#anti klayley

I was asked by sandalwoodandsunlight!

1.What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

Well, most of them it’s not that i don’t get but I don’t see the great appeal with them. Like, in Orphan Black I was surprised to find out that Cophine (CosimaXDelphine) was the major ship of the show and, again it’s not that I don’t like them (I loveeee Cosima) but Delphine… idk something about her has always felt off to me and so I never really cared about her character. Another ship I was surprised to find it was so popular was Zutara (ZukoXKatara) from Avatar. I can see why people like them, bad boy good girl and stuff but I saw this show back when I was 12 (you can watch it at any age though) and it was the time when I would have definetely shipped anything of the sort, Twilight was my life too back then, and yet… Zutara never even seemed like a thing for me. The show was developed into such a way that those ships and fangirling had no place for me. I don’t know exactly why that happened though, but I was surprised when, after years and joining tumblr I remembered the show and started to search for content and Zutara was everywhere!

5.Do you have a NoTP in [insert fandom here]?

I don’t know if this is correct considering how I’m not a part of this fandom anymore but most of the ships in TVD and the Originals are NoTP for me. Especially Delena, Steroline, Beremy (Because fuck you, Jeremy you never loved her), Klaroline, Klayley, Klamille, Haylijah and all romantic ships including Katherine. This is going to be a long one.

Delena… well it pretty much explains on its own. It’s a toxic relationship with Elena having to be careful all the time not to piss him off, making Damon sad or anything (even when they are not together) because he could kill her family/friends to get back at her, like he has done so many times before. Their relationship is based on Elena walking on eggshells around him and making sure she and everybody pleases him so he won’t get mad. Abusive much?

Steroline could have been a good ship, love born out of friendship, though I never shipped them romantically I would have still supported it… had it not been for the fact that it was built so that Caroline could become the new lead. It’s not that i don’t want her to be the new MC, God knows Elena sucks at it too much now BUT the writers have the stupid, misogynistic idea that in order for a woman to be lead she has to be fuckeable by the male leads. Why couldn’t it just be Caroline driving the story forward and if they wanted the romance could have been a side plot? Nope, everything ahs to be about Stefan. For fuck’s sake the most important person in the world for Caroline died and it wasn’t even about her! It was about Damon and Stefan, Caroline was a nuinsance in the plot of her MOTHER’S DEATH HOW FUCKED UP IS THAT??

Klaroline’s obvious problem was Klaus, of course but, surprisingly enough it was one of the most well balanced ship there were in the show, at least further on in the seasons. Klaus respected Caroline up to a certain degree but his selfishness and fears fueled by 1000 years of paranoia were too much for a healthy relationship.

WithKlayley it doesn’t help that Hayley is the Celaena Sardotien of the TVD universe, a female character proclaimed as “strong” and “independent” because she says some sassy lines and does impossible ass kicking from time to time, even though she is completely useless to the plot and to save her ass. In fact, both characters are the same time of Mary Sue:

Warrior!Sues: The Warrior!Sue is usually loud, obnoxious and (of course) an amazing warrior. She’ll usually have some tragic past that led her to become a warrior, and she’ll upstage all of the Canonical characters with her mad Sueish powerz.

Celaena:

Dorian:“I don’t recall you being so talkative.”

“Well, perhaps if you’d taken the time to speak with me, you’d have found me to be so.”

Obnoxious,checked.

“Yes, but I’m Adarlan’s Assassin!”

Loud,checked.

Dead parents, looking for revenge, checked.

Amazing skills despite lack of self-discipline and less of eight years training against people who have twenty years in the killing bussiness. Checked.

Hayley:

“By the way, thanks for your help tonight, Elijah. I’m sorry that it takes me being in danger for you to even talk to me. “

Obnoxious,checked.

“I am your Queen!”

Loud,checked.

Dead parents, looking for revenge, checked.

Amazing skill despite having just become a hybrid. Being able to defeat a 1000 old original vampire by SCREAMING. Defeating a 1000 year old original hybrid despite no training whatsoever. Checked.

In the end, when one part of the otp is shitty, it’s bad, when both are… well then it sucks. Besides that, their relationship is abusive as fuck. Klaus can treathen Hayley that he can kill her all he wants and then he is surprised and CHOCKES HER when she was considering having an abortion because she was so scared for her life? Not to mention the fact that he is using her to get the army whilst degrating her and constantly questioning her skills and intelligence.

Haylijah it’s pretty bad because just like all otps in TO it’s insta love/lust. But it’s not only completely out of character, it is also manipulative and shitty so, fuck you too Elijah.

Klamille, ahh any ships with for Camille are horrible because she is a sexy lamp only relevant when she can serve a guy’s purpose. I can’t think of an scene when she isn’t doing that, not even when she was looking for answers for her brother’s death, back then all of her scenes consisted of her flirting with Klaus and “psycoanalyzing” him. After that she is having sex with Marcel and being the toy father and son want to fuck with. After that she is asking Klaus to help Marcel, she is helping Elijah stay sane. She doesn’t do anything for herself or has a narrative on her own.

6.Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

I can’t really think of one right now… Oh, maybe Destiel? Not that they did anything wrong, it was just that seeing so much of it got me tired.

10.Any fandom you’re ashamed of being in?

Not really, no :/