#atticus shane

Stefan and Elena slept together after around two months of knowing each other

yet jeremy and bonnie canonically didnt sleep together until s5...MID SEASON 5 TO BE SPECIFIC

even if people can say oh well they broke up s3 and didnt get back together til s5

they still dated s2 in which stelena had like a dozen make out scenes

I’m too lazy to look this up for accuracy on how long Bonnie was there but Beremy could’ve had sex in the witches house way back in s2. Bonnie was supposed to be “dead”, out of the way from Klaus to ensure she’d have the upper hand when it was time to face him. Unless Bon was growing her own fruit in the yard… Jeremy had to been the one bringing her food or whatever other necessities to keep Klaus from seeing her… we know it wasn’t Rudy. If the problem was showing Kat’s body, a simple scene of one of them changing would’ve been enough implication but no lol. When Beremy does have sex Bonnie’s in physical agonizing pain..

If anyone else was stuck in the prison world with Damon they would’ve hooked up. “But Elena feels—“ would’ve been a non-factor. Especially when you can see in early stages of tvd Bamon does have moments where you can see some romantic subtext.

Shane/Silas and Bonnie was a textbook example of the student/teacher grooming trope. But no Shane couldn’t even be into her romantically he only wanted her for her magic. Which… if you rewatch their scenes together lol. Something romantic is there. Bonnie’s giggling, defending him to everybody… as if he was her boyfriend. The fact that she eventually had to accept his betrayal and the plot did nothing else with it… typical

Luka and Ben the bartender both were “interested” but it was about her magic/for someone else.

Jamie? He likes her, so what he’s everything Abby wanted in a child vs Bonnie? Think abt it: Bennetts seem to birth women & witches. Abby didn’t want to be a witch so in a way Jamie her new child is perfect. So what, you’ll never see him again and he’s her adoptive brother. Not like Bonnie couldn’t have started something up with Klaus or Kol during her break up with Jeremy. SO WHAT, Julie threw a tantrum on twitter when she was actively pushing Klaroline at the time.

Kai and Bonnie? No can’t have that. It would ruin Kai from being an irredeemable villain. It would break and destroy Bonnie’s character. But, yeah Kai has feelings for Bonnie but that’s it.

Bonnie and Stefan? Sorry, that’ll be dropped in exchange for Steroline’s love story.

Bonnie can only ask what kissing the bad boy is like with Elena. Bonnie can only vent and laugh with Caroline or another about wanting to be hooking up vs dealing with magic problems. Bonnie can only dream of having a happy life with Enzo.. but she can’t have that

There’s a post by this creator here about how some WW cannot fathom that someone that isn’t white can be considered prettier than them. Which is exactly what happened in the tvd writing room. Those women couldn’t understand why those male or women actors wanted to be paired up with Bonnie/Kat when they saw Bonnie/Kat as someone beneath them. Liv and Bonnie was a good option too. Same for Bonnie and Nora. Neither one of those could happen but Freya got to be Bisexual…

I know til this day it eats Julie alive that if anyone ask Ian about Bamon he’s going on a tangent about them not dating or sleeping together made no sense lol.

It’s just telling that theirs so many scenes of these white women characters and the opposing sex that blurs the lines of consent and yet when it came to Bonnie everyone had control of themselves…

Desolation!Bonnie and Silas

Lonely!Damon and Qetsiyah

Buried!Amara and Klaus

also Web!Shane and Hayley (and maybe something for Hayley taking his place after he fails)

Their Power was overwhelming from the start.

No one wanted to to be on their bad side, and even Silas didn't want to be on hers.

They were both so used to being alone though, they never liked it.

They could both understand eachothers need and hatred for loneliness. Unable to trust the presence of the others.

He really should know better than upset her. Though, he seemed to have become her favourite chew toy even when it Wasn't His Fault.

The game they played was an ever changing grasp for power, even before they truly knew they could gain or lose it.

Klonnie AU: Struggling to regain her magic, Bonnie turns to Professor Shane, who introduces her to Expression. Just as she starts to make progress, Klaus—who has been closely monitoring her and her friends—appears before her. He is determined not to let the young Bennett witch's magic regain her magic unchecked. Klaus reveals a shocking and dark truth about Atticus Shane that leaves Bonnie both doubtful of her new mentor and suspicious of the Hybrid's motives. Now, Bonnie is torn, caught yet again in one of Klaus’s schemes and Shane’s secrets, unable to fully trust either but wary of being used yet again. Season 4 AU.

TVDU Families — The Shane Family

Pushing his hand away she eyes him with a dark mix of yearning and loathing. "Why won't you leave me alone? Why won't you let me go?"

"Why? Because you called out for me." He backs her up against the painting that inspired his appearance. "It's because I love you that I won't let you go."

BonKai AU: Bonnie Bennett is a world class painter; having created masterpiece after masterpiece since she was eleven. By the time she reached eighteen she was nearly in a class of her own. But now at twenty not only only is pressure getting to her, she's beginning feel burnt out and her artist block has hit an all time high.

She begins to spiral so her friends stage an intervention disguised as a vacation to a picturesque town called Heron. There she meets Dr. Atticus Shane and things only get worse from there. Something is calling to her from the depths of Sage Lake. One night in a desperate bid not to lose her scholarship she sends up a prayer after midnight and the eldritch entity responds.

Professor Shane should've been a straight up villain, Thee Big Bad. Make it so he's Silas, no doppelganger shenanigans. Have him be the powerful immortal who is going to unleash Hell on Earth. Giving Michael Langdon from AHS, Amaru from From Dusk til Dawn or Eclipso from Stargirl vibes who's a legitimate threat, the way Dahlia and The Hollow had the Originals running for the hills. Like, if you're gonna have yet another person using and exploiting Bon-Bon, then fully commit and make him a major threat because having him just be some human guy understandably desperate to resurrect his family and then die pitifully was disappointing. Like, have the island give some The Ritual vibes with a deranged cult worshipping Silas picking people off and then it's revealed Shane is Silas.

Season four was... weird.

Like, they started off badly by having Elena become a vampire, thus destroying the whole draw of two idiot vampires fighting over a human who is identical to their shared ex (not weird at all). Add onto that the Hunters plot line and Caroline slowly "falling" for Klaus (gross) and them just having Matt stand around (once again), that by the time we got to Bonnie's plotline that season (more suffering - who'd have guessed?), it was just kind of... boring.

Bonnie started off the season rather strong. At the end of the previous season, she was tapping into Dark Magic. And not Dark as in "I make deals with demons," but Dark as in "everyone else is allowed to use their magic for personal gain without consequences, why can't I?" And the thing is, she wasn't even doing it for personal gain. She was trying to use Dark Magic to save her friend from becoming a vampire, which she didn't want to be. Yet once again, she's punished where no other witch is ever punished.

After that, the Dark Magic was immediately dropped in favor of the Darkest Magic (Expression). And here's where we get into your ask, because it would have made so much more sense to have Shane be Silas, as he was the one teaching her Expression. Shane could have simply been Silas' physical form, an immortal cursed to wander the earth without his power and him needing a powerful witch to help access it. That would have made an infinite amount of more sense than here's this dorky college professor who just so happens to academically know about this powerful form of witchcraft that is so powerful and old and dangerous that all other witches fear to even call it magic, let alone practice it.

He could have very easily tricked her by saying, "Hey, here are these old grimoires that were in your Grams' collection that talk about this old form of magic." He could have thrown out the lure for a Cure, with it just being a fakeout to get them to the island where, like you said, his Cult still worships him and separates the group one by one until he gets Bonnie close enough.

After that, keep the rest of the plot pretty much the same. Katherine impersonates Elena and steals what she thinks is the Cure and have Elena spiral, and Bonnie finally come into her own magically.