Dark Alex

**Dark Alex** is the dark version of Alex Gilbert. She made her first appearance in *Stand By Me* when Alex did a black magic spell to resurrect her brother. Before she was the dark magic inside Alex but when Bonnie and Ariana tried and failed doing the spell to get rid of it she actually created herself into a living, breathing person. It wasn't until *I Was Feeling Epic* when she revealed that she had been alive a little bit after they thought they got rid of her but then she died and became queen of hell.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries

### Season Four

In *Stand By Me*, Alex did a spell to resurrect her brother, backfiring and creating her into her dark self. She had set the house on fire.

In *Bring It On*, she laid out in the middle of the road as she waits for someone to drive by. A women had stopped and asked if she was okay, in which she returned she was and compelled the woman to scream as she killed the woman. During the cheer competition she fed on a girl and stole her ribbon.

In *Because The Night*, she kept a low profile not wanting them to know she had dark magic still in her and she comes up with a way to destroy them once and for all. She killed Aja's coven of witches to "save" Bonnie from dying.

In *Pictures Of You*, she helps Rebekah win Elijah's test so that no one could use the Cure against her. It was in fact that she/Alex won prom queen. Later that night she bites into April Young's neck drink a good amount of her blood before slamming it hard on a desk, knocking her out cold before she leaves.

In *She's Come Undone*, she poses as Katherine as Katherine told her to pose as her because she couldn't bother. She accepts and plays Katherine and let Elena escape.

In the bonus chapter *The Darkness In The Doppelgänger*, she torture's Damon, Theo, and Elena and tells them that Alex will never come back. She tells Elena she's selfish and never once said thank you to anyone who ever sacrificed their life's for her, calling her a brat. She also tells Elena all the horrible things she's done for other people. After torturing the pair for awhile Stefan comes up behind her, making her inhale herbs, knocking her out. Inside her mind, Stefan tries to find the good Alex but Dark Alex tells him that the good part is gone and that she's never coming back. Stefan had found Alex but Dark Alex found them too and knocks Stefan out of the way so that she could kill off the good her. Her and Alex talk and Alex explains that she never needed dark magic to make her strong, that she was strong all on her own. Alex defeats the dark part, allowing Bonnie and Ariana in the real world to kill her off. What they didn't know is that Bonnie and Ariana didn't have the right spell and that it was a spell to transport it somewhere else, which allows Dark Alex to turn herself into a breathing person. Later she's killed for some unknown reason, sending her to hell.

### Season Eight

In *It's Been A Hell Of A Ride*, Kai mentions to Bonnie that Hell wasn't destroyed and that it was in good hands. Bonnie then figures out it was Dark Alex and tells Damon.

In *We're Planning A June Wedding*, the Mystic Falls Gang have a plan to lure out Dark Alex.

In *I Was Feeling Epic*, she appears as Arielle. Damon figures out it's not Arielle when he hugs her. She revealed that she had knocked Arielle out and is cloaked where no one could find her. When trying to get her to tell them the location of Arielle she tells them she'll burn along with Alex with the ring of the Maxwell Bell. Stefan stabs her with the blood dagger made with Katherine, Alex, and Elena's blood. Hours later, Dark Alex returns from the dead and overhears a phone call between the brothers. She comes out and tells Theo that the blood dagger he and his friends made can send her to hell but not forever. Damon asked her what price for the return of Arielle to which she said she has everything she ever wanted. She wanted to see the twins and everyone they love burn so that she can get the location of the coffins of the Originals. Later after the plan was finalized Damon returns to the tombs and tells Dark Alex to which she thinks he's bluffing. Shortly after the bell unleashed hellfire, Dark Alex was taken to the tunnels where Bonnie would redirect the hellfire to the Armory. After the struggle between Damon and Stefan, Stefan eventually killed Dark Alex with the blood dagger, dying himself in the process through hellfire. With hell being destroyed Dark Alex is permanently dead in human form, but can come back if Alex were to do black magic she couldn't handle.

## The Originals

### Season Three

In *Heart Shaped Box*, Alex conjured her dark self to talk sense into Cami. She tells Cami that having dark objects can't protect her forever.