#tvd lore

I’ve been thinking a lot about the doppelgänger lore in The Vampire Diaries and I honestly feel like the show didn’t need to expand it the way it did it needed to go deeper into what was already there.

The Petrova doppelgängers Tatia(even if she wasn't shown on screen), Katherine, and Elena already had everything they needed to carry a really strong mythology their blood was rare, powerful, and constantly sought after, their existence was treated as something almost unnatural in how significant it was, there was already this sense that they weren’t just identical faces they meant something and then the show introduced Silas and Amara in a way that kind of split that concept in half.

I don’t even necessarily think those characters had to be removed entirely but the idea that there are two doppelgänger lines that ties back to “destined pairs,” and then that destiny itself is revealed to be artificially created… it turns something that felt eerie and intimate into something that feels lessened like it needed rules instead of meaning.

What I keep coming back to is how much stronger it might have been if the doppelgänger concept had stayed exclusive to the Petrova line because not only was there no buildup to the Silas reveal and Stefan is a Doppelganger but it just felt ridiculous and ruined the previous knowledge of the Doppelgangers.

Not expanded with other people just explored more deeply I mean say if Amara is still the origin, that could work but instead of branching into a parallel line through Silas the Petrova doppelgängers could have remained this singular, repeating anomaly every 500 years something nature keeps recreating for balance, but never fully explains and instead of adding more external mythology the show could have leaned into something more internal.

Not physical powers or anything over the top but psychological, almost subtle things like the idea that they aren’t just copies of each other but echoes. That there’s some kind of fractured connection between them not constan or controllable but present in flashes, dreams that don’t feel like dreams, emotions that don’t feel like your own maybe a sense of déjà vu tied to the other and places they've never experienced.

Maybe Elena feels something she can’t explain in moments that actually belong to Katherine or Katherine has moments where some unfamiliar emotions slips through something softer that doesn’t quite feel like her like Elena emotions in moments although not enough to give them answers but enough to make their connection feel… haunting.

Even small things like resistance to compulsion could have added to that, not full immunity but enough to show that they’re not entirely like everyone else their blood is powerful enough to break curses and fuel major spells so it wouldn’t feel out of place if that power existed in them, even in a quieter way because that’s the part that stands out the most to me; their blood is treated as incredibly potent but they themselves are mostly just normal humans in terms of how they function mentally.

It feels like something is missing there, I also think keeping the doppelgänger concept limited to the Petrova line would have helped everything feel more grounded like in the earlier seasons It keeps the focus on one bloodline, one legacy, one repeating pattern instead of splitting it into multiple plot holes or messy writing that all need to be explained.

It makes their connection to characters like Klaus and Elijah feel grounded too, since the Petrova line is already so tied into the Originals’ history and it avoids things like turning Stefan into a doppelgänger, which while interesting in theory ended up adding more confusion than it did meaning.

I don’t know I just feel like the show had something really strong with the Petrova doppelgängers early on something more gothic, more character-driven, more rooted in identity and memory and mystery.

Ok so I'm half-way through s3 and omg... It's sooo good!

1. Rebekah!!! Ughh what a Queen! Love her! It's very obvious to me that she needs a sister. (I can only imagine what it's like to have four older brothers!) Like when Elena told her about Klaus killing their mom and she broke down crying all alone? Yeah I wanted to give her a big hug. 😟😟 Love that moment when she woke up she stabbed Klaus out if anger and frustration (can't blame her, he can be quite annoying)

Claire is drop dead gorgeous, and so talented ughh. Also loved her in H2O, one of my fave childhood shows! 💖💖

2. Stefan is pissing me off! I know he acted like that initially cause Klaus compelled him but even after he was free he continued acting like a douche.

3. Ok so Mikael was this big bad apparently even worse than Klaus but he dies after like 5 episodes... Maybe he comes back idk

4. The entire time I was thinking "where is my man Elijah? I miss him!" And then at the end of ep 12 he comes back! Ughh finally!

5. Episode 13 is excellent! The end... Even better. I know Kol is gonna be a menace purely cause of Klaus's reaction to seeing him. And once their mom came in, Klaus just turned into a little baby. You can see it on his face he was scared!

She says "i want us to be a family" and Idk if I should trust her like I just know she has some motive!

I know the NOLA witches practice Ancestral Magic (it's Spirit Magic but only limited to NOLA soil and created millennia after Qetsiyah), but I'm wondering if certain branches in general existed in a different variant, or were perhaps gotten lost or extinct as a practice and now rediscovered.

I don't regard the Legacies lore as canon.

The writers took liberties with TO with the magic lore and introduced certain witches there to overshadow/forget/undermine what we already knew in TVD 😒😒

Either way, I thought more about my theory and lean more to: magic and witchraft are as old as Naure itself. These practices simply went extinct, and the knowledge was lost in time. Then, lo and behold came prodigy witch Qetsiyah, who rediscovered and introduced, albeit not on purpose, Spirit Magic. The same goes with other witches who reinvented the other types of witchraft that came afterward.

Now that I'm writing this, I want to add that I think all magic originally come from a single source, but with each having their own pros/cons and differences to how/why each is used for specific situations.

So, an example would be that all magic can resurrect a dead person, but the conditions are harsher for Spirit magic cause you have witches who are the ones that decide the rules (the ressurected person becomes a medium).

Yesterday I finished season 2 of TVD and omg it's sooo good! I enjoyed so much!

It was better than s1 for sure (not that s1 was bad by any means) and the story progressed a lot obv cause the Originals were introduced.

1. Elijah my King, I love you so much, and your suits and your long hair, you look great! ♥♥♥

Look at my handsome boi ☺☺

2. I've warmed up to Damon. Obv what he did to Elena in the finale was not cool but he apologized. But I do feel he's more likeable than he was in s1.

3. Caroline is such a cutie. I have nothing else to add lol. Ok no but fr. She has obv become more confident now that she's a vampire and is not as insecure as she was. Like I said she is just the cutest and I love how chirpy and lively she is.

Love her so much! 💖💖💖 she has such a cute smile

4. Episode 21 (The Sun Also Rises) was diabolical! I was stressed! I was sweating bullets, 😭😭 and then at the end Jenna dies!.... Like Klaus, no not Jenna, I liked her a lot! I barely finished the ep. Also Klaus at the end using their other siblings as leverage against Elijah to not kill him...ofc he would do something like that smh

5. And finals. Klaus Mikaelson. The man. The myth. The legend... He is a menace! There's no better word to describe him! I mean obv he's sexy, charming, charismatic and suave and his voice is just *chefs kiss* but he is so brutal, like sir pls calm down. (When he ripped Jules's heart out...gagged 💀💀) He's scary, that's what I'm trying to say lol. Also that red shirt he wore *another chefs kiss* Mr Joseph did not need to serve that hard like ughh 😩😩

(This is assuming you have seen Tvd and know the vampire lore)

Imagine if you found yourself in a situation similar to Caroline. You somehow end up in the hospital and it's bad. A vampire friend (you don't know anything about the supernatural) gives you their blood and compels you to forget. Let's say you somehow get killed with the vampire blood in your system. (Just like how Katherine killed Caroline for example)

You wake up and things are different. The colors are more vibrant, sounds are louder and smells are strongers. You have this urge, this hunger inside of you (Presuming you're still in the hospital, blood won't be hard to come by).

Once you realize that blood is what you're craving for, would you drink it because your body and mind are telling you to, or will you stop to think about why you're suddenly thirsty for blood?

Again, you don't know that drinking human blood will complete the transition and turn you into a vampire, and that not drinking it in the 24h period will kill you permanently. You only know that you're craving blood.

Would you still drink it even after thinking about it?