Ambrose

Ambrose was a vampire who first appeared in the seventeenth episode of seventh season on The Vampire Diaries. He was killed by Rayna Cruz; his soul was captured into the Phoenix Stone and his body was burned. His spirit was released after Nora Hildegard and Mary Louise sacrificed themselves to destroy the stone. His spirit found and possessed Stefan Salvatore's corpse and resumed his murder spree until he was stopped by Damon Salvatore, Alaric Saltzman, and Valerie Tulle. Valerie performed a soul-swap spell transferring his soul into Marty Hammond's deteriorating corpse and Stefan back into his original body.
==Early History==
Before he became a vampire, Ambrose was a serial killer who stalked sororities and fraternities in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1880's. He would also murder for sheer sport and wouldn't just kill. He used to force his victims to murder each other, and when the victims would try to tell their story, no one would believe them. It is also stated that the killer was never caught.
Sometime after becoming a vampire, Ambrose had framed Rayna for a few of his own massacres and turned her then boyfriend into a vampire. Rayna spent a decade chasing Ambrose across the country before she succeeded in killing him and trapping Ambrose in the Phoenix Stone.
==Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series==
===Season Seven===
In I Went to the Woods, Ambrose is seen walking in Stefan's body when Damon mistakes him for Stefan and lets him get in the car. After hanging out with Ambrose at a bar, Damon gets a call and it's revealed to him that Stefan isn't in his own body. Damon acts as if he doesn't know anything and when they are driving down the road again, Damon reveals to Ambrose he knows he's not talking to his brother and Ambrose stops the charade, congratulating him. He then opens the car window and leaves, going somewhere that's unknown to Damon. Later, it's revealed that Ambrose is at a fraternity party in Memphis and he's invited in by a frat boy, and then raises his arms in the air. It's also revealed that he was a serial killer back in the 1800s and killed fraternities/sororities.
In One Way or Another, while a huge fraternity party is being held in Memphis, Ambrose is draining blood of an unknown frat man before he was interrupted by Damon who slammed the door, but wasn't able to enter the house - as he wasn't invited in.
A few moments later, while outside, Damon called Ambrose on his phone and told him that he should just leave the house and join him in a face-to-face conversation. Ambrose said that he knows that Damon won't leave him alone until he gets his brother back inside his body, and that instead they should make a deal which works both ways - if Damon kills Rayna, Ambrose will leave Stefan's body once and for all, the offer which Damon gladly accepted.
Later, after Alaric and Damon left on a journey to capture and kill Rayna, the two found out that she's currently with Enzo. They returned to the frat house in which Ambrose was hiding, only this time, the door were wide open. As they entered the house, they saw dozens of lifeless bodies, and figured out that Ambrose already left, and is on his way to find and kill Stefan, who's currently headed towards the hospital. Damon called Frank, a doctor who was compelled to treat Stefan's wounds, and in that very moment, Ambrose appeared out of nowhere and caused a huge car crash. As the driver and Frank are slowly getting out of the destroyed vehicle, Ambrose quickly kills both of them. Stefan used this opportunity to get out of the vehicle and enter the closest house, knowing that Ambrose won't be able to get inside, as he wasn't invited in. However, this hasn't stopped Ambrose from his goal to kill Stefan. Just a single moment before he set the entire house on fire, Damon appears. Amused, Ambrose said that the fun has just begun, but was quickly brought down by Alaric who shot him from behind with vervain darts.
Afterwards, his unconscious body was taken to Valerie who performed a soul-swap spell to transfer his soul into the deteriorating corpse of Marty Hammond and Stefan back into his own body.
==Personality==
Ambrose is an absolute and utter sociopath. He is mentally deranged and delights in the torment of others, particularly sororities and fraternities and has a demented sense of humor and finds Damon to be humorous. He is also much more manipulative and sociopathic than Damon could ever imagine.https://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/08/vampire-diaries-season-7-paul-wesley As a vampire, he admits that he doesn't actually care for the taste of blood, but loves the less-obvious perks—eavesdropping skills, mind games, and compulsion. While he finds it fun to wantonly murder class-obsessed imbeciles, he takes particular enjoyment by making them kill each other.
==Physical Appearance==
It's unknown what Ambrose looked like before he possessed Stefan Salvatore's body.
==Appearances==
Season Seven
*Never Let Me Go (Vision)
*Things We Lost in the Fire (Mentioned)
*Days of Future Past (Vision)
*I Went to the Woods (Possessing Stefan Salvatore)
*One Way or Another (Possessing Stefan Salvatore)
*Somebody That I Used to Know (Mentioned)
==Name==
*Ambrose comes from the Latin name Ambrosius, which was derived from the Greek Αμβροσιος (Ambrosios), meaning "immortal".https://www.behindthename.com/name/ambrose
==Trivia==
*With the Other Side's collapse and destruction of Hell, he either found peace or went to a dimension similar to Hell, if one exists.
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==References==
==See also==
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Category:The Vampire Diaries (series)
Category:The Vampire Diaries Characters
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Seven Characters
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