@darcyfirth replied to your post “Eggsy: *angsts bc Kingsmen can’t have relationships* Me: *remembers...”
I think he said sth like being a public figure aka a prince would be hard while maintaining his work at kingsman.
Also going to @sherlock-of-asgard bc there was a similar reply there as well. He says the thing about being in the public eye to T*lde when they’re talking about it, but when talking to Harry he says that he ‘knows it’s against Kingsman rules’ to ‘have a relationship’. He also never mentions to Harry in this discussion that T*lde is a princess. It’s only focuses on him having girlfriend.
I’d also like to point out that it is...sort of unbelievable to me that Eggsy hasn’t already gotten some attention from the paps. Paramours of princes and princesses don’t suddenly get action when they get engaged to said royalty. They usually have the attention of the reporters and tabloids long, long before that. But you know. I digress.
@schokocheety replied:
Harry said a Gentlemen‘s name, not a Kingsman
@annaofaza also mentioned this at the end of her reply. (The rest of which the above answer sort of applies to as well!) And I mean...yeah this is true. But Harry says this in context of teaching Eggsy to be a gentleman so he can be a better Kingsman. So why bring that up at all if Kingsman has this rule?
All and all my problem with this plot point (and I use that term loosely) and the reason I made that post in the first place is two fold.
Firstly, it’s a part of this whole undertone that really bothers me about TGC that romantic relationships are the only ones that really ‘matter’. If you don’t fall in love, your life is empty and family is an addendum that we don’t really need to talk about and romantic partners ‘aren’t allowed’ in Kingsman bc those are the only ones that can really be exploited.
Not only that but, beyond this, the movie goes on to drive home that marriage is really what counts. Sure you can be in a romantic relationship but you aren’t really committed unless you’re getting married. Eggsy and T*lde have been together a year, presumably, but it’s only when the idea of marriage is on the table that this issue is raised. T*lde straight up becomes abruptly fine with the idea of Eggsy sleeping with someone else for a mission on the condition that he marries her (T*lde).
Secondly, it’s very lazy writing. White, hetero romances have gotten really bad about shit like this. It’s a way to ‘tell’ instead of ‘showing’. Much like Eggsy saying, “I lost her...and it broke me,” when the story has shown us nothing of the sort. The story shows us that Harry’s death broke Eggsy but it tells us that T*lde dumping him broke him.
Inventing some reason why our white, hetero protag ‘can’t’ be with his white, hetero love interest has become a way to say, “Look look! See! They love each other so much that they’re going to DEFEAT THE ODDS!” This isn’t relatable for the majority of people in this day and age, it requires zero work on the writer’s part, and it’s been done to absolute death. Furthermore, by doing this they don’t have to show the diversity that it would take to make these stories ring true. Interracial relationships and/or LGBTQA+ ones.
Plus, it completely takes the agency away from T*lde. She spends her entire role in this move reacting to Eggsy’s choices and Eggsy’s lifestyle. As something I reblogged recently pointed out, the actual Crown Princess of Sweden could have seen herself disinherited from the throne if she married someone her father did not approve of. And T*lde’s father did not like Eggsy at all.
So basically “Kingsmen not being able to have relationships” really sums up for me some of the underlying problems I have with certain messages that this movie was sending.