I’m rereading rwrb in preparation for the movie and I forgot how fucking obviously in love Alex is from the very beginning.
“His eyes lock on Alex’s, and something like annoyance or adrenaline spikes in Alex’s chest.”
Uh huh… totally… “annoyance”
“hate reading Henry’s Wikipedia page”
Because that’s definitely what you do when you hate someone
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Re: Paris?
I know I said i would post one at time, but democracy won and we will have to talk about all of the same titles together!! are you ready??
Do you guys ever think about how not only Henry is a mortal like us who answers his crush at an inappropriate time, but how Alex answered him only 13 MINUTES LATER? That boy waited the whole day for his prince and didn't hesitate to show it!
By this first set of emails we know clearly they were already together by the time... but do you guys have any theories of how it started? Hope they show it in their movie!!
Ps.: I truly LOVE how they change their titles everytime!
Read the first one here!
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Master Post of My FirstPrince Fics ~
Fox. Henry Fox. (finished)
Alex had seen the guy around campus, sure. He was hard to miss, but Alex never said out loud why. For everyone else, being the son of the famous James Bond actor made him a celebrity enough.
But for Alex, Henry Fox just…stood out.
[non-royal au. University au. Cool guy x nerd trope.]
All Over Again (finished)
Alex and Henry's first kiss goes a little differently.
[one shot. Canon-divergence. New Year's kiss.]
Salt Follows the Moon (unfinished)
Vampires exist, and it's no secret.
What is a secret, is that Henry Hanover-Stuart Windsor needs a blood donor.
Alex Claremont-Diaz just can't leave well enough alone.
[vampire!Henry x blood donor!Alex. Canon-divergence.]
Moonburn (unfinished)
Alex Claremont-Diaz is everything a wolf should be. Tall, long-limbed, strong, and most of all: charismatic. Community and pack oriented. Some would also say he’s loud, overeager, and has his head up the moon’s ass.
Again: werewolf. It’s like blaming water for being wet.
As for Henry Hanover-Stuart Windsor Fox…his mother is a wolf. She comes from a long and prestigious line—many lines—of wolves. She fell in love with a human. Despite the initial shock and disdain for marrying outside of tradition, having two children born as healthy, strong wolves calmed several of the loudest, bigoted voices.
And then Henry came along. The youngest. The favorite. The human. But nobody else knows that last part.
[werewolf!Alex x human!Henry. Canon-divergence.]
Satellites (unfinished)
Alex is in England for a year studying abroad. To his both relieved and annoyed surprise, the whole school is in a tizzy over something other than the American president’s son enrolling…except it’s Henry.
Prince Henry. He’s enrolled too.
[university au. Ceramicist!Henry x dancer!Alex. Still royal and FSOTUS.]
Alexander Hamilton Hall (unfinished)
It started with a group project.
Well, Alex supposed it started when Henry Fox moved to town, or perhaps when Alex’s parents succeeded enough in their political careers that he and June were transferred to the most prestigious high school in Texas.
Alexander Hamilton Hall.
[high school au. Non-royal au. Arthur lives au.]
Burning (unfinished)
Henry did manage to tell Alex to leave that night in Kensington.
Now it’s two years later, and Alex is over it. He has a girlfriend. His mother has been reelected. He’s going to the Swanky Soiree of Something Important in Paris, because he’s over it. Henry can be there and it’s fine.
Henry is there. And it’s most definitely not fine.
[canon-divergence. Whump and angst. Getting back together fic.]
Codename: Rapunzel (unfinished)
Acquiring the Prince of Wales’ name in his Burn Book, so to speak, had not been a surprise in Alex’s line of work. What had been a surprise, was that someone wanted the fourth in line for the throne dead.
[assassin/hitman!Alex x Prince Henry.]
Defy the Odds (unfinished)
Henry is a prince of the Olympians. He has had everything bestowed upon him since his birth. And yet, none of it mattered when the light of his father's soul went out.
Alexander is the First Shade of the Underworld. Prince of the dark realm and...the perfect person to help Henry along his many - many - journeys into the Underworld to find his father.
That is, if they can stand each other long enough to cooperate.
[an inverse Hades Game!AU where Henry is trying to find his father in the Underworld. Basically Zagreus Henry and Thanatos Alex.]
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Ok so the Cornetto scene in rwrb. I’ve been watching the trailer over and over and it’s so fucking good but the Cornetto scene is bothering me. Why is Henry not wearing pyjamas? I know it seems like a small thing but when reading the book I thought one of the main points of the Cornetto scene was that it was the first time Alex gets to see Henry when he’s not putting on his prince persona.
‘He’s standing in front of Alex wearing not a suit, but a heather-gray T-shirt and plaid pajama bottoms. He has ear-buds in, and his hair is a mess. His feet are bare.
He looks, alarmingly, human.’ (Pg. 39)
I saw it as a moment where they both saw each other in a different way, where they were more vulnerable and learned something about the other that they didn’t know before. Alex learns that Henry has trouble sleeping and Henry learns that Alex wears glasses. It read as a scene that sets up the start of the transition from Alex hating Henry and thinking he’s an uptight prick to realising that there is a lot more to Henry than what he lets the public see and that maybe they have a lot in common.
So when I watched the trailer and saw that Henry was wearing his usual clothes minus the jacket, it threw me off.
It doesn’t seem like the movie is trying to capture that moment that I would argue is the most important thing about this scene. I will have to wait and see the rest of the scene when the movie comes out.
If they really didn’t use this scene to show their mutual humanness though then I’m confused what they’re planning because a movie has a lot less time and opportunity than a book does to build that character development and relationship evolution. This scene is perfect for that development and so not utilising that to its full potential would be a mistake.
But who knows. I’m excited for the movie to come out and I think it’ll be good from what’s been revealed so far.
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I know what the single line in the book is but I would like you to ramble about it for me
[clears throat] SO BASICALLY
it's actually a passage, not a line. i was tired and idk why i said "line" bc it's several:
When he was younger and the anxiety got this bad, when the stakes in his life were much, much lower, this would be the point of self-destruction. If he were in California, he’d sneak the jeep out and drive way too fast down the 101, doors off, blasting N.W.A., inches from being painted on the pavement. In Texas, he’d steal a bottle of Maker’s from the liquor cabinet and get wasted with half the lacrosse team and maybe, afterward, climb through Liam’s window and hope to forget by morning. The first debate is in a matter of weeks. He doesn’t even have work to keep him busy, so he stews and stresses and goes for long, punishing runs until he has the satisfaction of blisters. He wants to set himself on fire, but he can’t afford for anyone to see him burn.
this bit. this bit lives underneath my skin and has since i first read the book. i think it's the most underrated and under-appreciated glimpse at alex as a person—not the fsotus, but alex. like... it drives me CRAZY how people interpret him as so confident and comfortable with the spotlight and like he doesn't have to try as hard as henry... when this boy is masking all. the. time. and, like, there's just something about that "he can't afford for anyone to see him burn" bit. because alex has to be perfect. if he goes nuclear, it can cost his mom the election. it can affect his father's career. plus, allll the people who are just WAITING for him to slip up will be RIGHT. he doesn't get to self-destruct. i read this passage and i want to pick him up and hold him bc he hurts me.
i just..... i love alexander claremont-diaz with my whole chest.
...ANYWAY. (you said you wanted rambling. you're getting rambling.)
so the au is, like... so what if, when the stakes in his life were lower, he self-destructed in a very public way? what if, to get him back on track, his parents sent him to boarding school? 👀 and uh what if 👀 someone else 👀 also went to that boarding school? 👀 like maybe the extremely well-behaved son of a beloved actor? 👀
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