THE VAMPIRE DIARIES ⇢ 3x21 | BEFORE SUNSET

Klausie trying to hog credit for “saving” Caroline in 3x21 when a.) she was already free, and b.) Elena had actually gone on a limb for once to save Caroline already... lmao.

I love how instantly Klaus went from joking about Damon's death to staring daggers at him after Damon suggested Klaus wouldn't help Caroline

stefan was totally upset that he had to desiccate klaus

[tvd 3x21 | every klefan scene ?/?]

⭐️ for TBBW please and thank you!

I kinda touched on my decisions for the recent arc of tbbw in my last update but I had more to say (i totally ran out of words in the last authors note, so had to delete like two paragraphs lmao), especially on chapter 35 and 34, so here it goes. [spoilers under the cut]

Firstly, I've mentioned this before but the whole arc of Damon disappearing was not originally planned in the first plot line. Initially, I'd discarded giving any justice for Caroline because I couldn't see a way of keeping her, Klaus and her friends all in character without utter carnage following in the fallout. If anything happened to Damon, Stefan and Elena would flip out and Stefan's whole vendetta against Klaus would be re-ignited. Similarly, Caroline, in this point in time, isn't one to exactly condone cold-blooded murder or torture. And there's also the very messy and difficult art of accurately presenting Caroline's trauma respectfully when I myself have never experienced anything like it. But then I think I was writing chapter 12? Chapter 13? And suddenly I had a HUGE epiphany.

I was rewatching the end of s3 tvd to help better draft out the scenes I was currently writing and plan future chapters in more detail, and I got to the scene in 3x21 where Stefan and Damon are driving out of Mystic Falls to dump Klaus' dessicated body somewhere. In canon... Damon literally promises to leave Mystic Falls if Elena chooses Stefan (he doesn't make good on his word later - no surprise there really) and seeing that, it hit me.

It fucking hit me.

What if the Mystic Falls gang never even realised Damon was missing? What if they never even suspected Klaus when it came to his disappearance? Stefan and Damon haven't always kept in touch over their decades as vampires, would Stefan really be surprised if Damon 'left' Mystic Falls and didn't text, didn't call? Damon wasn't suspicious in canon either, when Stefan spent a summer in a safe at the bottom of the falls while he got to be with Elena. I'm not saying Damon and Stefan don't care about each other - they obviously do, to a passionate extent, but unlike the Mikaelsons dynamic, they're a lot more independent of each other and haven't spent their entire vampiric lives together, tied to the hip. They're used to not seeing or hearing from one another for long periods of time. Hell, Damon even spent years? Decades? Imprisoned by the Augustine Society and Stefan never noticed, so like, it's technically canon the two aren't great at communicating their current whereabouts. So, if they never realise Damon is missing, never even suspect Klaus... Stefan's characterisation is sorted. I can do whatever I want to Damon and it doesn't matter because Stefan won't be out of character leaving Damon to the wolves, because he doesn't even know Damon has been thrown to the wolves in the first place. Elena's characterisation is similar to Stefan in some regard as she's in love with Damon at this point, but she does still care about Caroline and her anger at Damon and guilt complex over what happened to Care would probably outweigh the niggling feeling at the back of her mind that something is wrong for the most part. Bonnie's Bonnie - she'd be down for murdering Damon lmao, so like I don't even need to find a loophole for her.

Keeping Klaus and Liz in character were harder. In a perfect world, I'd have Caroline exacting her own revenge - like that would be the perfect plot line and perhaps would work if she was freshly turned, shunned from her friends and met Klaus then. Except she didn't meet him then, her friends are still her friends and any revenge against Damon now would be OOC. Which is where Liz comes in. We've already seen in canon she's capable of taking out vampires, or at least motivated to do so. Caroline is her daughter, and like the night of Caroline's birthday, she'd do anything to protect her - even make a deal with the devil. So she approaches Klaus, plots with him to take out Damon in a cunning, quiet way...and Klaus goes along with it because although he is impulsive and has a flair for the dramatics, he's cunning too. Manipulative. Tactical. Traits that are often forgotten in the later seasons and TO.

I don't ever show what happens to Damon, except for that 'Hello Damon' and the blood decorating Klaus' socks, and that's on purpose. I wanted it to be vague. Is Damon dead? Is he alive? Is he forever locked in the Mikaelsons' basement? Is he free, but compelled with a horrific list of instructions, never allowed to lay eyes on Caroline ever again? No one knows.

It's up to you to decide.

And if, maybe, he's still alive in a hundred years - well. I'm sure Caroline wouldn't mind then exacting her own revenge. Perhaps Klaus will hand Damon over to her gifted wrapped for her 118th birthday as an anniversary present, who knows.

On 3x21 (Before Sunset) of my TVD rewatch. Elena just told Damon and Stefan that she didn’t want to choose because then she knew she would lose the other brother, and she’s lost so many people already. That is literally so selfish. One, you dated Stefan first. Just go back to him. The whole thing is messy, but to date two brothers is even messier. Two, this reminds me of that quote, “If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one. Because if you loved the first one, you would have never fell for the other person.” Three, she could I don’t know, not choose either and not get in between two brothers. That seems like the right thing to do.

There's nothing makes TVD so easy to understand more than your intellectual posts. You could write a series that comes off from all the series you analyze where people gets better understanding because with understanding what's happening, it's very easy to watch the series.

More so as soundtracks matters especially in TVD .

Never let me go says a lot about 3x19

When the lights dies out says a lot about 3x21 when Elena collapse

Walking Blind says alot about Stefan and Elena from 3x20 straight to 4x6

I believe S4 is an extension of S3 .

I would nicely ask you to do analysis on soundtracks .❤️🫶

Take the soundtracks from season 6 and overlay them to season 3 because Elena isn't falling in love with Damon for the first time, she's re-falling after having her memories erased by Alaric. Unbreakable by Jamie Scott plays in 6x6. This hits huge for Delena in their workout scene in 3x6 and continues forward into 3x22. Stefan breaks his finger during football practice, he snaps it back in place. Damon's blood created vampire Elena, and she's unbreakable. His solid plate of bone is now hers. She's training to kill vampires just to become a vampire created by Damon. When Damon becomes human, you can see why he put his hand on her heart in that same workout scene. Her soft, human heart is now his. It's every bit what he told Jessica in the road in 2x12. There's only so much hurt a man can take. Hurt that can break you. Damon and Elena are each others protector. They would die together and for each other. 3x6 is the opposite of 3x4. In 3x4, Damon thinks she's going to break, and she says she won't. In 3x6, Elena thinks she's going to break, and he says she won't. Alaric act as an invisible bystander in 3x6 opposite 3x4. She's lifting weights because he told her to. Damon basically told Elena that if anyone's gonna break, it will be him and/or Stefan. Not her.

6x13 is one of the biggest hits to season 3. More specifically, to the reason Elena became a vampire. I'm not just talking about the soundtrack, I'm talking about the sum of their Delena scenes in that episode. The concept of Elena in reverse because it's all the same whether it forward or backward. That's why Elena kisses Damon as a human in 3x19, kisses Damon as a vampire in 4x7, then kisses Damon as a human in season 6. What they're really doing, is putting Elena and Damon in parallel with Liv and Tyler. Elena wasn't choosing between both brothers in 3x22. She was choosing between being human with Damon or being a vampire with Damon. She basically chose death over him, but only as it pertains to her phone call. If you've seen my Ghost World analysis, you can see the Wickery Bridge in 3x22 and how it parallels the vampire seal in the Lockwood tunnels.

Time by Mikky Ekko, their soundtrack for 6x13

Time doesn't love you anymore But I-I-I I'm still knocking at your door

Damon had an hour to make it back home in 3x22. Elena had three hours to feed in 4x1. Time doesn't love her anymore.

Honey, we can run forever, if forever's what's in store Oh, time to take me home

Damon asked Elena where she was. His vampire hearing knew she was on the road. Elena said, "Matt's taking me home." Home is in the water to drown with Damon's blood in her system.

On a tree in the garden I carved your name, An word is spelled desire Like an ocean deep with the waters even, even

Damon written as the ocean. Just look at 3x19's soundtrack.

And your love pours down like a waterfall And I can't escape the tide Here's my hand, baby take it or leave it, leave it

Again, the water theme. Similar lyrics in their 4x4 soundtrack.

Now we're too young to recognize Nothing stays the same Promise I won't be the one to blame

Nothing stays the same. Even people change. Matt's comment to Elena on the bridge in 3x11. She's not that girl anymore. It's okay if she wants to let her go.

The love triangle is Stefan - Elena - Damon. Damon didn't compel her of Stefan in 3x5. Alaric compelled her of Damon in 6x2. This leaves Elena only remembering Stefan's half of the story in 3x22. She gets Damon's half from Damon, that's why they talk about it. She's not shaking her head at Damon. She's shaking her head at herself, for the poor choice she made back then. Despite lacking every single detail, she knows enough to know that she chose death over Damon. She was no longer in love with Stefan in 3x22. When Damon told her she was choosing between them, she knew because Stefan wasn't a choice, he was a friend.

Elena's comment before they kiss at the end of the episode. If the past is a place without her and Damon together, then stop living in it. Stop living in it because they were dying in it in season 3. That's the only reason they weren't together in 3x22 and 4x1. She always finds her way back to him because he is her always. Every bit 3x22.

No one will ever sit around the table and tell stories about a man who couldn’t love.

(The Vampire Diaries, 3x21 - Before Sunset)

“It’s OK, It’s Ok. It’s me. It’s OK. You’re safe.”

añsldkfjasf I had forgotten that not only did she celebrate, but that she organised the "klaus-is-desiccated-yay" party xDD

(I mean. who else was going to do it, among this lot lol, but still. makes the season 3 phase of their dynamic even funnier to me)

"And that is what makes you her better option. It's a shame it's not easier for Elena to see that. I mean, personally I think she's wasting her time with Damon." Klaus speaking from my heart ❤

wait wasn’t klaus already invited into the gilbert house when he was in ric’s body

the sassy pose though

[tvd 3x21 | every klefan scene ?/?]

Damon wanting to kill Tyler + killing him.

Stefan: “Damon, don’t.”

Damon about Tyler: “Oh, come on. Who’s gonna miss this idiot?” (1x07)

Caroline being afraid of Damon killing Tyler for a good reason though “Wait. no. What do i do about Tyler? I don’t want Damon to kill him, because there’s the full moon coming up...” (2x09)

Stefan: And a 100 percent chance Tyler dies.

Damon: Could live with that too. (3x21)

Tyler to Damon about Elena: You almost killed her brother. You nearly killed her. You’re a joke, Damon. (Tyler stated the truth)

Damon feeds on him. (5x15)

So Damon kills Tyler in 8x04 because he always wanted to kill Elena’s childhood friend.