#//also yes i know bonora was never explicitly canon but i always shipped them so yeah

[floripire]

re: the mystic falls gang, inspired by @baby-royalty's headcanon

flori only knows elena as doctor gilbert, who has her own practice in town, and is a divorcee because she and mister damon salvatore ultimately did not manage to make it work. doctor gilbert is also a single mother to stefanie salvatore - who is a walking, talking vampire cure.

still, elena went through a lot in life, from losing her loved ones to getting targeted because of her status as a doppleganger, getting turned into a vampire and then getting cured. flori figures that takes a toll on any person.

there are many stories about elena, both good and bad, and flori does see the parallels between them (elena felt something for both salvatore brothers; flori felt something for both carson siblings and they are both resilient) but at the end of the day, flori figures she'll never know her well enough to form an opinion on her other than 'she's the town doctor and she's a survivor'.

jeremy is the one who found flori in grove hill, after she escaped from the triad industries detention facility. he's the one who took her to the salvatore school. she may not talk to him much these days, but she's always gonna be grateful for that and because he got her to the school - and therefore got her to the people she needed in life - he will always be her favorite gilbert and she'll always check in with him whenever he visits the school.

caroline is josie and lizzie's mom, and the headmistress of the school. caroline has her flaws and faults like every person, of course, but she also has her strengths. caroline also seems to be the only positive adult vampire rolemodel around. even if she wasn't, flori would still really look up to her, admire and adore her because caroline has been through so much and she's still standing. every so often, flori sends caroline a message to let her know that she is valued and appreciated as a person and as a vampire.

flori absolutely adores bonnie too and that's not just because she's best friends with bonnie's daughter, loren. bonnie knows what it's like to be a person of color in a predominantly white town. bonnie knows what it's like to live with this discrepancy - to have the world look at people like caroline and elena one way, and look at her in another way. vampires hurt bonnie, hurt bonnie's family and even hurt bonnie's ancestors so why shouldn't she be allowed to retaliate (with a minor aneurysm spell)? bonnie could have done a lot worse, and, quite frankly, should have been allowed to. but of course, flipping the switch and every other variation thereof - like doing malevolent magic - is a white person's luxury so of course she didn't. couldn't. wouldn't. had she done that for real, bonnie never would have heard the end of it, flori is certain.

things are a lot better now, thankfully, yet flori still thinks it's heinously unfair that bonnie barely got a thank you for all the hard work she's done throughout the years - everyone in mystic falls would be dead a thousand times over if it hadn't been for her. which is something that flori wholeheartedly believes in and has definitely ranted about. flori has a tendency to thank bonnie a lot and to let her know that she is appreciated. for the big things and for the small things she's done. for just being herself. flori is really very glad that she gets to exist at the same time as bonnie does and can sit and listen to her talk about spells and magic for hours, even if she herself has no access to any of it.

it's certainly impossible but if caroline gave her the okay and flori could go on a quest with her best friends to resurrect bonnie's past lover(s) (whether that's enzo or nora)? she would. bonnie deserves to be happy and flori wants so desperately to do something, anything, for bonnie to lighten the load.

matt had a long run as the sheriff and then became the mayor of the town. she's not talked to him personally but she heard about him from kaleb. she does commend him for managing to get through everything without dying or turning.

tyler is donovan's dad and is also related to alice so he can't be all that bad. flori's probably kinda tongue tied around him at first, though. when that's over and done with, she'll ask all the questions in regards to how wolf packs work. what? he's interesting and she's sure he's got stories to tell!

flori knows that stefan was many things: a vampire, a brother, a friend, a lover. to her, he's a namesake of her favorite places in the world: the school as a whole because it's her home and the memorial library it houses within. part of her wishes that he was still around. she thinks that the vampires could have used his advice and his presence (even if she'd be tongue tied around him). she holds stefan in higher regard than his older brother.

and flori knows damon as the owner of the mystic grill and other such establishments, a cured vampire, doctor gilbert's ex-husband and stefanie's dad. flori sees him sometimes when she goes to the mystic grill to grab a bite but does her best not to bother him or talk to him. there are stories about him too, of course, but most of those lean towards the positive (considering so many people auditioned for him in the school play) and that's probably because stories about his dynamic with caroline aren't explicitly told (and flori doesn't know about any of this, either). logically, flori knows he has a lot of vampiric wisdom after living for so long and that she should definitely ask about it but she never really does. maybe it's unconscious self protection.

*in the unnamed time travel au/verse, all of this is subject to change + there is absolutely no pressure for you to follow these headcanons if you write any of the characters mentioned above. zero pressure! absolutely none! nada! this is just flori's pov, going off of the info that is (presumably) available to her.