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I absolutely love this, especially because it brings up the dynamics of Bonnie's very dysfunctional family and how that would've (should've) shaped her character.

Not to hop onto the Klonnie train, but-

I’m thinking about her natural hair (and how Kat never got to wear it because Racism), and how Klaus has been around black people for centuries, and how he’d probably know how to properly maintain thick curly hair

How surprised Bonnie would be, for his concern that she wasn’t treasuring her natural beauty, the shock when a gift basket of products he’d handpicked out appears on her doorstop

(Thinking more… about if Bonnie never even knew how to take care of her hair. Her mom was gone, her dad’s hair was short and he was busy, and her Grams was always drunk. Rudy would likely pay for salon trips, whatever was easiest for Bonnie to fit in and what took the least effort on his part, and Sheila wouldn’t have the authority to go against it)

And then comes along Klaus with his inexplicably gentle and practised hands, and god he’s her enemy but he’s also the only person who’s taken care of Bonnie in years, and it feels so good

The shock and… the disgust? Maybe? Deep down in some of her old friends? When she returns one weekened with beautiful hair, and a secret smile

Just thinking about Klonnie, really

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My friends and I have paused to argue because some have started reading The Vampire Diaries books.

Plec and her team erased and swapped a number of families - Smallwood became Lockwood, Bennett (Vicki) and Honeycutt (Matt) merged into Donovan, Sulez get erased entirely (which is upsetting because they're really interesting, but also glad Plec didn't get to ruin them too), and McCullough became Bennett.

But anyway, I'm arguing for why the TV Bennetts should've been made founders and the "but they're Black and have always been Black" argument has me heated and my friends currently fact checking me.

Making the Bennetts a family of Black people in historical White-town Virginia doesn't mean they couldn't have been founders. "They would've been slaves" was the main argument - Anthony Johnson was a slave owner IN VIRGINIA (colony) and a number of other free Blacks and mixed Blacks slave owners in Virginia and a few other states existed.

You legit can't argue that the time period of the town's founding was why the Black Bennett family couldn't be founders. Especially when the Salvatores, who were NOT founders in the book, were given that status and importance from it.

It was already bad enough Bonnie didn't get to be the bubbly/cutesy coming-of-age witch (a change I think was because they race-lifted her from White to Black). They could've made her family, the one that has ALWAYS been in Mystic Falls (Ayana), founders so she could've been more equal to Elena and Caroline (it wasn't done because of racism and ignorance to the history they used to try and justify said racism).

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if you told vin diesel fast and the furious you were gay he'd be like "Some people like driving stick…some people like driving automatic…what matters is you cross the finish line.." and then he'd rev up a dodge challenger and drive through a building and kill 16 people

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insane how many people just have these incredible artists in their families who get no recognition outside of crocheting circles because this art form is devalued for its association with women

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I like this because it's backed by cannon with Ayana being the one who helped Esther bastardize Qetsiyah's immortality spell.

TVD au

Bonnie comes from a long line of witches who are vampire slayers. The feud between the witches in her bloodline and vampires started when the creator of vampires stole and bastardised their ancestors spell to create these creatures. Ever since then this bloodline of witches had made it their mission to end all vampires

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NYYAAAH

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Keke Palmer as ROGUE Art by Lukas Werneck

Edit by me!

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People compare Mizu and Caitlin... I've seen it all now

Just adding this here for the tumblr (not my tweet)

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@importantcatpics

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Kayla - "I think they made up a new doppelganger because Elena was a vampire, but I might be confusing the timeline."

Aida - "1473 for Katherine, 1992 for Elena, that's 519 years. Katherine was turned in 1492, right? That adds up, so it should go 500 years from whenever the previous doppelganger died. 1846 for Stefan and turned in 1864, so 2364 for Tom, meaning he shouldn't even exist yet!"

The prophecy of Doppelgangers supposedly being destined to be together is really funny to me because I've not seen one pairing of them working out once in a thousand years.

(Also, if this prophecy is in any way correct, was Tom Avery supposed to be with Elena? If so, does that mean there was a Stefan-ganger for Katherine in her time and an Elena-ganger for Stefan in his?)

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On one hand, I want to say yes, Tom and Elena probably were meant to be together. On the other hand, I think the writers just decided to add that concept of Silas doppelgangers and didn't think about it properly. Because Katherine didn't have a Silas doppelganger. And Tatia didn't have a Silas doppelganger. But realistically, there should've been ones and the universe itself should've bent over backwards to being them together...

It gives "we want a story of history constantly repeating and felt that Elena/Katherine/Tatia weren't complicated enough."

The prophecy of Doppelgangers supposedly being destined to be together is really funny to me because I've not seen one pairing of them working out once in a thousand years.

(Also, if this prophecy is in any way correct, was Tom Avery supposed to be with Elena? If so, does that mean there was a Stefan-ganger for Katherine in her time and an Elena-ganger for Stefan in his?)

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It really was Jinx's most sound decision despite it being done out of grief. Never made sense to me how anyone could say she ruined the peace treaty when it wouldn't have solved anything, it just puts them back at square one. Silco never actually agreed to Jayce's terms, the "treaty" wasn't official - and like you said, it definitely would've just ended up like it did in s2, putting Zaun right back at square one.

Because what's a single undercity counselor gonna do besides get ignored and outvoted at every meeting? Piltovans have proven how petty they are, it wouldn't be shocking if they voted against something solely because it was a Zaunite suggesting it. It would've kept the undercity Piltover's undercity and they'd be shouting "we gave you a vote, what more do you want? You have representation now, stop being ungrateful."

And I agree that

Talking with friends has made me realize something. I'm likely one of a small few that never liked Caitlyn way back in season 1. The moment she told Ekko "it's a misunderstanding," I hated her. Telling him he was wrong about how the Enforcers treat the people of the Undercity, how they're in Silco's control as well?

There is no defense for such naivety, not when she's ventured into the Undercity and seen what the place looks like, seen a glimpse of their suffering. "This city needs healing," but she had no issue POISONING the city because one person killed her mother. Caitlyn took her mother's work and used it for PURE EVIL. She proved exactly why Piltovans are irredeemable to me.

All of Piltover's progress is built on the lives of Zaunites, their castle is held aloft by corpses. Caitlyn's privileged lifestyle was only possible because of that and the moment she has an excuse, she adds to the pile of corpses with not a HINT of genuine remorse.

But oh, feel bad for her because she was betrayed (after SHE betrayed, abused, used, and discarded someone else)? Have her saved by the very people she saw no issuing brutalizing, poisoning, and oppressing when it suited her mood? Act as if this is a GOOD and TRIUMPHANT thing!?

The writers' idea that Piltover and Zaun are both wrong and set aside their differences against Noxia pisses me off the most. Please note that at this point, Zaun is not ZAUN - they are still Piltover's "undercity." They struggle to breath because of Piltover, they die enmass from lack of basic necessities because of Piltover, they are wrongly incarcerated because of Piltover.

Piltover has always been the wrong party, the bad and morally bankrupt side - even compared to SILCO of all people (in my opinion), Piltover is just the worst and nothing can redeem the. That badass entrance of Jinx and the Zaunites SHOULD have been them decimating BOTH Piltovan and Noxian forces without discrimination. It's literally what Piltover deserves for their actions!

As I told my friends, Zaun literally has NOTHING to lose and EVERYTHING to gain war. Freedom does not come without a war, a fight, a bomb killing the council and a terrorist killing the faces of their oppression (Enforcers). Jinx becomes a symbol of revolution BECAUSE of this. We as viewers love her BECAUSE of this (and her being a complex and sympathetic character in general).

Piltover had everything to LOSE if Zaun was independent, that's literally why they snuffed out any rebellions and have Enforcers to begin with! There is no misunderstanding, there is no moral ambiguity, there is one side in the right and one side in the wrong. And Caitlyn, to me, is the embodiment of that WRONG - she claims to want the best for Zaun until it doesn't go her way and now she will enforce her will and wants on them because she CAN.

She doesn't deserve to be portrayed sympathetically and Piltover did not deserve to be saved.

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new bonkai au brought to you by me and @guldig !!

“I don’t want to hurt you,” Kai whispers, the fingers of his free hand creeping to rest at the back of Bonnie's neck, the other faltering around the knife that he holds dangerously close to her throat. “I’d do anything to keep you, but I can’t love a witch.”

or

thousand eyes: a witchhunter!Kai and witch!Bonnie au

check it out here ✨

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Separated Bonnie's relationships to a different post because the other one was long enough

Bonnie x Damon, aka Bamon, should've happened

Bonnie x Damon is lowkey book cannon.

BAMON MAY AS WELL BE BOOK CANNON

I'm pretty sure they were soulmates despite the book Delena crap (yes, soulmates are a thing in the TVD books). Their relationship was interesting, especially on Damon's end considering how evil and questionable he is at the start of everything yet his soft spot for Bonnie is very obvious and a lot more genuine than the one he developed for Elena.

But fine, let's say they aren't book cannon on the technicality of it all and say it isn't a valid reason for Bamon in the show to be a thing.

Show Damon and Bonnie had major chemistry, especially in the latter seasons. It being platonic is fine and dandy, but Damon telling Elena "I'm doing this for Bonnie, not for you" felt far too romantic for them to just never be a thing!

And why does Klaus go for Caroline over Bonnie? Because Klaus is all about power, he clearly had a thing for witches, and Bonnie comes from a long line of powerful witches, she herself is one. And on top of that, it's later established that their families are connected too.

If I go based on my friend, it's because Klaus goes for women that remind him of Rebekah (very squicky for me).

It's confirmed to be racism - Damon was too popular, Klaus was too popular, and Bonnie was too Black to be paired with them. They paired her with Jeremy (who just felt like a waste of a character), they paired her with Enzo (who I liked her with, but felt he was punished for being a good boyfriend to the writers' least favorite character).

As fucked up as this sounds, I genuinely wonder if Bonnie being portrayed as mixed with a White parent would've changed anything (Bonnie is portrayed as monoracially Black, but Kat's mixed).

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Early Bonnie was difficult for me to like because of the friendship dynamics with her, Elena, and Caroline. I recognized a lot more with Caroline than I did with Bonnie in the beginning (because the neurotic need for perfection mainly, but also just the friendship issues). It always bothered my friends, but especially now with more context of WHY Bonnie was always shafted and shelved. And like I said, I really wanted to like her when I first watched the show (less because she was the only Black girl and more because her intro to being a witch ans having magic was something media normally gave to White characters).

And it's weird rewatching with the knowledge of how horrible production was to Kat Graham because it becomes very obvious that Bonnie being a magical negro trope was intentional - it wasn't them not knowing how to properly race-lift a character.

Why do we get the dynamics of everyone's family, but not really Bonnie's? I know more about Matt's mom than I do about Bonnie's dad, but Bonnie is legit integral to the story as the witch everyone keeps needing. How did her mom's abandonment effect her, her dad, what was the dynamic.

Gotta rewatch further to go into greater detail of things, but from memory I recall always coming close to liking/loving Bonnie's character and how she was written only for it to be ruined somehow. I hated how every great feat Bonnie achieved was always about someone else (Elena). I hated how Bonnie gets these sparse moments of personal development or happiness and it's set aside because now Elena/the gang need her.

Every time she had a story away from the main one, I cheered for that shit, but eventually started dreading it - it never ends well for her (dead boyfriends, dead family, dead her) and sometimes just went nowhere (lowkey think the writers would forget). Like, Bonnie is legit not allowed to be happy either, every romantic relationship just ends in her suffering more than necessary, it felt targeted as hell because it never had a deeper purpose sometimes.

And her whole family, not just her. I didn't like how she and her family in general didn't have a central role in the town. Because the flashbacks later on established that the Bennetts had ALWAYS been in Mystic Falls, way before the founding families - but nope, no Black founding families. What, are we meant to say "slavery and colonization took that away" while simultaneously having extensively documented history of the entire town's founding? Including the stuff they don't want people knowing about?

And this is lowkey a tangent, but Freya in The Originals replacing Bonnie as the most powerful witch in the TVD universe still pisses me off. First we had Ester having to channel the Bennett line to be worth a damn and yet that's never properly acknowledged (EVER, they have a BS line about Mikaelson witches always being powerful when that was never the case, Ester couldn't do SHIT with Anya), now we have the Black witches and their entire line shoved aside because the Mikaelsons must always be above them.

Wasn't it bad enough they were treated as tools, now they can't even be the most powerful of the bunch? Not once do the Bennetts get treated as anything but tools for the very White characters around them and now Bonnie gets erased entirely because they found a witch to replace her with.

It all comes down to racism, both in TVD and outside of it. I have no doubt that if Bonnie was the bubbly White girl she was in the books, she would not have been treated the way she was. And another tangent, but I swear the whole reason they changed so much of Bonnie's personality was because they decided to cast Kat and not because they just felt like it. They kept Caroline's base personality, they kept Elena's, but not really Bonnie's.

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I don't think YJ M'Gann is given the proper credit she deserves. And by credit, I mean labeling as the toxic, predatory, manipulative groomer she really is. She found an emotionally vulnerable clone who was trying to find his place in the world after being rescued from a lab and rejected by the closest thing to a father he had and started molding him into her perfect boyfriend. And when he started expressing discomfort towards her, she fucked with his mind to erase that discomfort and gaslight him into continuing to be that perfect boyfriend.

And when he inevitably realized what was going on and severed ties with her, how does she respond? By leaping into the arms of the next single guy she could in an attempt to drive her first boyfriend into jealousy so he would take her back. Which, eventually, he does. And then they marry.

Imagine if the genders had been reversed. People would be calling M'Gann the most disgusting, abhorrent character in the franchise, and they would be correct. But because she's a woman and Conner's a man, they get a free pass. Nobody in universe or out calls her out on her shit, and everyone is perfectly fine with her having successfully manipulated her groomed boyfriend into being her life long lover.

There should be more outrage over her and her actions. What she did is not right, by any stretch of the imagination.