At the end of Episode 2.07 “Masquerade”, Damon seals Katherine in the tomb, but not before she tells him that Elena is in danger because she is a doppelganger.
What exactly is a doppelganger, and why would Elena be in danger because of this? Or is this simply another one Katherine’s lies?
Katherine appears to be the incarnation of evil. She is selfish, manipulative, and she kills at the drop of a hat. But I believe that Katherine’s behavior is based on her own desperation. She needs a werewolf, and she needs the moonstone – and she demonstrated that she was willing to do anything to get them. But why?
As I speculated previously in “Wither Rose?”, I believe that Rose is pursuing Katherine to get the moonstone back. Rose wants Katherine dead. Katherine is terrified of Rose.
And there is only one way to keep Rose from killing her – and it involves both the moonstone, a werewolf, and Elena.
It is the Doppelganger Effect.
According to legend (and information I discovered on wisegeek.com!), the real person and their doppelganger are forever linked – if one dies, so does the other. However, because a doppelganger is a “shadow”, there is one time when the danger of the shadow does not exist – and that time is during a full moon, because this is the only time when the real person does not cast a shadow.
If the doppelganger can “replace” the real counterpart for one cycle of the moon, that is if the doppelganger can live the life of the real counterpart for approximately a month – from one full moon to the next – their roles are forever reversed. And vice versa – if the real counterpart can replace the doppelganger for a full cycle of the moon, the doppelganger is eliminated forever.
And what else happens on a full moon? Anyone human bearing the werewolf curse turns into a wolf until the sun rises.
Katherine needs the moonstone because she needs a werewolf on her side. The way to get the werewolf on her side is to promise to remove the curse with the moonstone, as Katherine did with Mason. Presumably, she can offer Tyler the same deal.
Why does Katherine need a werewolf – especially since vampires and werewolves are mortal enemies?
Katherine needs a werewolf to kill Rose – or at least keep her at bay – until she can activate the Doppelganger Effect. Once she does that, she will have succeeded in taking over Elena’s life. And then, Rose will no longer have any power over her.
It also means that she will ultimately wind up with Stefan, as she claims she wanted all along.
However, the Doppelganger Effect works both ways – it is also possible for Elena to eliminate Katherine by replacing her for a cycle of the moon!
We saw at the end of “Masquerade” that Elena has been kidnapped by someone, and that someone is probably Rose. Rose knows exactly what Katherine is up to – and Katherine knows what Rose is up to. This is what Katherine was referring to when she told Damon that Elena is in danger because she’s a doppelganger.
What Katherine did not say- because she is, after all, Katherine – is that she is also in danger – more danger than being locked in a tomb forever. She’s in danger of being eliminated!
I believe that Elena has just become a pawn in a game of chess between two ancient vampires.
Who will win? I have me theories, but they are only speculation….
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The inevitable has happened… Katherine succeeded in unleashing a new werewolf upon Mystic Falls. It’s pretty obvious that Tyler is needed for some reason in order for Katherine’s moonstone plan to go into effect… but now that Katherine is rotting in a tomb somewhere (or is she…) what could this mean for the rest of the Mystic Falls gang?
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Smack Dab in the Middle: Where Bonnie Belongs
by Alison on November 6, 2010
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In Masquerade, Lucy says exactly what Bonnie is thinking, “Damn vampires! They pull you into the middle of it every time.” And while Bonnie thinks she has finally found a kindred spirit (in more ways than one) Lucy tells her she’s wrong—“The middle of it is exactly where you need to be.”
Lucy couldn’t be more right. Bonnie by nature of being a witch is already in the middle of these two worlds—supernatural and human. But a conscious choice to be in the middle of it, and to be one of the “good ones” in the middle of it, offers her a chance at control of her own life in the drama engulfing Mystic Falls.
Because Bonnie is a witch, her existence itself has her straddling the two worlds: the supernatural and human. While the vampires attempt to be human and the humans attempt to understand what it’s like to be a non-human, Bonnie is in a unique position with a unique perspective to understand the fragility of mortality, and yet the power of being different. The fact that she exists in both worlds offers her and the rest of the gang a unique voice on how to handle the fight ahead.
But probably more important than the unique perspective Bonnie brings to the group by being in the middle is the fact that such a position offers her a chance for control of her own fate. Ever since Grams died, Bonnie has felt out of control in her relationships and with her powers. She’s been the outsider. But even as she has tried to stay out of the fight, out of the drama, she gets pulled in every time. She even admits to Jeremy, “I don’t know how to stay out of it.”
If Bonnie makes the conscious choice now to be in the middle, she gets to make a choice about her involvement down the line. She has control of how her powers are used, unlike Lucy, and Emily before her, who was indebted to Katherine and whose powers were subject to Katherine’s whims. Clearly, it has been the Bennett witches’ fate to find themselves under the control of vampires for the last 145 years.
Smack dab in the middle, Bonnie has choices and the control that the rest of the Bennett witches haven’t been so lucky to have.
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