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This is SUCH a petty thing to care about, but lately it's been bothering me how many people talk about what the cure did to Katherine in The Vampire Diaries, and why would Damon want to take it when that would surely mean him ageing rapidly the way that Katherine did. Katherine didn't die because of the cure, she started ageing rapidly because Silas sucked the cure out of her blood. It wasn't in a blink and you'll miss it moment even, there was a whole cliffhanger build up around Damon feeding Katherine to Silas, yet even critics reviews for the last episode are talking about how it's the cure itself that will cause rapid ageing with older vampires?!

I just don't get why do so many viewers seem convinced that the cure was what somehow killed Katherine, Silas forcibly draining Katherine of the cure was a fairly important plot point?

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It is odd and the only way I can really make sense of it is with the argument that if the cure can only cure one person, if Damon took it and Elena drank from him that would do it. But since there are ways around that such as getting the cure from 1903 as well or Elena taking it and Damon drinking from her, or the writers just ignoring the history and tweaking the facts to suit them , it doesn't need to go down that way.

Yeah idk, from comments I keep coming across, sometimes it seems like half the fandom are under the impression that Katherine died because of taking the cure, rather than because of Silas draining her of it??

It isn't totally clear yet how Damon plans to take the cure as well as Elena, but my best guess is that he has some plan for searching for it in another prison world, they've already established that a single cure can't otherwise be shared between two people, so I hope they don't go back on that