Stefan Salvatore

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## Biographical information

### Born

* November 1, 1846 (Mystic Falls; Age 17/185)

### Turned

* By Katherine Pierce's blood on September 25, 1864 (transition initiated by Giuseppe Salvatore)

### Occupation

* Carpenter (Formerly; Unknown)
* Nomadic Traveller (Formerly; 1920s)
* Allies Soldier of World War II (Formerly; 1942)
* Harvard University Student (Formerly; 1970s)
* Ambulance Driver (Formerly; 1990s)
* Immigrant Worker (Formerly; Unknown)
* High School Student (Graduated)
* Guardian of Hope Mikaelson (Formerly)
* Member of the Triple Crescents (Currently)

### Title(s)

* The Ripper of Monterey
* Sleepy-head, Sweetness (Both by Lexi)
* Shady Stefan, Saint Stefan, Superman, Beefcake, Fabio, Hero Stefan, Noble Stefan, Buzzkill Bob, Baby Bro, Brother (All by Damon)
* Rippah, Old Friend, Pal (All by Klaus)
* Sleepy-head, Gorgeous, Sweet Pea (All by Qetsiyah)
* My Shadow Self (By Silas)
* Stef (By Adrianna)
* Uncle Stef, Uncle Stefan (By Hope, Alexia, Lizzie, Josie, Abby, Ace, and Tali)

### Species

* Human/ Doppelgänger
* Vampire (Klaus' Bloodline) (Currently)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Silas † (Progenitor Of, Distant or Ancient Paternal Ancestor)
* Unknown Silas Dippelgängers † (Distant Paternal Ancestors)
* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father)
* Lillian Salvatore † (Mother)
* Damon Salvatore (Older Brother)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Sister-In-Law)
* Mikael † (Father-In-Law)
* Esther Mikaelson † (Mother-In-Law)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Wife)
* Freya Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Kai Parker (Brother-In-Law, via Freya Mikaelson)
* Finn Mikaelson † (Brother-In-Law, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Katherine Pierce (Sister-In-Law, via Elijah Mikaelson)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Caroline Forbes (Sister-In-Law, via Niklaus Mikaelson)
* Kol Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Bonnie Bennett (Sister-In-Law, via Kol Mikaelson)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Alexia Salvatore (Niece, via Damon Salvatore)
* Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett (Niece, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Aleksander Mikaelson-Bennett (Nephew, via Rebekah Mikaelson)
* Thalia Mikaelson-Parker (Niece, via Rebekah Mikaelson
* Giuseppe's Unnamed Son † (Paternal Half-Brother)
* Zachariah Salvatore † (Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Zachariah's Unnamed Son † (Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Joseph Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Joseph Salvatore's Unnamed Son † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Zach Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Tom Avery † (Doppelgänger, Descendant)

## Supernatural information

### Significant kills

* Johnathan Gilbert (revived by the Gilbert Ring)
* Giuseppe Salvatore
* Thomas Fell
* Honoria Fell
* Marianna Lockwood
* Monterey Victims
* Liam Grant
* John Beach
* Randy Smith
* Danah Leach
* Terrilyn Henson
* Catherine Marid
* Matthew Wagner
* Michael Reddinton
* Christian David
* Dianne Wagner
* Ashley Holliday
* Margaret Forbes
* Christopher Gilbert
* Vicki Donovan (as a vampire)
* Noah (as a vampire)
* Ben McKittrick (as a vampire)
* Bethanne (as a vampire)
* Frederick (as a vampire)
* Brady
* Jonas Martin
* Keisha
* Samara
* Ray Sutton (as a hybrid)
* Dana
* Chad
* Mindy (as a hybrid)
* Silas
* Enzo (as a vampire; Resurrected)

### Cause of death

* Gunshot Wound/ Loss of Blood (as a human)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'11" (Feet)
* 1.80 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Green

**Stefan Mikaelson-Salvatore** is one of the main male protagonists of the *An Epic Kind of Love* series. Stefan is a 185 year old vampire and the distant descendant and doppelgänger of Silas. Stefan was born and raised in the supernatural town of Mystic Falls, Virginia and came of age during the time of the Civil War. Stefan is the youngest child of Giuseppe and Lillian Salvatore. He has an older brother, Damon Salvatore, who is also a vampire and whom he shared a formerly strained relationship with, stemming from the appearance of Katherine Pierce over whom they fought whilst human. Stefan is the husband of Rebekah Mikaelson and the brother-in-law of Freya Mikaelson, Kai Parker, Finn Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, Katherine Pierce, Niklaus Mikaelson, Caroline Forbes, Kol Mikaelson, and Bonnie Bennett. He is also the uncle of Hope Mikaelson, Alexia Salvatore, Abigail and Aleksander Mikaelson-Bennett, and Thalia Mikaelson-Parker.

During the years following his transition, despite the help from close friend Lexi Branson, Stefan has constantly battled with his bloodlust, and during the 1900s after "falling off the wagon" due to Damon's unhealthy influence, he widely became known as the Ripper of Monterey due to his inability to control his blood thirst. For a brief time in the early 1920s, Stefan was romantically involved with the Original, Rebekah Mikaelson, and shared a close friendship with her brother, Niklaus.

After many years away, Stefan returned to his hometown of Mystic Falls to visit his distant nephew, Zach. Stefan then saw Elena Gilbert for the first time while rescuing her after her parents' car drove off Wickery Bridge. After finding personal records and observing her and her twin sister, Adrianna, from afar, Stefan determined that neither of them were Katherine. He was strongly intrigued by them, especially by Elena, and decided to pose as a new transfer student at Mystic Falls High School to get to know them. Elena and Stefan were instantly drawn to each other and they immediately form a bond, beginning a romantic relationship shortly afterwards. However, despite them becoming romantically involved, various and numerous obstacles begin to come between the two, making Stefan and Elena struggle and fight to be together. They grow distant after Elena's transition, and later break up, due to Elena being in love with Damon and causing the creation of a sire bond between the two. Stefan then had several brief flings with Rebekah while trying to find the cure. During this time, Stefan struggled with his feelings for Elena and his returning feelings for Rebekah.

At the end of the fourth book, Stefan decides to leave Mystic Falls due to Elena still being in love with Damon even after the sire bond is broken and Rebekah beginning a relationship with Matt Donovan. However, Stefan ends up being confronted by Silas, finally revealing his true form and locks him in a safe underwater.

Throughout the fifth book, Stefan loses his memories due to Qetsiyah's attempt at incapacitating Silas and suffering effects due to Silas' confrontation, he slowly finds closure with Katherine. Being a doppelgänger, Stefan's blood is used for a spell by the Travelers in order to resurrect their leader, Markos. During this time, he begins to grow close to Elena again and they are able to form a close friendship. As things begin to spiral out of control, Stefan is unexpectedly killed by Julian, a Traveler warlock, while trying to protect Caroline, but he was resurrected after Damon, Caroline, and Adrianna's plan to bring him back from the Other Side is a success. However after Damon fails to return, he is left devastated at the loss of his brother as the Other Side collapses. Following this, Stefan left Mystic Falls in order to travel. During this time away, he reconnected with Rebekah and the two began a romantic relationship.

Stefan briefly goes to New Orleans with Rebekah to become Hope Mikaelson's guardian, with Rebekah, after Klaus and Adrianna faked the baby's death for her own safety. They are forced to return to New Orleans when Esther began tracking their movements. Stefan eventually returned to Mystic Falls, where he is reunited with his brother. While in Mystic Falls, Stefan and his friends battle the Gemini Coven. During this time, Liz Forbes is diagnosed with inoperable cancer and dies, causing Caroline to turn her humanity off and forcing Stefan to do the same. Due to their friends continuing to try and get them to turn their emotions back on, Stefan and Caroline go on a killing spree. His humanity is eventually restored when Rebekah returns to Mystic Falls. Stefan then helps Caroline turn hers back on by showing her one of his last memories with her mother. Stefan then leaves town with Rebekah after.

Stefan is a member of the **Salvatore Family** and the **Mikaelson Family**, due to his marriage to Rebekah Mikaelson.

## Early History

* Human Life
* 1864
* 1912
* 1917
* 1922
* 1942
* 1960
* 1977
* 1987
* 1994

Stefan was born on November 1, 1846, on Veritas Estate in what would eventually become the town known as Mystic Falls, Virginia. He is the youngest child born to Giuseppe and Lillian Salvatore and the younger brother of Damon Salvatore. In 1851, when Stefan was five years old, during Thanksgiving dinner in the Salvatore Estate with his parents and brother, his father confronted Damon about money that was taken from his bureau, believing his eldest son to have been the thief. Young Stefan witnessed as his father burned Damon's hand with a lit cigar as a punishment for both lying and stealing. Unknown to Stefan, it was actually his mother who took the money, trying to flee from her husband with her sons.
Damon mentions that in October 1852, he broke Stefan's nose trying to teach him how to throw a right hook. In 1858, his mother Lillian became very ill with tuberculosis (also known as consumption). Deciding not to spend any time with her while she was ill, he instead did whatever he could to avoid her, such as walking into town and getting the tea she liked or picking out her favorite flowers. He pretended that he was doing it for her but he was actually in denial about her impending death and was afraid to see her in such a sick and grave condition.
The death of his mother was something that Stefan never got over and he never really moved on from her absence. Stefan was very close to Lillian as a child, so much that Damon himself even referred to him as being a "mama's boy". It is strongly indicated that Stefan was Lillian's favorite son and that between the two brothers, Stefan was the son she shared a closer bond and relationship with. After his mother's passing, Stefan lived with his father and Damon.
Stefan is seven years younger than Damon. Despite the semi big age difference between the two brothers, Stefan grew up to be the best of friends with Damon and had even said that Damon was his best companion, despite having other friends growing up since childhood. It is evident that Stefan was also Giuseppe's favorite son and that Stefan had a rather close and good relationship with his father, the complete opposite of Damon, who appeared to have had a rather strained and tension-filled relationship with Giuseppe.
Personality wise, Stefan was seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, introverted, intelligent, well-spoken, responsible, dutiful, noble, and an overall respectable young gentleman.

One day in 1864, Stefan was fixing a broken carriage when a man who was riding a carriage carrying Katherine Pierce and Emily Bennett had stopped to talk to him. This is when Katherine had first seen Stefan and described that she was instantly drawn to him and attracted to him. When Stefan first met Katherine, when she and Emily came to stay at the Salvatore Estate, he had become strongly attracted to her and eventually fell in love with her, as did his brother Damon. However, despite Damon's feelings for Katherine, it seemed to be evident that the younger Salvatore was Katherine's preference as it was Stefan that she had asked to escort her to the Founders' Ball.
One night, Stefan and Katherine were spending a passionate night together when she suddenly bit Stefan, revealing that she was a vampire. The next morning after their passionate affair, Stefan awoke with a bloody wound on his neck and the previous night slowly returned to him. He was clearly frightened of her, saying that her face resembled that of a demon and also told her to get away from him. To calm him down, Katherine compelled him to not be afraid of her.

After hearing of the town's plan to kill vampires, Stefan went to see his father and unintentionally hinted to him that he knew of vampires staying in Mystic Falls when he suggested that vampires might not be as bad as they are made out to be. During this conversation, his father tricked him and drugged his alcoholic drink with vervain. When Katherine went to see Stefan that night and bit him so that she could feed on his blood as a form of foreplay, the vervain within Stefan's blood had poisoned and incapacitated her. Stefan was confused, worried, and concerned about what was happening to Katherine and could not understand why Katherine had appeared so sick and weakened all of a sudden. Giuseppe, hearing Katherine collapse, entered Stefan's room. He then explained what was happening and urged him to go to the sheriff. Giuseppe then set in motion Katherine's capture, which corresponded with a town-wide vampire round-up.
Later, finding out what had happened with Katherine being captured by their father, Damon was extremely devastated and furious with Stefan, as he had made Stefan promise not to tell their father about Katherine. Damon ended up blaming Stefan for Katherine's capture although it was not ever Stefan's intention on hurting or betraying Damon and outing Katherine.

Stefan felt extreme guilt for unintentionally betraying Damon and getting Katherine captured so he promised Damon that he would do everything he could to help Damon get Katherine back. They then planned a course of action to get around the guards who were on watch for the vampires, and eventually made it to the cage where Katherine was being held. They got Katherine out of the cage, but as soon as they were ready to escape with her, Damon was shot by an unknown person. Shocked and overwhelmed with grief at seeing his brother dying, Stefan picked up a gun to shoot whoever had shot his brother, but before he could do so, Stefan was also shot directly in the chest. He slowly lost consciousness as he watched Katherine, who lay on the ground nearby, still weakened by the vervain. Once Stefan died, Katherine returned to Stefan's body and let him know that she loves him.
The next morning, Stefan woke up confused and dazed. He searched for his gunshot wound but found he had been healed and noticed that he was wearing an unfamiliar, large silver ring, with a deep blue stone and the Salvatore crest with the letter "S" on it. Emily Bennett then approached Stefan and told him that Katherine had her make that ring for him and Damon weeks before. She explained everything that had happened since he was shot: she had found him and Damon lying dead in the woods, brought them to the quarry, and he and Damon were now transitioning into vampires. Stefan, confused, wondered how that was possible if he had never drunk Katherine's blood, but Emily confessed that Katherine had compelled him for weeks to drink her blood, while Damon drank from Katherine willingly. Stefan soon approached Damon, who recounted seeing the townspeople dragging Katherine into the church and setting it on fire. The two discussed their options, and both brothers seemingly agreed to die without transitioning, as neither one wanted to be a vampire without Katherine.
Later in the evening, Stefan began to notice that he had heightened senses, including super-hearing. He overheard his father and Johnathan Gilbert discussing the vampires being captured and destroyed, and that his father wanted to keep the secret that his sons were vampire sympathizers, preferring they be known for dying nobly and bravely in the fight against the vampires. After Johnathan left, Stefan went inside to talk to his father one last time, who was shocked to see that Stefan was alive. Stefan wondered aloud to his father that even in their death he still felt ashamed of his sons. Giuseppe retorted with disgusted disapproval that their mother would have been extremely disappointed in her sons were she alive to see what they had become. He then confessed to Stefan that he was the one who had shot and killed both him and Damon, shocking Stefan.
Stefan then told his father that he had not fully turned into a vampire yet and that he was choosing to let himself die instead of drinking human blood. Not taking any chances, Giuseppe tries to stake and kill Stefan. Underestimating his new-found vampire strength, Stefan threw Giuseppe against the wall, causing him to accidentally be stabbed by the wooden stake in his stomach. Overwhelmed and shocked, Stefan tried to help him, but Giuseppe refused him, disgusted by what Stefan's becoming. When Stefan pulled the stake out of his stomach, his bloodlust became too much for him to suppress and he tasted his father's blood, completing his transition into a full vampire.
Stefan then went to meet Damon and told his brother about how amazing it felt to be a vampire. He told him that it was a gift and told him about how he could willingly turn off his emotions, the pain and the guilt, insinuating that Stefan had shut off his humanity for the first time. Stefan had compelled a young woman to go with him to Damon, where he convinced his brother to become a vampire by drinking her blood. Damon initially refused, but Stefan would not relent, saying he couldn't let him die. Eventually Damon drank the girl's blood and told Stefan that he was right, that it felt like a whole new world being a vampire. Stefan hoped this meant they could be brothers and companions together forever, but instead Damon promised Stefan that he would make Stefan's life miserable for the rest of eternity.

Weeks after he was newly turned and still lacked control of his bloodlust. Stefan went on a rampage, killing members of the Founding Families out of revenge for what they had done to Katherine. One member was Johnathan Gilbert, though he later came back to life with the help of his Gilbert Ring. Stefan continued on a blood-drinking bender to try to make the guilt and pain of what he had done to Damon and his father go away. He compelled young women to go home with him so he could toy with them and feed on their blood. When Damon found Stefan like this, he was upset by his brother's uncontrollable behavior and compelled all of the women to leave and to never come back. Damon tried to convince Stefan to control his bloodlust and moderate his behavior but could not get through to Stefan until he announced he was leaving town. Desperate to keep his brother in his life, Stefan begged Damon not to leave, promising he would do better. Damon showed no sympathy for his brother's pleas and left, saying he would not let Stefan get them both killed, and that he would leave him to do that to himself.

One night, Stefan went to a camp where the war-wounded lay and discreetly fed on their blood. It was there that he spotted a girl in the shadows and tried to attack and feed on her. Instead, she drove Stefan to the ground and turned out to be another, much older vampire by the name of Alexia Branson. Lexi needed a place to stay so Stefan brought her home with him, where she found corpses drained of blood lying everywhere. Lexi told Stefan that he was a Ripper, and that there were good parts of being a vampire and there are bad parts, and that he was the bad parts.
Determined to change that, she later walked with him through the camp where they had met, asking him how he felt about the suffering war victims. Stefan told her that he felt emotionally numb, that he felt nothing. She then explained that he felt nothing because he had managed to turn off the part that makes him feel, the human part of him; that in spite of the intensified pain and suffering vampires feel, love is what makes life worth living. Over the course of many decades, Lexi became Stefan's mentor, best friend, and companion and she showed Stefan the "good parts" of being a vampire; how to live compassionately and reclaim the caring, empathetic person Stefan had been as a human. From 1864 to 1912, Stefan lived on a strict animal blood diet and no longer fed on human blood.

In 1912, Stefan returned to Mystic Falls to attend the funeral of his half-nephew, Zachariah. It was there that Stefan saw Damon for the first time in almost fifty years. Damon initially had no desire to rekindle any brotherly relationship with Stefan but Stefan convinced Damon to join him for a drink, saying he had missed him.

Later, while at a boxing ring, Damon tried to persuade a very resistant Stefan to have a drink of human blood with him again, selecting Marianna Lockwood and luring her away from the crowd. Stefan fed on her, but quickly lost control of himself and accidentally ripped her head off, astonishing both of them. Out of extreme guilt and remorse, Stefan irrationally apologized and tried to put her head back onto her body. Stefan, angry with Damon for forcing him to drink human blood, refused Damon's offer to help him learn to control it, then ran off into the woods. Damon watched him go, concerned for his brother's well-being, though not enough to pursue him. After drinking human blood in 1912, Stefan fell off the wagon and returned to his former Ripper lifestyle.

Klaus revealed that Stefan had become notorious for his horrific killing sprees, including the massacre of an entire migrant village in Monterey in 1917, after which he became known among the vampires as the "Ripper of Monterey". It is later revealed that Stefan had attacked the village on Christmas Eve.

After he left Mexico, Stefan traveled to Chicago in 1922. It was there that he frequented a particular speakeasy, and one day caught the eye of a beautiful blonde vampire, Rebekah. She initially resisted his interest, but not long after that, they became romantically involved.

Stefan eventually met Rebekah's older half-brother, Nik. At first, Nik disliked Stefan because of his relationship with Rebekah. As time went on, however, they bonded over their similar family histories, as well as Stefan's penchant for petty cruelty toward humans, and became best friends who enjoyed each other's company immensely. The three of them frequently partied together at the speakeasy, enjoying booze, blood, and dancing all night long.

On one such night of revelry, the club was attacked by what appeared to be the police. Discovering that the police were using wooden bullets, Stefan realized they knew there were vampires inside. He sensed Rebekah's panic when she responded cryptically, "*He's here,*" but before he could find anything out, Nik compelled Stefan to forget about him and Rebekah. Unbeknownst to Stefan, Katherine was in the club while the police were searching it; she spotted Rebekah's necklace on the floor and went to pick it up, but fled when she heard Stefan approaching. He in turn saw the necklace and picked it up, observing it carefully. A detective then approached him, showed him a sketch of Nik and Rebekah, and asked if he had ever seen them before. Stefan told him what he believed to be the truth: that he had never seen those people before in his life.

In April of this year, Lexi found Stefan again, "dragged him off the train tracks", and started to help him recover his humanity and get off human blood. According to Stefan's journal entries, it took the better part of a decade to do so; around 1935 he still felt cravings for human blood, but it was getting easier, and by the 1940s, still under Lexi's guidance, he continued to make progress toward his rehabilitation.

Before he left for the war, Stefan, at Lexi's insistence, sought out his brother Damon in New Orleans in order to make amends with him. He approached his brother in a bar, and after initial skepticism, Damon welcomed the reunion and seemed glad to have Stefan back in his life after thirty years apart. After Stefan told Damon about his plans to join the war effort as an ambulance driver, Damon proposed spur-of-the-moment that he could join Stefan. Unknown to Stefan at the time, Lexi talked Damon out of leaving with Stefan, citing his profligate lifestyle and how Damon's behavior would not be good for Stefan's rehabilitation. She seemed to be proven right when, after Charlotte had brought a bleeding victim back to the bar, Stefan started to lose himself at the sight and smell of human blood. Lexi's interference proved instrumental in the brothers' long estrangement, as Stefan left for the North African campaign believing Damon had abandoned him yet again.
As the elections for a new president go under way, a lady is walking alone through an alley, Stefan appears and attacks her, biting her and drinking her blood. He lets her go alive and compels her to forget everything. Then a woman who seems to know everything about vampires appears and she knows who he is, she knows he is the brother of Damon Salvatore, who she is looking for. Stefan asked who she is and she tells him that her name is Maggie James. Stefan advised her to stay away from Damon. She confesses that she is looking for Damon only to kill him because he is a monster, so Stefan decides to attack her but only to scare her and leave town.

Stefan returned to Mystic Falls this year along with Lexi. Stefan asked Lexi to go to New York City to help Damon get his humanity back and get his act together.

He was in Chicago with Lexi at a Bon Jovi concert, which unbeknownst to them Katherine was watching them from afar.

Stefan came back to Mystic Falls in May 1994 to be with his great nephew Zach. Damon, who hadn't seen Stefan for nearly 50 years, and has had his humanity switch shut off, claimed he wanted to go straight and narrow. Stefan, who knew that Damon had sent Lexi flowers to apologize for leaving her to burn on a rooftop 17 years earlier, reluctantly let him back into his life. He thought Damon was living on animal's blood until he saw bite marks on the wrist of Zach's pregnant girlfriend Gail. It turns out that Damon had weened Zach and Gail off their vervain and didn't consider feeding on his relative and a pregnant woman bad, since he was keeping it all inside the house.

Stefan then confronted his brother, snapped his neck, and took him to the shed of the Boarding House, where he took off his daylight ring. When Damon finally awoke, Stefan berated him for always ruining his life. Damon, who had just missed his little brother and wanted to go off on a road trip with him, an offer that Stefan refused, snapped. Damon then killed all the people at the party, including Gail. He promised Stefan an eternity of misery--resentment for Stefan turning him into a vampire so he wouldn't be alone, but then not wanting to be the kind of vampire Damon became and left him all alone. Damon then left the town.

Stefan was able to compel Zach to forget about Gail and the deaths, but he couldn't hide the body count. Stefan then took Gail to the hospital, and although the doctors couldn't save her, they saved her baby. He then made sure that the baby was adopted right out of the hospital by a great family, who named her Sarah Nelson. Stefan left town right after, and looked out for Sarah all her life, without Damon knowing anything, so he wouldn't jeopardize her life with the supernatural world.
## Throughout An Epic Kind of Love Series (Part 1)

* Book 1
* Book 2
* Book 3
* Book 4
* Book 5

Stefan is at first introduced as the mysterious new student that just moved to Mystic Falls. He meets Elena Gilbert at the high school and the two are instantly drawn to each other and connect. Over a gradual period of time, Stefan and Elena bond, fall deeply in love and eventually develop a romantic relationship. According to Caroline Forbes, Stefan's favorite color is blue. Stefan wears a large, silver ring made from enchanted Lapis Lazuli stone that allows him to walk around in the sunlight without burning. Unlike Damon, who drinks human blood and feeds off of innocent people, Stefan has chosen a vegetarian diet, living on an animal blood diet.

His best friend, and supposedly one of his few friends, was a vampire named Lexi Branson. She visited him every year on his birthday, and this was the only day he allowed himself to do any crazy or stupid stuff. When Damon killed her, he was furious, even thinking about killing Damon. He instead let him off with a warning, staked him, but missed his heart on purpose.
It is later revealed that it was Stefan who rescued Elena from the car crash which killed her adoptive parents he tried to rescue them too, but he was too late.
When Damon turned Vicki Donovan into a vampire, Stefan tried to teach her the ability of self control but she couldn't handle it. She ran away and went to the Halloween Party at the high school. Vicki then threatened Elena and Jeremy's life, causing Stefan to kill her.

Stefan and Damon later worked together and tried to free Katherine from the tomb, but they discovered that she wasn't in there. Unknown to them, the other vampires in the tomb were also released. After they were released, they attacked Stefan and Damon at the Boarding House and later kidnapped both Stefan and Adrianna. They were later saved by Damon, Elena, and Alaric. Elena allowed Stefan to feed from her so he could regain his strength and kill the tomb vampire that had followed them and tried killing him. Stefan became addicted to blood again and began drinking it behind Elena's back.

Damon figured out that Stefan was stealing blood bags from blood banks around the county. He confronted Stefan but the younger Salvatore just denied it. When Damon caught him in the lie, Stefan just told him that he was under control and to leave him alone. Damon eventually told Elena and Adrianna what was going on with Stefan, which caused Elena and Stefan to get into a fight. Stefan then kidnapped Amber, a girl in the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, and fed from her. He nearly killed her but was stopped when Bonnie gave him an aneurysm. Adrianna and Damon then tricked him and injected him with vervain before Damon locked him up in the basement.
While in the basement, Stefan felt guilty for all the things he had done and for everything Damon had done since he had forced Damon to transition in 1864. He also told Elena the story of how he and Damon became vampires. Stefan felt so guilty for his past actions that he wanted to commit suicide. Luckily, Elena convinced him not to and the couple returned to the Salvatore Boarding House. When they returned Damon told Stefan that he shouldn't feel guilt for Damon's actions because they were his own and that he still hates Stefan, not because he forced him to turn into a vampire, but because Katherine had also turned Stefan.

Stefan is shocked when Elena shows up to the Founders' Day celebration looking like Katherine. He later tells the twins that John was their biological father. Stefan is on the Miss mystic parade float with Elena as her date and later saves Jeremy from Damon.
When the tomb vampires are about to attack the Founding Families, John Gilbert sets off the Gilbert device and Stefan is affected by it. He was about to be taken by a deputy but Alaric came and pointed the deputy towards another vampire and then Elena, Adrianna, and Alaric hid him from the other deputies. They then discover that Damon had been taken and Stefan goes to find him. On the way, they encounter John and the man ended up telling them where Damon and the rest of the vampires were. Stefan then saves Damon, with the help of Bonnie.

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## Throughout An Epic Kind of Love Series (Part 2)

* Book 1
* Book 2
* Book 3
* Book 4

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## Throughout Legacies

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* Book 2
* Book 3

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## Personality

* Human/ Doppelgänger
* Vampire
* Without Memory

As a human, Stefan was compassionate, kind, noble, honorable, intelligent, athletic, responsible, academic, dutiful, and a gentleman. He was definitely seen as the "Golden Boy" and he had the admiration and respect of the entire town of Mystic Falls and most of all, his father Giuseppe. Stefan was also seen to be ambitious and studious and he desired to become a doctor during his human life.

When it came to love and romance, Stefan was liked, admired by, and popular with women. He was seen to be chivalrous, gallant, romantic, well-mannered, courteous, and polite, traits which made Katherine Pierce fall deeply for the younger Salvatore. In regards to Katherine, Stefan was much harder to get and challenging unlike Damon, who persistently chased and pursued Katherine as much as possible. Unlike Damon, Stefan had a very close relationship with his father Giuseppe and was his favorite son. Stefan was also close with his mother before she died when he was 10 years old.

Before turning into a vampire in 1864, Stefan was seen to be happy, optimistic, light-hearted, playful, mischievous, and naive. Stefan was very close to his older brother Damon growing up. Although Stefan was very popular and had many male friends during his human life, Stefan always considered Damon to be his best friend and companion. Stefan was also a bit idealistic when it came to love and romance, even naive at times. This is evident in Stefan when he very quickly and easily became infatuated and fell in love with Katherine Pierce.

Although Stefan was only 17 years old, he displayed maturity, responsibility, and had a wisdom beyond his years. Because of this, Stefan always seemed to be much older than his actual age.

As a vampire, Stefan's personality became increasingly complex. Much of Stefan's personality as a human transcended into his vampire personality, although his basic human traits became significantly more heightened. Although Stefan became increasingly darker by nature due to his vampire nature, he still retained the basic personality traits that he had as a human.
As a vampire, Stefan was described as mysterious, brooding, inscrutable, intense, caring, compassionate, affectionate, heroic, intelligent, protective, and loyal. On the dark side, Stefan can be incredibly self-loathing, self-destructive, addictive, guilt ridden, unpredictable, and self-righteous. Since he turned in 1864, Stefan had always had trouble controlling his blood lust, that has often become a major problem for him throughout the course of his immortal life.
Because of his blood addiction, Stefan was a certified "blood-a-holic" (which is a term coined by Caroline). When Stefan consumes copious amounts of human blood, his entire attitude seems to change. When Stefan gives into his bloodlust, Stefan is unstable, volatile, reckless, careless, and can become highly destructive. The "ripper" side of him usually causes him to push people away and become emotionally cold, withdrawn, and distant. He usually shuts off his humanity and his emotions to block out his suffering, guilt, and pain whenever he lets his bloodlust take over.
After he was newly transformed into a vampire, Stefan was seen to be extremely dependent towards Damon. This was not the case when Stefan was human. When Stefan was a human, although he and Damon were very close, Stefan always had an independent personality. Stefan's dependence of Damon was so potent that he persuaded an unwilling Damon to complete his own transition into a vampire. Although Stefan was initially optimistic and happy that he and Damon were going to spend eternity together, Damon had shattered Stefan's optimism when he promised Stefan an eternity of misery.

When Stefan is at his best, he was extremely caring, loving, helpful, understanding, selfless, empathetic, and compassionate. He did not like to see others suffering or in any kid of pain, whether it be physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. Stefan can be very wise and comforting to others who need comforting and support. He is always willing to lend a helping hand when it is needed it most. Stefan is also highly honorable, noble, brave. courageous, altruistic, and selfless, especially when it comes to the people he loves and cares about.

After Tessa strips away Stefan's memories in order to take away Silas' own mental powers, his personality developed obvious changes for a brief period of time. Stefan's naturally serious and broody demeanor lessened considerably, becoming more gregarious and even easygoing. He was also more inclined to bold bluntness and his sense of humor was slightly more sarcastic as well as almost taunting, particularly to Damon and Tessa. He also showed little reluctance to dancing in public with others, a sharp contrast to his old self who felt extremely uncomfortable with dancing. Stefan's personality was able to emerge more fully into itself without all of his guilt weighing him down, prompting to show sides of himself he would have had if he had never killed so many people as the Ripper or turned Damon into a vampire.

One of Stefan's most marked differences without memory was his opinion on being a vampire and giving in to the bloodlust. Upon the discovery of what he was, Stefan expressed confusion over not feeding on people and failed to see what was wrong with it, going as far as to say since he was a vampire he should *act* like one. This was a drastic change from Stefan with his memories who had both moral and practical reservations, and consistently refrained from feeding because he feared he would lose control and kill. Without memory Stefan *wanted* to feed on people, and theorized that the reason he had lost control was an attempt to escape the constant feelings of guilt and responsibility he bore after turning Damon but that would no problem since he didn't have those terrible memories. Ironically, Stefan's initial naivety and desire to feed paralleled his behavior after being turned into a vampire in 1864. In both cases he had been in awe of being a vampire and sought to embrace it.

Stefan also briefly displayed a much more dismissive and almost callous behavior towards victims he had supposedly murdered in the past since he was unable to feel sorry for things he couldn't remember. He reacted calmly to being told he killed his own father, and showed no reaction being informed he had murdered Honoria Fell while walking past her gravestone. Stefan also asked half-jokingly once entering the Salvatore tomb if there was anyone he *didn't* kill in their family. However, not long afterwards he began to display remorse for the horrible person he at some point seemed to be, openly calling himself a monster and admitting that he even scared *himself* once he nearly killed an innocent girl while thinking he could handle it.
## Physical Appearance

Physically, Stefan is described to be classically handsome and athletic, with a brooding, mysterious, and intense aura. Stefan has a pale complexion, broad forehead, strong bone structure (angular jawline), and deep-set, green eyes. He has straight, short, light brown hair which is often gelled or spiked. Stefan is 5'11" in height and he has a lean, flat-muscled, and athletic physique.

In regards to his clothing and fashion sense, Stefan is generally trendy and casual. He is often seen wearing darker colors such as black, grey, and dark blue, although sometimes he also wears lighter colors. Stefan also wears plaid shirts in lighter tones sometimes. He often wears t-shirts, shirts, or sweaters of darker colors and in various styles. Stefan is a casual, yet trendy dresser and he always looks neat, clean, and well put together. He also wears black jeans with black, leather boots. On occasion, Stefan will sometimes wear more formal clothing, such as suits and tuxedos, if he was either attending a formal gathering/ event or a special occasion.

Stefan has a tattoo of a rose on his right shoulder. However, the origin of the tattoo, its significance, and when Stefan got the tattoo is all unknown. He also wears a large, silver lapiz lazuli daylight ring on the middle finger of his right hand so he can walk around in the sunlight. On his lapis lazuli stone bears the Salvatore Family crest with the letter "S" for the first letter of his first name.

## Powers and Abilities

Stefan possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire. Stefan has shown himself to be an experienced fighter, able to subdue his enemies easily. Although his age allows him to best younger vampires, Stefan is highly inferior to vampires such as Katherine and Pearl.

As a ripper, Stefan is prone to losing control when drinking human blood, making him stronger and emotionally unstable - even to the point where Damon, an older vampire, feared him. As a ripper, Stefan once wiped out an entire village in Monterey, earning himself the title "The Ripper of Monterey" to which even Klaus was impressed.

Stefan, unlike many other vampires, has shown the ability to resist the effects of compulsion when it comes to matters regarding Elena Gilbert, much like his brother in regards to Adrianna Gilbert.

Due to his lack of human blood consumption over the centuries, Stefan had become inferior to his brother Damon. Stefan and Damon engaged in a spar upon Damon's return to Mystic Falls, with Damon stating that Stefan gave up the fight against him when he stopped drinking human blood. Despite this, Stefan has engaged in fights with Damon numerous times since, sometimes besting him easily.

## Weaknesses

* Human
* Vampire

Stefan had all the typical weaknesses of a human/doppelgänger.

Stefan has the typical weaknesses of a non-Original vampire.

## Relationships

### Damon Salvatore

"*Whenever you go too far, I will be there to pull you back, every second, every day till you don't need me.*"
—Damon to Stefan

*Main Article: Stefan and Damon*

Damon is Stefan's older brother. As humans, they were very close best friends up until the arrival of Katherine Pierce. After Katherine's "death", Damon swore to make Stefan's life miserable and ultimately succeeded in 1912 by making him lose control of himself. Before Book 1, the brothers had not seen each other since the early 1990s; their relationship having taken a steep turn for the worse, being described as "violent and bitter". Throughout the series, the Salvatores' relationships with the Gilbert twins brought them together and began the process of repairing their relationship. During Book 4, Stefan was heartbroken when Elena admitted to being in love with Damon, causing a sire bond to be created between his brother and Elena. At first Stefan was angry at his brother because he believed that Damon had done something to cause Elena to fall in love with him and that he returned her feelings, but eventually realized that Damon was in love with Adrianna and had no feelings for Elena. While they continue to have fights and disagreements, it is clear that the two share a strong brotherly bond. Stefan was devastated when Damon gets stuck on the Other Side and he ends up leaving Mystic Falls because of this. The two are eventually reunited. Damon was the best man at Stefan's wedding to Rebekah and Stefan was the best man at Damon's wedding to Adrianna.

### Elena Gilbert

" *Elena is... Elena's warm. And she's... she's kind and she's caring and she's selfless... and it's real. And... honestly, when I'm around her... I completely forget what I am.*"
—Stefan to Lexi about Elena

*Main Article: Stefan and Elena*

Elena is the ex-girlfriend and close friend of Stefan. When Stefan returned home to Mystic Falls after many years, he unexpectedly "met" Elena on May 23, 2009, after he heard Elena and her parents' car accident while he was out at Wickery Bridge. The Gilberts' car had submerged deep into the water under the bridge, where Elena and her parents were facing death by drowning. It was then that Stefan saved Elena's life but was unable to to save her parents, Grayson and Miranda. Elena meets Stefan for the first time at the beginning of the new school year outside of the men's washroom. Elena is undeniably drawn to Stefan and the two have an instant, deep and indescribable connection. Stefan and Elena begin bonding and slowly start to develop a romantic relationship. They both realize that they share many qualities, hobbies, traits, values, and beliefs in common. As Elena and Stefan start falling deeper in love with each other, Elena discovers that he is a vampire. Although Elena is initially afraid of him, she gradually accepts Stefan's vampirism. Stefan ended their relationship in Book 4 when she revealed that she was in love with Damon. Despite everything that's happened, they still care about each other deeply and are supportive of one another.

### Adrianna Gilbert

"*You may not care right now but you are not a bad person. And I'm always gonna be here to remind you of that.*"
—Stefan to no humanity Adrianna

*Main Article: Adrianna and Stefan*

Adrianna is the sister-in-law and close friend of Stefan. When Stefan returned to Mystic Falls, he observed Adrianna and her sister from afar and determined that neither of them were Katherine. They officially met at the beginning of the school year at the Mystic Grill after Elena invited him out to eat with them. The relationship between the two was slightly unstable due to the unstable relationship between the Salvatore Brothers and Adrianna being with Damon. This unstable relationship is damaged when Stefan threatened to kill Adrianna in order to force Damon's hand. The two remain cordial with each other, with Stefan accepting that Adrianna and Damon were important to each other. They became closer during Book 3 while they were traveling with Klaus due to spending more time together and Stefan trying to protect her. After Stefan's humanity was shut off, the duo spent a lot more time together, causing havoc in Mystic Falls and tormenting their friends. They still remained close after they got their humanities back. Adrianna is also very supportive of his relationship with Rebekah. Adrianna trusted Stefan, and Rebekah, to protect her daughter while she and Klaus took care of their enemies in New Orleans. Adrianna was the maid of honor at Stefan's wedding to Rebekah and Stefan was the best man at Adrianna's wedding to Damon.

### Lexi Branson

"*That's the benefit of knowing someone for over a hundred years. You can just be yourself.*"
—Lexi about her relationship with Stefan

*Main Article: Lexi and Stefan*

In 1864, Lexi met young and new vampire Stefan Salvatore when he tried to feed on her, as he was unable to distinguish his kind from human. Discovering that Stefan was a ripper, Lexi took it upon herself to help Stefan regain his humanity, where she succeeded eventually. Lexi found Stefan, now back to his ripper ways, in April 1922 and was able to get him off human blood around 1935. They would spend every birthday of his together, once attending a Bon Jovi concert. Lexi returned to Mystic Falls for Stefan's 162nd birthday but was unfortunately killed by Damon. When Lexi returns from the Other Side, she enjoys her time with Stefan and talks to him about moving on from Elena and even teases him about him and Rebekah. When the Veil is restored, Lexi disappears, leaving Stefan alone.

### Rebekah Mikaelson

"*I would rather spend an eternity with you. I love you, Stefan. Always and Forever.*"
—Rebekah to Stefan

*Main Article: Stefan and Rebekah*

Rebekah Mikaelson is Stefan's best friend and wife. They first met in Chicago in the 1920s when Stefan reached for a cocktail and she intercepted him. The two flirted back and forth before giving in to the attraction and beginning a romantic relationship. Things moved rather quickly and they fell in love with each other. Unfortunately, Mikael found Klaus and Rebekah and they had to flee. Though Rebekah wanted to stay with Stefan, Klaus compelled him to forget ever meeting them and then he daggered Rebekah. They meet again in Book 3 after Klaus undaggered Rebekah and compelled Stefan to remember them. It is clear that Rebekah still loved Stefan but when she kisses him she senses that he has been lying and betraying her and Klaus. This causes the trio, along with Adrianna, to return to Mystic Falls and see that Elena was still alive. Rebekah is shown to be jealous of the relationship between Stefan and Elena.

The two worked together in the hunt for Silas and the cure and began a sexual relationship during this time. However, this stopped when Rebekah began a romantic relationship with Matt Donovan. After Damon gets stuck on the Other Side at the end of Book 5, Stefan left Mystic Falls and began traveling. During his travels, he met and reconnected with Rebekah, beginning a romantic relationship with her again. The couple returned briefly to New Orleans to become the new guardians of Hope while her parents dealt with the threats to their daughter. Stefan and Rebekah are currently married to each other.

### Other Relationships

Salvatore Family, Mikaelson Family

* Silas and Stefan (Enemies/Ancestor)
* Stefan and Lily (Mother and Son/Frenemies)
* Stefan and Bonnie (Close Friends/In Laws)
* Stefan and Elijah (Close Allies/Brothers-In-Law)
* Stefan and Klaus (Close Friends/Brothers-In-Law/Partners in Crime)
* Stefan and Caroline (Best Friends/In Laws)
* Stefan and Hope (Uncle/Niece/Stefan was Hope's Guardian)
* Stefan and Alexia (Uncle/Niece)

## Name

* **Stefan** is a masculine first name of Greek origin Στεφανος (*Stephanos*) meaning "*crown*", "*garland*", or invested with a "*crown of martyrdom*". In turn, Stephen or Stefan comes from the Greek word "στέφανος" meaning "*wreath*", "*crown*", "*honor*", "*reward*", literally "*that which surrounds or encompasses*".
* **Stefan** is a very common name in Serbia.
* **Salvatore** means "*savior*" and is of Italian origin.

## Trivia

* Stefan became a vampire before Damon
* Stefan was born on Veritas Estate in Mystic Falls, Virginia
* Stefan's astrological sign is Scorpio.
* Stefan is seven years younger than Damon.
* Stefan loves literature and loves to write, especially in his journal.
* Stefan was engaged to a girl named Rosalyn Cartwright before he met Katherine.
* According to Damon, Stefan got straight A's and had attended many Ivy League schools. He attended Harvard during 1970s.
* Stefan died when he was 17 years old in human years and transitioned into a vampire in September.