I’ve seen some people (on TikTok mostly I don’t actually know about tumblr cus I avoided the tag for spoilers) hating on Simon and saying he didn’t try to understand Willhelm and his situation enough and I’m just like HELLOO??? DID WE WATCH THE SAME SHOW. I already found season two hate about Simon ridiculous BUT FOR SEASON THREE???
Simon has been so understanding and has sacrificed so much. He deleted his socials and all the memories with his friends online for the royal court. He thought the protest of the students was stupid but still joined for Willhelm. He sat down with the people who mock him for his activism despite them doing the same thing for lesser reasons. I would go as far to say he gave up his IDEOLOGIES for Willhelm. He has a lot of political opinions about social issues and the royal court but he’s not allowed to express any of them. He sometimes slips out a negative comment but he has been holding it in for the entire season. He knows he can make an actual difference and is close to someone who can but he can’t do anything about it. His partner doesn’t even seem to care about the issues he’s so passionate about and dismisses them. Yes Wilhelm has his own personal problems but the way he talked about LGBTQ+ issues was honestly hard to watch and you can tell Simon was hurt. He must’ve had bad opinions about Erik after he heard about the initiation thing but he didn’t say anything negative about him because he knows how important he is to Willhelm.
And I think NONE of these are the reasons why he broke up with Willhelm (atleast not the main ones). Simon saw how much the title of crown Prince damaged Willhelm. How broken it made the relationship between him and his mother and how broken he became. Willhelm changed for the crown and lost himself in the process. Simon finally stands on his principles and decides that he no longer wants to support the system that hurt both him and the boy he loves so much. Their relationship can’t survive with that toxic title being held above their own personal feelings
Can you really blame him for not wanting to fully understand the system that is so flawed and damaging to everyone around him?
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i like to think they are having a revenge sex
not revenge for any of the two parties
but for the public
like, they know it doesnt matter what they do or do not
they are gonna be in the first cover of every magazine, the latest new, the hotest topic
who cares if someone sees them having sex in the hallway?
they are not gonna have a normal life anyways
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Post s3e6 what happens now?
I am begining to write an 'after' fic which has brought up a lot of questions and speculation that I'd like to share. Yes willmon is endgame but also where do they go from here?
Class
Money (what are the Erikssons doing with their money from August?)
The rift between Wille’s elitist upbringing and Simon’s economical and political beliefs
Wille needs to learn and figure out what he wants his relationship with politics and money to be
Abdication
Wille is giving up the crown but he now has to go through that process
Official meetings
What is his new title going to be
What money does he have not has Crown Prince
The official statement of abdication and handing the duty to August
Figuring out the PR strategy for this as well
Wille isn’t free automatically he is going to price for a little while longer while they introduce August more prominently to the public so that the crown isn’t handed off to seemingly a stranger
They also have to figure out a way to make sure it is clear that this is a choice Wille made for himself rather than because of his very publicised relationship
Making sure there won’t be speculation that he is leaving voluntarily because the Swedish monarchy doesn’t want a queer monarchy because that would be a media shitstorm
School
Where is Wille going to school? And Simon?
Even with abdication he is still a part of the Swedish aristocracy would he go to another posh school?
I think not with everything that happened at Hilerska but its also the thing he knows, so how does he figure that out?
Where does Simon go? He wouldn’t want to go to another rich kid school
Will they go to school together?
If so what interest will their classmates take in them, how would they maintain their privacy
Even apart what would their privacy look like
What would their relationship look like if they do decide to not go to school together?
Same questions for Felice and Sara because they also have to go to school they are all children and education is very important lol
Familial relations
Wille and his parents need to repair their relationship
Do Simon and Sara start working on a better relationship Micke?
I want Wille to get to meet Micke I think that interaction would be great
Public relations
Yes they are free but sadly the public doesn’t entirely care
Luckily on an international scale the Swedish monarchy doesn’t hold much attention but maybe that has changed since Wille’s scandals and then open queer relationship? This is never addressed in the show
But amongst Swedes especially after abdication people will have a vested interest
Think Harry and Megan (obvs the UK royals are a much bigger scale but the point stands)
Like people still really care what they're up to, and Megan and Simon have those similar experiences of being a poc partner of a european royal family member, the harassment doesn’t suddenly stop once you've left the direct limelight of royal life
Platonic relationships
What is Wille’s relationship with Rosh and Ayub?
They have witnessed every thing that Simon has gone through because of his relationship with Wille and now they are back together again
They do respect him because of his choice to leave the monarchy, they are maybe not even surprised because they did witness the “I could be free with you” speech
But do they trust him?
On that note does Linda? She definitely cares for Wille but she also knows how this has affected her son.
Does Wille have to prove his intentions and himself?
Can he Rosh and Ayub truly form a friendship? How will that happen
Simon, Wille, Sara, and Felice have forged their own kind of found family through shared traumas and love for one another, how to Rosh and Ayub fit into that new dynamic? Will there be conflict because of this?
What does a friend group consisting of all of them look like?
Other than mega gay
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it's been almost two weeks since the finale dropped and i have yet to get this scene off my mind. it's so fleabagesque. just as the camera stops following fleabag at the end of its series finale, wille's own end (or rather, beginning) is knighted with a shift in the meta. he is finally able to look at us, the audience, with the smallest hint of a smile, no longer crushed under the weight of his family's (and perhaps even our) expectation. he's allowed to just be a kid. not prince wilhelm of sweden. he's allowed to be wille, to make mistakes, to run after the love of his life, drive off with messy hair, a messy smile, and so much hope. he's letting us know he's going to be just fine. and so are we.
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