#anyway yeah I ship Ben/Elena but in a 'I can make her worse' way :)

[msnihilist]

oh so you ship ben and elena?actually I really think she was a good one for ben because she genuinely loved him and was ready to do anything for him unlike you know julie or kai or ...she wasn't perfect but at least she really loved him befor ben went all feral on her and making her hate him lol

That's a really funny way to interpret the Elena episodes. Elena doesn't "love" Ben — not in any meaningful way, at least. She's obsessed with him because her mental state is in shambles and he's one of the only things she has that's real.

Her dad is dead. She can't undo that — the closest she can get is making her chips take his form. She has his research, but what's really the point? She already understands the microchips. It's just busy work — making more of themselves. What is she supposed to do? Make the world a better place? Let others have this power? Why would she when it's all that she has?

(something something, Elena's mental state with the chips being a metaphor for unprocessed grief/untreated mental illness)

Elena is empty. She is obsessed with wanting, because the microchips can give her any object and none of it has any meaning. It's the same thing as being rich and being surrounded by an incredible mansion and fifteen cars, and no one who cares about you anywhere to be seen.

Elena wants to feel whole, and the chips want to give her what she wants. The reason she wants Ben is because he's a piece of Elena before she was the Queen. He's a childhood friend, a hesitant crush, the only person who still seems to value Elena just for being herself.

And the chips can't give her Ben. They can make copies of him, sure, but it doesn't matter. The copies are controlled by Elena. They don't genuinely care about her the way that Ben does. They don't have their history.

Elena is a blackhole. She doesn't love Ben anymore, she wants to consume him. She loves Ben because he makes her feel a little more whole — a little bit normal.

Elena's obsessed with Ben because he is literally all she has.