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The Vampire Diaries
The Mystic Falls Gang (Elena Gilbert | Stefan Salvatore) | Mystic Falls Citizens | Stefan's and Damon's Friends | The Petrova Family (Katherine Pierce) | The Originals & Associates | Werewolf Packs | The Brotherhood of The Five | The Travelers (Silas | Qetsiyah) | Whitmore College | Gemini Coven | The Heretics | The Sirens
The Originals
The Mikaelsons (Klaus Mikaelson) | Mikaelson Associates | Other Humans | Other Vampires | Other Witches | Other Werewolves
Legacies
The Super Squad | The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted | Gods and Demigods
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Founding Families
Salvatore Family
Stefan Salvatore
Portrayed by: Paul Wesley
"I don't hurt people. I don't do that. I'm the good brother."
Stefan is a mysterious, handsome century-old immortal. He is a protagonist, and narrator of the series. Stefan is known to be the good vampire brother (between he and Damon) and is seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, heroic and selfless. Stefan tries to avoid drinking human blood due to the fact that he hates hurting or killing anyone (drinking human blood turns him into an insane, amoral "ripper", choosing to feed from the blood of animals instead. Stefan is weaker than most other vampires, in particular his elder brother Damon who has held a grudge against Stefan for over a century. Early in the series, Stefan fatefully meets and falls in love with Elena Gilbert. He develops a mutual romantic relationship with her while protecting her and her loved ones both from his own nature and other vampires. In the season two finale Stefan reverts back to his darker side, the Ripper, in order to save Damon from dying from a fatal werewolf bite. In exchange for the cure (which is Klaus' hybrid blood), he becomes a servant to The Big Bad, Klaus. Since season three onwards, Stefan has turned on his humanity and reverts back to his normal, humane self.
Damon Salvatore
Portrayed by: Ian Somerhalder
"It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud."
Damon is Stefan's malevolent, dangerous and impulsive older brother. He is the anti-hero and the antagonist (especially in season one) of the series. He is most certainly not a Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire. He long ago swore to make Stefan's life "an eternity of misery". At first, he kills a lot of people in Mystic Falls, but later moderates his behaviour for a number of reasons but he remains dangerous. When he wants to, Damon can be charming and hilarious... but also cruel and capricious, and capable of killing on a whim. For the first season, Damon is the series' Antagonist, but has reverted his status to help Stefan and protect Elena.
Giuseppe Salvatore
Giuseppe Salvatore
Portrayed by: James Remar
"These creatures are of the darkest parts of hell...they must be destroyed!"
- Abusive Parent: He would physically abuse his children as a method of disciplinary action.
- The Alcoholic: Stefan mentions how after his mother died, Giuseppe became a heavy drinker.
- Blood Knight: Giuseppe is always eager to kill and eradicate as many vampires as possible.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After Giuseppe's wife died, he used alcohol as a coping mechanism for his grief.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Giuseppe tries to stake Stefan as a vampire, but instead, Giuseppe ends up fatally wounded after he was staked by the same stake that he was going to use to kill his own son.
- Karmic Death: Giuseppe ends up being killed by his own son Stefan, who happens to be a vampire, the one thing that he hunts and despises.
- Killed Off for Real: After rejecting Stefan for siding with the vampires, he tried to stake him with a wooden stake that he broke off himself, but he was thrown aside with the impact of Stefan's unexpected vampire strength and accidentally stabbed himself with the stake.
- Parental Favoritism: For Stefan, whom he admired for being studious and responsible while he believed his eldest son Damon was irresponsible and lacked any sense of direction.
- Protectorate: As a member of one of the Founding Families of Mystic Falls, Giuseppe had a duty to protect the town of Mystic Falls from vampires.
- The Stoic: Doesn't show emotion and is very stern.
- Vampire Hunter: Hunts vampires and sees them as an abomination.
Zach Salvatore
Zach Salvatore
Portrayed by: Chris William Martin
"Blood only runs so deep when you're related to vampires."
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: He gets killed by Damon early in season 1, but nobody really seems to care or notice that he's gone and Damon is Easily Forgiven for killing him by the few people that know.
- Neck Snap: Damon kills him by snapping his neck for revenge after Zach helped Stefan lock him up.
- Too Dumb to Live: Despite Stefan telling him how dangerous it is to see Damon, he still sees to it to go and taunt him, which gets him killed.
- Unfazed Everyman: He was a human distant nephew who lived with Stefan and Damon initially and took a lot of their antics, and other supernatural elements in stride.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies after five episodes in season 1.
Lily Salvatore
Lillian 'Lily' Salvatore
Portrayed by: Annie Wersching
"You have no idea what devastation feels like. But you will. Because I am going to find a way to get my people back. No matter what it takes."
Stefan and Damon's mother. Lily died of consumption in 1858. In Season Six, it is revealed Lily actually became a vampire. She eventually became a Ripper vampire like Stefan was. Lily was imprisoned in a Prison World by the Gemini Coven of witches on October 31, 1903.
Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson (born Sara Salvatore)
Portrayed by: Tristin Mays
"This is why I don't go to the Animal Shelter"
Daughter of Zach Salvatore, Sara is the only living member of the Salvatore bloodline.- Back for the Dead: Returns in season 8 and gets killed by Sybil in the one episode she appears in.
- Character Death: Stabbed by Sybil and dies in front of Stefan in season 8.
- Morality Pet: To Enzo and Stefan, who try to keep her safe and let down some of their emotions around her.
- Nice Girl: Lampshaded by Enzo. She's friendly and trusting despite her Dark and Troubled Past
- Happily Adopted: She is content with her adoptive family and has no interest in re-seeking her roots.
- Orphan's Ordeal: Her mother was killed by Damon when she was pregnant (with Sara barely being saved), and her father hypnotized into forgetting she ever existed.
- Twofer Token Minority: Of her own family. She's the only woman and she's biracial.
- When She Smiles: Obviously there's a lot to leave her concerned or upset in the world of the series but when she smiles she looks very bright and cute.
Gilbert Family
Elena Gilbert
Elena Gilbert
Portrayed by: Nina Dobrev
"I don't question why everyone tries so hard to save me. You shouldn't question why I try so hard to save everyone else."
Jeremy Gilbert
Portrayed by: Steven R. McQueen
"Why does everyone keep dying on me?"
Elena's little brother took their parents' death poorly, falling into self-destruction and drug abuse. He also fell in love with the troubled and older Girl Next Door, Vicki Donovan. He's far from stupid, and Elena's desperate attempts to protect him from the vampires only make him suspicious and he starts to distrust her.
Jenna Sommers
Jenna Sommers
Portrayed by: Sara Canning
"I've become my worst nightmare. The authority figure."
In a better world, Jenna could have been an awesome cool aunt to Elena and Jeremy. With the tragic death of her sister and brother-in-law, however, she has to step up into the role of guardian for the two of them but she's not really suited for it. Still, she tries... and at least she gets a nice love interest in the form of Alaric, following the second mysterious disappearance of Logan "Scum" Fell. She is turned into a vampire and then sacrificed by Klaus.
- Adults Are Useless: Despite being the adult figure in Elena and Jeremy's life, she doesn't seem to have much luck in parenting them, and obviously can help them even less when supernatural things start happening.
- Adaptation Name Change: In the books, Elena's aunt's name is Judith Maxwell (nee Gilbert). On the show, she's Jenna Sommers.
- Killed Off for Real: She ends up being turned into a vampire and later gets killed by Klaus while attempting to throw a wrench into Klaus' plans.
- Older Than They Look: She's Elena and Jeremy's aunt and a generation older than them, but she looks like Elena's peer.
- Out of Focus: She's quickly demoted to a Plot Device for inviting vampires into the Gilbert house or getting compelled by them until she is eventually killed off in season 2.
- Parental Substitute: After her sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car crash, she becomes Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian.
John Gilbert
John Gilbert
Portrayed: by David Anders
"You know, Jeremy, I was taught to hate them, the vampires. It’s what I know. It’s what your father knew."
- Heroic Sacrifice: After Klaus killed Elena, John sacrificed himself to bring her back to life as a human.
- Senseless Sacrifice: Sacrificing his life to resurrect Elena without her having to turn into a vampire ends up being for nothing when she dies with vampire blood in her system in the season 3 finale, and she completes the transition in the season 4 premier, becoming a vampire.
Grayson & Miranda Gilbert
Grayson Gilbert & Miranda Sommers Gilbert
Portrayed: by Jason Macdonald and Erin Beute
Grayson and Miranda were Elena and Jeremy's mom and dad. Grayson was also John Gilbert's older brother and the town doctor of Mystic Falls.Grayson and Miranda were both members of the Town Council and thus knew about vampires.
Grayson and Miranda were both killed in a car accident going off Wickery Bridge before the start of the series. It's later revealed that Grayson and Miranda were actually Elena's biological uncle and aunt making Jeremy her cousin.
- Birds of a Feather: Miranda was this with Kelly Donovan and Liz Forbes when she was alive.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In season 5, Grayson is revealed to have been apart of the Augustine Society and participated in the torture and experimentation on vampires.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Grayson gestures to Stefan to rescue Elena instead of himself when they are drowning underwater when the car crashed resulting in his death as Stefan only had enough time to save one of them.
- Posthumous Characters: Before the beginning of the series, Grayson and Miranda drowned after their car fell off of Wickery Bridge and into the lake.
- Secret Keepers: As members of the council they knew of the existence of vampires and the supernatural and kept the information secret from their children and the town.
Johnathan Gilbert
Johnathan Gilbert
Portrayed: by Joe Knezevich
Elena and Jeremy's ancestor who was part of the vampire round up in Mystic Falls in 1864.
- Posthumous Character: Has been dead for centuries.
- Sanity Slippage: Driven insane by the Gilbert ring.
Isobel Flemming-Saltzman
Isobel Flemming-Saltzman
Portrayed by: Mia Kirshner
"I am selfish, and I'm obsessed, and I'm a horrible wife. But you love me anyway."
Elena's birth mother, Katherine's descendant, and Alaric's ex-wife.
Forbes Family
Caroline Forbes
Portrayed by: Candice Accola & Mckenna Grace
"So you're saying now I'm an insecure, neurotic control freak... on crack?"
Liz Forbes
Sheriff Elizabeth 'Liz' Forbes
Portrayed by: Marguerite MacIntyre
Liz was the sheriff of Mystic Falls and a member of the Founder's Council. She was the ex-wife of late fellow Founder's Council member Bill Forbes, who came out as being gay, and mother of Caroline. She initially struggled to accept Caroline's identity as a vampire given her prejudices, but in time she learned to love her daughter for who she is.
- Accidental Murder: She accidentally killed Jeremy when she shoots at Damon, and he dodges the bullet, hitting Jeremy. Bonnie is forced to have the witch ancestors bring him back, since Liz wasn't a supernatural creature, meaning that the Gilbert ring wouldn't bring him back.
- Big Damn Heroes: When, in Season 3, Caroline is kidnapped and tortured by her father to try and suppress her vampirism, Liz (and Tyler) burst in and save the day.
- Heel Realization: She has this when she accidentally kills Jeremy when she was trying to kill Damon, and after this she accepts Caroline for what she is.
- Incompatible Orientation: Bill Forbes, her husband and father to Caroline, left her when he came out as a homosexual.
- Killed Off for Real: Succumbs to cancer in Season 6.
- Mama Bear: Sheriff Forbes has a strained relationship with her daughter, but she cares for her well-being. When Caroline gets drunk at the Mystic Grill, she arrests the bartender for not checking the IDs properly (unaware that Lexi had used compulsion on him). She later fights against other supernatural creatures and will also cover up murders done by her vampire friends to protect her daughter.
- Odd Friendship: Has this with Damon before finding out he's a vampire and, even after finding out, Damon shows that he legitimately considers her his friend by not killing her like he did with her deputies. She generally starts seeing him as a friend when she accepts her daughter as a vampire and that not all vampires are evil. They later become best friends. Damon is also distraught when she dies from cancer and gives a eulogy at her funeral.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When she was able to accept that her daughter Caroline is a vampire, she becomes this and by also helping the Salvatore brothers and her other friends with the supernatural problems of the town.
- Unwitting Pawn: When Damon manipulates her into killing Lexi by making her seem like the dangerous vampire.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She is at first this when she is hunting and killing vampires because as far as she knew they were all evil and she was protecting the town by killing them before they can kill anyone else. This attitude towards vampires results in her trying to kill her own daughter when finding out she was turned into one.
Bill Forbes
Bill Forbes
Portrayed by: Jack Coleman
William "Bill" Forbes II was a Mystic Falls resident who returned to point out all the failings of the current Council’s attempts to keep vampires out of town, after discovering that his daughter, Caroline, is one of them.
- Badass Normal: He is a human with no supernatural powers, until he's murdered with the vampire blood still in his system. However he refuses to feed to complete the transition and dies.
- Death Equals Redemption: He accepts that Caroline is a vampire and spends his final moments with her as he is dying from not completing the transition.
- Face Death with Dignity: When killed with vampire blood in his system and left with the choice to either become a vampire or die, he chose the latter without hesitation, and uses his remaining time to reconcile with his daughter and ex-wife, waiting calmly for his death.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: The only reason that we know that he is gay, is because people keep saying that he is, not because he ever kisses men or anything. Even then he only mentions his off-screen boyfriend once when Caroline asks about him.
- Hypocrite: He believes he can make Caroline change what she is, despite the fact that he is a homosexual. Weirdly enough, he also averts this trope regarding his conviction that vampirism and cheating death are wrong, as seen in the Face Death with Dignity entry.
- Immune to Mind Control: The only known human character so far who can actually No-Sell a vampire's compelling without relying on vervain.
- Incompatible Orientation: He left his wife Liz when he came out as a homosexual.
- Karmic Transformation: Subverted and defied; he is killed with vampire blood in his system, but refuses to complete his transformation and lets himself die instead.
- Killed Off for Real: By Alaric (while he was taken over by The Darkness), who stabbed him to death and cut his throat while having vampire blood in his system.
- Straight Gay: He is not stereotypical, and, as stated, the only reason you know he is gay is because the other characters talk about him being so, and that he left Liz when he came out.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He comes back to town when he finds out that Caroline is a vampire and his intention is to teach her how to control her vampire nature, but his methods on teaching her are to torture her with sunlight and starving her to force her to resist the temptation to feed off a people. Also like other members of the founding families. he hunts and kills vampires to protect the town.
Lockwood Family
Tyler Lockwood
Portrayed by: Michael Trevino
"I have no one else to tell. I'm sorry about earlier. It's just, I'm alone with this. What's gonna happen to me? I'm gonna turn on the next full moon, and I won't be able to stop it. I'm scared."
Matt's best friend, though the two couldn't be more different - Tyler seems to be nothing more than a Jerk Jock, and the son of the town's Mayor. But his parents are very unpleasant people... and Tyler has actually inherited more from his father than just womanizing ways and a hair-trigger temper... The Lockwood bloodline are actually potential werewolves, and following Katherine's plan in the second season Tyler becomes a full werewolf himself.
Richard Lockwood
Mayor Richard Lockwood
Portrayed by: Robert Pralgo.
- Jerkass: He has a temper and he openly flirts with other women despite being married.
- Karmic Death: Is trapped in a basement with vampires he helped trap. One of them breaks his neck.
- Killed Off for Real: Killed when a vampire snaps his neck.
Carol Lockwood
Carol Lockwood
"You know, if you`re going to bring a girl home I wish she`d have the tact not to sneak out like a prostitute."
Portrayed by: Susan Walters.
- Action Mom: A mother who is willing to fight the monsters of Mystic Falls, especially to protect her son.
- Killed Off for Real: Carol is drowned by Klaus as revenge for Tyler's attempt to immobilize him.
Mason Lockwood
Mason Lockwood
Portrayed by: Taylor Kinney
"Oh, what am I? I apologize. I’m an animal."
Tyler's uncle and a member of Jules' werewolf pack.
- Agent Scully: Plays up his reputation as a skeptic, but he knows for a fact that there's more out there.
- Awakening the Sleeping Giant: When he was first confronted by Damon, he made it clear he had no intention of being the Salvatore's enemy and would rather mind his own business. Damon tried to kill him regardless, resulting in him actively trying to get the two brothers killed. Partially subverted when it's revealed he was working for Katherine anyway; his mission just didn't involve harming them.
- Back from the Dead: In season 3 he appears as a ghost to Damon in order to hurt him, but also help him find a way to defeat Klaus, in order to help his nephew, who Klaus turned into a hybrid.
- Blatant Lies: He's not very good at hiding the fact he's a werewolf.Tyler: Your eyes, they glowed... what was that?
Mason: Reflection. Off car headlamps.
- Cool Uncle: To Tyler. He is sexy, athletic, and possesses an easygoing charm, making him more likable and cool than his brother and Tyler's father.
- Kick the Dog: While you can't really blame him for trying to get the Salvatore killed after Damon tried to kill him, he really had no good reason to threaten Caroline with revealing her vampiric nature to her mother.
- Love Makes You Dumb: He was easily manipulated by his lover Katherine and had no idea she was just using him to find the moonstone.
- Unwitting Pawn: Unbeknown to him, Katherine is just using him to search for the moonstone.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies after a few episodes in season 2.
Jeffrey Lockwood-Hamilton
- Played By: Justin Price
- Living Prop: He exists solely to be Caroline's escort to a prom committee mostly containing Founding Families members in one episode.
- Tangled Family Tree: His exact relationship to Tyler, his parents and Mason is unclear.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Alaric eventually claims that Tyler was the last of the Lockwood's, making it unclear whether Jeffrey (and Gracie Lockwood, an unseen female relative mentioned in season 4) were killed offscreen at some point or simply weren't being counted for being more distant relatives and/or uninvolved in the supernatural.
Fell Family
Logan Fell
Logan Fell
Portrayed by: Chris Johnson
"I`ve things to do, people to kill."
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be nice to Jenna when he was only using her to get Johnathan Gilbert's watch for The Town Council from her house
- Bullying a Dragon: He riddled Damon with wooden bullets while taunting him, but left him without finishing him off. It comes back to bite him when Damon goes after him.
- Jerkass: According to Jenna. He does attempt to act nicer while working with the council, but his jerkassery becomes more apparent than ever once he becomes a vampire.
- Revenge by Proxy: Tries to turn Caroline into a vampire in order to get back at the Sheriff for covering up his death.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears in five episodes and then dies for good.
Meredith Fell
Dr. Meredith Fell
Played By: Torrey DeVitto
- Adaptation Name Change: Her last name is Sulez in the novels.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul In the novels, Meredith is part of Elena close circle of friends along with Bonnie and Caroline. In the series, Meredith is older than them, being part of the town's council and has never met them prior to season 3.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the books, Meredith is a skilled vampire hunter whose mental strength is so great that she can resist vampire compulsion and is the only person Damon admits to being afraid of. In the series, she has no fighting capabilities.
- Age Lift: Her book counterpart is in the same age range as Elena, Bonnie and Caroline. In the show, she is older than them and is around Alaric's age.
- Brainy Brunette: She's very clever and has long brown hair.
- Color Motif: She often has maroon on.
- Drowning My Sorrows: She's known to resort to drinking after losing a patient.
- Hospital Hottie: She's a very attractive doctor who works at Mystic Falls Hospital.
- Hyper-Awareness: She's extremely good at noticing small details or deducing things. She can usually recognize vampires just by looking at them, at easily notices Matt and Elena hiding in her closet when they break into her home.
- Ignore the Fanservice: She's noticeably one of the few female characters in the series not to show any attraction to vampires, and actually showing distaste when they attempt to charm or seduce her, such as Damon and Kol.
- Love Interest: For Alaric, who she shares most of her scenes. She's notably his only love interest to have survived his Cartwright Curse.
- The Medic: Once she's on good terms with the main cast, they often seek her help with medical matters.
- Nerds Are Sexy: A very pretty, intellectual woman.
- Nice Girl: She's very kind and cares a lot about her patients.
- Put on a Bus: In Season 6, it's revealed she married a pediatrician and moved to Alaska. Might also count as Screw This, I'm Outta Here given how crazy things had been getting in Mystic Falls.
- Race Lift: Meredith is Hispanic in the books. Here she is played by a white actress of Italian descent.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's one of the council members more inclined to reason with the supernatural than just attacked it.
- Red Herring: Was one of the suspects for Brian's murder, as she was his ex and was seen arguing with him the night he died.
- Remember the New Guy?: She is a member of the Founders Council who helps run the town, but only appears in Season 3.
- The Smart Girl: She is very keen and she can easily tell vampires from humans when she first meets them. She is also a medical doctor.
- Working with the Ex Had to work with her ex Brian Walters on the hospital and as a member of the council. Due to her dislike for him, she's Damon's primary suspect when he's found dead.
Tripp Cooke
Tripp Cooke (born Thomas Vincent Fell III)
Portrayed by: Colin Ferguson
"Vampires. They are real. And one murdered my wife."
Tripp Cooke, born Thomas Vincent Fell III, is the head of Mystic Falls new militia community in Season Six whose trainees include Matt Donovan. Tripp is determined to protect his town at all costs. He is also a vampire hunter.
- Anti-Hero: Of Type IV.
- Badass Normal: When he's not training his community militia, Tripp hunts down vampires - one has to be a badass in order to do so.
- Big Bad: Of the first seven episodes of Season Six.
- Embarrassing Nickname: He changed his name from Thomas "Tripp" Vincent Fell to Tripp Cooke with the given explanation below."My dad called me "Tripp", I was such a clumsy kid that . . . I took my mom's maiden name when he bailed - I mean could you imagine? Tripp Fell?"
- Fate Worse than Death: Tripp is firm in his believe that being a vampire is worse than death.
- A Father to His Men: Tripp serves a surrogate father figure to his young militia trainees.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Tripp uses the Traveller witches' Magic Purification Spell over Mystic Falls to exterminate vampires. Guess what Enzo does to deliver some comeuppance on Tripp for trying to kill him? See Karmic Death and Karmic Transformation below.
- It's Personal: His wife Kris was killed by a vampire right in front of him. Futhermore the vampire compelled him to think she died of a car accident which was his fault. His crusade against vampires has shades of this.
- Karmic Death: When Tripp crosses over the Magic Purification border, he suddenly dies via slit throat, revealing he'd been transformed into a vampire.
- Karmic Transformation: Tripp was transformed into a vampire by Enzo, the very creatures he hated.
- The Lost Lenore: His wife Kris was killed by a vampire.
- Shed the Family Name: Tripp's from the Founding Families, the Fells. He took on his mother's maiden name after his father abandoned him.
- Slashed Throat: How he's killed off-screen courtesy of Enzo for his Karmic Transformation into a vampire.
- What the Hell, Hero?: After the Mystic Falls vampires capture him, his own men hold Sheriff Forbes hostage. Matt calls him out on this.
Other Families
Bennett Family
Bonnie Bennett
Portrayed by: Kat Graham
"You saw what I was able to do tonight. I know who I am now. If Damon spills one drop of human blood, I'll take him down."
Sheila Bennett
Sheila 'Grams' Bennett
Portrayed by: Jasmine Guy
"I am not Bonnie. You don`t wanna mess with me."
- Killed Off for Real: The effort for breaking the spell sealing the vampires in the tomb to release Stefan and Damon had greatly weakened her. She died not much time later.
- The Mentor: She's Bonnie's witchcraft mentor in season 1.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Ends up dying shortly after taking Bonnie as her witch apprentice.
- Never Mess with Granny: She might be old, but she's still a dangerous witch and isn't easily intimidated, even by vampires.
Abby Bennett
Abby Bennett
Portrayed by: Persia White
"Your grams is way better at this stuff than I am."
- Parental Abandonment: She abandoned Bonnie when Mikael came to town many years ago, and imprisoning him takes away all her magic, resulting in her never going back to her family.
Rudy Hopkins
Rudy Hopkins
Portrayed by: Rick Worthy
Rudy Hopkins was the mayor of Mystic Falls, the ex-husband of Abby Bennett Wilson and the father of Bonnie Bennett.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: The moment he arrives in town and becomes mayor, he attempts to keep Bonnie away from her vampire friends and stop her from using magic even to help them. Though justified by the fact that he didn't want her to get killed by vampires and he was afraid that her using magic would make her end up like her mother who lost her powers and eventually ended up getting turned into a vampire and abandoned her family before that because of her witch duties.
- Call-Back: He later goes through with Bill Forbes's plan of putting vervain in the water supply.
- The Ghost: Spends three and a half seasons being unseen until season 4.
- Killed Off for Real: By Silas who slits his throat.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Just like her friends, he was unaware that Bonnie was dead as Jeremy was sending texts and messages to make it look like she was still alive. He was still unaware at the moment of his death.
- Muggle: Minor human character on the show and died as a human as well without ever being turned into a vampire.
Emily Bennett
Emily Bennett
Portrayed by: Bianca Lawson & Kat Graham
A powerful witch from the Bennett family in the 19th century who was Katherine Pierce's personal handmaiden.
- Burn the Witch!: She was executed by the Mystic Falls council via being burned at the stake.
- I Owe You My Life: She became Katherine's handmaiden and servant after Katherine saved her life in an event that is not elaborated upon. Ironically, she ends up dying due to Katherine betraying her.
- She Knows Too Much: Katherine snitches that she's a witch to the town council, due to Katherine sees Emily as a loose end who knew too much about her to be left alive.
Qetsiyah
Qetsiyah (AKA Tessa)
Portrayed By: Janina Gavankar
Have you not been listening to me? I have trust issues. I'm controlling and paranoid and a little crazy!... And that's working out just fine.
Qetsiyah (Ancient Greek: Kετσιυαη) was the oldest known ancestor of the Bennett bloodline, and a powerful Traveler witch. She was the first witch who discovered how to grant a person immortality. But then she was betrayed and tricked by her lover Silas, who wanted the immortality for himself and his true love, thus a vengeful Qetsiyah entombed him and created The Other Side to make sure he and his true love would never reunite. For the crime of creating immortality she was executed by The Travels, but even from The Other Side, she still plots her revenge.
Donovan Family
Matt Donovan
Portrayed by: Zach Roerig
"I get it, this is your life now. But you know what my life is, Caroline? My life is an absentee mom, and a bunch of bills to pay, and school, and a job, and it sucks sometimes, but it's my life and I think that I just want to live it without all this."
Vicki Donovan
Vicki Donovan
Portrayed by: Kayla Ewell
"Don't start with the little twelve-steps thing. School councilor has been down that road, it doesn`t work for me."
Matt's older sister and Jeremy's first girlfriend, Vicki is a compulsive drug user who gets high to avoid her crappy life. She is turned by Damon on a whim.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: Her book counterpart Vickie Bennett wasn't related to Matt, while show Vickie is his older sister.
- Anyone Can Die: Was the first major character in the show to die, via a Neck Snap by Damon. Even after she came Back from the Dead as a vampire, it didn't last and she got Killed Off for Real.
- Brutal Honesty: She has a very blunt personality and likes peaking whatever is on her mind, without consideration for other people's feelings.
- Childish Older Sibling: Although Vicki is the older sibling, Matt is the responsible one and often reprimands Vicki for her consistent recklessness and tries his best to look out for her.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: After she is turned, everyone around her suddenly looks like a walking blood bag. According to Stefan, this is usual for a new vampire.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to Matt's Responsible. Vicki is reckless and self-centered and has a major problem with addiction.
- Freudian Excuse: Her attitude comes from her awful family situation, with her Disappeared Dad and neglectful mother.
- Good Bad Girl: Although Vickie has a good heart, she's still a major rebel who likes partying, drugs and sex.
- Horror Hunger: Vicki feels like this all the time as a newborn vampire. Stefan tells Elena Vicki's past as a drug addict makes this much worse for her than other new vampires. When she tastes Jeremy's blood she turns berserk and Stefan is forced to kill her.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She often acts like a Jerkass to most people, including her Love Interest Jeremy and brother Matt. Deep down she does genuinely care about them, but is too selfish and irresponsible for it to show.
- Killed Off for Real: Stefan has to stake and kill Vampire Vickie in order to protect Elena and Jeremy from her uncontrollable blood lust.
- Ms. Fanservice: She dances around in her undies under Damon's compulsion.
- Really Gets Around: According to Tyler, Vicki is very promiscuous around school and is pissed off when she refuses to sleep with him.
- Sacrificial Lion: As a Mid-Season Twist, Vicki gets killed off to prove the point that anyone can die. She's Matt's sister and the first character turned into a vampire onscreen, and the center of a prominent secondary love triangle between Jeremy and Tyler.
- The Stoner: Along with Jeremy, she is a major drug addict, with the majority of her scenes having her stoned.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Despite being a major character (Matt's sister and involved in a Love Triangle between Jeremy and Tyler) she dies after seven episodes. Played With in that she does become a recurring character who appears as a ghost in almost every season.
Kelly Donovan
Kelly Donovan
Portrayed by: Melinda Clarke.
- Aborted Arc: The writers originally planned for her to be a succubus back in season one, but the plot was cut for being too dark and she got written out.
- Alcoholic Parent: She spends most of her time getting drunk and partying and neglecting Matt because of this.
- Back for the Finale: In the finale. She comes back to town to meet Matt and Peter for Caroline's wedding. She actually becomes important to the plot when it's revealed she's actually dead and is an agent sent by Katherine.
- Generation Xerox: Retroactively, it's easy to see from where Vicki got her Hard-Drinking Party Girl attitude from, as Kelly is basically an adult version of Vicki.
- Killed Offscreen: Shed dies at some point between being Put on a Bus and the Grand Finale. The fact that neither her son or ex-husband knew about it says a lot about her life.
- Lady Drunk: She's a Hard-Drinking Party Girl who got old but never dropped the drinking habit, even for the sake of her children.
- Mrs. Robinson: Despite her age, she's still very attractive and ends up making out with both Damon and Tyler. Poor Matt.
- Really Gets Around: She's incredibly promiscuous and has had tons of lovers and boyfriends, and constantly cheats on them too.
- Put on a Bus: Matt kicked her out of their home after he caught her making out with Tyler, and she left town.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: A sad variation given she's an irresponsible Alcoholic Parent, forcing her son Matt to be the responsible one.
- Womanchild: Matt is more of a parent to her than she is to him, being that she's an irresponsible alcoholic.
Peter Maxwell
Peter Maxwell
Portrayed by: Joel Gretsch
Peter is Matt and Vicki Donavan's father and he abandoned his family a long time ago. He is shocked when Matt walks back into his life to reconnect — and to drags him into a world of supernatural dangers.
- The Atoner: He is trying to make it up to Matt for abandoning him and the family years ago.
- Disappeared Dad: He abandoned his family when he left Mystic Falls years ago.
- Locked Out of the Loop: When he lived in Mystics Falls he was unaware of the existence of vampires and doesn't learn of this until Damon shows up.
- The Reveal: He is revealed to be Matt's father in his debut episode. This also makes him Vicki's father.
Martin Family
Jonas Martin
Jonas Martin
Portrayed by: Randy J Goodwin
A doctor who moves into Mystic Falls with his family in season 2. He's actually a powerful witch in Elijah' service.
- Agony Beam: His main method of combat is using a pain infliction spell that causes his opponents crippling pain. He can even cast it on multiple people at once.
- Anti-Villain: He and his son are agents of an original vampire named Elijah, because he desired to kill Klaus, after he kidnapped his sister.
- Character Death: By Katherine.
- Papa Wolf: He's protective of his children, with the whole reason he came to Mystic Falls in the first place is to find his missing daughter and he goes ballistic once Damon ends up killing his son.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His son is killed by Damon Salvatore, which led Jonas to go on a rampage and hurting many people before finally being disposed of by Katherine.
Luka Martin
Luka Martin
Portrayed by: Bryton James
"We're all bonded together by a code of loyalty to help each other."
A new student who moves into Mystic Falls with his family in season 2.
- Anti-Villain: He and his father are agents of an original vampire named Elijah, because he desired to kill Klaus, after he kidnapped his sister
- Betty and Veronica: In season 2 he's the Veronica to Jeremy's Betty for Bonnie's Archie, being the confident and charming Love Interest in comparison to the awkward Jeremy.
- Commonality Connection: Part of the reason he's attracted to Bonnie is that fact she's from a witch family like him.
- Character Death: He was incinerated by Damon while he and his father were trying to resurrect Elijah. He ended up succumbing to his injuries, even after his father tried to cure him with a spell.
- Hot Witch: Of the male kind, though he prefers to be called a warlock.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Once Bonnie finds out he and his dad work for Elijah, she kidnaps, interrogates him and erases the memory of what happened, so as not to tip his dad and Elijah.
- Romantic Runner-Up: He briefly gets involved in a Love Triangle between him, Bonnie, and Jeremy but ends up amounting to nothing more than this.
Greta Martin
Greta Martin
Portrayed by: Lisa Tucker
The witch daughter of Jonas Martin and a loyal servant of Klaus, who is in charge of breaking the Hybrid curse.Young Family
Pastor Young
Pastor Young
Portrayed by: Michael Reilly Burke
"Fear not. For I have been chosen to lead us in the movement. Hear me, loved ones: Soon you’ll be free to pass through the gates, and we’ll all be united for eternity."
The new leader of the Founder's Council in season four. He kills himself at the end of the premiere.
- Character Death: When he blows himself up, alongside the entire new council.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: It's seen at the end of the episode that he knows killing himself and the Council will bring about some sort of catastrophe. And with the revelation that extremely dark magic - called 'expression' by witches - requires the sacrifice of twelve souls to work...
- Remember the New Guy?: He's only introduced in season 4, but he's supposedly an influential member of the Mystic Falls community, enough that he's picked to be The Leader if the new town council.
- Taking You with Me: He invites all the members of the Council (save for the members he kicked out) to his farm, and kills them all along with himself by blowing up his farmhouse. It's later revealed he did that on the orders of Professor Shane, as the death of the council members was the first massacre necessary to create the Expression Triangle.
- Vampire Hunter: He is a pastor who secretly kills and hunts vampires.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He ends up dying at the end of the episode he's introduced.
April Young
April Young
Portrayed By: Grace Phipps
April Young is the daughter of a dangerous vampire hunter Pastor Young, who first appeared in Season Four of The Vampire Diaries. She spent her childhood in Mystic Falls, but after her mother's death, her father sent her to boarding school. Following her father's death in Growing Pains, April returned to Mystic Falls and re-enrolled at Mystic Falls High School. Upon her return, she was quickly thrown into the middle of a fight between a member of the Brotherhood of the Five and the town's vampires, leading her to eventually learn about the supernatural world.
- Break the Cutie: In her very first episode, she was stabbed by Connor and left to bleed to death during her father's funeral in an attempt to draw out the town's vampires. After that, she's been bitten, attacked, held hostage, and compelled more times than she can count and by episode 10, she is understandably upset when she discovers that all her friends have been lying to her.
- Children Are Innocent: She tries to befriend Rebekah. You know the sister of Klaus. Although it's justified, she doesn't know about vampires yet. Though Rebekah does enjoy being her friend.
- Flat Character: She is mostly just around the other characters and is only apart of the plot because of being Pastor Young's daughter.
- Genki Girl: April is very hyper and spirited.
- Girl Next Door: Friendly, good natured and even plain.
- Morality Pet: For Rebekah.
- Naïve Everygirl: April is highly idealistic and naive.
- Nice Girl: April is a sweet, kind and caring girl to everyone around her.
- Off to Boarding School: The excuse of why she wasn't in town in the previous seasons is that she was sent to a boarding school after her mother dies, and only came back after her father's death.
- Plucky Girl: April is optimistic and friendly.
- Preacher's Kid: Despite being one, this really has nothing to do with her character.
- Remember the New Guy?: She's introduced as an old friend of the rest of the Mystic Falls gang, who had been shipped off to a boarding school after her mother's death.
- Spanner in the Works: Because she was wearing Jeremy's vervain necklace, she's immune to Caroline's attempt to compel her. Subsequently, she overhears the location of Rebekah's coffin and decides to investigate, before undaggering her.
- Tagalong Kid: Ends up tagging along with Rebecca and mostly just hangs around the others.
- Token Human: In season 4, she is one of the few human characters left on the show.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Her character disappears without elaboration after season 4.
Tomb Vampires
Anna Zhu
Annabelle "Anna" Zhu
Portrayed by: Malese Jow
"Dracula was a complete wuss. Never showered. Very smelly."
- Action Girl: Anna is tough, capable and strong. As a centuries-old vampire, she is one of the oldest vampires in the series and is stronger than Damon and Stefan.
- All There in the Manual: The prequel novel Stefan Diaries reveals Anna got sick as a child and Pearl begged Katherine to turn her into a vampire to save her.
- Asian and Nerdy: Anna is smart, intellectual and nerdy. She is also a hardcore bookworm. She is of Chinese origin.
- Back from the Dead: She's back after she's staked, but only as a ghost that Jeremy sees in season three.
- Badass Adorable: Anna is small and petite but she is capable of defending and fighting for herself when she has to.
- Badass Bookworm: Scholarly, nerdy intelligent and very much a bookworm, but she is not afraid to deliver a beatdown to anyone try gin to stop her from opening her moms tomb.
- Becoming the Mask: Originally she befriended Jeremy in order to obtain his ancestor's journal but later, she really falls in love with him.
- Brainy Brunette: Anna is very smart, brunette who is intelligent and quick. She also seems to be quite scholarly and loves research.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Anna is the Gentle Girl to Jeremy's Brooding Boy, being a fairly compassionate individual despite her ultimate goals of freeing the Tomb Vampires.
- Canon Foreigner: Anna doesn't exist in the books.
- Cute Bookworm: Anna loves books, she loves to read and loves research. She's a petite and lovely girl.
- Cute Bruiser: Anna is very cute but she can kick anyone's ass. She's not to be underestimated.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She's dark-haired and wears dark colours but overall, she has good to neutral intentions.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has her witty and sarcastic moments, such as her page quote.
- The Determinator: Anna did everything to get her mother back from the tomb in which she was imprisoned in for over a century.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Much like her mother, she has no evil intentions towards humans and doesn't even enjoy being a vampire. Her stint as an antagonist was only in an effort to free her mother from imprisonment.
- Ghost Reunion Ending: In Season Three, ghost Anna tells Jeremy she hadn't encountered her mother on The Other Side and feared Pearl might have moved on without her. However, Anna and Pearl had an emotional reunion in "Ghost World", and move on together.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Like many other vampires, Anna sometimes wears leather jackets, which makes her look all tough and badass.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Anna is a vampire that desires to be a normal girl and be a regular teenager.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Anna desires friendship, companionship and love, hence why she first befriended and then fell in love with Jeremy Gilbert.
- Immortality: Anna had the ability to live forever without physically aging. She's an immortal vampire.
- Killed Off for Real: She is killed via stake through the heart by John Gilbert, so she's dead-dead even for a show that has resurrections and is full of supernatural beings
- Love Interest: She's romantically interested in Jeremy and he reciprocates in season one. Sadly, she is tragically killed off at the end of the first season. Jeremy makes it clear that he still loves her despite her unexpected death and it takes many seasons for Jeremy to move on from Anna, even when Jeremy moved on with Bonnie in a relationship in season two. Even after she dies, Jeremy still considers Anna as his one true love.
- Love Redeems: Anna isn't necessarily bad by any means, but her love for Jeremy definitely brought out the nicer and softer side of her, her humanity.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Anna is introduced as a cheerful presence to the brooding Jeremy in season one. Subverted in that it was a deliberate plot to get close to him.
- The Mole: She pretended to join the remaining vengeful tomb vampires who were planning to wipe out the humans of Mystic Falls in order to feed information to the townspeople. John Gilbert doesn't care and simply has her staked when she's immobilized by the anti-vampire device.
- Motor Mouth: Once Anna gets going, she can't stop talking, especially if the topic is something she finds important or something that she is passionate about.
- Nerds Are Sexy: Anna may be a nerd, but she is also stylish and conveniently attractive.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Anna has very black hair and very pale skin. She's also considered exceptionally beautiful.
- Really 700 Years Old: She's introduced as a normal human teenager, but it's quickly revealed to be a vampire who has been alive with that appearance for centuries. She even knew Dracula who died before Katherine was turned.
- Waif-Fu: Small and petite but still has the Super-Strength of a centuries-old vampire.
Pearl
Pearl Zhu
Click here to see her 1864 appearance
Portrayed by: Kelly Hu
"Mystic Falls is our home, Damon! They took that from us, our land, our home. It's time we rebuild!"
- Affably Evil: She's polite and ladylike to others for the most part and wishes no ill on the populace of Mystic Falls, but can be scheming and manipulative when she wants something.
- All There in the Manual: The prequel novel Stefan Diaries reveals Pearl lost her entire family to a disease during the Revolutionary War; she and Anna were the Sole Survivors as Katherine sired both of them to save them from the disease.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Pearl is a dark-haired woman with a rather aloof and poised attitude.
- Anti-Villain: She has no real animosity towards humans and only wants to make a life for herself and her daughter.
- Badass Boast: When she threatens Damon.Pearl to Damon: I have 400 years on you, little boy. I'll rip you from limb to limb without even blinking, and you know it.
- Best Friend: She was Katherine's closest friend in 1864, although Katherine didn't value their friendship enough to try to set her free.
- The Bus Came Back: She briefly reappears as a ghost in Season Three, just long enough for an emotional reunion with Anna.
- Canon Foreigner: Pearl doesn't exist in the books.
- Dark Action Girl: A centuries-old vampire, once she's back to her full strength, she has no problem subduing Damon.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She truly loves her daughter Anna.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: She feeds from blood bags at hospitals and has no interest in terrorizing the human populace of Mystic Falls like some of her fellow tomb vampire members.
- Ghost Reunion Ending: In Season Three, ghost Anna tells Jeremy she hasn't encountered Pearl on The Other Side and fears Pearl might have moved on without her. However, Anna and Pearl have an emotional reunion in "Ghost World" and move on together.
- Immortality: Like all vampires, Pearl had the ability to live forever without physically aging.
- In-Series Nickname: Her real name is Zhen Zhu, but she's mostly known as Pearl.
- Iron Lady: Pearl is rather stern, authoritarian, domineering, and overprotective, especially when it comes to her daughter, Anna. Given everything they've been through, it's hard to blame her.
- Killed Off for Real: She's permanently killed by John Gilbert via a silent compressed air stake gun.
- Knight Templar Parent: She becomes much more protective toward Anna after being release from the Tomb, since Johnathan Gilbert's betrayal hurt her deeply and she fears Anna might face the same thing if she continues to seek a relationship with Jeremy.
- The Leader: She was accepted as the leader of the tomb vampires after their release, but struggles as most of them want revenge on the Mystic Fall townsfolk while she simply wants to regain their former glory.
- Mama Bear: Very protective of Anna. Pearl won't hesitate to kill or harm anyone who so much as goes near her daughter.
- Monster/Slayer Romance: Back in 1864 she was in a romance with Vampire Hunter Johnathan Gilbert, which quickly dissolved once she was revealed and he attempted to kill her.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: She and the rest of the 1864 Mystic fall vampires spent 146 years trapped in the tomb without blood.
- Socialite: She acts as a Proper Lady during 1864 to blend into high society. She even has the Pimped-Out Dress with the proper corsets, opera gloves, and hat. After she's freed from the tomb, she attempts to reintroduce herself to 21st-century society in Mystic Falls and recover her previous property, adopting a more modern look by becoming a Sharp Dressed Woman.
- The Stoic: Pearl keeps her emotions in check most of the time.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She dies and leaves the show after a few episodes.
Harper
Harper
Portrayed by: Sterling Sulieman
One of the vampires that was part of Pearl's group in 1864 and got locked inside the tomb with her.
- Apologetic Attacker: He apologizes to the random hiker that he crosses path just after his escape, and them promptly kills him for his blood and his clothes.
- Killed Off for Real: He's permanently killed by John Gilbert via a silent compressed air stake gun.
- Mugged for Disguise: After escaping the tomb, he attacks a kills a man in a forest in order to get his clothes, knowing he can't pass off as a civilian wearing clothing from 1864.
- Only One Name: He's only known as Harper and his full name is never given.
- Undying Loyalty: Of the Tomb Vampires, he's by far the most loyal to Pearl, even standing up to Frederick and his followers when they defied Pearl's rule.
Frederick
Frederick
Portrayed by: Stephen Martines
One of the vampires that was part of Pearl's group in 1864 and got locked inside the tomb with her.
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": His attitude towards humans is that they are only good as food and amusement.
- Dumb Muscle: He prefers quick action and violence to Pearl's pragmatic way of dealing with Mystic Falls.
- Killed Off for Real: He's destroyed when staked in the heart by Stefan and Elena.
- Only One Name: He's only known as Frederick and his full name is never given.
- Revenge Before Reason: He's completely driven by his desire for Revenge against the Mystic Falls townspeople and the Salvatore brothers, whom he blames for his long imprisonment inside the tomb. He's even willing to defy his mistress to get his revenge, even if it compromises their position in the town.
- The Starscream: He leads a rebellion against Pearl's rule when she's away from town in order to get his revenge on the Salvatores, capturing and torturing Stefan against her orders.
Other Characters
William Tanner
William Tanner
Portrayed by: Benjamin Ayres
The gang's history teacher at Mystic Falls High School at the beginning of the series who also coaches the football team. He is killed by Damon.
- 0% Approval Rating: He's a history teacher and all of the students hate him.
- Asshole Victim: He doesn't really show Elena, Jenna, or Jeremy any sympathy. Damon kills him just to make a point.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: His death is very sudden.
- Jerkass: Everybody hates him. He even keeps a file on the students who annoyed him. Alaric isn't impressed when he finds it.
- Killed Off for Real: By Damon, who kills him just to prove to Stefan how evil he is.
- Sadist Teacher: Though his actions suggest that he does want his students to do well. He seems genuinely impressed by Stefan.
- Small Name, Big Ego: The man has enough hot air to refloat the Hindenburg but gets the year the Korean War ended wrong.
Monique
"Sarah" Salvatore / Monique
Portrayed By: Gabrielle Walsh
A young woman who arrives in Mystic Falls in search of her family. She is actually a con artist.
- Asshole Victim: Manipulates and lies to Stefan without realizing he's onto her which leads to Enzo killing her.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She bounced from foster home to foster home until she turned 18 and came to Mystic Falls.
- I Am Who?: She arrives to Mystic Falls to find out more about her family. She's lying because she looking into Sarah Salvatore's birth family whose identity she stole. It's all part of her scheme though.
- Identity Impersonator: She was a foster kid who met the real Sarah Salvatore at a summer camp when they were kids. Monique since she never had a real family, and picked the Salvatore family to impersonate on the logic that most of them were dead and couldn't question Sarah's identity. Unlucky for her, the Salvatore is a family of vampires.
- Love Interest: Ends up hooking with Jeremy during her time in Mystic Falls.
- Little Miss Con Artist: She introduces herself as 'Sarah Salvatore', the daughter of Stefan and Damon's distant nephew Zach. It isn't until episode 9 she's outed by Stefan and she reveals to him her real name, Monique and that she had only met the real Sarah Salvatore at a summer camp.
- Ms. Fanservice: Jeremy is quick to note she looks hot in a bikini in episode 3 of Season 6.
- Neck Snap: How she meets her end at Enzo's hand.
- Oh, Crap!: When she figures out Stefan has been watching over the real Sara Salvatore in secret and is now onto her.
- Only One Name: She's only known as Monique and his full name is never given.
Georgie
Georgie
Played By: Allison Scagliotti
Georgie, an occult research intern who is working with Alaric to investigate the vault.
- Blindfolded Vision: She discovers that the only way to find the entrance to Sybil's cavern is to blindfold themselves and feel for it.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She was driving home with her friend. She was drunk and had a car accident. Her friend died and she died too, but only for a few moments. When she returned she had a tattoo of a mystical symbol. Georgie tells Alaric that she went to hell during those few moments and believes that if she ever dies again that is where she is going because of her friend's death.
- Dragged Off to Hell: After she dies her soul is dragged off into the darkness to the place known as hell.
- Killed Off for Real: Seline snaps her neck.
- Red Herring: The audience is lead to believe that she is Sybil's mystery sister when she breaks into Alaric's house and is threatening Seline when she threatens to call the cops. Also when she later locks Alaric in the cave and knocks out Stefan to try and release Sybil. At the end of the episode though it is revealed that she is actually being mind controlled by Seline who is actually the second Siren.
- Ship Tease: In her debut episode she flirts with Alaric, but Alaric turns her down with the explanation that he is focused on his kids and is not looking to get into a relationship right now.
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