I never understood why Katherine was jealous of Elena. Like, I feel like the writers made her jealous just so she had a reason to cause drama every time she was in Mystic Falls. Because like… Girl. Who cares that you’re not Elena when you have your own fashion style, you’re confident, fierce, you can get anyone you want (without compelling people, that is) and you’re immortal? “I never had a prom, a graduation, oh you know, a LIFE” YOU’RE A VAMPIRE.
You can literally get the life you want for free. You can go to another town and reinvent yourself any time you want. You can have the house or apartment that you want and get the job you want if you use hypnosis. You can make friends, find a boyfriend/girlfriend who will genuinely love you, enroll into a college, make memories with your found family and get all the love you want. And best of all? You have all the time in the world to do all of that so WHO CARES ABOUT ELENA AND HER UNINTERESTING BOYFRIENDS?????? Why would a centuries-old, beautiful and very powerful vampire be jealous of some human girl JUST because her bland exes are attracted to said human girl?
because it wasnt about damon and stefan, at least not in a deeper level. katherine saw her human self on elena, how they were going through the same stuff (klaus, vampire chaos, etc), how elena has the same innocence katherine had, except elena has people to protect her.
elena got to be human for way longer than katherine, she managed to stay mostly good, she has friends who love her and would die for her, she has a better life than katherine has since she became a vampire even if elena's life is always in chaos and shes always losing people. meanwhile katherine never had that privilege, her entire family died and she had no one to protect her, she became a vampire to survive, she spent all her vampire life in fear, thinking klaus can kill her at the moment she falter. stefan and damon loving elena is just the surface of her bitterness because the salvatore brothers used to be "hers" and now they only care about a girl who looks exactly like her but acts completely different.
come on, is not such a hard concept to grasp. i know you people see katherine as superior to elena and the thought of her feeling envy is absurd, but in real life situations like this happens all the time. people that you admire feel envy of people you dont care about, because what is valuable for you is not as valuable to other people.
if you look at katherine and elena's relationship only thinking about your own opinions ofc you wont understand. katherine is a hot confident vampire, why would she care about elena? but katherine is not you, shes a girl that forced herself to become a monster just to survive and elena represents the life that was stolen from her.













