comebackali replied to your post: @katgraham-updates requested Bonkai for the Tobin…
why was kai a ted (or sub-ted) as opposed to say a barney?
1) He had wangst from the get-go. Wangst = the weight of the world is on my shoulders because of My Special Pain. In Kai’s case being the misfit in his family, a siphoner, while his other siblings had their own magic.
2) He wasn’t set up as a foil to another male character. He interacted with Damon, yes, but he wasn’t there to shed a light on Damon or to advance Damon’s narrative.
3) He was a sub-Ted rather than a Ted because his values did not dominate the entire ‘verse. If Kai had been a Ted then TVD would’ve ranked Bonnie and Jo as the most important female protagonists (with Bonnie >>> Jo) and Elena and Caroline would’ve been irrelevant.
POC of TVD 