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gooddame:

bamfoline:

1×01 // 4×04

Thank fuck someone did this. Damon’s line here has haunted me ever since I saw that episode. It just sits with me some times. It’s sick.

The disgusting thing about D*lena is that its not even like the writers made an effort to make it look like Damon had changed with he was still his same creepy rapey self and Elena just rolled with it and told Caroline to talk to the hand whenever she brought it up. The worst line for me was when Damon was like, “Have fun with Miss Mystic fall I know I did” and Elena smiles like its a joke, your not telling me that Caroline didn’t tell Elena that Damon took advantage of her, its not like she didn’t know. So either Elena gives no fucks about Caroline and what Damon did or the writers are trying to negate continuity either way I’m disgusted.

I stumbled across this old post and I just to reblog it because I just realised what a deliberate parallel this. The girl Damon and Elena are stalking looks exactly like Caroline in season2 right down to the curly hair and the bangs and the outfit.

As if this couldn’t get any more gross…

I think it’s definitely a deliberate parallel. It’s completely consistent with early S1, though? To take just one example–this is from 1×09 when Caroline says she wants the necklace back that she gave Bonnie:

Elena learned Damon was compelling Caroline and erasing her memory in 1×06, she knew Damon was feeding from Caroline and saw the bite marks in 1×04. I think she enjoyed the situation because it made her feel superior to Caroline in comparison (hence her heart-eyes at Damon when he says, “I wanted it to be real with you” in 1×13, i.e. “I think you’re special enough to not-rape.”) There’s the scene in 1×21 where she laughs with Damon over him raping Caroline, and as early as 1×05 she clearly despised Caroline for looking “too cheerful” after being abused and traumatized in 1×04 (which Elena saw.)

This is why I disagreed with people saying Elena was OOC in 4×08 when she said, “He’s always been there for ME when *I* needed him” and “So what exactly was it about him that made you jump into bed with him as soon as you met him?” to Caroline, or that she said it because of the sire bond, it was 100% consistent with her attitude from early S1 (though the sire bond might’ve made Elena less cautious in speaking her mind directly instead of being more careful about what she said in front of whom.)

Whenever this gets brought up, people say it’s breaking continuity because Elena made a big deal of getting angry at Damon and comforting Caroline in 1×04, and says, “He was hurting her!” to Stefan in 1×06, but I think it’s the combination of these reactions and her true attitude to Caroline plus her actions (where she doesn’t move to get anyone around her on vervain until 1×12) that gets at the essence of who Elena is as a person.

It’s the most natural thing in the world that writers with misogynistic attitudes will produce protagonists who embody those attitudes. It’s just that for various reasons it took TVD fandom a really, really, really long time to see it with its female protagonists, especially Elena. It was always there, though.