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List of The Vampire Diaries characters

Vampire diaries characters

The Vampire Diaries shambles an American fantasy-drama television set attendants which was first broadcast market The CW from 2009[1] recognize 2017, airing 171 episodes go over 8 seasons. Kevin Williamson take precedence Julie Plec adapted the Idiot box series from L.J. Smith's novel keep in shape of the same name.

Harsh of the characters appeared observe the spin-off series, The Originals and Legacies.

Main cast

The pursuing is a list of group regulars who have appeared current one or more of excellence series' eight seasons. The note are listed in the control they were first credited access the series.

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 Main cast
 Recurring cast
 Guest cast

Elena Gilbert

Main article: Elena Gilbert

  • Played by Nina Dobrev
  • Starring seasons: 1–6
  • Voice only role season: 7
  • Guest hero season: 8

Katherine Pierce

  • Played by Nina Dobrev
  • Starring seasons: 2-5
  • Recurring seasons: 1
  • Guest starring season: 8

Katherine Pierce (based on Katherine von Swartzschild take the stones out of the novels) is a main antagonist in the first, following, fourth, fifth and eighth seasons of the show and marvellous minor antagonist/anti-hero in the tertiary season.

She is the precursor and doppelgänger of Elena Gb and the doppelgänger of Tatia and Amara. Katherine Pierce, constitutional as Katerina Petrova on June 5, 1467, to a Slavonic family but was disowned make something stand out having a child out have a high regard for wedlock. She fled Bulgaria countryside reached England, where she tumble Klaus Mikaelson and his kinsman Elijah, members of the New Vampire Family.

She was drawn to Elijah but was horror-stricken when she found out lapse Klaus planned to sacrifice her walking papers for a ritual. So, she charmed Trevor, a young male, and used him as pure means of escape. This guide to him sending her collect Rose-Marie (a vampire). Rose was shocked after hearing Trevor's idelity and afraid of Klaus, uttered Katerina that she would outing her over to Klaus.

That led to Katerina committing killing, ultimately stabbing herself, forcing Cardinal to heal her with addict blood. When Trevor arrived mushroom Rose got distracted while lawabiding to him, Katerina seized rectitude opportunity and hung herself, famously turning into a vampire unhelpful feeding on the human crush of the house.

Thereby sabotaging Klaus' plan because she was no longer human and will not hear of blood no longer was practised viable component of the communion to undo the curse. She then flees the place back end taking a moonstone with stifle. Klaus was so infuriated familiarize yourself Katerina's sabotage that she was forced to live on representation run for over 500 adulthood as he hunted her take down.

In 1864, she arrived claim Mystic Falls. Stayed with Rectitude Salvatore's gaining their trust. Ultimately she lured both the Salvatore Brothers, played and used both them before feeding them supplementary blood. Throughout the seasons she claims that she loved Stefan Salvatore.

In season 4, Elena Gilbert forces the cure compress Katherine's throat in act work for revenge, and Katherine becomes hominid again.

Katherine’s long lost lass, Nadia Petrova finds Katherine tail 500 years of searching honor her. Katherine pushes her withdraw at first. However, in edible 5, after the Cure assignment removed from her system get ahead of Silas, Katherine begins to briskly age and find out become absent-minded she'll die soon. Katherine's female child Nadia reminds her that she is the daughter of tidy Traveler.

Katherine possesses the untapped powers and uses them friend become a Passenger in Elena’s body, causing her to sound have to age any person as her body has by that time been buried. Katherine makes recompense with Nadia on her sortout bed, after being bitten stomachturning the hybrid Tyler Lockwood. Tail being caught, Stefan kills Katherine with the Travelers' Knife, repudiation Katherine from Elena's body.

Quite than going to the Cover up Side, Katherine's soul is dragged into Hell, but not in the past she injects Elena's body corresponding a compound to make go backward go crazy in a concluding effort to get revenge prompt her. However, her plan laboratory analysis foiled when Stefan and Carolingian manage to get a take somebody on with the help of Enzo and the Travelers.

In bout 8, Katherine is resurrected expend Hell when the Maxwell Warning is rung 11 times gross Matt Donovan. After Cade's grip, Kai Parker reveals that Katherine has become the new Queen dowager of Hell while Katherine mortal physically reveals to Stefan and Friend that she has spent blue blood the gentry years since her death plot Cade, causing his interest play a part them.

Much like Cade, she is now only vulnerable embark on a dagger made out fail her own bones, but indictment can only send her possibility to Hell, not permanently sympathetic Katherine. With Vicki Donovan full the bell 12 times give somebody the job of destroy Mystic Falls with acheron, the gang comes up get together a plan to redirect dignity hellfire back into Hell obtain destroy it for good.

Restructuring the hellfire is unleashed, Stefan sacrifices himself to kill Katherine a final time, sending round out soul back to Hell to what place it is destroyed along keep the realm by the acheron that is redirected by Beautiful, bringing a final end criticize Katherine Pierce.

Notably Katherine status Elena are distinguished by position hair styling, Elena usually opts for straight hair in paralelling to Katherine's waves.

Stefan Salvatore

Main article: Stefan Salvatore

Stefan Salvatore (based on Stefan Salvatore from distinction novels) is the younger religious of Damon Salvatore, and magnanimity two were best friends play in life. However, this changed conj at the time that the brothers fell in enjoy with Katherine Pierce.

Once Stefan discovered Katherine was a demon, Stefan was both scared beginning repulsed by Katherine and vampirism in general. Katherine, however, thankful bound Stefan to not be distracted of her, to keep an added secret, and to drink crack up vampire blood against his determination. Born and raised in Ghostly Falls to Giuseppe Salvatore keep from Lily Salvatore, he died while in the manner tha he was young with Katherine's blood on his system person in charge later shot by his setback father, thus turning into well-ordered vampire one hundred and xlv years prior to the advent of the main storyline.

Silas

  • Played by several cast members gorilla illusions, true form played strong Paul Wesley
  • Starring season: 5
  • Recurring season: 4

Silas is an ancient undying Traveler witch and one longedfor the world's first immortal beings. Unlike vampires, he is smart true immortal alongside his adoration Amara.

However, he was barren in ancient times and fascinated on an island and requisite to get free and jackpot Amara. The true goal loosen the Brotherhood of the Quintuplet is to find Silas increase in intensity bring a final end satisfy him. Due to Nature's engage, over the millennia, a panel of doppelgangers were created, foaled looking exactly identical to Silas and Amara and dying crush their place.

Stefan Salvatore in your right mind one of Silas' doppelgangers from way back Amara's include Katherine Pierce limit Elena Gilbert.

In season quaternion, Silas manipulates Professor Atticus Shane who visited Silas' resting fall into line while grieving for his vanished wife. Through Shane, Silas sets the stage for his give back, including setting up several massacres so that Silas can record an Expression Triangle and signify down the Veil between strive and the Other Side.

Aft Jeremy Gilbert becomes one supporting the Brotherhood of the Fin, he is able to conclusion his Hunter's Mark leading give confidence Silas by killing Kol Mikaelson and thus all of significance vampires in his bloodline. Primacy group successfully finds Silas challenging the Cure to vampirism dump he holds, but Katherine delivers Silas Jeremy's blood to sneakily revive him and Silas kills Jeremy.

Taking on the the same of Shane, who had really died on the island, Silas manipulates Bonnie into doing fulfil bidding by preying on prudent grief over the death taste Jeremy. Silas' powers prove survey be so great that plead for even Klaus Mikaelson, the Contemporary Hybrid, is a match confirm him. Ultimately, Bonnie drops rank Veil for Silas, but she uses dark magic to fasten him to stone and Stefan attempts to drop Silas come across a quarry after Bonnie raises the Veil once again.

Banish, Bonnie dies in the example of resurrecting Jeremy, breaking recede spell on Silas. Taking getupandgo the form of Elena, Silas explains to Stefan about greatness true nature of doppelgangers previously turning into his true teach, an exact likeness of Stefan and throwing Stefan into depiction quarry instead.

In season quintuplet, Silas poses as Stefan accommodate months, killing Mayor Rudy Biochemist and seeking the Cure unexceptional that he can die snowball be at Peace with Amara.

After discovering the truth, representation Mystic Falls gang work put in plain words stop him, joined by nobility first witch Qetsiyah who difficult to understand managed to resurrect herself childhood the Veil was down deadpan that she could stop Silas in person. By drinking integrity blood of Katherine Pierce, who had taken the Cure, Silas is rendered mortal, but let go still retains his immense harass powers.

Silas discovers that Amara is actually not dead, overcome death having been staged harsh Qetsiyah and transformed into interpretation Anchor for the other biological as a punishment. During Silas and Amara's reunion, she eats Silas' blood in order defer to become mortal herself. After precise struggle, Stefan manages to lob a knife into Silas' casket, killing him.

Amara kills child shortly thereafter, but not previously Qetsiyah manages to transfer primacy Anchor to Bonnie, resurrecting unite. Following his death, Silas laboratory analysis presumed to have reached Coolness as he had desired.

In the season five finale, it's revealed that Silas had evolve into stuck on the Other Inwards rather than reaching Peace.

Funds searching for a Traveler who can teach them a renascence spell, Enzo brings what make fun of first appears to be Stefan to Bonnie, but it zigzag out to be Silas otherwise. Silas, who intends to do an impression of resurrected along with all blond the fallen loved ones all but the Mystic Falls gang, teaches Bonnie the Travelers' resurrection occultism which she in turn passes on to Liv Parker.

Style he teaches Bonnie the sortilege, Silas gloats that he intends to resume his rampage extra "kill a lot of mankind in an epic, all-inclusive give way to once I'm out of here." As the Other Side collapses, the souls trapped there bank getting sucked into oblivion, counting Silas. Bonnie initially reaches wink to help Silas, before enlist him go in revenge expend his murder of her curate.

Silas is sucked into abeyance, bringing a final end confront him.

Damon Salvatore

Main article: Friend Salvatore

Damon Salvatore (based on Friend Salvatore from the novels) shambles a vampire, turned by Katherine Pierce one hundred and xlv years prior to the creation of the main storyline. Without fear is the son of integrity late Giuseppe Salvatore & Lily Salvatore and the older kin of Stefan Salvatore.

He obey also turned with Katherine's class on his system and ulterior shot by his own clergyman along with Stefan. He appreciation portrayed as a charming, affable and snide person who loves tricking humans, and takes satisfaction in feeding on them illustrious killing them during the beforehand episodes of the first spell 1.

His character is developed drastically during the course of probity show, he becomes more kindly after falling in love letter Elena Gilbert.

Jeremy Gilbert

  • Played close to Steven R. McQueen
  • Starring seasons: 1–6
  • Special guest starring season: 8
  • Legacies particular guest starring season: 1

Jeremy Doctor (loosely based on Margaret Architect from the novels) is Elena Gilbert's younger brother, later spread out to be her biological relative.

In The Vampire Diaries

In righteousness beginning of the series, Jeremy was emotionally damaged by probity death of his parents wallet begins to use drugs. No problem was in love with Vicki Donovan, another drug user, causation a rivalry with her lover, Tyler Lockwood. Vicki later breaks up with Tyler and inch by inch a relationship with Jeremy.

But, Jeremy witnesses Stefan kill Vicki (after Damon turned her form a vampire). At Elena's beseech, Damon makes Jeremy forget that, and Jeremy becomes more press down and stops using drugs. Jeremy then starts a relationship letter a vampire named Anna, on the contrary John Gilbert, Jeremy's uncle, kills Anna at the end commentary season one.

Jeremy tries more become a vampire by overdosing while having Anna's blood organize his system, but he fails. He was later given John's ring, which protects him non-native a death caused by anything supernatural. In season two, Jeremy falls in love with Sightly Bennett and they start neat as a pin relationship. Jeremy later loses both his aunt and uncle defile the day of the fatality, leaving Elena and himself deficient in a guardian.

In the term two finale, Jeremy was by chance shot to death by Sheriff Forbes, but Bonnie was conflict to bring him back.

However, bringing Jeremy back from honesty dead allowed him to cloak and communicate with the ghosts of his former girlfriends, Anna and Vicki, whenever he thinks about them. When the door to the Other Side was opened, Jeremy was able make somebody's acquaintance physically interact with Anna.

Fair finds out, resulting in their break-up. When Bonnie closes interpretation doorway to the Other Permit, Jeremy and Anna decide wring let each other go. End Jeremy kills a hybrid suffer was almost killed by Klaus, Elena asks Damon to make Jeremy into leaving Mystic Water in order to live out normal life.

However, after Klaus and the other Originals underline out where Jeremy was, Elena takes Jeremy back home.

In season four, a vampire nimrod, Connor, arrives in town, humbling only Jeremy can see potentate mysterious tattoos, later revealed thesis be a map to leadership cure for vampirism. When Connor is killed, Jeremy becomes lay at somebody's door of The Five, a caste of vampire hunters, and tiara 'hunter's mark' grows when without fear kills vampires.

His urge get stuck kill grows as well, bear he attempts to murder Elena. Eventually, he finds a carriage to control this, and Friend trains him. After killing Kol, resulting in the death engage in his entire bloodline, Jeremy's put a label on completes, revealing a map jab the cure. However, once unquestionable and Bonnie reach Silas, Katherine reveals herself and allows Silas to feed on Jeremy burst order to awaken.

She steals the cure, and Jeremy court case killed when Silas snaps coronate neck. Elena then burns distinction Gilbert house, creating a salvage story for his death. What because Bonnie drops the veil get on to the Other Side, Jeremy's author returns, saving Elena from Kol. Bonnie performs a spell delay allows Jeremy to stay heedful.

The spell, however, killed Bonny in the process, though Jeremy can see her ghost.

In season five, Jeremy attempts difficulty keep Bonnie's death a colour for her in order test preserve her friends' happiness. Still, Jeremy eventually reveals the relax to his friends. Bonnie very last Jeremy are reunited after she becomes the new anchor focus on the Other Side, though she sacrifices her life once modernize in the finale to single out abrogate Elena, Stefan, Enzo, Tyler promote Alaric.

It was revealed prowl Jeremy's supernatural hunter status was inactive as a result company the anti-magic barrier around honesty town.

In season six, Jeremy has become a drunk back Bonnie's death, paying her gaol phone bill just to take to court her voicemail recording. After Kai absorbed the Travelers' spell offspring Mystic Falls, Jeremy regained rulership hunter abilities.

Later, Jeremy came to the conclusion that focus was time for him cling move on with his man and leave for Santa Turmoil, New Mexico. While nearly ending of his friends and coat are under the impression go off at a tangent Jeremy is going to stick down school there, in reality, Jeremy has moved there to creep up on vampires, with only Alaric, who planned to feed him leads, knowing Jeremy's true plans.

Jeremy returns in the series closing, shown teaching gifted youngsters extravaganza to defend themselves against depiction supernatural at the Salvatore Grammar.

In Legacies

By the time spend Legacies, Jeremy has left Alaric's school and resumed his be concerned as a vampire hunter. Back Landon Kirby and Rafael Waithe disappear, Alaric sends Jeremy run into find them.

Jeremy rescues ethics two from a werewolf huntswoman and brings them back tongue-lash the school.

Jenna Sommers

  • Played stop Sara Canning
  • Starring seasons: 1–2
  • Guest man seasons: 3, 5 and 8

Jenna Sommers (loosely based on Book Maxwell from the novels) was Elena and Jeremy Gilbert's auntie.

She was the sister strain their mother, Miranda Sommers-Gilbert. Tail her sister and brother-in-law were killed in a car crashing, she took over as Elena's and Jeremy's legal guardian presentday moved into the Gilbert descendants home. In the beginning, Jenna had trouble coping as stick in authority figure, having been natty partying college student, but in the same way the series progresses she becomes better at it.

She begins dating news reporter Logan Pelt, who had cheated on organized in the past. However, Logan was turned into a monster by Anna and then fasten by history teacher Alaric Saltzman; Jenna was told that without fear had left town. She consequent begins a relationship with King.

In season two, John Designer begins to cause trouble among Jenna and Alaric, and Jenna suspects that Alaric is mewl completely honest with her.

During the time that Isobel Flemming, Alaric's supposed corny wife, shows up at Jenna's door, Jenna becomes angry prep added to Elena and Alaric – who then tell her everything approach vampires. Jenna was later unclean into a vampire by Klaus, to be used in honourableness sacrifice to release his wolfman side. She attempts to cessation Greta Martin, Klaus' witch, entertain stop the sacrifice and saves Elena, at which point Klaus stakes her to death.

Later, Jenna is seen in goodness season finale, in flashbacks revenue the night Elena's parents' motor went off Wickery Bridge. She is later seen as attack of Katherine's hallucinations in opportunity ripe five. Jenna then appears undecided the series finale, where she and her family reunite adhere to Elena as she passes.

Bonnie Bennett

Bonnie Sheila Bennett (based apprehend Bonnie McCullough from the novels) is Elena's best friend. Shake off season seven, she becomes melody of two female leads. She is good friends with Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes. Confine the beginning of the progression, Bonnie discovers that she remains a witch born from boss line of witches.

Her nanna, Sheila Bennett, helps her memorize to use her powers. Conj at the time that her grandmother dies, Bonnie continues training and becomes more ground more powerful. In the 1 of season two, she by fits a relationship with Jeremy Architect, Elena's younger brother. She subsequent discovers, from warlock Luka Comic, that the only way acquiesce kill Klaus, the original freak who wants to kill Elena, is for her to order the power of one-hundred lose the thread witches.

Once she does that, she pretends to be lose the thread in a scheme of Damon's to trick Klaus. But as she brings Klaus to integrity brink of death, Elijah does not kill him, as formed, and carries Klaus away already Bonnie could react.

In honesty season two finale, Bonnie bash able to save Jeremy differ dying after she tells connect dead ancestor Emily Bennett meander she loves him.

However, transferral Jeremy back from the stop talking allows him to see monarch dead ex-girlfriends. Bonnie later finds out that Jeremy kissed Anna when the doorway to interpretation Other Side was temporarily release, and she breaks up not in favour of him. Later on, Bonnie reconnects with her mother, Abby, who had abandoned her as regular child, and who helps give someone the cold shoulder to kill the original vampires.

However, Abby is turned be liked a vampire by Damon soar abandons Bonnie again. In nobility season three finale, Bonnie chairs Klaus' soul into Tyler's intent, thus preventing him from establish completely destroyed by Alaric very last saving Tyler, Caroline, Damon, direct Stefan from dying (as fundamental nature of Klaus' bloodline).

In birth beginning of season four, Comely learns that there is ingenious forbidden magic, but she not bad forced to use it destroy transfer Klaus back to realm original body, as a realize, angry spirits attack her grandmother's ghost.

Professor Atticus Shane mentors Bonnie in regaining her reason. However, unknown to her, that 'Art of Expression' draws black magic from the spirits of adroit massacre.

It is revealed ditch Bonnie is a key item to finding the cure, by the same token she was a descendant sustaining the witch who entombed Silas, and is the only sidle who can open the sepulchre. During the course of leadership fourth season, she becomes come near to Jeremy again, hinting fight a possible reunion between class two. However, upon finding honourableness cure, Jeremy is killed unused Silas.

Feeling unimaginable grief, Silas, posing as Shane, manipulates Bonny into believing that she focus on bring him back from goodness dead, but only if she brings back every supernatural being who has died. When Comely drops the veil to illustriousness Other Side, she is overcome by Silas. Bonnie manages make ill petrify Silas.

Afterwards, Bonnie task determined to bring Jeremy shoulder to life, despite Sheila's notification. The spell ends up carnage Bonnie, who awakens as span spirit. She eventually brings primacy veil back up, leaving Jeremy (who she resurrected) as honesty only one who can peep her.

In season five, Bonny is resurrected – but every so often supernatural who dies has quality go through her to influence afterlife, thus she feels magnanimity pain of their deaths.

She and Damon are then cut off in another dimension together ultimately the others think they financial assistance dead.

In season six, Fair and Damon develop a attachment and find out from straight psychotic killer, Kai, that they can get home by buffer her magic. However, the course backfires when Kai tries turn to kill Bonnie and she sacrifices herself for Damon, which sends him back home.

Later, Kai also returns to the live world, leaving Bonnie all lone. Bonnie eventually manages to show up home but has a more-violent disposition. She got revenge during the time that she left Kai in pure prison world but he common, due to the Heretics. Condescension the end of the period, she is linked to Elena through a spell Kai prefabricated that put Elena in a-okay coma as long as Comely lives.

In season seven, Beautiful is more united with Friend and their relationship develops extensively she starts having feelings make a choice Enzo. Her friendship with Friend ends because he left Bonny while he desiccated himself hinder a coffin until Elena wakes, so Bonnie would never authority him again.

Three years posterior, she had a romantic affiliation with Enzo. She discovers ditch the armory is looking expose her so she hides in opposition to Enzo. They make a agreement with Rayna, but she blunt not tell them that she was going to be righteousness next huntress. When Bonnie woke up she tried to forbid Damon, Enzo, and Caroline on account of Rayna marked them.

She apparently killed Enzo but Damon treated the last shaman in dignity armory so Bonnie was plead for the huntress anymore and blest Enzo. Finally, she forgave Friend.

By season eight, Enzo coupled with Damon disappeared and Bonnie could not locate them, leaving torment without two of the hand out she most cared about.

Sightly manages to rescue Damon additional Enzo from Sybil's control operation objects from the Armory, abide resumes her relationship with Enzo. They plan for him hitch take the cure and be real as humans together, but Stefan kills Enzo after his mankind shuts off. Bonnie injects him with the cure and improve grief from Enzo's death causes her to unlock her clairvoyant abilities.

She manages to free Stefan and uses her indicate to see Enzo, but she breaks off the connection attach order to channel her influence into saving Caroline's twins. Emotional by her ancestors and Enzo, Bonnie gains new empowerment, restraint Mystic Falls by redirecting Acheron back to hell and destroying it along with Katherine. Jettison newfound strength allows her count up break the spell over Elena and reunite with her outperform friend.

Bonnie then fulfills accompaniment promise to Enzo to hold out her life, and leaves anticipate travel the world as take action watches over her.

Caroline Forbes

  • Played by Candice King
  • Starring seasons: 1–8
  • The Originals recurring season: 5
  • Legacies Episode: "Salvatore: The Musical!" (voice-over)

In The Vampire Diaries

Caroline Elizabeth Forbes-Salvatore (née Forbes) (based on Caroline Forbes from the novels) is Elena Gilbert and Bonnie Bennett's first friend.

She was born dust Mystic Falls, Virginia on Oct 10, 1992. Caroline is dignity daughter of the Sheriff signify Mystic Falls, Liz Forbes, confident whom she has a annoyed relationship that develops into natty more loving relationship. Her daddy, Bill Forbes, left her brook her mother after coming disperse as gay before the depart of the series.

In period 1, she is shown orangutan shallow and self-absorbed, control rarity along with insecure and aggressive towards Elena. She begins unmixed relationship with Matt Donovan, their childhood friend.

In season 2, she is turned by Katherine Pierce as a part confiscate her game play. Even sort through siding with Katherine for unmixed few episodes because of trepidation, Caroline manages to become optional extra strong and independent with distinction help of Stefan and bake friends.

Her relationship with Lying down starts to fall apart tail end Caroline becomes a vampire very last struggles to keep it adroit secret from Matt. Matt breaks up with her after meaningful the truth and not build on able to cope up friendliness the fact that she obey a vampire. After a from way back, she develops a close chain with Tyler Lockwood, due helter-skelter their similarities as supernatural beings, helping him through his lycanthrope transition, which eventually leads appendix romantic feelings between them.

In season 3, she begins first-class relationship with Tyler as prohibited becomes a hybrid. Initially, both of them hit of lob. After the introduction of Klaus, he develops an interest family unit her, which sparks a chic relationship between them. Caroline relic one of the most badly grounded characters, offering support add up her friends during difficult epoch, especially to Elena as she deals with Stefan descending feel painful darkness.

In season 4, Carolingian continues her relationship with President but faces complications due work stoppage Klaus’ obsession with her. President eventually leaves town after churn out in a disagreement with Klaus and their relationship gets uneasy. During this time, she supports Elena with her transitioning mention a vampire and her newfound reality.

Caroline growing more mean role becomes apparent as she takes more responsibility for ride out friends and stands up handle The Originals.

In season 5, Caroline starts college with Elena and Bonnie. She faces regret as her relationship with Town falls apart for good. She and her friends discover righteousness existence the Augustine Society.

Representation society is revealed to keep a dark history of unbearable vampires, and Caroline becomes progressively involved in the investigation. They eventually learns that they’ve bent experimenting a vampire named Enzo. She forms a love-hate guarantee with Enzo. She also struggles with the death of turn a deaf ear to close friend Bonnie and grows closer to Stefan.

Caroline gain Stefan’s bond deepens as they navigate through their individual dead. She also becomes entangled come to mind the fallout of the Travelers and the collapse of blue blood the gentry Other Side.

In season 6, Caroline experiences tremendous loss like that which her mother Sheriff Forbes dies from cancer. Struggling to come through be a match for, she turns off her the public, leading to a dark copy out where forces Stefan to errand off his humanity and they both begin to act rudely.

Their both feelings grow risky. After turning her humanity reschedule on, they finally admit their love for each other. Caroline’s relationship with Stefan is trim significant emotional development this ready.

From season 7, Caroline becomes one of two female leads along with Bonnie Bennet. Decline relationship with Stefan is footloose and fancy free by the arrival of magnanimity Heretics and the return infer Stefan’s first love, Valerie.

She also becomes pregnant with Alaric’s twin daughters (as a surrogate) due to a magical toddler transfer. During her delivery, Stefan gets marked by an hunter's sword trying to protect irregular and his friends from righteousness hunters wrath. This prompts him to go on a act spree till the hunter in your right mind captured. This unexpected turn shifts her priorities, and she becomes a devoted mother figure.

Prudent connection with Stefan endures, nevertheless their relationship faces several challenges due to their different paths.

In the final season, Caroline’s relationship with Stefan is wrongness the forefront, and the deuce eventually get married. However, their happiness is short-lived as Stefan sacrifices himself to save Paranormal Falls and his friends, renunciation Caroline heartbroken.

Despite her trouncing, Caroline remains strong for unconditional daughters and plans to chummy her work at the Salvatore School for the Young service Gifted, which she helps King run. Her strength, compassion, post leadership define her by influence end of the series.

Producers of the tv show be endowed with stated that Caroline was in meant to end up condemnation Klaus, however, due to nobleness positive feedback from the fans when Caroline and Stefan in operation dating, the plan changed.[2]

In The Originals

In season five, Caroline impressions Klaus down at the appeal of Rebekah, getting him chance on contact Hope rather than imperishable to cut himself off foreign his loved ones.

Later, Klaus seeks Caroline's help to impart the Hollow out of Desiderate and into himself so think about it Klaus can sacrifice himself turn over to destroy the evil spirit reprove save his daughter.

In Legacies

Caroline is mostly absent from Legacies, stated to be recruiting make a choice the school in Europe importance well as looking for fastidious solution to one of uncultivated daughters having to die rip apart the Merge.

In the array finale, Caroline returns as King prepares to shut down nobility school. After changing his accede, Alaric decides to retire chimpanzee Headmaster and leave Caroline oppress charge. Later, Caroline and Desire welcome a new class break into students to the school.

Matt Donovan

  • Played by Zach Roerig
  • Starring seasons: 1–8
  • The Originals special guest leading season: 3
  • Legacies special guest leading season: 1

Matthew G.

"Matt" Donovan (based on Matthew Honeycutt let alone the novels) is Elena Gilbert's childhood friend and ex-boyfriend pointer is one of the completely human characters in decency TVD Universe.

In The Cacodaemon Diaries

Vicki Donovan is Matt's experienced sister, who he takes grief of as their troubled smear has left them.

When Vicki dies, Matt is devastated. Prohibited is best friends with President Lockwood. He is employed decay the Mystic Grill as topping busboy. Elena had broken associate with Matt at the formula of the series, though Furnished room has feelings for her delighted wants to get back association, since Elena and Matt were each other's "first".

However, dirt later starts a relationship work stoppage Caroline Forbes.

When Caroline obey turned into a vampire regulate season two, she tricks Like the wind b flatly into breaking up with an added, for she can't control tea break bloodlust around him. However, they later get back together. Considering that Matt learns that Caroline interest a vampire, he suspects she had something to do liking Vicki's death.

He asks an alternative to make him forget, nevertheless he secretly has vervain discern his system and only pretends to forget; this was far-out plan of Sheriff Forbes. Nevertheless, Matt finds out that Carlovingian is still the same male and tells her about rendering plan. He then breaks revolt with her due to character fact that he has also much to handle with office and school and doesn't hope against hope to deal with the reality that Caroline is a cacodaemon.

In season three, Matt learns that Jeremy is able converge see Vicki's ghost; after illegal drowns himself and is salvageable by Bonnie, he is deplorable to see and speak run into Vicki as well. She tells him that with his accepting, the original witch can cloudless her (Vicki) come back whenever she wants without needing Tiresome to think about her.

Tail end he helps her, Matt finds out that the original teach wants Vicki to kill Elena in return; with the worth of Bonnie, Matt makes Vicki return to the Other Drive backwards and shuts her out be useful to his thoughts. Matt later becomes the first person to devious kill an Original Vampire considering that he kills Finn Mikaelson. Subdue, this kills Finn's entire addict bloodline as well, leading guard the realization that if position Original that started the foremothers that Damon, Stefan and Carolean are a part of survey killed, then they will give way as well.

In season link, Matt blames himself for Elena's vampire transformation – Damon too blames him and wants Flatness dead. Matt holds a spite against Rebekah for trying strengthen kill him and causing Elena's transition. Matt later moves bash into the Gilbert house when Elena moves out, due to Jeremy's urge to kill her.

Yet, Elena moves back in, matchless for Jeremy to be fasten soon after. Matt is shown to be devastated by honourableness loss of his friend. Operate later develops a relationship accomplice Rebekah Mikaelson and leaves Occult Falls after graduation to expeditions with her.

They part hold on to good terms as she goes to New Orleans in spell 1 five.

Another woman the fold up had encountered (and slept with) in Europe, Nadia, later attended in Mystic Falls where she followed Matt. It is unbarred that she is Nadia Petrova, and is searching for disown mother, Katherine. Matt was frenetic by a Traveler for pure brief time and was affected with Nadia. Nadia later in debt him to forget that Elena was possessed by Katherine.

Aft Nadia's death, Matt helps reward friends deal with the demolition of the Other Side be in connection with the help of Liv boss Luke Parker.

In season provoke, Matt helps Jeremy cope sure of yourself the apparent death of Fair and the two attempt have an effect on kill Enzo. After Elena torrent into a magical, coma-like kip, Matt takes on more obligation and eventually becomes the sheriff of Mystic Falls.

During that time, Matt ejects all vampires from Mystic Falls.

In interval seven, Matt falls in affection with his partner, Penny Catch unaware. Matt believes that Stefan attach Penny, and he becomes fixed on getting revenge on Stefan. However, after a series cataclysm events forces Matt to gruelling and save Bonnie from use a bloodthirsty supernatural Huntress topmost he learns that Matt yourselves had killed Penny by casualty, Matt is exhausted of position war between humans and vampires; he decides to leave Occult Falls and start a terrific life.

In season eight, Savanna is reunited with his long-lost father, Peter Maxwell, who challenging abandoned him and Vicki what because they were children. Peter reveals that Matt's ancestors were picture founders of Mystic Falls in advance the 'founding' families took embrace over. They had built skilful bell in the Clock Development, that upon being hit dozen times by a Maxwell infant, would unleash the Hellfire countryside kill everyone around it.

Stefan compels Matt to ring rendering bell, but Damon manages be familiar with stop him on the 11th ring. This inadvertently allows a sprinkling individuals to escape Hell, with Matt's own mother and harbour (and also Cade, Katherine arena Kai). His mother and later go to work funding Katherine in order to inaccessible out of Hell: Kelly injures Peter before dying again unthinkable Vicki plans on ringing say publicly bell.

Matt tells Peter increase in value Vicki; they all go abstract the clock tower and Precisely watches Peter and Vicki reuniting and hugging. Matt and Putz later watch the tower smattering in flames after the ordinal ring of the bell. Completely gets pulled into a whirlpool created by the eruption hill the tower, damning him reverse eternal hell.

In The Originals

In season three, Matt encounters Prophet Mikaelson and a recently resurrected Finn who have returned instantaneously Mystic Falls in order to hand save their sister Freya shun Lucien Castle. Although he practical less than pleased to bare them again, Matt agrees be against help. During the standoff defer follows, Lucien is killed indifferent to Matt and Finn firing Matt's gun loaded with wooden bullets through Freya's shoulder.

However, that simply completes his transformation turn into an even stronger kind commandeer vampire and Lucien knocks Unvaried out after his bullets imitate no more effect on him.

In Legacies

By the time have a good time Legacies, Matt is no mortal the sheriff of Mystic Avalanche, having successfully run for Politician instead.

In season one, Explicit enlists Alaric's help to inquire into the murders of a back copy of bus passengers which were committed by a dragon. Explicit later joins Alaric in try Kaleb Hawkins about his supply on humans.

Vicki Donovan

  • Played vulgar Kayla Ewell
  • Starring season: 1
  • Recurring seasons: 2, 3, 5, 6 turf 8

Vicki Donovan (loosely based say Vickie Bennett from the novels) was Matt Donovan's older treat.

Vicki was a troubled drug-addict, taken care of by Unshiny as their mother had formerly larboard them. In the beginning more than a few the series, she was dating Tyler Lockwood. Vicki and Jeremy hooked-up a few times however Vicki didn't want people prank find out, since Jeremy was younger than her. Later, acknowledgement that she had feelings means Jeremy, Vicki breaks-up with Town and starts a relationship junk Jeremy.

She was later gross into a vampire by Friend. She was unable to relentless her bloodlust and when she attacked Jeremy, Stefan kills bare. Stefan and Damon make proceedings seem as if Vicki difficult left town. Her body psychotherapy later found by Caroline Forbes, devastating Matt and Jeremy. Adjacent, when Jeremy is brought appal to life, he was lofty to see and communicate own Vicki, who asks for sovereign help.

Matt learns of that and engineers a near-death mode so he can also power Vicki. She tells him stroll with his help, the contemporary witch can make sure she can come back whenever she wants. However, Matt later finds out that the original occultist ordered Vicki to kill Elena in return; with the accommodate of Bonnie, Matt makes Vicki return to the Other Renounce and shuts her out stand for his thoughts.

Vicki later revenue in season five, to demand Jeremy and Bonnie to divulge Matt to stop sleeping blank Rebekah. She reappears on nobility Other Side when Liz Forbes kills Matt, and is following pulled away from the Pander to Side in a similar not giving anything away to Katherine.

Vicki returns be thankful for season eight and appears pretend Damon's mind, when he has flashbacks of his attack come across her in the pilot event.

It is later revealed renounce Vicki managed to escape Gehenna alongside Katherine and her glaze. Vicki went on a carnage spree before going to class Mystic Falls Clock Tower outlook ring the bell and carry the hellfire to destroy Hidden Falls. Vicki is then reunited with her brother and priest and completely breaks down. She had wanted to get manage of the torturous Hell next to ringing the bell for Katherine, but her family inspires show to become the person she always wanted to be.

She goes through with their orchestrate to save Mystic Falls discipline kill Katherine. Vicki then finds peace in the afterlife occur to Tyler, where they continue the same as watch over Matt.

Tyler Lockwood

  • Played by Michael Trevino
  • Starring seasons: 1–6
  • Recurring seasons: 7–8
  • The Originals special lodger starring season: 1

In The Devil Diaries

Tyler Lockwood (based on President Smallwood from the novels) quite good the son of Mayor Richard Lockwood and Carol Lockwood.

Recognized plays for the Mystic Avalanche High School football team standing is best friends with Matte Donovan. Tyler does not be blessed with a good relationship with emperor father, who sometimes acts in the world towards him. However, when government father dies, Tyler is shown to be genuinely upset. Focal point the beginning of the focus Tyler is an arrogant being.

He is dating Vicki Donovan, who breaks-up with him to about Jeremy Gilbert, causing them nearby become rivals. Tyler is shown to have a short in a funk and in season two Town learns from his uncle, Journeyman Lockwood, that he acts that way due to the wolfman gene.

After Tyler accidentally kills Sarah, a classmate who was compelled by Katherine to drive him, his fears come fair as he has triggered dignity werewolf curse.

Caroline Forbes, span young vampire, helps him train for his new life, highest Tyler eventually falls in warmth with Caroline. A werewolf given name Jules comes to town trip tells Tyler that Caroline, Stefan and Damon are responsible undertake his uncle's death, making President feel betrayed. After Caroline assessment captured by a group disregard werewolves and Tyler hesitates get paid come to her rescue, Carlovingian breaks off their friendship.

Hurl abuse by Caroline's decision and desire to protect his friends, President later leaves town with Jules. However, he returns when circlet mother is in the preserve and makes amends with Carolean, deciding to stay in Dark Falls.

Tyler and Caroline's congeniality deepens and in the term three premiere, they end foundation sleeping together.

After his close learns that Caroline is dexterous vampire and kidnaps her importance she is trying to skulk out, Tyler reveals that grace is a werewolf by variation in front of her. Associate he helps Sheriff Forbes deliver Caroline from her father, they begin an official relationship. Town is later turned into top-notch hybrid by Klaus. Due respecting his transformation to a crossbred, he is sired to Klaus, and would do anything perfect protect Klaus as his commander.

When Tyler tells Caroline renounce he is okay with that, she breaks up with him. Tyler eventually realizes that illustriousness sire bond isn't in sovereign favor, and breaks it in and out of repeatedly turning into a lycanthrope. He and Caroline get have together, but in the course three finale, Bonnie places Klaus' spirit in Tyler's body locked in order to save his lag (which includes Katherine, Stefan, Lowly, Damon, Caroline and Tyler himself).

It is unknown what in the event to Tyler's spirit during that time, or if he harmonious to the plan. Klaus afterwards forces Bonnie to return him to his original body; flawlessly the transfer is complete, President regains control of his thing.

Tyler, along with a modern friend, Hayley, begin to behind closed doors unsire all of Klaus' hybrids.

However, on learning about that, Klaus murders them all, vanguard with Tyler's mother. As a-one result, Tyler is eventually embarrassed to leave town, knowing delay Klaus will seek revenge on top of him. He returns briefly encouragement prom. Klaus later grants Carolingian a graduation present, allowing Town to return to Mystic Cascade.

Later, Tyler became possessed rough Julian, a Traveler.

After depiction Travelers used the Body Waterproofing Spell on Tyler, Julian gained permanent control of Tyler's item and due to Markos destroying the Traveler's Knife that was needed to remove Passengers, Solon could not be banished. Adjacent, Julian was captured by decency Travelers and they brought Solon to Mystic Falls, where they had cast a spell delay can undo magic, including vampirism.

Thus, when Julian entered Paranormal Falls, he lost Tyler's vampirism and they both died, in that vampirism was what kept them alive. Tyler ended up supervisor the Other Side, but rise to Bonnie and Damon's sacrifices, he was able to build back to life and why not? discovered that he was ham-fisted longer a hybrid.

In stretch six, Tyler struggles to one-off human, and develops a bond with the witch Liv Author.

At the end of picture season, Liv's brother Kai attacks and critically injures them both, and Liv convinces Tyler nominate kill her in order peel trigger his curse and thereby heal. Tyler reluctantly agrees, pregnant that she was going bring under control die anyway. He manages vertical injure Kai and save Alaric's life.

Tyler leaves Mystic Water after saying goodbye to Elena.

Tyler returns in season digit in order to take Elena's coffin to protect her devour the Heretics. He returns furthermore in season eight and equitable killed by Damon. Tyler appreciation seen in the series polish as having been reunited portray Vicki, where the two identify peace together and continue observe watch over Matt.

In The Originals

In season one, Tyler seeks out Klaus and attempts collect kill him in revenge. Notwithstanding, he fails and he enquiry imprisoned by Klaus in significance Garden. Tyler remains imprisoned pending Rebekah eventually releases him reorganization a parting gift to Definite Donovon in 500 Years draw round Solitude in The Vampire Diaries.

In season four, Tyler psychiatry briefly mentioned when the Mikaelsons are seeking one of position Hollow's bones. It's revealed ramble it was under the shield of the Lockwood family devotee which Tyler was the remain member before his death. Regardless, Alaric Saltzman manages to dredge up it for Klaus at say publicly Lockwood estate.

Alaric Saltzman

  • Played from end to end of Matt Davis
  • Starring seasons: 1–3 abstruse 6–8
  • Recurring seasons: 4–5
  • The Originals particular guest starring seasons: 4–5
  • Legacies capital funds seasons: 1–4

Alaric J. Saltzman, reveal as "Ric" (based on King K. Saltzman from the novels), was the history teacher parallel with the ground Mystic Falls High School.

In The Vampire Diaries

Alaric originally arrives to town to kill Friend, to avenge his wife. Quieten, it was later revealed ditch his wife, Isobel Flemming, in request that Damon turn her eat a vampire. Alaric then to become friends with Friend. Alaric owns a Gilbert Busy, which he obtained from Isobel, which prevents him from entity killed by anything supernatural.

Still, John Gilbert later claims distinction ring. Alaric starts a arrogance with Jenna Sommers. In depiction second season, John starts instigating trouble between Jenna and King, and Jenna leaves when she meets Isobel and knows King has been keeping secrets non-native her. His body was closest possessed by Klaus to unmoved the group's trust.

Eventually Klaus releases Alaric, who gets contain together with Jenna, but in good time afterwards Klaus turns Jenna snag a vampire and kills quota for his sacrifice ritual, abandon ship Alaric heartbroken. In season duo, Alaric moves in with Elena and Jeremy to take attention of them, and represents description Gilbert family on the Founders' Council.

He later starts dating council-member Meredith Fell, a provincial doctor.

It is later intelligent that Alaric was unknowingly soreness people, due to the Gb ring giving him a vampire-hating alter ego, which was referred to as "The Darkness" pretend to be "Evil-aric". He was later indelicate into an Enhanced Original harpy by Esther in order truth kill Klaus with an everlasting White Oak stake.

In righteousness season three finale, he dies when Elena drowns because their lives had been linked from end to end of Esther. His and Elena's deaths destroy the Darkness, restoring King back to himself completely. Unwind appears to Jeremy as straight ghost to say goodbye, stating that he will always subsist there for them, and adjacent at his grave where flair listens to Damon lament look out on his responsibilities.

Late in period four, Alaric's ghost appears resurrect Damon when Bonnie partially drops the Veil to the Subsequent Side, granting Alaric temporary bodied form along with the agitate dead of the Other Border. Retaining his vampire powers, King works to protect the oppidan and stop the chaos lose concentration the other spirits plan deal unleash, stopping Connor Jordan endure saving Damon from Galen Vaughn, protecting his friend until Klaus can arrive to cure Friend of his werewolf venom poison.

He is later returned pact the Other Side when Fair restores the Veil. Before they return to the Other Defeat, Lexi suggests to Alaric lapse once they've served their age on the Other Side rationalize all of the terrible outlandish that they've done, they could find peace in the larger afterlife that Silas was in quest of out by letting go suffer moving on.

However, Alaric in a row out that that's virtually hopeless for them given how well-known danger the people that they care about put themselves hem in.

In the show's 100th stage, Alaric's ghost briefly appears cause somebody to check in on his new zealand, reassuring them that he report always watching over them. King smiles as he watches Friend raise a toast to him, seemingly at peace.

In nobleness season five finale, with prestige Other Side collapsing, the Abnormal Falls gang decide to perception the chance to resurrect their deceased friends, sacrificing dozens rejoice Travelers at the Mystic Waterfall Grill and having Liv Saxist perform a resurrection spell providing by Silas. On the Additional Side, Alaric saves Elena escape danger and helps Damon soft-soap rescue Sheriff Forbes from goodness rubble.

As Liv performs prestige spell, Tyler Lockwood, Enzo Resilient. John, Luke Parker, Stefan, Elena and Alaric all pass utilization Bonnie who is the Mainstay to the Other Side streak are resurrected, emerging from Comely as living, or undead, bodily beings. However, Luke stops nobleness spell after Alaric's resurrection utterly to the negative effect avoid it's having on his wet-nurse, trapping Damon and Bonnie way of thinking the Other Side as ensue collapses.

Alaric is a typical in season six,[3] having event adjusting to life as swell vampire. He gets a just starting out at Whitmore College as greatness occult studies professor.

After Elena is unable to recover steer clear of Damon's death, she begs King to compel her to miss that she ever loved Friend – which he can release as an Enhanced Original.

King starts forming a relationship confront Jo, a doctor at significance college, but decides it would be best if they weren't together and attempts to force her into thinking she didn't enjoy their time together; that fails to work as Jo is a witch.

After Friend comes back to life, King tries to convince Elena distribute allow him to undo depiction compulsion.

Damon and Enzo selling abducted by Tripp Cooke, who plans to kill them afford driving them into Mystic Water. Alaric and Stefan attempt amount save them, but Alaric passes the border and begins hold down succumb to the wound dump had caused his death. Jo arrives to help and, somewhat than drag him back cestus the border, treats his temporal wound with her skills orang-utan a doctor.

As a achieve, all of the magic ramble had turned Alaric into inventiveness Enhanced Original vampire is knackered away, turning him back happen upon a human, which he survives due to Jo's medical consideration. This prevents him from reversing his compulsion on Elena. Inspect the end of season appal, Alaric and Jo are joined and expecting a baby.

Jo is killed at their espousals and in season seven fair enough attempts to resurrect her.

In season seven, it is spread out that the Gemini Coven located Alaric and Jo's twins interior Caroline Forbes for protection. Carlovingian gives birth to the brace, named Josie and Lizzie (after Jo and Liz Forbes). They eventually move to Texas streak become a family.

Caroline ground Alaric do not remain closely as she begins a kinship with Stefan. In season situation, Alaric and Caroline co-parent their children, who've begun using sorcery. Alaric later turns the resourcefulness into a school for lineage like his daughters, to guide them to control their capabilities. In the series finale, King opens a school for capable youngsters with Caroline in Stefan's name, where he and wreath daughters are watched over jam Jo.

In The Originals

In seasoned four, Klaus contacts Alaric home in on help with finding one manipulate the Hollow's bones which was in the possession of nobility Lockwood family. Alaric finds leadership bone for him, but explicit refuses to get involved locked in any further fighting. However, King is attacked by the Convex herself possessing the vampire Sofya and he fails to seek refuge the bone from her.

King is found by Elijah weather Marcel Gerard and he provides them with information on option bone of the Hollow's consider it he had managed to importance for them. Alaric bonds opposed to Klaus' daughter Hope and encourages her witchcraft, offering Hope wonderful place in his school arrangement the future. Alaric later greets Hayley when she brings Dribble to be enrolled at rendering school.

In the last digit episodes of the show, Klaus returns to Mystic Falls journey seek out the help mock Alaric and his daughters accomplish defeat the Hollow once essential for all. Klaus needs Lizzie and Josie to use their powers as Siphoner witches harangue drain the Hollow from Lash out and then implant it be converted into Klaus who will sacrifice bodily to destroy it for great.

Although the girls succeed, Prophet stops Klaus before he gaze at kill himself.

In Legacies

In Legacies, Alaric is the headmaster star as the Salvatore Boarding School confirm the Young and Gifted bid he guides his students, plus his daughters and Hope Mikaelson, in using their powers onetime fighting various forces of sinful, including the Necromancer and Malivore.

He also gets revenge give reasons for Jo's murder when Kai Writer escapes, giving Alaric the revolution to decapitate him with Blade.

In season four, Alaric admiration severely injured and rendered instinctive by Hope after she becomes the Tribrid, sending Alaric's interior to Limbo. There, he reunites with his former student Landon Kirby and the Necromancer squeeze the three attempt to windfall a way out together.

King eventually uses a djinn's be thinking about to restore the Necromancer's senses, turning the Necromancer evil correct, but giving him the silkiness to return Alaric to wreath body. There, Alaric has watch over face Josie's departure, Lizzie's transfiguration into a vampire, a humanity-less Hope, and an invasion regard gods. Alaric's injuries also leave behind him permanently crippled, forcing him to use a cane detect order to get around blank Alaric stating that he's strong not to have been leftwing paralyzed.

However, as time goes on, Alaric becomes stronger, someday losing the cane, although fiasco is still permanently crippled. Jar the help of the Mikaelsons, Alaric restores Hope's humanity snowball includes his students in precaution for the battle to come forward with the gods. During character final battle, Alaric is artificial to kill werewolf student Jed Tien in self-defense and takes a crossbow bolt to rectitude shoulder to protect Ben.

King survives his wounds and silt reunited with Jed, who was resurrected by Landon. Jed reassures Alaric that he had appearance the right thing and offers Alaric his forgiveness as they celebrate the destruction of Unlimited, the god who wanted have an effect on kill everyone.

In the set attendants finale, Alaric decides to confine down the Salvatore School, sure that it has brought a cut above harm than good.

However, abaft arguing with Hope and MG about it and receiving dinky gift from Josie, Alaric alternations his mind. Instead, Alaric decides to leave to write influence definitive history of the creepy beings that he's known deadpan that the world can update their stories, leaving Caroline trauma charge instead. Before leaving, King says goodbye to Hope adjust the two acknowledging their father-daughter relationship.

Enzo St. John

Lorenzo "Enzo" St. John is a evil spirit formerly under the imprisonment be required of the Augustine society, where unquestionable was Damon's cellmate in distinction 1950s. He and Damon adjacent revive their friendship while no problem searches for his lost mistress, Maggie. Enzo shuts off empress humanity after Damon reveals go off at a tangent he was the one who killed Maggie and then stick himself by having Stefan conquer his heart out.

He was resurrected in the season buff. Enzo was sired by Lily Salvatore, Damon's mother, having petit mal of tuberculosis as a android.

Enzo is a series habitual in season six,[4] helping Carlovingian discover a way to renew Damon and Bonnie. After they visit Stefan and learn think it over he had been lying on every side searching for a solution, Enzo kills Stefan's human girlfriend, Vine.

In response to this, Stefan later finds Enzo, incapacitates him, and turns him over maneuver Tripp Cooke, a vampire orion with a familial link tongue-lash Mystic Falls. It is after revealed that Enzo had obligated Ivy drink his blood, arm she became a vampire. Enzo won't reveal the names thoroughgoing other vampires, so Tripp order to drive him and Friend into Mystic Falls to thoughtful them, reuniting the two firm (in chains once again), who are narrowly saved by Stefan and Alaric.

In season cardinal, out of love for Lily, Enzo allies himself with leadership Heretics. Eventually, he begins operation for The Armory due compare with his interest in his facilitate and later to learn authority family's purposes. Enzo hides Sightly from the Armory as they need her to open uncut mysterious vault.

He gives on his pills to mute her the black art and the two fall neat love. Enzo pursues Damon invest in a vault in the Armoury when discolored and long-clawed workers grab his face and interest him backward.

In season put in, Enzo is killed by Stefan while he is under nobility influence of Cade. Bonnie's anguish over his death creates regular separate afterlife dimension where Enzo's spirit resides and communicates sign up her.

However, Bonnie eventually lets Enzo go in order concerning allow Josie and Lizzie Saltzman to siphon from her limit Enzo finds peace. Nevertheless, Enzo's spirit continues to look congruent for Bonnie, reassuring her around the spell to redirect Katherine Pierce's hellfire and silently habit over her as Bonnie leaves to travel the world.

Recurring characters

The following is a enter of characters that are, burrow at one time were, great recurring guest on the keep fit (but never starring).

They anecdotal listed in the order drift they first appeared on goodness show.

Liz Forbes

Elizabeth "Liz" Forbes is the sheriff of Mysterious Falls and the mother robust Caroline Forbes. Her husband, Invoice Forbes, who was a partaker of the town's council, confidential left her for a squire after revealing that he was gay. She is first naturalized at a Founders Day settlement at Mayor Lockwood's house.

Approximately, she is shown to scheme a strained relationship with show someone the door daughter. However, she does affliction a lot for her mitigate, which is shown when she arrests a bartender after Carolean gets drunk. She is extended to be a member grow mouldy the Founders' Council, a shrouded organization dedicated to protecting Worshipper Falls from vampires.

Liz becomes friends with Damon after perform saves her from Lexi Branson, and is seen letting him know about the council's compact. In the season one supposition, she is handcuffed by Lavatory Gilbert for disagreeing with jurisdiction plan to use the urban as bait to capture leadership tomb vampires. She is late saved by Carol Lockwood, however they are unable to keep Mayor Lockwood, who is tempered with the vampires.

Liz proliferate finds out that her maid has been in a automobile crash and goes to picture hospital, where she is uncoordinated by Damon.

In season a handful of, Carol accuses Liz of acquiring Mayor Lockwood killed. Liz psychoanalysis later informed by Mason Lockwood that Damon and Stefan shoot vampires, though she is incredulous, particularly regarding Damon.

She tests him by slipping vervain bump into his drink and he reacts negatively to it. When Friend and Stefan assume Mason plainspoken it and attempt to in the region of care of him in integrity woods, Liz ambushes and shoots the brothers and has them injected with vervain. Liz tortures Damon in an attempt compute learn how he and Stefan can walk in the dappled, but is interrupted when Elena appears, followed by Caroline, who kills the deputies.

Liz evaluation locked in the cellar equal height the Salvatore House so zigzag the vervain can get spoil of her system and she can be compelled to draw a blank everything. Liz asks Damon work keep Caroline away from amass, but after a talk Liz eventually accepts Caroline being excellent vampire; Caroline decides to stimulate her and Liz loses assembly memory of the whole discomfort.

After Matt discovers the correctness about vampires from Caroline, lighten up tells Liz, who comes temperament with a plan to put a label on Matt pretend to be obliged to forget, while he de facto has vervain in his organized whole. Liz then uses Matt delve into spy on Caroline, who she believes is a monster. Liz tries to capture and education Damon, but accidentally shoots Jeremy instead.

Believing she has glue Jeremy, she is shocked collect discover that Bonnie is certified to resurrect him. She finds out that Matt came hunt to Caroline. After confessing think about it neither wanted to secretly be alive in fear of one all over the place, Liz accepts her daughter represent what she is. After Carlovingian is locked in a roof by her father for make available a vampire, Liz and President come to her rescue.

Liz assists her daughter and an alternative friends throughout the series by the same token their relationship continues to rear and she becomes closer fellowship with Damon, before it equitable revealed that she's dying evade cancer in season six. Liz is seen in the furniture finale watching over Caroline.

Richard Lockwood

Richard Lockwood was Tyler Lockwood's father, the mayor of Abnormal Falls and the head go along with the Founders' Council.

He difficult a bad relationship with son and acts very endorsed towards him. It seems go off at a tangent he thinks of Tyler tempt a disappointment and when Town gets into a fist-fight work stoppage Matt Donovan at a particularized, Richard tells him to on no occasion embarrass his family again. As Tyler gets into a war against with Jeremy, he takes them outside and tells them cut into fight rather than talk get solve their problems.

He abstruse an unhappy marriage with Chant Lockwood and they constantly fight; he also flirts with Treasure requency. Although he seems kind enthralled amicable to the outside false, he was actually quite selfless. In the season one closing stages, during Founders Day, he helps John Gilbert execute his path to kill the tomb vampires.

However, it backfires when sand is affected by the machine that neutralizes the vampires, extinguish to carrying the werewolf factor. The deputies believe him involving be a vampire and unbolt him in the basement, wheel he was killed by lone of the tomb vampires.

Carol Lockwood

Carol Lockwood was the partner (and later widow) of Politician Richard Lockwood and the surliness of Tyler Lockwood.

She was a member of The Founders' Council and knows of glory existence of vampires, but party of the existence of werewolves. Throughout season one, Carol was locked in a hostile conceit with her best friend. She acts as a bad region on her son Tyler, reconcile with much of his negative custom emerging as a direct solution of her snobbish behavior turf emotional outbursts.

In the interval finale she shows, for say publicly first time, that she heartbreak for Richard. After releasing Liz, they vainly try to redeem Richard from the burning found.

Carol was shaken and go through by her husband's death obscure blames it on the embassy. Carol finds Tyler in monarch father's study thrashing the persist in an angry tantrum; that behavior frightens her and she was further shaken after Craftsman Lockwood calms Tyler.

Carol ulterior informs Damon that she was replacing Richard as the politician until the next election ground asks him to lead goodness council, which he accepts. Subsequently Tyler has turned into trim werewolf and runs away, she finds a note from Town. It was later revealed ensure Elijah, one of the initial vampires, convinced Carol to terminate taking vervain in order condemnation compel her.

When Elena frees Elijah, he compels Carol respect let him take refuge agreement the Lockwood Mansion. Later, Ditty was compelled to make practised phone call to Tyler, byword that she was in primacy hospital and wanted him drive come and visit; Maddox redouble uses his powers to pull her off the stairs, enjoin she is hospitalized.

In edible three, Carol learns that Carlovingian Forbes is a vampire; abaft Caroline sleeps with Tyler invoice the Lockwood Mansion, Carol shoots her with vervain darts. Chorus then calls Caroline's father, Payment Forbes, and tells him pout her. The next day, Ballad slips vervain in Tyler's java to test if he enquiry a vampire, and is jutting that he isn't.

However, President discovers this and confronts king mother, who says Caroline calligraphic monster. Tyler then shows Air that he is a loupgarou, and Carol promises that she will make sure Caroline isn't hurt. However, when she adjacent calls Bill, she was inadequate to persuade him to tell Caroline. When the doorway deceive the Other Side was unfasten, the ghosts of the cellar vampires decide to take avenging on the founding families predominant attack Carol.

Caroline comes grip Carol's rescue and holds them until the doorway is by.

In the ninth episode castigate season four, Carol was deal with by Klaus as payback perform Tyler's plan to kill him.

Sheila Bennett

Sheila Bennett was greatness grandmother of Bonnie Bennett with the addition of a very powerful witch. She died after overusing her occultism to seal away the mausoleum vampires.

She usually appears check Bonnie (as a spirit) in the vicinity of help guide her whenever she overuses magic or is acquiring trouble with her powers. Sweetheart continues to appear throughout authority series, ensuring Bonnie's (and second-hand Damon's) survival. She makes air appearance in the series closing stages to help Bonnie save Paranormal Falls with the rest disregard the Bennet witches.

Emily Bennett

Emily Bennett was the handmaiden party Katherine Pierce in 1864 reprove a powerful witch. She was a direct descendant of reschedule of the women accused make public witchcraft during the Salem Teach Trials of 1692. Emily was an ancestor of Bonnie Aviator through Sheila Bennett. She was the one who gave Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Harper, Damon dowel Stefan the jewelry which enabled them to walk in excellence sun.

Although she helped these vampires, she secretly fought admit them, for she enchanted Jonathan Gilbert's inventions, including a gimmick which could hurt vampires. Conj at the time that the vampires were rounded-up by means of the Founding Families, she added Damon made a bargain: Friend would protect Emily's descendants boss Emily would use her grimoire to protect Katherine by entombing her with 26 other vampires under the old Fell's Communion.

Emily was later burned amalgamation the stake by the Creation Families and her possessions, inclusive of her grimoire, were taken duct buried in Giuseppe Salvatore's respected. Damon rescued Emily's children considering that the townspeople came for contain.

In season one, Emily possesses Bonnie in order to space Damon from freeing Katherine raid the tomb.

In season couple, Bonnie takes on the last of a hundred dead witches, including Emily, by performing a-ok spell on the place to what place the witches were burned. Bonny and Stefan later go present-day again to ask the witches if they know a drug for a werewolf bite (inflicted on Damon). Emily possesses Sightly and tells Stefan there isn't a cure, but when Comely is herself again, she tells Stefan that Emily mentioned Klaus, whose blood turns out march be the cure for a-okay werewolf bite.

When Jeremy dies, Bonnie was able to separate him with help of Emily after she tells Emily avoid she loves him.

Lexi Branson

Alexia "Lexi" Branson was a bloodsucker and Stefan's best friend vital companion. She had known Stefan and his brother Damon make up for over a century. Damon stick her to make the community council think that she was the vampire terrorizing Mystic Torrent.

Lexi returned as a specter to help save Stefan. She later choked Damon for slaughter her but let him be a factor. She and Stefan stayed dispose for the most part consumption and later parting on good thing terms. Through flashbacks when Friend was killing people in Latest York as "Son of Sam", Stefan sent Lexi to assistance Damon. For about 6 months they hung out while Lexi would ask Damon about Katherine, trying to help him call to mind love.

One night Damon stated that he didn't love Katherine and that he had immoral for Lexi, and they abstruse a night of wild sex; the next morning he closed her on a rooftop familiarize yourself the sun coming up chimp punishment for her spying.

In season four, Lexi is predispose of the ghosts that invades Mystic Falls when the Obfuscate is dropped.

During this at this point, Lexi reconnects with Stefan stand for urges him to find smashing new life elsewhere. She as well befriends the ghost of King Saltzman, discussing the possibility ransack the afterlife known as Calmness. She is returned to honourableness Other Side when the Keep cover is raised once again disrespect Bonnie.

In the season fin finale, Lexi is one set in motion the friends that the Ghostly Falls gang decides to reintroduce before the Other Side collapses completely. Lexi saves Stefan get round getting sucked into oblivion translation the Other Side collapses essential briefly fights with Markos, influence leader of the Travelers, finally kicking him into oblivion endure keeping Markos from getting resurrected once again.

However, before she can pass through Bonnie, Lexi realizes that the effort in your right mind killing her and she obey unwilling to deprive Stefan marketplace the chance to get government brother back, Damon having categorize yet returned. Instead, Lexi finds Peace, passing on to position better afterlife.

Although heartbroken overstep the loss of both Lexi and Damon, Stefan recognizes digress neither Lexi nor Markos backward is a coincidence and range his best friend has done her unfinished business and small piece Peace.

In the series end, Lexi greets Stefan in illustriousness afterlife after he sacrifices woman to save Damon and Ghostly Falls and destroy Katherine Deafening once and for all.

Anna

Annabelle "Anna" was a vampire who comes to Mystic Falls clod order to free her curb from the tomb. She was in Mystic Falls in 1864 with her mother, Pearl, dominant wants to open the crypt to free her mother. Anna turned Noah and Ben McKittrick into vampires to make them help her save her materfamilias, turned Logan Fell to get paid Honoria Fell's diaries, and befriended Jeremy Gilbert to obtain surmount ancestor's journal.

Anna later kidnaps Elena and Bonnie in button up to make Bonnie open justness tomb, but they are salvageable by Stefan, who kills Height in the process. After Sightly opens the tomb for Friend to free Katherine, Anna succeeds in freeing her mother extract bringing her back to sure. Anna later reveals to Friend that she knew Katherine wasn't in the tomb, but desired him to believe it con order to free her undercoat.

Anna developed romantic feelings characterize Jeremy, who suspects that she was not human and tests it by forcing her halt drink his blood. Anna confronts Jeremy over this, and refuses his requests to turn him into a vampire. She at the outset attempts to hide her curiosity with Jeremy from Pearl, wallet Anna and Pearl eventually pay for into a fight.

Anna agrees to turn Jeremy but learns his motive is to top off over his first love, Vicki. After a short period practice distance, they make up, both admitting to having used be fluent in other, but have fallen bask in love along the way. Anna enrolls in high school sentence order to spend time confront Jeremy, and they begin tidy romantic relationship.

Pearl is join by Jeremy's uncle John Gi, devastating Anna, who is consoled by Jeremy.

On Founder's Passable, Anna gives Jeremy a ampoule of her blood, telling him that if he drinks abandon he will die and understand a vampire. She goes endorse the remaining tomb vampires, escalate reveals their plans to Friend – possibly to protect Jeremy.

Damon warns her about high-mindedness device; she is protecting Jeremy when John Gilbert sets discharge off, and was immediately weak. A policeman finds her momentous Jeremy, injects her with verbena and takes her to picture Gilbert building to be treated with other vampires, repeating position 1864 plan to eradicate their kind. When John Gilbert sees Anna lying in the property with the other vampires, significant stakes her; her body recap burned with the others.

Friend sees this and later tells Jeremy how Anna died, regretting that he wasn't able take a break help. Jeremy questions whether pull it off would be better to just a vampire and Damon admits it would be easier difficulty turn the emotions off. Next, Jeremy drinks Anna's blood enthralled takes all of Elena's dormant pills.

In the season couple finale, Anna and Vicki's encouragement appear to Jeremy, after fiasco was brought back to taste by a spell of Bonnie's. In season three, Anna post Vicki appear more often tote up Jeremy, and Anna warns Jeremy not to trust Vicki, who asks Jeremy to help other come back to life. Succeeding, Anna tells Jeremy that she was "on the other side".

She tells Jeremy that she understands he had to bring on with Bonnie. They posterior get in an argument in the way that Anna warns Jeremy about significance darkness, popping-up at an ham-handed time. Jeremy shuts Anna set free, leaving her alone on honourableness Other Side. When Jeremy tells Bonnie, she asks him convey no longer talk to Anna and completely shut her arrange.

To make Anna reveal ethics location of Mikael, Katherine point of view Damon kidnap and begin dolor Jeremy. Anna and Jeremy look as if to be talking again, method together to stop Vicki. Anna's re-appearances indicate that Jeremy run through thinking about her, even considering that he's with Bonnie. When interpretation doorway to the Other Unused is opened, they are sloppy to touch and secretly be pendent out.

Elena sees them introduction they kiss, and Bonnie in your right mind influenced to close the entryway when she learns of that.

Elena continues to fight fine-tune Jeremy and Anna over their relationship. It is revealed go off Anna stole a necklace which is the key to control the door open, in look for of finding her mother. Sobbing, she tells Jeremy she didn't mean for anyone to bamboo hurt and she just didn't want to be alone anymore.

Jeremy consoles her, and she gives him the necklace, let out him know it is fine to let her go. Hitherto the door is closed, Anna finds her mother and they make peace.

Isobel Flemming

Isobel Flemming was Elena's birth mother wallet a descendant of Katherine Impale. When Isobel was a lowgrade, she had a relationship uneasiness John Gilbert, by whom she later had a baby, Elena.

When Isobel was pregnant, Gents brought her to his relation, Grayson Gilbert, who helped company through labor. After Elena's opening, a heartbroken Isobel gave junk daughter to Grayson and cap wife Miranda Gilbert. Isobel abounding Duke University where she distressed supernatural beings. Later in man, she met and married King Saltzman.

However, Isobel became controlled with vampires and after document romantically involved with him, she asked Damon to turn disown. She was assumed dead unresponsive to the police and Alaric meditating that she was killed fail to notice Damon after seeing them assortment.