#I LOVE VAMPIRE THRALL SHIPS OK

[coiled-dragon]

I need people who are both into BlackIce from Rise of the Guardians AND into Vampire the Masquerade so I can brainstorm this silly AU where Pitch is a Lasombra vampire who falls in lust with picks up human!Jack and makes him a ghoul because he's bored

[zalrb]

Is Damon meant to come across as a sexual predator in scenes like him threatening Bonnie & stroking her face, brushing up against Elena in her kitchen, imposing himself in Elena's sexual dream, sniffing her hair after forcing his blood down her throat, going through Elena's underwear & playing with it, blood share, crushing Elena's hand & looking pleased at her fear etc. I don't know if it's the writers intention because it also feels like they think it's "cute" or "hot" but it IS predatory.

OK. So. I sort of spoke about this with regards to Stefan because depending on the lore, vampires are supposed to be predatory in a kind of animalistic sense, Stefan explains it to Elena in 1x12, stating that they hunt, they stalk,and that’s often more thrilling than the kill and a lot of lore sexualizes that, angst and eroticism go hand in hand with vampirism so like Interview With The Vampire 

or Stefan with No Humanity

or even sort of when Dracula is in Buffy

So it’s kind of like “le petit mort” -- the little death, which is another way to describe an orgasm, like death and sex combined (although I have to stress for it’s more like an orgy of death)

so certain aspects of that is supposed to be in Damon, particularly with Caroline because like a predator, he picks the “weakest” of the herd

and I think what the show was trying to do with Elena and Damon is Damon is like the embodiment of "maturity” i.e. sexuality, danger, darkness that’s like confronting/smashing into this innocent “pure” naive schoolgirl

but there are a few problems with that, one is that the chemistry doesn’t work because Damon is supposed to be dominant because his presence is supposed to be forcing her to confront emotions she doesn’t want to deal with but Damon just looks aggressive or creepy and Elena looks uncomfortable or scared

she should look affected, if we’re being honest, she should look like Bonnie where there’s that split second of --- he got me (not a shipper, I hate them as a ship, please remember that)

but what’s actually primary is the narrative, the show didn’t actually portray what they wanted because even in season 1, with the exception of Stefan really, because it’s supposed to be his fundamental weakness, characters weren’t vampires first, Damon’s predatory nature wasn’t wrapped up in his vampirism so what they wanted was something like this

or this (even though they wanted Damon to be Eric)

but instead of Damon just sort of exuding this danger and this eroticism that puts Elena under a kind of thrall while also seeing something inside her that’s also supposed to be dangerous and dark and wild and erotic, he’s just a sexual predator and part of that is because the show wanted to make him an antagonist in season 1 around to fuck with Stefan’s head and his life and his happiness

but it’s also because they just wanted to put Ian on display and they wanted Damon to, like, nettle Elena, kind of be like this nagging thing she “just can’t shake” except they go about that by either manipulating her and putting her in purposefully uncomfortable situations, which they probably thought was rom-com-esque

but that isn’t a mishap like this

or he just breaks boundaries

because oh, Damon, boys will be boys

and he assaults her when he’s sad because he just loves her SO much so all of that that just makes him a predator --- especially when there’s a pattern of behaviour there from before he was a vampire

and the Caroline aspect stops being about vampirism when it doesn’t end with him feeding and killing her and continues to him emotionally abusing her and breaking her down

and consistently raping her

but Julie couldn’t even say that Damon raped her so basically, they tried to do a thing with Damon that didn’t work because they went about it the wrong way but they went about it that way to make him as despicable as possible so Elena could eventually redeem him, which would make for an epic storyline, except that Elena didn’t actually redeem him because they also, conversely, wanted Damon to make Elena darker except they didn’t make Elena darker because they still wanted her to be the character everyone put their lives on the line for. So basically, they wanted it to have it every way except the writing was terrible and they ended up contradicting themselves and created a sexual predator they didn’t want to call a sexual predator.