Faith : Yeah. Sam's powerful and useful, too.

Dragons? That sounds familiar. There are ways to deal with such things.

                                           Matt Davis || Alaric Saltzman

           Ay caramba, that’s a good question. The short answer is, ‘they haven’t, yet’. The medium answer is that, sometimes, feelings and need are so strong that they’ll plow right through your baggage like the Kool-Aid Man through your mom’s kitchen wall on a hot, summer day.

@allroundlostcause replied to your post: “               Having all the feels over the stark contrast of Damon’s...”:

It's dizzying, and I love how you capture it <3

                   I'm nowhere near your level of Damon, so that's a big compliment coming from you. xoxo

           Damon just wants to be important to people. There's this episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where Rob Petrie comes home and gives his son a rock he found when he was out. His son exclaims, "Oh boy, a rock!" and runs off with it --- and Rob tells Laura that Richie didn’t care what Rob might bring him, he just wanted to know his father was thinking about him when he was out.

That's very, very Damon (and Faith, eep). He doesn't care what kind of attention you give him, so long as you give him your attention and that's turned out badly for everyone in the past. Canon Ric gave him boundaries, expected him to do better and I completely believe that Alaric being Damons friend is what socialized him enough that someone like Elena could see herself with him. 

                              Ooh, well. I don’t really have a major second ship for Damon. He’s not super shippable, because casual sex doesn’t count as a ‘ship’, in my book. I think, with the exception of rp things, that Ric is really it for Damon. The dynamic is too good, the relationship’s a catastrophe, you really don’t get much better than that.