Ariana Gilbert

### Turned

* By Alex Gilbert's blood on November 6, 2010  (transition initiated by Alaric Saltzman)

### Occupation

* Member of the Eternity Coven
* Member of the Eclipse Coven
* High School Student (Graduated)
* Member of The Sisters  (Formerly)
* Teacher at Salvatore School  (Formerly)
* Guardian of Miranda, Jenna, and Nik Mikaelson  (Formerly)

### Titles

* Aria (nickname)
* Ariana Garcia  (alias)
* Little Dove, Darling, Love  (by Kol)

### Species

* Witch  (Originally)
* Hybrid  (Vampire, Witch) (Alex's Bloodline) (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Mikael † (Father-In-Law)
* Dahlia † (Aunt-In-Law)
* Esther Mikaelson † (Mother-In-Law)
* Freya Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law)
* Finn Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Athena Mikaelson  (Sister-In-Law)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Kol Mikaelson (Husband)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Johnathan Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Damon Salvatore  (Brother-In-Law)
* Theo Salvatore  (Brother-In-Law)
* Stefan Salvatore †  (Brother-In-Law)
* Unnamed Salvatore †  (Brother-In-Law)
* Christopher Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Samantha Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Paternal Uncle)
* Alaric Saltzman  (Former Legal Guardian)
* John Gilbert (Father)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert † (Paternal Aunt, via Grayson)
* Hiram Cortes †  (Uncle, via Marisol)
* Helena Garcia † (Mother)
* Marisol Cortes †  (Maternal Aunt)
* Keelin Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law)
* Elena Gilbert (Paternal Older Sister)
* Alex Gilbert (Paternal Older Sister)
* Davina Claire (Sister-In-Law)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Paternal Cousin)
* Valentina Gilbert  (Cousin-In-Law, via Jeremy)
* Benjamin Cortes †  (Maternal Cousin)
* Veronica Cortes †  (Maternal Cousin)
* Jack Mikaelson  (Nephew)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece)
* Artemis Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Lizzie Saltzman (Honorary Niece)
* Josie Saltzman (Honorary Niece)
* Jax Salvatore (Nephew)
* Nina Salvatore (Niece)
* Lily Salvatore (Niece)
* Lia Bennett (Honorary Niece)
* Grayson Salvatore (Nephew)
* Sarah Salvatore (Niece)
* Adella Mikaelson  (Maternal Cousin/Adoptive Niece)
* Stefanie Salvatore (Niece)
* Adelina Garcia  (Maternal Younger Sister)
* Vivian Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Vanessa Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Miranda Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Jenna Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Parker Bennett (Honorary Niece)
* Sebastian Gilbert (Paternal Cousin)
* Victoria Mikaelson (Niece)
* Camila Gilbert (Paternal Cousin)
* Finn Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Mason Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Issac Gilbert (Paternal Cousin)
* Nik Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Kendra Mikaelson (Niece)
* Daniella Mikaelson (Great-Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Pyrokinesis  (various)
* Pain Infliction  (various)
* Telekinesis  (various)
* Cloaking Spells  (various)
* Boundary Spells  (various)
* Locator Spell  (various)
* Daylight Amulet Creation Spell
* Tomb Sealing Counter Spell  (once with Sheila, Alex, and Bonnie)
* Original Unlinking Spell  (with Athena and Alex)
* White Oak Neutralization Spell  (with Kol, Henrik, and Davina)
* Transmutation Spell  (with Kol, Henrik, and Davina)
* Creating the Gold Dagger  (with Kol)
* Consecration  (on Kaleb Westphall, possessed by Kol)
* Sireline Unlinking Spell  (with Davina on Klaus)
* Moroccan Resurrection Spell  (on Kol)
* Spirit Sealing Spell  (on Finn)
* Beast Anti-Venom Spell  (while channeling dark objects, Freya, and Alex)

### Significant Kills

* Jeremy Gilbert  (indirectly; 5th time)
* Group of Highschoolers
* Hunter Baldwin
* Hunter Baldwin's Vampire Group
* Many Unnamed Humans
* Many Unnamed Vampires
* Many Unnamed Witches
* Van Nguyen
* Some of Alistair's Followers
* Some of The Hollow's Followers
* Vanessa Mikaelson  (with her consent)
* Adelina Garcia  (with her consent)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'5" (Feet)
* 1.65 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Episode Count

* 83  (TVD)
* 72  (TO)
* 6  (Legacies)
* 161  (Totaled)

### First Seen

* *You're Undead to Me*  (TVD)
* *Always and Forever*  (TO)
* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn* (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic*  (TVD)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*  (TO)
* *TBA* (Legacies)

**Ariana "Aria" Catalina Gilbert Garcia Mikaelson** was a main character on *The Vampire Diaries* and was formerly a recurring character before being promoted a few episodes later. She was a main character and deuteragonist in *The Originals.* She reprised her role as a guest character in *Legacies*.

Ariana is the hybrid daughter of John Gilbert and Helena Garcia, which makes her the younger paternal sister of both Elena and Alex Gilbert and maternal older sister of Adelina Garcia. She is also the niece of Grayson Gilbert and Miranda Sommers-Gilbert and the paternal cousin of Jeremy Gilbert. She is the aunt of Jack, Hope, Artemis, Miranda, Jenna, Victoria, and Nik Mikaelson, Jax, Nina, Lily, Grayson, Sarah, and Stefanie Salvatore, and adoptive aunt/maternal cousin to Adella Mikaelson. She is the mother to Vivian and Vanessa Mikaelson and wife of Kol Mikaelson.

She has a strong bond with her sisters, Elena and Alex Gilbert. Since coming to Mystic Falls and later New Orleans she grew a friendship with Caroline Forbes, Bonnie Bennett, Tyler Lockwood, her paternal cousin, Jeremy Gilbert, Damon Salvatore, Theo Salvatore, Stefan Salvatore, Elijah Mikaelson, Rebekah Mikaelson, Athena Mikaelson, Katherine Pierce, Arielle Labonair, Hayley Marshall, and Jackson Kenner. She is on friendly terms with Matt Donovan, but not quite friends. Eventually she become close with Niklaus Mikaelson, her brother-in-law.

She attended Mystic Falls High School, where she was a member of the cheerleading squad, honor student, and one of the most popular girls in the school. She later moves to New Orleans to be by her sisters side and party all day and all night.

**Ariana** is a member of the **Gilbert Family**, **Cortes Family**, **Garcia Family**, and by marriage **Mikaelson Family**. She has ties to the **Salvatore Family**, **Petrova Family**, **Labonair Family**, and **Lescheres Family** through her sisters. She is by birthright, a member of the **Eternity Coven** and **Eclipse Coven**.

## Personality

### Witch

As a witch, she's compassionate, caring, empathetic, kind, intelligent, beautiful, friendly. Her favorite hobby is doing spells with her older sister, Alex. She's always helping around when needed. She believes in family, honor, loyalty and community. She is shown to be consistently polite, calm and composed, though prone to speaking her mind if needed be. She exalts personal choice and is known for her forgiving nature if earned.

### Heretic

She stills maintains her old personality as a witch, but is more emotional. She is independent and is more than capable of taking care of herself. She has a tendency to be reckless and impulsive, particularly when it comes to incoming battles, where she is more likely to run straight into danger rather than retreat. Ariana is also shown to be extremely mature for her age. She is very loyal to her friends and family, especially Alex. She has a warrior spirit, as she told Alex that she would support her if she wanted to go into a battle she didn't think she could win, as long as she was willing to die in the battle for a meaningful reason.

* With Humanity
* Without Humanity

Becoming a hybrid made her see the world in a different light, with her maturing more as well. She became much more loving, showing more emotions to the people she cares about. She opens up more about her past and why her mother left her. Ironically, she appreciates life more since becoming a heretic.

Moreover, despite having killing people she shows impressive amount of control for a newly turned vampire-witch hybrid. This continues throughout the series: in season 4, Ariana was described as an "expert" in self-control for only being turned days earlier. It sees that she does not desire the cure, as Alex said, "You love how vampirism has made you more stronger, fearless, and you can live with the love of your life for eternity." Being a hybrid has helped show her what she could do with her life and with her magic. She could see the world and have a thousand more birthdays. She learned that with her immortality and abilities as a vampire-witch hybrid she is free to do whatever she pleases.

After her boyfriend's death, Ariana flips the switch due to not being able to handle the pain. Without her humanity, Ariana doesn't care at all about what others think and decides to rec havoc. She calls Katherine and teams up with her to steal the cure from everyone's noses. She and Katherine follows the gang to the Island off of Nova Scotia where she cloaks herself and Katherine from being seen by the group. Ariana follows Bonnie and Jeremy into the caves where Silas is buried with the cure. She uses the opportunity when Jeremy is trying to help Bonnie who's been stabbed by uncloaking herself and bites into Jeremy's neck and shoves his head down so Silas can feed from his neck. She grabs the cure and tosses it to Katherine who made it down and Ariana lets her escape with it. She walks over to Bonnie and kneels down and moves a piece of hair from her face and smirks telling her this is what a fraction of what she felt. She stands up and leaves Bonnie to die alone.

Coming back from Nova Scotia she changes up her style into darker clothing. Ariana is still in full control of her vampirism since she stopped herself from killing an innocent since she doesn't want the police to get suspicious of the killings. When Caroline tries to turn her humanity on she kills a group of innocent high school students to send a message that if anyone tries to turn it on she'll become their worst nightmare. When she finds out that Caroline has been talking to her friends to try to turn her humanity on she attacked Caroline's mother. Even with no humanity she helped Alex when she went dark.
## Physical Appearance

    Ariana is a petite, beautiful young woman with pale white skin, large brown eyes, and straight hair that had been dyed reddish-brown with blonde streaks underneath. She dressed in a practical fashion, preferring active wear such as spandex leggings and sports bras to train, or jeans and flannel t shirts for every day life. She wore no makeup, nor did she wear jewelry, preferring a simple style.

After transforming into a heretic her sense in style changed over the series. She dyes her hair back to her original brown color and lets her natural curly hair free. She is seen wearing a bronze smokey eye and thick winged eyeliner, and her choice in lipstick are a dark pink colors and or glosses.

Ariana's choice of clothes has changed a lot since transitioning into a hybrid. She is seen wearing dark colored skinny jeans and or leggings that shows off her figure, along with dark green, red, black, and blue tank tops, t-shirts, and crop tops. She's seen wearing leather jackets regular or cropped in the color black. She wears black heeled boots, open-toed pumps, or tall heeled boots; she's also seen wearing combat boots. Her clothes are mostly from Bebe, Victoria Secret, and Fashion Nova.

When wearing jewelry she doesn't wear much but the diamond bracelet that Kol had given her and his promise ring before his first death. When proposing to her Kol gives her a diamond necklace and a huge diamond engagement ring made from the paragon diamond they used in the past.

## Powers and Abilities

Ariana possessed all standard powers and abilities of a human/witch. After Ariana's transition she got to keep her magic with possessing all the powers and abilities as a witch and a non-original vampire.

Even as a new born heretic, Ariana managed to fight with Elena, who was a new born hybrid and win without putting up much of a fight. Ariana got the hang of Mind Compulsion quickly with Alex teaching her every step of the way. Ariana also managed to use Dream Manipulation, a high form of Telepathy (a skill that usually requires practice and learning to achieve) on the first try, while she was less than five years old as a heretic.

Ariana is also a really skilled fighter. As a young heretic, Ariana showcased tactical strength when sparing with her older sister, Alex who's a tribrid and a very skilled fighter. She's also managed to hold her own against much older vampires such as Damon, Theo, and Stefan Salvatore. She also has been seen running at extraordinary speed, being able to outrun even werewolves on the Full Moon.

* The Sisters
* Present Day

Ariana was approached by Aya and was presented with a means to resurrect Kol, join her coven that was in service to her and the Strix, the Sisters: a powerful coven of witches that practiced Dark Magic. Weary of the coven, she transcended into the Ancestral Place, via a spell that prevented her from completely dying as she was not a Ancestral Witch. She achieved this by surrounding herself in a black sand circle and had Athena Mikaelson help with the spell.

It is a mystery where the power of her new coven actually comes from, though Aya Al-Rashid has stated that the witches are the most powerful this world has ever seen. Seemingly, Ariana, instructed by Ariane and, by extension her coven can draw their immense power from a form of Empathic Magic, a strong desire of the witch, which has been previously described by Abby Bennett Wilson as the source of "Black Magic".

Since "officially" joining The Sisters Ariana has seemingly been able to continue drawing on the coven's power to perform various spells and rituals. Ariana performed a simple spirit projection spell, allowing her to mentally project herself to the Compound of the Mikaelsons, while remaining invisible. She also performed a spell with the Sisters on Ariane's corpse, in order to obtain specific information Ariane had prior to her death, which initially failed. After the Sisters took a pause, Ariana was able to see Ariane's memories, as if they were her own, prior to her death. She was also able to consecrate Ariane's corpse and by doing so gave her access to the Ancestral Plane. She was recently able to summon Kol's spirit from the Ancestral Plane with the use of a dark object known as The Hand of Glory. She was also shown to be connected to her fellow coven members, though how or why such a link was established remains unknown. Seemingly, this link allows them to tap into each other's power. Though different from a linking spell, the link could be exploited so that what would affect Ariana, would affect *all* her Sisters, such as when Kol magically knocks Ariana unconscious to protect Camille from the Sisters. This link was presumably established when Ariana, seemingly, gained leadership over the coven after the deaths of the previous two leaders (Ariane and Madison respectively).

With a dark and powerful new Coven by her side, she has been shown capable of performing spells of great magnitudes, such as the Sireline Unlinking Spell (a combination of Esther's linking and sireline spells). With the Coven's aid, Ariana managed to break Klaus' link to all of his vampire progenies, though the final portion was completed without her coven due to there demise.

Upon the demise of the Sisters' Coven, she still had her power from her families coven. Her power alone was very powerful to take down even an Original. However, the energy released by the Sireline Unlinking Sell, that broke Klaus' connection to his sireline, created a Nexus Vorti. Using this to her advantage, Ariana collected Elijah and Klaus' blood the resurrection spell from the Sisters that lured Rebekah to the Moroccan Witch, with Kol's ashes and, while channeling the Nexus Vorti, she resurrected Kol from the Ancestral Plane, reconstructing his original body, marking the third time she successfully performed a resurrection. It was later revealed that this spell was corrupted by the Ancestors so that it would infect Kol's soul to the point where he would lose control and kill Davina.

Later, Ariana was able to perform a spell along with Vincent and Davina that negated the new Regent's Magic Neutralization spell. Before this, Ariana was able to make a bar full of vampires with the exception of the Beast, Lucien, fall asleep with a snap of her fingers.
## Weaknesses

Ariana has the typical weaknesses of a witch non-original hybrid.

## Appearances

### The Vampire Diaries

* *You're Undead to Me*
* *Lost Girls*
* *Haunted*
* *162 Candles*
* *History Repeating*
* *Children of the Damned*
* *Fool Me Once*
* *A Few Good Men*
* *There Goes the Neighborhood*
* *Under Control*
* *Miss Mystic Falls*
* *Isobel*
* *Founder's Day*

* *The Return*
* *Brave New World*
* *Bad Moon Rising*
* *Memory Lane*
* *Kill or Be Killed*
* *Plan B*
* *Masquerade*
* *Rose*
* *Katerina*
* *The Sacrifice*
* *By the Light of the Moon*
* *The Descent*
* *Daddy Issues*
* *Crying Wolf*
* *The House Guest*
* *Know Thy Enemy*
* *The Last Dance*
* *The Last Day*
* *The Sun Also Rises*
* *As I Lay Dying*

* *The Birthday*
* *The Hybrid*
* *The End of the Affair*
* *Disturbing Behavior*
* *The Reckoning*
* *Smells Like Teen Spirit*
* *Ghost World*
* *Ordinary People*
* *Homecoming*
* *The New Deal*
* *Our Town*
* *The Ties That Bind*
* *Bringing Out The Dead*
* *Dangerous Liaisons*
* *All My Children*
* *Break On Through*
* *The Murder of One*
* *Do Not Go Gentle*
* *Before Sunset* (Death/Resurrection, as a hybrid)
* *The Departed*

* *Growing Pains*
* *Memorial*
* *The Rager*
* *The Five*
* *The Killer*
* *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*
* *My Brother's Keeper*
* *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*
* *Catch Me If You Can*
* *A View to a Kill*
* *Into the Wild*
* *Down the Rabbit Hole*
* *Because the Night*
* *American Gothic*
* *Pictures Of You*
* *She's Come Undone*
* *The Darkness In The Doppelgänger*
* *The Walking Dead*
* *Graduation*

* *Let Her Go*

* *Hello, Brother* (Mentioned)
* *Today Will Be Different*
* *You Decided That I Was Worth Saving*
* *Coming Home Was a Mistake*
* *The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You*
* *Nostalgia's a Bitch*
* *You Made a Choice to Be Good*
* *The Lies Are Going To Catch Up With You*
* *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*
* *We're Planning a June Wedding*
* *I Was Feeling Epic*

### The Originals

* *Always and Forever*
* *House of the Rising Son*
* *Tangled Up In Blue*
* *Girl in New Orleans*
* *Sinners and Saints*
* *Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree*
* *Bloodletting*
* *Reigning Pain in New Orleans*
* *The Casket Girls*
* *Après Moi, Le Déluge*
* *Dance Back From The Grave*
* *Crescent City*
* *Long Way Back From Hell*
* *Moon Over Bourbon Street*
* *The Big Uneasy*
* *An Unblinking Death*
* *A Closer Walk With Thee*
* *The Battle of New Orleans*
* *From a Cradle to a Grave*
* *Suffering Grief*
* *Rebirth*
* *Alive and Kicking*
* *Every Mother's Son*
* *Live and Let Die*
* *Red Door*
* *Chasing the Devil's Tail*
* *The Brothers That Care Forgot*
* *The Map of Moments*
* *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire*
* *Sanctuary*
* *I Love You, Goodbye*
* *They All Asked For You*
* *Save My Soul*
* *Exquisite Corpse*
* *Night Has A Thousand Eyes*
* *When The Levee Breaks*
* *City Beneath The Sea*
* *Fire with Fire*
* *Ashes to Ashes*

* *For the Next Millennium*
* *You Hung the Moon*
* *I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans* (Mentioned)
* *A Walk on the Wild Side*
* *Beautiful Mistake*
* *Savior*
* *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*
* *Wild at Heart*
* *Heart Shaped Box*
* *A Streetcar Named Desire*
* *Alone with Everybody*
* *Behind the Black Horizon*
* *The Devil Comes Here and Sighs*
* *No More Heartbreaks*
* *Where Nothing Stays Buried*
* *Give 'Em Hell Kid*
* *The Bloody Crown*
* *Gather Up The Killers*
* *No Quarter*
* *Haunter of Ruins*
* *Keepers of the House*
* *Voodoo In My Blood*
* *Queen Death*
* *Phantomesque*
* *A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken*
* *The Feast of All Sinners*

* *Miracle Babies* (Mentioned)
* *From Fiancée To Wife*
* *New Members of The Mikaelson Family*
* *Where You Left Your Heart*
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*
* *The Kindness Of Strangers* (Flashback)
* *We Have Not Long To Love*
* *Til the Day I Die*
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*

### Legacies

* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn*
* *Malivore* (Mentioned)
* *There's a Mummy on Main Street*
* *The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Let's Just Finish the Dance*
* *There's Always a Loophole* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *I'll Never Give Up Hope*
* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*
* *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*

## Name

* **Ariana** is primarily a female name of Italian origin that means *Very Holy*.
* **Catalina** is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning "pure".
* **Gilbert**, which is one of Ariana's surname, is a surname of Germanic origin. The English-language surname is derived from Giselbert, a medieval personal name composed of the following Germanic elements gisil ("pledge", "hostage", "noble youth") and berht ("bright", "famous").
* **Garcia** surname is the patronymic "descendant or son of Garcia" (the Spanish form of Gerald). The personal name Garcia is of uncertain origin, however, the given name Gerald is a Germanic name meaning "rule of the spear," from the elements *ger* (spear) and *wald* (rule).
* **Mikaelson** is of of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
	+ If Ariana was to truly follow Norse traditions, her married surname should technically be **Kolson** (son of Kol) as oppose to **Mikaelson** (son of Mikael). Evidence is Esther's married name being Mikaelson after she married Mikael.