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Bonnie Bennett Headcanons Week

📢 Attention all Bonnie Bennett fans, I'm proud to present a week of headcanons about our favorite witch.

From November 14th until November 20th we will be sharing out headcanons about Bonnie with a different theme for each day, a theme you all voted on. Please note, I did combine some of the themes because they were too similar to have separate days with, so instead of a top 7 it ended up being more of a top 10.

Without further ado the winning themes for the week (in no particular order) are:

November 14th: Magic

November 15th: College

November 16th: Childhood/Family/Ancestors

November 17th: Tattoos

November 18th: Sexuality

November 19th: Hair

November 20th: Careers/Hobbies

You may interpret these themes however you like and make any type of post (metas, gifsets, moodboards, etc.) that your heart desires about them. There is also no limit to how many posts you can make per theme. Let your imagination run wild!

The only requirement I do have is that you tag it #BBHCweek so I we can find your posts and reblog it. Also @ me if you have trouble getting it visible in the tag, we all know how tumblr dysfunctions.

BBHC Week Day 6: Hair

So I’m joining in a bit late cos I’m not really good at headcanons but I do quite enjoy looking at tattoo symbolism and working out who would have what based on what I believe their character represents. 

Ok, so I can see Bonnie with at least two tattoos. The first is a rose. Now, rose tattoos can have different meanings depending on their colour. For instance, black rose tattoos are usually symbolic of grief and remembrance, which Bonnie sadly experienced so much of in the show. But I’ve headcanon-chosen purple because it has been used to symbolise royalty and enchantment. And i imagine Bonnie would have it over her heart. 

Blame Lisbeth Salander for this next headcanon I’ve got. I love back tattoos. Especially wing tattoos. So, I’m imagining Bonnie with gorgeous raven wings on her back. Ravens are complex when it comes to symbolism. They’re often associated with bad omens, but they also represent prophecy and insight. In many mythologies they are also viewed as a connection between our world and the world of the spirits. 

BBHC Week: Sexuality

I'd like to tell a little story

That's been told time and time again

I've had many lovers all of which have seen a different phase in my life.

First there was Tyler. We had puppy love. He was my first everything, crush, kiss, first time, and first love. But like most puppy love we didn't last. I like to think what we could have been had he not been so concerned about what his parents thought, but it doesn't matter because we were never meant to last. We were just meant to be with each other for the time we were and I have no regrets. Not every person you date or fuck is supposed to be your everything, they were just meant to be my something.

Then there was Vicki. Even I wasn't immune hurricane Vicki, but I was probably the least bitter about. I suppose that's what happens when you have no illusions of what you are to a person. For Vicki, I knew I was just right now. Something for her to do to further the rumors about her. For me she was a revelation, one I wouldn't understand until later on.

Kissing Vicki felt exactly the same as kissing Tyler. Sure, there we physical differences between the two, but that inside feeling was exactly the same. That feeling of wanting more, for it never to end until we were both raw and satisfied. I wouldn't realize until later in a conversation with Caroline that that's not how it is for everyone. That there was a difference between curiosity and what I was, gay.

Then there was Damon. With him I learned what it truly meant to hate fuck someone. To have such overwhelming feelings of hate that it comes out in weird ways, in my case, fucking Damon Salvatore. That ended quickly much to no one's surprise. Thing about hate is it dissolves into indifference pretty quickly and all that was left was contempt. Although one satisfying thing came from that, being able to reject Damon Salvatore and it actually hurt him. It seems my opinion only mattered when I was fucking him.

Then Jeremy, my best friend's little brother. I took a chance with him, a leap of faith. In a world suddenly filled with monsters he was all that made sense. I think I understood Vicki the most then because when everything feels like it's crashing down Jeremy will always be there to help you pick up the pieces. That is, until Anna.

The most confusing time in my life was when Jeremy cheated on me. It was the icing on the fucking cake after everything with Esther and my mother. I suppose that's how I ended up with Klaus, and later Professor Shane. They were older, more experienced and everything Jeremy wasn't. But again, those don't last. Nothing ever lasts out of spite. That's what I learned from Rebekah.

To be fair, she did like me, just not more than Stefan, and especially not more than her brother. I'm always getting blind sided when it comes to love. I'm there as a filler and never the main course, but with her it hurt the most. She was my first girlfriend and I guess I had some false notion that it would be better than having a boyfriend, that she couldn't hurt me the way Jeremy had, but of course she did, her loyalties never lied with me. However, again, I don't regret her. Our time together was noteworthy and showed me once again that there was no difference for me.

After that I didn't date, I fucked. I fucked Stefan, I fucked Matt, I fucked Jeremy again, I fucked Nora. You can't be betrayed if there's no commitment,  but I guess that's why he surprised me the most.

I fucked Kai and I thought I would leave it at that but nothing ever goes to plan with him. I thought I'd feel contempt like with Damon, but it never came. I thought he'd find someone he'd want more like the others, but that never came either. The level of devotion he had toward me was unlike anything I ever experienced, so when he left me in that prison world I was surprised at how betrayed I felt. Of course, I evened the playing field after, but I'll never forget realizing when everything changed.

BBHC Week: Hair

I am not my hair, I am not this skin

I am not your expectations,

I am the soul that lives within

As a black woman in a majority white town with only white friends Bonnie finds it difficult to accept her hair. It was one of the many ways she felt othered. None of her friends needed a whole day to wash their hair. They washed it everyday. None if her friends need protective styles for a day at the pool. They could decide to go on a whim. None of her friends were asked if they could touch their hair,, or worse, not asked at all. They were the ones asking. None of her friends got pulled out of class for wearing their hair in their most natural form, it was already the standard.

It wouldn't be until much later in life long after her Grams had died that she would truly come to appreciate the hair she was born with because while her friends lived in a world where their hair was the standard she lived in one of community. Hours spent between her grandmother's legs while she braided it. Hours spent bonding, and later when she would find a salon for her hair she would meet more people who walked the same life she did and yet, so different. The way each black woman wore her hair was special to her and later it would become special to her and not trying to fit astandard that was set against her from the start.

BBHC Week: Ancestors

So for this day my headcanon is more about Qetsiyah and who the father of her unnamed baby that later creates the Bennett line and because I love a good mess, my headcanon is that Silas is that father. I especially love this headcanon because it helps explain why the Bennett line is so powerful and notable, they come from two notable witches.

Granted I have my reservations about how powerful Silas actually was but I do like the idea that the Bennetts inherited especially Bonnie, his psychic powers. Had the show kept that Bonnie from season one (which I already HC) that would have been a great tie in. Even killing Rudy could have had more meaning other than Bonnie pain because while he doesn't care about Qetsiyah I have a feeling he'd care about his bloodline and Rudy being too human for his liking could have been a motivator.

BBHC Week: College

So I guess I'm kind of cheating since this isn't about her in college but rather her gap year. My headcanon is that she took a gap year at the beginning of the year after everything that happened in season 4. After Shane and Grams dying it kind of soured her toward college but mostly Whitmore so she decided to take a gap year which she spent traveling abroad.

BBHC Week: Tattoos