Here we are again! This time we bring you an article dedicated to the unique and inimitable Damon Salvatore, our hero. The vampire diaries wouldn't be the same without him and because of that we know he'll come back from wherever he is.
From our point of view, Damon is the character who evolves the most in TVD. From a real villain since the moment he appears in Mystic Falls in the first episode of season 1 to a real hero saving the town in the last episode of season 5.
But who is really Damon Salvatore? If we look closely inside of him, like Elena did, we can see (like we said in our tribute to Damon and Elena) that love has always guided all his movements. LOVE made him want to be a vampire, LOVE made him return to Mystik Falls and LOVE made him die saving all the town.
When we discover in the series the real reason behind all his actions, the only thing we can do is to fall in love with him. Our hero waited 145 years for saving Katherine from the church, where she was supposed to be. And in all those years, unlike Stephan, he never stopped loving her. Is it possible not to love a man like him? Is not this DEVOTION worthy of mention?
When Damon fell in love with Katherine in his early years as human, he was naive and innocent. She played with his feelings, she never loved him and to make matters worse, she left him to believe she was dead. For Damon, knowing the truth made him realise that all his life had been a lie. Something not easy to digest.
Despite this bitter lesson, Damon falls in love again, this time with another girl. She is not an ordinady woman, she is Elena Gilbert and despite the fact she is apparently like Katherine, they are completely different. She is goodness personified, always thinks of others before herself and the most important, she REALLY loves Damon as he deserves. But it is not until the end of Season 5 (when she realises she has lost him forever) that she discovers the magnitude of her feelings. As Julie Plec (TVD Executive Producer) said, Elena discovered that she loved Damon, she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone.
As well as his love for Katherine made him take the wrong path, Damon's love for Elena makes him be a better person. As he said once, he would do anything for her. He loves her without expecting anything in return. He loves her in either way, human or vampire and he is the only person that make feel Elena like no other does. As the expression says "If you love something, set it free". Damon loves her so deeply that in the end of episode 5.17 he let her go because she asks him to.
Despite all of this, Damon is always thinking that he's not worthy of the love Elena professes for him. The truth is he is afraid of being happy, he is afraid of expecting anything from life. As Elena said once, it is easier for him to be hated. When in episode 4.13 Elena asks him to take The cure with her and start a human life together, we were witness of the look in his face. His emotions surface revealing the truth, a human life with the woman he loves more than anything in the world would be for him a dream come true. But his fears aoutcrop again and he ends telling her a lie and hurting her, before leaving.
In the last episodes of Season 5 he tries to break with her. Although he finally learns that is impossible for him to be away from her, as he confesses to Elena in episode 5.20. When finally the two realize that fact, that their place is wherever the other is forever, Damon dies in episode 5.22 after saying to her (despite she can't hear him) she is by far the greatest thing that has ever happened to him in his 173 years on Earth. Don't you think it is the most romantic speech we have ever heard? He dead like a hero, with no regrets, because he knows that his beloved Elena is safe and this is all that matters. Did you notice the title of the song playing in the background during the good bye scene?: Be Alright. He, Damon, will be alright because he knows Elena is alive. And he wants she to Be Alright because he is dead knowing he has been finally loved by her.
Damon Salvatore finally finds the only thing that he has really wanted in life, to be loved. But he dies without time enough to enjoy from that love, leaving not only Elena but all the TVD fans under shock. But we know he will come back, he deserves a happy ending more that anyone in TVD. As we said in another article maybe his death is not in vain but he will be "rewarded" by coming back as a human. He deserves the opportunity to start from scrath and all what that entails. And we are sure about another thing: Elena will somehow find the way to be human again too.
At his goodbye speech, Damon says to Elena that he peaked, that nothing will be better than this. Oh, how wrong you are Damon, this is only the beginning of a true and long-lasting love story.
When we discover in the series the real reason behind all his actions, the only thing we can do is to fall in love with him. Our hero waited 145 years for saving Katherine from the church, where she was supposed to be. And in all those years, unlike Stephan, he never stopped loving her. Is it possible not to love a man like him? Is not this DEVOTION worthy of mention?
When Damon fell in love with Katherine in his early years as human, he was naive and innocent. She played with his feelings, she never loved him and to make matters worse, she left him to believe she was dead. For Damon, knowing the truth made him realise that all his life had been a lie. Something not easy to digest.
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| Damon realises that Katherine had never loved him |
Despite this bitter lesson, Damon falls in love again, this time with another girl. She is not an ordinady woman, she is Elena Gilbert and despite the fact she is apparently like Katherine, they are completely different. She is goodness personified, always thinks of others before herself and the most important, she REALLY loves Damon as he deserves. But it is not until the end of Season 5 (when she realises she has lost him forever) that she discovers the magnitude of her feelings. As Julie Plec (TVD Executive Producer) said, Elena discovered that she loved Damon, she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone.
As well as his love for Katherine made him take the wrong path, Damon's love for Elena makes him be a better person. As he said once, he would do anything for her. He loves her without expecting anything in return. He loves her in either way, human or vampire and he is the only person that make feel Elena like no other does. As the expression says "If you love something, set it free". Damon loves her so deeply that in the end of episode 5.17 he let her go because she asks him to.
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| Damon lets Elena go ("travel safe" scene) |
Despite all of this, Damon is always thinking that he's not worthy of the love Elena professes for him. The truth is he is afraid of being happy, he is afraid of expecting anything from life. As Elena said once, it is easier for him to be hated. When in episode 4.13 Elena asks him to take The cure with her and start a human life together, we were witness of the look in his face. His emotions surface revealing the truth, a human life with the woman he loves more than anything in the world would be for him a dream come true. But his fears aoutcrop again and he ends telling her a lie and hurting her, before leaving.
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| Damon's lovely face when Elena asks him to take The cure with her |
In the last episodes of Season 5 he tries to break with her. Although he finally learns that is impossible for him to be away from her, as he confesses to Elena in episode 5.20. When finally the two realize that fact, that their place is wherever the other is forever, Damon dies in episode 5.22 after saying to her (despite she can't hear him) she is by far the greatest thing that has ever happened to him in his 173 years on Earth. Don't you think it is the most romantic speech we have ever heard? He dead like a hero, with no regrets, because he knows that his beloved Elena is safe and this is all that matters. Did you notice the title of the song playing in the background during the good bye scene?: Be Alright. He, Damon, will be alright because he knows Elena is alive. And he wants she to Be Alright because he is dead knowing he has been finally loved by her.
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| Damon can't bear to be separated from Elena |
Damon Salvatore finally finds the only thing that he has really wanted in life, to be loved. But he dies without time enough to enjoy from that love, leaving not only Elena but all the TVD fans under shock. But we know he will come back, he deserves a happy ending more that anyone in TVD. As we said in another article maybe his death is not in vain but he will be "rewarded" by coming back as a human. He deserves the opportunity to start from scrath and all what that entails. And we are sure about another thing: Elena will somehow find the way to be human again too.
At his goodbye speech, Damon says to Elena that he peaked, that nothing will be better than this. Oh, how wrong you are Damon, this is only the beginning of a true and long-lasting love story.
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| Damon says goodbye to Elena |
Dammon we miss u' ♥
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