@Izzyswan02
You summarized this so perfectly. The distinction you made between the superficial perspective of physical assault versus the absolute erasure of mental and emotional agency is brilliant. With Caroline, Klaus disrespected her boundaries, but with Camille, he completely stripped her of her free will.
That is exactly why I can never convince myself to believe they were ever even a 'thing' or a real couple. Their entire dynamic literally started with compulsion. When a relationship begins with a literal psychological violation, how are we as an audience supposed to just forget that and buy into it as a pure love story?
Because the foundation was built on forced compliance, it honestly felt like she was still just his compelled therapist deep down. She never truly reacted to or acted on the horror of what he did to her mind. A normal person with actual agency would have felt violated, angry, and distrustful, but the writers made her completely passive just to keep her in that supportive box for Klaus.
Like you said, if she didn't choose the option he wanted, he just turned around, used his power, and removed her choice entirely under the guise of 'what's best for her.' It's so frustrating how the show tried to pass off that total removal of consent as some grand romance. You can't have true love when one person has a psychological remote control over the other from day one.
As for Aurora being portrayed as a villain she used as a tool to pass the idea of Klamille being true love if you look at the clear picture she didn't even choose to be a bad person by her choice she was just a normal girl who was traumatized and wanted love just like Klaus she even told Hope in The Legacies how much she loved her father and wanted to be with him but she wasn't enough then straightly told Hope that she carries best parts or her father and I honestly felt bad for her because she was misunderstood even more than Klaus .