Vamp!Elena is my unfulfilled fanfic dream

[semele]

I've had this phase before, and I got over it. But today ever_neutral gave me some recs, and I started reading, and I'm sort of obsessed again. I was supposed to make a TVD Christmas Speculation Post, but it can wait, it's still November ;). Vamp!Elena is in my head RIGHT NOW!

Welcome back, obsession. I sort of missed you.


I'm not sure if I want Elena to be a vampire in canon, but I'm deeply in love with vamp!Elena fanfiction. Ok, I generally frown upon fics in which Elena decides to be turned because she wants to be with one of the Salvatores, and it's OMG SO EPIC LOVE, but other than that? Elena turned against her will. Elena choosing to turn, because she doesn't see any other option (like: she can't kill Klaus, but she can do something to ruin his supply of doppelganger blood). Elena dealing with transition. Elena with all her features magnified. Elena with all her issues magnified.

And her relationship with Damon? ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL! She would be furious with him. She would depend on him. He would be thrilled that she's a vampire. He would be terrified that she's a vampire. He wouldn't know how to deal with it. He would have to help her. Elena would hate herself and project it on Damon. Elena would find that her connection with Damon is even deeper. I don't really know how to grasp the subject, but this is, like, the fic of my dreams. I'd love to write it, but I probably never will, because I have no idea how (believe me, I tried...), but I would totally read it, and hey, I can speculate the hell out of the subject.

And how about you? What's your deep, dark fanfic craving? What do you think about fics in which canon humans are turned into vampires? Because I also love the idea of vamp!Alaric, and I wouldn't say no to a good writer doing something about vamp!Wesley. Or perhaps there is someone who is also craving vamp!Elena as badly as I am, and you want to tell me all about it?

Comments

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Agreed, Elena does no wrong in S1 re: Stefan. Stefan is the dude who stalked, lied and manipulated her for months. BAD STEFAN, NO COOKIE. Yeesh. I appreciate the deconstruction this season, but I will never enjoy how they began.

I'm with upupa_epops about The Power of Love though--it's not that Stefan truly believes in it, but he allows himself to go along with it, because Elena's (naive) faith in him is so incredible and wonderful to him. I love their last scene in Blood Brothers right up until the end when Stefan decides not to off himself after all just b/c Elena gave him a pep talk, AND THEN HE'S CURED JUST LIKE THAT. Um. NO. That is not how addiction works. Thank Jesus the writers were actually aware of that after all.

DAMON/ELENA IS ALL ABOUT DARK ROOMS. It's fine. It's good.

[dante-kent.livejournal.com]

AND NONE FOR STEFAN SALVATORE, BYE.

I tried to clarify what I meant about TPoL above - it's not that Stefan actually believes Elena can rid him of his addiction problems, it's that he thinks she can keep him from succumbing to temptation. She lets him subscribe to the doctrine of self-denial because she doesn't know any better, so he thinks that as long as he has her to allow him to think he's human, he can hold out against his darker urges. He completely relies on her to keep him on program, basically. He entangles everything he wants to be in Elena's love for him, effectively making it her responsibility. He wants to be what he's made her think he is. He knows, deep down, that it does't work like that, but he HOPES he can believe it does for as long as possible (and now that his construction has collapsed, he has no idea how to get back from his downward spiral. He can't bear to drag himself back to the man he wants to be, because he's never had to do it himself before, and he doesn't know who to rely on now. I vote Katherine, because that would be awesome - and it wouldn't really work, and that would be even more awesome.).

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

He entangles everything he wants to be in Elena's love for him, effectively making it her responsibility.

THIS. That's the problem with the Salvatore boys and Elena. She tends to take too much responsibility, and Stefan and Damon don't exactly oppose. Soon there might be too much on her shoulders.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

He can't bear to drag himself back to the man he wants to be, because he's never had to do it himself before, and he doesn't know who to rely on now. I vote Katherine, because that would be awesome - and it wouldn't really work, and that would be even more awesome.).

WORD. Let's do it.