Damon Salvatore

Damon Salvatore is one of the two main male protagonists of The Vampire Diaries. Damon was a 178-year-old vampire and a distant descendant of Silas. Since his younger brother, Stefan Salvatore, injected him with the Cure, he is now human. He was a major antagonist in the first part of Season One. He was born in 1839 and lived in the colonial town of Mystic Falls with his brother Stefan, his father, Giuseppe Salvatore, and also with his mother Lillian Salvatore until her death in 1858. He became a vampire in 1864. At the time of his return to Mystic Falls, Damon and Stefan hadn't seen each other in fifteen years due to their bitter and violent relationship.
In the 1950s, Damon was captured and tortured by the Augustine society, led by the Whitmore family, who experimented on vampires for a "bigger purpose". During his five years of captivity, he met another prisoner, Enzo, with whom he became best friends. Eventually, the plan the two made failed at a critical moment, and, thinking that Enzo "died" because of him, Damon turned off his humanity to suppress the guilt and sadness. He sought revenge, an act of hunting down every member over generations that left one alive to carry on the family name until he finally killed the last descendant in the Whitmore family, which ended with Aaron Whitmore's death.
Damon's sole purpose in coming back to Mystic Falls was to free his sire Katherine Pierce from a tomb she was never in. Damon deeply loved her after 145 years. After realizing that Katherine never loved him, his love for her faded as his friendship and love for Elena, Katherine's descendant and doppelgänger, grew. Due to her impact on him and the strengthening relationship with his brother, they began working together to protect Elena, along with her friends and family. He lived with his brother Stefan, his girlfriend Elena (when she wasn't away at college), and her brother Jeremy Gilbert (after Elena burned their house down) in the Salvatore Boarding House. 
In Season Three, Damon filled the role as a deuteragonist in the first half of the season due to Stefan falling prey to Klaus. 
Throughout the series, his bond with Elena continuously grew and they eventually fell in love with each other. Shortly after her death and subsequent transition into a vampire, Elena's feelings for Damon were heightened which made her admit her love for him and they started a romantic relationship in Season Four. The relationship was complicated when they realized that, due to the fact that it was Damon's blood that turned Elena, she was sire-bonded to him, so nobody was sure whether Elena's feelings for Damon were real or because of the sire bond, but most of the people they knew insisted that, once the sire bond was broken, Elena would return to Stefan. When Jeremy died, Elena turned off her emotions; after she turned them back on, the sire bond was broken and Elena revealed that her feelings for Damon were real and she was still in love with him. 
In Season Five, he discovered Enzo's undead status and they became friends once again. However, once "Elena" broke up with him, he put an end to his diabolical plan against the Whitmore family and was then injected with a dangerous compound by Wes Maxfield, causing him to become the only Augustine Vampire in existence. This injection caused him to crave vampire blood and he would not be able to stop feeding until he had killed. He was later cured, thanks to Enzo, Stefan, and Caroline's actions. Due to the Other Side collapsing, Damon gave up his life to save his loved ones and this caused Elena, Stefan, and Alaric much grief.
In Season Six, Damon and Bonnie were trapped in a 1994 Prison World, which Damon initially believed was his own personal hell, as they were continually reliving a day from his history that Damon believed was the worst thing he ever did. Bonnie was convinced her grandmother sent them there and that there was a way out. They worked together to find a way back to Mystic Falls. They also formed an alliance to take down Kai. During this time, he was able to form a healthy friendship with Bonnie, and they were able to move on from their past and become friends. When Bonnie had a chance to send him home, leaving herself alone with Kai, she did so. Damon initially believed Bonnie was killed in the process, but when he realized she was still alive, he became determined to find a way to bring her back. After returning home, he learned that Elena had Alaric compel away all her memories of their relationship and he attempted to win her back. Damon soon learned of Liz's sickness and, soon after, she passed away in the hospital in front of him, leaving him devastated. He was soon reunited with Bonnie who made it out of the prison world and showed him a video of a mysterious lady, who turned out to be Damon's mother. Bonnie had managed to escape the 1994 prison world by going to Nova Scotia and regaining her magic through Qetsiyah's calcified blood in Silas' tombstone. She also picked up the Cure for vampirism and gave it to him, who in turned gave it to Elena. He expressed the desire to take the Cure with her too and become human. At the end of the season, Kai placed Elena under a sleeping curse and tied the spell to Bonnie's life, which was supposed to keep the now human Elena in a mystical coma until Bonnie died; until then Elena would remain asleep. Damon was devastated by this and said a difficult goodbye to Elena as they locked her in a coffin while his best friend, Bonnie, lived out her remaining days.
As of Season Eight's I Was Feeling Epic, Bonnie managed to break the spell, allowing Elena to wake up, while not killing herself in the process due to the spell, and Damon being able to reunite with her. In the final flash forward, the newly human Damon married Elena Gilbert and they lived a long and happy life together before passing away and finding peace.
His best friends are Elena Gilbert, Alaric Saltzman and Bonnie Bennett. He was close friends with Elizabeth Forbes until her death. His friendship with his sister-in-law, Caroline Forbes, has improved during the last season and they now consider themselves as close friends. Damon was also best friends with Enzo from the time he first met him, until the latter was killed by Stefan, despite the two occasionally being at odds. 
Damon is a member of the Salvatore Family and was a member of the Town Council.
==Early History==
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Damon Salvatore was born on June 18, 1839, to Giuseppe and Lillian Salvatore in what would eventually become the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. He is the oldest and firstborn child of Giuseppe and Lillian. During his human years, Damon was seen and described to be rebellious, carefree, emotional, independent, troubled, insecure, misunderstood, principled, impulsive, competitive, and irresponsible and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. People of the town of Mystic Falls even described Damon to be irresponsible and cowardly, including his own father Giuseppe. The reason for this is because Damon rebelled against the town's and his own father's wish, by leaving the Confederacy on his own terms during the time of the Civil War after an inspiring conversation with Oscar, one of the Heretics that his mother sent to look after her sons. 
In his human years, when it came to love, Damon was always seen to be the chaser and the pursuer, the opposite of Stefan, who appeared to be harder to get and challenging with women, especially in regards to Katherine. Damon during his human years also displayed womanizing tendencies. Damon and his father, Giuseppe, never got along or had a good, close relationship and Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment in the elder Salvatore. Despite his very strained relationship with Giuseppe during his human life, Damon was very close to his younger brother Stefan and they shared a very close relationship and bond. Damon described Stefan as his best friend or companion and the person who trusted the most. However, the brothers eventually became strained after Katherine Pierce came into their lives and both brothers started to compete fiercely for Katherine's affections, with both of the brothers not being aware of Katherine playing them against one another. He was turned into a vampire in 1864, when he was 25 years old after he drank Katherine Pierce's blood willingly and was shot by his father, Giuseppe, after attempting to save Katherine from being buried burned in Fell's Church.
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When he was 12 years old, his father was very abusive towards him, burning him with a cigarette at a thanksgiving dinner. In his father's eyes, it was a lesson for his elder son, as he thought that Damon had stolen his money. Damon, over 150 years later, learned that it was his mother who stole Giuseppe's money in order to run from her abusive husband and that she planned on taking Stefan and Damon with her, but the plan failed, as Giuseppe found out about it.
At the age of 17, in late May 1858, his mother died of consumption (he later learns in 2013 this was not the case). Damon had promised Stefan that he would write his mother's eulogy and say it at his mother's funeral. Just before the funeral, Damon comes to Stefan and helps him get dressed. Stefan says that their father told him not to cry. Damon replies that he is a child and that if he feels the need to cry that he is allowed. Saying all of this, Damon doesn't even go to the funeral. Instead, he got wasted, returned to his younger brother who was angry with him for not showing up.
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As a young man, Damon joined the Confederate Army on his father's order, to defend the South during the American Civil War. However, Damon secretly hated everything the South stood for and had been planning to desert for some time before his squad joined the army at Gettysburg. The only thing stopping Damon was fear of Giuseppe's disapproval. Eventually, he met a man named Oscar who convinced him to follow his own beliefs rather than his father's. That night, Damon deserted while his squad was decimated during the following battle.
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It is uncertain how or when Damon found out that Katherine was a vampire, but unlike Stefan, he did not fear or reject her and willingly drank her blood. She once demonstrated to him one of her tricks for securing victims, which was lying in the middle of a road to stop any travelers that may come to pass. Though he showed an initial hesitance, Damon even kissed her while a victim's blood still stained her lips.
Damon wanted to give up his human life and spend eternity with Katherine, and he begged Stefan to keep the secret from their father, who was a member of the Founder's Council and a vampire-hater. When Stefan inadvertently revealed that Katherine was a vampire, she was taken away by the townspeople. Their father was furious and scolded Damon for trying to conceal her secret and protect her. Damon was furious with Stefan, but Stefan agreed to work with him to rescue her. In the midst of their daring plan, they were both shot and killed by Giuseppe, who was ashamed of his sons for sympathizing with and loving a vampire. They both died with Katherine's blood in their systems, but Damon awakened first and witnessed the burning of Fell's Church, where the townspeople had imprisoned the vampires, including Katherine.
When Stefan awoke the next morning, Damon told him that Katherine's death meant his reason for living was gone, and he wouldn't complete his transition into a vampire. Later that day, when Stefan returned after being unable to resist feeding on his own father, and inadvertently completing the transition, he forced Damon to drink from a young woman's neck, causing Damon to also complete his transition. He promised Stefan an eternity of misery, not for making him turn but for the fact that Katherine had turned Stefan as well, instead of just Damon. At some point Damon received a daylight ring from Emily Bennett. She told Damon that she had spared the vampires in the church, which Damon kept secret from Stefan until 145 years later when he would be able to free Katherine from the church.
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Damon saw Stefan in 1912 for the first time in 48 years since they transitioned; both had returned to Mystic Falls for their nephew's funeral. After initial hesitation, Damon agreed to have a drink with Stefan and catch up. When he was feeding on a human alone, the vampire Sage found him and commented on his lack of enjoyment for the feed. Damon seemed content to feed just enough to survive, but Sage encouraged him to enjoy it, to take pleasure in being a vampire. Once he was persuaded, he tried to get Stefan to enjoy the feed and talked him into feeding on human blood again. Stefan fed so hard on his victim that he tore her head off, shocking both brothers. Furious with Damon for making him drink human blood, he ran off and Damon did not pursue him.
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Damon was living in New Orleans with a vampire he had turned named Charlotte. Damon soon noticed a pattern of strange behavior from the woman, in that every order he gave her, even seemingly innocuous ones, she followed with frightening enthusiasm. He sought guidance from the witch Valerie LaMarche to break the sire bond between him and Charlotte, and the witch told him she needed a human sacrifice of 12 people to do the spell. Damon killed the 12 people, but could not find Val to perform the spell he needed. He ended up ordering Charlotte to count every brick on every building in New Orleans and meet him at the corner of Bourbon and Dumaine. He left New Orleans soon after.
Stefan and Lexi found Damon while he was in New Orleans. At Lexi's insistence, Stefan sought to make peace with his brother before shipping out to the North African front of the war. After an initial hesitance, Damon seemed happy to reunite with his brother after thirty years apart, and the two spent the evening talking. Damon even suggested he might join Stefan and leave for war with him, but Lexi made it clear she did not approve of the idea. Her concerns seemed warranted especially after Charlotte brought a bleeding victim to the bar where they were talking and Stefan started to lose it at the sight and smell of human blood. Later, Damon was all ready to ship out with Stefan when Lexi talked him out of it, citing his profligate lifestyle and how Damon's behavior would not be good for Stefan's rehabilitation. Realizing she might be right, Damon decided not to go and he left the train station without explaining to Stefan.
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In 1953, Joseph Salvatore lured Damon to Mystic Falls in order to hand him over to Dr. Whitmore. After Joseph injected Damon with vervain, Damon killed him, but Dr. Whitmore entered the room shortly after and injected Damon with another dose of vervain. When he woke up he was strapped to a table and Dr. Whitmore cut one of his eyes out, in order to experiment and study vampire healing abilities. Damon was brought to a cell and in the cell next to him was another vampire named Enzo. The two vampires bonded and it was Enzo's friendship that allowed Damon to hold on to his humanity. Dr. Whitmore continued to torture and perform experiments on him and he called him 21051.
Every year Whitmore would show the rest of Augustine Damon and Enzo and demonstrate his research on the annual New Year's Party. Enzo then came up with a plan for one of the two would drink the other blood ration in order to build up his strength until the coming New Year's Eve. Damon was the lucky one and when the next New Year's Eve Party came he broke free from his chains and he slaughtered every member of Augustine while the building was set ablaze. Enzo was still trapped in his cage and Damon tried to free him, but the cage bars were soaked with vervain and couldn't get him out. Damon knew that if he was going to save himself he had to stop caring about Enzo so he turned his humanity switch off. Now not caring he left Enzo to burn alive. After finally being free from five years of torture, Damon kept the promise he made to Enzo to kill every member in the Whitmore family, but one and let that person have a family and kill them too but one and to the same thing again and again. Damon did exactly that and among the ones he killed were Aaron Whitmore's parents and Aaron was among the ones that he kept alive.
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It had been two years since Damon escaped the Augustine cell, and he still had his humanity switched off. On November 8, 1960, during Election night, a lady asked Damon for an interview. She asked him questions related to the terrible fire at Whitmore House and then tried to attack him with a vervain injection, but Damon easily stopped her. When he found out that she was an Augustine member he ripped her head off. Decades later Damon finds out that the girl he killed was actually Enzo's one true love, Maggie James.
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Damon lived in New York City during the '70s, where he maintained a wild life full of parties and feeding off of people. At the time, he still had his humanity switch off and he killed locals of New York; a soon to be fed upon victim asked if he was the Son of Sam, to which Damon replied, "Son of Giuseppe, but close enough". Damon was friends with Will, another vampire, who ran a bar and let Damon feed on the people there, while in exchange, Damon stole his victim's IDs for him.
Lexi had eventually found Damon and told him that she and Stefan had heard all about Damon's current life and that Stefan was worried for him. Lexi tried to help Damon get his humanity back, but Damon rejected her offer. However, Lexi was stubborn and she stuck with Damon for the following six months. She had gotten Damon to talk about Katherine Pierce, thinking that if he talked about her, his switch would flip on. Damon tricked Lexi into thinking that his humanity was back and the two had a night full of wild sex.
The next morning, Lexi woke up on a roof because the sunlight was burning her skin. She tried to escape by opening the door to get into Billy's, but it was locked. Then she found out the truth: Damon had tricked her. Damon told her that it was his way of getting back at her for annoying him for the past six months. He ditched Lexi on the roof thereafter, leaving her trapped until nightfall. It was revealed in The Cell, that Damon turned off his humanity in the 1950s because he couldn't deal with the pain of leaving Enzo behind while escaping from the Augustine Society. 
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In April 1994 (after Kurt Cobain died), Damon with his humanity still off, showed up on Stefan's doorstep, wanting to make amends. Zach Salvatore, the owner of the house and their nephew, allowed Damon in on Stefan's promise that he would keep him in line. Zach had been living with Gail who was pregnant with his child. Stefan warned Damon to stay away from them, claiming that both of them were on vervain.
One day, at a party, Damon flirted with a young Liz Forbes. Stefan took a picture of Zach and Gail and noticed bite marks on Gail's wrist. He then confronted Damon about feeding on Gail and after Damon compelled Liz to forget ever meeting him, Damon breezily confessed that he swapped out Zach and Gail's vervain coffee for a little in-house feeding. An angry Stefan reminded Damon that they trusted them and then snapped his neck.
Damon woke up in the shed without his daylight ring. Stefan wanted to know what Damon was really doing there and Damon said he wanted to feel a connection to his humanity again. He tried to convince Stefan to go on a road trip with him. Instead, Stefan reminded Damon of all the times he had ruined his life and how he could not seem to help but do it. Damon got that there would be no road trip for them.
On May 10, 1994, Stefan and Zach heard screams and rushed to the library to find bodies everywhere and Damon covered in blood, holding Gail hostage. He demanded his daylight ring back from Stefan, who returned it, realizing he would never be rid of Damon. Damon gave his own version of their past. Damon said, "In 1912, I showed you who you were, Stefan. In 1942 I gave you your freedom and in 1977 I almost killed your best friend because it should have been you there to help me. You owe me. It'll take you an eternity to pay me back.". Then he killed Gail by attacking her and left.
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Damon turned Isobel Flemming into a vampire after she asked to be turned by him.
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==Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series==
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In Hello, Brother, the episode opens much like the first episode of season one with a couple chit chatting, driving through the fog when they have to swerve to avoid hitting Damon but they actually do hit Enzo. The couple sneak over to check on Enzo when Damon starts clapping from behind them, leaning against their car. Damon tells them it's a slow night as Enzo sits and pops his broken bones back into place. The two vampires drive the couple to an old slaughterhouse.
Damon and Enzo chat about how they are serfs, slaves or lackeys who are being mind controlled. And their job is to bring the worst of humanity to the slaughterhouse. Damon makes each of them tell him what the worst thing they have ever done was. The man is the winner so the woman gets a quick death by Enzo, feeding on her. He then takes he body to dispose of it while Damon takes the man into the main part of the slaughterhouse where many pieces of humans are hanging all around. Damon takes him to where they are standing over a grate. Below the grate is a pool of blood. Damon jabs a giant hook into the man's back; he screams out in pain. Damon pushes some buttons that lift the man up, open the grate and dips him down into the blood. The hook comes back up with only a small piece of the man remaining.
Later, Damon is kicked back in a lounge chair reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" by the bloody pool without the grate. Enzo asks Damon how many more bodies does that "thing" need?! Damon reminds him that it can hear him. Enzo asks Damon if he has any control of his own mind left. Damon tells him that he has flipped his humanity switch. Enzo yells at the bloody pool that has started to bubble "I'm sorry, did we wake you? When does this end"?! He wants to know how many more bodies until its full. Damon then kicks Enzo into the bloody pool. The monster grabs his face with clawed hands and pulls him back under. He is then released and able to climb out. Damon asks him if he got an answer.
Stefan finds the slaughterhouse where Damon sees him and says "hello brother". Damon starts mopping the floor and tells Stefan that he's doing daily chores. Stefan asks him what has a hold on him and what was in that vault? Damon says that it doesn't matter; only that he's been killing bad people. Damon tells Stefan to go home. Stefan observes out loud that Damon has flipped his switch and that he can help him flip it back. Damon tells him that he's seen how this ends and his humanity can't save him from it. He tells Stefan that he's talking about hell; he's seen it, tasted it, touched it. Stefan tells him that he's not making any sense. Damon replies with an "okay". Damon tells Stefan that he needs to go because "it" doesn't want him yet. Stefan says "not without you".
Bonnie finds her way to the slaughterhouse just as Damon says that Elena doesn't matter to him anymore. That he hasn't just flipped his switch, he's ripped it off the wall. Every bad decision he's ever made sealed his fate. His path and Elena's are not the same. He tells Stefan again to go but Stefan snaps a mop in two and stabs it through Damon's body, making him fall down. Bonnie approached and tells Stefan to get him in the car while she finds Enzo. When Stefan looks back Damon is gone and Enzo mouths the word "go" to Stefan, showing he still has his humanity. Enzo then fakes being emotionless toward Bonnie and they leave unharmed.
Damon and Enzo go to and art show where they confront and artist who painted entirely with blood. The artist whispers in Enzo's ear what he did with the victim that he got all the blood from for his art piece. As they leave with the artist, Damon tells Enzo that he might want to consider flipping his switch so "it" can't hurt those he cares about.
Damon and Enzo take their latest victim to feed the monster. When out of the bloody grate climbs a woman, who is singing to them without opening her mouth. 
In Today Will Be Different, Damon chats with a businessman about guns. Damon tells him that he is going to bring him to his buyer as she will find him irresistible. Damon takes him to meet Sybil who is swimming in a pool and she begins to sing to the man. The man starts walking down into the pool toward her. Sybil asks Damon if he enjoys this and Damon answers in a bored tone "I don't know. You're the psychic, you tell me". She tells him she needs Enzo to be like him: all in. She then drowns the man.
Later, Damon is catching a nap in a lawn chair and dreams of when he first met Elena. He watches himself like a spectator as he calls her "Katherine". Sybil then yells at him to wake up.
Damon and Enzo sit on a park bench while out on a hunt for Sybil when Damon suggests a game of twenty questions. Damon describes Enzo to a tee. Enzo tells him that that isn't how you play twenty questions but what Damon is tying to do is get Enzo to realize that while he is here, looking for Sarah Nelson aka Sarah Salvatore, he isn't having any fun. Enzo tells him he doesn't understand what the "boss lady" is up to; why she's pushing pause on her master plan. Damon tells him that her new priority is to give Enzo a spanking, to get him to flip his switch. Damon confesses that he's not so much afraid of Sybil as he is of the eternal damnation she showed them when she got into their heads. Enzo insists those were just mind games and none of it was real. Just then, Sarah Nelson walks toward them on the sidewalk. They pull her aside and down to the parking garage where she jabs Damon with a vervain dart.
Damon rushes up behind Caroline, who has been talking to her kids on the phone in the hallway of Sarah's apartment. Damon removes her daylight ring, throwing it down the sunlit hallway along with her phone which he smashes.
Damon jumps through Sarah's window where her and Stefan are talking. Damon grabs her, wrapping his arms around her head, with a murderous look on his face. Stefan pleads "Damon don't"! He quickly explains to Damon who she is but Damon thinks it's impossible. Stefan tells him that Sarah isn't on his list of sins; he didn't kill her in utero. Stefan tells him that letting her go is what Elena would want. Damon lets her go, telling her to run. As soon as Sarah opens the door to escape, Sybil is there blocking her way and she stabs Sarah in the abdomen. Stefan vamps over to Sybil and breaks her neck the goes to give Sarah his blood but just before he gets to Sarah, Sybil whispers in his ear "I'm a lot tougher than I look". She makes it so Stefan cannot move then she asks "So, who's Elena?"
Sybil reprimands Damon, as it he did not kill Sarah. She wants to know how he is disobeying her. It takes a shred of humanity to defy her. She reaches inside his mind and sees Elena. She sifts through every memory of Damon and Elena; she replace Elena with herself. Meanwhile, Sarah is still bleeding out on the floor and she dies. Damon is completely devoted to Sybil.
Back at the swimming pool, Damon is feeding off a victim's wrist while Sybil makes out with the victim who appears to be dead. Damon rushes over to Enzo and thrusts his hand into Enzo's chest, grabbing his heart. While Enzo is weak, Sybil gets a peak into his mind.
In You Decided That I Was Worth Saving, Damon and Sybil are bystanders at the Gilbert car accident on Wickery Bridge. It's revealed that he's reliving a past memory though Sybil has changed the memory so that Elena has died too. Altering his memory results in Damon telling Sybil that he had never met Elena.
Back at the hotel, Sybil is having trouble unlocking Enzo's mind. She encourages him to be more like Damon who looks quite content, sitting in a chair reading Fifty Shades Darker. Damon suggest they kill Enzo as he has a high tolerance for torture. Sybil says they are moving onto to Bonnie; Enzo assures her that Bonnie means nothing to him. Sybil asks Damon to kill Bonnie, which he has no problem with.
Damon interrupts Caroline's wedding dress shopping with Bonnie by killing the attendant and catching the practice bouquet toss. Caroline tells Bonnie to run and tries to attack him but Damon grabs Caroline around the throat as he realizes Stefan's getting married. He tells Caroline to consider this his R.S.V.P. and throws her across the room. He hunts Bonnie down but she fights back allowing Caroline time to stab a wooden pole deep through his stomach, pinning him into the adjacent wall, allowing time for the girls to flee.
Enzo and Sybil track him down and as Enzo removes the pole from Damon, Sybil is admiring herself in the mirror with a wedding dress held up to her. She says to Damon "So you got beat up by a girl." Damon explains that there were two girls which makes Enzo laugh. This makes him susceptible to Sybil's interrogation methods and she is finally able to see what Bonnie means to him. Since Damon doesn't fight her, she looks for Bonnie in his mind and finds their friendship. She replaces Bonnie with herself.
Damon calls Stefan from the high school and tells Stefan he needs a favor. He says that whatever desire he has to save him, he needs it right now. Stefan finds him sitting on a picnic table outside the high school. He tells Damon that if this is a trap he might as well spring it. Damon assures him that he just needs his help but can't tell him what he needs help with. He tells him that Sybil has LoJacked his brain and when he tries to form the words to tell Stefan it just comes out as "applesauce penguin." He opens the trunk of his car to reveal a knocked out and tied up Enzo.
Damon and Enzo are compelled to fight each other to the death when the clock strikes three. Damon brought Stefan as backup to help him kill Enzo. Damon and Enzo argue about their friendship. Stefan tells Damon that if Enzo can fight this, he should be able to also. Stefan tries to reason with him on all points. Enzo tells Stefan it isn't going to do any good because Sybil has been toying with his brain.
When the clock strikes three Damon and Enzo go for each other. Stefan puts himself in the middle, pushing them apart. They continuously push him out. Damon gets himself in a position where wooden handle is piercing through his back and Enzo is dangerously close to staking him. Damon calls to Stefan for help and Stefan throws Enzo off. Stefan is about to chop Enzo's head off with a shovel when Caroline stops him saying she promised Bonnie. Damon snaps her neck and Enzo snaps Stefan's. Enzo goes after Damon with a saw while Damon can almost reach Enzo's chest. They fall and Damon plunges his hand inside Enzo's chest. Bonnie enters and pleads with Damon not to do this. Sybil shows up behind her and tells her to choose which one to save. Bonnie chooses Enzo. Sybil tells Damon to remove his hand from Enzo's chest.
Sybil tells everyone that no one has asked her what she wants. Damon is an asset. Enzo is a burden. Sybil tells Bonnie that she chose wrong so she's going to have Damon kill Bonnie and then she will kill Enzo herself that way everyone can go on with their lives. Unless Enzo flips his humanity switch and pledges his loyalty to her. So Enzo flips his switch. Sybil asks her two loyal subject if they would mind if she were to take back her promise to spare Bonnie's life. Enzo replies coldly "No objections here". Bonnie runs.
Damon grabs Bonnie at her car but Ric runs him down. Damon recovers from being hit after a while and snaps his bones back into place. Stefan tells him it's over (they captured Sybil with the tuning fork). But Damon says his work is just getting started. Stefan asks, "What work"? Damon answers, "Applesauce penguins, brother."
As Damon is driving, he gets a loud ringing in his ear, Sybil is humming in her cell. She is in his memory of the 1994 prison world, eating pancakes. She has replaced Bonnie with herself. Sybil tells him he has too many people willing to fight for him still. True devotion to her is the only way to save him from that which he fears the most (hell).
Tyler Lockwood is driving along, only to find Damon playing his favorite game of laying in the road. He asks Damon if he is alright. Damon smiles lazily and gets up. Tyler tells him that his fight isn't with him as he turns around he draws a gun out of his jacket. He turns around only to find Damon right behind him. Damon grabs his arm with the gun in it and disarms him. Tyler tells him to do what he needs to do to get his life back so he's not the slave to some siren bitch. Tyler tells him that if he kills him he'll be the face that haunts him as the moment he gave up. Damon turns to leave him but gets a ringing in his ears and sees Sybil lay down on a mattress. He turns to Tyler. Then he sees Sybil again. His fangs come out and he heads toward Tyler, bites into his neck and drains him.
In An Eternity of Misery, Damon pulls up to a mechanic's shop in his Camaro. Damon interrupts a man who's welding and tells him he's looking for Peter Maxwell. The man introduces himself as Lou and tells Damon that Pete will be back soon. Damon tells Lou that Sybil wants Pete and they talk about women that "screw with your head." Lou tells Damon he's been married five times. Damon compels Lou to tell him the worst thing he's ever done. Lou confesses that he killed one of his wives and made it look like an accident. Damon pours gasoline all over him and tells him to get back to work. As soon as Lou fires up the welding torch he goes up in flames.
Peter Maxwell runs into Damon who has been waiting for him. Damon tells that he's the one who set Lou on fire. Damon asks Pete if he's ever met Sybil. Pete says that he hasn't so Damon compels him to tell the truth which confirms that he indeed hasn't. Pete thinks everything Damon is saying sounds crazy. Damon tells Pete that he has something Sybil wants. Pete tells Damon to take whatever it is and leave. Damon tells him that he doesn't exactly know what he's looking for but that it is a Maxwell family heirloom: he will know it when he sees it. Pete tells Damon that a couple years ago his grandmother died and left him a box of stuff that he never opened and that his son was looking for the box so maybe he had found it. Damon tells him to call his son.
Damon is playing on a pinball machine when Pete approaches with an ornament which Damon quickly dismisses as not being the heirloom. He accuses Pete of bringing him a bunch of junk when he notices Pete's watch and inquires about it. Pete tells him that his son gave it to him. Pete tosses the watch to Damon and Damon gets burned, as the leather on the watch must have been steeped in vervain. Damon realizes his compulsion hadn't worked on Pete. Damon accuses him of being on vervain but Pete denies it saying "I don't know what you're talking about." Damon tells him liars go straight to hell as he pierces Pete in the gut with a metal object. Just then Damon gets shot with a wooden bullet from behind. He turns around to see Matt Donovan who fires at him again. Damon falls flat on his back. While Damon is unconscious, Matt slits Damon's wrist and feeds his blood to Pete.
When Damon regains consciousness, he finds that Matt has chained him to a chair. Matt has a stake and Damon tells him that if he's trying to scare him it won't work as he has turned his emotions off. He tells Matt that all he senses from him is desperation. Matt confirms that yes, he is desperate and jabs Damon with the stake. Matt just wants to know why Damon tried to kill his father. Damon tells Matt that he didn't know Pete was his dad. Damon uses Tyler as leverage by telling Matt that if anything happens to him, Tyler dies. Matt tells him that he knows Damon isn't that stupid; Elena would never forgive him for that. Damon tells him that he and Elena are through and he's actually been seeing another woman. Damon goes on to tell Matt the exact details of how he "ripped into Tyler" and left him bleeding in the back of a green Mustang and where the location of the car is.
Damon is left alone, struggling against the chains. He knocks over a tall metal shelf and it falls right on top of him. He manages to free himself, snapping broken bones back into place. From the shelf he finds the heirloom he's been looking for: a mysterious iron-looking sphere about the size of a grapefruit. It appears to have the letter "M" stamped into it with a small X-like shape above the letter.
In Coming Home Was a Mistake,
In Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell,
In The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You,
In We Have History Together,
In The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch,
In Nostalgia's a Bitch,
In You Made a Choice to Be Good,
In What Are You?,
In The Lies Will Catch Up To You,
In It's Been a Hell of a Ride,
In We're Planning a June Wedding,
In I Was Feeling Epic,
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==Personality==
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Damon was originally a very free-spirited young man, who was best friends with his younger brother Stefan Salvatore, both of whom were instantly smitten with the vampire Katherine Pierce. He had a positive relationship with Stefan and he held his position as elder brother in high regard, being the one to teach Stefan how to fight when they were younger. As a human, Damon also held a sense of duty as he enrolled in the confederacy, however their father saw him as very irresponsible and reckless, proving he was very much a free spirit who did things on a whim, taking no mind to what people thought. 
Damon could be considered much the opposite to his brother in many regards. Whilst they both were respectful and polite, Damon had a dark side which came to play when he fell in love with Katherine, whilst initially terrified at the prospect, his love for Katherine and dependency for her affections made the choice easy and he willingly drank her blood and conspired with her to kill innocent humans, a trait which passed on to his vampire lifestyle. Damon was very naive as a human, he loved Katherine deeply and recklessly, regardless of the consequences and not caring that his father was ashamed of him. His carefree life fell apart when Stefan betrayed Damon by alluding to their father that Katherine was a vampire; information that resulted in Katherine being trapped and taken to a church to be burned, also doing whatever he could to get her back, even if it resulted in his death.
 
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When Damon fed on Joey in Total Eclipse of the Heart, he was shown to have no remorse or guilt over ripping the young vampire's head off.
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Damon's personality as a ghost was much like his personality as a vampire. He did, however, seem to grow closer to Bonnie Bennett, and the two met Malachai Parker and grew to have a mutual hatred of him.
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==Physical Appearance==
Damon is very handsome, standing 5'10" in height with a well-built, toned physique. His physical appearance is of around a 24-25 year old despite being over 170. Damon has a light complexion with olive undertones and has a strong bone structure with high cheek bones and a solid jaw line. He has dark brown almost black hair, which hangs just over his ears, usually styled in a casual disarray yet sometimes gelled for special occasions. With striking, intense light blue eyes contrasting wonderfully against dark eyelashes and eyebrows, a "bad boy" smile, he can be described as relatively athletic, tall, strong, sexy and seductive. He also considers himself the "eternal stud".
Damon's clothing style has remained somewhat similar throughout the series, usually favoring darker clothing; black shirts, t-shirts and boots underneath darkened jeans and black trousers, although on occasion has been seen wearing lighter colors. Damon is rarely seen without his leather jackets and his favorite clothing designer is "John Varvatos". On special events, such as dances, he wears smart attire such as tuxedo's and dress shoes. As a vampire, he wears a large lapis lazuli daylight ring enchanted by Emily Bennett, as a means to walk around in the sunlight as a vampire. The ring has the Salvatore crest and an embedded "D" for his first name.
In flashbacks, as a human in the 1860s era, Damon generally wore the same attire as his younger brother; Stefan, including dress shirts with suspenders, waistcoats, dress coats, hats, cravats and leather laced boots as his usual style. His color scheme as a human was much lighter, Damon was seen wearing a red waistcoat, yet still formal, showing the Salvatore family's wealth. His hair was slightly longer in style, with slight curls, showing a much more youthful appearance.
==Powers and Abilities==
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Damon possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire. He has shown himself to be an experienced fighter easily able to subdue his enemies. Being that Damon is over 170 years old, he is an old and powerful vampire. 
For vampire standards, he is a relatively young non-Original vampire to appear in the series, along with his younger brother Stefan. Damon's initial advantage (being stronger and faster) over his brother was due to him being older and regularly consuming human blood. Due to this Damon is physically able to easily beat younger vampires, although he has been shown capable of standing up to vampires much older than him, this is in part due to his determination. Though ultimately still inferior to those of much older vampires like Katherine Pierce, Pearl and Annabelle Zhu and the Originals to name a few. However given his intellect, he has been shown to take vampires down through surprise attacks, such as fighting the ancient vampire, Elijah Mikaelson with his brother's help and surprising Kol using his super-speed.
Damon, when at full strength, can be extremely dangerous, especially when fighting for the ones he loves. Such as when Damon, alongside Stefan, were able to fight Katherine Pierce, a non-Original vampire of 538 years of age, though she still bested both of them. Damon is also a very skilled user of mind compulsion. Damon has been shown to use this power effectively many times throughout the long course of the series. Mind compulsion remains to date as one of Damon's most frequently used powers of being a vampire.
Stefan has noted that when at full power and angry, Damon can be very dangerous.
This is evidently shown in situations concerning Elena Gilbert. In Live Through This, Damon became emotionally distressed when he learned that it was Lily's idea to place the sleeping spell on Elena. This led Damon to become angry and lash out at his mother, strangling her.
Initially Damon's strength was much more powerful than Stefan's due his to frequent feeding spree on humans, Stefan was unwilling to face him without an advantage and told his nephew he wouldn't be able to beat Damon without feeding on humans himself, something that Damon told him earlier. Later in the series the power distance between the brothers shortened as Damon fed less frequently and usually on blood bags, and Stefan may have moderated at some point as demonstrated by the battles where Stefan is able to fight evenly against his brother, though Damon still usually wins the fights.
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In No Exit, Damon appeared to have an increase in strength whenever he felt the urge to feed on Vampire blood, he had all the abilities that a normal vampire would have except, enhanced to further levels making him much more powerful than vampires that are much older than him. For example, Damon was able to break free from his chains in a matter of seconds when Enzo chained him up. Though this is something any-other vampire might not be able to do.
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==Weaknesses==
Damon had the typical weaknesses of a non-Original vampire.
==Relationships==
===Giuseppe Salvatore===
Giuseppe was Damon's father.
Not much is known about the relationship, however, based on flashbacks and what has been mentioned, Damon never had a good relationship with Giuseppe, because he was physically abusive towards his son for no apparent reason, as a child Damon was terrified of his father. When he was 12 years old, Giuseppe made Damon eat his pet turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. During dinner Giuseppe demanded to know who took his money from him, Damon took the blame (for something he didn't do) because he was afraid of what Giuseppe may do to Stefan, as a punishment for stealing his money, he burned Damon with a cigar, he presumably continue to abuse him until he was an adult.
As an adult, Damon was no longer terrified of father, to the point where he openly disrespected him, when he saw that his son Damon, along with Stefan were trying to rescue Katherine after she had been captured, he decided to shoot and kill them to spare himself the embarrassment of having vampire-sympathizer as sons, he had no guilt or remorse for this vile act of his, it can be assumed that Damon now despises Giuseppe for what he did to him, after learning that his own father was his killer, it is likely that he did not mourn or grieve over his death after Giuseppe was killed by Stefan.
In the present day, Damon rarely speaks about his father, when he does speak about him; it is in a negative way, and he (correctly) believes him to be nothing more than a monster. 
===Stefan Salvatore===
Stefan is Damon's younger brother. When they were human they were very close, best friends up until the arrival of the beautiful Katherine Pierce. After Katherine's "death", Damon swore to make Stefan's life a misery, and succeeded in 1912 by making him lose control of himself, fifty years after their last meeting. In the 1940s, for the first time since their transition, Damon showed a rare selflessness by backing out of his plan to join Stefan in war, so that Stefan could try to control his urges, as Damon would've been a bad influence. Despite unknowing the truth of Damon's selfless act, Stefan still returned the favor to his brother in the 1970s, sending Lexi to help Damon turn on his humanity. From these glimpses of the past, it is shown that while they may outwardly despite the other, deep down they truly care. Before season one, the brothers hadn't seen each other since the early 1990s, their relationship having taken a steep turn for the worse, as their relationship was described as "violent and bitter". Due to Katherine's influence they became enemies, yet have recently began repairing their strained relationship due to Elena Gilbert, ironically Katherine's descendant and doppelgänger. Through the seasons, both fell in love with Elena and whilst she was the factor bringing them together, she is also the biggest strain in the brother's complex relationship. In the season four finale, although Stefan was heartbroken at Elena's choice, he admitted that he was happy for Damon. Through this, they have proven just how far their relationship has come from their violent past. Whilst their relationship will continue to be tested, through the highs and lows, it is clear that the two share a strong brotherly bond. 
In Season Five, they have some issues but appear to be getting along better as brothers and appear to show much more care and concern for one another, though their bond is tested through time. After Damon's sacrifice, Stefan breaks down over losing the only family he has left. Several months later, Damon returns to the living, reuniting the brothers. In I Was Feeling Epic things get worse for the Salvatore brothers. They both decide to sacrifice themselves to kill Katherine for the last and final time. And to save Mystic Falls from hellfire. As Damon holds Katherine with a knife. Stefan sneaks up behind Damon and injects him with his blood which contains the cure. Turning Damon into a human again. As Damon lays on the ground knocked out. Stefan takes his place in killing Katherine. Before Stefan dies he says goodbye to his brother. In the afterlife they reunite.
===Elena Gilbert===
Elena Gilbert is the love of Damon's life. She is not just his wife but best friend as well. As the series progressed, he fell in love with Elena. He first met Elena when he was in Mystic Falls looking for his object of obsession for over a century, Katherine Pierce. He then talked to Elena but afterwards, compelled her to forget their meeting. He then met Elena again at the Salvatore Boarding House when she was looking for Stefan. After a while, Elena started to view Damon as self-centered, violent, sociopathic and cruel, especially when she found out that he continuously abused, used and bit her best friend, Caroline Forbes against her will. She was horrified to discover that Damon was also behind all of the murders and unusual "animal" attacks in Mystic Falls. Originally, Damon pretended that he disliked Elena and was rather apathetic about whether Elena lived or died (later in season 5 he confessed the future he'd seen all along: "Elena, I've seen it since the first second I laid eyes on you."). However, Damon was drawn to Elena, mostly due to the fact that Elena bears an uncanny resemblance to the object of his obsession for over a century, Katherine. 
Although Damon and Elena often bicker and don't get along, Elena began to slowly warm up to him as she got to know him, befriending him in the process. But she still kept her distance due to Damon's constant immoral and impulsive behavior. Damon and Elena's friendship deepens with time and the two become closer, with Damon haven fallen for Elena and Elena developing feelings for Damon. Damon has repeatedly admitted that he is in love with Elena, however, Elena has admitted that she loves him too. Damon once told Elena that he loved her, but that he didn't deserve her, but Stefan does. He then compelled her to forget his confession afterwards. As opposed to Stefan, Damon is seen to be extremely selfish when it comes to Elena, willing to put the life of Elena's before anyone else's, including Elena's loved ones. It has been a consistency throughout the series that even though Elena cares deeply about Damon and has feelings for him, she still strongly loves Stefan and has repeatedly chosen him over Damon much to Damon's disappointment. But Elena and Damon are still closer than ever, and the sexual tension between them has even increased as Elena's emotions were heightened. 
During Season Four, Stefan ends his relationship with Elena because of her no longer fighting the feelings she has for Damon. Elena admitted to Damon that he was the reason of her breakup with Stefan and with Jeremy trying to kill her, Elena had to move with Damon. Stefan moves out when she moves in because of the relationship between her and Damon. Damon and Elena also had sex for the first time and became a real couple the night she moves in with him. Despite being sired to him, her feelings for him are real and she loved him before she was a vampire. Vampirism only magnified what what already there. She will not be giving up on him. He may be selfish with his feelings but he doesn't regret it – when push comes to shove, he'll always put her first and it's for that same reason that he's always saving her when she needs him. Damon brings out a side of Elena that none of her past loves have been able to and challenges her in a way that no one else can. He hasn't taken advantage of Elena when he's had the opportunity. He's usually played fair with her, and he's always saying that she's the one woman he has to do the right thing by. 
When Damon and Elena are in the same room together, the sexual tension between them crackles and pops like a sparkler. And even when they aren't saying anything, the pair can carry on entire conversations through eye contact and body language. Damon loves her unconditionally without expecting anything in return because that's who he is. He loves her either way, human or vampire. He is currently trying to find his identity without Elena in his life due to Malachai Parker's spell-linking Elena's life to Bonnie Bennett's (Elena entered a deep slumber and will stay asleep until Bonnie dies a natural death). Due to Elena's wishes of keeping Bonnie alive, Elena chose to stay asleep and wished Damon a happy life while she slept. Elena's absence left Damon in a bad place, losing the one he loved the most had a hugely negative impact on him. Damon has waited for the day that Elena awakens, so that they can share a human life together due to Elena's decision to taking the Cure to vampirism. In I Was Feeling Epic, Stefan injects him with his blood, turning Damon into a human, allowing him to marry and grow old with Elena after she awakens from her magical slumber.
===Alaric Saltzman===
Alaric is Damon's best friend. It started out antagonistic towards each other since Alaric knew that it had been Damon who had possibly killed his wife but it later turned out that she wasn't dead and that she had in fact been turned into a vampire by Damon. From that point on, they have been shown as becoming closer and they often team up to fight the usual threats to the town. Alaric is the only one (other than Elena) to call Damon a friend. They are seen often drinking together; it's often seen that they do taunt each other as well though. Throughout the series, they become like brothers. Towards the end of Season Three, Alaric was turned into an Original vampire by Esther Mikaelson and fed on Bonnie Bennett to complete his transition and then took the White Oak Stake from Bonnie. Alaric died in Damon's arms in the season 3 finale, moments after Elena's death causing Damon to break down having lost his best friend and the girl he loves, as Alaric and Elena's lives were linked. But when Alaric appears as a ghost to we learn that he will always be watching over Damon. In the season 5 finale, Damon gives up his life to save their loved ones, including Alaric, whom were still on the Other Side, which causes Alaric much grief of losing his best friend. When Damon returns, he is furious with Alaric for compelling away Elena's memories of their life and passionate love they shared. After a while, Damon sort of gets over it and forgives Alaric. Towards the end of Season 6, Alaric has Damon as his best man at his wedding. In season 8, Alaric says that Damon is the closest thing he ever had to a brother.
===Bonnie Bennett===
Damon's relationship with Bonnie originally started out antagonistic, particularly from Bonnie. Bonnie would only save Damon for Elena's sake and the two were often forced to work together for the sake of their friends and loved ones. By Season 4, Damon seemed to actually care about Bonnie when she got lost on Nova Scotia and refused to leave without her. In Season 5, he was surprisingly upset at hearing of Bonnie's death and attended her funeral. In the Season finale, they got stuck on the Other Side and hold hands as it collapses. They end up trapped in a 1994 Prison World for four months. This time impacted their relationship significantly, working together to find a way out and bonding as much as they argued. Damon was shown to be protective of Bonnie by threatening Kai: "We may be having a bit of a disagreement, but don't ever lay a hand on her." Bonnie sacrificed herself to let Damon go home. In return, Damon worked to bring her back. They later reunited in Let Her Go and hugged. When Bonnie is magically linked to Elena put in a sleeping curse in the Season Six finale, Damon ultimately chose to save Bonnie on Elena's behest even though it was very hard for him to.
At the start of Season 7, Damon started to resent Bonnie living while Elena is cursed and hesitated once to save her life. Damon, however, acknowledged Bonnie as his "best friend" and that she's stuck with him until Elena wakes up. The two overcome this and look out for each other. They band together against Rayna and the Heretics. After Bonnie nearly dies to protect him, Damon chooses to desiccate until Elena wakes up to stop himself from endangering her and his brother. This hurts Bonnie, as he did not say goodbye, and this strained their friendship.
Three years later, Damon is awakened by Stefan as Rayna Cruz is after them once again. Stefan, Enzo, Damon and Bonnie work together to stop Rayna. This strains Damon and Bonnie relationship even more though, but they ally together anyway while Damon asks for Bonnie's forgiveness. However, once they defeat Rayna, her supernatural vampire huntress powers are transferred to Bonnie. Bonnie is wired to hate Damon once again, only worse than ever as magic is controlling Bonnie. Damon tries to get through to her, including by insulting her and ripping her heart out in a dream by trying to get the real Bonnie back, but this doesn't work and only infuriates Bonnie more. Damon says he wishes Elena was alive in her place in an effort to awake Bonnie, and Bonnie says although he denies its truthfulness, those hurtful words came from his heart. Damon later burns the last Everlasting, connected to Bonnie's huntress side, and this cured Bonnie of the vampire huntress curse. Shortly after that, Bonnie and Enzo joke with Damon on the other end of the phone and this confirms that Bonnie has forgiven him and that they are best friends again. However, Damon mysteriously hears Elena's voice in the Armory's vault and is drawn to it, despite Enzo and Bonnie's protests over the phone to try and stop Damon from following the voice. It is too late being that Damon was drawn into the Armory monster's trap. Bonnie sends Enzo first to see if he could save Damon, but Enzo too is captured. Bonnie was devastated that Damon and Enzo were missing and she was desperately trying to find Damon, along with Enzo. When she achieved, she soon reconnected with Damon after Sybil's influence disappeared.
===Jeremy Gilbert===
Jeremy is Damon's new roommate and Elena's younger adoptive brother/biological cousin. Their relationship is similar to the relationship Damon has with Alaric. It's complicated between them but Damon is a father figure to Jeremy. Even though Damon goes about things the wrong way, Jeremy knows he means well and has good intentions in helping people and trying to do the right thing. There are times when Damon has treated Jeremy like a little brother and is a mentor to him. After Alaric's death, Damon trains Jeremy in how to fight and kill vampires. There are even times when they protect each other. Damon does his best to keep Jeremy alive for Elena's sake as he is the only family she has left and multiple times when Damon has told Jeremy to kill him but he refuses to do so, proving they do care about each other. Currently, they have reverted to enemies due to Damon's uncaring persona and that he held him hostage and had a hand in his near-death. As of S6, Jeremy and Damon appear to mend cautious fences after his time off the deep end in S5. Damon gives Jeremy pot as a "going away" present when he supposedly leaves Mystic Falls to go to art school, but is in reality hunting vampires. Jeremy comes back to Mystic Falls after his sister's awaken, and he's now family with Damon, as he married Elena. 
===Lorenzo St. John===
Enzo is Damon's best friend. They were cellmates in 1953 where both of them were captured and used to be tortured by the Augustine society for scientific purposes. They both became close as they spend more time together. Enzo got an idea to free them from Augustine, however on the night when they executed their plan, Damon accidentally started a fire and was unable to free him from a vervain-coated cell. Damon then decided to turn off his humanity to escape the pain of leaving Enzo behind. They both meet again in 2011 and rekindle their friendship. In Season Six, Enzo works with Caroline to try and find a lead of how to get Damon and Bonnie back from the dead. Eventually, Damon managed to return to the living due to Bonnie's sacrifice and the two were reunited. They continued to work together fighting their enemies throughout the series. In season eight they eventually fought together to fight the Sirens Seline and Sybil. Things get worse between Damon and Enzo. When Damon gets a phone call from Bonnie. Informing him that Enzo was killed by Stefan. He was shocked and saddened by his death. This showed how much Damon cared about Enzo and their friendship.
===Other Relationships===
Salvatore Family, Petrova Family, Gilbert Family, Saltzman Family, Mystic Falls Gang, Town Council, Augustine
*Silas and Damon (Enemies/Partners-in-Crime/Ancestor and Descendant)
*Damon and Lily (Mother and Son/Enemies)
*Stefan, Katherine, and Damon (Former Love Triangle)
*Damon and Katherine (Ex-Girlfriend/Enemies)
*Stefan, Elena, and Damon (Former Love Triangle)
*Damon, Elena and Alaric (Best Friends)
*Damon and Elizabeth (Close Friends/Former Allies)
*Damon and Caroline (Ex-Girlfriend/Friends/Allies)
*Damon and Matt (Allies/Frenemies/Former Enemies)
*Damon and Isobel (Ex-Fling/Enemies)
*John and Damon (Enemies)
*Damon and Lexi (Exes/Frenemies)
*Damon and Rose (Former Girlfriend/Close Friends)
*Damon and Andie (Former Girlfriend)
*Damon and Elijah (Frenemies)
*Damon and Klaus (Partners-in-Crime/Frenemies)
*Damon and Rebekah (Ex-fling/Frenemies)
*Damon and Kol (Enemies)
*Damon and Meredith (Friends/Former Allies)
*Damon and Sage (Former Friends/Enemies)
*Damon and Atticus (Former Allies)
*Damon and Charlotte (Ex-Girlfriend)
*Damon and Galen (Former Enemies)
*Amara and Damon (Former Allies)
*Damon and Aaron (Former Enemies)
*Damon and Kai (Former Allies/Enemies)
==Appearances==
==Stefan's Diaries==
Damon comes home from the Confederate Army where he served with "General Groom's boys". He drinks and gambles as a human. Damon is often criticized by his father, or by his father to Stefan. Even though he is the second one to see Katherine, he is the first of the brothers to be with her. He wants to die rather than become a vampire but Stefan brings back the barmaid, Alice, for him to feed on. When they first turn, Damon is weaker than Stefan because he refuses to feed often. Damon often points out to Stefan that the blood is a weakness to him because it consumes him and makes him a killer, because he can't control his urges. Damon is better at compulsion than Stefan and it is assumed that Katherine taught him how to compel people. He kills Callie Gallagher, the daughter of a vampire hunter who captured Damon and used him as a circus act, when trying to kill Stefan. 
==Novels==
As with the series, he initially serves as the main antagonist until the third book, where he becomes an anti-hero. In the books, he is born in Florence, Italy and is described as arrogant, charming and seductive, but he is known to keep his word. Ian Somerhalder's television portrayal is faithful to the handsome, hedonist of L. J. Smith's creation. Damon loves the undead life and all that it entails, and no one's ever quite sure if they should love him or hate him. He leaves countless broken hearts in his wake, but the heart Damon desires the most is Elena's.
==Name==
*Damon is a masculine name of Greek origin, from the Greek δαμαω (damao) meaning "to tame" or "subdue".Damon meaning at Wikipedia.
* The name Damon is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Damon is: Gentle. To tame. A. In Greek legend Damon was a loyal friend of Pythias. Famous bearer in modern times: American author Damon Runyon. 
* Salvatore is of Italian origin and means "savior".https://www.babynames.com/name/Salvatore
==Trivia==
*Damon doesn't like but is willing to listen to her to impress girls.
*In the books, Damon has the ability to shape-shift into a crow and wolf. In the Pilot only, Damon could control a crow and theremoved.
*In the books, Damon owns a black Ferrari, and in the series, a blue 1967 Chevy Camaro convertible.
*Damon read a bit of one of the books at Caroline's and hated it, while reminiscing 's vampire novels. Also, he said Edward is whipped.
*As a child, Damon used to have a pet turkey called Sammy, until his father made him eat her for Thanksgiving when he was twelve.
*Damon's ethnic background on the show is half-French (from his mother) and half-Italian (from his father). However, in the novels, both he and Stefan are of full Italian descent.
*Damon has read Gone With The Wind by , a classic romance novel.
*Damon is a veteran of both the (1861–65) as a soldier, Second Lieutenant, in the Confederate Army until 1864 and the US Army in (1939–45) when he joined in 1942. During his time in the Civil War, Damon was a part of the 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment.
*It's implied by Julie Plec that Elena and Damon may have had children. Though they were not shown or mentioned in the series finale.http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-vampire-diaries-series-finale-ending-julie-plec-interview-1202006674/
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