#tvdheadcanons

I don't say this as Klaroline fan, but as a Cami fan, that I think her being a love interest for Klaus makes her a shallow character. And I think she deserved better. But if I had any control over Cami, and who she is, and her story. I think I would play off the fact she a psychologist, one who just discovered an entire subtype of human exists, and I think I would want her to be this character who wants to understand vampires and how they work and how they work differently than humans. She went to school for studying humans, and human brains, and knows so much, and now she discovers vampires, and she wants to know. Because they are bloodthirsty, they are intense, they are heightened, and they can numb it all. How does she pick apart the brain? How does she learn? I would like her to be a good person, but this good person with an obsession, one who becomes more hungry for knowleged, more vampiric, in her own desire. Would she encourage a vampire to turn it off to learn? How would this change her fundamentally. Cami and Klaus having a friendship simply because he wants to be understood vs her wanting to understand, but it always having an ulterior motive sounds fascinating. But her ulterior motive is so cut and dry and simple that he can trust her, because she is predictably untrustworthy. And then expand on that, and boom! She is her own character. And again, I really think you then have Cami deal with her own moral dillema, get her own arc, her own agency. She becomes the scientist, but still fills a roll. But then it's not about Klaus's rush redemption arc, but one the themes in the show which is defining humanity. She could be this character who cuts deep. Who gets desperate, who even maybe triggers other characters with questions that are too deep. She could prod into the mind into the emotions of vampires, simply to see how they work. And that moral grayness, and maybe she convinces herself that she is helping, helping by understanding, convincing herself that only she can do this. And then she has that moment when she sees vampires as people, not as monsters, sees her friends, and grows. And it's not about redemption, but connection, which it was always supposed to be about.

- Bonnie used to go to Salem with Grams and her father during the summer months often. Grams and Rudy got along surprisingly well as long as they never talk about witchcraft or Abbie. - Miranda was the history teacher before Tanner was. - Elena cannot read cursive (and Stefan had an existential crisis when he discovered this) - Stefan has a "I'm disappointed in you" look that can KO most people, usually those not in the supernatural-know. He doesn't know he has this power, and adults in the town don't know why it's so effective because he's just a teenager (ha!) - People assume that Elena (who most people don't know dropped the "I want to be a writer" aspiration when her parents died) is writing an epic vampire novel to cope and her friends are helping and that's why they are always talking about vampires and stuff. (Some are worried that they are taking too far) - There is a rumor though that founding families kids have superpowers, and it is more of an inside joke around the school.

10. The ring Caroline has, was picked out by Lexi, with the hope that would be her daylight ring one day. It was the only Lapis ring Stefan had on hand when Caroline became a vampire.

So say Nadia was born December 20th 1490, and Katerina was exiled February 3, 1491. She probably didn’t get a ship to leave the Aegean sea until April (let's say the 15th) of 1491. And it took her to sail to Rome for 14 days. She stayed there for 6 weeks trying to survive, before seducing a traveling aristocrat, the Pierce family, who brought her to England in December 1491. She fills in the role as a mistress for the man, but discovers how his father wants to hang her for being a whore, and she convinces her lover to kill his father. He does and marries her. But that gets his brother to kill him (bc duh she's been causing conflict between brothers since 1491). She ends up being the head woman of the house despite this, convincing the court ( probably should research that?) the brother killed the head of the house in jealousy and got him executed in June 1491. She lives in high society and then meets Trevor, they start courting, and in March 1492 she is invited to the Lord's Niklaus’s birthday party March 21th, 1492 (because this man is so equinox coded let's be real). She is there for 18 today for discovering what she is wanted for, giving her just enough time to woo Elijah.

We know really it does by doesn't exist, and every time a character has a no-humanity arc, it's always wildly different. I think saying it's a no emotions switch is ill described, because one we know for fact that these characters have emotions. I just think that when the humanity is turned off, it's the monster in control. Vampires are interesting, because they start off as human and then become. But they aren't human. They have different needs and different emotions, they function differently, and experience the world differently. It's not as cut and dry as a human who is stronger, faster, more emotional, and drinks blood too! It's a creature that was made to be better than the wolves. A creature that was meant to not only defeat a werewolf, and to protect from death again, but a creature, that was designed by both Esther and Mikael, as a pursuit for revenge, for bloodshed. Remember Mikael had imput, he was just as much an architect, and he was a violent man, whose greatest pride was that he was a warrior, and that he was strong. A vampire was made for revenge and for bloodshed. They are made for war. And so there are two sides, the side meant to protect child, to give strength, to have life, to hold on to beauty, and yet... they are also weapons. A child was fed on by wolves, so the children now must feed on the wolves children. On the enemy. And we knew this, that a vampire has a bloodlust not merely a blood thirst. It's a creature that grabs pleasure in the kill, in the hunt, and gets pleasure in battle. It's something that was inspired by a wolf, but made to be more. And so the humanity switch doesn't exist, because young vampires are trying to be both human and vampire. They are clinging to whom they were, and not just the enhanced version. The vampire enhances everything. Love, anger, despair and guilt. It enhances a person. So with the switch on, a vampire is trying to mild themselves out, and to resist the urges, which is fair, and turning it off is probably the enhanced version of turning off panic and a protective way to block out weakness. It's the the switch to become a weapon. So a new vampire isn't turning it off, they are just indulging the monster. They haven't yet merged the monster and their old selves into one. They can't bare to see the human version of themself overlap with the vampire self and become whole, so they keep a wall there. The weak side vs the weapon side. But older vampires, they are both. They have accepted what they are, and who they have become. There is no divide, because they have existed so long like this, that it's just a blur. And that is why, even when vampires have their no-humanity arcs they so different, and not emotionless, and still have lines they will not cross. Because they aren't amoral, they aren't without emotion, they are just indulging the other side of the coin, the person they still are, but just with swords drawn, out of the hilt they call humanity. That's just the weapon version of them, going numb, to fight a war. be that a war of grief, or paranoia, or anger. A vampire that can still turn it off, is a vampire who has yet become fully a vampire. And refuses to believe they will do monstrous things for human reasons. But every time they do turn it off, they can't go fully back, no matter how hard they try, they are little bit more vampire than they were before.

I imagine there is a three-hundred-year-old vampire, who hides from sunlight and knows nothing of vampires with lapis lazuli. Who knows nothing of witches or werewolves, and is alone until she sees another nightwalker flit through the shadows like her. I imagine there is a small witch, who just discovered his power. He can light a candle, and float a feather, but he has no spells to learn and no people to copy. But he has no threats to vanquish either. He's alone and feels powerful, and believes that he is strong. I imagine of a human girl, and her vampire brother, and she helps him through city to city, watching him become a little bit more a monster everyday. He promises he doesn't do that mind control thing she has seen him do, but every day she trusts him a little less, she doesn't know if there is anyway to protect herself from it. They eat at rest stops when the sun is down, she drinks a milkshake and he drinks a truck drivers, and she worries sometimes if her brother did die when he fell through the ice. But he smiles the same, even if his teeth are covered in blood. And then one day, his body starts to desiccate, and he's dead. No stake. No warning. He's just dead. And there is the mother, who carried two children, who raised her daughters to thirteen and then. A mother who teaches algebra, with a husband who works at a bank. A mother who watches the calander, crossing out the days until the next full moon, knowing mommy is taking another trip girls. And she hates how when her husband looks at her the next days, with her frazzled hair and sweat slick skin that his assumptions are in ways fair, but it's easier him suspect her a cheater, because atleast he doesn't know the truth, that she's actually a monster. And she wonders, if anyone else like her exists. Or maybe it's just punishment, punishment for pushing a man down two flight of stairs right before he grabbed her daughter. She saved her kid's life, but at the cost of what? What of all the stories untold. The stories of those who never got the luxury of knowing their history, ended up dead too soon, those still alone. And yet, I bet these stories are the most common in the supernatural world. Who are the nobodies? The common supernatural?