Rykter Season 3 - Blog Posts

i find the context of these two scenes so compelling.

in the first one; mathias has become friends with erik in an active attempt to make amends for what happened. however felix is so adverse to this idea that he finds mathias’ actions as a betrayal of sorts. for him, mathias CAN’T be friends with erik. not because erik has personally wronged him in any way or because erik is a bad person but because it would mean felix was wrong and he’d have to face the music of who he is as a person and the severity of the action he committed. someone willing to beat someone up over a speculation & someone willing to spread rumours around the entire school. and mathias finds it frustrating that felix refuses to grow as a person WITH him. mathias wants felix to improve and mature alongside him. so to mathias, he should be able to be friends with erik and be friends with felix. because they both mean a lot to him. but clearly, felix’s refusal to change eventually becomes the breaking point in their friendship. 

in the second one; mathias, at this point, has ‘chosen’ erik over felix, which was why there was already the rift between them at the end of season 2. and now as the icing on top of the cake, felix knows about the kiss and has resorted to being a homophobic pos towards him. mathias knows that felix has not changed, he knows that he’s no better a person than when mathias left. but now erik is friends with the person who lead the physical assault on him and has dumped mathias BECAUSE of erik? who is also now giving mathias shit and hurting him over and over again because of him being queer? for mathias, erik can’t be friends with them both especially given all the reasons that he probably won’t be able to bring himself to admit!

Mathias to Felix on hanging out with Erik

Erik to Mathias on hanging out with Felix