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

hope's twin

so i obviously tackled this on the 'siblings' chapter, but i'll keep individually adding more of these until the sight of them throughout wattpad doesn't make me nauseous

we've already talked about this, you ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GIVE HOPE A TWIN

honestly, those fics are the worst thing to happen since elena twins

Hope is a one-time-only character, you can't just carbon copy her.

You also can't make your OC the 'forgotten' twin, like wtf? The Mikaelson's would never do that.

Above is a video edit of Kol Mikaelson made by the youtuber 'daddynegan' and it's a great effing example of this. Kol often felt unloved or not part of the strong trio that Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah formed, kind of how all the authors are unrealistically making Hope's twin sad and forgotten. But, Klaus says the line "But stop this drivel about being singled out and unloved, you are a Mikaelson! You're my blood!" Which is exactly what I would say to writers writing Hope's twin incorrectly, "She's their daughter, she's a Mikaelson, she's their blood and she wouldn't be singled out or unloved."

They only hate and despise each other because of the fact that they've lived with each other for so long. They thought Freya was dead, that's why they never discussed her or Henrik.

But they would never reject an innocent member of their family like a friggin innocent baby.

That's bad characterization, now if you've done this, you're punishment is to rewatch the entirety of the Originals (or just until season 3) so you can fully understand once again the Mikaelson family because apparently in those fics you've all been writing them as two-dimensional people.