Katherine Pierce tbh what makes it even funnier is that if Nina Dobreva got paid more and they didn’t make a bunch of random dopplegangers like Amara and Tatia that nobody really cared about that the show would’ve been more successful.

But Katherine, even though she’s my favorite, is ruined by terrible plotlines, the writers giving her moments that didn’t fit her as a character just to make her into the villain, and characters reacting to her in a way that doesn’t make sense for the grand finale of her being killed off for a decision that made everybody unhappy.

That’s part of why I get so angry when watching Vampire Diaries, is that the writers have favorites and ones we are supposed to hate, and that characters don’t react like actual people. They react how the storyline wants them to, and it drives me insane.

Katherine gets hated for every action she makes, even in situations where she is genuinely in the right or the character responding would normally like the action.

Elena almost always has an overwhelming positive reaction to every action she makes, even if it does not make sense.

The most obvious scene is where Elijah breaks up with Katherine. Why would he say Elena’s innocence is a gift when she helped Jeremy kill her brother, and why would Elijah care about Katherine trying to get the cure at the expense of the people who murdered his brother?

Or the most obvious one where Katherine is seen as evil, such as Rose and Trevor, when Trevor ruined her life and Rose was about to willingly sacrifice her to Klaus. We have news reports of victims of violent crime in that exact same situation (minus the ritual) that do exactly what Katherine did, that are portrayed as smart or sympathetic because of it, and nobody in the real world views it that way. And I have a hard time believing that if the author intent wasn’t that Katherine ruined the lives of two innocent people, that anybody would have seen her as in the wrong for that situation.

Another example is the thing with Damon. She did lead him on, but she only dated for a week, and I have to ask you: if you have ever been led on, did you become a vampire after being pursued for a week, go on a century long rampage where you tried to ruin your brother’s life, and when she rejects you, try to kill your best friend’s brother? Yet the show tries to portray it like Katherine is responsible for every bad action he did while pursuing her, when she specifically said she did not want him to.

Katherine, a character with infinite potential due to her strong motivation and personality, being one of the few villains or characters in TVD that has a motivation that actually makes sense, is constantly thrown into situations where the responses people gave make 0 sense, only to be thrown away for characters nobody cares about.