#tvdheadcanons

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Cami... Cami... Cami....

Okay I actually hold Cami my heart dearly. Mostly because back in 2016 when I first entered the TVDU, I accidentally watched the Originals first until my mom and I discovered that The Vampire Diaries was a thing related. (The Originals was my second ever "older kid" show... I was 12 and my mom and I just finished Secret Circle, and the H2o fan in me freaked out when the Originals had both Claire Holt and Pheobe Tonkin, the latter of which playing a character with the same-ish name as me). But when I watched the show, Cami was my favorite character at the time (which I think says a lot that I ship Klaroline so much, bc like I had Klamille first, but I still choose and love Klaroline so much more, and what's not typical with most veiwers is that I watched The Originals first). But she was once, when I was 12, my favorite character, and I am now 21, and a student in both Writing and Publishing, and I think I see the faults in Cami's writing much more profoundly. I don't dislike Cami, I will always carry her in my heart, but I do think the writers did her a huge disservice.

I don't say this as Klaroline fan, but as a Cami fan, that I think her being a love interest for Klaus makes her a shallow character. And I think she deserved better. But if I had any control over Cami, and who she is, and her story. I think I would play off the fact she a psychologist, one who just discovered an entire subtype of human exists, and I think I would want her to be this character who wants to understand vampires and how they work and how they work differently than humans. She went to school for studying humans, and human brains, and knows so much, and now she discovers vampires, and she wants to know. Because they are bloodthirsty, they are intense, they are heightened, and they can numb it all. How does she pick apart the brain? How does she learn? I would like her to be a good person, but this good person with an obsession, one who becomes more hungry for knowleged, more vampiric, in her own desire. Would she encourage a vampire to turn it off to learn? How would this change her fundamentally. Cami and Klaus having a friendship simply because he wants to be understood vs her wanting to understand, but it always having an ulterior motive sounds fascinating. But her ulterior motive is so cut and dry and simple that he can trust her, because she is predictably untrustworthy. And then expand on that, and boom! She is her own character. And again, I really think you then have Cami deal with her own moral dillema, get her own arc, her own agency. She becomes the scientist, but still fills a roll. But then it's not about Klaus's rush redemption arc, but one the themes in the show which is defining humanity. She could be this character who cuts deep. Who gets desperate, who even maybe triggers other characters with questions that are too deep. She could prod into the mind into the emotions of vampires, simply to see how they work. And that moral grayness, and maybe she convinces herself that she is helping, helping by understanding, convincing herself that only she can do this. And then she has that moment when she sees vampires as people, not as monsters, sees her friends, and grows. And it's not about redemption, but connection, which it was always supposed to be about.

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Laz’s headcanons 3

They are just random things:

- Elena (when human) has sensitive gums, so even though she is consistent flosser of teeth, they always bleed. So she can’t kiss Stefan right after flossing teeth

- Caroline has a bad allergy to mold when human, which is a big reason why she is a stress cleaner

- Tyler hates drawing people, so he draws monsters, and he did that to be cool and edgy. When he became a monster his art become more tame and he did it to distract from the bloodlust as a hybrid. The one bonding moment he and Klaus had was off screen and about art.

- Jeremy likes digital art a lot more than most, but he doodles a lot on everything. He is better at art than Tyler—- more because it was his passion for longer and had more time for it. But a lot of their animosity begin before Vicky when they realized that Tyler was really quick at learning which Jeremy envied, but Jeremy was better despite being younger.

- Jeremy draws the ghosts he sees, and sometimes he tries to guess dead supernatural people with enough detail to see if he will meet someone new even if they never met

- Matt and Wes Maxfield are second cousins

- Bonnie and Caroline and Elena had a secret language they made in middle school to talk about boys; Bonnie made it the most adapt at language learning

- Caroline learned ASL by her father, but currently only remembers how to finger spell and the signs for yes, now, and why.

-Bonnie is actually fluent in ASL and has the best French of the group, but isn’t fluent at all (puts it in resumes regardless)

- Carol has book club every Saturday in the Mystic Grill, which Sheila, Jenna, Meredith, and Liz used to be apart of, and it was strong of sixteen others, before disbanding when Carol died.

- Elena is a picky eater

- Caroline has a binder of every career she has ever hyperfixated on ever. -Caroline stays in touch with Steven and his daughter after her father's passing.

- Bonnie and Caroline bake together and Elena just offers her kitchen and should never be trusted working in said kitchen.

-Stefan, Caroline, and Bonnie tease Elena for her in ability to cook and bake on the daily

- Caroline used to have a husky named Willow, it was her dad’s and he took the dog during the divorce

- Elena has a fear of horses

- Bonnie used to go to Salem with Grams and her father during the summer months often. Grams and Rudy got along surprisingly well as long as they never talk about witchcraft or Abbie. - Miranda was the history teacher before Tanner was. - Elena cannot read cursive (and Stefan had an existential crisis when he discovered this) - Stefan has a "I'm disappointed in you" look that can KO most people, usually those not in the supernatural-know. He doesn't know he has this power, and adults in the town don't know why it's so effective because he's just a teenager (ha!) - People assume that Elena (who most people don't know dropped the "I want to be a writer" aspiration when her parents died) is writing an epic vampire novel to cope and her friends are helping and that's why they are always talking about vampires and stuff. (Some are worried that they are taking too far) - There is a rumor though that founding families kids have superpowers, and it is more of an inside joke around the school.

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Reblog this post with your Lexi headcanons!!!!

A few of mine:

1. She and Stefan share a pen name under Sam Hargreaves which they have written several books under.

2. She was an English teacher before turned, and taught young girls to read and write

3. She grew up a fairly nomadic life, her father a traveling merchant, and her mother died young. Her youngest brother died to sickness when she was 14, she is the middle child of six. Two older sister, herself, and two brothers. She died 4 years later, but with vampire blood in her system.

4. She raised two orphans from birth, one of whom ended up estranging herself from Lexi after discovering her truth as a vampire, the other, a son, killed in war. Neither became vampires. She told Stefan that adoption as a vampire is often more painful. She met Stefan a decade after her adopted son died.

5. She was tortured by witches once and has never had it in her to trust them fully

6. Cat person

7. Got a psychology degree in the 90’s and this was how she met Lee

8. Has 3 college degrees in total, in including a literature degree and a law degree

9. Loves the trashiest erotic novels possible, as written one

10. The ring Caroline has, was picked out by Lexi, with the hope that would be her daylight ring one day. It was the only Lapis ring Stefan had on hand when Caroline became a vampire.

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Laz's TVDU headcanons 5

There is a lot of Nadia stuff that could be built on, because she is a 500 year old vampire, born in 1490, presumably had a child, then became a vampire.

My guess is she grew up knowing that she was of Petrova bloodline, but left at an Orthodox church and most likely raised by nuns during the “Turkish Yoke” which spans over Bulgaria from 1396-1878, and was a very dark time for Bulgaria, as Bulgarian Independence was officially snuffed out, after the sieges in Tǔrnovo and the capture of the Bulgarian kindgom in Vidin in 1393. Note, Nadia is born almost a 100 years after that exactly [1490]. During this, the population of Bulgaria remained mostly loyal to the Orthodox Church (mainly in the north and west), for the Turks didn’t actually force many Bulgarians to convert to Islam, and many Turkish peasants didn’t immigrate to Bulgaria, and if they did it was really only to Southern and Eastern parts of the country.

The Petrova family was wealthy, that much is clear. Which means we can assume either resided in Vidin or Sofia, and probably considered part of the belgerbeg “lord of lords”. Which again makes me believe to some levels that Katerina was born in a Christian family, whom also upheld their Slavic identity and heritage, by the way they spoke Bulgarian and their names. (A part of me does headcanon that Katerina’s mother was Ukrainian. [Her mother could also be named Teodora, as a mini headcanon]. But "Katerina" is not really that Bulgarian [not until much later at least], and usually it was only a diminutive, until later on in history—according to my research atleast, but she would either be Ekaterina or Yekaterina, the former being Russian, which feels less likely than Ukrainian).

So Katerina’s full name was probably Yekaterina, with her family using the diminutives of Katerina, Katenka, Katya, and Katyusha by the members of her family. It’s possible that she has been called all of these names.

Her father was Petar, or Pero by his wife and close friends and family. As her last name is Petrova, which is patronymic of her father’s name.

Nadia is a diminutive of Nadezhda, and she probably also goes by Nada. She may have gone by Nadezhda Yekaterinova for a while, before deciding Petrova when she discovered her mother was a vampire and wanted to find her.

She probably was named that by the church. And the nuns may have even told her of her family. My guess is she was married of, had a child, had vampire blood in her system and died of childbirth. Maybe her midwife was a vampire—- and that's how she discovered about vampires, maybe even discovered her mother being one this way, and that was how her search began. I wonder if maybe Elijah sent his own vampires to Bulgaria to watch out for Katerina, during the hunt, just in case, and they made lives for themselves (hence my belief she was a member of Elijah’s bloodline).

I do like the idea she raised her child. And had to watch her own human kid outgrow her and grow old. We don’t have many storylines with that, and I think that could be interesting for her. A sort of reverse of Katherine’s.

Speaking of Katherine! And actually more Klaus, did you know she was turned in April (April 6th to be precise), and met him in his birthday? Did you also know you can discover full moons form any time in history?

We also know that the full moon in 1492 April was on the twelth, and the full moon in March was the 14th. And so Klaus’s birthday must be between those dates because he wouldn’t have waited longer than he had too, and it was probably a waiting game for the next full moon. So he is a March baby (an Aries is quite fitting for him ngl).

So say Nadia was born December 20th 1490, and Katerina was exiled February 3, 1491. She probably didn’t get a ship to leave the Aegean sea until April (let's say the 15th) of 1491. And it took her to sail to Rome for 14 days. She stayed there for 6 weeks trying to survive, before seducing a traveling aristocrat, the Pierce family, who brought her to England in December 1491. She fills in the role as a mistress for the man, but discovers how his father wants to hang her for being a whore, and she convinces her lover to kill his father. He does and marries her. But that gets his brother to kill him (bc duh she's been causing conflict between brothers since 1491). She ends up being the head woman of the house despite this, convincing the court ( probably should research that?) the brother killed the head of the house in jealousy and got him executed in June 1491. She lives in high society and then meets Trevor, they start courting, and in March 1492 she is invited to the Lord's Niklaus’s birthday party March 21th, 1492 (because this man is so equinox coded let's be real). She is there for 18 today for discovering what she is wanted for, giving her just enough time to woo Elijah.

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Laz's TVDU headcanon 8

The humanity switch... Something that started off as a threat, a terrible thing, that became a cop out for instant forgiveness. But, I reckon, that with some minor head canons we can have fun with it.

We know really it does by doesn't exist, and every time a character has a no-humanity arc, it's always wildly different. I think saying it's a no emotions switch is ill described, because one we know for fact that these characters have emotions. I just think that when the humanity is turned off, it's the monster in control. Vampires are interesting, because they start off as human and then become. But they aren't human. They have different needs and different emotions, they function differently, and experience the world differently. It's not as cut and dry as a human who is stronger, faster, more emotional, and drinks blood too! It's a creature that was made to be better than the wolves. A creature that was meant to not only defeat a werewolf, and to protect from death again, but a creature, that was designed by both Esther and Mikael, as a pursuit for revenge, for bloodshed. Remember Mikael had imput, he was just as much an architect, and he was a violent man, whose greatest pride was that he was a warrior, and that he was strong. A vampire was made for revenge and for bloodshed. They are made for war. And so there are two sides, the side meant to protect child, to give strength, to have life, to hold on to beauty, and yet... they are also weapons. A child was fed on by wolves, so the children now must feed on the wolves children. On the enemy. And we knew this, that a vampire has a bloodlust not merely a blood thirst. It's a creature that grabs pleasure in the kill, in the hunt, and gets pleasure in battle. It's something that was inspired by a wolf, but made to be more. And so the humanity switch doesn't exist, because young vampires are trying to be both human and vampire. They are clinging to whom they were, and not just the enhanced version. The vampire enhances everything. Love, anger, despair and guilt. It enhances a person. So with the switch on, a vampire is trying to mild themselves out, and to resist the urges, which is fair, and turning it off is probably the enhanced version of turning off panic and a protective way to block out weakness. It's the the switch to become a weapon. So a new vampire isn't turning it off, they are just indulging the monster. They haven't yet merged the monster and their old selves into one. They can't bare to see the human version of themself overlap with the vampire self and become whole, so they keep a wall there. The weak side vs the weapon side. But older vampires, they are both. They have accepted what they are, and who they have become. There is no divide, because they have existed so long like this, that it's just a blur. And that is why, even when vampires have their no-humanity arcs they so different, and not emotionless, and still have lines they will not cross. Because they aren't amoral, they aren't without emotion, they are just indulging the other side of the coin, the person they still are, but just with swords drawn, out of the hilt they call humanity. That's just the weapon version of them, going numb, to fight a war. be that a war of grief, or paranoia, or anger. A vampire that can still turn it off, is a vampire who has yet become fully a vampire. And refuses to believe they will do monstrous things for human reasons. But every time they do turn it off, they can't go fully back, no matter how hard they try, they are little bit more vampire than they were before.

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Laz's TVDU headcanons 7

It's funny because the main characters are all very much supernatural nepobabies. Why they are main characters. Characters like Caroline, Damon, Tyler, were all sort of pulled into the deeper world because of who the people around them were. Elena and Katherine are doppelgangers, so is Stefan if you want to get technical, and Bonnie is a Bennet witch. So they end up just by proxy getting all this knowlegde and supernatural clout bc of that. Tyler just so happens to be part of the werewolf family closest to the Doppelgänger, and is conveinet, and Caroline is the childhood bestie of the doppegänger and a Bennet witch. Damon was turned by Katherine and is Stefan's brother. And even then they get this supernatural privileged and power, just because it draws big deals like the Originals into their lives. And even the Mikaelsons are special, children of a powerful witch family, their mother taught by a descendant of Qetsiyah. It makes sense why these are the main characters bc they have the most connection to the larger, deeper secrets of the supernatural, and get so immersed with the whole picture. But I imagine there are other, smaller stories, that exist outside of the orbit of First vampires and the most powerful witches. Outside of Doppelgängers.

I imagine there are two friends in a random town, when one of them gets turned into a vampire. And it's terrible, and ugly, and eventually he is unrecognizable. One friend is forced to kill the other. They tried, to coexist, to find away to fix it. But one friend had fangs, and the other carved a stake just in case, and betrayal stirred up anger, and anger stirred up death.

I imagine there is a three-hundred-year-old vampire, who hides from sunlight and knows nothing of vampires with lapis lazuli. Who knows nothing of witches or werewolves, and is alone until she sees another nightwalker flit through the shadows like her. I imagine there is a small witch, who just discovered his power. He can light a candle, and float a feather, but he has no spells to learn and no people to copy. But he has no threats to vanquish either. He's alone and feels powerful, and believes that he is strong. I imagine of a human girl, and her vampire brother, and she helps him through city to city, watching him become a little bit more a monster everyday. He promises he doesn't do that mind control thing she has seen him do, but every day she trusts him a little less, she doesn't know if there is anyway to protect herself from it. They eat at rest stops when the sun is down, she drinks a milkshake and he drinks a truck drivers, and she worries sometimes if her brother did die when he fell through the ice. But he smiles the same, even if his teeth are covered in blood. And then one day, his body starts to desiccate, and he's dead. No stake. No warning. He's just dead. And there is the mother, who carried two children, who raised her daughters to thirteen and then. A mother who teaches algebra, with a husband who works at a bank. A mother who watches the calander, crossing out the days until the next full moon, knowing mommy is taking another trip girls. And she hates how when her husband looks at her the next days, with her frazzled hair and sweat slick skin that his assumptions are in ways fair, but it's easier him suspect her a cheater, because atleast he doesn't know the truth, that she's actually a monster. And she wonders, if anyone else like her exists. Or maybe it's just punishment, punishment for pushing a man down two flight of stairs right before he grabbed her daughter. She saved her kid's life, but at the cost of what? What of all the stories untold. The stories of those who never got the luxury of knowing their history, ended up dead too soon, those still alone. And yet, I bet these stories are the most common in the supernatural world. Who are the nobodies? The common supernatural?