#bamonlove

Here’s to a day filled with Bamon love and loads of posts! 

Let’s start with some things that scream out Bamon love:

1. Vampcakes! =)

2. Miss Cuddles! =)

3. Badass Dynamic Duo! =)

4. Cute Bantering! =)

5. Eye Sex! =)

6. Epic Dances! =)

7.Epic Hugs! =)

8. Stefan, the #1 Bamon Fanboy! 

9. Crossword puzzles, monopoly, The Bodyguard and tetris! =)

10. May 10th of course!! =)

We're watching some of our most classic Bamon meta come to life before our eyes in these past few episodes: the concept that Bonnie and Damon are not accustomed to being anyone's first choice, and that if they were connected, they would be exactly that for each other.

With Bonnie, we saw it most dramatically in 6x05 when she sacrificed herself so that Damon could go home, so that he could be happy. It was an experience so new to him, that he's still completely in awe every time he talks about it:

With Damon, we're seeing it in action in the way he's prioritizing Bonnie over everyone else, even people who are important to him: compelling Alaric, refusing to indulge Elena's self-focus when Bonnie needs saving, feeling bad for letting Bonnie down rather than for what he did to Alaric, even right after getting punched.

Compare this to basically everyone else:

Jeremy, understandably or not, is prioritizing his own grief and well-being over Bonnie.

Elena gets some points for attendance, but the fact is that at every opportunity she was shifting the focus away from Bonnie... it was so blatant that I have to wonder if she went on this rescue mission just as much as a test of how she and Damon mesh together as to actually rescue her best friend. Again, prioritizing herself over Bonnie.

They went to great lengths to show us that Tyler prioritizes Liv over Bonnie.

And that Alaric prioritizes Jo over her.

I feel bad putting Caroline on this list since it's almost a plot contrivance she wasn't more involved, but the fact is that this wouldn't be the first time where Caroline prioritized boy drama over Bonnie.

I'm not assembling this list to demonize anyone on it, and I don't hate any of these characters for making the choices they made (other than Alaric, who I hate by default, sorry Alaric). But these are the people who Bonnie has prioritized over herself in the past. These are the people she has literally died for, over and over.

There's only one person she made that sacrifice for who was willing to do the exact same for her at the time. Only one person who proved with his actions that he holds her in the same kind of regard/importance: Damon.

Yessss, exactly!

For four months, they talked. They had each other and no one else. I don’t care what Damon told Elena, they talked about anything and everything. Every little, tiny, minute moment of each day was spent and shared in the each other’s company.

So when he was separated from her, he craved that, more than he could have ever expected. To the point where he called her cell phone and was disappointed that she only left him with 6 meaningless little words.

To the point where he reminisced about talking to her, about the sound of her voice, losing himself in the memory of it and smiling like an idiot without even realizing it.

Because that’s not something Damon has ever had with someone before, that kind of emotional intimacy, that kind of trust and connection.

So hearing her voice isn’t just about the fact that he cares about her. I mean of course that’s true, and of course he’s feeling waves of relief just crashing into him to know she’s alive when he was beginning to fear the worst.