#its almost 2k words which is a lot but its v important !!!

[warriorhearte]

A LONG, OVERDUE BUT VERY NECESSARY CANON-DIVERGENCE POST

hi, hello, welcome. this is kinda important but i’m not saying you should definitely read this post. ( i am, but. ) anyway, yeah. this is overdue because canon hasn’t sat right with me since well, it’s been canon, more specifically season three because even though season one ( not so much, i’d give it a solid 8/10 but julie plec was involved and she fucks everything up so you know ) and season two still sucked, they compare nothing to how shitty cami was treated in season three. now i’m not here to bash plec, which is a lie because she seriously should not be writing characters when her characterisation changes give me fucking whiplash. i wouldn’t say i hated season three, it just makes me want to gauge out my eyeballs and throw them the fuck away. primarily, it’s the latter half of the season and the whole vampire thing. SIDE NOTE: this blog is now human!cami based, purely because i prefer her in that way. i’m not opposed to writing her as a vampire and i have said that i enjoy it in the past but i’m essentially going to be more selective when it comes to who i write that with as things are going to have to be plotted out in slightly more detail than i would usually go in to. and honestly, it’s just a preference. i already have a post dedicated to the divergences within cami’s vampirism, however i am going to be rewriting it here as well as completely, thoroughly, entirely changing her actual transition because reasons, i guess.

the rest of this is gonna be under read more because even though i don’t know how much i’m gonna write as of now, it’s gonna be a lot. my apologies in advance. update, this got really fucking long.

TRANSITION

uh, so i’m sure we know how cami’s transition went down. kidnapped by aurora, compelled to drink her blood when she knows klaus is in love with her, die on his bed blah blah blah. i’m probably not the only one aware that this is very ship-oriented. and hey, i won’t complain. i am the first person to say i ship the thing because i do but i don’t want that for my portrayal. ( i might not have found this so unappealing if they’d perhaps gone about the whole deal in a more realistic way such as cami, you know, hating herself because she never wanted vampirism, and perhaps having some support to lean on, maybe in the figure of klaus seeing as she trusts him. but no, they snatched any hope away for that when they turned her in to an arrogant bitch for no good reason at all. ) i’m not bitter, at all. so, wipe that clean. simply, it didn’t happen. okay? okay. there was no dying on a bed after a supposed declaration of love because for one, that doesn’t make much sense given she had to physically get up off the bed to find a knife? then lay back down? and finally slit her own throat? all the while klaus is laying there peacefully asleep with no awareness to what is going on with the movements that should be able to wake him given the fact he is a fucking hybrid with enhanced fucking hearing? anyway, back to the important stuff and so the key areas that stay the same / desperately need changing.  

OVERVIEW: cami was still turned using aurora’s blood, therefore she was still kidnapped by aurora. she is not compelled to drink aurora’s blood and then slit her throat the moment she knows that klaus is in love with her. instead, she is compelled to drink aurora’s blood and slit her own throat the day after christmas day, so the 26th of december. i am assuming aurora would be smart enough to know that she would have spent christmas with the mikaelson family. this, i believe makes it much harder for any sort of happiness. and i believe it makes it much harder for cami to deal with. ( which i also assume is something that may have been wanted on aurora’s part given the jealously that was shown canonically - shone through multiples times - especially with the original kidnap of cami. ) when she wakes up at the mikaelson home on the 26th, she leaves immediately through effects of the compulsion to then drink aurora’s blood and then slit her throat when she arrives back at her apartment. she doesn’t cry out, but she does feel every excruciating moment as she bleeds out alone on her kitchen floor. once she wakes up, she remembers everything. she remembers every moment. the moment she was compelled by aurora, the moment she woke up in the morning with the plan to do this ingrained in her mind. originally, she’s upset which would be expected. she’s died, and has no idea what to do and so the first person she goes to is klaus. he’s been a vampire and rightfully, she knows that no matter his methods, he is the best person that she could go to. so she does, and everything from that point onwards follows the events of canon. EXCEPT THE FACT SHE WAS TRAPPED IN THAT MAGIC CONTAINMENT THING BECAUSE I DON’T AGREE WITH IT AND I NEVER HAVE. WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. but she does remain there in hopes of changing his mind on her stance and she does see freya, and blah blah blah. she does still drink vincent’s blood in order for the transition to be complete. he is the one that does convince her to become a vampire, nobody else has any input when it comes to that. obviously, her original approach to vampirism was to do something good with it and vincent was the one to push her in to doing so ( without him, she would be very much dead. )

COMPULSION

simply, it’s very very very ( a lot of stress on every very ) rare. ( obviously this is something subject to change in various verses as in some that i already have, she is perfectly okay with compelling a person. ) the fact that we saw her compel literally right after turning on the show is complete bullshit. B U L L S H I T. why? well, when cami first arrived in new orleans or in the first season of the show, she endured a large enough amount of time being compelled by klaus. during that time and in the period after, there was a lot of anger, and the treatment she endured was not fair. her own free will was taken from her, and this was something argued against quite heavily. we also saw how much pain she actually went through to get rid of the compulsion’s effect on her. it’s also noted how much she hated other vampires compelling humans, for example: when lucien castle compelled will kinney to think of himself as nothing. cami considered will a friend, and therefore, compulsion is not something that cami actively participates in. it removes free will from an innocent human, which is exactly what was done to her with no appreciation for it. as well as this, it also gave her the belief that she was losing her mind / going insane and that is not something she would want anyone else to go through, let alone it be through her own actions.

FEEDING

cami doesn’t drink from the vein. she drinks from blood bags only ( as with compulsion, this is subject to change with regards to some verses. ) she didn’t particularly want this life, so she doesn’t want to participate in anything that could harm someone else in a way that she may have intentionally been harmed before turning in to a vampire. it also stems from her desire to protect the human population, because whilst she does know that there are others around her that do exactly as a vampire would, she doesn’t want to be one of those people. her whole intent with this immortal life is to do something good with it. that’s all that she really wants and if she can survive without hurting anybody, then that’s a very large bonus. and she doesn’t really find the whole process of feeding appealing. in short, she didn’t ask to be a vampire so she doesn’t want to actively seek out parts of their life such as this. 

AURORA DE MARTEL

obviously with vampirism comes heightened emotion. now of course there are heightened feelings towards several people in her life, but none more so than aurora. aurora killed her and for that she  h a t e s  her and cami doesn’t really hate anyone. ( small note: cami’s opinion on aurora doesn’t reflect mine personally. i would let aurora de martel shoot me, so. ) as mentioned, she likes to train herself with vincent when she has time to spare which does actually help with any anger she feels. because it does, it has become quite a regular thing for her to do as it is beneficial in terms of frustration. as much as she would like to pretend that it is only based on the anger that she feels towards her, there is definitely an underlying sense of fear in case she was to ever come back. of course she does trust that she is locked someplace away but she does want to have some capability of defending herself this time if aurora was to ever return and attempt to kill her again. in her heart, she knows she would lose but it does allow her the smallest of comfort if she can throw a decent punch. therefore it’s punching bags and boxing rings to somewhat escape the torment of knowing she is still alive.

VAMPIRE STRENGTHS

she does actually use these. shocker! i know. obviously there are some benefits to her using them such as everyday tasks aren’t as difficult ( not that they really were anyway ) but you know, heavier boxes at the bar are pretty easy for her to lift etc. etc. they’re part of her daily life and for that reason she doesn’t really notice them too much. she’ll often by utilising them in the gym marcel created for vampires, punching a couple bags with vincent to release pent up anger towards aurora.

MUN NOTE

hi, this got long. i’m sorry.