Hello everyone! I hope you all are enjoying the story.
I just wished to ask a question and give an explanation about something. Do please read it and answer If you can.
My question is: have a lot of people dropped this fic or are just silently reading?
I was gone for a month or so, so it is to be expected that not all former readers are reading again. Perhaps some dropped it or its too low in their library.
I'm asking cause amount of comments primarily are what motivate me to write is all.
Now, onto my explanation.
Katherine- First things for most, the way I have written her In recent chapters DOES NOT ABSOLVE (emphasis not yelling) her of any of her former, absurdly disgusting actions.
We know them, so no need to name them.
I personally for the longest, longest time have hated Katherine with a passion, my comments from earlier chapters, around a month ago show that evidently.
But... I've recently begun thinking of challenging myself as an author.
Can I in a way that is logical and completely in character for Katherine Pierce, write her in a way that she at least can become somewhat of a better person?
If Yes - then I'll make a poll to you guys to suggest what to do with her. Whether she ends up with Lucien (Lucien will still end up with Elena), or only remains his worshipper/best friend, who will always seek only him, and just decide to wait for as long as she can, since she has immortality
If No- she dies. Straight up. Lucien fries her with Force Lightning.
I have given explanations why Katherine is the way she is.
Essentially it all boils down to SURVIVAL AND LOVE.
Katherine wants to survive to enjoy life and her primary thing she desires more than all else is being loved and being IN love.
Katherine sees Lucien as the key to both.
For those who read my author note in the previous chapter know this, but I'm gonna write it here too for those who haven't read that:
How I've written Katherine is I've taken her canon self and put it here, with some adjustments to the past, to fit the upscaled, different world.
Her desires, personality and the like though are like in canon. It's why survival is her goal, and when finding out Lucien is the key she is willing to do all this.
It is also why, that precisely because of that desire for survival, that she can do fucked absolute disgusting up things, like having tried to force herself on Lucien in that dream, despite being attracted not to Lucien's body as a kid, but the concept of Lucien - a god who can be her protector.
Yeah she IS NOT attracted to Lucien, as a kid's body, since again, Katherine is her primarily her canon self with minor adjustments to fit the world. In canon Katherine wasn't interested in kids, right?
Anyway, Katherine can do a lot for survival.
She is... I don't know if the comparison is completely correct, but kind of in a sense like Fang Yuan.
For immortality, Fang Yuan, doesn't care what he does so long as it gets him it (well, he still has his pride, so nothing too humiliating, but still).
If being a demon will get him immortality he will become the greatest of all Demons. If being a saint is what gets him immortality he will be the greatest of the Saints.
Katherine is similar in that, for survival, safety, love, immortality and love. If it means that by becoming someone Lucien loves, likes, she is willing to change enough about herself, that, she gets that.
Like:
1) putting Lucien first,
2) loving him more than life itself,
3) being willing to die for him,
4) Never lying to him
5) Being absolutely loyal to him, and worshipping him as a god.
6)Actually falling in love with him
Etc.
She is WILLING, emphasis on willing, to do all that.
Question, as always is, can she succeed though.
And that's what will base her survival in this fic.
Well, I hope you all read this and I hope to see you all later,
Bye!