Bamon

This is how I came across the show, and took an immediate liking to the Damon and Bonnie character.

I was a supernatural fan to start with, and used to watch it here in the UK on the channel ITV4 , on a Wednesday evening at 9 pm.  However, one evening when I tuned to watch my show it was not on, there was this new show called The Vampire Diaries.  I would have turned the channel had not in that moment Damon had said something flippant and Bonnie gave him a witchy headache for his troubles, in that moment my attention was caught and I started to watch more of the show.  When I hear people say Bamon have no chemistry I know they are lying because it was the first thing I noticed about them, and at the time I thought they were a couple on the show, until I began watching more of it.  Then I realised, they were not and a triangle was being sent up between the two Salvatore brothers and Elena.  However, I did pick a ship since there was no Bamon at that time, and since Stefan has this ability to make any ship he is in boring I joined the DE fandom.  However, since I was really at heart a Bamon fan, it meant I spent all my time defending the Bonnie character whom most of the fandom hated with good reason.  Bonnie was in the books and from day one TV Bonnie was seen as a threat and that fandom spend every single day posting how irrelevant Bonnie was to the story and that she should be killed off the show.  Which I suspect had something to do with how many times throughout the seasons she did in fact die.  

However, it was this constant attack on the Bonnie character by most of the DE fans on the forums that lead me to L.J.Smith and her books, and that is when I started to understand their fears, because of how book Bamon was written, it was clear that L.J loved this pairing, and although Damon was supposed to play second fiddle to Stefan in the books and the Bonnie character remain mostly in the back ground, that is not what L.J. her writing of Damon made him a fan favourite, and his love of both Elena and Bonnie gave raise to the two parings of Delena and Bamon, however, this brought her in conflict with the people she was writing the books for, since neither Damon or Bonnie should have featured so heavily within the storyline.   In the end she was fired in 2011 around the end of the 2nd season/start of S3, and TV Bamon scenes limited due to too much chemistry.   I was thankful that she did in the end write the books she had intended to write had she not been fired.  These books are now in the form of the fan fiction trilogy Evensong, from which she has written so far Paradise Lost which takes over from where Midnight left off, after Damon saved Bonnie and lost his life doing so .....to War of Roses which is in two parts, unfortunately the second part has yet to be published because L.J.Smith contracted an illness that nearly cost her...her life and from which she is still recovering and has a long road of recovery ahead of her.  So I wish her well, and hope that some day she will finish what she started and how she wanted things to end......

So as a fully fledged Bamon fan I no longer have to put up with all the vile, nasty stuff the DE fans said about Bonnie, because they feared what took place in the books will eventually happen on TVD, especially now.  Their fear that Kat's closeness to Ian will influence the writers into making Bamon happen, hence their constant harassment of Kat on the Social Media.  The racist elements in the fandom, that wouldn't have a problem with Bamon becoming a love interest had the actress been white and not a POC.  Lastly and most importantly, I no longer have to spend my time  in that fandom, constantly defending Bonnie because she stands in the way of what they want.