But Caroline, Stefan and Damon at least know they will live forever and that there will be Elena-shaped light at the end of this tunnel. Season 6 opened with Damon and Bonnie trapped within an alternate prison dimension, and it wasnt until a few episodes in that Damon finally made it back to Mystic Falls. Matt, Alaric and Bonnie will likely never see Elena again. (Also, Lily did reunite with her Heretic friends in present day after all.) (Oh, and Tyler turned werewolf after Liv, who was going to die anyway, told him to kill her in his vision farewell to Elena, she told him to leave town.) The bulk of the finale was spent via beautifully sentimental moments in which various characters took Elena inside their minds and said goodbye. So he's very much dead, and Elena will remain in that state for years to come. and then snuck up from behind and tore Kai's head off. What would Damon therefore do? Would he actually kill Bonnie in order to awaken Elena? Or would he wait who-knows-how-many decades before seeing his one true love again?ĭamon was actually faced with this decision directly at one point.īut instead of letting Bonnie die at the hands of Kai, he pretend to flee the scene as a distraction. The latter would remain asleep for as long as the former lived. Because he wanted to torture Bonnie as much as possible, Kai linked her life to that of Elena.

The vampire diaries season 6 summary