Post by Elena on Jun 18, 2011 6:38:20 GMT -5
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HUMANS
Backstory: Elena lives with her little brother, Jeremy, and her aunt, Jenna, who became her legal guardian after her parents died in a car crash. Her best friend is Bonnie Bennett, who later discovers she is a witch, and she is frenemies with Caroline Forbes, although when Caroline is turned into a vampire they become good friends. Before the beginning of the series she was in a relationship with Matt Donovan, who still carried a torch for her at the start of the series. She later begins a relationship with Stefan Salvatore, whom she discovers is a vampire. Stefan's brother Damon also falls in love with Elena. At the end of season one, Elena discovers that her parents aren't actually her biological parents, but that she is really the daughter of John Gilbert, who she thought was her uncle, and Isobel Flemming, who was turned into a vampire. In season two she learns that she is a Petrova doppelgänger, just like Katherine Pierce, which means that she has to be sacrificed to release Klaus' werewolf side. The sacrifice later happens, but Elena is saved, because John sacrificed himself for her after being put under a spell by Bonnie. However, her aunt Jenna is turned in to a vampire and, as part of the sacrifice, is killed by Klaus, leaving Elena without a guardian. In the season two finale, while Damon is dying due to a werewolf bite, she forgives him for forcing her to drink his blood and kisses him with the thought that it might be Damon's last day, however Damon gets cured by drinking Klaus' blood.
Face claim:Nina Dobrev
Jenna Sommers
Backstory: Jenna is Elena and Jeremy's aunt. She is the sister of their mother, Miranda Sommers Gilbert. After her sister and her sister's husband were killed in a car crash, she took Elena and Jeremy in and became their legal guardian. In the beginning Jenna had trouble coping with her new role as an authority figure, for she used to be a partying college student, but as the series progressed she became better at it. She began dating news reporter Logan Fell, who had cheated on her in the past. However Logan was killed by Damon and Jenna was told that he had left town, which hurt but didn't surprise her. She later begins a relationship with history teacher Alaric Saltzman. In season two, John Gilbert begins to cause trouble between Jenna and Alaric, and Jenna begins to suspect that Alaric isn't completely honest with her. When Isobel, Alaric's supposed dead wife, shows up at Jenna's door, Jenna becomes angry with Elena and Alaric, who then tell her everything. Jenna is later turned into a vampire by Klaus to be used in the sacrifice that will release his werewolf side. She attempts to kill Greta Martin, Klaus' witch, to stop the sacrifice, at which point Klaus stakes her to death. Jenna was buried near Miranda, Grayson and John Gilbert.
Face claim: Sara Canning
[/center][/b]Alaric Saltzman
Backstory: Alaric is the history teacher at Mystic Falls High. Alaric originally comes to town to kill Damon Salvatore, because he believes that Damon killed his wife. However it is later found out that his wife, Isobel Flemming, isn't dead, but that on her own request she was turned into a vampire by Damon. He then starts to become friends with Damon. Alaric owns a Gilbert Ring, which he got from Isobel, which prevents him from getting killed by anything supernatural, however John Gilbert later claims the ring. Alaric starts a relationship with Jenna Sommers. In the second season John starts causing trouble between Jenna and Alaric and when Jenna meets Isobel, she knows that Alaric is keeping things from her and she leaves him. His body is later possessed by Klaus and he uses this ruse to gain the group's trust. Eventually Klaus releases Alaric and he gets back together with Jenna, but soon afterwards Klaus has her turned into a vampire and killed for his sacrifice ritual, leaving him heartbroken.
Face Claim: Matt Davis
Matt Donovan
Backstory: Matt is Elena Gilbert's ex-boyfriend. Vicki Donovan is Matt's older sister, who he has to take care of all by himself, for their troubled mother has left them. When Vicki dies, Matt is devastated. His best friend is Tyler Lockwood. Elena had broken up with Matt after her parents had died and in the beginning of the series Matt still has feelings for her and wants to get back together with her. However he later starts a relationship with Caroline Forbes. When Caroline is turned into a vampire in season two, she breaks up with Matt, for she can't control her lust for blood around him. However later they get back together. Caroline then tells him that she is a vampire, which upsets him for he thinks Caroline had something to do with Vicki's death. Matt asks Caroline to make him forget, however he doesn't forget for he had vervain in his system, which was a plan Sheriff Forbes came up with after he had told her everything. However he finds out he still cares for Caroline and tells her about the plan. He then breaks up with her due to the fact that he has too much to handle with work and school and doesn't want to deal with the fact that Caroline is a vampire.
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Backstory: Sheriff Elizabeth "Liz" Forbes is the sheriff of Mystic Falls and the mother of Caroline Forbes. Her husband has left her for a man. She is first introduced at a Founders Day party at Mayor Lockwood's house. There she is shown to have a strained relationship with her daughter. However, later actions, such as arresting a bartender when Caroline got drunk, show Liz loves her daughter very much and is willing to do anything for her. She was revealed to be a member of the Founders Council, a secret organization dedicated to protecting Mystic Falls from vampires. Along with Logan Fell, Liz led the hunt for the vampires. When Fell is killed, Liz finds the body and covers up his death by saying he has left town for the Bahamas. Fell later returns as a vampire and swears to turn Caroline into a vampire to have his revenge against Liz. However Caroline is saved by Damon Salvatore's intervention. Liz appears in several other episodes protecting the town from vampire attacks and attending Founding Families events. To get the Council of his back, Damon frames Lexi as the vampire and saves Liz by killing Lexi, so as to make him look heroic in her eyes. He then joins the Council and provides it with vervain, which used to be Zach's job. Liz is seen letting him know about the Council's plans and is also his staunchest ally among the Founding Families, not suspecting he is a vampire. In the season one finale she is smacked across the head and locked up to a desk with her own handcuffs by John Gilbert, because she doesn't agree with his plan to capture the tomb vampires. She is later saved by Carol Lockwood, but they are unable to save Mayor Lockwood, who is burned with the vampires. Liz then finds out that her daughter has been in a car crash and goes to the hospital, where she tells Tyler Lockwood that his father has passed away.
In season two, Liz is relieved that Caroline pulled through, though she does not know that her miraculous recovery is due to her becoming a vampire. Carol accuses Liz of getting Mayor Lockwood killed and Liz asks for Damon's help to figure out who did it. Damon reminds the two ladies that they are on the same team. Liz is later informed by Mason Lockwood that Damon and Stefan Salvatore are vampires. She is very skeptical at first and refuses to believe that Damon, who she considers a friend, is a vampire. She tests him by slipping vervain into his drink and he reacts negatively to it. When Damon and Stefan assume Mason did it and attempt to take care of him in the woods, Liz appears and shoots both Stefan and Damon and has her deputes inject them with vervain. Liz tortures Damon in an attempt to learn how he and Stefan can walk in the sun, but is interrupted when Elena Gilbert appears, followed by Caroline, who kills the deputies. Forbes is locked up in the cellar at the Salvatore House so that the vervain can get out of her system and she can be compelled to forget everything. Now knowing that her daughter is a vampire, she asks Damon to keep Caroline away from her and says that her daughter is gone. Caroline has a heart to heart with her mom, who then accepts Caroline being a vampire, but Caroline still decides to compel her and Liz loses her memory of the whole ordeal. After Matt Donovan has discovered the truth about vampires from Caroline, he tells Liz, who comes up with a plan to make Matt pretend to be compelled to forget, while he actually has vervain in his system. Liz then uses Matt to spy on Caroline, who she thinks is a monster now. Liz tries to capture and kill Damon, but accidentally shoots Jeremy Gilbert instead. Believing she has killed Jeremy, she is shocked to discover that Bonnie Bennett is able to resurrect him. She also finds out that Matt came clean to Caroline. After confessing that neither wanted to secretly live in fear of one another, Liz accepts her daughter for what she is and hugs her.
Face Claim: Marguerite Macintyre
Backstory:is Elena Gilbert's best friend. She is also good friends with Caroline Forbes. In the beginning of the series, Bonnie discovers that she is born from a line of witches and that she is also a witch. Her grandmother, a witch too, helps her learn to use her powers, which causes them to create a strong bond. When her grandmother dies, Bonnie is devastated, but she keeps training and as the series develops she becomes more and more powerful. In the midst of season two, she starts a relationship with Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's younger brother. She later discovers from warlock Luca Martin that the only way to kill Klaus, the original vampire who wants to kill Elena, is for her to get the power of one-hundred dead witches, which she later gets. She then pretends to be dead, a scheme of Damon's, in order to trick Klaus. But when she brings Klaus to the brink of death, Elijah does not kill him, as planned, and carries him away before she could react. In the season two finale Bonnie is able to save Jeremy from dying after she tells Emily that she loves him.
Face Claim: Katerina Graham
Backstory:Emily Bennett was the handmaiden of Katherine Pierce in 1864 as well as a powerful witch. She was a direct descendant of one of the women accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, which took place in the Salem area of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. Emily is also the 4th great-grandmother of Bonnie Bennett through Sheila Bennett. She was the one who gave Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Harper, Damon and Stefan Salvatore the jewelry which enabled them to walk in the sun. Although she helped these vampires, she also secretly fought against them, for she spelled Jonathan Gilbert's inventions, including the device, which could hurt vampires. When the vampires were rounded up by the Founding Families she and Damon Salvatore made a bargain. Damon would protect Emily's descendants and Emily would use her grimoire to protect Katherine by entombing her with 26 other vampires under the old Fell's Church. She was later burned at the stake by the Founding Families and her possessions, including her grimoire, were taken and buried in Giuseppe Salvatore's grave. Damon rescued Emily's children when the townspeople came for her. In season one Emily possesses Bonnie in order to stop Damon from freeing Katherine from the tomb. In season two, Bonnie takes on the power of a hundred dead witches, which includes Emily, by performing a spell on the place where the witches were burned. Bonnie and Stefan later go there again to ask the witches if they know a cure for a werewolf bite, in order to help Damon. Emily possesses Bonnie and tells Stefan there isn't a cure, but when Bonnie is herself again, she tells Stefan that Emily mentioned Klaus, whose blood later turns out to be the cure for a werewolf bite. When Jeremy dies, Bonnie is able to save him with help of Emily after she tells her that she loves him.
Face Claim: Bianca Lawson
Damon Salvatore
Backstory:Damon was born in Mystic Falls in 1840. When Katherine Pierce came to town, both he and his brother, Stefan Salvatore, fell in love with her. In 1864 he is turned into a vampire after being shot by his father with Katherine's blood in his system. His transitioning was completed after Stefan, also now a vampire, convinced him to kill a woman. Damon, angry that Katherine had turned Stefan as well, vowed to make Stefan's life miserable. More than a hundred years later, Damon returns to Mystic Falls to free Katherine, who he believes is locked in a tomb there. Damon meets Elena and, still hating his brother, decides to bring havoc to her relationship with Stefan. When he finds out that Katherine is not in the tomb and has been alive the entire time, he finds comfort in Elena. He then starts to fall in love with her. His relationship with Stefan also improves and it is shown that Damon actually does care about his brother. In the beginning of the series, Damon kills people impulsively, but as the series progresses he starts to act more humane and stops killing people. He even starts friendships with others, such as Alaric Saltzman and Sheriff Forbes. When Katherine returns in season two and tells him that she has always loved Stefan and not him, his love for her vanishes and he starts to hate her. He later develops feelings for another vampire named Rose. When Rose is bitten by a werewolf, Damon is left with no other choice but to stake her and briefly falls back into his old ways, killing a young girl. Damon then starts a relationship with a reporter called Andie Star. He compels her to agree to him taking her blood and uses her to distract himself, however he later tells her to leave, for he was afraid that he couldn't control himself. Despite these relationships, Damon still loves Elena deeply. When Damon is dying, due to a werewolf bite, Elena tells him that she has feelings for him too and they share a kiss, however Damon is cured after drinking Klaus' blood brought to him by Katherine.
Face Claim: Ian Somerhalder
Backstory:Stefan was born in Mystic Falls in 1847. Both he and his brother, Damon, fell in love with the same girl, Katherine Pierce, a vampire. In 1864, Stefan was turned into a vampire after being shot by his father with Katherine's blood in his system, before unwillingly killing his father. Damon, who was turned into a vampire as well, promised Stefan an eternity of misery as he was angry that Katherine had turned Stefan as well. Stefan was unable to resist human blood and became addicted, killing lots of people, until he was taught to control it by a vampire named Lexie, who later became his best friend. After decades of absence, Stefan returned to Mystic Falls after he saved Elena from a car crash and noticed that she looked exactly like Katherine. Stefan and Elena begin a relationship and he reveals to her that he is a vampire. However Damon returns to Mystic Falls too and he also falls in love with Elena. Further on in the series, Damon and Stefan start to bond as brothers again and it becomes apparent that they do love each other. Because of his addiction to human blood, Stefan only drank animal blood in the beginning of the series, which made him weaker than other vampires. In season two Stefan starts to take small amounts of Elena's blood each day to mitigate its effect on him and to increase his strength. When Katherine returns it is discovered that she has always been in love with Stefan and not with Damon, however Stefan is in love with Elena and not interested in her. Stefan starts to build a friendship with Caroline Forbes after she is turned into a vampire. In the season two finale, Stefan offers himself to Klaus in order go get Klaus' blood, which will cure Damon from his werewolf bite. Klaus makes Stefan addicted to human blood again and Stefan ends up killing a girl.
Face Claim: Paul Wesley
Backstory: Jeremy is Elena's younger brother, later revealed to be her cousin. In the beginning the series he is emotionally damaged by the death of his parents and uses drugs. He is in love with Vicki Donovan, who uses drugs as well, and they later start a relationship. However Jeremy later witnesses how Vicki is killed by Stefan after Damon had turned her into a vampire. Elena, afraid that Jeremy couldn't handle this, asks Damon to make Jeremy forget this and take away his pain. This causes Jeremy to become more stable and to stop taking drugs. Jeremy then starts a relationship with a vampire named Anna, but Anna is killed by John Gilbert, Jeremy's uncle, at the end of season one. Jeremy, not wanting to deal with this pain, tries to become a vampire by overdosing while having Anna's blood in his system, but he fails. He is later given John's ring, which protects him from a death caused by any supernatural. In season two, Jeremy falls in love with Bonnie Bennett and they start a relationship. Jeremy later loses both his aunt and uncle on the day of the sacrifice, leaving him and Elena without a guardian. In the season two finale, Jeremy is accidentally shot to death by Sheriff Forbes, but brought back to life by Bonnie. However the spell Bonnie used has consequences and at the end of the episode, Jeremy sees Vicki and Anna.
Face Claim: Steven R. McQueen
Backstory: Caroline is Elena Gilbert and Bonnie Bennett's insecure friend. Caroline is the daughter of the sheriff of Mystic Falls, Liz Forbes, with whom she has a troubled relationship. Her father left her and her mother when he came clean about being gay. In the beginning she is shown as shallow, self-absorbed and jealous of Elena, however during the series Caroline becomes a nicer person. She later starts a relationship with Matt Donovan. In season two Caroline is turned into a vampire after drinking Damon's blood, being killed by Katherine and unwillingly killing a boy and feeding on him. Stefan Salvatore helps Caroline to control her lust for blood and they start to build a friendship. After turning, she also becomes closer to Elena. She discovers that she is not able to control her lust when she is around Matt, and therefore tricks him into breaking up with her for his own safety. When Tyler Lockwood is turned into a werewolf, Caroline helps him and he starts to develop romantic feelings for her. However Caroline is still in love with Matt and they get back together as Tyler leaves town. Caroline tells Matt that she is a vampire, but Matt asks Caroline to use her vampire abilities to make him forget. However Matt had vervain in his system and merely pretended to forget, which was a plan Liz came up with after he had told her about Caroline. Matt later ends up confessing to Caroline that she never made him forget and that her mother knows of her being a vampire, as well. He then breaks up with Caroline due to the fact that he has many problems and doesn't want to deal with the fact he's dating a vampire.
Face Claim: Candice Accola
Backstory: Vicki is Matt Donovan's older sister. Vicki is a troubled girl and is addicted to drugs. She is being taken care of by Matt, for their mother has left them. In the beginning of the series she is dating Tyler Lockwood, however Jeremy Gilbert also had feelings for her. Vicki, acknowledging that she has feelings for Jeremy too, later breaks up with Tyler and starts a relationship with Jeremy. She is later turned into a vampire by Damon Salvatore. As a vampire she couldn't control her lust for blood and when she started attacking Jeremy, Stefan killed her with a stake through her heart. Stefan and Damon make it seem as if Vicki has left town. Later in season one, her body is found by Caroline Forbes, causing a devastated Matt and Jeremy. In the season two finale, Vicki appears to Jeremy, after he was brought back to life by a spell of Bonnie's, which was said to have consequences.
Face Claim: Kayla Ewell
Backstory: Annabelle, in short Anna, is Pearls daughter and the one who turned Ben and Logan into vampires. Anna was a vampire who resided in Mystic Falls in 1864 and survived the townspeople's attempts to eradicate the vampires by burning them in an old church, but were instead locked in a tomb. She witnessed her mother's capture at the hands of Johnathan Gilbert and waited 145 years for the chance to free her. She, like the Salvatore brothers, possessed an enchanted lapis lazuli ring which allowed her to walk in the sunlight. She starts a romantic relationship with Jeremy Gilbert despite her mother's protests, calling him her "weakness." The two suffered a brief falling-out after the discovery of Vicki Dovonan's body, but later made up and were even seen getting undressed together and making out. When Pearl was killed by Jeremy's uncle John Gilbert in the episode Blood Brothers, Anna was devastated but did not seek revenge. She attempted to save Jeremy from an impending vampire attack in the season one finale, but was rounded up with the other vampires after suffering the effects of The Device and was dragged to an old basement. There John Gilbert found and staked her. However, before she died she gave a vial of her own blood to Jeremy to enable him to become a vampire, which he drinks on learning of her death, and overdoses on sleeping pills in order to die with vampire blood in his system (in order to turn) believing his emotional pain will cease by turning. However, the blood only heals the damage done by the pills, and he does not turn. In the season two finale, Anna appears to Jeremy, after he was brought back to life by a spell of Bonnie's, which was said to have consequences.
Face Claim: Malese Jow
Backstory:Originally being called Katerina Petrova, she is born in Bulgaria in the late 15th century, but is banished to England after having an illegitimate child. When she meets Klaus and Elijah, two original vampires, she finds out that she is a Petrova Doppelganger, which means that she has to be sacrificed to release Klaus' werewolf side. She uses a vampire named Trevor, who'd fallen in love with her, to escape and tricks vampire Rose into turning her, so she can't break the curse anymore. However Klaus wants revenge and she spends her entire life running from him. Hundreds of years later, Katherine comes to Mystic Falls, where both Stefan Salvatore and Damon Salvatore fall in love with her. When all the vampires in Mystic Falls are rounded up, she escapes. While in Mystic Falls she had been giving Damon and Stefan her blood and they are turned into vampires after being shot. Damon, thinking Katherine is locked up in a tomb, spends 145 years loving her and trying to find a way to free her. When he does, he finds out that she is not in there and was alive this entire time. In the last episode of season one, Katherine returns to Mystic Falls. She tells Damon that she has always been in love with Stefan and tries to break up Stefan and Elena Gilbert, the next Petrova Doppelganger. It is later revealed that her real reason for returning is to get the moonstone and offer it and Elena to Klaus, in order to be free from him. However she is locked up in a tomb by Stefan and Damon, which has a spell that makes sure vampires can't leave and when the spell is broken, she is compelled by Elijah to stay. When Elijah died, Katherine was free again, but starts helping Stefan and Damon. When Klaus comes to Mystic Falls, he kidnaps her and keeps her in Alaric's apartment, where he tortures her. However he later tells her that she can leave, telling Stefan that she won't be far.
Face Claim: Nina Dobrev
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Backstory:Isobel is Elena's birth mother and a descendant of Katerina Petrova (Katherine). She is a vampire who was turned by Damon at her own request, and claims to be a messenger from Katherine. She was married to Alaric Saltzman, the history teacher at the high school, but left him when she became a vampire. She dated John Gilbert, Elena's biological father, in high school. Although Isobel tells Elena not to look for any redeeming qualities in her, she regrets that Elena has been drawn in to the supernatural world and that her daughter is involved with both Salvatore brothers. Because of her desire to keep Elena away from the Salvatore brothers, she tells John Gilbert to ensure both Stefan and Damon are killed along with the tomb vampires and she agrees with John that this isn't the life they want for their daughter. Before she leaves Mystic Falls, she confronts Alaric, telling him that she regrets her decision to become a vampire. Isobel then compels him to move on from her. Stefan tries to track her down but finds John instead. It is then revealed that John Gilbert and Isobel are trying to free Katherine from the tomb. At the end of The House Guest Isobel appears at the front door of the Gilbert house and asks Jenna if Elena is home, greeting Elena when she says her name. It was revealed that Isobel was able to find Klaus and she was compelled by him to find the moonstone and Katherine. After completing Klaus' orders, Isobel apologized to Elena in front of her gravestone, took off her lapis luzuli necklace and burns to death.
Face Claim: Mia Kirshner
Backstory:Lord Niklaus, more commonly known as Klaus, is the oldest of vampires and one of the main antagonists of the series. He and his family, including Elijah, became the very first vampires. It was later found out that his mother had committed adultery and Klaus' biological father was a werewolf, which made Klaus the only vampire/werewolf hybrid. However his werewolf powers were bound to the moonstone by a band of witches. To release his werewolf powers a ritual, in which a werewolf, a vampire and a Petrova dopplegänger have to be sacrificed, has to take place. He created a fake curse, the curse of the sun and the moon, in order to have two species look for a Petrova dopplegänger. The first Petrova dopplegänger Klaus found was Katerina Petrova, but she escaped Klaus with the moonstone and made a vampire turn her, so that she would be useless for the ritual. However Klaus wanted to revenge Katerina and she spent hundreds of years running for him. Hundreds of years later Klaus, through Isobel Saltzman, finds Elena Gilbert, the next Petrova dopplegänger and Katerina. He kidnaps Katerina and makes her torture herself. He also takes over the body of Alaric Saltzman in order to spy on Elena. After collecting the moonstone, a werewolf, Jules, the Petrova dopplegänger, Elena, and turning Jenna Sommers into a vampire, he begins the ritual. However Bonnie Bennett and Elijah, who was angry at Klaus for he had killed their entire family, have come up with a plan to kill Klaus after the ritual is completed and he is transitioning. However when Bonnie, with the power of a hundred witches, has Klaus weakened and Elijah has to kill him, Klaus tells Elijah that he could tell him where the bodies of his family members are and Elijah saves him. However when Klaus gets back at full strength, he kills Elijah. He then blackmails Stefan Salvatore into becoming addicted to human blood again.
Face Claim: Joseph Morgan
Backstory: The Originals appear to have owned the Moonstone until it was stolen by Katerina Petrova, later known as Katherine Pierce. Elijah appeared in episode eight, Rose. He was contacted by two vampires named Rose and Trevor. Upon reaching them he makes a deal to grant freedom to Rose in exchange for Elena who is the Petrova doppelgänger. He is later seen with Rose's best friend Trevor and he was shown to be so powerful that he chopped his head off with one swing of his hand. He was staked by Damon who along with Stefan came to rescue Elena after she was kidnapped. He is later seen coming back to life and pulling the stake out, showing that the Originals are much more difficult to kill than modern vampires. He is later seen compelling another vampire named Slater to drive a stake through his own heart, demonstrating another very powerful ability the Originals possess. Elijah is the only known vampire so far that can come back to life and cannot be killed by conventional means. He is also the only known vampire that can compel other vampires. In episode ten, The Sacrifice, Elijah works with Luka's father to find Elena. He discovers her location and goes there to confront her. Upon his arrival Elijah discovers three other vampires who came to take Elena. They wanted her because Elena is the doppelgänger and they wanted to hand her to Klaus. Elijah kills all three vampires with ease. He then spares Damon, Rose and Elena. This is due to the fact that Elijah said to Luka's father that he wants to keep Elena safe. In By the Light of the Moon, Elijah appears at Elena's home to make a deal with her. He reveals that Klaus does not trust him, and he has no idea where he is. He wants to use Elena as a way to draw Klaus out of hiding so he can kill him. In return he promises that Elena's friends and family will be kept safe. He is later seen at the tomb where Katherine and Stefan are located. Under his agreement with Elena, Elijah uses Luka and his father to despell the tomb so Stefan can leave. Katherine attempts to run, but Elijah stops her and compels her into staying in the tomb so Klaus can have her. Elijah tells Stefan that he will keep his word if Elena keeps hers. In Crying Wolf, it is revealed that his deal did not involve any protection of Elena, and that he plans on sacrificing her himself because sacrificing a doppelgänger will weaken Klaus. In The Dinner Party, Damon attempts to kill him using the ash of the white oak tree and a dagger, but is told by Alaric that the dagger will kill Damon too if he uses it. The dagger must be used by a human, so Alaric himself reluctantly stabs Elijah through the heart with it, "killing" him once again. When the dagger is removed, he comes back to life, determined to wreak vengeance. He is later tricked by Elena when he comes to take her away, and killed once again. His body is placed in the basement dungeon of the Salvatore house and Damon unsuccessfully tries to destroy it with a flame thrower. He is not seen for several episodes, until Klaus arrives in Mystic Falls after taking over Alaric's body. After trying take him on almost results in Bonnie's death, Elena refuses to let anyone die for her again, and says they will find another way. She is then seen going to the basement of the Salvatore Mansion, pulling the dagger out of Elijah's heart, and thus bringing him back to life. It is revealed that Elijah is actually Klaus's brother, and that their family was the oldest of Vampires to ever exist. He reveals to Elena the actual motive of Klaus's actions, and what curse he aims to break. Klaus reveals that their families bodies are still out there, which causes Elijah to double cross Elena. We see Klaus and Elijah escaping Bonnie by jumping through fire. In the season finale of season two, Klaus kills Elijah after he realizes that his brother would have been willing to kill him, keeping to his word that he would reunite Elijah with his family.
Face Claim: Daniel Gillies
Backstory: She kidnapped Elena in order to hand her over to Elijah, but Elena was saved by Stefan and Damon. She then became an alliance to them and even started a small romantic relationship with Damon. She died after she was bitten by werewolf Jules. Jonas Martin, played by Randy J. Goodwin in season two, was a warlock introduced as a friend of Elijah's who could help defeat Klaus in order to save his daughter
Face Claim: Lauren Cohan
Backstory: Tyler is Matt Donovan's best friend. Tyler is the son of Mystic Fall's mayor, who sometimes acts violently towards Tyler, however when he dies, Tyler is really upset. In the beginning of the series he is dating Vicki Donovan. However they break up after Vicki realizes that she has feelings for Jeremy Gilbert. In the second season Tyler finds out that he and his entire father's family carry the werewolf gene. After he accidentally kills a girl, Tyler becomes a werewolf. He then starts to get feelings for Caroline Forbes, after she tells him that she is a vampire and she helps him deal with becoming a werewolf. However his feelings aren't returned, for Caroline is still in love with Matt. When Jules, another werewolf, comes to town, he joins her and they eventually leave town. He later returns and Caroline asks him to stay.
Face Claim: Michael Trevino
Backstory: Mason Lockwood is Richard Lockwood's younger brother and Tyler's uncle. Mason is described as Tyler's cool uncle. Mason is sexy, athletic and possesses an easygoing charm. At the Mystic Falls Carnival, Mason and Stefan arm wrestle and Stefan loses. Damon uses mind control to provoke a carnival worker into fighting Tyler in the hopes Mason would intervene and reveal what he truly is. Mason does intervene and reveals inhuman like agility in the presence of both Stefan and Tyler. Mason is later seen turning into a werewolf during the night of a full moon. He attempted to lock himself in his vehicle, but upon seeing Stefan moving around the outside of it, he broke out and ran off into the woods. After Mason's transformation into a werewolf, he is later seen attacking Caroline in the woods. Stefan intervenes and stops him from possibly killing Caroline. In the next episode he is seen talking with Damon who has discovered his secret. Mason attempts to make friends with Damon, but Damon is not willing, which leads to Mason telling him that he has made an enemy. In Kill or Be Killed Stefan makes an attempt end the conflict between Mason and Damon by trying to make peace with Mason. Mason shakes hands with him, but decides to tell the Sheriff that Stefan and Damon are vampires. After handing them both over he later leaves and finds Caroline in the woods with Elena. He realizes (through some unknown manner) that Caroline is a vampire and threatens to tell her mother. Caroline attempts to attack him, but he threatens to kill Elena. Caroline frees Elena and easily beats Mason. Mason is later seen with Katherine who is asking him about the moon stone. When he tells her he has it, they start kissing. It may be assumed that he knew Caroline was a vampire because Katherine told him. In the episode "Plan B" Mason was captured by Bonnie and Damon in order to find the moonstone before Katherine could get it. After torture by Damon, Mason says Katherine told him she would lift the curse of the werewolf so he wouldn't have to turn anymore, but Damon laughed and told him she would rip his heart out in the end, but insisted he do it himself. Damon then literally rips Mason's heart out, killing him.
Face Claim: Taylor Kinney
Backstory Jules is first seen when she overhears Tyler's panic-stricken message on Mason's answering machine. She later shows up at the Lockwood residence looking for him, only to be told that Mason is back in Florida. However, she reveals that he never made it back and after chatting with Carol Lockwood, is promised that she will be informed if any news about him surfaces. As she heads out of the estate, she rings someone and tells them that Tyler is a werewolf.
She later shows up at the Mystic Grill and asks Matt if he knows Tyler. Damon and Alaric see her and plan to expose her as a werewolf. Alaric approaches her at the bar and offers to buy her a drink, but she kindly rejects his offer. They start chatting and Damon soon interrupts them, diverting Jules' attention so that Alaric can slip some wolfsbane into her drink. Jules eventually reveals that she's in town looking for Mason and Damon offers to help her, as he knows Sheriff Forbes. He notices she hasn't touched her drink and when she lifts it to her mouth, she detects the wolfsbane and he threatens her to leave town. She tells him that she sniffed him out the moment she arrived in the bar and warns him that he's now marked. She leaves and an angry Damon is told by Alaric to go home and lock his doors, as there's a full moon.
Damon returns home and finds Rose there. She apologises for running off when Elijah turned up at Slater's apartment and he forgives her. They hear a window smashing and running to the living room, they come face-to-face with a werewolf. Damon grabs hold of a sword as Rose tries to save him, only to be bitten on the shoulder. She cries out in pain as Damon stabs the werewolf before it flees. He asks Rose if she's okay and they notice that the wound is healing by itself, having originally thought it was fatal. He later confesses that the werewolf was Jules as Caroline told him that Tyler was locked up at the time and says she's after him as he picked a fight with her. Rose promises to help him protect Elena and as they kiss, she winces in pain when he touches her shoulder and when he removes the sleeve of her dressing gown they see that her shoulder is actually infected.
As Rose rapidly deteriorates from the effects of the werewolf bite, Damon decides to confront Jules at the Grill. She refuses to co-operate with him and says that the only solution is to take a stake and drive it through Rose's heart, which is what Damon decides to do in the end, so that Rose's suffering will end. Tyler later meets Jules and she tells him that Caroline is responsible for Mason's death. Jules tells him that a vampire will never be his friend and with the help of Brady, she later kidnaps Caroline as she's getting into her car. Caroline is subjected to a lengthy torture involving vervain, wooden bullets and wooden splinters, while Stefan after trying to help Tyler, decides to trade him for Caroline's freedom. After Caroline is freed by Tyler, Jules brandishes a gun at her and she, along with the other werewolves, is taken down by Jonas' spell. After later failing in his attempt to apologize to Caroline, he returns to Brady's mobile home and tells Jules and him that Mason was in Mystic Falls looking for a moonstone, but he doesn't know where it is.
She and Brady are informed of the 'sun and the moon' curse by Stevie and they later tell Tyler what they know, but leave out an important detail. Brady and Tyler follow Stefan and Elena to the Gilbert lakehouse, where Brady shoots Stefan and then goes after Elena. As Stefan lies injured on the ground, Tyler points the gun at him and shoots him in the leg, saying that he doesn't want to be this way and that Elena will be fine, but Stefan tells him the part that Brady and Jules left out - in order for the curse to be broken Elena must die. He lets Stefan go.
As he prepares to leave Mystic Falls, Tyler offers some relationship advice to Matt and stands outside Caroline's house, before leaving town with Jules.She and Tyler return to Mystic Falls and she is later captured by Klaus as a back-up for the sacrifice. As the sacrifice takes place in she is brought to the quarry and is killed by Klaus by having her heart ripped out.
Face Claim: Michaela McManus
Backstory: Matt is Elena Gilbert's ex-boyfriend. Vicki Donovan is Matt's older sister, who he has to take care of all by himself, for their troubled mother has left them. When Vicki dies, Matt is devastated. His best friend is Tyler Lockwood. Elena had broken up with Matt after her parents had died and in the beginning of the series Matt still has feelings for her and wants to get back together with her. However he later starts a relationship with Caroline Forbes. When Caroline is turned into a vampire in season two, she breaks up with Matt, for she can't control her lust for blood around him. However later they get back together. Caroline then tells him that she is a vampire, which upsets him for he thinks Caroline had something to do with Vicki's death. Matt asks Caroline to make him forget, however he doesn't forget for he had vervain in his system, which was a plan Sheriff Forbes came up with after he had told her everything. However he finds out he still cares for Caroline and tells her about the plan. He then breaks up with her due to the fact that he has too much to handle with work and school and doesn't want to deal with the fact that Caroline is a vampire.
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Sheriff Forbes
Backstory: Sheriff Elizabeth "Liz" Forbes is the sheriff of Mystic Falls and the mother of Caroline Forbes. Her husband has left her for a man. She is first introduced at a Founders Day party at Mayor Lockwood's house. There she is shown to have a strained relationship with her daughter. However, later actions, such as arresting a bartender when Caroline got drunk, show Liz loves her daughter very much and is willing to do anything for her. She was revealed to be a member of the Founders Council, a secret organization dedicated to protecting Mystic Falls from vampires. Along with Logan Fell, Liz led the hunt for the vampires. When Fell is killed, Liz finds the body and covers up his death by saying he has left town for the Bahamas. Fell later returns as a vampire and swears to turn Caroline into a vampire to have his revenge against Liz. However Caroline is saved by Damon Salvatore's intervention. Liz appears in several other episodes protecting the town from vampire attacks and attending Founding Families events. To get the Council of his back, Damon frames Lexi as the vampire and saves Liz by killing Lexi, so as to make him look heroic in her eyes. He then joins the Council and provides it with vervain, which used to be Zach's job. Liz is seen letting him know about the Council's plans and is also his staunchest ally among the Founding Families, not suspecting he is a vampire. In the season one finale she is smacked across the head and locked up to a desk with her own handcuffs by John Gilbert, because she doesn't agree with his plan to capture the tomb vampires. She is later saved by Carol Lockwood, but they are unable to save Mayor Lockwood, who is burned with the vampires. Liz then finds out that her daughter has been in a car crash and goes to the hospital, where she tells Tyler Lockwood that his father has passed away.
In season two, Liz is relieved that Caroline pulled through, though she does not know that her miraculous recovery is due to her becoming a vampire. Carol accuses Liz of getting Mayor Lockwood killed and Liz asks for Damon's help to figure out who did it. Damon reminds the two ladies that they are on the same team. Liz is later informed by Mason Lockwood that Damon and Stefan Salvatore are vampires. She is very skeptical at first and refuses to believe that Damon, who she considers a friend, is a vampire. She tests him by slipping vervain into his drink and he reacts negatively to it. When Damon and Stefan assume Mason did it and attempt to take care of him in the woods, Liz appears and shoots both Stefan and Damon and has her deputes inject them with vervain. Liz tortures Damon in an attempt to learn how he and Stefan can walk in the sun, but is interrupted when Elena Gilbert appears, followed by Caroline, who kills the deputies. Forbes is locked up in the cellar at the Salvatore House so that the vervain can get out of her system and she can be compelled to forget everything. Now knowing that her daughter is a vampire, she asks Damon to keep Caroline away from her and says that her daughter is gone. Caroline has a heart to heart with her mom, who then accepts Caroline being a vampire, but Caroline still decides to compel her and Liz loses her memory of the whole ordeal. After Matt Donovan has discovered the truth about vampires from Caroline, he tells Liz, who comes up with a plan to make Matt pretend to be compelled to forget, while he actually has vervain in his system. Liz then uses Matt to spy on Caroline, who she thinks is a monster now. Liz tries to capture and kill Damon, but accidentally shoots Jeremy Gilbert instead. Believing she has killed Jeremy, she is shocked to discover that Bonnie Bennett is able to resurrect him. She also finds out that Matt came clean to Caroline. After confessing that neither wanted to secretly live in fear of one another, Liz accepts her daughter for what she is and hugs her.
Face Claim: Marguerite Macintyre
WITCHES
Bonnie Bennett
Backstory:is Elena Gilbert's best friend. She is also good friends with Caroline Forbes. In the beginning of the series, Bonnie discovers that she is born from a line of witches and that she is also a witch. Her grandmother, a witch too, helps her learn to use her powers, which causes them to create a strong bond. When her grandmother dies, Bonnie is devastated, but she keeps training and as the series develops she becomes more and more powerful. In the midst of season two, she starts a relationship with Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's younger brother. She later discovers from warlock Luca Martin that the only way to kill Klaus, the original vampire who wants to kill Elena, is for her to get the power of one-hundred dead witches, which she later gets. She then pretends to be dead, a scheme of Damon's, in order to trick Klaus. But when she brings Klaus to the brink of death, Elijah does not kill him, as planned, and carries him away before she could react. In the season two finale Bonnie is able to save Jeremy from dying after she tells Emily that she loves him.
Face Claim: Katerina Graham
Emily Bennett
Backstory:Emily Bennett was the handmaiden of Katherine Pierce in 1864 as well as a powerful witch. She was a direct descendant of one of the women accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, which took place in the Salem area of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. Emily is also the 4th great-grandmother of Bonnie Bennett through Sheila Bennett. She was the one who gave Katherine, Pearl, Anna, Harper, Damon and Stefan Salvatore the jewelry which enabled them to walk in the sun. Although she helped these vampires, she also secretly fought against them, for she spelled Jonathan Gilbert's inventions, including the device, which could hurt vampires. When the vampires were rounded up by the Founding Families she and Damon Salvatore made a bargain. Damon would protect Emily's descendants and Emily would use her grimoire to protect Katherine by entombing her with 26 other vampires under the old Fell's Church. She was later burned at the stake by the Founding Families and her possessions, including her grimoire, were taken and buried in Giuseppe Salvatore's grave. Damon rescued Emily's children when the townspeople came for her. In season one Emily possesses Bonnie in order to stop Damon from freeing Katherine from the tomb. In season two, Bonnie takes on the power of a hundred dead witches, which includes Emily, by performing a spell on the place where the witches were burned. Bonnie and Stefan later go there again to ask the witches if they know a cure for a werewolf bite, in order to help Damon. Emily possesses Bonnie and tells Stefan there isn't a cure, but when Bonnie is herself again, she tells Stefan that Emily mentioned Klaus, whose blood later turns out to be the cure for a werewolf bite. When Jeremy dies, Bonnie is able to save him with help of Emily after she tells her that she loves him.
Face Claim: Bianca Lawson
VAMPIRES
Backstory:Damon was born in Mystic Falls in 1840. When Katherine Pierce came to town, both he and his brother, Stefan Salvatore, fell in love with her. In 1864 he is turned into a vampire after being shot by his father with Katherine's blood in his system. His transitioning was completed after Stefan, also now a vampire, convinced him to kill a woman. Damon, angry that Katherine had turned Stefan as well, vowed to make Stefan's life miserable. More than a hundred years later, Damon returns to Mystic Falls to free Katherine, who he believes is locked in a tomb there. Damon meets Elena and, still hating his brother, decides to bring havoc to her relationship with Stefan. When he finds out that Katherine is not in the tomb and has been alive the entire time, he finds comfort in Elena. He then starts to fall in love with her. His relationship with Stefan also improves and it is shown that Damon actually does care about his brother. In the beginning of the series, Damon kills people impulsively, but as the series progresses he starts to act more humane and stops killing people. He even starts friendships with others, such as Alaric Saltzman and Sheriff Forbes. When Katherine returns in season two and tells him that she has always loved Stefan and not him, his love for her vanishes and he starts to hate her. He later develops feelings for another vampire named Rose. When Rose is bitten by a werewolf, Damon is left with no other choice but to stake her and briefly falls back into his old ways, killing a young girl. Damon then starts a relationship with a reporter called Andie Star. He compels her to agree to him taking her blood and uses her to distract himself, however he later tells her to leave, for he was afraid that he couldn't control himself. Despite these relationships, Damon still loves Elena deeply. When Damon is dying, due to a werewolf bite, Elena tells him that she has feelings for him too and they share a kiss, however Damon is cured after drinking Klaus' blood brought to him by Katherine.
Face Claim: Ian Somerhalder
Stefan Salvatore
Backstory:Stefan was born in Mystic Falls in 1847. Both he and his brother, Damon, fell in love with the same girl, Katherine Pierce, a vampire. In 1864, Stefan was turned into a vampire after being shot by his father with Katherine's blood in his system, before unwillingly killing his father. Damon, who was turned into a vampire as well, promised Stefan an eternity of misery as he was angry that Katherine had turned Stefan as well. Stefan was unable to resist human blood and became addicted, killing lots of people, until he was taught to control it by a vampire named Lexie, who later became his best friend. After decades of absence, Stefan returned to Mystic Falls after he saved Elena from a car crash and noticed that she looked exactly like Katherine. Stefan and Elena begin a relationship and he reveals to her that he is a vampire. However Damon returns to Mystic Falls too and he also falls in love with Elena. Further on in the series, Damon and Stefan start to bond as brothers again and it becomes apparent that they do love each other. Because of his addiction to human blood, Stefan only drank animal blood in the beginning of the series, which made him weaker than other vampires. In season two Stefan starts to take small amounts of Elena's blood each day to mitigate its effect on him and to increase his strength. When Katherine returns it is discovered that she has always been in love with Stefan and not with Damon, however Stefan is in love with Elena and not interested in her. Stefan starts to build a friendship with Caroline Forbes after she is turned into a vampire. In the season two finale, Stefan offers himself to Klaus in order go get Klaus' blood, which will cure Damon from his werewolf bite. Klaus makes Stefan addicted to human blood again and Stefan ends up killing a girl.
Face Claim: Paul Wesley
Jeremy Gilbert
Backstory: Jeremy is Elena's younger brother, later revealed to be her cousin. In the beginning the series he is emotionally damaged by the death of his parents and uses drugs. He is in love with Vicki Donovan, who uses drugs as well, and they later start a relationship. However Jeremy later witnesses how Vicki is killed by Stefan after Damon had turned her into a vampire. Elena, afraid that Jeremy couldn't handle this, asks Damon to make Jeremy forget this and take away his pain. This causes Jeremy to become more stable and to stop taking drugs. Jeremy then starts a relationship with a vampire named Anna, but Anna is killed by John Gilbert, Jeremy's uncle, at the end of season one. Jeremy, not wanting to deal with this pain, tries to become a vampire by overdosing while having Anna's blood in his system, but he fails. He is later given John's ring, which protects him from a death caused by any supernatural. In season two, Jeremy falls in love with Bonnie Bennett and they start a relationship. Jeremy later loses both his aunt and uncle on the day of the sacrifice, leaving him and Elena without a guardian. In the season two finale, Jeremy is accidentally shot to death by Sheriff Forbes, but brought back to life by Bonnie. However the spell Bonnie used has consequences and at the end of the episode, Jeremy sees Vicki and Anna.
Face Claim: Steven R. McQueen
Caroline Forbes
Backstory: Caroline is Elena Gilbert and Bonnie Bennett's insecure friend. Caroline is the daughter of the sheriff of Mystic Falls, Liz Forbes, with whom she has a troubled relationship. Her father left her and her mother when he came clean about being gay. In the beginning she is shown as shallow, self-absorbed and jealous of Elena, however during the series Caroline becomes a nicer person. She later starts a relationship with Matt Donovan. In season two Caroline is turned into a vampire after drinking Damon's blood, being killed by Katherine and unwillingly killing a boy and feeding on him. Stefan Salvatore helps Caroline to control her lust for blood and they start to build a friendship. After turning, she also becomes closer to Elena. She discovers that she is not able to control her lust when she is around Matt, and therefore tricks him into breaking up with her for his own safety. When Tyler Lockwood is turned into a werewolf, Caroline helps him and he starts to develop romantic feelings for her. However Caroline is still in love with Matt and they get back together as Tyler leaves town. Caroline tells Matt that she is a vampire, but Matt asks Caroline to use her vampire abilities to make him forget. However Matt had vervain in his system and merely pretended to forget, which was a plan Liz came up with after he had told her about Caroline. Matt later ends up confessing to Caroline that she never made him forget and that her mother knows of her being a vampire, as well. He then breaks up with Caroline due to the fact that he has many problems and doesn't want to deal with the fact he's dating a vampire.
Face Claim: Candice Accola
Vicki Donovan
Backstory: Vicki is Matt Donovan's older sister. Vicki is a troubled girl and is addicted to drugs. She is being taken care of by Matt, for their mother has left them. In the beginning of the series she is dating Tyler Lockwood, however Jeremy Gilbert also had feelings for her. Vicki, acknowledging that she has feelings for Jeremy too, later breaks up with Tyler and starts a relationship with Jeremy. She is later turned into a vampire by Damon Salvatore. As a vampire she couldn't control her lust for blood and when she started attacking Jeremy, Stefan killed her with a stake through her heart. Stefan and Damon make it seem as if Vicki has left town. Later in season one, her body is found by Caroline Forbes, causing a devastated Matt and Jeremy. In the season two finale, Vicki appears to Jeremy, after he was brought back to life by a spell of Bonnie's, which was said to have consequences.
Face Claim: Kayla Ewell
Annabelle (Anna)
Backstory: Annabelle, in short Anna, is Pearls daughter and the one who turned Ben and Logan into vampires. Anna was a vampire who resided in Mystic Falls in 1864 and survived the townspeople's attempts to eradicate the vampires by burning them in an old church, but were instead locked in a tomb. She witnessed her mother's capture at the hands of Johnathan Gilbert and waited 145 years for the chance to free her. She, like the Salvatore brothers, possessed an enchanted lapis lazuli ring which allowed her to walk in the sunlight. She starts a romantic relationship with Jeremy Gilbert despite her mother's protests, calling him her "weakness." The two suffered a brief falling-out after the discovery of Vicki Dovonan's body, but later made up and were even seen getting undressed together and making out. When Pearl was killed by Jeremy's uncle John Gilbert in the episode Blood Brothers, Anna was devastated but did not seek revenge. She attempted to save Jeremy from an impending vampire attack in the season one finale, but was rounded up with the other vampires after suffering the effects of The Device and was dragged to an old basement. There John Gilbert found and staked her. However, before she died she gave a vial of her own blood to Jeremy to enable him to become a vampire, which he drinks on learning of her death, and overdoses on sleeping pills in order to die with vampire blood in his system (in order to turn) believing his emotional pain will cease by turning. However, the blood only heals the damage done by the pills, and he does not turn. In the season two finale, Anna appears to Jeremy, after he was brought back to life by a spell of Bonnie's, which was said to have consequences.
Face Claim: Malese Jow
Katherine Pierce
Backstory:Originally being called Katerina Petrova, she is born in Bulgaria in the late 15th century, but is banished to England after having an illegitimate child. When she meets Klaus and Elijah, two original vampires, she finds out that she is a Petrova Doppelganger, which means that she has to be sacrificed to release Klaus' werewolf side. She uses a vampire named Trevor, who'd fallen in love with her, to escape and tricks vampire Rose into turning her, so she can't break the curse anymore. However Klaus wants revenge and she spends her entire life running from him. Hundreds of years later, Katherine comes to Mystic Falls, where both Stefan Salvatore and Damon Salvatore fall in love with her. When all the vampires in Mystic Falls are rounded up, she escapes. While in Mystic Falls she had been giving Damon and Stefan her blood and they are turned into vampires after being shot. Damon, thinking Katherine is locked up in a tomb, spends 145 years loving her and trying to find a way to free her. When he does, he finds out that she is not in there and was alive this entire time. In the last episode of season one, Katherine returns to Mystic Falls. She tells Damon that she has always been in love with Stefan and tries to break up Stefan and Elena Gilbert, the next Petrova Doppelganger. It is later revealed that her real reason for returning is to get the moonstone and offer it and Elena to Klaus, in order to be free from him. However she is locked up in a tomb by Stefan and Damon, which has a spell that makes sure vampires can't leave and when the spell is broken, she is compelled by Elijah to stay. When Elijah died, Katherine was free again, but starts helping Stefan and Damon. When Klaus comes to Mystic Falls, he kidnaps her and keeps her in Alaric's apartment, where he tortures her. However he later tells her that she can leave, telling Stefan that she won't be far.
Face Claim: Nina Dobrev
Isobel Flemming
Backstory:Isobel is Elena's birth mother and a descendant of Katerina Petrova (Katherine). She is a vampire who was turned by Damon at her own request, and claims to be a messenger from Katherine. She was married to Alaric Saltzman, the history teacher at the high school, but left him when she became a vampire. She dated John Gilbert, Elena's biological father, in high school. Although Isobel tells Elena not to look for any redeeming qualities in her, she regrets that Elena has been drawn in to the supernatural world and that her daughter is involved with both Salvatore brothers. Because of her desire to keep Elena away from the Salvatore brothers, she tells John Gilbert to ensure both Stefan and Damon are killed along with the tomb vampires and she agrees with John that this isn't the life they want for their daughter. Before she leaves Mystic Falls, she confronts Alaric, telling him that she regrets her decision to become a vampire. Isobel then compels him to move on from her. Stefan tries to track her down but finds John instead. It is then revealed that John Gilbert and Isobel are trying to free Katherine from the tomb. At the end of The House Guest Isobel appears at the front door of the Gilbert house and asks Jenna if Elena is home, greeting Elena when she says her name. It was revealed that Isobel was able to find Klaus and she was compelled by him to find the moonstone and Katherine. After completing Klaus' orders, Isobel apologized to Elena in front of her gravestone, took off her lapis luzuli necklace and burns to death.
Face Claim: Mia Kirshner
Klaus
Backstory:Lord Niklaus, more commonly known as Klaus, is the oldest of vampires and one of the main antagonists of the series. He and his family, including Elijah, became the very first vampires. It was later found out that his mother had committed adultery and Klaus' biological father was a werewolf, which made Klaus the only vampire/werewolf hybrid. However his werewolf powers were bound to the moonstone by a band of witches. To release his werewolf powers a ritual, in which a werewolf, a vampire and a Petrova dopplegänger have to be sacrificed, has to take place. He created a fake curse, the curse of the sun and the moon, in order to have two species look for a Petrova dopplegänger. The first Petrova dopplegänger Klaus found was Katerina Petrova, but she escaped Klaus with the moonstone and made a vampire turn her, so that she would be useless for the ritual. However Klaus wanted to revenge Katerina and she spent hundreds of years running for him. Hundreds of years later Klaus, through Isobel Saltzman, finds Elena Gilbert, the next Petrova dopplegänger and Katerina. He kidnaps Katerina and makes her torture herself. He also takes over the body of Alaric Saltzman in order to spy on Elena. After collecting the moonstone, a werewolf, Jules, the Petrova dopplegänger, Elena, and turning Jenna Sommers into a vampire, he begins the ritual. However Bonnie Bennett and Elijah, who was angry at Klaus for he had killed their entire family, have come up with a plan to kill Klaus after the ritual is completed and he is transitioning. However when Bonnie, with the power of a hundred witches, has Klaus weakened and Elijah has to kill him, Klaus tells Elijah that he could tell him where the bodies of his family members are and Elijah saves him. However when Klaus gets back at full strength, he kills Elijah. He then blackmails Stefan Salvatore into becoming addicted to human blood again.
Face Claim: Joseph Morgan
Elijah
Backstory: The Originals appear to have owned the Moonstone until it was stolen by Katerina Petrova, later known as Katherine Pierce. Elijah appeared in episode eight, Rose. He was contacted by two vampires named Rose and Trevor. Upon reaching them he makes a deal to grant freedom to Rose in exchange for Elena who is the Petrova doppelgänger. He is later seen with Rose's best friend Trevor and he was shown to be so powerful that he chopped his head off with one swing of his hand. He was staked by Damon who along with Stefan came to rescue Elena after she was kidnapped. He is later seen coming back to life and pulling the stake out, showing that the Originals are much more difficult to kill than modern vampires. He is later seen compelling another vampire named Slater to drive a stake through his own heart, demonstrating another very powerful ability the Originals possess. Elijah is the only known vampire so far that can come back to life and cannot be killed by conventional means. He is also the only known vampire that can compel other vampires. In episode ten, The Sacrifice, Elijah works with Luka's father to find Elena. He discovers her location and goes there to confront her. Upon his arrival Elijah discovers three other vampires who came to take Elena. They wanted her because Elena is the doppelgänger and they wanted to hand her to Klaus. Elijah kills all three vampires with ease. He then spares Damon, Rose and Elena. This is due to the fact that Elijah said to Luka's father that he wants to keep Elena safe. In By the Light of the Moon, Elijah appears at Elena's home to make a deal with her. He reveals that Klaus does not trust him, and he has no idea where he is. He wants to use Elena as a way to draw Klaus out of hiding so he can kill him. In return he promises that Elena's friends and family will be kept safe. He is later seen at the tomb where Katherine and Stefan are located. Under his agreement with Elena, Elijah uses Luka and his father to despell the tomb so Stefan can leave. Katherine attempts to run, but Elijah stops her and compels her into staying in the tomb so Klaus can have her. Elijah tells Stefan that he will keep his word if Elena keeps hers. In Crying Wolf, it is revealed that his deal did not involve any protection of Elena, and that he plans on sacrificing her himself because sacrificing a doppelgänger will weaken Klaus. In The Dinner Party, Damon attempts to kill him using the ash of the white oak tree and a dagger, but is told by Alaric that the dagger will kill Damon too if he uses it. The dagger must be used by a human, so Alaric himself reluctantly stabs Elijah through the heart with it, "killing" him once again. When the dagger is removed, he comes back to life, determined to wreak vengeance. He is later tricked by Elena when he comes to take her away, and killed once again. His body is placed in the basement dungeon of the Salvatore house and Damon unsuccessfully tries to destroy it with a flame thrower. He is not seen for several episodes, until Klaus arrives in Mystic Falls after taking over Alaric's body. After trying take him on almost results in Bonnie's death, Elena refuses to let anyone die for her again, and says they will find another way. She is then seen going to the basement of the Salvatore Mansion, pulling the dagger out of Elijah's heart, and thus bringing him back to life. It is revealed that Elijah is actually Klaus's brother, and that their family was the oldest of Vampires to ever exist. He reveals to Elena the actual motive of Klaus's actions, and what curse he aims to break. Klaus reveals that their families bodies are still out there, which causes Elijah to double cross Elena. We see Klaus and Elijah escaping Bonnie by jumping through fire. In the season finale of season two, Klaus kills Elijah after he realizes that his brother would have been willing to kill him, keeping to his word that he would reunite Elijah with his family.
Face Claim: Daniel Gillies
Rose
Backstory: She kidnapped Elena in order to hand her over to Elijah, but Elena was saved by Stefan and Damon. She then became an alliance to them and even started a small romantic relationship with Damon. She died after she was bitten by werewolf Jules. Jonas Martin, played by Randy J. Goodwin in season two, was a warlock introduced as a friend of Elijah's who could help defeat Klaus in order to save his daughter
Face Claim: Lauren Cohan
WERWOLFS
Tyler Lockwood
Backstory: Tyler is Matt Donovan's best friend. Tyler is the son of Mystic Fall's mayor, who sometimes acts violently towards Tyler, however when he dies, Tyler is really upset. In the beginning of the series he is dating Vicki Donovan. However they break up after Vicki realizes that she has feelings for Jeremy Gilbert. In the second season Tyler finds out that he and his entire father's family carry the werewolf gene. After he accidentally kills a girl, Tyler becomes a werewolf. He then starts to get feelings for Caroline Forbes, after she tells him that she is a vampire and she helps him deal with becoming a werewolf. However his feelings aren't returned, for Caroline is still in love with Matt. When Jules, another werewolf, comes to town, he joins her and they eventually leave town. He later returns and Caroline asks him to stay.
Face Claim: Michael Trevino
Mason Lockwood
Backstory: Mason Lockwood is Richard Lockwood's younger brother and Tyler's uncle. Mason is described as Tyler's cool uncle. Mason is sexy, athletic and possesses an easygoing charm. At the Mystic Falls Carnival, Mason and Stefan arm wrestle and Stefan loses. Damon uses mind control to provoke a carnival worker into fighting Tyler in the hopes Mason would intervene and reveal what he truly is. Mason does intervene and reveals inhuman like agility in the presence of both Stefan and Tyler. Mason is later seen turning into a werewolf during the night of a full moon. He attempted to lock himself in his vehicle, but upon seeing Stefan moving around the outside of it, he broke out and ran off into the woods. After Mason's transformation into a werewolf, he is later seen attacking Caroline in the woods. Stefan intervenes and stops him from possibly killing Caroline. In the next episode he is seen talking with Damon who has discovered his secret. Mason attempts to make friends with Damon, but Damon is not willing, which leads to Mason telling him that he has made an enemy. In Kill or Be Killed Stefan makes an attempt end the conflict between Mason and Damon by trying to make peace with Mason. Mason shakes hands with him, but decides to tell the Sheriff that Stefan and Damon are vampires. After handing them both over he later leaves and finds Caroline in the woods with Elena. He realizes (through some unknown manner) that Caroline is a vampire and threatens to tell her mother. Caroline attempts to attack him, but he threatens to kill Elena. Caroline frees Elena and easily beats Mason. Mason is later seen with Katherine who is asking him about the moon stone. When he tells her he has it, they start kissing. It may be assumed that he knew Caroline was a vampire because Katherine told him. In the episode "Plan B" Mason was captured by Bonnie and Damon in order to find the moonstone before Katherine could get it. After torture by Damon, Mason says Katherine told him she would lift the curse of the werewolf so he wouldn't have to turn anymore, but Damon laughed and told him she would rip his heart out in the end, but insisted he do it himself. Damon then literally rips Mason's heart out, killing him.
Face Claim: Taylor Kinney
Jules
Backstory Jules is first seen when she overhears Tyler's panic-stricken message on Mason's answering machine. She later shows up at the Lockwood residence looking for him, only to be told that Mason is back in Florida. However, she reveals that he never made it back and after chatting with Carol Lockwood, is promised that she will be informed if any news about him surfaces. As she heads out of the estate, she rings someone and tells them that Tyler is a werewolf.
She later shows up at the Mystic Grill and asks Matt if he knows Tyler. Damon and Alaric see her and plan to expose her as a werewolf. Alaric approaches her at the bar and offers to buy her a drink, but she kindly rejects his offer. They start chatting and Damon soon interrupts them, diverting Jules' attention so that Alaric can slip some wolfsbane into her drink. Jules eventually reveals that she's in town looking for Mason and Damon offers to help her, as he knows Sheriff Forbes. He notices she hasn't touched her drink and when she lifts it to her mouth, she detects the wolfsbane and he threatens her to leave town. She tells him that she sniffed him out the moment she arrived in the bar and warns him that he's now marked. She leaves and an angry Damon is told by Alaric to go home and lock his doors, as there's a full moon.
Damon returns home and finds Rose there. She apologises for running off when Elijah turned up at Slater's apartment and he forgives her. They hear a window smashing and running to the living room, they come face-to-face with a werewolf. Damon grabs hold of a sword as Rose tries to save him, only to be bitten on the shoulder. She cries out in pain as Damon stabs the werewolf before it flees. He asks Rose if she's okay and they notice that the wound is healing by itself, having originally thought it was fatal. He later confesses that the werewolf was Jules as Caroline told him that Tyler was locked up at the time and says she's after him as he picked a fight with her. Rose promises to help him protect Elena and as they kiss, she winces in pain when he touches her shoulder and when he removes the sleeve of her dressing gown they see that her shoulder is actually infected.
As Rose rapidly deteriorates from the effects of the werewolf bite, Damon decides to confront Jules at the Grill. She refuses to co-operate with him and says that the only solution is to take a stake and drive it through Rose's heart, which is what Damon decides to do in the end, so that Rose's suffering will end. Tyler later meets Jules and she tells him that Caroline is responsible for Mason's death. Jules tells him that a vampire will never be his friend and with the help of Brady, she later kidnaps Caroline as she's getting into her car. Caroline is subjected to a lengthy torture involving vervain, wooden bullets and wooden splinters, while Stefan after trying to help Tyler, decides to trade him for Caroline's freedom. After Caroline is freed by Tyler, Jules brandishes a gun at her and she, along with the other werewolves, is taken down by Jonas' spell. After later failing in his attempt to apologize to Caroline, he returns to Brady's mobile home and tells Jules and him that Mason was in Mystic Falls looking for a moonstone, but he doesn't know where it is.
She and Brady are informed of the 'sun and the moon' curse by Stevie and they later tell Tyler what they know, but leave out an important detail. Brady and Tyler follow Stefan and Elena to the Gilbert lakehouse, where Brady shoots Stefan and then goes after Elena. As Stefan lies injured on the ground, Tyler points the gun at him and shoots him in the leg, saying that he doesn't want to be this way and that Elena will be fine, but Stefan tells him the part that Brady and Jules left out - in order for the curse to be broken Elena must die. He lets Stefan go.
As he prepares to leave Mystic Falls, Tyler offers some relationship advice to Matt and stands outside Caroline's house, before leaving town with Jules.She and Tyler return to Mystic Falls and she is later captured by Klaus as a back-up for the sacrifice. As the sacrifice takes place in she is brought to the quarry and is killed by Klaus by having her heart ripped out.
Face Claim: Michaela McManus
