I LOVE your theory that Bonnie did this more because she wanted the POWER to save someone than because she wanted to be Elena's hero.
Thank you. I am so uncomfortable with the readings that (a) Bonnie is motivated purely by her love for Elena (b) she is just a purely heroic in the most altruistic sense of the word character - although both of these things are part of what drives her? But there is just so much more to this girl who saw her dead grandmother on a bed and knew that the reason the most important person in her life was dead was because SHE asked her to do a big spell, and SHE wasn't powerful enough to take the brunt. And I think that we see Bonnie building up her walls and her ideas about what power means (it means not getting hurt, not letting the people around you get hurt, it means not being weak, it means answering the call even if you have to pay the price with your life, it means making decisions about who gets to die or people's bodily autonomy to save the people you care about etc. etc. etc.).
I LOVE your theory that Bonnie did this more because she wanted the POWER to save someone than because she wanted to be Elena's hero.
Thank you. I am so uncomfortable with the readings that (a) Bonnie is motivated purely by her love for Elena (b) she is just a purely heroic in the most altruistic sense of the word character - although both of these things are part of what drives her? But there is just so much more to this girl who saw her dead grandmother on a bed and knew that the reason the most important person in her life was dead was because SHE asked her to do a big spell, and SHE wasn't powerful enough to take the brunt. And I think that we see Bonnie building up her walls and her ideas about what power means (it means not getting hurt, not letting the people around you get hurt, it means not being weak, it means answering the call even if you have to pay the price with your life, it means making decisions about who gets to die or people's bodily autonomy to save the people you care about etc. etc. etc.).
I just love this girl so much.
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