No matter how viewers felt about Damon and
Couple Goals: Damon Was Devoted To Elena
Although he comes to Mystic Falls to free Katherine from the tomb, Damon falls for his brother's girlfriend and is irrecoverably in love with her throughout the rest of the series.
Yet despite his good intentions, Damon can be easily swayed — after all, he once spent a century and a half promising to stay true to Katherine, but fell head over heels for Elena from the moment he laid eyes on her. Translation: Damon loves Elena. But if Elena's not around, he might come to love Bonnie even more.
Ex-Fling, Sexual; Good Friends (Once friends with benefits), They cared about one another, They sympathized with each other, Rose recognized Damon's love for Elena, but Damon did love Rose before her death. Damon grieved Rose's loss.
Elena Gilbert is Damon's girlfriend after season 4 and wife after season 8. Damon already loved her in begining of the series.
Elena Gilbert is a fictional character and protagonist from the novel series The Vampire Diaries.
Aside from caring about his younger brother Stefan, Damon has strong feelings for both Elena and Bonnie, though very different in nature. Damon gives Elena more attention because he sees her as a prize to be won, but he still happens to also love Bonnie.
She also explained why, despite the pairing's popularity in The Vampire Diaries fandom, the two characters never entered into a romantic relationship. You can read Plec's quote below. “Bonnie and Damon had a thing in the books.
It's shown that Damon and Bonnie genuinely care about each other and have made sacrifices for each other. After the many ups and downs in their relationship during Season Seven, they become close again. However, Bonnie is heartbroken to learn that the Armory's monster corrupted Damon's mind and she lost him again.
He chose to save Bonnie's life, knowing that it meant he wouldn't see Elena for decades. Their relationship was much more open and down-to-earth than what Bonnie had with Elena growing up.
Though she and Damon would do nearly anything for each other and Damon is visibly jealous of her relationship with Enzo, the show refused to entertain the possibility that they could've been anything other than friends—and the quality of the series suffered for it.
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Stefan Salvatore is objectively Katherine's best love interest in the series. He was the only person that she loved unconditionally, and it was Stefan that made viewers see Katherine as less of a villain and more of an anti-hero.
Katherine met and fell in love with his younger son Stefan Salvatore, though she quickly began a physical relationship with Stefan's older brother, Damon, as well.
Elena Falls for Damon Without Her Memories
Despite no longer remembering her past with Damon, Elena still feels a strong connection to him and eventually falls for him again. This scene is incredibly powerful because it shows that even without her memories, Elena still has a deep love for Damon.
Enzo. Enzo is a Vampire who becomes Bonnie's new main love interest in the beginning of the seventh season. Her connection with him is the strongest out of all the relationships she has been shown to be in.
Bon Bon (Bonnie)
While Damon has plenty of insulting nicknames for her as well, "Bon Bon" is used to exemplify their closeness.
The Vampire Diaries was a popular series that aired on the CW. It made changes from the books, such as Bonnie and Damon not dating. Bonnie instead ends up in a romantic relationship with Enzo toward the end of the show.
Fans quickly found themselves invested not only in the romantic relationships explored on the show, but also the ones in real life. Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder, who portrayed Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore, respectively, sparked a romance in 2010 and continued to date for three years.
Somtime during season six of The Vampire Diaries, Elena give birth to her and Jacob's first and only child, Bonnie Rebekah Fogerty. They named their daughter in honor of their two friends, Bonnie Bennett and Rebekah Mikaelson.
Katherine was the next doppelgänger after Tatia; a woman whom Klaus was in love with and who was identical to Katherine. Klaus eventually develops feelings for Katherine in The Originals.
Elena and Damon sleep together after she admits to her feelings. It's discovered that because Elena had feelings for Damon when she was human and it was his blood which turned her, a sire bond has been created between them.
Ian Somerhalder (21M Followers)
It could be argued that the most popular character from The Vampire Diaries was Damon Salvatore. The bad boy turned good by love was played by Ian Somerhalder and audiences appreciated his good looks as much as his epic character development over the years.