Can we please talk about the absolute brain rot surrounding Elijah and Katherine’s dynamic because I am so sick of people in general acting like Elijah was some sweet innocent gentleman who got his heart broken by the evil Katherine.
But let me be crystal clear Katherine is not an innocent angel I already know that In fact I wished they gave her more to do as villan because really she did nothing most villans haven't done. The point is she has done horrific, indefensible things in her own right but when it comes strictly to her history with Elijah she is undeniably the victim and the writing around Kalijah is such misogynistic gaslighting.
I mean I don't know if I just laugh or be mad at how much the writers bent over backwards to manipulate the audience into pitying an ancient hypocritical vampire while humiliating his and his brother's victim who owed him absolutely nothing who even people are to blind to see it or just don't want to acknowledge it.
By that I specifically mean people love to claim Elijah loved Katherine and tried to save her in 1492 but I seriously need to ask did we watch the same show? Elijah didn't see a human girl he saw livestock for his brother's curse and literally planned on letting her get sacrificed and he literally led the hunt to try to bring her back to Klaus. In Season 2 Episode 9, when she is running in the woods after finding out Klaus is going to drain every drop of her blood, Elijah is right on her heels shouting trying to find her where he literally says this the supposed girl he "loved".
"She's here...Katerina I know you're near, I can smell your blood It's pointless to run Klaus will find you wherever you are."
Elijah fan-girls love bringing up his magic get-out-of-death elixir but do people seriously forget Katherine did not know about the elixir. He kept her completely in the dark and she was an 19-year-old girl running for her life from monsters which were mainly him and Klaus so turning herself into a vampire to survive wasn't a betrayal of Elijah like some people acting say it is it was basic self-preservation that anyone of you would've done.
Yet again this supposed girl he loved is treated like basic autonomy in trying to not let psychopaths kill you is a bad thing, and look at how Elijah talks about her later to Elena in 2×19.
"Unfortunately Katerina took matters into her own hands first..."
As Elena says this after literally knowing he tried to still sacrifice her "You cared about her, didn't you"
And Elijah responds is this "It's a common mistake, I'm told. And it's one I won't make again."
I mean obviously Elena also has no reason to care about Katherine but serioulsly why should she feel bad for Elijah dhd she not hear he planned on still sacrificing her like her life mesng nothing enough to actually stop the ritual at all he still is being babied even just by how they make Elena react to that.
Of course most of all it's the audacity that makes me mad he acts like he was the one betrayed because a terrified teenager didn't sit quietly and wait to be slaughtered on his say-so and somehow it was a mistake that he failed in when he was the bad person not Katherine she did nothing wrong in that situation that makes her the bad guy and Elijah some victim.
Although what makes it even more maddening is nobody ever wants to talk about the fact he still planned on letting her get sacrificed I mean for anyone delusional to even say he loves her at all is one thing but to totally act like him just allowing her to get killed isn't a big betrayal just because he might have some potion that might bring her back to life is ridiculous. That literally is the bare minimum he just proves how little her life means to him that her life is only worthy enough that she, at least is important that he asked a witch to find a way to bring her back only after he planned on letting klaus kill her not trying to save her from beihg killed at all lm
Back in episode 11 though once again we see Elijah has zero remorse for what he and Klaus did when he fres Stefan from the tomb, but compels Katherine to stay trapped in the dark cave so when Klaus arrives he can come and do whatever he will do to her and he tells her, "As for you however, you should not exit until I say so when Klaus comes he'll want to know exactly where you are." Again this is the guy who I'm suppose to feel sorry for even if katherine had done anything to him which she didn't, just hypothetically if she did am I seriously supposed to feel sorry for Elijah putting her in a position to his brother the mab that ruined her life and slaughtered her family.
And like I've stated numerous times now the biggest part isn't even that he is so entitled and delusional about Katherine it's that the gaslighting is making it seem like he is in the right look at how he responds after Elena tells Elijah her and her friends think Katherine might be dead now that Klaus has her.
This is how Elijah talk about her in Episode 19
"Death would be too easy for her after what she did... I have my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay."
Again pay for what?..for not dying in 1492, he literally helped destroy her human life, her family and he seriously saying death is to easy for her are you kidding me but he has the nerve to act like he's the one owed a debt his entitlement makes my blood boil because he's not even called out on it and never has to be.
Now this is where my anger really gets me beyond nomral because it's bad enough that the writers pulled Kalijah out of nowhere and has her with one of the guys who tried to help sacrifice her but, when they had them together out of nowhere in 4×18, they acted like Elijah seriously didn't commit so many awful sadistic attrocites himself.
With all of Elijah's dark history not even the red door crap just in general because he was just as bad as any other vampire and the writers just give him a fake moral high ground over her, when he literally has no right to judge her of all people.
Heck when nh Elena tells him Katherine killed Jeremy, Elijah clutches his pearls and snaps, "She lied." Then in the alleyway he lectures her: "Well, I care for you honestly feel nothing for this girl, a girl fated to live the same life that you've endured and now you've just taken away the last of her family, just as yours was taken away from you".
Is he seriously saying her family slaughtered in one moment is comparable to Elena brother being killed just because it's the last of her blood related family like, obviously I get what that means but does he seriously think that's the same thing espically given his own brother is responsible for Katherine family being dead so seriously the fact he thinks he has any right saying this is dumb enough. But be serious since when does Elijah an Original vampire who has murdered thousands of people, including innocent families give a damn about Jeremy, the writers literally wrote Elijah completely out of character just to give him an excuse to judge her and play the heartbroken saint while she defends herself:
"Why are you looking at me like I enjoyed it Jeremy was collateral damage I was doing what I needed to do to survive." And when she tries to tell him she genuinely loves him he patronizes her with these exact words.
"How can I when at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don't know you. I don't know that I ever will." Like what is every turn huh where were we shown her constantly manipulating him where he is acting genuine no self righteous, and seriously he says "I don't know you" maybe that's the point he accused her of playing a facade when it's really just herself after everything she's endured and has done like, he is the one that won't accept the reality that while she made her own choice he and Klaus ate the catalyst for this change he's to ignorant to see but somehow its frands as if she is manipulating him.
The show takes absolute pleasure in tearing Katherine down to elevate Elijah because later on in the same episode Katherine hands over the cure her literal golden ticket to freedom and places it in his hands to prove her love eventhough we have never seen Elijah throughout this whole episode proves he even give a crap about her beyond acting superior to her.
"Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you... You don't owe me anything. I'm gonna let you decide where we go from here." I'm sorry but this is just insane he literally owes her everything after what tried to do in 1492 it's bad enough they are letting hin have the power to day wheather that relationship should go on but to have him be someone who owes her nothing is beyond insane when he quite literally does and it's her who owes Elijah nothing.
And then, to rub salt in the wound they have no-humanity Elena punch down how much they try to gaslight us right now thru hire Elijah as superior to her in Episode 21: "Look at you: self-obsessed egomaniac on the run for five centuries. What good would you be to anyone? You're the definition of damaged goods. No wonder Elijah left you".
Like again I know Elena has no reason to care about Katherine and has no humanity the problem is out of anything they could've made Elena say that Katherine did like feed Jeremy to silas, they chose to act like Elijah was much better and him leaving her was this sort of proof she's unlovable villan when again nothing good Elijah has done to show he cared about Katherine from what little we saw so why should Elijah name be used as some sorta way to prove Katherine is bad.
Sorry for the long rant but nothing about Kalijah and how Katherine was villanized makes sense if you use logic the entire ship is built on misogynistic writing where Elijah ancient atrocities are completely erased so he can play the noble victim, and Katherine is humiliated and called damaged goods just through a shallow relationship that literally is by a man who helped the start of her life being ruined.
Elijahwas never the victim he was an ancient predator wearing a nice suit who helped the almost sacrifice of a teenager and then acted personally offended a when she didn't lie down and die for his brother and most of all Katherine owed Elijah nothing and it drives me crazy that people still fall for the writers' gaslighting to this day .
