I remember being annoyed by Kai when I first saw him on screen thinking he was going to be another lame villain (the dork was eating pork rinds for crying out load) until he started flirting with Bonnie. I was like at least this boy has good taste in witches. 😂
My first impression of him was in fanfic. At the time the BK fandom was surging so I was looking for Bonnie fanfiction but kept coming across Kai. As a rule I don’t read about characters who I’m not familiar with so my first thoughts about Kai were, “Who is he and why does everyone keep shipping him with Bonnie.” I was thoroughly annoyed but eventually I succumbed read BK fic and then wanted to have context for the character and thus how I ended up watching TVD again after giving up midway through season 5.