ELENA GILBERT APPRECIATION WEEK 2012 - DAY 1
Day 1: Why I love Elena Gilbert
Because I enjoy pissing off her bashers. No, seriously, Elena is one hell of a character. I don’t need “strong female characters”. I need “female characters with agency,” and Elena really fulfills that when the fandom at large and JP aren’t relegating her to the role of vagina that a Salvatore “deserves” and hating her for not fucking the Salvatore of their choice. She’s strong, even when she doesn’t want to be. She’s determined to make her own decisions, even if some of those decisions aren’t the best which is usually because someone else tries to protect her and fucks shit up but Elena gets the blame and even if she sometimes takes choices away from others. She’s compassionate and is able to relate to ANYBODY and thus find (and potentially exploit) their weakness. She’s selfless to the point of selfishness. She DEMANDS that she be taken seriously; she’s not content to let some man push her around or dictate how she lives her life. She’s lost too many people that she cares about and feels responsible - the point where she believes that she deserves to die. She doesn’t want to be saved but will demand that others fight for their lives. When she’s pushed past her breaking point, where she’s too numb to even feel anything, she wakes up, covers up her bite marks, and starts learning how to kill vampires. She’ll lie right to your face if it means her loved ones will be safe. She’ll negotiate the safety of those she loves by offering her own life. And she’ll take away someone’s free will if it means that person will be safe and far away from the clusterfuck that is her life. She’s Elena Fucking Gilbert: Morally Dubious Warrior Princess, and I fucking love her.
And there's this: “Dear Diary, today will be different, it has to be, I will smile and it will be believable. A smile that will say “I am fine, thank you… Yes I feel much better.” I will no longer be the sad little girl who lost her parents, I will start fresh, be someone new. It’s the only way I can make it through.”
G_S
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