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

the vampire diaries vs true blood

- you already know the specifics for a vampire on TVD, the vervain, the daylight rings, the healing blood, their turning process, etc.

- Whoever's gonna comment on how powerful the Originals can be, let me stress this, the Originals have been taken down by witches a number of times, Klaus was incapacitated by a seventeen-year-old witch in season 3 of TVD. Their own mother is more powerful than they are, and while being very old vampires, they are not the ultra-powerful species like in True Blood. Again, this is a good thing. If the main characters are superpowerful and nothing can go up against them it's just boring now.

- If you're going to mention Silas, then hello, the cure is their one weakness. Silas was an Immortal but he was also the villain, not the main character. But I will admit the whole 'overpowered villain trope' really hit it with Silas, and he only lasted like eight episodes, so while not that great of a villain, he definitely lasted a lot shorter than I thought he would.

WITCHES IN TRUE BLOOD:

- witches can be taken down easily like they haven't had a witch situation or deal with them much since the Spanish Inquisition until the present, also they can use necromancy and since vampires are technically dead they can control them, but hey, we barely get that. also they're way stronger together than apart.

WITCHES IN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:

- meanwhile, the witches in TVD are known as the most powerful foe that you can go up against. It was also a witch that created all the species we know today. Silas was a witch, alongside Qetsiyah when they created the Immortality spell. A witch that cursed her people to turn into wolves on full moons for betraying her. A witch that wanted to protect her children. That same witch that let her untriggered werewolf son be turned into a vampire, creating the first hybrid. (Hope was a creation between said hybrid and a werewolf, so she doesn't exactly count ig).

WEREWOLVES IN TRUE BLOOD:

- and then you have the werewolves. listen, werewolves are a sweet spot for me, especially thanks to Jeff Davis, but then seeing them treated like shit in this show? I mean, wolves as animals are proud creatures, so why the fuck would they stoop as low to serve vampires??? Become fucking addicts for their blood and drop like slaves for them, like what. the. fuck. And the way they describe werewolves? As 'more animal than human'

ughhhhh i h a t e those so much, like just stop, just stop

WEREWOLVES IN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:

- meanwhile, the werewolves are treated as big of a threat to vampires than vampires are to humans. A werewolf bite could kill a vampire. There's actually a reason as to why they're mortal enemies. The reason Esther made her family into vampires is because wolves killed her youngest child, Henrik. Later on, when Klaus is discovered to be a son of a werewolf, the newly turned Mikael slaughtered the wolves of the village and it sparked up a life long hatred between vampires and wolves, they both have their reasons. You speed it up a thousand years later and just like the Capulets and the Montagues from Romeo & Juliet, they've forgotten why they're fighting, not knowing they're keeping a thousand-year-old feud alive that has nothing to do with them, it's just the normal thing to do.