#random babbling

Gang, is it gay to go stargazing with your 'lab assistant' who left everything in his life for you and to admit your greatful he's there with you while staring up at a constellation of your muse, your world, the center of your world??

I am so tired of this fandom treating Enzo like a "sarcastic knock-off" of Damon or Klaus just because they refuse to look past the leather jacket and the accent. If you think Enzo is just a "silly" character, you aren’t just missing the point—you’re ignoring one of the most tragic, gritty survival stories in the whole show.

Enzo wasn't born with a silver spoon, a family legacy, or an Original name to protect him. He was an orphan who was starved, sick, and discarded by every person who was supposed to protect him. While the Salvatores were playing hero in Mystic Falls and the Mikaelsons were ruling empires, Enzo was locked in a basement for seventy years, being carved up like a science project by the Augustines. He didn’t have a "humanity switch" to hide behind; he sat in that agony for seven decades and the only thing that kept him going was a loyalty that his "best friend" literally let burn to the ground.

Enzo went after Stefan for Caroline. He called Stefan out on his BS when no one else would. He was ready to be the "villain" in the eyes of the Salvatores just to make sure Caroline knew she wasn’t crazy for expecting better. That isn't "silly" or "annoying"—that is the actions of a man who knows exactly what it feels like to be abandoned and refused to let it happen to someone else on his watch. He gave Caroline the kind of fierce, unconditional protection that Stefan was too "broody" to provide.

The "knock-off" argument is pure laziness. Klaus burned the world because he wanted to be feared; Enzo burned things because he refused to be invisible ever again. If Enzo had been a white lead pining over Elena, the fandom would have called him "tortured and romantic. The actor who plays Enzo, Michael Malarkey, is mixed-race. He was born to an Irish-American father and a British mother of Arab/Palestinian and Italian descent.

He is the blueprint for the person who has been used as a tool, who has been "starved" of basic decency, and who had to claw his way out of the dirt to even get a seat at the table. He didn't have a family to bail him out. He was his own foundation.

And let’s be real for a second: a huge chunk of the Enzo hate comes from people who simply don't believe he "deserved" Bonnie, and it’s the most transparent thing in this fandom. They use Bonnie’s worth as a weapon to stay mad at Enzo "he didn't deserve Bonnie" crowd They were two people who were tired of being everyone else's sacrifice finally choosing each other.

But I get it. I really do. You can look at the way the writers handled Bonnie and Enzo and see the "racist pairing" tropes—how they were sidelined, how their story was rushed, and how it felt like the writers just threw the two remaining characters of color together because they didn't know what else to do with them. That is a valid critique of the showrunners. You can be mad at Julie Plec and the writers for how they handled Bonnie's love life without stripping Enzo of his agency and his fire

VulcanUser#213422: A logical response to an illogical situation.

VulcanUser#523211: I concur

VulcanUser#412223: I concur

VulcanUser#890112: I concur

(410 similar replies hidden….click to expand) MilesOProblems: Did you salvage the D’Klath yourself or buy it secondhand? If you didn’t personally pull it from the guts of a Bird of Prey, you probably don’t have a 2455-Pkar. The Ferengi got their hands on a load of D’Klath 2380s when Martok ordered the fleet to be upgraded, they threw on an amplifier and resold them as 2455-Pkars. They’re usually fine, but the compatibility issues you’re seeing are due to that ferengi amplifier. Replicate yourself a starfleet standard GX42100, install Darmok29 on it to handle the different interfaces, swap it in and you should be good to go. WarpCoreGalore: Thanks MilesOProblems. But a LOT of the time it’s things like ScottyInTheTubes: Ship (Constitution Class) got exposed to something the Science officer called a “Blue Hole”, now the Warp Drive is showing weird symptoms: 1) Power fluctuations 4.7% Outside nominal range.

2) Command-Response-Time increased by 53%

3) Whispers to me in my mother’s voice asking why I haven’t called. 

4) Everybody who comes through the transporter can’t taste Cilantro anymore. 

5) Ship’s CMO had to be restrained for trying to bludgeon the captain with a chair (Probably unrelated).

What do I do? ScottyintheTubes: Nevermind, Figured it out. 

GoldShirt98:@scottyinthetubes, were it not for the Temporal Prime Directive, I would travel back in time and strangle you. TELL US WHAT YOU DID! IT TOOK WEEKS TO FIGURE THIS OUT!

VulcanUser#5412: @Goldshirt98 I notice that you also failed to provide a properly documented solution to this issue. 

Doomed by the narrative💔