#young royals season 2

[indianchindian]

He spat omggggggg 🤣🤣😭😭

[alusart]

this line right here!!!

[midnightsncupsofcoffee]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP PUNCHING THE FLOOR KICKING THE AIR BANGING MY HEAD TO THE WALL FLIPPING THE TABLE RUNNING TO A SPEEDING TRAIN

[justanotherhyperfixation]

That scene meant everything.

[thaliasthunder]

absolutely screaming at the fact that the queen said "i just want u to come out in ur own terms !! <3" and deadass wille went like "ALRIGHT BET"

[kikedike]

both wilhelm and simon this season

[mirabel-on-a-bicycle]

Lol cut the kid some slack ok he literally just kissed Simon for the first time in months 😂😂 I mean look him. What do y'all expect him to do? Literary analysis?? With that mushy simonsiMONsimon brain?? I'd be impressed if he even remembered his own name at this point.

also don't forget he genuinely thought Simon wouldn't ever like him back until then, let alone write an entire song for him

[tiredmoonslut]

absolutely GOBSMACKED thinking about how different the tone of the show will be in season 3??? Wilhelm isn’t gonna go five SECONDS without kissing Simon in public and holding his hand to classes. Simon is gonna refuse to talk to Sara and Felice will have to decide whether or not to forgive her and August is gonna be in a pile of shit and the press is gonna be going crazy and the QUEEN oh my god what is she gonna do and we still have to worry about the drugs and I’m--

[foreverunraveling]

From Simon's perspective, this scene had to be incredibly eye-opening. Wille is fully surrounded with the choir behind him, the press to his right, classmates and alumni to his left, his parents and the royal court straight ahead. Guards and faculty are lurking. He's fully exposed with nowhere left to hide.

And Simon, standing in the choir right behind the podium, can finally see from Wille’s perspective. He can feel the eyes of the queen and the royal court.  The principal. And it’s terrifying. The frame switches from a shot of the Queen and the royal court looking at Wille expectantly to a nervous Simon, who is absorbing the gaze. All of their classmates are looking and the press are preparing for their shots. He understands the pressure that Wille has been under.

Somewhere inside, Simon feels like he was incredibly foolish to ever expect Wille to face up to all of this for him.  He eyes queen’s teary-eyed smile at the mention of Erik. Feels more than sees the levers on which the Queen could pull to change Wille's mind. And then Simon sees the Queen and August exchange a look when Wille goes off script.

When Wille is finally honest, the gestures coming from the Royal court, together with all of the camera flashes, startle Simon. Their friends, even, are staring. Simon freezes. There are so many cameraphones—is the entirety of the third year class filming?

And Wille just did that for him.  Simon finally understands the weight of what he's been asking Wille to do this entire time—understands that Wille didn’t do what he did because he didn’t love Simon, but because he was in an impossible position. Which he just made impossible for himself for Simon. Even though Simon didn't even ask him to; Simon just told Wille that he's wiling to be a secret.

Wille does this because he knew that’s what Simon needs. He faces up to all of this horrifying pressure and attention and relentless examination for Simon.  Because he can't let Simon sacrifice himself—his unflappable self-worth, his honesty, his integrity—to go into hiding with Wille. As much as that's exactly what Wille thought he wanted. And he does this right in the moment where it becomes obvious to Simon why Wille did things the way he had. Simon understands exactly what it means that Wille is willing to face up all of this for him.

Then the song comes in with, "And you loved me; I could feel it." Because Simon realizes just how fucking much Wille loves him to go through with this in the face of the monarchy, the press, their peers, the fucking world. Even after Simon takes off all of the pressure on his side and agrees to remain a secret, Wille chooses the parts of Simon that Simon himself was willing to give up over the easy choice. Wille isn't choosing himself in this decision—he's not even choosing himself and Simon, who will inevitably face blowback in the aftermath—he's just choosing Simon. The truest version of Simon who he fell in love with.

I'm very new to this fandom, so this has probably been pointed out before. I just can't stop watching the show....

[alusart]

I think this “I love you” to his parents is basically wille letting them know he’s given up on the monarchy not on his family and that’s why I love it so much, its such a tiny but very important piece of dialogue

[ssereendipity]

Are these your fish? What are their names?

[myladyofmercy]

[thaliasthunder]

wille: why do i need bodyguards??? there's literally no threat in here??

wille, 5 episodes later: *gunshoots into the air* IM GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU AUGUST

[fragcc]

Does it ever drive you crazy how Wille went from this:

To this:

And all in the span of four months?