The Vampire Diaries Novels
The Vampire Diaries Book Characters
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
Staff
Professor Atticus Shane
Atticus is a professor or teacher that teaches at the university in which Bonnie's grandmother taught at. He is aware of the existence of vampires, witches and werewolves and is an associate of The Five as he was the one who sent Connor to Mystic Falls in the first place. He has plans to help Bonnie with her guilt, although he has plans for her.
- The Fundamentalist: He seems to thoroughly believe that Silas will be able to revive all of the people whose deaths Shane has arranged in his name.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: When he begs Stefan to save his life, Shane explains his prior villainy was to have his late wife resurrected, and he also believed Silas would do the same to the people he had murdered. Stefen leaves Shane to die after telling him his motives don't justify his actions.
- Mind Manipulation:
- Hypnotizes Bonnie so that whenever she loses control of her dark powers, he's the only person who can bring her back under control.
- In an ironic twist, it turns out that he has been manipulated by Silas all along, using a hallucination of his dead wife.
- No-Sell: He's immune to compulsion, even if it's from an Original vampire. Rebekah and Kol are visibly shocked when he reveals this.
- Technical Pacifist: Protests that he doesn't even like to eat meat. He's okay with manipulating people into doing the killing for him, however, especially since he believes that they'll all be revived by Silas anyway.
Wes Maxfield
A professor at Whitmore College. Maxfield is a member of Augustine, the secret society at the college that experiments on vampires. He is obsessed with discovering a way to force vampires to feed on one another to eradicate them for good.
- Arc Villain: The main antagonist for the first few episodes of season 5.
- Killed Off for Real: By Damon.
- Pet the Dog: He does show some genuine concern for Aaron and he is willing to sometimes lie in order to protect Aaron from the supernatural.
- Stern Teacher: He often comes off as arrogant in his knowledge of microbiology.
Dianne Freeman
The head of security at Whitmore College and a member of Augustine.
- Black Boss Lady: A no-nonsense female and black college head of security.
- I Have a Family: When Damon and Enzo kidnap and interrogate her, she pleads for them to spare her by mentioning she has two kids. Enzo replies by coldly snapping her neck.
- Neck Snap: She's killed when Enzo snaps her neck after capturing her.
- Police Are Useless: At first she looks just incompetent to Elena and Caroline for refusing to investigate Megan's death and ruling it out as a suicide, but then it's revealed she's actually a member of the Augustine conspiracy in the college and is actively covering up things.
Alaric becomes the replacement Occult Studies college professor at Whitmore College after Shane is gone.
Students
Elena Gilbert
Olivia Parker
Olivia "Liv" Parker was a major recurring character in the fifth and sixth seasons of The Vampire Diaries. She was a witch of the Gemini Coven and the twin sister of Luke Parker. Liv was also the younger sister of Josette Parker, Malachai Parker, Joey Parker, and three deceased unnamed siblings. She was also the youngest daughter of Joshua Parker.
Lucas Parker
Lucas "Luke" Parker was a recurring character in the fifth and sixth seasons of The Vampire Diaries. He was a witch and a member of the Gemini Coven. Luke was the twin brother of Olivia Parker, the younger brother of twins Josette Parker and Malachai Parker, Joey Parker and three unnamed deceased siblings. He was also the youngest son of Joshua Parker.
Aaron Whitmore
Elena's friend and college classmate who has a secret connection to Damon that neither knew about until later.
- Butt-Monkey: Almost a deconstruction as we see how his endless misfortune has turned him into a complete psychological wreck.
- Deadpan Snarker: Far more bitter than most other characters but still there.
- Doom Magnet: Due to the many deaths of his friends and family.
- The Everyman: He's an ordinary human with no supernatural powers, scientific genius or even knowledge about vampires.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Aaron initially comes across as cold and unfriendly but that's only because he's lost everyone he gets close to.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed by Damon after Katherine possessing Elena's body breaks up with him.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He apologizes to Elena and stops any future Vampire experiments from occuring. His reward is being brutally killed by Damon in the middle of one of his trademark Elena-based tantrums.
- Non-Idle Rich: He's very wealthy due to his family owning the University Elena attends but tries to pursue an education anyway.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Had been this with Megan King before she was murdered by Enzo.
- Sins of the Father: His grandparents were in charge of some very vicious experiments on vampires of which Damon was a victim. Damon then spent half a century murdering almost everyone involved, including Aaron's parents and aunt, leaving him alone.
- Spoiled Sweet: The first thing he does when his trust fund kicks in is shut off the Vampire experiments.
Megan King
Caroline and Elena's roommate at Whitmore College.
- Bathing Beauty: She takes frequent and long showers, according to Katherine. She even walks around the dorm in a Modesty Towel in one of her few scenes.
- Delicate and Sickly: As a baby, she had a rare heart condition and was not expected to live long, until Grayson Gilbert (Elena's father) was able to cure her using vampire blood.
- Nice Girl: She's nothing but kind and friendly to her new roommates.
- Red Herring: Caroline becomes paranoid about Megan once she finds out she has vervain in her water, thinking she might be a Vampire Hunter. But it turns out she needs vervain as medicine for her heart condition since it was cured using vampire blood.
- Red Shirt: She exists purely to get killed by the Augustine vampire and get Elena and Caroline involved in that subplot.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Gets killed off in the episode she's introduced.
Nora Hildegard
Nora Hildegard was a member of the Heretics who had a romantic relationship with fellow member, Mary Louise.
Whitmore Hospital
Josette "Jo" Parker/Jo Laughlin
Jo is a tough and accomplished doctor at Whitemore University hospital. She is Elena's medical teacher and Alaric's new Love Interest. It's revealed Jo is the older sister of Luke and Liv Parker and the twin sister of Kai Parker. She is also a witch, but she no longer has access to magic.
Liam Davis
A pre-med classmate of Elena's and hospital volunteer at Whitemore University. He becomes Elena's new Love Interest.
- Big Damn Heroes: In episode five of season six, he saves the life of an injured girl using a tracheotomy - despite having only read about it - which amazes and impresses Elena.
- Inverted Trope: Liam is introduced as Elena's new Love Interest yet his portrayer Marco James actually ships Damon and Elena.
- It Runs in the Family: According to
Word of God, Liam is from a family of doctors. - Just Friends: After Elena decides she likes him and starts dating him, he learns she is a vampire. Elena then decides to compel him to forget he never liked her, what he's learned because she decides she doesn't care for him as she cared for Stefan and Damon and that they are just classmates and friends.
- Mr. Fanservice: As noted by Caroline.
- Satellite Love Interest: For Elena after she compels herself to forget she ever loved Damon after his Heroic Sacrifice.
- Token Human: Of all of Elena's Love Interests, he's the only one who is a human.
- Unwitting Pawn: Becomes this to No Humanity!Caroline when she compels him to 'experiment' on Sara Salvatore - by cutting her open, cut up her organs and pull out her heart.
Colin Phelps
A cancer patient who is on the verge of death at Duke University hospital. He is given vampire blood by Caroline in an attempt to cure him.
- Curse That Cures: Averted as Caroline's vampire blood doesn't cure his cancer. Because cancer cells grow, the blood enhances his tumors killing him. After transitioning into a vampire, the cancer has also been enhanced to Stage 10, a level of cancer that doesn't even exist. The resulting tumors caused him pain, he could hear his tumors growing.
- Hope Spot: After Caroline gives him her blood in an experiment, it appears to work allowing him to walk around. She is overjoyed, convinced she can save her mom ... until Colin actually dies later on from the blood speeding up the cancer.
- Mercy Kill: By Damon.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He is killed off in the episode after his intro.
