🌧️ — how does your muse act when they’re hurt emotionally?
🌙 the emotional headcanon meme 🥀
Canonically we see two variations of reactions from her, both line up perfectly with her BPD.
1- She shuts down tries to pretend like it doesnt mean anything but it does. We see this when Elijah walks away from her and says good bye. She doesn't say much if anything at all just sort of shuts down for the moment. This is the rarer of the two given her petulant sub type shes more prone to number two-
2- Lashing out emotionally/aggressively. We see plenty of examples of this one. When Stefan says he hates her and she stabs him being one of the very first that comes to mind. When Damon accuses her lying and she snaps back with "Did it ever occur to you that you dont know who I am?"
This can also look like her being overly defensive Like when Elijah grills her about Elena when her humanity is off and she quickly becomes very defensive because she feels like she's not being seen/heard/understood only Elena's side is. (which is usually the case especially concerning Elijah with Klaus too)
Overly defensive or aggressive lashing out is incredibly common in BPD as a defense mechanism when it feels like you're not being heard. It's no different for Katherine Pierce she consistently exhibits this behavior when met with scrutiny of any kind. If shes not doubling down to feed her cold hearted bitch facade than she is overly defensive of everything.
If people would learn how to talk to her this wouldn't be that big an issue but here we are in the land of mystic falls where everyone personally knows better than everyone else.











