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misssophiachase · 4 years

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Accidentally in Love

For @klaroline-events KC Bingo - Hurt/Comfort - I wasn’t going to do this but just a short one and why not for two more bingos? Thanks Luiza @itsnotacrimetoloveyou for organising such a fun event. I know how much work goes into these, so thank you : )

Caroline’s boyfriend dumps her unceremoniously and her two best friends Enzo and Klaus make it their mission to help her out.

“Care Bear! Oi, where are you?”

“Lorenzo! Must you be so…”

“Handsome, charming…”

“I was going to say so indiscreet and garish, but now that you’ve interrupted me that’s a hell no to both of those adjectives.”

“You wish you could be as wonderful as yours truly, Niklaus. I know it’s been difficult living in my shadow the past few years, but I’d be more than happy to help facilitate your improvement and make you a better person.”

“Are you listening to this, love? Although, she probably can’t breathe given your oversized ego crammed into such a small space.”

This was Caroline’s morning.

Waking up to her two best friends bickering by her bedside.

They did it all the time but, given her week, Caroline wasn’t inclined to engage. Hence why she’d pulled the covers over her head. Yet here they were like clockwork.

It wasn’t that she didn’t love her two besties, but in a crisis their need to protect and comfort her went into overdrive.

“Is this some weird game of peek-a-boo, darling?’ Enzo asked, sitting on the bed and crushing her hand in the process. “You know how much I love games so I can do this all day.”

“Get off her,” Klaus growled. “I could think of far more deserving things you could crush, like Salvatore’s head.”

“Amongst other things.”

“Get off me!” Caroline huffed, although it was decidedly muffled by the blanket.

It was only once her covers were off that she realised just how much of a mess she must have looked. She’d been crying during the night and Caroline couldn’t be too sure how red her eyes were, not to mention how much of the death by chocolate had found its way onto her white top.

Although, she was certain her friends had seen her looking worse.

Some people thought that their friendship was unorthodox. Caroline had met them two years earlier when Enzo approached her at the local mall. She’d been shopping with Kat and Bonnie when he’d interrupted and asked her to help his friend out. The friend turned out to be Klaus and he wanted to make someone he liked jealous.

Fast forward a few weeks and the girl he supposedly liked was nowhere to be found and Caroline had taken her place as best friend extraordinaire.

“Who needs an alarm clock when I have you two?”

“I told him to be quiet,” Klaus argued. “But we both know that Lorenzo loves hearing the sound of his own voice.”

“Charming,” Enzo drawled. “Caroline, I mean this with love, but there’s this handy invention called a hairbrush, you might want to use it.”

Caroline didn’t bother to reply just hurled a cushion at him. He was her best friend, but he was also the bitchiest person she knew.

“Why does my mother keep letting you in the house? It’s already bad enough that everyone at school calls you my British harem.”

“Think my brother might have something to say about that,” Klaus noted, looking to Enzo in particular. Kol and he had only been going out for the better part of a year. “And your mother loves me,” Klaus boasted. “I think she’s still not completely sold on Lorenzo but that’s understandable.”

“Liz made me pancakes the other day, Niklaus,” Enzo shot back. “She even cut them into little hearts.”

Before Klaus could object, Caroline intervened. “Now, even I know that’s not true. The Sheriff doesn’t do love hearts.”

“And she also only makes pancakes when Caroline is sick,” Klaus offered.

“So, that’s why you’re always sniffing around when I’m sick,” she muttered. “And here I thought you were just being sympathetic friends.”

“We’re here now, aren’t we?” Enzo asked, bouncing up and down on the bed. “So, what are we going to do to Salvatore?”

“You’re not going to do anything to him…”

“You do realise that’s like telling us not to like the Jonas Brothers?” Enzo asked, completely aghast.

“Speak for yourself,” Klaus muttered.

“I mean it,” she warned. “That idiot is not even worth the time spent on revenge.”

Caroline wasn’t exactly telling the truth, of course she wanted the loser to pay but encouraging her over protective best friends wasn’t a smart idea.

Given she was barely 18, Caroline knew she’d look back on Stefan Salvatore as a self absorbed, broody asshat that cared more about his hair than anyone or anything else. Then she’d ask herself why she went there in the first place and wasted so much time on such an idiot.

It just hurt a little right now and she wanted to give herself time to wallow.

“How about I go pick up Kol and some high calorie foods and we can watch a movie?”

“Not Legally Blonde again,” Klaus shot back, before noting Caroline’s pout. “Okay, fine.”

After Enzo had left, Klaus made himself comfortable on her bed. It wasn’t long before she was leaning against him, her head resting in the crook of his neck. He felt warm and familiar and Caroline knew she could lay like that all day.

He ran his fingers through her waves softly, the gentle rhythm of his breathing lulling her into a calm and soothing place.

Caroline loved Enzo but sometimes he talked too much and it was nice to just sit in silence with Klaus.

“He’s an absolute imbecile, you know that, right?” He asked after they’d been laying there for about 15 minutes.

“Mmmm,” she mumbled, unable to find the right reply.

“You are completely out of his league, love. He never deserved you,” he murmured into her hair. She knew he meant well but it was difficult to answer because, even if it was true, she didn’t feel it. Not yet anyway.

“I’m not sure given Enzo’s opinion on my hair,” she teased, attempting to lighten the situation.

“He meant it with love,” he offered. Caroline could tell by his tone that he was smiling and no doubt flashing one of those dimples.

“I notice you didn’t disagree,” she pressed.

“Legally Blonde, hey? I’m psyched.”

“You are such an ass,” she laughed, thinking she hadn’t done that much lately. Klaus had this amazing knack of knowing when she wanted quiet reflection and when she wanted fun and laughter. “And what’s wrong with the Jonas Brothers anyway?”

“Well, Nick and Joe maybe but I don’t know about Kevin,” he replied matter-of-factly.

“I love you,” she said simply. She felt his body tense slightly and realised what she’d said and how it could be interpreted. “Both of you, I mean, you and Enzo.” She closed her eyes, mentally kicking herself and thinking just how awkward that sounded.

Enzo and Kol returned not long after but all Caroline could think about was what she’d said and question why she felt so uncomfortable.

I mean, it wasn’t like she had feelings for her best friend, right?

It was on that day that two best friends accidentally fell in love. It was no doubt always there beneath the surface but both were completely and utterly oblivious to it.

Of course they didn’t act on it straight away because, if you’ve seen the best romantic comedies, that just doesn’t happen.

When they finally said those three words and eight letters years later in college and subsequently married it was clear they always loved each other but just needed a push in the right direction. Enzo officiated at the ceremony and took delight in telling their guests his master plan all those years ago had worked.

Caroline and Klaus weren’t quite sure whether it was true but either way they didn’t really care.

And they all lived happily ever after.

P.S. Wondering what happened to Stefan “Hero Hair” Salvatore? Although she warned them against it, Klaus and Enzo spiked his latte with laxatives, poured itching powder in his clothes and replaced his shampoo with hair dye. They figured it was the least he deserved.

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ofcursedmiinds · 4 years

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─ the mirrors surrounding you did as they were meant to, reflecting back a spitting image of PAUL WESLEY - but it’s clear something is wrong from the moment that a vision of BEING SHOT IN THE MIDDLE OF A CIVIL WAR ALONGSIDE MY BROTHER strikes you. perhaps it was a passing daydream in the frenzy of the funhouse. you reassure yourself - you’re STEFAN SALVATORE, an EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD ( VAMPIRE YEARS -177) PART TIME MECHANIC whose virtue lies in your COMPASSION & LOYALTY, although you’ve been told that you tend to be quite - BROODING & - SELF-DESTRUCTIVE, and you’re associated with HARLEY MOTORCYCLE, JOURNAL’S AND FOOTBALL by those around you. suddenly, however, you’ve found THE DAYLIGHT RING on your person - was that always there? from the moment you leave the funhouse, memories from your life in THE VAMPIRE DIARIES have begun to return - leaving whoever you had been before in the mirror’s reflection behind you. you can almost hear NEVER SAY NEVER by THE FRAY following in your wake. ( him/he & cis-male )

EARLY LIFE

Stefan Salvatore was born on November 1st, 1846, on Veritas Estate in what would eventually become the town known as Mystic Falls, Virginia. He is the youngest child born to Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore. He is the younger brother of Damon Salvatore. Stefan lived with his father and his brother Damon. Stefan is seven years younger than Damon. Despite the semi big age difference between the two brothers, Stefan grew up to be the best of friends with Damon and had even said that Damon was his best companion, despite having other friends growing up since his childhood. Going by flashbacks, it is evident that Stefan was also Giuseppe's favorite son, and that Stefan had a rather close and good relationship with his father, the complete opposite of Damon, who appeared to have had a rather strained and tension-filled relationship with Giuseppe. Personality wise, Stefan was seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, introverted, intelligent, well-spoken, responsible, dutiful, noble and an overall respectable young gentleman.

Stefan had first met Katherine, when she and Emily had come to stay at the Salvatore Estate, he had become strongly attracted to her and eventually had fallen in love with her, as did his brother Damon. during that time when Stefan and Katherine were making love that Katherine revealed her true identity to Stefan and that she was a vampire.When Katherine went to see Stefan that night and bit him so that she could feed on his blood as a form of foreplay, the vervain within Stefan's blood had poisoned and incapacitated her. Stefan was confused, worried and concerned about what was happening to Katherine and could not understand why Katherine appeared so sick and weakened all of a sudden. Giuseppe, hearing Katherine collapse, entered Stefan's room. He then told Stefan that he had tricked Stefan and had put vervain in his drink after Stefan had asked his father how he knew about Katherine and other vampires existing because "he did not raise his sons to be so weak. Giuseppe than urged Stefan to let the sheriff know that they have another vampire in Katherine captured and for him to go the sheriff as quickly as possible and wanting to rescue katherine, both him and damon were shot, dying with katherine blood in his system.

ALUCARD LIFE

while stefan’s life in alucard is brightly new ; he loves it. working as a mechanic and going to college for psychology he enjoys it. his life is quite normal and the few people that surround it , defintley make it worthwhile . gwen has been someome who has really helped him out of his shell and makes him less-brooding. while with link he can be a bit more himself and for the first time just be one of the boys. sometimes he feels like they are missing pieces from his life , for example where is damon or why is his last memory , being shot ? the world around him has changed for the better but it’s all very vacant, he feels like there is so much of his life that he is missing and he doesn’t even know why but one thing that he does know is that he is happy where he is and who knows what the future might bring for stefan salvatore.

BASICS

full name: stefan salvatore meaning of name: a crown nicknames: stef, hero hair, steffy ( hates that ) , the good brother age: seventeen / one hundred seventy - one date of birth: november 1st, 1846 place of birth: mystic falls, virgina spoken language(s): english, italian, spanish & french gender: cis-male zodiac: sun: scorpio , moon: pisces , rising: capricorn parents: giuseppe & lilian salvatore ( both deceased ) siblings: damon salvatore ( eight years older ) species: vampire profession: mechanic hobbies: reading, writing, hunting for animals, driving mindlessly, walking through the woods positive traits: heroic, brave, passionate, protective, kind, empathetic, compassionate, affectionate, caring, intelligent, loyal, understanding, selfless, and helpful negative traits: guilt ridden, martyring, self-loathing, broodiness, melancholic, addictive, self-destructive, secretive, self-righteous, pessimistic & sarcastic moral alignment: chaotic good / lawful good. ( lawful neutral ; ripper )

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

faceclaim: paul wesley hair color: light brown eye color: forest green height: 5’11 weight: 150 lbs built: fit, athletic tattoos: rose on his right shoulder jewelry: daylight ring other: freckle underneath his eye

#duality.intro #◟ stefan salvatore ╱ 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 ⤻ character study.

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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Empire of the Vampire Makes Vampires Scary Again

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This article is sponsored by As a species, humans have more or less always been obsessed with vampires. (The earliest references to blood-drinking creatures date back to ancient Mesopotamia, believe it or not.) But the way we relate to these creatures has shifted throughout the centuries, as legends, folklore, and popular culture have adapted to the needs and fears specific to respective societies.

Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula may have sparked a particular vein of horror story that continues to this day (looking at you, American Horror Story: Double Feature), but Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, published in 1976, changed how audiences relate to bloodsuckers forever and plenty of contemporary vampire tales have continued to cast the creatures as broody, desirous, long-suffering anti-heroes burdened by the weight of immortality.

But don’t expect bestselling Australian author Jay Kristoff’s new book, Empire of the Vampire, to follow this modern trend. In this story, the first in a new epic fantasy trilogy, vampires are 100% terrifying again, vicious monsters who kill violently and indiscriminately, and whose powers mean that few humans are capable of standing against them for long.

“When I was a kid, vampires were the monsters under the bed. They were the scary things that were trying to eat the good people,” Kristoff explains during a wide-ranging conversation with Den of Geek. “I grew up reading books like Salem’s Lot and watching films like The Lost Boys and Near Dark. Those were the vampires that I grew up with.”

Those aren’t generally the sorts of vampires we tend to see in much contemporary fiction nowadays, however. From The Vampire Diaries and True Blood to the Twilight franchise, recent mainstream pop culture has embraced the idea of the vampire as a version of the ultimate bad boy boyfriend, a secretly romantic figure still searching for true love after centuries of loneliness.

“Over the course of the last 20, 30 years they have evolved into something very different,” Kristoff says. “[And] there’s nothing wrong with exploring that kind of vampire,” he adds, describing himself as a “massive fan” of The Vampire Diaries and firmly “Team Delena” when it comes to the love triangle at the show’s center.

“The cool thing about [the ‘vampire’ concept] is they’re a dozen different things to a dozen different people. You can have a dozen different vampire fans in the room, and they’ll all tell you a different reason why they like them, why they’re attracted to them.”

Though Kristoff may enjoy the world of The Vampire Diaries—he’s currently making his way through its spin-off The Originals—Stefan and Damon Salvatore were not the sort of creatures whose story he was interested in exploring in Empire of the Vampire. The novel is set in a kingdom where the sun has barely shone for nearly three decades, the dead walk during the daytime, and vicious vampire factions fight for control over the remaining human territories. Its world is bleak and frightening, and his vampires reflect that fact.

“I did want to make them monsters again,” Kristoff says. “I wanted to explore the way eternity and immortality would just warp you beyond all recognition. [How] it would make you inhuman.”

The author cites Rice’s aforementioned Interview with the Vampire as “the biggest influence” on this story. “I’ve loved that book since I was a kid,” he says. “And one of the strong themes that permeates that text is that nothing is forever. Everything goes away on a long enough timeline.” Including the humanity of those who were once human. Kristoff’s novel includes something of a nod to Rice’s work, as the story is framed by our primary protagonist recounting the highs and lows of his life to a vampire historian named Jean-Francois, who is our first consistent glimpse into the removed, detached attitude with which these creatures view human beings.

“Over the course of hundreds upon hundreds of years, if you’re killing a person every night, you very quickly stop seeing people as people and start seeing them as food,” Kristoff explains. “That can’t help but affect your worldview and the way that you interact with it. I don’t think you could help but become inhuman …That’s really what the older vampires in this world are. They’re truly alien and truly monstrous. They look at us the same way that we look at the hamburger that we’re about to eat for dinner.”

Empire of the Vampire is not for the faint of heart. Clocking in at over 800 pages, this is a book bursting with darkness of both the literal and the figurative variety. From the cataclysmic event known as “daysdeath,” which literally darkens the sun to violent, to bloody battles between the living and the dead that lead to (multiple) heartbreaking deaths, this is not a story that’s here to coddle its readers or pull any punches, narratively or figuratively speaking.

“There’s only [redacted] named characters—as in major characters—left alive at the end of the book,” Kristoff teases. “Everybody else is dead.”

But as a result, Empire of the Vampire is also genuinely compelling, a rich, layered story that embraces real stakes and wrestles with complex questions about faith, belief, and family, both found and otherwise.

“It’s the biggest book that I’ve written. It’s definitely the hardest book that I’ve written,” Kristoff says, whose previous works include the Nevernight trilogy, another massive fantasy shot through with violence, corruption, and complex stakes. “Now that I’m at the tail end of it, [I think] it’s the best book that I’ve ever written. I’m more proud of this novel than anything I’ve ever written in my life, and that’s against some pretty stiff competition.”

Ostensibly, Empire of the Vampire follows the story of Gabriel de Leon, the last Silversaint, a member of an elite order of warriors who have sworn their lives to the Church in order to defend the world from the encroaching vampire plague. The novel is his reflection upon his own life, told from what feels very much as though it could be the end of it, imprisoned by the very creatures he was once charged with hunting.

Told in split narratives that look back at the beginning of his time as a Silversaint and his final desperate journey to save the world, Empire of the Vampire not only shows us a hero in crisis but one who has forgotten why he wanted to be a hero in the first place.

“[Gabe’s story] is two sides of the same coin,” Kristoff explains. “One, when he’s young and passionate and thinks all the world is good and bright and he can be a positive force in it. And the other one where he’s gotten old and realized that things don’t always work out the way they do in the storybooks.”

Though Gabe was once the sort of hero who tends to have songs written about them, by the time he’s recounting his great deeds to his vampire captors, he’s become more of a “fallen hero” whose story is primarily “about redemption, or at least a reclamation of faith.”

“Faith was something that was really important to him as a young guy,” explains Kristoff, “but terrible things happened to him over the course of his life and he lost his faith, as many of us do. Part of his journey, at least in Empire, is about finding something to believe in. He’s on a pretty destructive path at the start of the book when we meet him, and he’s 32. He doesn’t have a heck of a lot to live for. At least in part, his journey is about finding something that’s bigger than himself, that’s something more than the revenge that he’s driven toward…something worth fighting for.”

That something arrives in the form of a quest. Like so many before him in popular literature, Gabe ultimately finds himself on a search for the Holy Grail, a magical object that is rumored to be able to end daysdeath, and with it, the vampire plague. Whether the Grail is real or not is a spoiler that only those who read the book will find out, but Gabe’s search for it will quite literally change his life and expand the events of the second and third books in this trilogy in new and different ways.

In Empire of the Vampire, Gabe’s hunt for the Grail forces him to reckon with the darkest aspects of his own life as “ a lot of his own sins come back to haunt him.” As an example, Kristoff describes a later chapter in the book (it’s called “The Worst Day” for those who want to skip ahead) as “the hardest chapter I’ve ever written in my life.”

“I think some of the darkness that was happening in the world around me permeated my head and permeated the story,” Kristoff says of a scene in which, as you might have already guessed, something awful happens to a major character. “I wrote that scene and at the end of it I slammed the laptop shut and just pushed it away from me. I didn’t touch it for four days. I couldn’t bring myself to look at it. That’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever written. Even reading it back now, I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s really tough, you bastard.’”

Empire of the Vampire is just the first piece of what is shaping up to be a massive fantasy saga, and its second installment—which Kristoff says he’s writing right now—is set to expand the series’ world even further, introducing us to the matriarchal clans of the western Ossway as well as the dangerous vampires of the Blood du Voch, whose strength makes them especially difficult to kill. But, according to Kristoff, readers shouldn’t be shocked if the sequel turns our understanding of the story we’re reading on its head once more.

“One of the cool things [about Book 2] is you get a second POV. There’s another character that’s imprisoned in the tower and we get their version of events,” Kristoff explains. “You start to realize that maybe Gabe hasn’t been entirely truthful, or maybe he’s just viewing the past and certain people through rose-colored glasses.”

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In other words: Buckle up. This adventure has only just begun, and plenty of Kristoff’s dark creatures are still waiting in the wings.

Empire of the Vampire hits bookshelves in the U.S. on September 14th, and in the U.K. a week prior. Find out more here.

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