OMG, the way they look at each other in that last gif gets me every time. He looks like he truly does adores her and she looks like she’s trying really hard not to think dirty thoughts. Honestly I think they were the only reason I ever endures season 4.
“I’m serious Bonnie. We can’t keep doing this. I’m married.”
It was as though someone had poured cold water down her back. It wasn’t as if she didn’t know this already, but it beyond their first kiss she hadn’t been confronted with it. The last two months she had been in the ignorant bliss of having a boyfriend, being someone’s priority. Granted one she couldn’t tell her friends about, but that had barely been an issue.
I just realized why I never really got into Kennett. It’s because during season 4 I was spending all my time paying attention to Bonnie x Shane. Obvious neither went anywhere because it’s TVD and ran by Julie Plec, but Bonnie x Shane were always my ship for season 4 and still continue to be.
But I always wondered why I don’t remember Kennett ever being any semblance of anything (other than the fact that I barely remember Kol) and that’s probably why. I was shipping a different crack ship.
What did you see in Bonnie x Shane if you don’t mind me asking?
The chemistry and potential between Bonnie and Kol was almost as good as BonKai despite them hardly having scenes.
Well for one I saw someone who was at her maturity level. At this point in the show we only see her with Jeremy who by all means isn’t my favorite character, but also waay beneath Bonnie. I think I really liked the idea of her being with an older man as weird as it sounds. To me he kind of transcended the MFG and their whiny problems and I liked how separate he was from them. As weird as it sounds I liked that he separated them from her and that she found power in herself that she hadn’t before because of him.
Secondly I saw someone who was advocating for Bonnie. Granted we later learn he’s using her but she was his priority, a character set aside for Bonnie away from the MFG, and I honestly think it should have stayed that way because his connections to Damon and them were flimsy at best. If there’s anyone else besides Bonnie from tbe MFG he should have been connected to it would have been Tyler and yet…they don’t interact.
And lastly I saw chemistry like any other ship but I remember in the beginning I got to see some of the Bonnie from the 1st season before her Grams died. The excitement in her at learning magic again, her thinking about how cute he is when she sees him in 4×04. It was just all so nostalgic before it all goes to crap and we learn her dark storyline is just about being another plot device.
But with all that said they were never really an OTP to me but more a route I wanted Bonnie to explore and they would eventually break up on her account and she comes back stronger having learned something about herself and her situation because that should have been an eye opener for about who she surrounds herself with and why she it was so easy for her to fall for him. I always knew it would put her through pain but for once it mean something in the end.
As for Kennett, there’s just something missing from it for me to get into it and I don’t know what. At first I thought it was because I barely remembered Kol because seriously all I remember from him was the scene at her graduation, which I still wasn’t picking up much there. But then I remembered how I came to ship Bonkai and it was before I ever watched them on screen or even knew who Kai was. I shipped them from a fanfic I read (I can’t remember which one) which then got me to watch season 6 to see them in person. So it can’t be that.
But there’s something about Kol that makes it hard for me to sit through fics with him. Like I don’t really understand it because I don’t dislike him, I just don’t care about him, so as a result it’s a hard ship for me to get into. It might be because I was never all that big on the Originals themselves. Like they were always overrated to me because though I do like Klonnie I’m very peculiar about what fics with them I can read and Bonlijah has always been hit or miss with me.
Essentially I don’t know why I can’t ship Kennett, but as my original post says, it might be because during their most prominent scenes together I was more concerned with a different ship.
I just realized why I never really got into Kennett. It’s because during season 4 I was spending all my time paying attention to Bonnie x Shane. Obvious neither went anywhere because it’s TVD and ran by Julie Plec, but Bonnie x Shane were always my ship for season 4 and still continue to be.
But I always wondered why I don’t remember Kennett ever being any semblance of anything (other than the fact that I barely remember Kol) and that’s probably why. I was shipping a different crack ship.
Oookay, after I read this ask, I had a moment where I was all like
It was great. Tbh, I wasn’t a huge Shane fan, his relationship with Bonnie kinda wigged me out. But I love that you shared this and the things it made me think.
Shane and Kai would also be contemporaries in age and paralleled each other in that both of them exposed Bonnie to facets of her family history she didn’t know and might not have learned if she hadn’t met them. Both of them being older men who definitely brought out darker sides in Bon, gave them both a very devil-in-paradise mystique. Lol Eve in the garden with two snakes. Honestly, I think it says a lot about Bonnie that she was drawn to them in this almost sexual way. It was a very adult and visceral attraction that she didn’t really have with Ben, Jeremy, Enzo, or Luka, which were all a bit more – idk. Innocent? I can’t quite find the appropriate word, but it was very puppy-like, while her attraction to Shane and Kai was definitely more magnetized.
A really cool way that they opposed each other is that they brought out her darkness in very opposite ways. Shane did so through control, by manipulating and mentoring her through Expression. Meanwhile, Kai did so through entropy, igniting these wild reactions and really overactive emotions in Bonnie. Order vs chaos, ya know? I definitely agree that Bonkai is endgame material and Bane (lol, that ship name) was that one relationship you look back on like “oh fuck, what was I thinking?” – I am a bit biased though.
Thanks so much for this ask nonny, you got me all in meta mode!
I always say this, but I think having a romantic subplot with Bonnie and Shane was a missed opportunity. It’s easy to see why he was able to manipulate her so easily — she has terrible friends who disregard her often, but Shane doesn’t, he treats her like she’s special and thinks of her as such and most of that isn’t even because he’s using her. Anyways I always felt that she should have went darker, like completely off the reservation (which being romantically linked to him would be) to the point that she became a real threat to the MFG that way she would be able to see that Shane isn’t the only one using her and then we’d watch her find the strength to break away from him and her friends. And of course she would have to come back from it, but some truths would stick with her because her being dark didn’t make her completely irrational. And sure it would be squicky, but I don’t think it’s supposed to be thought of as anything other than that.
And Kai, well he’s her partner in crime — there’s a lot more give and take with them to the point that she doesn’t need to break free from him, but embrace it.
Hmmmmmmmmm the writer could of explored this option of pairing.
Yeah, but that would mean the writers would have to admit that Bonnie is desirable and they’re not even willing to when she is in a romantic relationship
POC of TVD 