Delena (Damon and Elena)
Damon and Elena are finally together, but the universe threw them a curve ball when it was revealed that exes Stefan and Elena are fated to be together due to their doppelgänger-ness. "It's the elephant in the room. When you're in a relationship and there's an ex-boyfriend around, the significant other is always like, 'Hmm, I wonder ... ' There's always that insecurity," Nina Dobrev says. "They might say that it's okay, but it's in the back of their mind. It's the same kind of thing with Elena and Damon. He's pretending to be okay with it, but he can't unthink and unknow what he heard and what he knows now. It will always be in the back of his mind so it will always cause a little bit of tension in their relationship moving forward."
Ian Somerhalder is a bit more casual in how he views Delena's future. "Girls are meant to be gotten and lost. Just like boys are. It's sort of the cycle of life," Somerhalder says. "He is like 155 years older than she is. Talking about some serious cradle robbery. But relationships are hard in life, and relationships are really hard in Mystic Falls. If you don't have conflict, you have no drama, and if you have no drama, you have no TV show. So, relationships don't last that long in Mystic Falls, unless clearly you're a freakin' doppelganger and the universe draws you two together."
Executive producer Julie Plec is really happy with how Elena and Damon are handling the "universe" trying to break them up. "I think the beautiful thing about Damon and Elena right now is in spite of what everyone is saying to them, whether it's in the form of the universe or other people's two cents about it, they're like, 'Hey, look, we know how we feel about each other and we're going to stick to that. We're not going to let some prophecy or whatever affect the way that we view our relationship,'" Plec says. "They're going to have to fight pretty hard to keep that up, but they're going to give it their best shot."
Stelena (Stefan and Elena)
Since Elena is now dating Stefan's brother, don't expect to see a Stelena romantic reunion anytime soon. "I think their love has faded. It's dissipated," Paul Wesley says, despite the universe pulling them together. "It's kind of like when you go to a fortune teller and they tell you, 'You're going to end up with this person.' And you're like, 'Really?' And you can't help but in the back of your mind think that the fortune teller might be correct. It's one of those things, even though you don't really see yourself with that person. Right now, I think Stefan's taking some time to himself. He's 160 years old, so maybe he's kind of over relationships."
While there might be scenes and interesting moments with Elena and Stefan, Wesley says it's the season of Delena."That triangle's kind of, to be honest, a bit on the back burner right now," Wesley says. "I think that that love triangle is not really necessarily a big forefront of what this show has become. It was at one point the only thing really happening."