kai parker

I just realized a weird parallel between Shane and Kai—they were both characters essentially written for Bonnie and were ruined by including other characters from the series in their storylines because their relevance pretty much only has to do with Bonnie and to do otherwise seemed forced. Also they were both potential dark ships for her that didn’t get explored because, well you know the writers. The big difference is Bonkai is otp while Bane is meant to end as a learning experience.

May 25, 2017 — Leave a comment

fuckitimfangirling:

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.