Elena Gilbert

Elena Gilbert is main female protagonist of The Vampire Diaries: Rewrite. At the beginning of Chapter One, we learn that Elena and one of her friends Jamie Parker had gotten into a car accident with Elena's parents, the teenagers survived by Elena's parents did not. Elena closed herself off and started to write more and more in her diary before Jenna decided to take Elena and Meredith to Paris to get away from everything that was happening in Mystic Falls.

Elena has always blamed herself for the crash since she was the one who called their parents to pick them up after her argument with her boyfriend, Matt Donovan. During the party, Jamie and Tyler got into a physical fight so he wanted to go home so the Gilberts offered him a ride. During the ride home, they were comforted by Elena's parents but all of sudden on Wickery Bridge their parents car started spinning and fell off of the bridge. Somehow, Elena and Jamie awoke on top of the bridge with ambulances and police surrounding them.

## Biography

Elena is the eldest child of Miranda Gilbert and Grayson Gilbert, and the older sister of Margret. Elena is described as having very beautiful with long brown hair, brown eyes and olive toned skin. She is also described as a model student who has passed every class she has ever attended but things changed after her parents death. Elena is also known to have been very popular and be apart of the cheerleading team but after her parents death she decided not to.

Elena's best friends are Meredith Sulez and Bonnie McCullough, the trio have been friends since kindergarten when Bonnie Bennett transferred into their class. Her other friends are Jamie Parker, Caroline Forbes, Matt Donovan, Vicki Donovan and other minor characters. Elena is currently in a romantic relationship with Stefan Salvatore, recently she found out he is a vampire. Elena is very protective over her friends and would give up her own life to protect theirs, Elena is known to be very fearful of her life and her friends life sometimes over protecting them.

## Personality

Before her parents died, Elena was the girl next door with her caring and kind personality with a protectiveness nature everyone loved her. When she returned to school, Elena is very closed off until she meets Stefan and that's when she slowly comes out of her shell. Elena overall just wants to protect her friends and live her life to the fullest! Elena believes in family, honor, loyalty and community. She is shown to be consistently polite, calm and composed, though prone to great anxiety and panic. Despite being something of a skeptic, she has a vivid internal life. She is extremely introverted. She is brave and self-sacrificing, though much of her willingness to save others seems to come from survivor's guilt over her parent's death. She has a strong back bone and never displays a sense of inferiority.

## Chapters

### Chapter One

Aria is the first to arrive at Spencer's barn, automatically dropping to the floor and smelling the gras which confuses Emily as she arrives. She waits for the rest of the clique and then heads into Spencer's barn once James arrives. After hours of gossipiing, Alison suggests they drink so she pours whiskey into a cup and hands it to Emily who drinks it without a word. Aria then drinks which causes Spencer to say 'Be careful Aria, drink too much and you'll tell us all your secrets'. Which caused Ali and the gang to laugh, but soon after they all passed out. When they woke up, Alison and Spencer were gone but only Spencer returned. Soon after, Aria moved to Iceland where she lived for three years.

### Chapter Two

Aria returns from Iceland after living there for three years but of course a lot has changed for exaple she has lost her pink stripe and has overall matured. Aria clearly isn't happy to be back in Rosewood, by the way she describes it and how overall she just gives off to her parents who notice. Aria's mother asks her to drop her brother off to try outs so she grabbed the car keys and left without saying goodbye to her father whom she saw cheat on her mother three years prior. Aria drops Mike off and sees Noel who automatically takes an attraction to her, giving her the nickname 'Finland' and he starts to flirt with her but Sean calls him over so he leaves, Aria then has a flashback of seeing her dad cheat so she rushes away to a bar where she meets Ezra Fitz, they get to know each other before making out in the bathroom. Aria then returns to school the next day where she sees how Hanna and Mona have taken over but more importantly that none of her old friends talk anymore. Aria then walks into her english classroom and her new teacher walks in, he turns around and Aria sees none other then Ezra, the guy she made out with but suddenly she gets a text, "Aria: Surprise! I wonder what your pig puppet will have to say about this..." which hinted to the pig pippet her father had bought her. That afternoon, Aria headed home and started to read the book 'The Scarlett Letter' before she got a text from Hanna, she rushed off to Alison's house and found out they found a body...they found Alison. Aria attended her funeral and found out she wasn't the only person getting -A texts, all of the group was. After the funeral, all of their phones ring with the same text from the same person. "I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything. -A"

### Chapter Three

After the funeral, Aria sat in her room with her headphones in but all she could think about was -A and then she received a text. "Maybe he fools around with students all the time. A lot of teachers do....Just ask your dad! -A P.S. Wonder what your mom would think if she found out about your dad's little, uh, study buddy... and that you knew!" Suddenly Aria rushes downstairs to see her happy parents so she slowly goes upstairs and texts -A, "Don't you dare! I'll kill you!" before she suddenly falls asleep. When she wakes up, she sees Alison which causes her to be shocked but during their conversation black liquid starts to pour out of Alison before Aria's eyes jolted open showing it was a dream. Aria meets with the others and discusses who could be -A, before A reveals that James had a relationship with Eric Kahn which Aria didn't really care about. During English, Aria and Noel paired themselves together and decided to do a scene from Harry Potter and added in a kiss scene which they practiced in class causing Ezra to get jealous which is what Aria wanted. Aria then attended Noel's party and actually flirted with Noel before Ezra calls and Aria goes over to his place and they start to make out. But in the morning, Aria and Ezra wake up to the police banging on the door and Ezra lets them in before he gets arrested. Aria then recieves a text from -A revealing that -A had reported Ezra.

### Chapter Four

Three years prior to Alison being found dead, Aria and the group was trying on different clothes even James tried on some on Jason's but then Alison saw something that horrfied her, Toby's face was pressed up against the glass so when the girls saw him he just smirked and jumped away. Alison then rushed outside and was planning to prank him, little did Aria know Alison was going to accidentally blind Jenna Marshall. Three years later, Aria rushes into her room crying after Ezra had just been arrested but her mother followed her screaming at her. After a few snappy scentences, she comforted Aria which caused her to reveal the affair between Meredith and her dad which then caused Ella to go downstairs and for Byron to leave. Her and the rest of 'the liars' call and discuss -A due to getting more texts which causes Spencer to demand they all get to her house. Once they dom Spencer reveals another piece to the Jenna Thing and even said she belives Alison's murder and A is....TOBY! They then changed converstation in hopes they could just dodge A and maybe dodge each other all together but James then asks Aria if he could take Mike to the Foxy which she happily says yes to due to Mike having a huge crush on him, Aria then offers to go with Hanna as friends to which Hanna agrees. Aria then wakes up the next monring to see that Mike had stayed over at James' house but when she opens the door, Noel standing there due to him usually giving Mike a ride to school but due to him not being there he offers one to Aria who accepts. When Aria gets in, she sees yearbooks thrown around in the back, all to the page her face is on. Aria thought Noel was stalking her until she relaised he wanted to see the Aria he knew with the pink stripe which she thought was ugly but she thought Noel was cute. At 10am that morning, Aria and the liars recieved a text that would shock them to their core. "Breaking News Bitches, Ian Thomas has been arrested for my murder!  But now imagine this headline, five teenages arrested for attempting to murder fellow classmate Jenna Cavanaugh! Be careful my Pretty Little Liars, I'm always watching  -A"

## Relationships

### Ezra Fitz

Ezra and Aria started of innocent, just a bar make out session but it turned into something extremly illegal when Aria out Ezra was still her teacher, and she still had a relationship with him. Luckily for her, -A tipped off the police to what Ezra was doing and they arrested Ezra and telling Aria what he had been doing to her the whole time, he had been manipulating her.

### Noel Kahn

Noel and Aria met in Kindergarten but he never really noticed her until she and the other liars formed a clique with the one and only Alison Dilaurentis who was the most popular girl in school. Even though he knew who she was, he never was romantically interested in her but he did not know that Aria had a huge crush on Noel. After three years, Noel is now the one with the crush and is constantly flirting in hopes to have a date with the girl he is pining for but little does he know she is seeing their english teacher. But at the end of chapter four, a romance seems to be blossoming from the two.

## Trivia

* She is the only liar to have texted -A back.
* Her fashion style and overall personality is the complete opposite of a 'typical rosewood' girl such as Spencer Hastings.
* Aria had a pink stripe before the three year jump!

## Comparison to TV show and O.G Book!

* In the T.V show, Elena has a brother called Jeremy but in both books she has a little sister, Meredith.
* In the show, and rewrite, Elena is brunette whilst in the original book she is blonde.
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