Send a 👫and I’ll write four headcanons I have about our muse’s relationship // ALWAYS ACCEPTING
Headcanon 001 // Every Rose has its Thorns
Damon has always thought that Elena was beautiful. There was never any doubt in his mind from the first time he saw her that she was a gorgeous girl, but it was drilled into him young that her kind was not to be fraternized with, and where Lily Salvatore drove it home with her vulgar verbal insults, Giuseppe Salvatore solidified it with his fists and cigars. And of course, there was Stefan to compete with, Damon constantly trying to earn his right to be heir although he forever questioned his parents. Still, no matter how beautiful she was to him, she wasn’t worth being labeled a traitor. Or so he thought at the time.
Headcanon 002 // The Fear of being Feared
It terrified him to no end when he realized that Elena had actually saved him. It threw a wrench into everything he’d convinced himself of, all that he had believed in. A large part of him thought it would have been better had she let him die because then, he never would have had to try and put it all into perspective. For everything that Damon was, he couldn’t just overlook deeds like this, and Elena had intrigued him before as it were, so to have her go through all this trouble for him was confusing because she must have known that all it would have taken was him summoning one of his friends, and she would have wound up dead on his behalf. In some way, she’d trusted her efforts, and he couldn’t stomach the idea of letting them go to waste.
Headcanon 003 // The Journey back
When they were forced to part ways, Damon had to make up a lot of excuses in order to face his parents. Going back to Salvatore Manor, he felt completely empty, like something were missing but he didn’t know what. His parents were more unbearable, and he couldn’t stand being around his old friends. Nothing made sense anymore, and he found himself searching for Elena on the platform as they headed back to school. In the first week back, he kept his distance, but after, he started staying out late in the dead of night to try and run into her. It was horrible. But not really.
Headcanon 004 // True Love
It would take Damon months to get to a place where he was confident in his beliefs, where he was certain he deserved her company, where he was determined to do good. It was during the battle when Elena was in danger that he cast his first patronus, based on a moment he’d spent with her on the astronomy tower just months before. She told him his dad was wrong, and that she wouldn’t give up on him. She scolded him for even asking her to. Finding strength in him, Elena cast hers too, and Damon saw that they were identical. He didn’t get to ask about it until after they’d won the war.