She won't accept that their r/ship is a total anomaly, compared to all her other friendships. If she started communicating with him in a different way, then that would be too much intimacy.
It makes sense! And you know what? It looks like yet another D/E clusterfuck, an attempt to familiarize leads to keeping emotional distance. I wouldn't say Elena is being naive; she is just desperate, she wants things to WORK. Those attempts to familiarize Damon are similar to the "mental health days" she has with Stefan when they pretend they're all normal. With Damon it could never work like that, but she tries anyway; she wouldn't be Elena if she didn't. But bringing out familiarity leads to bringing out unfamiliarity. Ship, how so glorious?
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She won't accept that their r/ship is a total anomaly, compared to all her other friendships. If she started communicating with him in a different way, then that would be too much intimacy.
It makes sense! And you know what? It looks like yet another D/E clusterfuck, an attempt to familiarize leads to keeping emotional distance. I wouldn't say Elena is being naive; she is just desperate, she wants things to WORK. Those attempts to familiarize Damon are similar to the "mental health days" she has with Stefan when they pretend they're all normal. With Damon it could never work like that, but she tries anyway; she wouldn't be Elena if she didn't. But bringing out familiarity leads to bringing out unfamiliarity. Ship, how so glorious?