The Vampire Diaries: The 10 Best Fan-Fiction Ships, According To AO3

Some of The Vampire Diaries ships have more fan-fictions than others. These are the most popular, ranked by AO3 works count.

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The outstanding chemistry between the cast of The Vampire Diaries compels fans to root for a variety of different couples. Several of the most popular relationships became canon, while others, like Damon and Bonnie, were never romantically established in the series. To compensate, writers take to Archive of Our Own and explore the potential of their favorite ships on their own terms.

Couples such as Stelena and Klaroline had plenty of romantic moments during the show, but not everyone was satisfied by how things played out. Fan-fiction is the perfect opportunity for fans to rewrite an ending, or alter the outcome of any of the controversial love triangles in The Vampire Diaries. All of the major canon and non-canon ships can be found on the site, but some have more works than others.

10 Elijah And Elena

Elena didn’t have a romance with anyone in the Mikaelson family, which felt like a missed opportunity. Klaus and Elena would have been a disaster in The Vampire Diaries, but she had a surprising amount of things in common with his brother.

Both Elijah and Elena have strong moral compasses and the same core values. Elijah admired Elena’s compassion, while Elena respected Elijah’s honesty. They shared an accidental kiss when Elijah mistook Elena for Katherine, and it made a romance between them appear plausible.

9 Katherine And Elijah

Katherine and Elijah had a complicated relationship that started centuries before the pilot. When they met, Katherine was a completely different person than she was in the 21st century. Her family hadn’t yet been massacred and she wasn’t forced to run for her life for five hundred years.

What they had was pure, and Katherine is the reason Elijah began to believe in love again. There are several routes their relationship could have taken, and their potential exists at any point in the show’s timeline.

8 Bonnie And Kai

It’s no secret that “enemies to lovers” is a trope that The Vampire Diaries enjoys utilizing. Bonnie was the only main female who didn’t yet have a hero/villain romance, which is why her time with Kai in the prison world provided a golden opportunity.

Kai enjoyed flirting with Bonnie, but he lacked the emotional capacity for love. It made sense why nothing happened between them, but Kai did end up absorbing his brother’s conscience when they merged. There are countless scenarios of how Bonnie and Kai could have developed after he was able to feel.

7 Tyler And Caroline

There are a few ways that Tyler is Caroline’s worst love interest in The Vampire Diaries, but the aspects viewers don’t enjoy can be easily amended. Caroline and Tyler’s buildup was immaculate, and the early stages of their relationship made them easy to ship.

Due to everything that went down between them and Tyler’s eventual death, their romance was broken beyond repair. However, their story can easily be picked up before things went wrong to create a different outcome. If Tyler had chosen Caroline over his vendetta against Klaus, everything would have been different.

6 Damon And Alaric

Damon and Alaric are a friendship that never developed into more, but it’s clear why fans wanted to see this relationship evolve. Because of his tendency to lash out and push people away, Damon wasn’t good at making or keeping friends.

After Damon killed Alaric in a fight, any chance of them being civil seemed off the table. However, circumstances brought them closer together, and they stumbled into something without even realizing it. Alaric never gave up on Damon, despite all the horrible things he did to him. He was the first person to fully accept his faults, and he had Damon’s back long before Elena did.

5 Caroline And Stefan

Stefan and Caroline had a will they/won’t they dynamic during the latter half of The Vampire Diaries. After Stefan’s breakup with Elena, Caroline was the person he went to at the end of the day. It was truly uncertain whether they would get together or not, which made viewers want to see them together more.

Plenty of past fan-fictions focus on when and how Steroline could happen, and the series finale left writers with a giant plotline to amend. Stefan’s death made Caroline a wife and a widow on the same day, which isn’t the outcome shippers were hoping for.

4 Damon And Bonnie

Out of all the non-canon ships, Bamon staying platonic was the most surprising. While best friends can be just that, Caroline and Stefan’s relationship was proof that the series wasn’t opposed to romances rooted in friendship.

Not only did they have onscreen chemistry, but Bonnie and Damon had feelings for each other in The Vampire Diaries book series. With Elena under a sleeping spell until the end of Bonnie’s life, it was the perfect opportunity to pay homage to both ships. The fan-fictions could write themselves with such a prime scenario.

3 Stefan And Elena

A love triangle as intense as Damon, Stefan, and Elena’s was bound to have people on both sides. For every fan that’s ecstatic over Elena choosing Damon, there’s another one mourning the relationship between Elena and Stefan.

Considering how torn Elena was over the Salvatores, she could have just as easily ended up with her first love. Because the series is over and the characters’ fates are decided, Stelena shippers turn to Archive of Our Own to rewrite the outcome of the love triangle.

2 Damon And Elena

If The Vampire Diaries is known for one romance, it’s Damon and Elena’s. Ever since Elena saw Damon’s crow in the pilot, the show was slowly but surely building up to a relationship between them.

Plenty of obstacles prevented them from being together, and the slow burn gave fans time to use fan-fictions to write out their predictions. There are endless scenarios to create for the couple, but viewers can rest easy knowing that Damon and Elena live a long, happy, human life, and remained together after death.

1 Klaus And Caroline

After taking Klaus and Caroline’s popularity and their almost happy ending into account, it’s no surprise that they have the largest number of works on Archive of Our Own. Klaroline has been a fan-favorite ship that’s lasted the test of time, as the majority rooted for them even after they’d been on different shows for years.

They finally got a real chance in The Originals Season 5, which took place almost a decade after Stefan’s death. However, Caroline lost the second chance at love when Klaus sacrificed himself to save his daughter. In another universe, Klaus would have lived and kept his promise to show Caroline the world. This was even made canon in Legacies when Klaus and Caroline were revealed to be married in an alternate universe—one where Hope was never born and he stayed in Mystic Falls.

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