Again, it’s important to me to keep the story is something that could be reality. And in some form of reality, I have to actually deal with the Salvatores because Elena’s not going to brush them out of her life at the drop of a hat, and they wouldn’t just go if she did, certainly not yet. (Which is actually what I’m struggling with to get going on the next one, I don’t want Damon showing up until the next day, but how do I keep him away? Stefan is probably less of an issue depending on what I have Damon doing so I need to get that straightened out in my head first.) Elena has to decide ‘on her own’ to see that she’s better off without them at least as romantic partners, if I write them too obviously awful (I see most of their behavior as awful, but we’re in Elena’s head not mine) it would be too abrupt.
The stuff with the blood really amused me to write; it was like the clearest Damon characterization I had, him whining about not being able to go out and kill people.
I’m still waiting for TO to give us some way to pieces together the fairly contradictory ideas it presents about Elijah’s attitude towards the family; I’m able to put together a reasonable headcanon that holds through TVD (well, until about 4x19), but TO backstory confuses the hell out of me. Supposedly family is so very important to him, but apparently never really cares when Klaus daggers their other siblings (I eventually decided I could let the Finn issue slide, but Kol? *Maybe* for a year or two time out when Kol became too much to handle, but as standard existence I don’t buy it. And *Rebekah*? Just no.) I’ll gladly buy that he has a lot of ~feelings~ where Klaus is concerned that make him willing to put up with a lot of Klaus’s shit, but there comes a point where the motivations were told about become contradictory.
And yeah, if I’d been writing it Elijah would have had a lot more reaction to Kol’s death too; I pretty much admitted after Kol died that reasonably my ship was, if not damaged beyond repair, at least damaged to point of needing some serious repair. But then, if I was writing it most things in s4 would be different from canon, so by that point I was less invested in how things should be than I was in s3. Plus, although it totally contradicts what I thought would make sense (and I really wanted to see Elena and Elijah actually have to work for their...whatever one should call their relationship), I REALLY loved the E/E stuff in 4x18; it’s basically the only part of s4 I’ve bothered to rewatch.
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Date: 2013-10-28 08:21 pm (UTC)The stuff with the blood really amused me to write; it was like the clearest Damon characterization I had, him whining about not being able to go out and kill people.
I’m still waiting for TO to give us some way to pieces together the fairly contradictory ideas it presents about Elijah’s attitude towards the family; I’m able to put together a reasonable headcanon that holds through TVD (well, until about 4x19), but TO backstory confuses the hell out of me. Supposedly family is so very important to him, but apparently never really cares when Klaus daggers their other siblings (I eventually decided I could let the Finn issue slide, but Kol? *Maybe* for a year or two time out when Kol became too much to handle, but as standard existence I don’t buy it. And *Rebekah*? Just no.) I’ll gladly buy that he has a lot of ~feelings~ where Klaus is concerned that make him willing to put up with a lot of Klaus’s shit, but there comes a point where the motivations were told about become contradictory.
And yeah, if I’d been writing it Elijah would have had a lot more reaction to Kol’s death too; I pretty much admitted after Kol died that reasonably my ship was, if not damaged beyond repair, at least damaged to point of needing some serious repair. But then, if I was writing it most things in s4 would be different from canon, so by that point I was less invested in how things should be than I was in s3. Plus, although it totally contradicts what I thought would make sense (and I really wanted to see Elena and Elijah actually have to work for their...whatever one should call their relationship), I REALLY loved the E/E stuff in 4x18; it’s basically the only part of s4 I’ve bothered to rewatch.