Kai Parker Tag

from @kingcobrakai1972

1. Honestly, I don’t know it’s not that deep for me. He’s obviously my favorite male character out of the whole series, my favorite pairing for Bonnie, but not much else beyond that. If I was hard pressed I guess I would say he’s Bonnie’s psychopathic lover to me because that’s just so ingrained in him.

2. Probably 6×08 the thanksgiving episode, mainly for the flashback, but there was a lot going on in that episode that was just done so well. I realize I am weirdly attracted to psychopaths (in TV) so there was that element but I also loved how he flirted with Bonnie. While I’m not made at the ending of the episode I did hope that he would be stuck with Bonnie longer there for him to kinda grow on her, but it was pretty good the way that it went, one of the few times TVD didn’t suck at their jobs and make me feel like I was watching a teen vampire show on the CW.

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4. His incessant talking and ability to make everything sexual especially when it comes to Bonnie. Also his obsession for Bonnie–I realize that it’s not particularly healthy, but, damn, after watching 5 seasons of the Stefan, Damon, and Elena snooze-fest it was great not only seeing someone obsess over Bonnie but in an interesting way. Like his obsession didn’t just take over his character, it was a part of his character. He was more than his obsession.

5. I know people are going to kill me for this, but honestly meh. I’ve mentioned probably more times than necessary that I gave up on the show mid season 5, but I came back in season 6, but not quite. I didn’t actually watch season 6 until well after the entire season aired, I’m pretty sure season 7 had even started by that point. I’m not someone who really cares about spoilers so when I watched season 6 it was entirely to see Kai, who I had already read about through his wiki page, so I went into season 6 fully knowing he died.

While I was attached to the character I wasn’t all that sad that he died because a) I knew before hand and b) it’s hard caring about death when it comes to TVD. I’m pretty sure the last death on the show I had any legitimate feelings for on the show was Alaric in season 3 and even that was kinda pushing it because the storyline around it was so meh–and that was a thought I had as a casual viewer of the show. Even with Bonnie’s death at the end of season 4 I was pretty blasé, although annoyed that she died over Jeremy, because there’s pretty much a guarantee that every character who does comes back and low and behold she did.

Although I will admit I was pretty disappointed with how he died and not really for the usual reason, but more because of how permanent is was. Like I kept trying to think of ways he could have not been dead because he still had his heart and I didn’t really pay that much attention to the more to remember that beheading was an actual way to permanently kill a vampire. So I guess the best way to characterize my feelings when he died is “he’ll be back” and he was.

6. No. I don’t actually have that many dirty dreams and when I do it’s rarely with TV characters, it’s actually always people I know.

7. 😲😮🤕

8. Young Kai because that’s the version that endeared me to the character. The older Kai is post merge and I actually wasn’t that big of a fan of that version of him–he was less entertaining to me.

9. Who is this random character and why does everyone ship him with Bonnie? 

So fun fact, I first got introduced to Kai through fanfiction. I was new to fanfic at the time and really had no real attachments to any ships with Bonnie (or any of the characters for that matter) so I read any and everything with her except for Bonkai (and Kennett but for reasons that still are unclear to me today because I still won’t read them). In general, and this is still applies today, I don’t read OC’s and characters I’m not familiar with as main characters. My imagination is kinda crappy so when reading it’s hard for me to imagine the character if I have no real prior knowledge of them, it’s why I didn’t like reading as a kid, there were just words on a page for me. My comprehension skills have vastly improved but then not so much.

Anyways due to this I didn’t read anything with Bonkai until I got desperate and had run out of Bonnie fics I was interested in. I first read this fic and though it’s not that great it did spark me to read other Bonkai fics and most of all context for this character, so I reluctantly watched season 6 and was actually pleasantly surprised that it was watchable. So this was around mid-2015 which is when there was a lot of Bonkai fic being written, at least from my perspective because it was inescapable to me which is mostly why I conceded, but for the most part my first impression was who is this and why does he keep coming up in my searches for Bonnie.

10. I’m sorry, but Kai Parker and for this specific Bo Burnham quote: Stop sticking with artists through thick and thin. If I stop entertaining you, leave me. Don’t “stick with me”. You wouldn’t stick with your mechanic if he stopped fixing your car would you? I am in the service industry-I’m just overpaid. Now that’s not to say I’ve abandoned him and he doesn’t entertain me any more, but for the most part what years of TVD have taught me is exactly that, don’t stick with things because of a sense of loyalty but because it’s actually entertaining, and Chris Wood has never been as entertaining as he was as Kai Parker and I think that’s something we can all agree on. So I pick Kai Parker everyday.

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