for volume and structure). But my question is: are the tracks that she's getting supposed to look sort of like what her real hair would look like? Or at least closer? Is that what she's going for? Because that's more or less what I meant by saying that she's embracing her natural hair, although perhaps I shouldn't have phrased it like that... and I might be wrong... (I do not, after all, know what Felice's natural hair looks like, but I totally thought I did).

I totally agree about her rebelling against her mum by going for a curly hair look, even if it requires more maintenance than continuing to straighten her hair.

Does this mean that Felice could have instead worked to get her hair back to its natural texture? Help it recover from the damage from straightening? Or is that more time-consuming and more high-maintenance than getting tracks?

Do tracks and weaves still require protective hairstyles? And/or other things to keep the structure and volume? We see on the show that Felice sleeps with a band/scarf (of which I do not know the purpose), but to my understanding people with curly hair usually wear a bonnet or a headscarf to bed to cover and protect the hair.

Thank you anon for all the info. I'm gonna go do my research now, and watch back the Netflix Nordic video with the hair and makeup department.

[frogprincesnowglobe]

Ultimate Young Royals Character Tournament

Boris Vs Fröken Ramirez

Only two polls today and this is....definitely not the big one when Boris and Fröken Ramirez go head to head

Boris: Boris. He's the kind, professional, advice giving therapist. You know him, you love him. I'm trying not to be biased here but well, this man helped a literal Crown Prince to change his life circumstances and do one of the most romantic things ever seen on live television. In an even that some have called "surprising" the last round saw him take on Nils, and well. The margin was gigantic. 90.4% of the vote. Can he take on the teacher who....ah who are we kidding? We all know how this plays out.

Fröken Ramirez: Fröken Ramirez. She's the friendly faced teacher who shows up during the romantic literary analysis scene, and yes it's round four and people still don't remember her but she's *here*. The queer fiction book she assigned the class lead to some very interesting insights for our boys Wille and Simon. That has to count for something. Right? Right....? In the last round she took down yet another man, Felice's father Poppe Ehrencrona. People have also called that round "surprising". She beat him at 80.9%. Can she take on the therapist who....Okay, we really do know how this plays out, right? I guess we'll see....

[littlebabywille]

this has probably been written about tons of times but i’ve been thinking a lot about sara/felice’s dynamic. as we know, their friendship started bumpy. felice was drowning in her insecurities and people pleasing, and snaps at sara a few times. but as we learn more about felice, like the amount of pressure she’s under, we also start to see her get kinder and kinder to sara. something that i found so interesting about her character is how she subverts the expectations of the “popular girl” and her actions show that. as she starts to get closer to sara, you see just how giving and generous she is.

that brings me to all the ways felice “gives” to sara. not only does she give her things, she also extends many acts of kindness. the motivations might be multifaceted, but ultimately i think her intentions are always good.

let’s begin with rousseau. from the get, it’s really obvious that felice doesn’t want to ride and that she’s actually not into horses at all. on the other hand, we see that sara really connects with rousseau. letting sara ride rousseau is mutually beneficial; it makes sara happy and rousseau is being taken care of.

she invites sara and simon to the movie night. as the viewer we know she probably did that to impress wille, but really, she didn’t have to do it if she really didn’t want sara to come- she’s genuinely starting to like her.

not only does felice give sara her dress, felice takes the barrettes right out of her hair to give to sara. very symbolic.

friendship! she invites her into her space. she genuinely wants to be friends with her.

i love this scene. when sara tells felice that august kissed her, felice immediately makes it about august being an idiot (so true) and doesn’t blame sara at all. in another “teen” show, this would have gone a totally different direction. felice would have put the blame on sara and it would be a whole thing. i really love yr’s take on female friendship. i think her reaction here says so much about her.

lucia scene; another act of kindness that is motivated by different factors. felice letting sara be the lucia is the perfect example of the juxtaposition of these two characters; what felice rejects, sara desperately wants. i thought it was so special that she let her have this.

this also mirrors august and wilhelm’s relationship. there are so many ways august/wilhelm and sara/felice parallel each other (maybe i’ll do a post about that?).

lastly, miss detective felice- an icon, a legend. this should definitely go on her resume. i love that one of her motivations in finding who took the video was so sara could stay at hillerska. of course she wants to help wilhelm, but i thought the detail about sara was so interesting. this girl has a heart of gold and determination.

all in all, felice rocks and i’m very excited to see how she develops as a character and what her friendship with sara will look like in season 2.

[hillerskaroyals]

i just realized out of all of the character's phones that we see in young royals only august has an iphone. everyone else has an android.

wille and felice both have what looks like the samsung galaxy z flip which makes sense in terms of their role in society. they are royalty and nobility, respectively, which are the two highest roles in society so them having phones that are on par with each other makes sense. also assuming young royals is set in 2020 (because it was filmed in 2020 and released in 2021) this would be a fairly new phone and reflects their wealth in that they were able to buy the newest model phone. also we don't really get a good look at erik's phone but it looks like a fairly nice android and i assume it's at least on par with wille's.

sara and simon both have nondescript androids. this fits in with them being from a more working class family. iphones often have easily breakable features and planned obsolescence and they would need phones that are both durable and will last several years so an android makes sense.

maddie has an fairly nice looking android (ngl i have no clue what type of phone she has but it has three lenses for the camera so it seems higher end)

then we get to august.

he is the only one shown to have an iphone and beyond that it could potentially be an older phone. we can see his phone clearly on several occasions and what stood out to me the most is that it has a home button. iphones have not had a home button since 2020. neither the iphone 11 or 12 have home buttons and they came out in 2019 and 2020 respectively. even if he had the iphone SE (last phone with a home button) it's interesting that he's still the only character we see without an android. i feel like it could be a hint to his social standing since wille and felice, who are both at the top of the social ladder as well as being associated with royalty/nobility, are shown using the newest androids. whereas august, someone of noble birth, has an iphone. almost hinting to the fact that his position in society both inside and outside of hillerska is not permanent. it could even foreshadow his money issues since his phone is half the price of wille's and he hasn't fixed his camera.

however i look at it august should have had a better phone. as the second cousin to the crown prince i wouldn't even be surprised if he and wille had the same phone. and yet we are forced to see and acknowledge that he is the only one with an iphone. idk if this makes sense but we were clearly and deliberately shown august's phone on several occasions (when he is recording his workout in the gym, when he records wille and simon, when he's watching the video back, when he plugs in his phone to upload the video, etc.) and he is the only one without an android which i highly doubt is a coincidence. (there's also a chance im reading to much into this but im not ready for that conversation)

[insomnaticwriter]

Maybe I’m projecting on August but his trouble with his image and body might go deeper than wanting more status and wanting to stay close to the top, along with his character being described as attractive and masculine, and everyone knows it because he makes it known. Maybe it goes a little deeper than that.

He abuses adderall and one common side affect of using it is loss of appetite and weight loss from forgetting to eat. It popularly is used as an appetite suppressant under a different name.

We see him obsess about his looks, it’s shown on his social media.

We also see him being insecure during his intimacy scene with Felice just how fragile and insecure he is especially around Wille.

We see this insecurity in many scenes, and it always leads back to Wille, when Erik, family who was like a brother to him, he is jealous of how Felice is comforting Wilhelm.

We see it in his sex scene (the man literally wears socks, come on)

We see it when he gets jealous and waits for Felice in her room.

We see it again when Felice and Wilhelm are hanging out and walking through the dining room.

When Wille shows up is when we start to see his prospective, we don’t know anything else about August other than his father committed suicide and his relationship with his mother is a little strained. But we do see his instant increase of the medication when Wille arrives, because he is no longer at the top, he went from being the only royal family member at the school, to bring second best to his younger cousin who he has to look out for. It must of knocked him down a few pegs, so when we see him start to break, taking too many pills, pounding on doors to get more, resorting to harder pills and being so insecure that he commits a felony.. we see how broken he really is.

I don’t think he takes adderall because he not only needs to be a top student but also at the top of his game physically. For Felice, for girls, to maintain his image, to stay at the top of the food chain at Hillerska.

[missmeganlee]

This post is inspired by this post by @heartbreakprincewille and also my own “Who’s going to Tell Simon?” post

I wonder if Felice will be the one to tell Simon it was August who leaked the video. It seems like something she would do just like “hey Simon can we talk? I know who leaked the video. It was August.” Cause Felice is an amazing person like that. But then that begs the question why didn’t she tell him before they left for winter break? (Besides like adding more tension to the plot lol)

I also wonder what Simon thinks of Felice. Because he saw how Felice treated Sara in e1, where she was very rude to Sara. And I don’t think it matters to Simon that “it wasn’t about [Sara]” to paraphrase what Sara said. Felice still treated Sara poorly, and I think for Simon that’s enough reason to keep his guard up around her because of how everyone else has proven to be like. And he always wants to protect Sara and Simon having this hard exterior, this wall up around the people at Hillerska, is a way to do that.

I also wonder if Simon thinks badly of Felice because of the influence she has on Sara. It’s not new for Sara to want to be like the other students at Hillerska, but through her friendship with Felice, Sara has an “in”, so to say, of being able to fit in with the affluent and wealthy. And Felice has no I’ll-intentions with giving Sara the dress and hair clips- actually the exact opposite, Felice is just that nice- but maybe Simon sees how those things are changing Sara into someone he doesn’t recognize and is bringing out an “uglier” side of Sara that he’s never seen before. A side that hides things from her family, a side that “shits on” her family, a side that will manipulate people to get what she wants not caring about the people she’s hurting by doing so. All because she wants to fit in with Felice and the manor girls.

[uselessroyals]

Felice's hair being curly is so important.

We see in season 1, that Felice is very affected by what her mom expects of her. She rides even though she doesn't want to, because that's what she knows her mom expects of her, even keeping up the lie (or at least attempting to) at parent's dinner. She goes after Wilhelm, because she knows her mother expects her to. And similarly she flattens her black curls because straight hair is the beauty standard and her mother, who of course is white with naturally straight hair, expects her to be like her.

Throughout season 1 we see Felice start to break free from her mother's expectations of her. Kind of starting when Sara tells Felice's parents about her not wanting to ride, and then she gets rejected by Wilhelm in episode 3, and culminating in episode 5 when she says no to her mum, refuses to wear her dress and gives the honour of Lucia to Sara, despite what her mom wants.

Seeing her wear her hair curly in the promo pictures show, that we only going to keep seeing her break away from who her mother expects her to be, seeing her confidence in her grow as she comes even more into her own separate from who her mother wants her to be, and for that i am very excited.

[kooksncvnts]

One thing I’m living for from the young royals pictures that were just released is that Felice is finally wearing her natural hair after the whole first season she kept straightening it and even freaked a little bit when it got a little curly in the party episode. To me this shows her coming into her own a little bit and I’m fucking here for it