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

roasting legacies for its untapped potential

so some of you wanted to read my thoughts on the actual Legacies show

I will not lie when I say that Legacies is very addictive to watch, the first season was just so interesting because ultimately we love this universe and these species are so well known to us that it's like 'hell yeah let's do this'.

And there have been some pretty good episodes, some pretty cool ideas, and let me tell you that the second that Lizzie shot up from bed remembering Hope and stating her full name, "Hope. Andrea. Mikaelson." I got chills and was actually looking forward to the next episode like I had no patience. The last time that happened to me was when Teen Wolf was airing season 3 (both parts).

Let's start things off with some positivity, shall we? Yup, let's see:

- The S2 episode, Since When Do You Speak Japanese?, okay so the best part of this episode was, without a doubt Lizzie Saltzman. The actress just nailed it, but the actual idea? The idea that a demon cannot take full possession of a person with mental illness (Lizzie) or those who have suffered brain damage (Kurutta) is so amazing to me. Not only does it bring more questions about what internal things the human body can do to prevent a force to control it or do anything to it, but also giving those with mental illness this defense against those forces is just incredible. I just really love that idea.

- While I didn't particularly enjoy Josie going dark side, I'm glad it wasn't Hope going dark side. Like, you'd think Hope Mikaelson would be wrestling with dark forces inside her or whatever, but nope, she's got it down, she knows what's right and wrong, she knows it's not always easy, she's got it pretty on par. I'm just glad they ended that quick and the resolution was that she saved herself. It really opens peoples eyes, because Josie realizes that this entire time she believed that her having power meant being evil, that being strong meant being like Kai or other bad people and that good side of her was weak. But then she recounts that Hope is powerful and strong, but she's also good. So she realized that she was afraid of being strong. But being powerful didn't mean you had to be evil. That, I hope, stuck with the younger tween audiences watching when they go off to write fanfics or other stories and remember that.

But you know what I hated about her dark storyline? It's because of dark magic. I mean, we all know it isn't Expression because Bonnie went through that and Expression is all about sacrifices, so it's just plain old dark magic. I mean, Freya uses dark magic a bunch of times, you don't see her succumbing to the darkness or throwing up blood. Though, since the main problem was what Josie believed what evil and good represented I guess you can divert it to that.