#poor caroline

So I’ve been feeling nostalgic during this quarantine and I started my... 7th (maybe?) attempt to rewatch and actually finish The Vampire Diaries. Well, as always, I got to mid season six and gave up again. I can’t get past it.

Like, it’s no secret that Caroline is my favourite character, and realistically probably the only character (other than Klaus) I actually like. And then Enzo came along. And wow, did I love Enzo. But most of all, I loved Caroline and Enzo. Like wow - their chemistry, their banter. Just perfection.

And I’m sure like a lot of you reading this, Klaroline was endgame but I’d started watching The Originals and figured we were not going to get Klaroline endgame (and ha, what a piece of foreshadowing that was). So I shipped Carenzo. But a friendship worked too. Someone who actually cared for Caroline 100%! I mean, he killed someone because a boy made her cry!

But anyways, I’m rambling. So when my rewatch failed, I remembered reading back in the day on fanfiction.net (yes, shock horror, I actually step away from AO3 at times) some amazing Carenzo/Frienzoline fics. So I spent a small time (narrator: she spent 3 days) searching for them. Lynyrd Lionheart - if you are ever reading this, man oh man, do I wish you had been a writer for The Vampire Diaries. Let me give you a line, guys, that this writer wrote about Caroline and Enzo: ‘Get them in a room together and they’ll have an entire conversation just with their eyebrows.’ And if that isn’t Frienzoline/Carenzo all over, I don’t know what is.

(Wow, formatting on mobile is awful, huh?) So I don’t think I’ve spoken of TVD on this platform but man oh man am I bitter. Why did the writers build up Caroline and Enzo to suddenly drop it? And I’m not even talking about a ship. They had the best friendship! They went to BREAKFAST! I had high hopes for their friendship and then it was like the writers just seemed to forget it ever happened. Like... where were my Carenzo siblings?

Now admittedly I never watched the end, or the end of TO, but I know what happened. Instead of Frienzoline and Klaroline we got Stefan/Caroline (which I didn’t hate, at first), forced pregnancies, magic babies, Bonenzo (which I didn’t hate but didn’t love), Damon and Elena being the focus (who even cares?) and TO just nose dived.

I will forever, FOREVER, be bitter that I didn’t get two seasons of Carenzo siblings, Enzo being her wingman and then Klaroline endgame with Enzo at their side. Gah. Rant over.

Lord Malmesbury to the Prince of Wales

Brunswick, Thursday, 11 Dec. 1794

I expected to have had it in my power before this date to have announced to your Royal Highness our departure from hence and the probable day of our arrival in England, but the messenger Dupins, who pass’d thro’ Brunswick a few days ago in his way to Berlin, brought official accounts dated the 29th Novr. (a week later than Y.R.H. letter by Major Hislop) which say in the most express terms that on that day no time was fix’d on respecting the sailing of the convoy, nor any determination then taken as to the place at which I was to embark with the Princess. It was absolutely impossible, under this uncertainty, for me to think of setting out, & I am sure your Royal Highness cannot disapprove my having not venturing to expose so very valuable trust as that I have in charge to anything like risk or difficulty. Not a possible delay can arise on this side of the water; everything & everybody is ready here, neither will a moment be lost in getting away, or on the road, the instant I receive from Ld. Grenville the necassary orders & information. I have written to him every post since my arrival to press him on this subjecy, and I humbly intreat Y.R.H. to do the same, otherwise I do not really know when I shall be able to acquitt myself of my very pleasing duty and deliver into your hands what I sincerely hope & believe will be the great source of all your future happiness, and this idea is so strongly impress’d on my mind that I regret more & more every day that is pass’d here, because I consider them as so many deducted from it.

I am order’d by the Princess to say everything that is respectful, grateful & affectionate to your Royal Highness. She has receiv’d a box from England with English dresses & it is amazing how much they become her.

I have mention’d to Ld. Grenville the subject of presents to be made here on this occasion. I fancy (as nothing is settled on this point) that they had better be sent from London after the Princess’s arrival. I shall be able to explain to Y.R.H. by this means to whom they should be given & what they should be, & I mention’d the subject to his Majesty’s Secretary of State as I consider it as an expence (& it will not be an inconsiderable one) which ought to be repay’d by the publick, not by your Royal Highness.