Fanmix: The Vampire Diaries - Caroline/Bonnie - I Died So I Could Haunt You

[opheliahyde]

Medium: TV
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Subject: Caroline/Bonnie
Title: I Died So I Could Haunt You
Warnings: Possible spoilers for the show.
Notes: Made for familiardevil and streussal for my fanmix meme. Since they both wanted this pairing, I combined them and doubled the amount of songs originally promised. familiardevil wanted Bonnie music and my brain went to a Bonnie/Caroline

Comments

[streussal]

AAAAAAAAAAAAH, this is so great. And they're a relatively happy ship to me too, it's just. This stuff! That the show barely resolved! Bonnie and Caroline helped rescue Stefan from a well, NO NEED TO FOCUS ON THEM ANYMORE! I headcanon that they hung out after that and worked their stuff out. ...I remember how I wanted Bonnie and Caroline to hang out, and Tyler and Jeremy to continue the bonding that they started in the first few episodes of the season. INSTEAD THEY SWITCHED PARTNERS. What the hell show. Just what we need, more love triangles.

(It's also kind of weird that no one in show has commented on Jeremy's thing for older women. And Tyler has a thing for women connected to his best friend - where's the Caroline/Matt/Tyler fic? I'm neutral on Bonnie and Caroline's boyfriends, but really.)

Now I'm listening to the first song and it's making me sad. (Don't try to call you'll lose it all ...It's just bad news.) And holy cow Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is a mouthful of a band name, isn't it? Also these songs flow together really well.

They’ve always had each other, it’s probably the one constant in their lives and what sets them apart from Elena. Elena had Matt, Elena had her parents, Elena had Jeremy, while Bonnie and Caroline are both only children with one parent who left and the other parent who’s a workaholic. They grew up sort of stuck together and bonded by common circumstances. They went to dances together when Elena went with Matt and Bonnie would spend the night at Caroline’s house and vice versa when their houses became too empty and they felt too alone.

YES YES YES ...I feel like I've said yes to this paragraph before, but I can say yes again, damnit. They both have this children of divorce thing. God, even with two dead parens, the Gilberst still have a way more supportive background than the other characters on the show. (Matt, Vicky, Tyler...) Remember that scene in "Miss Mystic Falls" where Jenna was helping Elena get ready for the pageant, while Caroline was just sitting by herself, watching them in the mirror? MY HEART.

It sometimes strikes me how difficult it is to talk about Bonnie's feelings regarding Elena without making it sound like she's head over heels in love. (I mean. This scene.) But I still vastly prefer Bonnie/Caroline. It just seems so much more balanced. Elena loves them a lot. But she's just full of so much love, for a lot of people. Bonnie/Elena just seems so wistful to me, even if they did get together. (But then Elena is pretty good at this partnership business with Stefan, so maybe not?) And when I think of Bonnie/Elena, I feel like Caroline would be jealous. Her two best friends are attracted to girls, so OF COURSE they got with each other and never even considered her. TYPICAL. (This might be more 1st season Caroline, but there's still some LOVE ME LOVE ME in her.) Elena, on the other hand, would just be happy for them! (BUT WHO WOULD THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP ISSUES TO oh wait, Stefan. Or at least Caroline would. Bonnie would maybe talk to Elena.)

And Bonnie and Caroline both get this lack of attention issue better. Bonnie didn't have the same self-esteem issues Caroline did last season, but she needs the people close to her to pay attention. (Which was their hurdle last season - but Caroline's gotten better at it this season!)

This is such a rambly comment idek maybe I should go to bed. LOVE.

[opheliahyde]

First of all, THAT GIF! I keep getting caught staring at it and losing my train of thought. It's so wonderful. Go to moar dances together, Caroline and Bonnie! :D

Yes, THAT! They're happy and compatible mostly to me, but show didn't resolve these very serious issues! This is why I'm so resentful of the tone the show's taken this season, this ~BIGGER AND BADDER~ tone that drives me nuts. You were so good before show! When you focused on friendships and characters and let that drive your plot, now it's originals and end of the world stakes (even though I love Elijah and I do, I would trade him in for the S1 feel back). And yes, this show has become the love triangle show /o\

(I know, right? And I think someone wrote some Caroline/Matt/Tyler fic, but I don't remember who and it was focused around Caroline, which seems odd to me because Tyler keeps dating (or hooking up with) women connected to Matt for some reason.)

The whole mix is kind of sad, but I tried to turn it around in the end and give it a hopeful tone and I'm glad they flow together well! *is obsessed with song order*

You have, BUT I AM GLAD TO HEAR IT AGAIN. And yeah, that. I honestly hate the idea of people saying that Miranda and Grayson were secretly horrible people because so far, they're honestly the only good example of parenting we have on the show (and they're dead, so clearly no one in Mystic Falls can have good things). I get all defensive over them because I have all sorts of head canon. But yeah, they're one the few characters with a good, supportive background whereas everyone else kind of has a broken home. And oh, god, THAT SCENE. MY HEART. Oh, Caroline. I just wanted to snuggle her forever.

I agree completely, but I feel like that's just Bonnie? She gets so intense over girls. There's a similar scary reaction when Caroline's turned and there's her begging Lucy to stay, despite just having met her. And yes, it's much more balanced simply because I see them on equal footing in terms of everything in their lives? They're the support system with missing parents and the one at home being a workaholic, they're not the people everything revolves around. You're right when you say Caroline would be jealous! (Oh, she still has it in her. I honestly wish they'd show more of her S1 traits because those just don't disappear, especially when they're supposed to be amplified. I don't like the idea that vampirism just gives you insta-confidence.)

Yes, THAAAAAAT. I just think they need each other because they get each other on a level most people don't. Like, in S1 people wouldn't get Caroline's lack of thought before speaking, but Bonnie's so patient with her and Caroline accepts her witch-yness after she lets go of the jealously that Elena and Bonnie have been leaving her out of the equation.

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