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[justalittlebluetiefling]

Who asked me for almost 18.5k words on Steve and Nancy from Stranger things? No one? Just me? That’s fine. This was how I wanted to spend my time the last two weeks anyway.

I’m not great at introductions. I’ll just start this off with a bold thesis statement: Nancy and Steve have been intended as an endgame couple since season two. “Erin,” you might be saying, “season two is a stretch. They broke up so she could be with someone else,” while you not-so-secretly think that I’m losing it. To which I would point out that, yes, Jonathan and Nancy were one hundred percent intended to be the endgame couple at first. However, things shifted when they decided to keep Steve alive and give him his own character arc and development. They were turning Steve into someone that could be a good partner for Nancy and it doesn’t make a lot of narrative sense for them not to come back to each other in the end.

I’m getting away from myself. My point is that doing an immediate rewatch of the entire series after season four came out, I could see the shift that I hadn’t noticed before, so I want to talk about it by dissecting almost all of their interactions in every season with so many screenshots, because that’s just the kind of person I am.

Disclaimer: I just like picking apart narratives for fun. If you disagree/don’t ship it/hate me for writing this, that’s fun for you, but if you don’t have something constructive to add, let it die. There will be some talk about Jonathan and Nancy’s relationship in here as well, because it’s important to the narrative, but all the talk will be serving the thesis statement above. (I’ll also probably repeat points a few times because this is long and I lose track of things like that. And this is BARELY proofread by me, so I’m sorry.)

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[witchesofmysticchurch]

Delena fake dating to make their exes stefan and bonnie who are now dating eachother jealous so that they'll break up and come back to them.

[tvdtogifs]

[freaking-hungry]

I just keep thinking about how Damon never once thought about removing himself from Elena's life in order to protect her(despite being reminded by people constantly that she was better off without him), but the first time Bonnie got hurt trying to save him after they became close he freaked out so much that he abandoned his own brother(and lied to him about it) so that Bonnie wouldn't die for/because of him. This man had never cared about anyone the way he did for Bonnie and he did not know how to deal with it.

[stackhousesookie]

It'd be nice if we could get through a day without having to deal with it. No vampire mother or brother...

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES 1.16

[zalrb]

The one shot was about Elena getting drunk for the first time and she’s all loopy and happy and Stefan’s looking after her and she keeps telling him how much she loves him, it was like a really cute storyline. Except in the other one Elena was high off of pain killers or something

“Why’d you stop me, hmm?” 

“Because,” said Stefan, draping Elena’s arm over his shoulder. “You are drunk and you are clumsy, and you are going to hurt yourself.” 

Even with the loud music and chatter blaring throughout the Salvatore Boarding House, Stefan could hear Elena gasp in indignation. Her eyes widened with comical affront. 

“Stefan Salvatore, I am a cheerleader.” 

He looked at her, amused. “Yes.” 

“And that means,” she took her arm off of Stefan’s shoulder and tried to draw herself up only to sway on the spot and collide back into his arm. “That means,” she slurred again. “That I have to be good at …  at…”

Stefan furrowed his eyebrows in mock seriousness as he watched Elena struggle to find the right word, her eyes closed tight. 

“Ham-handedness,” Stefan offered.

“Exactly!” said Elena, her eyes snapping open. 

Stefan pressed his lips together in an attempt not to laugh. “OK, drunk girl, time to go up.” 

He draped her arm around his shoulder again but Elena refused to let herself be taken up the stairs.

“I am not drunk,” she said. “My tolerance is high!”

“Not high enough to beat a vampire in a drinking game,” said Stefan.

Elena raised her index finger in warning. “I kept up with Damon.” 

“Damon isn’t as good a drinker as he likes to think he is,” said Stefan. 

“Hey,” she said. “I used to go head to head with Caroline all the time. I always won.” 

“When she was a human,” said Stefan. “The rules have changed.”

“No,” said Elena, shaking her head. “I just let her win ‘cause it’sssssss her birthday.” 

“You’re so stubborn,” he said, laughing. 

“One of … reasons … the reasons you love me,” she mumbled. 

Stefan nodded. “I can’t argue with that logic,” he said. “Now, c’mon. We gotta get you to bed.”

Elena perked up. “Does that mean you’ll carry me?” she said brightly. 

“Well I’ve been trying to—”

“OK OK OK,” said Elena, being fully cooperative. “Let’s go.” 

Stefan shook his head, grinning and picked Elena up as he walked up the stairs to his room. 

“Aren’t I heavy?” said Elena, kicking up her leg. 

“I’m too strong for it to make a difference,” said Stefan, deadpanned.

Elena didn’t say anything for a few seconds and then looked at him. “Are you making fun of me?” 

“Yes,” said Stefan. 

She narrowed her eyes and then bent her head, butting her forehead against his clavicle, making him laugh. 

“What are you trying to do?” he said as he reached the first landing. 

“Headbutt your chest!”

“You are drunk.” 

Elena decided to switch tactics and started to kiss his cheek. Stefan made it to the second landing and walked down the hall. She moved to his neck and his eyes fluttered.

“Elena…” 

She giggled. 

They made it to his bedroom and Stefan rested her on the bed. Elena watched as he took off her shoes, her eyes tracing the movement of his arms. The cut of his button-up displayed his neck and a bit of his chest.

“Have I ever told you how hot you are?” she said softly.

Stefan laughed. “You’re just saying that because I carried you up two flights of stairs.” 

He held her ankle and took off one of her socks. 

“Why are you doing that?” she mumbled.

“You always take them off in the middle of sleeping,” he said. “It’ll be easier if I just do it now.” 

“Oh,” said Elena. “But seriously.” She said, looking at him. She wanted to undo all of his buttons but felt too dizzy to move. “You’re like one of those statues.” 

“Statues?” said Stefan, walking to his closet. 

“Yes,” said Elena nodding, shifting to get herself more comfortable. “Those Roman statues.” 

Stefan closed the closet door, holding one of his shirts. “Sculptures?”

Elena snapped her fingers. “Yes!”

Stefan grinned as he made it back to the bed. “Sit up? Arms up.”

Elena raised herself into an upright position and lifted her arms. Stefan swiftly slid off her tank top and dressed Elena in his shirt, gently putting her arms through the sleeves. 

“What about my jeans?” she said.

Stefan tried not to laugh at Elena’s drunken attempt at a seductive expression.

“Miss Gilbert, are you trying to seduce me?” 

She smiled in triumph. “It’s working, right?” 

Stefan moved so his face was only a breath away from hers. “Absolutely.” He kissed her forehead and helped her inch out of her pants, then picked up her tank top and put her clothes on a nearby chair. 

As he opened the decanter of water sitting on the table next to the armchair, Elena bunched the front of Stefan’s shirt into her fist and bent her head to inhale the scent of the material. 

“I love wearing your shirts,” she said. 

“I know,” said Stefan, pouring her a glass of water. “You’ve stolen about five.” 

“Seven, actually.”

Stefan put the water on the nightstand and then lay Elena down. “I love sleeping in them even if I’m home and you’re not there,” she sighed, wrapping her arms around a pillow.

“Seven shirts? I consider that larceny.” 

“I don’t care,” she said, hugging the pillow tighter. “I love them like I love you.” 

He laughed. “You’re gushing.” 

“I’m serious!” she said, sitting back up. 

Stefan raised his eyebrows.

“They …” She blinked a few times as her thoughts swam around her head. “They make make me feel safe and comforted, like you’re with me all the time,” she said, pouting. 

“I feel like I can do anything with you, I can even get drunk.” 

“Ah so you are drunk, then.”

Elena tilted her head to the side. “Stefan,” she said. “I’m being serious.” 

Stefan regarded her softly and saw a quiet earnestness sober her slightly as she gazed at him. 

“I love you so much,” she said, lying back down. “I’m never going to love anyone the way I love you.” 

“Is that a promise?” said Stefan, sitting on the bed next to her. He started to stroke her hair. 

Elena bunched his shirt in her fist again. “No,” she said as she started to drift to sleep. “It’s just true.” 

[okashiras]

misc sasusaku sketches from 2024-2025 🍅🌸

[misskathgifs]

Katherine + Text Messages  ➤ 2/???

[what-if-i-just-did]

Tumblr as the loud, alt, gnc nerd with coloured hair, a ton of Pride pins, and lots of merch

Ao3 as the quiet, unassuming book nerd that's secretly freaky as fuck

Does anyone else see my vision

[strangestcase]

and they’re both racist

[mrhealyourgirl]

and they're both racist

[creatureofthecornfield]

and they're both misogynists

[june-egbert-official]

and they're both transmisogynists

[yay-bunnies-zone]

and theyre both racist

[sailatina3]

And they're both racist

[gumptioncretaceous]

hate it when you're looking for a good painting to watch on cave wall and by the time you find one your mammoth hunk is cold 😭

[slashergirlnancy]

the copium from stancy antis is so funny. “they’re just FRIENDS who want to FUCK!! that doesn’t mean anything!!!”

[philtatosbuck]

i hate stefan (and damon) as much as the next guy but saying stefan wasn't a good brother to damon BEFORE they were turned into vampires is insane. what do you mean. like when he was seventeen and being used and compelled by the woman damon was WILLINGLY sleeping with or when he was ten and stuck in the same abusive household damon was??

[pinkhysteria]

DAMON & KATHERINE ↳ 2x16

[jessramblings]

[defansarchive]

*some 1920s defan hc’s, but also possessive!damon, and also yap*

considering that both damon and stefan were in chicago during the 1920s and ignoring the canon where damon doesn’t know klaus at all, i like to head canon that damon was there just lurking in the background as he watched stefan tear people to pieces lmao. damon knew about the all girls school shutting down and stefan’s wall of victims, so he’s definitely found stefan passed out somewhere on the streets, and dragged him back to his apartment. stefan would chalk it up to him blacking out after a blood bender.

meanwhile damon’s probably burying twelve headless bodies somewhere in the woods.

and i think the reason they didn’t interact at all is bc damon kept his distance on purpose. as seen in 3x16, damon was the one that tempted stefan into drinking human bloods again; prompting a new ripper binge, and damon expressed guilt about not pulling him back from it. but he’s also…not doing anything about it and only apologising 90 years later. even when he is “helping” stefan in s3, he’s still operating on “my way or the highway, shut up stefan and drink” kind of way, which stefan has never managed. ever. and damon knows that. so this must just be damon’s covert way of having stefan all to himself. bc at that point, or honestly all the time, damon enjoys stefan being the ripper. when damon was taking elena on the road trip to find stefan, he’s the one showing her the wall of stefan’s victims or having her read stefan’s journals from that time like “seeee”, but ofc it’s under the disguise that he’s “preparing her for what’s to come”. he loves having someone slumming it with him. it’s just a bonus that it’s stefan.

[witchesofmysticchurch]

The way Bonnie x any vampire would be forbidden romance because of the servant of nature/abamonations of nature thing.

[queenofblackbeatinghearts]

thinking about the season 6 prison world arc again and how we were absolutely robbed of a psychological bamon/bonkai love triangle. the narrative raw materials were right there on screen, and instead of the usual heavily romanticized cw triangle, we could have had an absolute psychological pressure cooker.

let's look at the sheer isolation of that 1994 snapshot. four months of just bonnie and damon. they went from historical grievances and mutual hatred to a deeply domestic routine. making pancakes every morning, arguing over crosswords, grocery shopping in empty markets, drinking bourbon on the porch. when you are someone's entire universe and the only person keeping them from existential madness, the line between intense platonic codependency and romantic undercurrents becomes practically nonexistent. it gave bonnie a sense of safety and earned warmth with a partner who was finally prioritizing her, grounding them in an incredibly tight emotional bond.

and then enters kai parker, completely shattering that safe little world.

the thing about developing a bonnie and kai dynamic here is that it wouldn't require some cheap, unearned redemption arc that erases his monstrous actions. the tension works precisely because he remains dangerous. kai spent twenty years entirely alone, treated as a defect by his family. bonnie arrives, this vibrant, resilient, morally unyielding force. for a siphoner witch who has been starved of power and connection, her ancestral magic is the ultimate intoxicating force. and because siphoning requires direct skin contact, there is a visceral, electric intimacy baked right into their physical dynamic that the writers completely left on the table. imagine a slow-burn forced cooperation where they have to map out celestial mechanics together away from damon's disruptive influence, creating a shared witch-heritage bond that damon can't touch.

the psychological chess match between all three of them would have been insane. kai is driven by deep-seated rejection and envy. seeing bonnie and damon's effortless domestic intimacy would trigger his worst insecurities. he wouldn't just try to kill damon; he would try to dismantle bonnie's trust in him. he'd use his knowledge of damon's horrific past to point out the hypocrisy of trusting a vampire who murdered bonnie's loved ones while treating kai as the sole monster. he'd be playing mind games to drive a wedge between them so bonnie is forced to rely on him instead.

meanwhile, damon's volatile, possessive love language would completely flare up. watching a literal psychopath circle bonnie, trying to charm her and constantly touching her to siphon magic, would trigger his most reckless, violent impulses. if bonnie showed even a flicker of strategic empathy toward kai to get them home, damon would see it as a betrayal. his explosive overreactions would end up pushing bonnie away, creating the exact friction kai wanted and fracturing their perfect domestic front.

and bonnie would be trapped right in the center, navigating this exquisite existential dilemma. with damon, she has safety, mutual survival, and the comfort of a shared humanity. but she’s also carrying the moral weight and trauma of their past lives in mystic falls. with kai, she's navigating a minefield, yet she’s also hyper-alive. they match wits in a way that is intellectually stimulating. she would detest his actions but find herself forming an unbidden psychological connection to the very person she needs to escape from. her conflict wouldn't be a superficial choice between two attractive guys; it would be a struggle over who she is becoming in this isolated world where normal rules don't apply.

it would have completely shifted the arc from a simple escape plot to a dark exploration of isolation morality, while finally centering bonnie's narrative agency and romantic desirability without her just being a magical tool used to fix everyone else's problems. the emotional stakes of her eventual sacrifice to send damon back would have been absolutely devastating if she was also saving him from her own fracturing emotions.