What are your favorite tvd ships outside any of Elena's ships (and why if you feel up to answering)?
“if you feel up to answering”-- as though this ask didn’t delight me!
Okay, here goes:
Team Forwood: Tyler and Caroline have my heart forever. I really really really enjoy how slowly and organically their relationship naturally shifted over the course of season 2-- the way that Caroline helped him with the horrifying descent into supernatural existence, the suspicion when Tyler was trying to figure out what she was, the pity Caroline felt for him because she had just gone through the same thing and she knows he’s well and truly cursed and there’s no going back (and how much they both want to go back, the way that they look at Matt and he has what they both desire so badly it’s like an open wound in their chests), the scorching kiss mid-season 2, the dual betrayals of Tyler helping Jules to capture and torture Caroline (or standing by and being useless which is Tyler’s fatal flaw) but meanwhile Caroline was complicit in his uncle’s murder?? and that gorgeous scene at the end of season 2 after the full moon when the sun is risen and Matt is gone and it’s just the two of them, venturing into this brave new world on their own, holding each other like a lifeline? be still my heart. I love it. I love how they trust each other and hold onto each other. I love the wildness that happens in seasons 3-4 with Tyler being turned and how he fights for her. How he breaks his sire bond for her. There was so much there and I am... well, as you all know, I’m extremely bitter about the way that this ship (which had EVERYTHING) was thrown over for the other ship.
Katherine x Salvatore Brothers -- I’m lumping Stefan and Damon in because I really ship/love their dynamic... this whole question of did she love them both and did she love one more than the other etc... but also, this terrible tragedy in it (I LIVE for the tragedy of Katherine Pierce)... the idea that she really did love them, that this was the first time she loved anyone since she lost her family... and she still left them anyway... 2x04 is my favorite episode, most especially because of that GORGEOUS scene with Breathe Again playing where Katherine vows she’s going to return for Stefan (the idea that she’s leaving, again, but she has to look back??? “and my secrets become your truth” “and my burden to bear is a love I can’t carry anymore” when I say I lost my mind when this episode aired I mean I lost my mind. I’m still rabid about this.) And also the reveal of “It’s okay to love them both... I did” and then in season 3 when she reveals to Stefan that she loved Damon?? gahhhhhhh everything about it is so tragic and gorgeous and I LOVE it (and also the cinematography of 1864 with the cool blue filter was basically daring me to flip out)
Jeremy x Anna -- umm it was dark and delicious and I really enjoyed how the seduction into undeath was flipped away from the usual human female x vampire male situation... and it had such a dark and upsetting ending, but the aesthetic of this ship is part of what made me fall in love with the show to begin with way back when
Tyler x Liv -- I just want Tyler to have nice things, okay? I’m sure this ended poorly (I’ve never finished season 6 lol) but I ended up really liking them together-- when she saved him from becoming a werewolf again? so lovely. also, their tempers are both so fiery but they’re secretly both such softies?
this is potentially obvious from FE but:
Klaus x Stefan -- this is some dark and possessive energy and I just think it’s really hot and specifically the power dynamics of that summer they spent together just fascinate me-- like, Klaus is interested in Stefan because of their history, but Stefan doesn’t know about their history and Klaus doesn’t bother to reveal it to him?? And meanwhile, Stefan has his humanity on and is killing all these people and mourning Elena and planning to never return in her lifetime and you cannot tell me that they weren’t sleeping together that summer?? just what a wild weird ride.
Stefan x Rebekah -- WHY DID WE NOT GET MORE OF THIS SHIP. When Stefan was compelled to remember his past he should have ALSO been in love with Rebekah, and wouldn’t that have been great? He has his humanity, but loves the cruel and monstrous Rebekah anyway, or he has no humanity, but cannot get rid of his love for Elena? There would have been an actual wrench in the plans for stelena and I’m still so upset that this was just brushed under the rug because this ship fascinates me
(I’ve thought long and hard about why I don’t have a ship for Bonnie, whom I actually really really like and do read fic for... and I think I’m mature enough to recognize that Bonnie’s best and most interesting ship is Bamon, and it’s really just my die-hard fanatic delena shipping that prevents me from being able to ship or enjoy Bamon... even though I see exactly why it’s so compelling. I did like Jeremy x Bonnie, especially in season 2, but I think that was just because the possibility and emotional reasoning was believable to me so I went with it, but I hated the way that that relationship ended up hurting Bonnie... I think I also try to like Bonkai but Kai is just so annoying that I can’t quite get there??? So, anyway, maybe one day a Bonnie ship will strike me like lightning and I will figure that one out.)
Thanks for asking :)
