How NOT to write a Vampire Diaries Fanfiction (including TO & Legacies)

covens, packs, and what else

this isn't necessarily something people do wrong but rather a few of my own theories that i would like to share with like-minded fans of the shows

now, i have a very weird memory. while i cant remember what i had for lunch yesterday,  i can remember random scenes from TVD or TO

and one that really stuck with me was early in season 2 of The Originals where Klaus goes to talk to the resurrected witch Cassie (whom unbeknownst to a lot is actually Esther in possession of the poor girl's body). She starts to talk about how witches and werewolves were at peace with one another but then came the vampires.

CASSIE/ESTHER: "Long ago, the witches and the wolves were at peace. Then came the vampires-- a plague made flesh, a curse on this earth. You have no humanity, and so you punish those who do. Witches have a coven, werewolves have a pack, and so we are a constant reminder of everything that you have forsaken. Creatures such as you will always hate the living, and so we will always have to defend ourselves. The rings level the playing field. If we are united, nothing can stand against us."

What I took from that is basically she's telling him that vampires dont have a group to rely on, they don't have their version of a pack or a coven like them.

And well I thought that was bullshit.

Witches have covens.

Werewolves have packs.

Vampires have families.

And honestly, we actually see a lot of examples of this in all three shows.

The Salvatores, a pair of brothers willing to die for one another.

Anna and Pearl searching for each other even when dead.