#s1 bamon

Bamon in season 1 is so unique in that it’s literally square one. Bonnie meeting Damon at this point helps us see Bonnie as a teen girl without any supernatural trauma. One key thing I’ve noticed is that people genuinely can’t fathom Bonnie making regular teen girl choices. “Oh she would’ve seen right through Damon,” when there’s nothing even in canon to support that. She’s not Meredith Sulez from the books who just isn’t charmed by Damon. The only reason Bonnie was put off by Damon was due to the abuse of Caroline. Them interacting first in season one is sort of different and this is how I see it unfolding:

“You don’t want much at all/A six-eater and an Adderall/I tried to catch a ride/Doors open, suicide”

I always imagine that Bonnie would be as intrigued with Damon as he is with her. He naturally is intrigued because he knows she has unlocked potential as a witch but Bonnie’s intrigued would be different. She can sense he’s dangerous but she can’t stay away from him. She can feel that it would be wrong to go after Damon or to let him in but she can’t help it. Damon doesn’t seem to have baggage. He’d be upfront about just wanting to have fun and at first Bonnie would be down with that but again she’s a teen girl and she’d start catching feelings quickly. Damon will too but he won’t admit it to her and especially not to himself (yet).

“I tried to get your attention/But you were too busy looking at the passing lights”

This really reminds me of Bree and Damon. Bree, up until the end of her life, wanted Damon to be over Katherine and choose her. The soft spot he developed for her meant nothing because his heart belonged to someone else. This would also apply to Bonnie. They would share some sweet moments of course but Damon would avoid anything too deep or deflect. He wouldn’t let her know exactly what he’s hiding from her, (Damon would use humor or other ways to distract her from prying too much) but she can feel it’s something deeper and perhaps something dark. However, she ignores it because she’s naive with abandonment issues. He’s helping her as she uncovers her powers! She’s getting attached and she doesn’t care! I love this because Bonnie is always seen as the adultified teen girl. There are alot of fans that cannot fathom Bonnie making impulsive and emotional choices because it would be “character ruining.” The humanization of Bonnie Bennett would be “character ruining.”

“I heard the static in your heart/Cause you’re just a stereo boy/Stereo boy/I changed the station but my pain it still remains”

As she spends more time with Damon she thinks his feelings for her are starting to grow as well but something holds him back. He covers everything and hides everything well. I can see the tipping point for Bonnie would be when she tries to pressure Damon to open up but he hits her with “You’re not my fucking girlfriend, Bonnie.” She’d give a nasty reply and decide that night that she needs to find another guy besides Damon to focus on.

She finds another guy, Ben. I’d have them go out for maybe three episodes but she doesn’t feel the same high with him that she feels when she’s around Damon. Damon is also getting jealous as Bonnie stays away from him. She likes his acts of jealousy because it confirms that he feels something for her and hopefully it’s love.

“You want just what you said/A fast life and an empty head/I tried to catch a ride/Doors open, suicide”

Damon’s very honest about his hedonism. Yes, she should stay away from him. Yes, she should block him and never speak to him again. But she doesn’t want to. So when things with Ben don’t work out Bonnie goes back to Damon. She’d make a comment about how she bets he’s been with other girls in the mean time and when he says no, her face lights up. She’s back in her ride with him.

“Look at me/I'll let you drive me off the edge/If I can land in your oils”

This would be Bonnie’s inner thoughts. She would always try to voice this but never would be brave enough to. But Damon knows it; he isn’t stupid. The intensity in how she looks at him reveals it all. One thing I love about this is that we would get to see how Bonnie’s abandonment by her parents and lack of supervision has caused her to start falling for a guy like Damon. He does help her loosen up and her friends can tell. They also notice that she abandons them to go spend time with someone else. All the time she’s been spending with Damon has been in secret. Her own little secret bliss. He even gives her a necklace to wear (because he trusts her and she is a Bennett).

But it will all go to shit when Emily starts possessing Bonnie. She would warn Bonnie to stay away from Damon which confuses the young witch. Due to this warning Bonnie won’t inform Damon of what’s happening.

“I heard the static in your heart and fell apart/'Cause you're just a stereo boy/Stereo boy”

When Emily destroys the crystal, Damon vamps out because he’s still seeing Emily (not Bonnie). Stefan stops him from doing anything and Damon regains composure, but this frightens Bonnie. He leaves the woods then Stefan and Elena take Bonnie to her home and tell her everything (The crystal, the fact that they are vampires, Katherine, etc). The most painful part for Bonnie would be the Katherine of it all. Deep down she knows she’d probably overlook the vampire thing but he was in love with someone else the whole time? She would wonder if Damon was just using her all along and think how could she be so stupid! She ignored all the signs but she finally knows why she could only hear static in his heart. He reserves only the music for Katherine.