Shawna will not use compulsion under any circumstance, not when she’s been subject to it by Klaus and seen just how casually he uses it to make people do atrocious things. She won’t allow herself to infringe upon someone else’s free will like that. So when it comes to getting things she wants, Shawna prefers to use her wits to do it by either smooth talking or even just stealing things she needs. When it comes to feeding, she’ll go off blood bags or abstain from having to hunt live prey as long as she needs to. A lot of people, including other vampires and hybrids, have just assumed that Shawna never learned how to compel others.













