We have another guest post at Vampire Diaries Online! Please welcome María, you can follow her on twitter @CqCv and check out a brief bio at the end of the article. I had the pleasure of meeting her on Twitter, and consider here a very dear friend. She has always been very supportive of this website, so when she sent me this article on her opinion of Damon, I did not hesitate to ask if I could post it on the site.
My Thoughts on Damon
I think there’s so much more to Damon than what we see. Sure, he seems to have no trouble at all with killing whomever gets in his way of achieving what he wants, which, from a human point of view, makes him as evil as the devil. But, let’s go back to where it all began.
When the Salvatore brothers were still human, they fell in love with Katherine, who was a vampire. Well, maybe Stefan didn’t fall in love, maybe he was compelled to think so, I don’t know. But I think that before any compulsion happened, he was infatuated with her. We saw the look he gave her when he saw her for the first time in Lost Girls, and there was definitely immediate attraction there. I even think he was probably in love with her before knowing she was a vampire. Maybe it was from then on that Katherine used her compulsion on him. Or maybe it was when he discovered that she wanted both him and his brother. That seems like something that could have not sat well with Stefan, right? In any case, it seems that Damon didn’t need to be compelled at all. He was so head over heels in love with Katherine that it was very easy for her to manipulate him into her wishes without using her compulsion. When all of this took place, the brothers were still really young and naïve, and maybe even in love for the first time, so when all hell broke loose, I can see Damon, blinded by his love for Katherine, going all sorts of crazy with grief, hurting and betrayal.
Enter the “becoming a vampire” factor. From what I understand, vampires are violent creatures by nature. If they get mad, they get violent. And I think it takes certain amount of self-restraint for them to control that violence. We have seen it lots of times with Damon, he have seen it with Vicky and Logan, and we have even seen it with Stefan in the pilot when Damon was talking to him about Elena and telling him to imagine how her blood tasted like. The reason why Stefan can control himself better than Damon is simply because he wants to. He doesn’t want to embrace that side of his vampire nature, while Damon embraces it and doesn’t want to control himself. And the reason for that, I think, is because at the beginning it helped him cope with his loss in a way. He was vengeful because of what happened to Katherine and I think his vampire nature accentuated that, so he would kill with no scruples at all just to fulfill that wish for revenge.
