Underrated TVD characters that should have had more time.
I have a lot to say about Mason Lockwood. Like so much. The first thing is that he’s just so cool. I mean he’s the first werewolf we see. He shows up and is just winning fights against Damon Salvatore. He has these cool eyes and really all he’s here for deep down is hill his nephew. He said it in one of his appearances that he’s in town because his nephew lost his father.
You can tell early on that he wasn’t very close with Richard or even Carol for that matter but you can see immediately that he loves Tyler. He loves his nephew and wanted what was best for him early on.
He rolls into town with this old family secret. He’s faster, stronger, and all around this really powerful person. I mean his venom is lethal to vampires but he’s just Mason Lockwood the uncle to Tyler and he would kill for his nephew.
You see the pain he puts himself through to shift because he doesn’t want to hurt someone. He shoves wolfsbane down his throat and chains himself up because he can’t imagine accidentally hurting someone.
He wants the moonstone. And people can argue he wanted it for Katherine with the wall. Because while he loved Katherine he didn’t trust her as far and he could throw her. He literally hid the moonstone in a well full of vervain because he didn’t trust her.
Mason really didn’t trust Katherine. But he wanted the moonstone. Why? Because he was being tortured every month because Katherine compelled his friend to fight him until Mason killed him because Katherine is evil.
Mason not only has to the live with the fact he accidentally killed his best friend but the fact that now he has to break every bone in his body over and over for something that could have been easily prevented.
But even then he still wanted to do better. He could have been a monster like Jules was, a werewolf who befriended him. She didn’t care who she hurt. She just did it. But he cared even then. He cared with his whole heart and still he wanted a break from all the pain and all that got him was people hating him.
He comes to town because his brother died and his nephew needed him. And I believe that the whole moonstone thing was second to Tyler because he would have given it up easily to save his nephew. He was the older brother/ father figure Tyler needed. He loved him unconditionally.
He makes a mistake and ends up not being able to chain himself up in time because Tyler knows something’s up with him. He chases down Stefan and Caroline and almost kills then. But he doesn’t. He sees Tyler and doesn’t. He could have blamed Tyler for coming into the Lockwood cellar after he told him not too. He could blame his very biology that forces him to hunt vampires but he doesn’t. He says he made a mistake and that it won’t happen again. He took accountability for something that’s not his fault.
He tries to make a truce with Damon. He doesn’t blame him for what he is, he tries to befriend him. He apologizes for what had happened with Stefan. He tells Damon he’s in town because Tyler needs him. That’s that. It was simple and all he wanted was to be there for Tyler and move on with his life but Damon decided that it wasn’t enough.
Because Damon always and I mean always tried to kill anyone who was more powerful than him. He didn’t like not being the biggest baddest around. So he chose to make the decision that he didn’t want a truce.
He followed Mason away from the Gilbert house and stabbed him. Mason had given him a warning. He had told him that he wanted to be friends that the town was big enough for the both of them. But Damon stabbed him.
Mason laughed in his face and told him that silver doesn’t work. Gives him the knife back and tells him that Damon made an enemy. Now that could have been avoided had Damon just accepted the truce. And all they had to do in the the end was convince Mason it would be best for Tyler if he dropped Katherine and he would have.
So he lashes out. He shows Liz what they are. Why? Because they had already decided he was threat and needed to be taken out despite him trying to tell them all he wanted was to be there for his nephew once again all of it could have been avoided. But it wasn’t.
After his failed attempt at killing the Salvatore’s he goes back to his life. He fights with Tyler and yells at him which was bad on his part but Tyler kept picking at him for a secret he didn’t want.
Mason finally comes through and tells him the truth. That you have to kill someone to trigger the curse. He tells him the truth. And for the first time in a long time Mason is the only person who’s not lying to Tyler.
Tyler gives him the moonstone and tells him that he doesn’t ever want to feel like that again. He confides in his uncle because he trusts him. And I just think that that could have had more story line.
Another thing he was a gentleman he helped people. He liked people. He was good person and the only bad thing he ever did is make the mistake a lot of people made and love Katherine Pierce and believe she loved him back.
Mason eventually is killed even though he did nothing wrong. He was tortured and killed like an animal. And let’s be honest here Damon killed him because Mason said that Katherine loved him. And Damon ripped his heart out.
He was a fantastic character. He could have been a great ally and Tyler needed him. But they killed him for nothing.
He’s so underrated and could have been so cool and they did nothing with him. He could have helped Tyler and given them the nitty gritty that he knows about werewolves and he could have handle Jules.
