The Salvatore Brothers

Damon Salvatore:

What’s their reflex when something surprises them — stillness, fists, or flight?

Has their body ever reacted inappropriately to someone they dislike?

Is there a specific type of touch that makes their breath catch involuntarily?

Stefan Salvatore:

What’s one unexpected thing that gives them goosebumps — a voice, a word, a feeling?

Are they good at hiding attraction, or does it show in their body language?

Do they blush easily? And is it cute, inconvenient, or just irritating to them?

For all muses:

Who turns bright red when angry, not when embarrassed?

Who hiccups when flustered and hates it?

Who flinches from sudden touch even if it’s friendly?

Who’s had their voice betray them mid-sentence from tension?

Who can sit still like a rock during chaos but gets startled by their alarm clock?

Been meaning to answer this, so here you go!

(Question fairy here — because who doesn’t love getting asked about their characters?)

Damon Salvatore:

What’s their reflex when something surprises them — stillness, fists, or flight? Fists 100%.

Has their body ever reacted inappropriately to someone they dislike? Yes, absolutely. Who? Wouldn't you like to know.

Is there a specific type of touch that makes their breath catch involuntarily? Touching his hair. There's just something about it.

Stefan Salvatore:

What’s one unexpected thing that gives them goosebumps — a voice, a word, a feeling? A sight actually. Seeing the sky.

Are they good at hiding attraction, or does it show in their body language? He's not good at hiding it at all, but he thinks he is.

Do they blush easily? And is it cute, inconvenient, or just irritating to them? Gonna go with yes both living and dead and he finds it irritating, but others might find it cute.

For all muses:

Who turns bright red when angry, not when embarrassed? -Definitely Damon.

Who hiccups when flustered and hates it? -Stefan

Who flinches from sudden touch even if it’s friendly? -Damon

Who’s had their voice betray them mid-sentence from tension? -Both

“You can claim you hate yourself all you want, Katherine, but for some reason, you still lie, cheat, and manipulate your way around. You’ve been alive - sort of - all this time and yet you haven’t learned from your mistakes.” 

Stefan’s expression softened at her confession because he could deny it all he wanted, but he knew she was telling the truth. He paused, thinking through his next words carefully.

"A line?" Katherine echoed, a soft chuckle on its tail. "I used to believe in a line to Stefan. Believe it or not the girl you knew wasn't all a lie. I used to be soft, I used to be a bleeding heart too. You want to know what happened to her? She couldn't survive. So someone who could do what needed to be done had to take her place."

She let out a long sigh and closed her eyes, jaw clenched as she tried to find the words she wanted out of all of them she knew. It was harder than you think.

"The trouble is, Stefan I did learn from my mistakes. Trusting so openly, not having a back up plan. It almost got me killed once. And then several times after." She swallowed hard and looked at him, expression all but begging him to see past his hatred for her.

"I didn't want to hurt you, but what would you have wanted me to do Stefan? Reveal myself? You were already parading around with the man I was running from. At least while I was dead to his knowledge, I had time to plan how to win my freedom from him. So I could be with you."

She can feel the frustration welling up in her chest, if theres one thing she hates more than anything.... it's not being heard no matter how many times she tries to say it.

"Look I know you're hurt, and Im SORRY ok? You don't understand you've never had to run from KLAUS. You were teachers PET Stefan. Me? He wants me dead!" She paused and gestured to nothing with a laugh, "Sorry just kidding he wants to torture me. All because I didn't want to die for him. Because I ran scared. I've BEEN running SCARED Stefan, don't you get it?"

Her jaw clenched again, her chest rising and falling a little harder with her intense emotions.

"You think I would give you up for just anything?" Eyes water as a swell of pain bleeds over into her expression. "I only ran so I could LIVE and see YOU again. I promised."

Not that he'd remember that.

Stefan always carried a certain amount of guilt with him, and while much of it stemmed from his Ripper days, there was also his time spent with Klaus. They had been close for a time, like brothers, but he hadn’t known that Klaus was after Katherine back then.

Her apology took him by surprise, especially because he knew that she meant it. To whatever degree Katherine could be sorry, she really was.

“You’re right, I don’t know what it feels like,” Stefan replied patiently. He couldn’t imagine what it was like to be on the run, especially from someone like Klaus, nor to have someone want him dead for centuries.  

“I do understand what it’s like to be afraid though.” The Ripper scared him more than anything which is why he worked so hard to keep himself in line.

Katherine’s mention of giving him up was another statement that had startled him a bit. It seemed like she was letting the mask slip a little more than usual. And a promise?

* A MIXTURE OF TVD S1 - S2 PROMPTS , CHANGE ANY PRONOUNS AS NEEDED .

‘ You left that girl alive tonight. That was very careless of you.. ‘

‘ I promised you an eternity of misery, so I’m just keeping my word.. ‘

‘ But wherever you go, people die.. ‘

‘ I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun. ‘

‘ Are these bites going to turn me into a vampire? ‘

‘ I like being the eternal stud. ‘

‘ You have a lot more insults in you, I can tell. ‘

‘ Everything you know, and every belief that you have, is about to change. ‘

‘ I’m getting really bored and really impatient, and I don’t do bored and impatient. ‘

‘ How many more animal attacks is this town gonna believe, huh? ‘

‘ I’ve been in love. It’s painful, pointless, and overrated. ‘

‘ Tip for later - be careful who you invite in the house. ‘

‘ I promise I will keep your secret, but…I can’t be with you. ‘

‘ It’s so not what you’re craving, but it’ll do in a pinch. ‘

‘ Our values and our actions, they define who we are. ‘

‘ How can you be so arrogant and glib after everything that you’ve done? ‘

‘ This daylight thing is a bitch! I need more blood! ‘

‘ Well, your life was pathetic; your afterlife doesn’t have to be. ‘

‘ You confuse me for someone with remorse.. ‘

‘ Why does everybody have to die on me? ‘

‘ Uh, have you met you? You’re not a nice person. ‘

‘ After a century, I finally realized death means nothing without you. ‘

‘ I couldn’t miss your hundredth and…whatever birthday. ‘

‘ You saved my life - I’m sparing yours. We’re even. ‘

‘ It’s not like the welcome wagon was waiting with a bunk cake and a handbook. ‘

‘ You promise not to do that mind-control-thing with me? ‘

‘ Vampires can’t procreate. But we love to try. ‘

‘ It’s not like we all hang out at the ‘vamp bar and grill’. ‘

‘ You know…you were there in the road, all ‘damsel in distress’-like. ‘

‘ You just found out that your boyfriend is a vampire. ‘

‘ Now you remember that. Because it’s never happening again. ‘

‘ If I see something I haven’t seen before, I’ll throw a dollar at it. ‘

‘ What if your blood hasn’t passed out of her system?! ‘

‘ You went in there not knowing if you could come back out? ‘

‘ Is that a vampire thing? ‘Cause I read vampires don’t like running water. ‘

‘ First rule about vampires: don’t believe anything you read. ‘

‘ So you want a pity turn? I don’t think so. ‘

‘ You should turn me 'cause I don’t have anything else. ’

‘ Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night. ‘

‘ Can you just not joke around for two seconds? ‘

‘ We’ll just add it to the growing list of how everything’s falling apart. ‘

‘ Please dance with your alcoholic vampire boyfriend. ‘

‘ You know this vampire problem is real, right? It’s a potential bloodbath. ‘

‘ Do you wanna hear the bad news, or the really bad news? ‘

‘ I wanted to feed on him, and it took everything inside of me not to do it. ‘

‘ I have this hunger inside of me that I’ve never… I’ve never felt before in my entire life ‘

‘ Does that mean you’re okay, now, with all the cravings? ‘

‘ You were playing house with half of a tomb of really pissed-off vampires.. ‘

‘ I’m talking about the fact that you’re a closet blood junkie. ‘

‘ There’s that switch - sometimes it goes off and you snap… ‘

‘ If you’re just gonna mock me, could you move along, please? ‘

‘ He has a fridge, full of stolen blood bank contraband, in the house. ‘

‘ Normal to a vampire is drinking human blood, but he’s spent all this time fighting it. ‘

‘ I wanted to drain every ounce of blood from that girl’s body. ‘

‘ I like being a living dead person. ‘

‘ So either kill me or compel me, because I don’t believe it. ‘

‘ I’m a vampire. What’s your excuse? ‘

‘ Come on, don’t pout about it. We got a body to bury. ‘

‘ Why are you looking at him with your serious vampire look? ‘

‘ What do you know about werewolves? ‘

‘ You knew that they were going to burn the vampires in the church? ‘

‘ So, can you like do a hocus-pocus to ace a test? ‘

‘ That werewolf road leads straight to vampire boulevard! ‘

‘ It must be painful to desiccate and mummify. I can’t even imagine. ‘

‘ Torture me, keep me captive, drain me of blood until my body turns to dust.  ‘

‘ We both know I could rip you to shreds and do my nails at the same time. ‘

‘ You know, if you wanna see me naked all you have to do is ask. ‘

‘ What is up with that family? They’re not vampires, what the hell are they? ‘

‘ I’m just happy that’s a, uh– a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner. ‘

Elena’s smirk softened into something smaller, more coy as she looked up at him through her lashes. “Maybe I just like hearing them,” she said quietly, almost like a confession. Her fingers brushed a strand of hair behind her ear, a nervous habit.