#stefan for ts

[kmze]

Why do people refuse to see that Stefan was the more dangerous and evil at core brother and not some Disney prince boyfriend?I'm not saying this.It's right there in the text in season 1 episode 6.Katherine pointed it out about baby human 17 year old Stefan circa 1864.Unlike Damon who could be seduced to darkness because mommy issues,daddy issues,Stefan had pre-meditation and calculation to his ability to go dark PRE-VAMPIRISM.To quote Katherine "something tells me you like to play it rougher".You know Katherine Pierce who could play people like a fiddle.Stefan played others too just like katherine.Damon role- played a bad boy.Stefan was the ultimate bad boy.When he was good it was because he was wanting to be good for a reason be it good or convenience but when he was bad,boy,he enjoyed being bad.Because he was an addict with no control over himself or his self-contradictions.

LOL he looks like a Disney prince that's why! Kidding, sort of... in all honesty I think it's because stans in this fandom will always focus on how their ship (or LBR their guy) isn't toxic and that's why he's the better choice. When you do that you back yourself into a corner and it's so hard to criticize or even talk about a character's flaws because then it becomes a discussion about toxicity and ships. I remember a discussion had started on here about how Stefan is very manipulative, he knows how to read people and situations extremely well and he always used it to his advantage.

He did it so much in S1 with Elena and how he would only feed her information about himself when the opportunity worked in his favor, like when she found out about Katherine he softened the blow from that with surprise your adopted something he knew for months. Then we talked about how he manipulated Caroline when it came to NH!Elena getting her to promise not to give up on her and getting her to stop calling her a backstabbing bitch even though she deserved it. This opened the floodgates to so many questions and everyone questioning if every interaction between them was manipulation on Stefan's point and it was exhausting. It was exhausting because THAT'S WHO HE IS! He knows how to "play the game" and he knows what players he needs to play the game. Katherine and Stefan both saw that Caroline was good at providing a distraction on command or using her charm to get information out of people, that's why I felt Katherine said she liked the poetry of Caroline.

It's not even like the show doesn't TELL you that Stefan is the more sadistic brother, like all of S3 was basically about that. Klaus was interested in Stefan because he was inspired by Ripper Stefan's sadism, he thought Damon was a joke when he offered to switch spots with him. Even Cade was more interested in Stefan and when he talked with Damon he was like nah send your brother down here that's the monster I really want. You had Katherine and Klaus both point out how Stefan was the more sadistic one (I love that line from her in 1x06) but fandom was APPALLED that NH!Caro would be so cruel to Stefan without her humanity because he wasn't like that (I swear this was an actual discussion that happened). I do think the show missed an opportunity in S8 with having Ripper Stefan be an actual big bad, it might have opened more people's eyes to how evil he truly could be. What made him interesting is despite all that sadism at his core he had extreme empathy and him being an addict meant he fought between the two extremes constantly.

[scienter]

Plots/storylines and characters which shouldn't even exist on tvd?If you could rank the tvd seasons with regards to Caroline and Stefan's individual narrative,how would you?

Question 1 –

Enzo’s storyline in season 6 shouldn’t exist. It was so bad that even JP admitted Enzo’s storyline didn’t work (see: x x x).

More to the point, I think Enzo as a character does not work and shouldn’t exist. If you’re interested in reading more about my problems with Enzo as a character then I suggest reading this post.

Obviously, I think the pregnancy plot / Calaric shouldn’t exist. It didn't make sense because it broke the show’s internal rules about vampirism & pregnancy, and it contrived a "romance" that existed to just delay the inevitable.  

Valerie & Stefan shouldn’t exist because it was also a roadblock to delay the inevitable.  (Valerie shouldn't exist because she’s a weak suspiciously similar substitute for Katherine & Rebekah.)

The Elena is sired to Damon storyline shouldn’t exist. It felt like the writers were taking a shortcut to get Elena and Damon together. It would have been more organic and less creepy if Elena had simply fallen for Damon and fallen out of love with Stefan because of the events of season 3.

I always felt like bringing Jeremy back to life at the end of season 4 was a bad storytelling decision because it undermined the emotional impact of his death. I also felt like it undercut Elena’s grief and character arc since she never truly had to move on from that loss. If writers constantly kill characters and bring them back to life then death feels cheap and impermanent. It undermines the stakes and emotional impact.

April was a waste of space. She shouldn’t have existed.

Resurrected Alaric Saltzman shouldn’t exist. The writers killed off Ric in season 3 because Matthew Davis left TVD so he could be a lead on his show. Davis’s show was canceled after a year, so he came crawling back to TVD.  Resurrecting Ric wasn’t a storytelling decision; it was a pity decision.

Question 2:

My ranking would be:

Caroline: 2, 6, 4, 3/5, 8, 1, 7

Stefan: 3, 6, 4/5, 2, 1, 8/7

I like the seasons where Caroline and Stefan had the most character growth or were challenged the most.

[nancylou444]

Here's an awesome list of incest relationships

[taus-inc]

watching katherine be so sad and desperate in elena body pmo bc why is nobody noticing ts... elena would not do half ts katherine is and evrryone is writing it off as left over damon feelings

[unflded]

    • ° .   *   ࿐  blasting  SEX  ON  FIRE  by  KINGS  OF  LEON  through  their  airpods  is   𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍   𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐘  .  oh  ,  you  don’t  know  them ? they’re  the  twenty6   year  old  MUSICIAN  who  just  went  viral  for the headline :  TROUBLED  SONGSTER  CAUGHT  SULKING  BEHIND  THE  SCENES  WITH  ON-AND-OFF  EX  AT  THEIR  GO  -  TO  DINNER  SPOT  —  WHEN  WILL  THEY  LEARN  HE  CAN’T  BE  TRUSTED  ?   .  yup  ,  the  one  that  drives  a  FERRARI  348  TS  .  i  hear  they’re  pretty  VISIONARY  ,  but  others  have  claimed  that  they’re  quite  MOROSE  .  that  makes  sense  ,  considering  they’re  often  labeled  as  the  black  hole   .

* 𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 .

full name: stefan healey. nickname(s): stef, steffy, stefano. age: twenty6. gender: cis man. sexuality: tbd. zodiac: gemini. occupation: musician— guitarist + singer/songwriter. career claim: role model <3

* 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 .

he   grew   up   in   rural   appalachia,   a   west   virginia   town   with   a   single   school   for   the   entire   small   sleepy   grove   of   300.   father   a   logger,   mother   a   tailor,   the   youngest   of   4   in   a   family   torn   apart   by   tumultuous   unpredictability.   their   town   didn’t   get   internet   until   stefan   was   about   9,   before   which   he   would   read   every   book   available   in   the   town’s   run   -   down   library.   once   they   got   their   first   touch   of   the   outside   world,   the   boy,   born   into   poverty   yet   knowing   there   is   more   available,   became   obsessed   with   the   potential   he   knew   he   possessed   that   would   guide   him   out   of   the   mountain   range   and   into   the   light. stefan   became   obsessed   with   music,   teaching   himself   to   play   guitar   and   getting   his   hands   on   any   old   records   he   could   in   order   to   practice.   his   dad’s   old   guitar,   gone   untouched   for   years   as   he   now   preferred   to   wind   down   by   drinking   himself   blind,   became   stefan’s   best   friend—   and   the   internet,   to   which   he’d   post   videos   of   himself   playing   any   and   everything,   became   his   biggest   fan.   he   shunned   the   real   world,   obsessing   over   posting   daily,   knowing   mastery   of   the   thing   he   loves   most   would   be   his   best   ticket   out   of   a   life   where   he’d   be   relegated   to   chopping   trees   or   mining   for   the   rest   of   his   life. he’s   discovered   online   and   sent   an   email   by   a   talent   scout   for   a   boarding   school   in   new   york   for   the   arts   and   he   doesn’t   think   twice   before   stealing   his   brother’s   bike   to   make   the   miles-long   trek   out   to   the   nearest   bus   station,   guitar   case   on   his   back   and   stolen   cash   in   his   pocket.   his   audition   changes   his   life,   and   by   the   age   of   14,   it’s   the   last   his   west   virginia   town   sees   of   him.    new   york   is   not   kind,   but   stefan   is   relentless   in   his   pursuit   of   greatness,   and   spends   sleepless   nights   obsessing   over   becoming   the   best.   of   his   class,   of   his   grade,   of   his   craft   altogether.   he   gets   signed   to   a   to   go   touring   as   a   guitarist   for   major   pop   stars   by   the   age   of   17,   and   by   his   19th   birthday,   he   has   taken   to   singing   to   release   his   first   album   as   a   solo   artist.   his   success   takes   off   overnight,   offering   with   it   an   escape   for   the   backwoods   boy   to   leave   behind   the   life   that   nearly   trapped   him   in   mediocrity.

* 𝐢 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

 stefan,   brooding,   sulking,   yet   sharp   -   eyed   and   singular   in   his   focus,   has   an   incurable   case   of   being   insatiable   at   heart,   that   taints   everything   he   does.   through   everything,   a   shadow   is   cast   as   he   wonders   to   himself   if   he   can   do   more,   if   he   can   get   more   out   of   it,   if   he   can   push   further.   alive   once   and   believing   this   is   his   only   lifetime   to   do   so,   he   ruins   more   than   he   starts   through   his   fear   of   missing   out.   though   he   carries   himself   with   a   cat   -   like   air   of   non   -   chalance,   there’s   a   visible   shadow   he   casts   wherever   he   touches,   someone   who   can’t   ever   get   enough   of   the   life   he   lives   and   makes   it   very   clear   that   he   would   sooner   let   things   implode   than   tie   himself   to   something   half   -   tried.   blunt,   cantankerous,   yet   never   willing   to   commit   to   a   full   fight,   stefan   picks   at   holes   in   armor   and   logic   until   he’s   unraveled   the   whole   thing.   he’s   self   -   aware   and   painfully   straightforward   about   what   awaits   anyone   who   seeks   entering   his   circle,   perhaps   somewhat   refreshingly   negative   in   a   world   of   insincerity   that   surrounds   the   glitz   and   glam.

* 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

former bandmates: on-and-off exes: people he records guitar for: muses for his music: close friends: 1-3 inner circle: friends from music school in NYC:

[heathercollinsmd]

Well this I've never seen before. Your love for this one girl is stronger than your craving for blood...

[tvd 3x05 | every klefan scene ?/?]

[ruthadelaide]

Because in the end, when you lose somebody, every candle, every prayer is not going to make up for the fact that the only thing you have left is a hole in your life where that somebody that you cared about used to be.

[elenaspetrova]

It's always gonna be Stefan.

[chenfordswopez]

I love this Bamon fic

This is written by @perpetualimaginings btw

[firelxdykatara]

not gonna lie I would love to hear more about the drama and infighting that went on in The Vampire Diaries fandom if you have the time (and also want to use that time to give your experience with the fandom, which from the snippets you've told sounds Not Fun so I get it if you don't want to lol)

oh god, there was like, SO MUCH, i just

i really feel like tvd is one of those fandoms that is so hard to describe without a lot of ‘you’d have to have been there’, but it really felt like this huge and all-consuming beast for about five years until the show finally imploded and the fandom basically turned on it en masse. (you ever see that post going around that’s like ‘if you ever want to know what true regret feels like, ask someone who once called tvd their favorite show’? still a mood, all these years later. basically the entire fandom thought the show should have just bowed out with whatever shreds of dignity it had left at the end of season 6, and became more of a hatedom than a fandom for the last two seasons. when you have an entire fandom cheering news of your show’s cancellation, i think that’s a sign you done fucked up, julie.)

first and most infamous, of course, are the ship wars. which are pretty much inevitable in any teen-centered drama, and i really think the CW fucking thrives on them, but it was particularly egregious in TVD’s case because not only was the base premise of the show a love triangle, but the two main romantic leads were brothers that the show constantly pit against one another--in pursuit of elena’s affections, but also because it kept up this insistence on the ‘good brother/bad brother’ dichotomy which stopped making sense after about season 2 (by which time we have found out that the good brother was never as good as he appeared, and the bad brother has been growing and isn’t nearly as bad as he pretends to be)--and the question of which brother ‘deserved’ elena (and no, what elena wanted very rarely factored into these discussions, especially in the team stefan camp because they turned on her when what she wanted was no longer The Good Brother, but i’ll get to that in a bit) was hotly contested.

i’m not kidding when i say the shipping wars were vicious. i started watching tvd shortly after it began to air, which was late 2009, and kept up with it fairly sporadically over the years. i didn’t come onto tumblr until 2011/2012, and by then, the fandom was already pretty much a garbagefire. there were anti ship and anti character blogs, any time something bad happened for one ship the rival ship would invade the tags to gloat about it (seasons 3 and 4 were especially rough, and i’m not gonna pretend delena fans weren’t just as bad about tag invasion and shit, but as that was my side of the road i saw a lot more of the stelena shippers being assholes, which soured my opinion on the ship a long time before i started rewatching and realized the red flags were there from the start), confessions blogs were popular also toxic as fuck (so much fighting happened in the notes of those posts, good gods), and this was right around when twitter’s popularity was on the rise and the line between Celebrity and Fan was thinning, so the fandom was absolutely atrocious to much of the tvd cast and crew.

(some of them deserved a lot of the later backlash, but in the early years a lot of it was ‘how dare you write the story in a way i dont like, you terrible fucking person’, and gods don’t get me started on the dobsley vs nian Thing)

i think what really encapsulates my feelings on the tvd fandom as a whole, though, is the way they (to this DAY) treated elena gilbert, which can be summed up in one meme that gained a lot of traction around season 3 if i remember right: that gif of pam from true blood, with the text altered to read “i’m so OVER elena and her precious doppelganger vagina!”

i swear at one time i had over half the active tvd fan accounts on tumblr blocked, because i got to a point where i would no longer tolerate elena hate, and she was (and still is, in what remains of the fandom; you’ll see a lot of ‘elena was one of the worst things about the show’ takes from ex-fans, too) one of the most widely despised characters in the entire fandom. because she -checks smudged writing on hand- was a traumatized teenage girl who -reads off a crumpled notecard- couldn’t always perfectly sort out her own feelings and -squints at the ceiling- sometimes made mistakes or bad decisions. (except a lot of the fandom also insisted that she was a mary sue who had no character traits or flaws or faults and it was like....make up your fucking minds???? is she a calculating conniving bitch whose somehow manipulating these centuries old vampires to tie them around her little finger or is she a boring flat character with no depth and no flaws??? jfc)

there was this massive double standard, too--like, stefan and damon could fuck whoever they wanted and that was fine, but elena was constantly raked over the coals for the crime of developing romantic feelings for the two men who had become constants in her life and whom she cared for deeply, and oh my GOD the slut shaming that happened when elena slept with damon was fucking wild. (and also happened in canon lmfao. like the show had one of elena’s best friends basically call her diseased on screen for falling in love with someone other than stefan. it was gross and ridiculous and the friend in question was also being a giant hypocrite at the time since she was happily flirting with someone who was directly responsible for the deaths of like four of elena’s loved ones and her own boyfriend’s mother but that’s beside the point) but like elena was called a slut and a bitch and a whore for ‘cheating’ on stefan (she hadn’t, and she had in fact broken up with him on screen the episode earlier) and ‘immediately’ jumping into bed with damon, even though none of them said fucking boo when stefan had one night stands or damon had fuckbuddies or whatever.

shit, caroline didn’t get any of this treatment when she started falling for tyler while dating matt! which isn’t to say i think she should have, just that i think it’s fucking ridiculous that elena was absolutely demonized by the fandom for daring to have feelings for two guys at once and eventually acting on them--despite the fact that the entire premise of the show was a love triangle. it’s not a love triangle if both sides don’t eventually get explored, and the crew had been pretty explicit about the fact that delena was going to happen at some point--but when it did, a huge chunk of the fandom absolutely threw a fit.

and a lot of these elena haters were alleged stelena stans, and i say alleged because they hated her so much for not wanting stefan’s dick anymore that it was clear they were really stefan stans and only wanted stelena to be endgame because they wanted stefan to ‘win’ at the end of the day, because ‘he’s the good brother’ so he deserved elena more.

it was all very gross and very misogynistic and very sex shaming (apparently delena was a ‘shallow’ and ‘superficial’ relationship because they had sex after two years of unrequited feelings slowly becoming requited and then pining for ages on both sides, and because they had a lot of on screen chemistry that the show capitalized on for years so of course they did a lot of making out and shit but it’s not like stelena didn’t have its fair share of making out and sex scenes, stefan was just too much of a coward to let elena top i’d apologize for that joke but i’m really not sorry because it’s true), and when i say it was egged on by the crew, that’s because they refused to let the love triangle die back in season 4 when it should have.

they insisted on stringing stelena fans along, dropping little bread crumbs to keep them invested, like dreams of a future where they were married and revealing that stefan was also a doppelganger and he and elena were descended from a pair of star-crossed lovers (a plot that ultimately went nowhere, to no one’s great surprise), and then fucking like. julie plec turned around and threw nina under the bus after she chose not to extend her contract and pretended that stelena might have happened again if she hadn’t left the show, which....i mean frankly i wouldn’t put it past her, but it would have been shitty writing. then again, she thought having a vampire pregnancy where a uterus was magically transplanted from a witch into a vampire that could somehow......carry the babies to term.... made sense and was a good way to accomodate candice’s RL pregnancy rather than like literally ANYTHING else, soooooo. but anyway julie saying that around like, end of s6 sparked off a new wave of nina hate and elena hate and ship wars bc they SEers took it as ‘confirmation’ that stelena was REALLY meant to be endgame and it was all just a hot fucking mess

another thing is that, while tvd was in its prime before the anti/purity culture shit started picking up any real steam, there was still this pervasive attitude throughout the fandom that if you liked Damon, you were A Bad Person. liking damon was apparently grounds for insults and harassment, and apparently he was The Worst Person on the Show even though literally nothing he does on screen is any worse than shit we know stefan has done (and frankly every other vampire too, but i mention stefan specifically because he was always held up--in the show but especially in the fandom--as the Good Brother while damon was the Bad One, and if you liked damon more then that had to mean your morals were dodgy and you clearly couldn’t appreciate what a heroic and saintly figure dear stefan was and....oops, i’m sorry, my salt keeps leaking -cough-).

meanwhile klaus quickly became a fandom darling despite not even really having much of a redemption arc (on tvd anyway, he just became more ‘affably evil’ as the show went on and more inclined to work with the main characters rather than try to kill them; i have no idea what went on over on his show, though), and like i can 100% appreciate liking villains and not caring that they do dodgy villainous shit, even just liking them bc they’re hot and wanting them to kiss a main character bc they have insanely good chemistry (yes i ship klaroline, no i won’t apologize for it, they could have been Really Great), it’s just really the double standard that gets me.

and all of this, incidentally, required ignoring some truly gross shit stefan was responsible for wrt his relationship with elena, that frankly it has always bothered me never really got addressed in the show. i get why elena herself would never be able to actually call him on it, but the fact is that he stalked her for months after he first saw her and thought she was katherine (meanwhile it only took damon .5 seconds to realize she was someone else entirely, but that’s another topic entirely), and then he deliberately inserted himself into her life because, in his words, ‘i have to know her’. he never gave a thought to how his presence in her life might affect her (or rather, he did, and tormented himself about it in his internal monologue, but never let this actually dissuade him from disrupting her life), and elena would wind up blaming herself for every tragedy that befell her friends and loved ones as a result of getting mixed up in vampire bullshit even though none of it was her fault--she literally blamed herself for existing but most of the fandom didn’t give a fuck about that lmfao--and stefan did shit like find out that she was adopted and then withhold this information from her until she got pissed about another secret he was keeping (her resemblence to katherine) and drop it on her to try and distract her from her very reasonable anger, and like... i should stop before this becomes a whole rant about how much i hate stefan fucking salvatore, but the point is, he did a lot of really sketchy shit he never answered for and elena never really took him to task for, and the fandom just kept eating up his insistence that he was the Good Brother and therefore he deserved to have elena, and if she didn’t want him anymore it was because she was a heinous bitch who didn’t deserve him.

uh.....i think i got off track there. and there’s probably a lot of shit i missed, like i think i was incandescent with rage for most of seasons 5 and 6 so i missed a lot of the interfandom shit cause i was too busy being increasingly pissed off at the show itself, but if nothing else this should give you an idea of how much of a goddamn cesspit the fandom was while the show as in its prime. there’s a reason both the show and the fandom have such a lousy reputation lmfao.

[kmze]

Do you think Stefan letting Caroline in Bonnie's head so easily despite knowing the risk was intentional?He went out of his way to keep her safe for 3 years,wasn't interested in getting involved in the huntress business again although didn't leave her side when she asked him to,tried some explaining when she got marked then jammed her with vervain needle & took off with her.Stefan was so crazy.What if it was his idea to run off with her all along so he could woo her and weasel his way back into her heart?

Okay so there's this great gifset that I think does a great job of illustrating why Stefan would believe Caroline could get through to Bonnie, because she was always the one who got through to him. She was his sober sponsor and got him to the point he called himself a reformed ripper, then she was the one who stopped him from killing Damon when the phoenix stone was messing with his mind. So I think Stefan believed Caroline could get through to Bonnie because of who she is and her strong will. I don't think he had any idea Bonnie would be able to mark people inside her mind. The rest of what you pointed out he did because he loves her, he vervained her because he wasn't going to let her risk her life trying to save Bonnie who could have woken up at any moment and killed her. That was all his motivation was about Caroline is the love of his life and he cares more about her life than he cares about what she thinks of him. He definitely knew he could use their close proximity to weasel his way back into her heart for sure but I don't think that was his intention from the jump. He trusted her when she thought she could get through to Bonnie and he loves her so he went to extremes to protect.

[scienter]

Writers' tendency of flanderizing elements in order to manufacture conflict is one of the worst things that could happen to a character.It's like you said instead of allowing Caroline to overcome her flaws,her flaws were made to look "cute and endearing" for melodrama. Similarly,Stefan was never allowed to learn and grow out of the toxic patterns of his relationship with Damon.He fell back onto his unhealthy habit repeatedly & this was sold to the audience as brotherly love.The head writer believed stefan's true happiness lay in his acts of self-sacrifice made in service of his brother.But that's not remotely beautiful.That's self-destructive.And it did ultimately destroy him.Were they raising him like a pig for slaughter?

I agree, anon. In fact, I think Flanderization is the first sign of Seasonal Rot. Doesn’t matter what show it occurs – The Simpsons, TVD, Friends, Gilmore Girls, The Office – Flanderization is when the audience starts to notice a decline in quality.

And Stefan's martyrdom was tiring by season 4. It was unacceptable by season 7. The whole point of a character arc is character development. In that measure, the writers failed miserably. Stefan never grew beyond 1x20:

Elena: How you feelin'? Damon says you need to drink that. You need it, Stefan. Can't survive without it. Stefan: I don't want to survive. Elena: What? Don't say that. Stefan: I'm sorry, Elena. No more. After what I've done, it has to end. I just want it over.

Stefan: It hurts me. It hurts me, knowing what I've done, and that pain...That pain is with me all the time. And every day, I think that if I just...If I just give myself over to the blood, I can make that pain stop. It would be that easy, and every day, I fight that. And I am so terrified that one day, I'm not gonna want to fight that anymore, Elena. And the next time I hurt somebody...It could be you.

What was the point of Stefan's story? He never dealt with his issues. He never moved past them. He never grew as a character. So, what was the point?

[bridgertonsiconss]

🧛🏻 The Vampire Diaries 🧛🏻‍♀️

🎬 1x01 🎬

[icebluecyanide]

Klefan early morning

Set in the Chicago days in the 1920s, it’s a cold December morning when Klaus and Stefan leave the speakeasy and share a cigarette as they watch the sun come up. It’s three years to the day since he and Rebekah left New Orleans and the memory of it all is making Klaus rather contemplative and Klaus and Stefan share a moment actually almost talking about real stuff instead of having their usual fun killing people etc. A quiet kind of fic, where it’s mostly just them having a conversation (even if much goes unsaid).

Some snippets:

It’s so late at night that it’s already early, the first rays of light filtering past the houses, casting long shadows on the street. “I’ve always liked the sunrise,” he confides. “Hm,” Stefan says, taking a drag from his cigarette. “Dawn is quieter,” Klaus muses softly. “A fresh start of a new day. The world always looks different in the light of morning.” Stefan gives him a lopsided smile. “If I knew you’d get this melancholic when you’re drunk I would have suggested we find someone to play with much sooner.” Klaus scoffs. “I’m hardly drunk.” He really isn’t. It’s just that the early morning reminds him of other days, so long ago, when he used to wake up surrounded by the warmth of his siblings as they slept, all of them close together to stave off the cold outside. There had been frost outside the day Henrik was born too.

***

“You have a brother?” Stefan nods slowly. “Damon,” he says. “He’s a vampire like you?” “Not like me,” Stefan says. “But a vampire, yes.” “Is he one of the boring ones who feel bad over every single kill?” Stefan laughs. “No, but Damon doesn’t like the way I kill people. Not like you do.” There’s an edge to his voice, a carefully constructed carelessness, hiding true hurt. Klaus would know. He’s used it himself. “He rejected you,” he states more than guesses, and Stefan shrugs. “Damon doesn’t want to see me anymore,” he just says. “His loss.”

[janiedean]

Tyrion Lannister and Stefan Salvatore killing their abusive fathers was an excellent choice and I'm so proud of these boys for doing it. We stan

me too anon me too they’re icons for that and we stan 100% they should meet and have drinks about it

[hellsbellschime]

it's actually also interesting to me that while stefan is probably the second most popular, well-known character he's actually very hated? i mean its obviously because de is by far the most famous ship but for such a mainstream character he gets an astounding amount of hate

Yeah people just hate him because of Damon, which is dumb because he’s perfectly boring and lame in his own right.