logically elena and Stefan shouldn't be able to be around eachother and remain friends bc that connection will always be there and Stefan will always be in love with her idk how they can do that but ?? Elena doesn't deserve Stefan as a friend lmao she should've lost him and felt the loss and the pain he had too bc of her selfish actions
Here is the thing about when Elena chose Damon. It really did bug me that when she did choose, nothing between her and Stefan changed. Not really. Because in season 3 she has this entire speech about “If I choose one then I’ll lose the other” that was the whole point, that Elena would feel the loss of whoever she didn’t choose but Stefan was still there and so there were no real consequences to her choosing his brother and that’s completely insane especially considering just how much these two meant to each other, that kind of connection, that kind of loves doesn’t just go away, it doesn’t happen so the fact that Stefan remained a fixture in Elena’s life bothered me, because like you, I wanted her to feel the loss of having him in her life. But what I also found hilarious is that Elena chose Damon and nothing really changed between her and Stefan because that love doesn’t just go away, which is why Elena can break through compulsion simply by thinking about Stefan and which is why in 5x03 all she can think about is saving him and there’s that intimate scene with the ring, which is why in 5x18 she can rest her head on his shoulder and she can continuously say that he knows her better than anyone.
And whenever it does look like Stefan is slipping away from her, Elena actually loses her shit.
When he tells Rebekah to erase his memories of her:
This was before Stefan slept with Rebekah:
This is her expression after finding out:
(to the point that Bonnie actually looks at her to see her expression, like everyone in the room tenses up because they know)
This is when she has no humanity and yet the sight of him and Caroline actually gets her to stop dancing:
When Stefan has no memory, he has over a century to remember, but she’s intent on him remember her and them:
And when she finds out he’s with Tessa, not only does she rant to Damon about it, she actually feels the needs to go over to her cabin:
All Tessa does is touch Stefan’s arm and we have:
And in 5x07 even though Stefan had already saved her life, Elena is still worried that he hates her that she wakes him up from sleeping and tells him she misses him. (She says she misses him as a friend because the script needed us to know in no uncertain terms that this was platonic but the fact remains, I don’t remember Elena ever hunting Damon down to try and make him forgive her when they were friends)
And when she finds out he slept with Katherine:
And what’s interesting about season 6 is that Elena actually only witnesses Caroline’s affection for Stefan, it’s “I kissed Stefan” not “Me and Stefan kissed” or “Do you have feelings for him or something?”, she overhears when he tells Caroline that he doesn’t want to talk about their relationship during Liz’s funeral, she knows that Stefan’s Caroline’s emotional trigger, the one time they discuss anything reciprocal it’s when she finds out that they slept together when they have no humanity, which complicates what happens so I mean, as I say, there’s always an undercurrent of Stelena.
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