Root for them in real life. I get Tyler’s reasons for wanting revenge - don’t get me wrong, his hatred for Klaus is 1000% justified - and I understood that he didn’t want his life to be controlled by Klaus anymore, I just feel like he should have skipped the whole revenge thing because he didn’t really have a realistic chance of winning. And Klaus never asked Caroline to sleep with him, she initiated that and we both know he did not plan or expect that to happen. Idc about Hayley, but her baby was innocent. Let’s just agree to disagree here because it’s clear we are both biased for our ships. The main reason I ship Klaroline over Forwood at the end of the day is because I enjoy their chemistry, their dynamic and I honestly don’t find Forwood scenes particularly unique or interesting. I liked them in season 2, (and I thought their hug in 5x04 was adorable) but nowadays I find them stale but that’s really just my preference for more forbidden, impossible romance stories.

I get that they’re vampires and they’re all capable of doing horrible things but that doesn’t mean they should be excused just because the outcome ended up being okay. Jeremy and Caroline may have healed, but they almost didn’t. If Jeremy hadn’t been wearing his ring and if Tyler hadn’t brought Caroline back they would have died because that was the intention of the act. I fall into the trap myself sometimes of excusing stuff I probably shouldn’t, like despite everything Klaus has done to Rebekah I still love their relationship, but I’m trying to be more aware of that. Because relationships where one side does despicable things to the other are generally unequal and just dangerous. I find it hard to root for something like that and I could never want my favorite characters with someone like that. Because who knows what the other person will do to them every time something goes wrong? And yes ideally I would have loved for Tyler to have skipped his revenge plan because you’re right there’s no way he could have won that and it would have put him [and Caroline] through less pain had he not done that. But I also understand that he was broken and full of anger and he was just so lost so I understand why he felt the need to do it. He needed to regain some control over his life and he needed to try to avenge his mom, I get that. But I still love Forwood because of what they were. They were two lost kids who were popular but didn’t like themselves, who helped each other through the toughest time of their lives. Tyler broke a sire bond for her, Caroline continuously fought to keep him safe and helped him through his transformation, tyler risked his life to give her the perfect prom and through Caroline’s love he learned to become one of the most moral characters on the show and a real leader, they were always there when they needed each other most and would go through hell for each other. So yeah let’s just agree to disagree haha, because we are both biased for our ships and there’s likely nothing anyone can say to change either of our minds lol.