I don’t know about anyone else, but I find Elijah/Katherine difficult to deal with.
I know what you mean. My feeling on it is that it's just so very complicated, it's difficult to get across. Because in a way Katherine is to Elijah as Elena is to the Salvatore brothers - she's the first doppelganger, he was kind of bowled over just by looking at her. But they were never together; Klaus courted her, not Elijah, and they didn't have much time with each other. But then he clearly had feelings for her. So... complicated.
It's like, I don't want to just *ignore* Elijah/Katherine, because it clearly did get to Elijah but I'm never sure what to do with it. Yeah, a lot of it had to do with her being the first doppelganger he encountered, and it throws him for a loop because 500 years later and they're back in the Tatia drama except not really because they're mainly just using her.
It's kind of why in my headcanon Klaus killed Tatia early on, *his* Tatia issues died with her, where Elijah's were there for Katherine to mess with, but that ended his doppelganger drama. So when Elena comes along he's more guarded against letting doppelganger issues be an actual issue, only to have her get to him in new and different ways by being Elena.
Ooh, interesting theory. I wonder if from Klaus's point of view, he loved Tatia, and the others could only be poor copies. He only saw them in terms of their usefulness in breaking the curse, whereas Elijah wasn't obsessed with breaking the curse in the same way. So not only did he see a girl who looked exactly like Tatia, he also saw beyond that to the person behind the face.
I'm sure Klaus's reasons did include relevance to breaking the curse. He had a goal,, and if he enjoyed playing with Katerina while he waited for it to happen that was all it was. I guess it's mainly that we see some chinks in Elijah's armor when it comes to Kat that we don't in Klaus's, meaning the 1492 flashback, neither of them is very chinked in modern day when it comes to her.
I also have tried to make my theory work with the idea that there are supposedly other doppelgangers out there (2x03 Isobel's assistant talks about it as if it's a thing that's not just in the Petrovas), So I have an idea that doppelgangers are somehow tied in with werewolves and the fact that werewolves have to kill someone to activate that side of them. As such I've tied Tatia's death in with Klaus's werewolf side in that notion, the fact that it's also tied in with Esther's spell to create the vampires makes it even more complicated.
Yeah, I may have tried a little too hard to make this show's mythology fit together, it really never completely does
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I find Elijah/Katherine difficult to deal with.
I know what you mean. My feeling on it is that it's just so very complicated, it's difficult to get across. Because in a way Katherine is to Elijah as Elena is to the Salvatore brothers - she's the first doppelganger, he was kind of bowled over just by looking at her. But they were never together; Klaus courted her, not Elijah, and they didn't have much time with each other. But then he clearly had feelings for her. So... complicated.
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It's like, I don't want to just *ignore* Elijah/Katherine, because it clearly did get to Elijah but I'm never sure what to do with it. Yeah, a lot of it had to do with her being the first doppelganger he encountered, and it throws him for a loop because 500 years later and they're back in the Tatia drama except not really because they're mainly just using her.
It's kind of why in my headcanon Klaus killed Tatia early on, *his* Tatia issues died with her, where Elijah's were there for Katherine to mess with, but that ended his doppelganger drama. So when Elena comes along he's more guarded against letting doppelganger issues be an actual issue, only to have her get to him in new and different ways by being Elena.
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I also have tried to make my theory work with the idea that there are supposedly other doppelgangers out there (2x03 Isobel's assistant talks about it as if it's a thing that's not just in the Petrovas), So I have an idea that doppelgangers are somehow tied in with werewolves and the fact that werewolves have to kill someone to activate that side of them. As such I've tied Tatia's death in with Klaus's werewolf side in that notion, the fact that it's also tied in with Esther's spell to create the vampires makes it even more complicated.
Yeah, I may have tried a little too hard to make this show's mythology fit together, it really never completely does
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