Day 16 Prompt: cursed Characters: Bonnie Bennett, Damon Salvatore Note: whelp, I don’t even know but maybe strap in?Â
Bonnie is immortal. Â
For some (for him), immortality is a gift.  It is a chance to make mistakes, to right them, to make new mistakes — to fully embrace everything life throws at you without a care as to the consequences that come with it.  Because after all, with eternity stretched out before you, no matter how bad things get this too shall pass.
i think it was a number of factors. one, the ship had appeal. it had the potential to be chaotic and explosive and subversive – like bonkai ended up being. in fact kennett was arguably a proto-bonkai. second, people were desperate for bonnie to get with someone – anyone- who wasn’t jeremy, and kol was the most eligible man at the time who wasn’t in a ship with elena or caroline, and who also happened to be an Original. third, the writers had successfully erased any hint of klonnie by ensuring they had zero scenes together despite their plotlines being deeply intertwined (i will die on this hill!) while bonnie and kol had a few key scenes in s4. fourth, plec ran her mouth on twitter and aggravated bonnie fans so that people flocked to and demanded kennett simply out of a need for restitution (which ofc they never received). and fifth, a lot of KCers jumped on the kennett bandwagon (as they later jumped on the bonkai bandwagon) to press their cause for a crossover that would enable caroline to go to nola and get with klaus. for all these reasons, kennett ended up making a bigger and more public “splash” than klonnie, even though in terms of continued fandom interest and content the latter outstrips the former (for instance i see far more fics where kennett is the side pairing to KC than the main pairing ). this isn’t because kennett isn’t a cool ship on its own! but because klonnie shippers divested from canon pretty early on and turned to fanfic, and many kennett shippers went on to ship bonkai (the latter, thankfully, has a wealth of fics). i know i was personally firmly committed to fanon by that point, and though i saw why people wanted kennett it didn’t appeal to me the way klonnie does (plus nate buzolic skeeves me out, not gonna lie. he’s a bit too enthusiastic about hugging and kissing young female fans at cons, is all i’m gonna say) and so i never partook in any of the public discourse about why it should happen.
… i’m really not well versed enough in Twilight to comment specifically, sorry, other than to say that the larger metaphor of werewolves (natives) being subordinate to vampires (white settlers) is a troubling dynamic that’s never examined or deconstructed
this is often what happens in these white girl fantasy franchises! i’m 100% certain julie plec wrote bonnie as a completely devout, righteous, suffering, neglected character in the hopes that people would hate or ignore her, and instead she SHONE and garnered a huge, passionate fandom, because guess what people love characters who are human and vulnerable.
What happened to Leas was extremely fucked up due to that poorly thought out imprinting nonsense. *Long version* Fiance imprinted on cousin/best friend, wolfed out when cousin protested, mutilated cousin’s face, stress from events caused leah to wolf out, father dies from heart attack from witnessing it, cousin becomes ex’s fiance after some time resisting then falling in love *eyeroll* because he was so insistent, wants leah to be bridesmaid or maid of honor, i forget, is the only female wolf and basically has to deal with them seeing her naked every time she transforms due to sharing thoughts (with little brother and ex) or some shit like that. And to top it all off, she can no longer have children due to her being a werewolf. She was showed 0 sympathy from the characters including her own brother and cousin (at one point I think) and is looked at as weaker and a hindrance to the pac. Girl, it was a mess. http://applesparkles.wikia.com/wiki/Leah_Clearwater
And I, too, was a Bonnie stan before I gave up on TVD. The struggle is real lol
wow. yeah there’s a lot of parallels to bonnie too. my theory is that these essentially patriarchal franchises like twilight and tvd only work by transposing the real, ugly violence of white heteropatriatchy onto the bodies of black and brown women. 🤷🏽‍♀️
POC of TVD 