It might actually be the same with Stefan. Maybe it has to be mutual because Katherine didn't love Damon back. I'm confused with Stefan and Katherine past relationship.
ya, it doesn't make sense...they should have come up with a different reason for the sire bond. fail.
may be they were only compelled to love her ... may be it was not real love as its between damon n elena ...
or may be damon loved katherine same as elena had her human feelings for damon but only blood sharing activated the bond which was not the case with katherine n damon ....
I think the sire bond maybe less rare because if you think about it, Damon and Stefan were both sired by Katherine.
Here me out. Damon and Stefan were both obsessed with Katherine for over a hundred years. Damon more so. What broke that bond for Stefan was meeting Elena and for Damon it was Katherine telling him that she did not share his feelings for her. Human Damon clearly had feelings for Katherine so that was manified when he was turned.
Why not Damon with Caroline or Vicki? Catherine hates him with a passion so there was clearly no deep love there or remembering how he treated her, made her hate him more. Vicki was not around long enough and was not in love with Damon.
We'll never know if they were sired to Katherine because she faked her death and left them. But Damon's obcession with bringing her back would be consistent with a sire bond - and might explain his deranged behaviour in Season 1:
As the possibility of resurecting her draw nearer he behaved less and less like himself.
The only thing that goes against this is that on the Flashbacks there has never been ANY mention of his obcession for Katherine. We never see him pinning for her. After he met Sage, he became his hedonistic self with no thought for her at all.
Maybe because Katherine didn't have any feelings for Damon.
Tyler was sired to Claus, becayse he felt that Claus made a great favour to him when he turned him. So, you get sired to someone when you think that making you a vamp was a favour that can't be paid, and you feel you want to return that favour, to help your creator. So, subconciusly you follow his orders, eve if you don't want to, because you feel you owe him.
^ The Sire Bond is completely different between vampires and werewolves, as said by Tyler. He may be sired to Klaus, he did everthing he said, but he didn't wanted to have sex with him or he wasn't in love with him at all. When a werewolf gets turned by someone, he is automatically sired to him/her, it doesn't matter if there were feelings or not.
The thing with vampires is something I rather don't understand. I guess I'll have to agree with the fact that Katherine never had any feelings for Damon, just a bit playing with his heart since she loves to play games.
The sire bond thing can be explaned simply by: wolves are pack animals and therefore need an alpha (actually also an omega), which in this case will be the most dominate hybrid - Klaus. It does make sense that they cannot easily disobey him, because it would mean certain death or in the pack rules - diminished survival of the pack, hense selfpreservation, if in this case by subconsiousness...
In the case of vampires it gets a bit complex due to variety of different behaviour models through the years in books and movies. Mostly they are described to be hermits but they due occasionally build groups to increase survival but loyalty is not guaranteed. Creating a new vampire does sometimes create a bond of submission through gratitude, love or total repression. Hense the strength playes a big role here too. Also the creator might be more eager to train the newcomer so he or she should stick around.
When thinking about Damon in general as a creator: he is alpha material due to his aggressive behaviour and his control over himself, he is a strong character and has feelings usually for the ones he turns, so possibly strenghtening the bond for both women who were turned by him (not Vicky) and sired, also they did not seem eager to even fight the situation, so did they actually want to be dominated? Supply and demand...Maybe Elena also trusts Damon more as a vampire than Stefan, after all Stefan is unstable and has been pushing her back and forth emotionally, or/ and she secretly likes the bad boy more. It can also be freak of nature, just happens sometimes. All is guessing until the author reveals his/ her truth.