Malachai Parker

* Leader of the Gemini Coven (Formerly)

### Title(s)

* Little Friend, Big Brother, Atta Boy, Pork rind-munching freak, Little Weasel, Sociopathic Ryan Reynolds, Creeper, Douche-Kebab (all by Damon)

* Joshua (Alias)

### Species

* Siphoner (Originally)

* Witch (Briefly/Formerly; via the Merge)

* Hybrid (Vampire-Witch)

* Spirit of Hell (Formerly)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Joshua Parker † (Father)

* Joshua's Twin Brother † (Paternal Uncle)

* Mrs. Parker † (Mother)

* 2 Unnamed Younger Sisters †

* 1 Unnamed Younger Brother †

* Josette Parker † (Twin Sister)

* Joey Parker † (Younger Brother)

* Olivia Parker † (Younger Sister)

* Lucas Parker † (Younger Brother)

* Lizzie Saltzman (Niece)

* Josie Saltzman (Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Siphoning (various)

* Pain Infliction (various)

* Pyrokinesis (various)

* Telekinesis (various)

* Prison World Liberation Spell (Both 1994 and 1903)

* The Merge (with Jo, twice, failed/interrupted; with Luke, successful)

* Illusionary Cloaking Spell (several)

* Siphoning Spell (from the Magic Purification Spell)

* Disillusionment Spell

* Acidic Blood Spell

* Illusion Spell

* Prison World Projection Spell (on himself, Damon, Elena and Jeremy)

* Prison World Transportation Spell (with Bonnie on themselves, Damon and Elena to the 1903 Prison World)

* Sleeping Beauty Spell (on Elena, linked to Bonnie)

* Room Isolation Spell

* Restraintment Spell (on Josie)

### Significant Kills

* 6 of his 7 siblings (including Luke and Jo)

* Himself (multiple times, temporarily in the 2018 prison world, as a Siphoner/final time as a Witch)

* Unnamed taxi driver

* Unnamed girl in hospital

* Manager of the Mystic Grill

* Josette Parker

* Joshua Parker (through Kai's suicide)

* Gemini Coven (through Kai's suicide)

* Waiter

* Line Cook

### Cause Of Death

* Stabbed through the neck (as a siphoner)

* Decapitation (1st and 2nd time; as a hybrid)

### Killed By

* Himself (as a witch)

* Damon Salvatore (1st time; as a hybrid)

* Alaric Saltzman (2nd time; as a hybrid)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 6'0" (Feet)

* 1.83 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Chris Wood

**Malachai "Kai" Parker** was a major recurring character and the main antagonist of the sixth season of *The Vampire Diaries*. He also appears as a recurring character in the eighth season of the series. Kai was the son of Joshua Parker and his unnamed wife, as well as the twin brother of Josette, and the older brother of Olivia, Lucas, Joey, and three other unnamed and deceased Parker siblings. However, when his true nature as a siphoner was revealed in adolescence, his family began to treat him poorly and referred to him as an "abomination," which, among other factors, led to him growing up to be a sociopath.

He was first seen trapped in a prison world with Damon Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett. Kai unwillingly formed an alliance with Damon and Bonnie in hopes that they could all escape the parallel dimension and return to the real world.

Eventually, after Bonnie sacrificed her chance to escape in order to ensure Damon could return to the living world, Kai and Bonnie were the only two left in Kai's metaphysical prison. Later on, he and Bonnie attempt to escape the prison world, but Bonnie stored her magic in a teddy bear and sent it back to the real world as well so he couldn't force her to help him escape. Though he was enraged by this act, Kai brought Bonnie to his childhood home in Portland, Oregon and cooked her a Thanksgiving meal. However, he later betrayed Bonnie, taking the knife his sister's magic was stored in and stabbing Bonnie in the stomach with it to gain her Bennett blood to use to escape.

Kai eventually freed himself from the 1994 prison world, after which he made it a point to antagonize the Mystic Falls Gang, as he sought to kill his surviving siblings and merge with Jo, regardless of the consequences. However, in *Prayer For the Dying*, his younger brother Luke attempted to merge with him instead. Kai ultimately overpowered Luke and absorbed all his magic (as well as his ability to produce and retain his own magic) during the merge. Soon after, Luke's essence also merged with Kai, passing down his emotional capability and capacity for empathy, which mellowed Kai out, making him less evil and even allowing him to briefly work with the Mystic Falls Gang as an ally. However, in *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*, Bonnie, who was still holding an understandable grudge toward him for the torture he put her through, left him behind in the 1903 prison world with the Heretics, a group of former Siphoner exiles from the Gemini Coven, who had been turned into witch-vampire hybrids by Lillian Salvatore sometime in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the Season Six finale, *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*, Kai escaped the 1903 Prison World with the Heretics, cloaking their location from Lily in exchange for her blood so that he could be turned into a hybrid as well. He killed Jo and, seemingly, her twins at her wedding to Alaric Saltzman to avoid any competition for the role of leader of the Gemini Coven. Kai then wiped out the coven through his suicide, killing his father and other coven members in the process and thereby rendering the Gemini extinct. Kai woke up and transitioned into a witch-vampire hybrid, but was decapitated by Damon Salvatore soon after out of revenge for placing Elena in a mystical slumber until Bonnie dies.

In *What Are You?*, Kai is temporarily able to return from Hell, with the ringing of the Maxwell bell. Kai attempted to enter a bargain with Cade in order to remain in the living world and successfully did so by giving him Elena's coffin. Later on, he attempted to kill the last remaining Gemini witches, his nieces: Lizzie and Josie Saltzman. After he failed, he was permanently banished and imprisoned in the newly created 2018 Prison World by Eliana, Bonnie, Hope, Lizzie, and Josie.

**Kai** was a member of the **Parker Family**, and is the last leader of the **Gemini Coven**.

## Early History

Malachai was born in Portland, Oregon in 1972 as the eldest son of Joshua Parker and twin brother of Jo. As a siphoner, he was shunned by his family, even revealing to Caroline and Eliana that he wasn't allowed to touch anyone. As twins of the Gemini Coven, Kai and Jo were expected to merge. However, Joshua knew that Kai would win the merge given his powers, and knew that Kai could not lead the coven. Due to this, Joshua and his wife kept having children until another pair of twins was born: Liv and Luke.

Realizing this, on May 9, 1994, he decided to kill his siblings and merge with Jo. He stabbed Jo with a hunting knife to get her out of the way as he went after their siblings, but Jo managed to cloak the twins to protect them, promising to merge with him so long as Liv and Luke could live. However, she had relinquished her magic, and the coven harnessed the power of a solar eclipse to trap him in a purgatory dimension for his crimes, which kept him trapped in a snapshot of the day that he was imprisoned.

In the Prison World, Kai tried to kill himself several times, each unsuccessful. He realized that it was part of his punishment, a safeguard by the Gemini Coven to make sure that Kai didn't end his eternal imprisonment early.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

### Season Six

In *Welcome to Paradise*, after watching Damon Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett in the Prison World for some time, Kai made his presence known to them at Bell's Market in the otherworldly-Mystic Falls, when Damon encountered him after having a fight with Bonnie. After a few comments here and there, Damon lost his patience and attacked Kai, who managed to calm him down and trick him into drinking some bourbon laced with vervain. When Damon continued to fight back, Kai smashed the entire shelf of bourbon, splashing it on Damon, and told him that he had no idea which bottle he would drink, so he put vervain in all of them. The vervain weakened Damon to the point where he was not able to fight Kai off. Kai quickly made a stakeout of broken patio furniture and stabbed Damon in the hand, with the intention to eventually kill him.

Bonnie finally arrived and she demanded that Kai leave Damon alone, but Kai quickly brought up her inability to perform magic and mentioned that he had been watching them both for months, including their fights and her failure to regain her powers. He then was about to stake Damon when Bonnie, desperate to save him, managed to regain her magic by lighting a nearby candle. Realizing she could practice witchcraft again, she told Damon to run and then lit all of the spilled bourbon on fire, creating two walls of flame around Kai. Kai tried to calm Bonnie down, but Damon came up behind him and knocked him out with another piece of patio furniture. They took him prisoner at Salvatore Boarding House, and began questioning him on why he tried to kill Damon. He finally revealed that he only did it to use fear to trigger Bonnie's magical abilities again, before admitting the most important detail—that Bonnie's magic was the key to their escape out of their dimension and back to the real world.

In *Black Hole Sun*, Kai remained Damon and Bonnie's prisoner and questioned why Damon thought that this day in the Dimension they were forced to relive over and over was Damon's own personal hell. Damon refused to tell him but Kai explained that Bonnie's magic was only one part of the equation for their escape and Damon's reasons for hating this day could be the other. After brought Kai the supplies he requested, Damon told them what had happened on May 10, 1994. Kai fell asleep during the story but mocked Damon for killing a pregnant woman on that day. Damon threatened to kill Kai if he doesn't start explaining how to escape their world. Kai told him that they would need to harness the power of the recurring daily eclipse using a mystical relic called an Ascendant and that the last time anyone saw one was in the Pacific North-West Oregon. He went on to explain that it had belonged to his family and all they needed was a locator spell from Bonnie. When the locator spell initially failed, Kai pressed Bonnie to try again. When it worked, it revealed that the Ascendant was in Mystic Falls, in Kai's possession. An amused Kai pulled the device from his own pocket, showing that he had been testing Bonnie's magic, seeing if she would be ready to perform the spell needed to escape.

Later, Kai looked for the right spot to channel the power of the eclipse and figured out where they needed to be standing for the spell. On their way to the best location, Bonnie discovered a newspaper that reported a family was butchered and the only missing one was the oldest named "Malachai". Kai overheard Bonnie telling Damon about the article and confessed that he was the Malachai the paper was referring to, explaining that he killed off most of his siblings in Coven, killing everyone but his sister, whom he only ripped out her spleen because he had "soft spot" for her. While reminiscing about the slaughter without any remorse and with apparent glee, he showed his sociopathic side. Bonnie and Damon deduced that he was a witch but Kai explained that he was a witch without any of his own magic and that when the Gemini Coven found out what he'd done to his siblings, they banished him to the dimension as his prison, his own personal hell and a snapshot of the day he had been sent away, trapping him to relive it by himself. Realizing how dangerous Kai was, Bonnie refused to do the spell, not wanting to bring a killer like him back to the real world, no matter how badly she wanted to live. Kai countered that they would get to go back home to their friends and Kai could kill off the remnants of the coven that trapped him there, seeing it as a win-win. He then threatened Bonnie and Damon moved to protect her. Kai, seeing the eclipse ended for the day, gave up, wanting to try again tomorrow but Bonnie continued to refuse.

Later, while having dinner, Kai overheard Damon suggest that they steal the Ascendant from Kai and ditch him, thinking it would be easy since Kai didn't have any powers. Kai entered the room and told them that he wasn't entirely without powers. He just didn't have any of his own. He revealed that he was siphoner, a witch who couldn't generate his own magic but could temporarily absorb it from others and then use it as his own. He clasped Bonnie's wrist and his hand glowed red as he absorbed Bonnie's power. He unleashed the power on Damon, giving him an aneurysm, and presented an ultimatum: that they follow his instructions and give him a way out with them, or he would drain Bonnie's powers completely, leaving her dead, kill Damon, and perform the spell himself. Damon and Bonnie reluctantly accepted Kai's terms.

In *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*, Kai met up with Damon and Bonnie in the woods in preparation for the ritual and explained that the eclipse would happen directly overhead in perfect alignment with the Gemini constellation. He informed them that they needed to do the spell underground and let the light of the moon and the sun pour through a hole that Damon would dig up and that when the light came in, it would activate the power of the Ascendant and anyone touching the relic in the sun would be sent back to Earth. Bonnie asked to see the spell and Kai told her he would show her just before they did it before going to town to get some supplies. Kai returned to find Damon's done digging and a suspicious Damon looked through Kai's backpack to find the supplies were materialistic mementos of 1994. Kai jokingly explained that he was excited for the future but 1994 had been him home for almost two decades, and he didn't want to be homesick. Bonnie demanded to see the spell before going into the cave, but Kai just stood patiently, knowing they had no leverage. Bonnie gave in but wanted Kai to just take her magic and do it himself then. She offered her magic to him but Kai seemed hesitant, despite his threat that he could just take all of her power and perform it himself. Kai, not wanting her to call his bluff, grabs her by the shoulders and starts siphoning her power, but wouldn't kill her, proving Bonnie correct. Bonnie realized that Kai didn't know the spell and telekinetically impaled him in the chest with an ax, killing him.

After Bonnie figured out that the prison world was created by a Bennett Witch and that only a Bennett could do the spell, she realized why Kai refused to kill her. She activated the first part of the Ascendant. Kai arrived before Bonnie and Damon could leave, shooting Bonnie in the abdomen with a crossbow. Kai told them that he'd tried to kill himself many times but couldn't as part of his punishment in the prison world. Damon and Kai struggled as a wounded Bonnie grabbed the Ascendant and uses it instead on Damon, using her magic to pin Kai down and bring Damon into the light of the eclipse. She threw the Ascendant into Damon's hands and he was transported out of the dimension. Kai watched in utter rage as the Ascendant fell to the ground and shattered, leaving a hopeless Kai screaming in rage, left in the chasm with a weakened and saddened Bonnie.

In *Do You Remember the First Time?*, Kai took care of Bonnie's wound and tried to fix the Ascendant. Bonnie, however, reaffirmed that she wouldn't ever help him be released from his prison. Kai grabbed her hand and showed that she had no power over him since he could drain her of her magic with just a touch. Bonnie defended herself and stabbed Kai in the throat with a pen, temporarily killing him, as she grabbed all of the Ascendant's pieces and ran. She then proceeds to collect all of the Ascendant's pieces and runs away. Later on, Bonnie realized she was missing a piece of the Ascendant. Kai arrived, having followed her trail of blood and showed her that he had the last piece. Bonnie sent objects in the room onto Kai, slowing him down but when she got back to Damon's car, Kai grabbed her throat from the backseat and demanded she finish the spell and get them both home.

They went back down into the cave as the eclipse came. Kai gave Bonnie her teddy bear from her childhood, claiming it's a gift, and saying that he wanted to be better and rejoin his family. Bonnie brushed off his false claims of redemption and began the spell, but stopped in the middle. Bonnie told Kai that she didn't have her magic, and an angry Kai grabbed her to see if she's lying only to find out that he couldn't siphon any, and that her magic really was gone. She revealed that she stashed it away somewhere safe. As soon as Kai realized that she had put her magic inside her teddy bear, he discovered it was too late and that the bear had already been sent back to the real world with Bonnie's magic inside. He approached Bonnie threateningly as she told him that without magic, they would be stuck there together forever.

In *Fade Into You*, Kai drove a bound Bonnie to his family's home in Oregon, where he grew up. Kai made Bonnie Thanksgiving dinner and pretended to be friendly with her, even claiming that after this one last meal, they would go their separate ways, and each take a hemisphere of the prison world. As they ate, he told Bonnie all about his dark history; the murder of his siblings, his attempt to merge with his twin, and his family imprisoning him. Through his recollections, Kai realized that his twin sister, Jo had placed her magic in an object much like Bonnie had. He found the magic-imbued knife she had left in a tree stump on the Parker family's property. Kai absorbed the magic that had been concealed in the weapon and then proceeded to stab Bonnie with the knife, revealing that he knew he only needed Bennett blood to complete the spell. He left a wounded Bonnie behind, taking Damon's car, and finally escaped the prison world after eighteen years of being trapped.

In *I Alone*, Kai was in the real world, and rode in the backseat of a taxi, complaining about some of the changes in modern times. When he reached his destination, he murdered the driver with a pair of headphones and then went into the bar where his long lost little sister, Liv worked at. Kai asked Liv for a drink, and she didn't recognize him after eighteen years. He showed her his ID and asked her to look closely. When she saw his name, she was horrified and tried to flee from him, knowing he had tried to kill her and her twin, Luke when they were children. Liv backed away but Kai grabbed her and took some of her magic. As she attempted to escape, Kai pursued her and tried to kill her but Tyler arrived and pushed him over a railing. Kai fled and later reunited with Damon and met Elena. He weakened Damon and set Elena on fire. However, Damon managed to fight back and knocked Kai into Mystic Falls. Kai teased them, saying that there was a psycho loose in Mystic Falls and no vampires could stop him, because of the anti-magic border. Kai later paid Tyler a visit, offering to save Liv's life if the two could arrange a deal.

In *Christmas Through Your Eyes*, Kai abducted Jo at the hospital, after stabbing an innocent woman to get to her. Later, Kai brought Jo to the cemetery and met up with his siblings with Liv and Luke, who desperately wanted to escape their fate of having to take part in the Merge. They found Jo's knife in the real world, with the magic still contained inside, and Kai wanted to return Jo's magic so he and his twin sister could complete the Merge, as originally intended, with Kai more likely to emerge as the remaining twin. He brought Luke and Liv into the crypt where he had chained Jo. A distraught Jo demanded answers and Kai told her he was trying to reunite her with her magic, stabbing her repeatedly in the shoulder with the knife, to little effect. Luke intervened but Kai shoved him against the wall and reminded him that he would have killed him when he was just a little kid and had no problem doing it now. Luke left, not wanting to see the events unfold, and Kai continued to try and give Jo her magic back. Jo revealed that it was her choice to give it up and she has to choose to take it back. Kai took some of Liv's magic and started threatening her in front of Jo until Jo finally submitted and took back the magic from the knife. Kai mocked how predictable it was that she would only get her magic back to save their little sister.

Kai heard noises outside of the crypt and when he went out, found Damon waiting for him. Kai used his magic to throw Damon across the anti-magic border of Mystic Falls, which started to kill him. When Damon rushed back to safety, Kai stepped over the boundary, ensuring that Damon couldn't touch him. However, Alaric ambushed him from behind with a gun at his head. Jo came out of the crypt and begged them not to kill Kai, as it wasn't fair to Luke and Liv to be forced to do the Merge. She reasoned that with her returned magic, she could win and overpower Kai in the Merge, finding a less violent solution to getting rid of him. Kai smiled at the prospect. Jo managed to convince them to spare her brother, despite Damon's annoyance, and Kai was knocked out by Alaric.

When Kai awoke, he was chained to a tombstone within Mystic Falls' border. Damon, from across the town line, threw stones at Kai. Kai inquired how this anti-magic border worked, looking around and wondering if it was a dome or a bubble over the town, pondering how high it reached and whether a vampire would die if they were in a plane flying over the town. Damon only responded by telling Kai that once he was in Hell, he could ask a bar full of dead Travelers the specifics since they cast the spell. Kai realized how big and powerful the spell must be if it took so many Travelers to cast it and then he grew quiet, much to Damon's surprise. Kai touched his hands against the ground, closing his eyes to concentrate. He could feel magic blanketing the entire town. Kai grinned at his discovery, and began to absorb the magic. While Damon and Alaric started to argue, Kai quietly dug his hands deeper into the earth and soaked in the entire spell into his body. While he took in the Travelers' magic, the chains around his wrists melted and Kai grew immensely powerful, causing the weather to intensify and technology to malfunction. By the time Damon and Alaric realized what Kai was doing, he had completely absorbed the power, deteriorating the anti-magic border and removing it from the land. He stood, more powerful than ever before, and easily subdued Alaric. When Damon tried to kill him, Kai turned invisible and left. He resurfaced that night, taking Elena hostage under an cloaking spell so that he could capture her without Damon even realizing it, despite being right in front of him.

In *Woke Up With a Monster*, Kai brought Elena to the Mystic Grill and explained that his body was overflowing with all of the magic he absorbed from the anti-magic boundary spell that blanketed Mystic Falls. He described that it was practically oozing out of him and he needed help controlling that much power. He showed her that he was already testing his power on the grill's manager, revealing that his dead body was cloaked on the table between them, much to Elena's horror. He had tried to use a cloaking spell on the manager initially but had accidentally killed him. Eventually, with enough tries, he was successful. Kai was amused by Elena's terror and brought her to Mystic Falls High School since it was empty due to winter break; a perfect place to test his new power uninterrupted. He chained Elena up and tested spells on her. In his attempts, he unintentionally melted her daylight ring. When she broke free, Kai pursued her to the school's chemistry lab. She put her hand in the sun to set it on fire and then used the lab's gas nozzle to hit Kai with a blast of flames. However, he recovered and after a few failed attempts, managed to incapacitate her with a spell that broke her neck.

Kai continued using Elena to test his powers and didn't notice that Damon and Jo had come to the school, with Jo cloaking them both with a spell. However, Jo was unable to keep up the spell after they rescued Elena, still not adjusted to having magic again. Kai saw them trying to flee and confronted them. Damon tried to face him and threw a piece of wood at him, seemingly impaling him. However, Kai appeared a few feet away, unscathed, and showed that Damon had really hit Elena, who Kai made look like himself through an illusion. While Damon rushed to Elena, Kai pursued his sister and grabbed her but was shot by an arrow from behind by Jeremy Gilbert. He tried to stand but Alaric appeared and injected Kai with a sedative, knocking him out. They took him prisoner, putting Kai in an induced coma, and decided to wait for all of the magic he absorbed to seep out of him before even attempting Jo's plan of merging with Kai.

In *Prayer For the Dying*, Kai remained in his induced coma and Damon was tasked with watching over him, making sure he didn't wake while the others tried to find a way to ensure Jo overpowered Kai in the Merge. Tyler attempted to take Kai and wake him up so he would try and merge with Jo, to spare Liv of having to merge. Damon stopped Tyler but realized that Kai might be able to siphon the magic out of Elizabeth Forbes, who was rapidly dying from vampire blood accelerating her cancer. Damon decided to wake Kai himself to save the sheriff. Kai woke, with all of the magic he had absorbed having drained from him when he was sleeping. Damon directed him to the hospital to siphon the magic from Liz Forbes, hoping it would save her life. Kai, however, told Damon that there would be a fee for his services.

Later, Kai went to the hospital and started siphoning the magic in Liz from her body. While he was absorbing the magic, Jo entered the room, shocked to see Kai and demanding to know why he was there. Kai greeted her happily, telling her he'd be right with her. Kai continued to siphon Liz's magic while Damon tried to explain his decision to Jo. Damon revealed Kai's price for helping Liz was that he wanted to merge with Jo that night, knowing he would overpower her and win the merge. Kai completed draining the magic from Liz but the sheriff started having a heart attack. Kai coldly acknowledged that her body couldn't take the siphoning and then disappeared when Elena demanded he fix it. Kai then broke Damon's neck in front of Jo, taking her to enact the Merge.

Kai took Jo to an empty park to perform the Merge. He threatened that if this was some kind of set up, he would do more damage to her cutting out her spleen this time. Jo called him a parasite and reminded him that he had destroyed her life, claiming that she was now going to destroy his. Kai wasn't bothered by her claim, confident that he would overpower her in the Merge. They began the ritual together until suddenly they were interrupted by Luke, who knocked Jo out. Luke then demanded that Kai merge with him instead of their sister. Kai broke into a fit of laughter, not believing it would work if they weren't twins but Luke theorized that because they shared the same parents and were technically the same age after Kai had never aged in the Prison World, that it could work. Kai refused but Luke pulled Kai toward him with magic, and convinced Kai to go through with it. They enacted the Merge, and both fell to the ground unconscious. Kai awakened alive, winning the Merge, much to Jo and Damon's horror. As a result, he could produce his own magic and became the new leader of the Gemini Coven. Kai vanished, proclaiming that he always won.

In *The Day I Tried To Live*, Kai arrived at the Salvatore Boarding House, interrupting Elena and Damon and them to deliver a message to Jo. When they questioned his intentions, he explained that after the Merge, once he had killed Luke and gained his powers, he also gained some of Luke's qualities, like his empathy. Kai told them that he just wanted to apologize to Jo for destroying their family and told them that he had even started crying when he was writing a letter to her, having trouble comprehending the concept of crying. Damon and Elena told him that they might deliver his message to Jo if he helped them contact Bonnie. Kai examined the broken Ascendant, hoping he could fix it but Kai revealed it was broken beyond repair, as he had intended so it could never be used against him again. Damon played to Kai's newfound empathy, and asked if they could at least send a message to Bonnie since it was her birthday. Kai seemed genuinely touched by that, and said he would try, given how he was now stronger than ever with the power of the Luke and the Gemini Coven at his disposal.

As they worked to fix the Ascendant, Kai was relieved that he still felt revolted by Damon and Elena's relationship, happy that Luke's personality being integrated into his own hadn't changed him completely. Jeremy entered the room and was unconvinced by Kai's sudden change of heart. Kai cheekily compared his personality change to Elena in reverse; since he had gained humanity while Elena had slowly lost hers. Kai told them that he wouldn't be able to send them back to the Prison World physically but could send them there in astral forms similar to ghosts, and wasn't sure if Bonnie would even be able to see them. Kai performed the spell and sent them to the Prison World. They were transported there but weren't able to be seen or touched by Bonnie. They discovered that Bonnie was going to kill herself but Kai lost his connection due to it requiring too much magic. Kai realized he could only send one of them back if they wanted to physically interact with the Prison World. They decided to send Jeremy back but Kai warned that if he wasn't able to pull Jeremy out, he'd be stuck there.

Kai brought Jeremy back to the Prison World, focusing all his magic on one person to lessen the toll it took on his magic. However, Kai was ripped back into the real world by a fire poker being pushed through him by Liv, who wanted revenge for him killing Luke in the Merge. Liv tried to immobilize him but Kai threw a fork into her neck. He dowsed her in alcohol, taking great pleasure in the pain being inflicted, and threatened to drop a lit candle on her. However, he couldn't bring himself to do it, and couldn't understand why. He realized that it was the piece of Luke that resided in Kai now that was holding him back. He furiously smacked himself in the head trying to push himself to do it. Liv took advantage of it and stabbed Kai with a fork. Jeremy woke up and incapacitated Liv, dragging Kai into the kitchen and begging him to send him back to Bonnie. Once Jeremy had saved Bonnie, Damon fed Kai some of his blood to heal the injuries Liv had inflicted on him.

In *Let Her Go*, Kai turned up at Jo's door claiming that he wasn't feeling good and coughing up blood, realizing that merging with Luke might not have been as successful as they hoped. Since he was supposed to merge with Jo, who had also been feeling ill, but hadn't, something had gone wrong. He revealed that as the new leader of the coven because of the Merge, if he died, then the whole coven would die as was always the tradition. Kai desperately pleaded for Jo to help fix him and she examined him with Alaric close by, who refused to leave Jo alone with Kai. She told Kai there was nothing wrong with him medically, and he balked at her, already realizing it was magic-related.

Kai began to cough up more blood and grabbed Jo's wrist, accidentally absorbing some of her magic. Alaric intervened but Kai almost immediately felt better after the siphoning. He realized that he needed her magic, since he was supposed to get it during the Merge. When Jo was resistant, he reminded her and Alaric that if he died then the whole Gemini Coven would die and the prison worlds they had created would collapse. Alaric was stunned that there was more than one prison world, much to Kai's amusement. Later, Jo decided to go through with giving Kai her magic. Kai thanked her on behalf of the coven and the collapsing prison worlds. When Alaric asked him about the other ones, Kai just joked that they were probably filled with people like him. Jo stored her magic in Kai, making him even stronger and mending his illness. Kai then whispered to his sister that she was pregnant, and told her to have a good life before leaving.

In *The Downward Spiral*, Kai went to the Salvatore family crypt at the cemetery, where Damon was checking to see if his mother's body was in her coffin, reiterating that she died of consumption in 1858. Kai, having seen the footage that Bonnie had taken of the 1903 prison world that showed Lillian Salvatore, suggested that maybe she was a vampire and that's how she still looked exactly like Damon remembered. Damon rebuked Kai, in complete disbelief at the possibility, but when they opened the coffin, they discovered it was empty. Kai watched with amusement as everything Damon knew about his mother was wrong. He then went to the Salvatore Boarding House and Damon asked if Kai could send him to the 1903 prison world. Kai said that he could, but he would need the corresponding Ascendant for that world. He knew where to find it, though, as he was the newly appointed leader of the Gemini Coven. He only asked that he be allowed to see Bonnie, so he could apologize for everything he'd done to her.

Later, after Damon failed to get Bonnie to speak with Kai, Kai was disappointed by her decision Kai told him that he had a lead on the Ascendant, and had learned information from the Gemini arches about Damon's mother. He explained that Lily Salvatore was ambushed on a dock in New York City in 1903 by the Gemini Coven and they sent her to the prison world. He implied that she might have been on her way to see Damon, but refused to say anymore until he could speak with Bonnie. Damon and Kai turned up at a rave Bonnie was attending, looking for her, despite that she never wanted to see Kai again. They found Bonnie and Kai attempted to speak to her, wanting to apologize, but she remembered all of the pain he'd caused her and stormed out. Kai and Damon went back to the boarding house. Damon forced Kai to tell him everything he knew about his mother and why she had been imprisoned. Kai revealed that Lily was put in a prison world because she had killed over three thousand people and, like Stefan, Lillian Salvatore was a ripper. He elaborated that the Gemini Coven had intercepted her in New York Harbor so that she didn't tear through Manhattan. When Damon screamed that he'd heard enough, Kai left.

In *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*, Kai finally met with Bonnie after she was convinced by Damon. He explained how difficult it would be to find the 1903 prison world Ascendant. Since the knowledge of that dimension had been kept secret for generations, he would need to navigate old texts. Just when he made it sound impossible, he showed that he actually already had the Ascendant, laughing that it was in his pocket. He explained that he'd started looking for it the moment he heard about Lily. He said he could get her out, and now that he was the all-powerful leader of the Gemini Coven, he didn't even need to harness a celestial event for the power to get there. He admitted that he would only help if Bonnie went with them to the prison world. Bonnie refused but Kai told her she'd be safer in the prison world with him than with Caroline, who had turned off her humanity.

Kai sent himself, Bonnie, Elena, and Damon to the 1903 prison world. Bonnie and Kai stayed behind to perform a locator spell and Bonnie made it clear that she didn't believe he had changed. While Bonnie performed a locator spell, Kai continued his apology but ended up angrily grabbing Bonnie by the wrists because she wasn't listening to him. She told him that his old self was still in there, even if he had changed. They both headed toward the located Ascendant, but Bonnie wanted to get her revenge on him for hurting her and abandoning her alone in the 1994 prison world. She revealed that she wasn't leading him to the Ascendant at all, just earning his trust. She then stabbed him in the back, despite his pleas and claims that he had changed, and then left him in the prison world where he would be alone, just like he had left her. Later, Kai stumbled upon a dark cave and found it was inhabited by six desiccated vampires from Lily's den. Kai got too close to one of the vampires and one of them grabbed Kai, intending to use him as a blood bag and rejuvenate themselves.

In *I Could Never Love Like That*, Kai was only mentioned by Elena, when it was revealed that the vampires in the 1903 prison world were not ordinary vampires. They, like Kai, could siphon magic. Even though they had been turned into vampires they retained their ability, becoming Heretics: vampire-witch hybrids.

In *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You*, in the 1903 prison world, Kai made dinner for the Heretics. He had bite marks on him, showing that he had been supplying them with flesh blood to bring them back to full strength. He rang a bell to summon the vampire-witch hybrids for dinner, and smiled as they all approached. When the Heretics filed inside, he gleefully told them that it was going to be a big day, as it was time to finally escape from the prison world that they had been trapped in for over a century.

In *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*, Kai appeared to Bonnie in her dreams. While she was running away from Lily, Bonnie crashed into Kai. She tried to cast a spell on him but realized she no longer had her magic. Kai said that it might be his fault since he was spooning her earlier and might have sleep siphoned her. He then indirectly told her that she can't keep screwing people over or else there would be consequences. During Jo and Alaric's wedding ceremony, Jo was stabbed multiple times in the lower back. As she collapsed into Alaric's arms, Kai turned off his invisibility spell and appeared behind his wound sister, bloody knife in hand. He then inflicted a massive aneurysm to all the attendants of the wedding and destroyed most of the church's windows and fixtures by producing high-frequency sound waves, turning the ceremony into complete and utter anarchy.

In *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*, with the wedding in ruins, Kai snapped both Stefan and Caroline's necks, claiming that the celebration had become family matter now. He gave Alaric his meaningless apologies for killing his bride and the twins, claiming that he didn't want competition for the leadership, and the twins were a threat to his reign. The Gemini Coven, including his father, tried to send him back to a Prison World. Before they had a chance to finish the spell, Kai stabbed himself in the neck with a piece of glass. He died, and as the leader of the Geminis, killed all of the members of the coven along with him. Shortly afterward, he woke up in transition, having drank Lily's vampire blood beforehand. He magically pulled his father over to him, licking his blood, and completing his transition into a vampire-witch hybrid, one of the Heretics.

He followed Alaric to his car, where Alaric shot Kai repeatedly, but it was useless now that he was a heretic. He explained that he could now siphon magic from his own vampirism, and convert into more magic for him to use. Before Kai could cause Alaric anymore harm, Alaric tried to kill himself, much to Kai's amusement. Tyler, a newly turned werewolf again, pounced on Kai and bit his neck, infecting him with werewolf venom. Kai managed to throw Tyler off of him and Tyler fled, leaving Kai to deal with the repercussions of the werewolf bite.

At the Salvatore Boarding House, Bonnie and Matt watched a recorded message from Kai. In the recording, he happily explained that he put a sleeping spell on Elena so that she was linked to Bonnie, making it so she would only awaken if Bonnie was dead. He ended the message for Bonnie by telling her that it was all payback for what she did, leaving him behind in the prison world to rot. At the same time, Kai arrived at the hospital where Elena was unable to wake asked Damon for help with his werewolf bite. Damon refused to help him and demanded that he explained what he did to his girlfriend. After Kai explained his plan, and what his sleeping spell meant for Elena, he left.

Kai returned to the church, looking for blood to try and help deal with his werewolf bite. Bonnie arrived, demanding that Kai undo the spell he cast on Elena and her. When Kai refused, she broke some of his bones. Despite Bonnie's onslaught of inflicting pain on him, Kai continued to refuse to give in and realized he could heal his werewolf bite by siphoning the magic out of it. Kai did so with ease. Completely recovered, he used magic to throw Bonnie against a wall, nearly killing her.

As Damon arrived at the scene, Kai gave him the option of saving Bonnie's life or waking Elena up by letting Bonnie die. Damon decided to leave, leaving Kai both amused and completely perplexed that Damon could just abandon Bonnie so easily. He told Bonnie that he wanted to see Damon suffer, choosing between his girlfriend or one of his best friends. But while he was distracted trying to figure it out, Damon returned behind him and decapitated Kai, putting an end to his life.

### Season Seven

In *Best Served Cold*, Kai appeared in Alaric and Jo's wedding tape.

### Season Eight

In *What Are You?*, Kai surprised Damon and Alaric by showing up while they were trying to think of a way to kill Cade, and told them that he had a better idea than the one they had thought of.
In *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*, Kai attempted to enter a bargain with Cade in order to remain in the living world and successfully did so by giving him Elena's coffin. Later on, he attempted to kill the last remaining Gemini witches, his nieces: Lizzie and Josie Saltzman. After he failed, he was permanently banished and imprisoned in the newly created 2018 Prison World by Bonnie, Lizzie and Josie.

## Throughout Legacies Series

### Season Two

In *Since When Do You Speak Japanese?*, Milton Greasley is given a video recorder by Wade from the Salvatore school's storage. He remarks that he needs something better but Wade tells him that the equipment is booked. MG turns on the video recorder and notices that the tape is already used, and Wade tells him to just record over it. Unbeknownst to him, the tape is actually the one Kai sent the Mystic Falls Gang in *The Vampire Diaries*.

In *Kai Parker Screwed Us*, Kai saves Josie and Shei from Jade, who is angry at the Saltzman Family and also hungry. He tells them that if they wants to live, they should come with him, and the three leave for the Old Mills. When the three get there, Josie and Lia realizes who Kai is, and he reveals that each day in the Prison World, Jade, Wendy and Diego would hunt him down and kill him for sport. He questions how she got to the Prison World, and they half-explains the situation.

Meanwhile, Alaric watches a tape left by him for Kai in the bar where Bonnie Bennett had previously left him. On the tape, he taunts Alaric, and makes a remark that Alaric is stupid to come to the Prison World, given the amount of angry students he had send there during his time as Headmaster of the Salvatore School. Kai, Josie, and Lia later go to the bar, where Alaric expresses his concern over Josie and Lia trusting Kai. Josie believes Alaric is hindering their ability to escape the Prison World and chains him up, much to Kai's surprise.

Kai, Josie, and Lia leave the bar, with Kai taking the lead on explaining the objects they need to escape the Prison World. Josie questions if a mora miserium is powerful enough to power the spell without a celestial event, however Josie does not disclose that she is currently in possession of the object. When Kai gives her the ascendant as a sign of good faith, she reveals that the sand clock is in her possession.

The next stop for the two is Mystic Falls Hospital; they need Bennett blood to power the spell, and Kai reveals that Bonnie gave a donation some years ago under her new, married name. Whilst in the hospital, Kai questions Josie about Malivore, including its location and details surrounding. When they get to the blood storage room, it is revealed that Jade has destroyed all of the blood, and the three begin running. Eventually, Kai's performance comes to an end, and it is revealed that he is the one in charge of the Prison World, not Jade as he had Josie and Lia believe. When Lia reveals that she did bring a vial of blood to the Prison World, he freezes her and Josie and takes the blood from her, ordering Jade to take them back to the bar with Alaric.

Later, it is revealed that Kai is leaving his group of students behind and escaping the Prison World alone. His plan is foiled, however when it becomes clear that the vial of blood was actually a miniature bottle of vodka, cloaked to look like blood with an illusion spell, and Kai realizes that he has been tricked by Lia. He later calls them from Fort Valley, Georgia, revealing that if she wants to escape the Prison World, she must break the mora miserium and become the thing she hates: a monster. He tells her to be quick, however as he is about to jump into Malivore and be erased from the collective consciousness. With this, she smashes the sand clock just as Kai is consumed by Malivore; he awakens in Mystic Falls.

In *You Can't Save Them All*, Kai arrives at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted and introduces himself as Joshua, revealing that he is an old friend of Alaric's. He tells Dorian that Alaric promised him asylum if he was ever in town, however Dorian is reluctant to allow him entry into the school. Knowing Dorian has probably not taken his vervain — given the hectic situation at the school — he compels Dorian to find someone who can invite him into the school.

Kai is introduced to Hope by Dorian, who tells her that Kai is a Prison World expert. Hope knew immediately that he was Kai Parker as she was older and remembered the time he tried to kill her the twins and her siblings. Kai takes a look at the ascendant and reveals that Hope has the wrong ascendant and that a linking spell has been placed on the ascendant; this is what allowed Alyssa to send the Saltzman's to the Prison Worlds in the first place.

Kai later talks with the Necromancer and reveals that he believes the Necromancer to be underestimating Hope and her abilities. The Necromancer tells Kai that he can deal with Hope and that his plan will soon be successful. Kai visits Alyssa in the werewolf transition space and tells her that he is a huge fan and would like to team up with her. Kai is later waiting when Hope returns from astral projecting to the Prison World.

Hope takes Kai to a warehouse on the Salvatore Estate and tells him that they're looking for a box with the Salvatore School logo on it. Hope quickly realizes Kai is distracting her, and a fight breaks out between the two of them. Hope is able to get the upper-hand but Kai reveals that Alyssa is currently performing a spell to sever the tie between Kai and the Prison World, effectively causing it to collapse; he also tells her that Landon is in trouble. He warns her that she can either save Landon, or the Saltzman's, but not both. With this, she leaves him in the warehouse tied up. Kai later tries to contact the Necromancer to free him, however the Necromancer refuses, citing that he knows Kai betrayed him. Alaric later appears when he returns from the Prison World and decapitates Kai, killing him for good.