r/TheVampireDiaries

1. are we not gonna talk about how the scene of the Salvatore brothers torturing Elena is so dv enabling and also femicide encouragement?

2. why the fuck does every single female character dreams is to just get married and have kids? Implying that is how women lives should be?

3. Katherine was dragged to hell after tragic death for her horrible actions that she done as 100% part of survival while Klaus who slaughtered thousands, tortured Caroline, make Stefan turn off his humanity and Damon killing people for fun without the switch off, abuser, rapist got good endings.

4. Damon using Caroline and Andie Starr as literal sex toys

5. and also Elena's sire bond over Damon made me wanna vomit tbh when I think about it now🤮🤮

Ok so I made a post a few days ago about vampire blood not healing cancer and I get it. The cells and all that - Its fine, its logical, vampire blood cant heal cancer when given to a LIVE HUMAN BEING. The cancer patient Caroline fed her blood died within hours bc the blood made the cancer spread faster. And so he turned into a vampire. Its fine, its logical.

BUT THEN… He still got cancer after he turned!!! Jesus fn christ, how is this even logical? YOU ARE DEAD MATE. The only reason you’re still breathing is because of MAGIC and we’ve never seen a sick vampire throughout 6 seasons. So how?? Why?? How the fk no one ever heard of that? I feel they only wanted a reason to off Carols mom and make it dramatic but there were so many ways to do that without this whole unlogical twist.

Julie Plec should be arrested. I rest my case.

I LOVED The Vampire Diaries in the early 2010s. Like, I was fully invested in this show, so I genuinely don’t understand how I’ve managed to wipe SO much of the plot from my memory 😂 I’m rewatching it for the first time in YEARS and I’ve forgotten so much that it almost feels like I’m watching it for the first time again, which honestly I love because it’s such a fun experience.

I’m only in the first two seasons and I am CRACKING UP because honestly… Alaric has no business being here.

He is purely just hanging out in The Vampire Diaries, taking part in supernatural dealings for the love of the game at this point. Dude does not have magic. He is not a vampire. He is just a man who showed up in Mystic Falls and decided, “Yeah, I guess I’m fighting supernatural beings now.” Lmao

His ex-wife cheated on him, left him, became a vampire, and somehow his response was to move to the town where her biological daughters live (yes he was looking for Isabel) a daughter he has no relationship with and take it upon himself to protect them AND get involved in protecting the entire town from supernatural chaos.

Like… SIR. 😂

Honestly, Jeremy and Elena both kind of have no business being there either. And YES, I KNOW they tie us to the show. I know they’re the main family, I know Elena is the doppelgänger, I know about the Petrova and Gilbert family connections, etc. I KNOW.

But watching this back as an adult, I’m constantly thinking: these supernatural beings would probably be doing just fine if these high school kids weren’t constantly tagging along on their adventures.

Elena and Jeremy are literally mortal. They do not need to keep getting dragged into every single supernatural situation happening around town! Lol

Obviously we love Elena and Jeremy, but it is SO funny watching the show back now and realizing how often the teenagers are just casually inserting themselves into situations involving vampires, witches, werewolves and whatever else is happening in Mystic Falls.

Like at some point I’m just thinking, can’t one of these vampires compel them and move forward with the supernatural business happening around town??? 😂

And Tyler is just there and making me laugh because for YEARS in my memory I swear he became a werewolf around season 1-ish. But NOPE. 😂 I’m watching season 1 thinking, Okay, Tyler is definitely already a werewolf by now, and then realizing… nope, that was apparently season 2. This dude is just bopping around Mystic Falls, being vaguely involved in all the chaos and almost feeling like he’s already part of the supernatural storyline when he really isn’t yet.

I also could’ve sworn Tyler was in way more of season 1, but apparently I completely made that up in my head because watching it back, I’m like, “Wait… wasn’t he around WAY more??”

PLEASE NO SPOILERS I genuinely don’t remember a lot of what happens later (obviously I remember the big things), so I’m trying to experience it all over again!

Hii guys !

so i just started watching The vampire diaries with my family, Im in E10 S1 its cool but it's too long so do u think it deserves? 🧸

That question randomly came into my mind while watching tvd.
I mean, technically a vampire is dead, right? And on a dead body the hair stops growing. On the other side, vampires also heal super fast while dead bodies don’t. So what do y’all think?? Does a vampires hair still grow? Do they ‘have to’ shave??

I (29M) live across the street from these two brothers, Damon and Stefan Salvatore. They’re both extremely wealthy and honestly seemed pretty normal at first

But I’m starting to think something is seriously wrong over there.

There are CONSTANT parties at their house. Loud music, shouting, people coming and going at all hours, and sometimes I hear what sounds like fighting.

And Sheriff Forbes is ALWAYS over there. Like genuinely what’s going on ?

Then there’s the girl situation.

I keep seeing this brunette girl with curly hair leaving the house. She'll leave, and then a few minutes later, another girl who looks almost exactly like her will come out.

I genuinely thought the first girl was Elena, and because I’ve seen her around town before, I assumed she only had a brother But now I’m starting to wonder if she has a secret twin sister.

At this point, I’m considering knocking on their door and asking what the hell is going on.

My friends say I should mind my business because it's technically none of my concern.

AITA for being suspicious of my neighbors, or would you also be concerned?

This is my first time watching TVD, and I'm sorry, but I'm disappointed. I think I was expecting something more lighthearted and romantic, only to find something very violent instead.

Okay, you’re probably going to think I’m exaggerating—I’m sure of it—but let me explain:

-Obviously, I was expecting a romanticized portrayal of sexual assault or abuse by men, since that was pretty common back then (especially in vampire stories, I think). But still, right from the start of Season 1, Damon abuses Caroline so badly—and I’ll admit, I’m totally smitten with her—so that bothered me even more. I personally identify with her, so it really broke my heart to see the other characters’ almost total indifference to it.

-So, as a result, I have a really hard time standing Damon; I find him violent, scary, and therefore not attractive at all. Especially since Elena is 17, and it’s super creepy that these two guys show up and fall madly in love with her (by the way, the actor who plays Damon looks old—how old is he? IDK). So Delena isn’t my cup of tea.

-I liked Stefan, the moral vampire, who tries to hold onto his humanity until he shows what he’s like without it—sorry, but that’s TERRIFYING. Okay, there’s something cool about the characters being nuanced—that’s good. But there needs to be a certain LIMIT. Or maybe if the characters talked more about these moral dilemmas.

-Another thing I don't like is the fact that the world literally revolves around the main characters—yes, that's normal since they're the main characters—but it really feels like the other humans around them (and supernatural beings, too) are idiots, devoid of meaning, purpose, or reason for existing, AND that the world is limited to Mystic Falls. Add to that the creatures and rules of the universe that are arbitrarily thrown in season after season… not great.

-Finally, the “characters within characters”—the ones who pretend to be someone else—stop it! It’s the same old PLOTS over and over again; it’s just infuriating. The characters are constantly acting like someone else, even when they aren’t possessed: the loss of humanity (whose rules and limits I still don’t fully understand), their reactions to events, the way they act, their feelings. Nothing seems very logical to me; I have a hard time keeping track of the relationships.

-And something that bothered me more at the beginning than it does now (I’m currently on season 6!). It’s that Elena is WAY too adored by her friends and everyone else around her, in general, for that matter. It seems like everyone wants to sacrifice themselves for her all the time, as if everyone else’s lives are constantly less important than hers. And honestly, at first she’s cute, but she’s not that extraordinary, and then she quickly becomes pretty immoral, so…

What do you think? Do you think I’m overreacting?

So, the Travelers are cursed after the fallout of Qetsiyah's immortality spell.

The Travelers' Curse was designed to weaken her coven permanently and ensure they could never again threaten the natural order. It enforced two restrictions:

• The curse permanently cut the Travelers off from Nature, preventing them from ever drawing power from the Earth. This stripped them of their ability to practice Traditional Magic, which was their preferred and most powerful form of witchcraft.
• To prevent them from uniting as a powerful force, the curse ensured that Nature would actively turn against them if they ever attempted to settle down or gather together in groups. Any attempt to congregate as a tribe or establish a permanent home would trigger immediate, localized natural disasters, such as earthquakes, plagues, hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes.

The Travelers would later discover a loophole in their curse. While they couldn't settle down or practice collective magic within their own physical bodies, the curse didn't restrict them from gathering if they inhabited the bodies of others. This led to the invention of Passenger spells, which allowed them to bypass the curse entirely by placing their spirits inside the bodies of non-Traveler hosts.

The Travelers also developed a spell that allowed a Passenger to permanently seize control of their host's body.

So why did the Travelers choose to remain in their cursed bodies for 2,000 years? Their ultimate goal was to break the ancient curse placed on their coven by conventional witches, but they had already found a way to circumvent it altogether since they could simply body-jump into humans and practice magic freely. So that problem was solved.

And with that problem solved, they could've cast the anti-magic barrier at any point during the last 2,000 years. The anti-magic unification spell required the blood of the last two doppelgängers, meaning only those two doppelgängers could exist, and Silas and Amara had to be dead.

In the 5th century A.D., the Traveler leader Markos cast a mystical spell over the doppelgänger lines spawned from Silas and Amara. This spell created a mystical attraction that drew the doppelgängers of each generation together, ensuring the Travelers would eventually be able to locate them when the time was right.

The Travelers killed Qetsiyah in retribution for the curse and stole her mystical Anchor to the Other Side (the petrified, immortal body of Amara). For over 2,000 years, they carried Amara's mummified body from place to place to keep her hidden, all while searching for Silas's location and the Cure so they could eventually destroy the original Immortals. Nadia Petrova also revealed that, because of their nomadic existence, the Travelers often survived by selling their services as mercenary witches.

We find out that the Travelers can track down both doppelgängers using a pyromancy spell to conjure visions of their targets' exact locations within the fire.

All the Travelers needed to access Silas was a Bennett witch, and there was a whole coven full of them at one point.

Meaning that, at any point in time, the Travelers could've tracked down the most current doppelgängers, held them captive, captured a young Bennett witch à la Dahlia, used Amara to track down Silas, had the Bennett witch unlock his tomb, force-fed him and Amara the Cure, and performed their anti-magic spell.

So why did the Travelers choose to remain in their cursed bodies for 2,000 years, limiting their effectiveness in completing this mission? Why allow the doppelgängers to run helter-skelter instead of locking them down when they could track them? And why wait so long to perform the anti-magic ritual?

Are they stupid?