the otp: *tries to kill one another*
me: stop flirting you two get a room already god

scottmccall-trash:

Can we just talk about out of all the shitty things kai did he only wanted to apologize to bonnie

LIKE SERIOUSLY HE DIDN’T APOLOGIZE TO JO FOR THE SPLEEN THING OR YK KILLING HIS WHOLE COVEN BUT LIKE HE KEPT TRYING TO APOLOGIZE TO BONNIE I MEAN GUYS L I S T E N

I do love that he tried to apologize her for the reasons you stated above, but what I dislike about it is when he does try the show frames in a way that’s kind of disingenuous. The apology is about making himself feel better: You know why I’m here? Because my guilt keeps me up at night. While it speaks volumes that what he did to her is what keeps him up opposed to all his other atrocities, like being a child murder, but I would have much preferred his apology been more about her pain than him trying to assuage his guilt because then it doesn’t quite feel like a genuine apology.

fuckitimfangirling:

What’s the most important/ most defining Bonkai moment in the show and why?

I have my own opinion of course, but I’m curious to know what you all think. Reblog or hit up my inbox with your answers!

It’s kind of a hard question for me to answer because due to the fact that my journey with them started in fanfiction I was always on board with them. Every moment was defining and just added to what I already knew.

A little backstory: due to the monstrosity known as season 5 I stopped watching the entire show about halfway through S5 and didn’t come for about a year and half later and all because of Bonkai. I had just started getting into fanfiction and was looking for Bonnie stories and noticed every time I looked for a story with her in a pairing a character named Kai, who I was unfamiliar with, kept popping up. I finally read one conceding that was the only way I was going to find a Bonnie fic that had what I was looking for at the time. Now that was already out of the ordinary for me because I don’t ever read fics if I’m unfamiliar with the canon characters. My imagination isn’t that great to the point imagining looks, speech patterns, etc. is usually just some blur in my head. It’s the reason I don’t really read OC fic. But in this story, which in retrospect wasn’t even that great, he and their dynamic intrigued me to the point of picking up the show again. Or mostly just binge watching that season because by that point the season 6 finale had long since aired. So for me when I first watched them and still do it was through shipper goggles that pretty much put everything I had already known into context.

With all that out of the way I guess the most defining Bonkai moment to me is when Bonnie sends Ms.Cuddles away because it pretty much encapsulates everything I loved about them and their dynamic. It has Bonnie, not only being her intelligent self (that was a brilliant move in her part), but also her making it known that she’s not doing anything she doesn’t want to, that it’s not going to be that easy. And when he gets in her face that was one of the many moments they had where they prove to have more sexual chemistry than any pairing on the show. You truly don’t know if he’s going to kill her or fuck her and vise vera. Also it shows quite a bit of self control on his part because if she was anyone else he would have killed them on the spot. Plus how you can see the conflict of emotions whether to be impressed by her or angry that she just sent away his one way ticket out of hell (which honestly makes me more mad that they didn’t have more interactions in season 8 when he got out of actual hell, such a great opportunity for a candid moment between them wasted on Damon, Alaric, and Caroline non-interactions but I digress).

Quite honestly from there I wished they were trapped a little longer to add more to this dynamic because it’s essentially gone until 8×14 for one small blimp of a moment. After that it kind of becomes a TVD romance very tit for tat never getting to the bottom of the issue and just ignoring it in favor of other things. I did like that he tried to apologize but at the time it wasn’t really framed in a way that was sincere but mostly as a solution to assuage his guilt. I feel more thought should have went into him considering how she felt and what he did to her instead of his guilt. You know why I’m here? Because my guilt keeps me up at night. No offense but I really didn’t care about his guilt (but I do get that he was new to it) and neither should she which is why I liked that she stabbed and left him there because she was finally able to let out her pain and anger which is something I really needed to ship them fully because it wasn’t swept under the rug like always. Which I guess could be a defining moment as well. That she’s still Bonnie Bennett and if they were ever going to build anything that needed to be out of the way.