I don't love you, but I always will - a Damon/Elena shipper manifesto (part 2)

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Here goes part two! Part three will probably take me a good while to write. tvdbloodstream has a Top Ten challenge, and the ship part ends on Thursday, so it appears that first I have to work on something with actual deadline. But for now, part two is alive and kicking. Without further ado:

I don't love you, but I always will - a Damon/Elena shipper manifesto

Comments

[kilodalton]

A big part of the reason I like D/E so much is that, like you've pointed out, there is a lot of texture to their relationship. It makes it REAL. They fight. They love each other and sometimes hate each other, and can hurt and throw insults at each other when they so choose, just like how they can open up when they so choose. They're not afraid to be their real selves in front of each other.

Maybe it's because I'm a bit older, idk, but one thing I can say with a bit of authority is that real relationships look a lot more like D/E than like S/E. Real relationships don't stay candy-coated like that for long. I think that's one of the big reasons I never shipped S/E, not even a lil bit - it always seemed a bit too saccharin to be 'true'.

Anyway, I digress.

Excellent meta! The one thing I (sorta) see differently is here tho:

He needed to know [Katherine] loved him, because in an epic romance, the declaration of love happens before sex. With Elena, he just takes what he can get, and not because he's so whipped (not that he isn't whipped ;) ) and he'd take any crumbs from her table.

I see it differently because with Katherine, he had to ask where he stood with her. Maybe he suspected, but he didn't know for sure or he wouldn't have needed to stop to clarify. With Elena -- again, because their relationship is one where they are so honest -- he knew where she stood, complicated though it might be.

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Hmmm. After s3, I wouldn't exactly say that S/E is unrealistic. Girls talking themselves into believing in the magic of the First True Love, and then sticking to the guy, hoping that if they try real hard, they can have the magic back? It happens, unfortunately :(. It's also awful and unhealthy. Certainly impossible in the long run.

I see it differently because with Katherine, he had to ask where he stood with her. Maybe he suspected, but he didn't know for sure or he wouldn't have needed to stop to clarify. With Elena -- again, because their relationship is one where they are so honest -- he knew where she stood, complicated though it might be.

I never thought about that... But then, he eventually asks Elena? But I see your point here. With Katherine, he's really looking for answers. With Elena, even when they talk, he's just looking for confirmation of what he's already figured out.