Delena Post Mortem Thread

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So today Chord Overstreet's Vevo uploaded an acoustic version. I don't think it's much of a coincidence that this song was used as DE's reunion song and now this song is getting more attention to have this version of it made and uploaded. Personally I do like the acoustic sound more as I tend to like romantic songs sung in a more slow/quiet kind of way. 

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So it's been a while since I've checked the DE tag on tumblr so I don't know exactly know when this has surfaced or who has already seen this or not, but since it hasn't been posted.

Not only was there a proposal, but it seems as if Damon and Elena also had vows written. VOWS. Again how can something so pivotal, so important to the characters, bringing the romance it's true closure, be cut? Heck not even make it to film it seems. These vows are so perfect. Like this is fanfic levels of perfect. I'm completely blown away. They address things across all seasons, tying up loose ends, Damon's promise gets a mention, even 3x14 is not ignored. Again I'm shocked at the level of writing here, these vows is the embodiment of why we fell in love with DE. It is THE romance of the show. 

You can tell there was a conflict of interest in the finale. Elena says that she owes everything to Stefan and that he made her alive, but in the vows, it's the complete opposite, Elena's pouring her heart out to Damon, saying he's her home. Oh man, it's just so stupid. It seems like we got so little with DE but in truth we really did get everything, just once again not on screen. Just imagine, reunion, proposal, vows, Gilbert house and kids. That would have been one perfect finale and SO worth the two year Delena drought. 

**Admin Edit:  This is not an actual script.  This is fanfic but it looks like a script and has been confused as such around the internet.  I just wanted to make sure people knew this before they got excited about it and knew Anbu couldn't edit this post herself.

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"These vows are so perfect. Like this is fanfic levels of perfect."

Hah I guess that much really was true. On tumblr people are mistaking this for a real script so I believed it to be as well, but I went on twitter and checked Eldest Damon's twitter and seems like he's doing some series and putting scenes like this in a script format. Hire this guy! He's so good! Damn, why didn't I realize how perfect those vows were, fans pay more attention to detail with things like that vs the writers of the show. 

I'm glad that Eldest Salvatore is writing these scenarios with DE and perfectly in character too, it's almost like getting new content for DE with the show being over and all. It's harder to keep interest up conversation with not much new to talk about. So reading those vows was such a nice treat, he even had them getting married in front of the fire place and all! 

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Here's the latest one he's working, Elena revealing her pregnancy to Damon. I love that he doesn't make things all rainbow and sunshine as tempting as that is now that DE is human and can do all sorts of 'happily ever after' things. He makes DE still feel very much like themselves. 

[Doppelgänger]

I fixed your post to clarify that it's fanfic. No worries but gee wouldn't it have been nice? I always feel like JP gave us the bare minimum, grudgingly, and it really could have been so much better if she had gone full out to write the DE story that we all would have loved. Oh well.

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Apr 28, 2017 13:59:49 GMT -5 Doppelgänger said:

I fixed your post to clarify that it's fanfic. No worries but gee wouldn't it have been nice? I always feel like JP gave us the bare minimum, grudgingly, and it really could have been so much better if she had gone full out to write the DE story that we all would have loved. Oh well.

Thanks! I should have double checked with twitter right after reading it on tumblr. When it's too good to be true, it's usually Eldest Salvatore haha! But whoa those vows are wow! And script format and everything, he's really blowing it out of the park, even the gestures/expressions he wrote in the script, Damon's remembrance of 3x14, it's just all so wonderfully in character it's insane. I suppose this could mean that the writers didn't even have vows in the plans, just Damon's initial proposal and that's that. It's astonishing how JP wouldn't even think to wrap up the love triangle in this way, coming full circle like Eldest Salvatore did here with the vows, outline DE's journey from the beginning to end. As you said it would have been nice but at least we know DE has the endgame and spent the rest of their lives together. I'm fine with Eldest Salvatore given us the rest haha lol. 

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Apr 28, 2017 14:18:14 GMT -5 @anbuprincess said:

Apr 28, 2017 13:59:49 GMT -5 Doppelgänger said:

I fixed your post to clarify that it's fanfic. No worries but gee wouldn't it have been nice? I always feel like JP gave us the bare minimum, grudgingly, and it really could have been so much better if she had gone full out to write the DE story that we all would have loved. Oh well.

Thanks! I should have double checked with twitter right after reading it on tumblr. When it's too good to be true, it's usually Eldest Salvatore haha! But whoa those vows are wow! And script format and everything, he's really blowing it out of the park, even the gestures/expressions he wrote in the script, Damon's remembrance of 3x14, it's just all so wonderfully in character it's insane. I suppose this could mean that the writers didn't even have vows in the plans, just Damon's initial proposal and that's that. It's astonishing how JP wouldn't even think to wrap up the love triangle in this way, coming full circle like Eldest Salvatore did here with the vows, outline DE's journey from the beginning to end. As you said it would have been nice but at least we know DE has the endgame and spent the rest of their lives together. I'm fine with Eldest Salvatore given us the rest haha lol. 

Yeah he's always trying to help us out with the fanfics...lol  I'll miss the good influences in the fandom.  I won't miss the bad!  I find it funny that there's a renewed fight with the Stelenas.  It's like hello, you lost, get over it.  I don't know why DEs are even entertaining their nonsense at this point.  I know I'm not! 

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Apr 28, 2017 15:22:59 GMT -5 Doppelgänger said:

Apr 28, 2017 14:18:14 GMT -5 @anbuprincess said:

Thanks! I should have double checked with twitter right after reading it on tumblr. When it's too good to be true, it's usually Eldest Salvatore haha! But whoa those vows are wow! And script format and everything, he's really blowing it out of the park, even the gestures/expressions he wrote in the script, Damon's remembrance of 3x14, it's just all so wonderfully in character it's insane. I suppose this could mean that the writers didn't even have vows in the plans, just Damon's initial proposal and that's that. It's astonishing how JP wouldn't even think to wrap up the love triangle in this way, coming full circle like Eldest Salvatore did here with the vows, outline DE's journey from the beginning to end. As you said it would have been nice but at least we know DE has the endgame and spent the rest of their lives together. I'm fine with Eldest Salvatore given us the rest haha lol. 

Yeah he's always trying to help us out with the fanfics...lol  I'll miss the good influences in the fandom.  I won't miss the bad!  I find it funny that there's a renewed fight with the Stelenas.  It's like hello, you lost, get over it.  I don't know why DEs are even entertaining their nonsense at this point.  I know I'm not! 

Oh geez, not sure what the discourse could be about. Even us DE fans were disappointed in the bare bones we got in the finale, what's there to argue over when DE was hardly even the focus. Stefan and SE was glorified more than anything. I also don't get why SEs don't pick up arms with Steroline. Stefan was in a relationship with Caroline and proposed to her. THAT was their competition, not Delena. I'll never understand it. It's time for them to write fanfics and just move on as nothing will change. 

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I just found this funny.  Well, whatever makes people happy I guess but we DID get the only endgame of the show.

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May 1, 2017 17:45:47 GMT -5 Doppelgänger said:

I just found this funny.  Well, whatever makes people happy I guess but we DID get the only endgame of the show.

lt's very telling that the only negative thing they can even say about DE's endgame is in regards to Ian's smile lol. They literally can't argue any other point since at the end of the day, DE is the only couple that got the endgame. They got married, rebuilt the Gilbert house and spent the rest of their lives together. But as you said, there will be fans who will close their eyes and cover their ears and pretend that DE never became endgame, whatever makes them happy lol. 

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May 1, 2017 20:10:43 GMT -5 @anbuprincess said:

May 1, 2017 17:45:47 GMT -5 Doppelgänger said:

I just found this funny.  Well, whatever makes people happy I guess but we DID get the only endgame of the show.

lt's very telling that the only negative thing they can even say about DE's endgame is in regards to Ian's smile lol. They literally can't argue any other point since at the end of the day, DE is the only couple that got the endgame. They got married, rebuilt the Gilbert house and spent the rest of their lives together. But as you said, there will be fans who will close their eyes and cover their ears and pretend that DE never became endgame, whatever makes them happy lol. 

Well it is a bitter pill to swallow after all these years but I find it surprising that the SC's turned on the DEs like that.  I mean there is no competition there as those 4 could have easily all lived happily ever after, so why?  Did they just want to outshine DE so badly as the main couple of the show?  Even if that's the reason it would never happen that SC would ever be able to overshadow DE.  Ian being an idiot not withstanding, the writing was there for DE all the way to the end of the series and it finished up nicely to the theme of DE overcoming all odds.  At least JP did that right.

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May 2, 2017 2:46:08 GMT -5 Doppelgänger said:

May 1, 2017 20:10:43 GMT -5 @anbuprincess said:

lt's very telling that the only negative thing they can even say about DE's endgame is in regards to Ian's smile lol. They literally can't argue any other point since at the end of the day, DE is the only couple that got the endgame. They got married, rebuilt the Gilbert house and spent the rest of their lives together. But as you said, there will be fans who will close their eyes and cover their ears and pretend that DE never became endgame, whatever makes them happy lol. 

Well it is a bitter pill to swallow after all these years but I find it surprising that the SC's turned on the DEs like that.  I mean there is no competition there as those 4 could have easily all lived happily ever after, so why?  Did they just want to outshine DE so badly as the main couple of the show?  Even if that's the reason it would never happen that SC would ever be able to overshadow DE.  Ian being an idiot not withstanding, the writing was there for DE all the way to the end of the series and it finished up nicely to the theme of DE overcoming all odds.  At least JP did that right.

One thing about some SC fans is that most of them tend to be big stans of either Stefan, Caroline, or both. There are Caroline stans that hate Elena and wanted Caroline to be the main heroine and ultimately these hardcore stans hate Damon as well, those that still bring up Daroline in season 1 and think Elena is the worst friend ever for being with Damon cause of that fact. Stefan stans who consistently think that Damon does nothing for Stefan and is a horrible brother and stole Stefan's 'girl' and also turned on Elena the minute she got with Damon.

So with these two characters in a ship, bringing together fans that hate either Elena/Damon for one reason or another before SC was a thing, it was almost expected for some SC fans to hate DE despite these couples being able to coexist. And like you said, SCs tended to gloat over things, like getting the wedding over DE or that their ship was rooted in friendship and isn't all about sex or whatever anti things they throw at DE. In general it felt like it was always DE against the world. I'd browse through several tags like Beremy, Forwood, or even Benenzo (who you'd think have more problems with the Bamon fandom vs DE) and you always found Damon/DE hate, putting their ships on a pedestal vs DE as if it was the big bad to take down. Though this makes DE getting the only endgame extremely satisfying as you can't argue anything how maybe Elena broke up with Damon cause she realized she made a mistake or Damon went with Bonnie or whatever since we saw their ending play out on screen in addition to being told they spent a long and happy life together. 

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As much as I really disliked season 5 and season 6, what I'm glad of is that we got some great speeches for Delena in those seasons. Everything that should have been said in the finale, it was already said in those earlier moments. At least we have those moments, and they weren't erased by the destruction of DE. They got to be endgame, and so we can keep all those scenes pure. They told us all what they meant to each other. They told us all how strong their love was. Even though we got robbed of the romantic ending that we were all dreaming of, the romance was there from the beginning, and lasted till the end. Whenever I feel disappointed that we didn't get to hear them say anything there at the end, I just picture all the things they said to each other before.
"Do you see a future with me? Because that is all that I see"

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May 2, 2017 14:22:33 GMT -5 missmystic said:

As much as I really disliked season 5 and season 6, what I'm glad of is that we got some great speeches for Delena in those seasons. Everything that should have been said in the finale, it was already said in those earlier moments. At least we have those moments, and they weren't erased by the destruction of DE. They got to be endgame, and so we can keep all those scenes pure. They told us all what they meant to each other. They told us all how strong their love was. Even though we got robbed of the romantic ending that we were all dreaming of, the romance was there from the beginning, and lasted till the end. Whenever I feel disappointed that we didn't get to hear them say anything there at the end, I just picture all the things they said to each other before.
"Do you see a future with me? Because that is all that I see"

<3

Yep. When you think of just the DE show finale scenes, it's easy to feel disappointed and wanting more, but when its put together in a fan video that showcases all those moments and speeches from the beginning to end, then you kind of just want to clap in awe like, man this is THE ship of all ships. A ship that once they were in love, that was it. They never got deconstructed to the point that still shipping it was absurdity like SE or moments that felt like this big development, only for it to get retconned in a future scene like SC. I'd say DE is a rare pair that always had their love get stronger and not broken apart for stupid reasons, even when the actors themselves had broken up and felt awkward about it. DE was still not dropped as the main love story. 

Normally couples are rarely kept in love like this for so long, they cheat, get broken up over arbitrary reasons and of course Ian managed to keep this love story going for two seasons without Nina having to physically be there (despite of course how much Ian has grown to hate DE). So while I certainly wasn't expecting the lackluster DE we did get in the finale, an end where neither Elena/Damon dies and they get married and live a happy life together is a pretty nice way to tie up DE's love story after everything they've been through those eight seasons. 

But those vows Eldest Salvatore wrote would have been the perfect icing on the cake. 

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I really do think, all in all, they got this message across in the TV series as well as in the books.  While Stelena had it's time and place it was Delena that was the deep abiding love that really meant everything to Elena and even as she denied it to herself, her soul knew it and couldn't deny it in the end: