#tdvu

[cynefincharis]

Camile: This is such a bad idea

Kol: Then why are you coming along?

Camille: One of us needs to be able to talk to the cops out of arresting us when this inevitably goes wrong.

[loveakii]

my angsty headcanon about klaus and mikael is that when mikael answers the million dollar question why the fuck did you hate your son so much with “i don’t know, i just did” i genuinely believe he’s being honest. for all of mikael’s alleged superiority to his children in strength he’s very weak when it comes to emotional intelligence and regulation which indicative of a man from his time period. the fact he doesn’t see anything wrong with his own father training him brutally at what must have been around 8 years old. or that he can’t comprehend why his biological children would side with their brother over him, doesn’t really get the fact that a violent father is frightening to children even when that violence is not being directed at them. mikael reaching his final death without having any sort of self realization is kinda tragic. although i think he deserved exactly what he got, it would have been better for everyone involved if there was actually some clarity on why he acts the way he does and why he was such a monster to klaus prior to henrik’s death and the whole mess that followed it.

this is just my personal headcanon based on a variety of season 2 scenes, but i imagine klaus looking just like freya as a child. the same curly blond hair, the same blue eyes, the same smile. maybe they even take on similar behaviour patterns and personalities. and at first it’s a blessing. mikael adores him, he dots on him constantly in a way he doesn’t with finn or elijah, a way he never will with kol or henrik. he’s taken out of his grief, he pours all that left over love into his then youngest and things are okay. but after a time, once that child develops more into his own person, grows into his own distinct face, it becomes harder and harder to indulge in the dream. and the more niklaus grows, the longer mikael looks at him, the more it feels like the gods are mocking him. his anger comes back and can’t be quelled. it has to go somewhere. someone has to absorb it. why not niklaus, who makes him want to scream and cry when he thinks he’s seen his daughter only for it to be a trick of the light. when he finds out years later that he is not his blood, it’s only validation for what he already believed.

[ferydraws]

Littlest Wolf 🐺

[loveakii]

syphon witch klaus keeps me up at night…. it would play into the abomination thing… and also would make klaus a tribrid…. like are we seeing the vision

actually on another note i’m shocked they never did anything with klaus and bonnie (even a one sided klaus crush) considering his flirty relationships with exclusively black witches

[loveakii]

this might be a controversial take but i believe lucien castle is the embodiment of the bisexual dilemmas “do i want to BE him or be WITH him” and that moment when your male and female crush start dating each other

[loveakii]

idk if it was ever covered in tdvu but i’m so curious about that time period from the trio’s separation during mikael’s rampage in new orleans to klaus and elijah’s reunion in mystic falls. in 1919 the brothers are good and elijah says he’ll find him and rebekah. next thing we know a century has gone by and elijah wants to kill him permanently bc klaus allegedly dumped the bodies in the ocean. like what caused all that?? we’ve seen the siblings really lose it at each other but they’ve never genuinely, 100% wanted to permanently kill each other until the ritual. i like to imagine the destruction of their home and grief over marcel drove a wedge between them that just got wider and wider, even with them sticking together there was some resentment there which can come with grief. where was elijah in the 20s? at what point did he “find out” klaus dumped the bodies at sea?? like can we get a hidden script covering those years?? i need it this keeps me up at night

[holyeucliffe]

As much as I wasn’t a huge fan of the storyline that brought her in The Originals in the first place, I LOVE the fact that they brought Aurora back in Legacies. She was one of my favorite antagonists in The Originals.

[thatfanfictiongirl76]

The Vampire Diaries-- Rare Pair Rec

So lately I've been stuck in a Vampire Diaries obsession and have been consuming an insane amount of fanfiction. In amongst them I've found a few gems that are a rare pair ship. So I thought I'd share them with you.

In Secret

By: Star_Dust47

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25217239

Summary: Elena Gilbert met Finn Mikaelson when she was 12 years old, it was the one moment in all the time that Finn had been held in the box that he managed to escape. Sadly it was not very long and soon Klaus had him back in that box he so loathed. What happens when Finn is released by Elijah Mikaelson and Damon Salvatore 6 years later....

My Comments: The reason I started reading this fic was because it was 2 am and I was bored and trying to fall asleep. And boy was I surprised by how good this fic is. I ended up getting no sleep that night because I stayed up reading and I couldn't put this fic down. StarDust actually managed to make the Finn/Elena pairing work really well. And I have to say that this fic I really enjoyed reading a lot. I highly recommend giving this fic a chance!!!!

Status: Incomplete

Last Update: 1/16/22

Length: 70,162 words

Shades of Blue

By: MissNMikaelson

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16957140

Summary: In a world where everything is black and white, the first color you see is the color of your soulmate's eyes. Elena didn't think she'd ever see color, and then she did when she least expected it.

My Comments: So this is a short little fic, but I love the premise of it. I found that I really enjoyed reading this, and they managed to make the pairing work. It was last updated back in 2018, so I doubt the author is going anywhere with it. But I do think that you'd enjoy this. I have this marked as incomplete, but it could be read as a one shot. This fic is cross-posted on ff.net, so I'll link that down below.

Status: Incomplete

Last Update: 12/12/18

Length: 1,698 words

Ff.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13144855/1/Shades-of-Blue

Queen of the Highway

By: SevenSistersofSussex

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30118659

Summary: A father's love is complicated and sometimes it isn't enough, but even so, John Gilbert knows his own daughter. So when Katherine Pierce slinks into the family kitchen, he knows she isn't his daughter. With Katherine out of the way, the Gilberts leave Mystic Falls forever to run from the threat of Klaus Mikaelson. But what happens, years later, when he finds Elena anyway?

My Comments: The pairing in this fic is Klaus/Elena which is a pretty strange pairing, I know, but the author really makes the pairing work. I started reading this fic because I was looking for Elena/Elijah fics, and came across this one. But god, this has to be the best romance fanfic I’ve ever read. And that includes some pretty popular ships. The foreshadowing and romance between Elijah and Elena, and Elena and Klaus is just amazing. I like seeing how mature Elena has grown, and all the characters have grown and changed. Plus the relationship between Elena and the rest of the Mikaelsons is just fantastic. This work is also cross posted on ff.net as well, so I’ll link that site down below. You do need an AO3 account to read this fic.

Status: Complete

Length: 227,317 words

Ff.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13792162/1/Queen-of-the-Highway

For You I would Wait a Thousand Years

By: AnnCatherine

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30191100

Summary: On everyone's twelfth birthday, their soulmark, the birthday of their soulmate, appears on their wrist. Elena Gilbert and Elijah Mikaelson are crushed when they learn they live thousands of years apart from their soulmate.

My Comments: This is a Elena/Elijah pairing fic, which I know isn't exactly a rare pair, but I'm including it regardless. I found that I really enjoyed reading this fic, and especially enjoyed seeing the relationship between Elena and Elijah develop. I also really enjoyed the relationship that Elena had with the rest of the Mikaelsons as well. This does have a sequel between Klaus and Caroline, which is basically just the outtakes between them that didn't make it into the original fic. I highly recommend reading both of these, I promise that these will make your days!!!

Status: Incomplete

Last Update: 1/3/22

Length: 73,160 words

Series: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2290178

Sequel: Klaus's Thousand Year Plan to be Her Last ----  https://archiveofourown.org/works/31036127