I find it funny how Klaroline shippers call killing off Cami a narrative roadblock. They claim Klaus wouldâve chosen Caroline if Cami had lived,and Klaroline were meant to be the endgame.But clearly Klamille fans wanted Cami alive the most back then, while it was the Klaroliners who wanted her dead.
Klaus didn't even choose Caroline when Cami was alive! Years after her death, did Klaus run to be with Caroline? Klaus NEVER prioritized Caroline! The acts they claim he did, benefitted him and his ego. He never truly sacrificed for her!
See the problem with klamille antis at their core is they are delusional and refuse to acknowledge reality. I've had ships that didn't work out, but I can acknowledge they were never the writers plan. They always cry that they were robbed when in reality, they misread the situation from the moment that ship was created until it died.
Klaroline is a half assed, poorly written, side ship created to "soften" Klaus up for his incoming spin off. They shoehorned it in and forced interactions with a side character, a self insert, &put in the bare minimum. If the writers really cared about developing klaroline they would've given them quality writing. It was doomed from the start because Caroline as a character, would never want to be with Klaus without making her ooc, and they do not establish their connection well. Why is Klaus over a thousand years old so enamored with Caroline? They didn't SHOW it! "He saw her light" WHEN?! When she was begging for her life, so he could curry favor with her mother? Why didn't they have a moment when Klaus was at the school? He was more focused on Tyler. They are an afterthought and the writers kept going because they saw people ate it up. If you still had hope in s4, you should've accepted reality when the spinoff was announced. Caroline was never going to join Klaus in New Orleans. It is diametrically opposed to her character. It would take time, time the writers didn't have, to make Caroline truly come around to being with Klaus. They would have to change her character, which is why when she finally does appear in the originals, YEARS have passed. She is older, I assume she is less rigid and sounding like whoo? Cami. Even then they had her excuse his violence towards her and say Klaus was never the villain in her story. How was the man that physically harmed you, terrorized you, your boyfriend, and your friends not the villain in your story?
Lets say the spinoff never happened and Klaus stayed on TVD. It would have ruined him even more. Because he can't remain the big bad and not hurt the main characters. He loses credibility. They already had him floundering trying to find something to do in s4. I doubt the writers were clever enough to find a way to neuter him while keeping him in character a la Spike on Buffy. Part of klaroline's appeal is the tension that comes from Klaus being a villain. Everyone loves the lie that Caroline was the exception to Klaus because he was softer with her. He never would be accepted into the MF group with good reason, and he wouldn't want to. Caroline wouldn't choose him over her friends. Where exactly was this ship going? The best thing that could happen is she goes on a trip around the world with him like Matt did with Rebekah. See how his ass got dropped back off on MF too?
Klamille was intentional. They purposely wrote a character onto the show that could be with Klaus. Klamille had important, relevant internal and external struggles they had to overcome until their deaths. The opposite of forcing Klaus to interact with an established one as tension for a previously established ship and hoping for the best. I can't even call klaroline a roadblock on the way to klamille because narratively, klaroline never mattered for klamille. Klaroline was so unimportant, Caroline is never mentioned on TO until it is on its last legs, and already cancelled, s5. Its so unimportant Klaus finally fucked Caroline and he was jealous over Cami THE NEXT DAY. Yet in the finale after all this time spent reconnecting with Caroline chatting about the good old days, he brings her to the spot where he met Cami and talks about her. Who was he hallucinating for comfort and motivation? Cami.
You know who klaroline was a roadblock for? Steroline and Forwood. They used klaroline to blow up forwood and drive steroline closer. Why? Because it was that damn irrelevant in the long haul. There is no lasting effect that ship had on either of their characters in the long run. Caroline was attracted to Klaus, then fell in love with Stefan and MARRIED him. She never went to Klaus even when he died. If these other characters were such roadblocks, why is it when they died, they didn't go back to each other. What was there to go back to? "Sexual tension"? They used klaroline to ensure Klaus' popularity then spun him off. Yeah I'd be pissed too.
