Do you know one character I pity and love in this train wreck of a show? Tyler. Tyler Lockwood.
Tyler, who had an abusive father who looked down on him, who had an uncle who was shady af and was killed by Damon, Tyler who found out he was a werewolf and had to deal with accidentally killing someone, Tyler who was almost sacrificed, Tyler who was killed, then turned into a hybrid servant to Klaus, Tyler who lost the girl that he loved multiple times, including when she slept with Klaus, who also murdered his friends and his mother, Tyler who was killed again and came back human for a while only to have to trigger his werewolf gene by killing his girlfriend, Tyler who was left for dead by the supposed protagonist of the show.
Tyler, who is hated mostly because of a ship (y’all know who you are), but had the best personal growth on the show, coming from being a selfish asshole to somebody who took a wooden bullet in public for his friends, somebody who was chased out of his own home town by an immortal tyrant and is shit on by fans and writers.
I will always defend you, my precious son.
(but seriously, the fans act like Tyler slut-shamed Caroline when all he did was tell her to leave him alone as he was upset, reasonably so. Then Stefan, in one of his less than finest moments, punched him)