Meredith Sulez

Meredith Teresa Consolacion MariaEvensong: Paradise Lost Sulez (b. June 6, 1974) was the human daughter of Fernando and Gabriella Sulez (née Rodriguez) and twin sister of Cristian. She and her brother were changed into half-vampires by Klaus at the age of three, and she was raised as a vampire-hunter.
In 1991, Meredith helped fight against Katarina von Swartzschild and Klaus. Following Klaus's defeat, her grandfather told her about the location of the Rodriguez fighting stave, which she wielded during her fight against Shinichi, Misao and Inari.
Meredith had a romantic relationship with Alaric Saltzman, whom she planned to marry following her graduation from Dalcrest College.
==Biography ==
===Childhood ===
Meredith and Cristian were born on June 6, 1974 to Fernando and Gabriella Sulez. They were apparently close to their maternal grandparents, who seemed to have lived with them.
The family lived in a large house, which included security guards positioned at the gates, with their housekeeper, Janet, and they enjoyed a privileged lifestyle in an unknown town before moving to Fell's Church, Virginia.
====Klaus's attack and aftermath====
On Meredith and Cristian's third birthday, Klaus broke into the house after killing the security guards with one blow each. He proceeded to kill the twins' grandmother and attack their grandfather before feeding on one or both of the twins. Fernando and Gabriella then arrived, and watched Meredith drinking Cristian's blood before Klaus tried to kidnap the two of them, but Meredith bit his hand down to the bone with her new vampiric canines. Klaus decided to leave her and take her brother, telling Fernando and Gabriella that she should be fed a tablespoon of blood a week.
As a result of the attack, Gabriella's father was sent to a mental hospital in West Virginia after becoming violent. Cristian's kidnapping, Meredith becoming half-vampire and Gabriella's parents dead and institutionalized respectively caused Fernando and Gabriella to begin celebrating Meredith's birthday a week earlier, on May 30, instead. Heeding Klaus's advice, Gabriella also began feeding Meredith blood sausage once a week. Some time later while she was still three, her parents enrolled her in self-defense and various martial arts classes in case another vampire or werewolf attack happened.The Return: Midnight 
The Sulez family moved to Fell's Church, Virginia after Klaus's attack on their family thinking it was a safe town.The Return: Midnight Gabriella and Fernando then raise Meredith in the small town where they would go on to meet the Gilberts, McCulloughs, Forbes and Honeycutts. Meredith, Elena, Bonnie and Caroline became best friends in kindergarten and stayed that way up until senior year of high school.
Starting in the seventh grade Meredith and her friends had a tradition of coming downstairs for every dance together.The Awakening - Chapter 6
===Early teenage years===
In 1989, Meredith went on a skiing trip with her cousins in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She had fractured her leg running into a small tree. The Return: Midnight
When Caroline was still within Elena's clique, the four girls would dabble in quasi-innovative mischief that was mostly harmless, except to some boys.Meredith still sometimes missed the old days and their daring, dominating pseudo-sophisticated capers that never really hurt anyone. (The Return: Midnight - Chapter 34) 
===Twelfth grade===
==Physical description==
Meredith is described as tall with perfect olive skin, high cheekbonesHer dark hair was pulled back, so that her eyes looked very large and her olive-skinned face with its high cheekbones was shown to it best advantage, (The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 4) and heavy black lashes.The Awakening Chapter 2 Meredith's long black hairElena waved them quiet and turned toward the witch, whose long dark hair flowed down the back of a tight-fitting black dress. (The Awakening - Chapter 12) and usually worn loose. She has dark grey eyes.Elena: And her eyes are gray! some distant part of of Elena's mind exclaimed in astonishment. Deep. deep, deep, clear gray gray. The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 14Stefan: her dark gray eyes were wide with barely controlled fear. (Evensong: Paradise Lost) She has a lithe, athletic body from all her years of martial arts training.The Return: Midnight She is of Hispanic background. A Hispanic girl named for her mother's Welsh best friend in college. (The Return: Midnight - Chapter 34)
Meredith dresses in a casual manner, usually in jeans and a nice blouseCoolly, she began to unbutton the neck of her tailored blouse (Dark Reunion Chapter 13) and flat shoes.Bonnie: Meredith had high heels on, too, instead of her usual flats. (The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 4) As part vampire she has kitten canines.The Return: MidnightMeredith carries purses, which are mostly designer handbags that she uses to enhance her outfits and filled them with things like small notebooks and keychain flashlights.Of course Meredith's purses were usually designer handbags that enhanced her outfits and were full of useful things like small notebooks and keychain flashlights. (The Return: Nightfall)
==Personality and traits==
Calm and collected,The Awakening"I'm calm; I'm the one who's always calm." (Dark Reunion - Chapter 10) Meredith is the most pragmaticElena: Meredith, with her cool head and straightforward logic wasn’t there. (The Return: Midnight - Chapter 33) and grounded within the clique of girls and often comes across as the voice of reason. Meredith has a very wry personality, often making keen observationsMeredith: And she had become good at it, a good observer. (The Return: Midnight - Chapter 34) or comments in a dry tone. She is a very stoic person with very little ever phasing her. Meredith is a very detailed oriented and organized person. Meredith is highly intelligent, having the options to go to Duke University like Alaric hadDark Reunion Chapter 2 or to Harvard.The Return: Midnight Chapter 3Meredith is the only person who actually scares Damon and does not react to his charms. In fact she seems to be the only girl in town to do so.Elena: Meredith never was impressed with Damon. His charm seemed to have no effect on her. (The Fury - Chapter 10) He can only talk about her when her back is turned.The Return: Nightfall 
 Due to her hunter-slayer training Meredith has Counter-Influence, a technique taught to protect hunter-slayers from vampires. Combined with her strong will it's hard for a vampire to read her mind and or control her. Whether it's because of the attack or her upbringing in vampire hunting but Meredith is distrustful of vampiresThe FuryThe Return: Midnightand when she found out that she was a half-vampire she said she would kill herself.The Return: MidnightMeredith is an introvert, only revealing things about herself when necessary or asked, like her birthday being on June 6, instead of May 30, like Bonnie originally thought.Dark Reunion Chapter 2Elena: Personal issues were difficult to talk about with Meredith. Asking her questions always felt like prying. (The Return: Shadow Souls - Chapter 12) She is the type to bottle up her emotions instead of releasing them in order to be there for her friends.Dark Reunion Chapter 11 Meredith always has a sense of gracefulness about her.The Return: Midnight
==Relationships==
===Family===
===Alaric Saltzman===
Meredith and Alaric Saltzman first encountered each other when she sat in the waiting room at the mental hospital her grandfather was admitted to. After recognizing him she began secretly meeting up with him in order to reassure him that Stefan, Damon, and Elena were safe to be around. Though he was already attracted to her,Alaric: But you were just a kid with skinny legs then. You've changed, he added appreciatively. (The Fury Chapter 11) Alaric slowly came to trust her and their relationship began to take a turn for the romantic, with the two falling into each other's arms the morning after fending off the mind controlled dogs.Bonnie: Alaric and Meredith are also okay, of course. When they saw each other that horrible morning, after everything had quieted down and we were picking up the pieces, they practically fell into each other's arms. I think there's something going on there. Meredith says she'll discuss it when she's eighteen and she graduates. (The Fury - Chapter 16) Meredith opted to not talk about them as an item until after graduation.
During the events of Shinichi and Misao terrorizing Fell's Church, Meredith and Alaric were described as "engaged to be engaged" by Elena and Bonnie.The Return: Midnight Chapter 13 After the death of Inari and the restoration by the Celestial Court, Alaric and Meredith became officially engaged.She was trying to concentrate on her letter to her fiancé, Alaric Saltzman. (Evensong: Paradise Lost)
===Elena Gilbert===
Elena is one of Meredith's best friends since childhood.Elena: Meredith has been my friend since the first grade. (The Fury - Chapter 9) Along with Bonnie they formed a sisterhood they call the velociraptor sisterhood.Elena: That's a velociraptor sisterhood oath, okay? (The Return: Shadow Souls - Chapter 12)Meredith came along as well, figuring it might be sisterhood business. (The Return: Shadow Souls)Before the events of senior year Meredith, Elena, Bonnie and Caroline were called the Top Four of Robert E. Lee.He turned slightly and saw, yes, the rest of the Top Four, Robert E. Lee High's most sought-after girls. (Matt and Elena: First Date)
=== Bonnie McCullough ===
Meredith and Bonnie have been friends since childhood. Meredith is protective of Bonnie.Damon: The only other readings he got in the room were from Meredith, Bonnie’s roommate and childhood protector. (Evensong: Paradise Lost)
===Damon Salvatore===
Meredith does not like Damon nor responds to his charms. In turn Damon finds her scary. During the events of being in the Dark Dimensions Meredith comes to tolerate him but still wouldn't consider him a friend.The Return: Midnight
===Caroline Forbes ===
==Behind the scenes==
*In the television series, the character Meredith Fell appears.
*Meredith's revelation as a half-vampire was initially meant to be a plotline in The Hunters trilogy. However, the ghostwriter continuing the books made this intended storyline impossible by mentioning that Meredith's vampirism was cured in The Hunters: Phantom.
==Etymology ==
*The meaning of the name Meredith means Great lord in Welsh.
*Teresa is of uncertain origins but is believed to be derived from the Greek therizein (to reap, to gather in) and thus takes the definition of “harvester.”
*Consolacion is a Spanish name meaning consolation.
*Maria is Latin and means The Sea or Bitter.
*Sulez while having no proper meaning in Spanish with the suffix ez it means Son of Sul.
==Appearances==
*Matt & Elena: First Date
*Matt & Elena: Tenth Date: On Wickery Pond
*The Awakening 
*After Hours 
*The Struggle
*The Fury
*Dark Reunion
*The Return: Nightfall
*Elena's Christmas
*The Return: Shadow Souls
*The Return: Midnight
*Evensong: Paradise Lost
*Evensong: The War of Roses
*The Vampire Diaries (video game) 
==Notes and references==
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