Damon Salvatore

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## Biographical information

### Born

* June 18, 1839 (Mystic Falls; Age 25/192)

### Turned

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

### Occupation

* Confederate Lieutenant Soldier of the American Civil War (1864)
* Prisoner of the Augustine (1953-1958)
* Leader of the  Founder's Council (2010)
* Member of the Triple Crescents (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Babe, Baby, Love of My Life, Husband (all by  Adrianna)
* Vampire Gigolo, Man Slut, Dr. Damon (all by  Caroline)
* The Fun Brother, Mate (both by  Klaus)
* Eternal Stud (by himself)

### Species

* Human
* Vampire (Klaus' Bloodline) (Currently)
* Augustine Vampire (Formerly)
* Ghost (Formerly)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Silas † (Distant Paternal Ancestor)
* Unnamed Doppelgängers Of Silas † (Distant Paternal Ancestors)
* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father)
* Lillian Salvatore † (Mother)
* Stefan Salvatore (Younger Brother)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law, via  Stefan)
* Unnamed Paternal Half-Brother †
* Zachariah Salvatore † (Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Zachariah's Unnamed Son † (Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Joseph Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Joseph's Unnamed Son † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Zach Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)
* Tom Avery † (Descendant)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Wife)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert † (Adoptive Mother-In-Law, via  Adrianna)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Adoptive Father-In-Law, via  Adrianna)
* John Gilbert † (Father-In-Law, via  Adrianna)
* Isobel Flemming † (Mother-In-Law, via  Adrianna)
* Elena Gilbert (Sister-In-Law, via  Adrianna)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Brother-In-Law, via  Adrianna)
* Hope Mikaelson (Stepdaughter)
* Alexia Salvatore (Daughter)
* Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett (Goddaughter)

## Supernatural information

### Significant sires

* Charlotte (1942)
* Isobel Flemming † (2007)
* Vicki Donovan † (2009)
* Caroline Forbes (2010)
* Bill Forbes † (2010)
* Abby Bennett Wilson (2010)
* Elena Gilbert (2011)

### Significant kills

* Samantha Gilbert (1st time)
* Charlotte (as a human)
* 12 Humans (for Valerie LaMarche)
* Joseph Salvatore
* Maggie James
* Gail
* Isobel Flemming (as a human)
* William Tanner
* Zach Salvatore
* Vicki Donovan (as a human)
* Logan Fell (as a human)
* Lexi Branson (as a vampire)
* Bree
* Several Tomb Vampires (as vampires)
* Alaric Saltzman (1st time/ Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Mason Lockwood
* John Gilbert (1st time/ Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Rose-Marie (as a vampire) (mercy kill)
* Luka Martin
* Maddox
* Greta Martin
* Abby Bennett Wilson (as a witch)
* Matt Donovan (1st time/Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Dr. Whitmore
* Whitmore Family
* Wes Maxfield
* Traveler Clan
* Markos (1st time)
* Himself (as a vampire)
* Many werewolves with Moonlight Rings
* The Hollow's followers

### Cause of death

* Gunshot wound to the chest (as a human)
* Explosion (as a vampire)

### Killed by

* Giuseppe Salvatore (as a human)
* Himself (as a vampire)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'9.5" (Feet)
* 1.77 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Blue

**Damon Salvatore** is one of the two main male protagonists of the *An Epic Kind of Love* series. Damon is a 178-year-old vampire and a distant descendant of Silas. He was a major antagonist in the first part of Book 1. He was born in 1839 and lived in the colonial town of Mystic Falls with his brother Stefan, his father, Giuseppe Salvatore, and also with his mother, Lillian Salvatore, until her death in 1858. He became a vampire in 1864. At the time of his present-day return to Mystic Falls, Damon and Stefan hadn't seen each other in fifteen years due to their bitter and violent relationship.

In the 1950s, Damon was captured and tortured by the Augustine society, led by the Whitmore family, who experimented on vampires for a "bigger purpose". During his five years of captivity, he met another prisoner,  Enzo, with whom he became best friends. Eventually, the plan the two made failed at a critical moment and, thinking that Enzo "died" because of him, Damon turned off his humanity to suppress the guilt and sadness. He sought revenge, an act of hunting down members of the Whitmore family over the generations and leaving one alive to carry on the family name before repating the process until he killed the last descendant in the family, which ended with Aaron Whitmore's death.

Damon's sole purpose in coming back to Mystic Falls was to free his sire  Katherine Pierce from a tomb she was never in. Damon deeply loved her after 145 years. After realizing that Katherine never loved him, his love for her faded as his friendship and love for  Adrianna, one of Katherine's descendants and doppelgängers, grew. Due to her impact on him and the strengthening relationship with his brother, they began working together to protect Elena and Adrianna, along with their friends and family.

Throughout the series, his bond with Adrianna continuously grew and they fell in love with each other. Everyone around them seemed to see the bond and love they had for each other, though they never admitted it to themselves or to each other. While she was in transition to become a vampire, Damon finally told her of his feelings for her, though he thought that she was sleeping. Shortly after her transition, she admitted that she shared his feelings and they began a romantic relationship. They remained in a strong relationship until Book 4 when Adrianna found out that Elena was in love with Damon. Adrianna believed that Damon returned Elena's feelings and that this caused the sire bond to form between the two.

In Book 5, Damon was injected with a dangerous compound by Wes Maxfield, causing him to become the only Augustine Vampire in existence. This injection caused him to crave vampire blood and he would not be able to stop until he had killed. Due to this, he tried staying away from his friends, especially Adrianna, which did not allow them the time to talk. He was later cured, thanks to Enzo, Stefan, Caroline, and Adrianna's actions. When the Other Side was collapsing, Damon gave up his life to save his loved ones and this caused Adrianna, Stefan, and Alaric much grief.

His best friends are Adrianna Gilbert, Stefan Salvatore, and Bonnie Bennett. He was close friends with Elizabeth Forbes until her death. He is married to Adrianna Gilbert and is the brother-in-law of Rebekah Mikaelson, Elena Gilbert, and Jeremy Gilbert. Damon is also the father of Alexia Salvatore and the stepfather of Hope Mikaelson, as well as the godfather of Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett.

Damon is a member of the Salvatore Family, as well as the Gilbert Family, Petrova Family, and the Labonair Family, due to his marriage to Adrianna.

## Early History

* Human Life
* 1850s
* 1864
* 1912
* 1942
* 1953-1958
* 1960
* 1977
* 1994
* 2007

Damon Salvatore was born on June 18, 1839, to  Giuseppe and Lillian Salvatore in what would eventually become the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. He is the firstborn child of Giuseppe and Lillian. During his human years, Damon was seen and described to be rebellious, carefree, emotional, independent, troubled, insecure, misunderstood, principled, impulsive, and competitive and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. People of the town of Mystic Falls described Damon to be irresponsible and cowardly, including his own father Giuseppe. The reason for this is because Damon rebelled against the town's and his own father's wish, by leaving the Confederacy on his own terms during the time of the Civil War.

In his human years, when it came to love, Damon was always seen to be the chaser and the pursuer, the opposite of Stefan, who appeared to be harder to get and challenging with women, especially in regards to Katherine. Damon in his human years also displayed womanizing tendencies.

Damon and his father, Giuseppe, never got along or had a good, close relationship and Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment in the elder Salvatore brother. Despite his very strained relationship with Giuseppe, Damon was very close to his younger brother Stefan and they shared a very close relationship and bond. Damon described Stefan as his best friend or companion and the person he trusted most. However, the brothers' relationship eventually became strained after Katherine Pierce came into their lives and both brothers started to compete fiercely for her affections, with both of the brothers not being aware of Katherine playing them against each other.

He was turned into a vampire in 1864, when he was 25 years old after he drank Katherine's blood willingly and was shot by his father after attempting to save Katherine from being burned in Fell's Church.

When he was 12 years old, his father was very abusive towards him, burning him with a cigarette at a Thanksgiving dinner. In his father's eyes, it was a lesson for his elder son, as he thought that Damon had stolen money from him.

At the age of 17, in late May 1858, his  mother died of consumption. Damon had promised Stefan that he would write his mother's eulogy and say it at his mother's funeral. Just before the funeral, Damon comes to Stefan and helps him get dressed and Stefan says that their father told him not to cry. Damon replies that he is a child and that if he feels the need to cry that he is allowed. Saying all of this, Damon doesn't even go to the funeral. Instead, he got wasted and returned to his younger brother who was angry with him for not showing up.

It is uncertain how or when Damon found out that Katherine was a vampire, but unlike Stefan, he did not fear or reject her and willingly drank her blood. She once demonstrated to him one of her tricks for securing victims, which was lying in the middle of a road to stop any travelers that may come to pass. Though he showed initial hesitance, Damon even kissed her while a victim's blood still stained her lips.

Damon wanted to give up his human life and spend eternity with Katherine, and he begged Stefan to keep her secret from their father, who was a member of the  Founder's Council and a vampire-hater. When Stefan inadvertently revealed that Katherine was a vampire, she was taken away by the townspeople. Their father was furious and scolded Damon for trying to conceal her secret and protect her. Damon was furious with Stefan, but agreed to work with him to rescue her. In the midst of their daring plan, they were both shot and killed by Giuseppe, who was ashamed of his sons for sympathizing with and loving a vampire. They both died with Katherine's blood in their systems, but Damon awakened first and witnessed the burning of Fell's Church, where the townspeople had imprisoned the vampires, including Katherine.

When Stefan awoke the next morning, Damon told him that Katherine's death meant his reason for living was gone, and he wouldn't complete his transition into a vampire. Later that day, when Stefan returned after being unable to resist feeding on his father, and inadvertently completing the transition, he forced Damon to drink from a young woman's neck, causing Damon to also complete his transition. He promised Stefan an eternity of misery, not for making him turn but for the fact that Katherine had turned Stefan as well, instead of just Damon. At some point Damon received a  daylight ring from Emily Bennett. She told Damon that she had spared the vampires in the church, which Damon kept secret from Stefan until 145 years later when he would be able to free Katherine from the church.

Damon saw Stefan in 1912 for the first time in 48 years since they transitioned; both had returned to Mystic Falls for their nephew's funeral. After initial hesitation, Damon agreed to have a drink with Stefan and catch up. When he was feeding on a human alone, the vampire Sage found him and commented on his lack of enjoyment for the feed. Damon seemed content to feed just enough to survive, but Sage encouraged him to enjoy it and to take pleasure in being a vampire. Once he was persuaded, he tried to get Stefan to enjoy the feed and talked him into feeding on human blood again. Stefan fed so hard on his victim that he tore her head off, shocking both brothers. Furious with Damon for making him drink human blood, he ran off and Damon did not pursue him.

Damon was living in New Orleans with a vampire he had turned named Charlotte. Damon soon noticed a pattern of strange behavior from the woman, in that every order he gave her, even seemingly innocuous ones, she followed with frightening enthusiasm. He sought guidance from the witch Valerie LaMarche to break the sire bond between him and Charlotte, and the witch told him she needed a human sacrifice of 12 people to do the spell. Damon killed the 12 people, but could not find Val to perform the spell he needed. He ended up ordering Charlotte to count every brick on every building in New Orleans and meet him at the corner of Bourbon and Dumaine. He left New Orleans soon after.

Stefan and Lexi found Damon while he was in New Orleans. At Lexi's insistence, Stefan sought to make peace with his brother before shipping out to the North African front of the war. After an initial hesitance, Damon seemed happy to reunite with his brother after thirty years apart, and the two spent the evening talking. Damon even suggested he might join Stefan and leave for war with him, but Lexi made it clear she did not approve of the idea. Her concerns seemed warranted especially after Charlotte brought a bleeding victim to the bar where they were talking and Stefan started to lose it at the sight and smell of human blood. Later, Damon was all ready to ship out with Stefan when Lexi talked him out of it, citing his profligate lifestyle and how Damon's behavior would not be good for Stefan's rehabilitation. Realizing she might be right, Damon decided not to go and he left the train station without explaining to Stefan.

In 1953, Joseph Salvatore lured Damon to Mystic Falls in order to hand him over to Dr. Whitmore. After Joseph injected Damon with vervain, Damon killed him, but Dr. Whitmore entered the room shortly after and injected Damon with another dose of vervain. When he woke up he was strapped to a table and Dr. Whitmore cut one of his eyes out, in order to experiment and study vampire healing abilities. Damon was brought to a cell and in the cell next to him was another vampire named  Enzo. The two vampires bonded and it was Enzo's friendship that allowed Damon to hold on to his humanity. Dr. Whitmore continued to torture and perform experiments on him and he called him 21051.

Every year Whitmore would show Damon and Enzo off to the rest of Augustine and demonstrate his research at the annual New Year's Party. Enzo then came up with a plan for one of the two to drink the other's blood ration in order to build up his strength until the coming New Year's Eve. Damon was the lucky one and when the next New Year's Eve Party came he broke free from his chains and slaughtered every member of the Augustine while the building was set ablaze. Enzo was still trapped in his cage and Damon tried to free him, but the cage bars were soaked with vervain and Damon couldn't get him out. Damon knew that if he was going to save himself he had to stop caring about Enzo so he turned his humanity switch off. Now, not caring, he left Enzo to burn alive. After finally being free from five years of torture, Damon kept the promise he made to Enzo to kill every member in the Whitmore family, but one and let that person have a family and kill them too but one and to do the same thing again and again. Damon did exactly that and among the ones he killed were Aaron Whitmore's parents.

It had been two years since Damon escaped the Augustine cell, and he still had his humanity switched off. On November 8, 1960, during Election night, a lady asked Damon for an interview. She asked him questions related to the terrible fire at Whitmore House and then tried to attack him with a vervain injection, but Damon easily stopped her. When he found out that she was an Augustine member he ripped her head off. Decades later Damon finds out that the girl he killed was actually Enzo's one true love, Maggie James.

Damon lived in New York City during the '70s, where he maintained a wild life full of parties and feeding off of people. At the time, he still had his humanity switch off and he killed locals of New York. A soon to be fed upon victim asked if he was the Son of Sam, to which Damon replied, "Son of Giuseppe, but close enough". Damon was friends with Will, another vampire, who ran a bar and let Damon feed on the people there, while in exchange, Damon stole his victim's IDs for him.

 Lexi had eventually found Damon and told him that she and Stefan had heard all about his current life and Stefan was worried for him. Lexi tried to help Damon get him humanity back, but he rejected her offer. However, Lexi was stubborn and she stuck with Damon for the following six months. She had gotten Damon to talk about  Katherine Pierce, thinking that if he talked about her, his switch would flip on. Damon tricked Lexi into thinking that his humanity was back and the two had a night full of wild sex.

The next morning, Lexi woke up on a roof because the sunlight was burning her skin. She tried to escape by opening the door to get into Billy's, but it was locked. Then she found out the truth: Damon had tricked her. Damon told her that it was his way of getting back at her for annoying him for the past six months. He ditched Lexi on the roof, leaving her trapped until nightfall.

In April 1994 (after Kurt Cobain died), Damon with his humanity still off, showed up on Stefan's doorstep, wanting to make amends. Zach Salvatore, the owner of the house and their nephew, allowed Damon in on Stefan's promise that he would keep him in line. Zach had been living with Gail who was pregnant with his child. Stefan warned Damon to stay away from them, claiming that both of them were on vervain. One day, at a party, Damon flirted with a young  Liz Forbes. Stefan took a picture of Zach and Gail and noticed bite marks on Gail's wrist. He then confronted Damon about feeding on Gail and after Damon compelled Liz to forget ever meeting him, Damon breezily confessed that he swapped out Zach and Gail's vervain coffee for a little in-house feeding. An angry Stefan reminded Damon that they trusted them and then snapped his neck.

Damon woke up in the shed without his daylight ring. Stefan wanted to know what Damon was really doing there and Damon said he wanted to feel a connection to his humanity again. He tried to convince Stefan to go on a road trip with him. Instead, Stefan reminded Damon of all the times he had ruined his life and how he could not seem to help but do it. Damon got that Stefan was refusing his offer.

On May 10, 1994, Stefan and Zach heard screams and rushed to the library to find bodies everywhere and Damon covered in blood, holding Gail hostage. He demanded his daylight ring back from Stefan, who returned it, realizing he would never be rid of Damon. Damon gave his own version of their past, saying, "*In 1912, I showed you who you were, Stefan. In 1942 I gave you your freedom and in 1977 I almost killed your best friend because it should have been you there to help me. You owe me. It'll take you an eternity to pay me back.*". Then he killed Gail by attacking her and left.
Damon turned Isobel Flemming into a vampire after she asked to be turned by him. He would later meet and fall in love with one of her daughters, Adrianna Gilbert. Her other daughter,  Elena, was also turned into a vampire by his blood but not on purpose.

## Throughout An Epic Kind of Love Series (Part 1)

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

Upon arriving in Mystic Falls, Damon torments his brother  Stefan by constantly threatening Stefan's new love interest, Elena Gilbert, and the people of the town. He remarks that Adrianna and Elena are "dead ringers" for the brothers' former shared loved,  Katherine Pierce, especially Adrianna. He also displays his strength in comparison with Stefan, pointing out how much of a disadvantage it is for Stefan to drink only animal blood.
Before arriving at the beginning of the year party, Adrianna meets Damon in the middle of the street and they introduce themselves before parting ways. Damon then makes his presence known in a theatrical way by attacking Vicki Donovan in the woods. Later, when Elena and Adrianna visit the Salvatore Boarding House in search of Stefan, Damon is there instead, and he implies that his brother is on the "rebound" from a recently lost love. When they leave, Damon taunts Stefan because it is harder for him to effectively  compel Vicki Donovan to forget a vampire attacked her. Damon eventually charms and beds young Caroline Forbes, a friend of the twins, ending the night by viciously biting her neck and feeding from her.

The next morning, Damon drives Caroline to her cheerleading practice, having compelled her to keep his secret and be unafraid of him. He speaks to Adrianna and asks for her number but she refuses to give it to him, saying, "You can get my number when you stop messing with my best friend." Damon and Caroline also crash a dinner at the Gilbert House where he antagonizes Stefan and tells Adrianna a little about Katherine. This is the first time he calls her by the name "Ade". The next night, Damon follows Adrianna to the parking lot before the football game and tries to compel her to kiss him, but due to her vervain bracelet, it doesn't work and she pushes him away instead. Angered, Damon confronts Stefan on his way to the field, but he's further enraged when Stefan claims that he still has humanity in him. Damon responds by killing William Tanner, who is Stefan's football coach and the history teacher. That night, Damon is in Adrianna's room, gazing at her and stroking her cheek as she sleeps.

While getting ready to attend the Founders' Party, Damon expresses his pleasure with never growing old. He nearly drinks alcohol spiked with vervain, a part of Stefan's plan to disable him, and remarks that he's going to the party angry, "Who knows what I'll do?" At the party, Damon is invited into the Lockwood Mansion by Carol Lockwood. He appears behind Stefan, Adrianna, and Elena just after Elena reads both their names on the original registry for the First Founders' Party. Later, Damon leads Caroline upstairs and takes a  yellow crystal from a secret compartment in one of the objects on display. He tells her that he put it there a long time ago. When Elena finds out about the bite marks on Caroline's body and confronts him about it, an angry Damon takes Caroline out near the lake. He claims he forgives her, but then says he's over her and bites her neck. He didn't realize that Stefan had spiked her drink earlier, and that he'd just consumed enough vervain to render him harmless. Stefan took him back to the Salvatore mansion, injected him with more vervain, and locked him in the dungeon under their home.
Damon manages to establish a weak mental connection to Adrianna, despite being locked in the dungeon under the Boarding House. He contacts her first in her room, though this time was ineffective, and then again in the hallway at Mystic Falls High School. She goes to the boarding house and attempts to release Damon, though Zach tries to keep him locked up. Damon snaps Zach's neck and then compels Adrianna to keep his secret and to run away from the house. Due to Stefan taking his daylight ring, Damon is trapped in the house until nightfall. At nightfall Damon visits Adrianna and explains compulsion and tells her that he wasn't going to hurt her. Later, he stalks a group of young people, including former victim Vicki Donovan, and kills all of them, excluding Vicki herself.
After killing everyone, Damon pours alcohol on their bodies and lights them on fire. He calls Stefan as he burns the dead, demanding to have his daylight ring returned, going as far as to threaten Elena's life.

After hanging up on Stefan, Damon finds that one body isn't burning, but when he goes to set her on fire, he realizes that Vicki is still alive. Damon seems intrigued by her resilience, and takes her back to the Salvatore Boarding House, where he feeds her his blood to heal her. Damon feeds Vicki more of his blood while also feeding on her, and the two get drunk together and begin dancing around the house. They end up in Stefan's room, where Damon tears things from their places as he moves around. The two start slow-dancing, at which point Damon snaps Vicki's neck. When she wakes up, he tells her that she must feed to complete the process but, smiling, he suggests she go to Jeremy's house. When Stefan is shot by Logan Fell, who was using the Gilbert Compass to track down vampires, Damon appears, kills Logan, and extracts the wooden bullet from Stefan's chest, though he demands to have his daylight ring back. He seems uncaring when Vicki feeds on Logan's body, completing her transition into a vampire.
At the Halloween Party, Damon helps Adrianna find her siblings and Vicki. He holds her back and shields her when Vicki bites Elena and Stefan stakes her. He then takes her home before returning to the school to get rid of Vicki's body. His cool demeanor enrages Elena and she tries to hit him, but he catches her hand. He tells her that none of this matters to him, so when he releases her, she slaps him. Damon seems angered, but he thinks of Adrianna and remains calm as he tells her that she needs to leave because of the blood coming from her wounds. He later shows up on Elena's porch, offering to erase Jeremy's memory because Stefan's diet prevents him from effectively compelling humans. Elena accepts his offer and Damon compels Jeremy to believe that Vicki left town.

Damon lays next to Stefan's napping guest, Lexi Branson, who has come to town for Stefan's birthday. She expresses immediate displeasure when she sees him, remarking that he's "only the bad parts" of being a vampire. When he gets too close, Lexi pins him to the bed and tells him not to ruin her time with Stefan, threatening him with bodily harm. He leaves and returns to his room, where he asks Adrianna to throw a party at  The Grill for him. He explains that he couldn't throw it because Stefan and Lexi wouldn't show up. Later at the party, Damon kills Lexi to further antagonize his brother and give the Town Council a scapegoat.
Damon later shows regret for killing Lexi and attempts to apologize to Stefan, declaring that he won't feed on a human for at least a week. While the two are sarcastically impersonating one another, Stefan tries to get Damon to tell him why he's returned to Mystic Falls, which causes Damon to immediately shut down and leave. Damon later tries to talk Bonnie into giving him his crystal back and when she refused, he reveals that he knew Bonnie's ancestor Emily Bennett, who has been haunting Bonnie through her dreams. He tells Bonnie to tell Emily that "a deal's a deal."

When he encounters Stefan at the Mystic Grill, the brothers engage in a game of darts, where Stefan continually tries to get the truth out of Damon. They also play a shot game of football, during which Stefan tries to convince his brother that their love for Katherine wasn't real. He asks Damon what he wants with Katherine's crystal and Stefan also reveals that he was the last one to see Katherine the night she was taken away. Damon finally reveals his motivation for returning: "I'm gonna bring her back." He explains the deal he had with Emily and how she sealed Katherine in a tomb under the church and he promised to protect her family. When Elena calls Stefan to tell him about Bonnie leaving with the crystal, Damon overhears and vanishes from behind his brother. He confronts Emily, who's possessing Bonnie, in the woods near Fell's Church. When he gets near her, she uses magic to throw him into a tree, where he is speared by a broken branch. It is then revealed that in order to save Katherine, Emily had to save all twenty-seven vampires in the tomb, which is the reason she stands in the center of the clearing and destroys the crystal. Damon then attacks Bonnie (Emily had already left her body), which causes his relationship with Adrianna to be temporarily strained.
The next day, Damon and Stefan seem to have decided to leave Mystic Falls. Sheriff Forbes tells Damon of another vampire attack and asks him what he thinks they should do. The moment he re-enters the house, Stefan assumes he killed someone, but Damon denies it. Damon later gets Adrianna to use the Gilbert Compass to track down the vampire, and they end up at an abandoned warehouse. He apologizes to her for attacking Bonnie, saying that he was really angry to which Adrianna replied that it wasn't an excuse.

Damon enters the warehouse and is shot multiple times by the newly transitioned Logan Fell, who accuses Damon of turning him into a vampire. Adrianna, who is about to leave, hears the gunshots and immediately enters the warehouse, against Damon's wishes, and is held at gunpoint by Logan. Damon threatens him, saying, "You hurt a hair on her head and I will rip you apart." Logan keeps them in the warehouse, questioning Damon about vampires, but Damon refuses to tell him how he can walk in the sun. After Logan leaves, Stefan and Damon talk on the phone and Damon tells him what happened in the warehouse. The two brothers team up and ambush Logan, who has kidnapped Caroline and planned to turn her into a vampire. After Stefan leaves with Caroline, Damon interrogates Logan and Logan reveals that he knows about the tomb beneath the church. Expressing interest but pressed for time, Damon tells him to pretend to attack him and then get away so they can meet up later. When Damon goes to the church to meet him, he's shocked by a call from Sheriff Forbes, who thanks him for leaving Logan's body.

Adrianna calls Damon after getting into a car accident and he goes and rescues her. When she awakens, Damon reveals that they're in Georgia. He takes her to Bree's Bar, where he reveals that he's known Bree since she was a college freshman, and that she's a witch. While Adrianna's on the phone, Damon questions Bree about another way to open the tomb, and he's disappointed to find that there is no other way. Adrianna then finds out from Elena that they look exactly like Katherine and she confronts Damon. Damon says that he just thought they were some descendants of Katherine's. They get drunk and Damon looks away from her for a second, during which she gets kidnapped by Lee. When he goes to save her, he is ambushed by Lee. Adrianna manages to save Damon by talking about Lexi, but, angry that Bree betrayed him and sent a vampire to kill him, Damon goes back to Bree's Bar and confronts her. She attempts to spare her life by telling Damon that there is one more way to get into the tomb, through Emily's Grimoire. Damon still kills her by ripping her heart out.

Damon is rummaging through the Salvatore library, looking for his father's journal when Stefan confronts him for taking Adrianna to Atlanta. Damon later picks Adrianna up from her house and takes her to the Salvatore Boarding House, where they spend the whole day drinking and dancing. When the vampire that's stalking Adrianna calls her phone later that day to taunt her, Damon gives Adrianna the Gilbert Compass so that she could tell if there was a vampire near her. Later, Damon is still searching for his father's journal when Stefan brings him the journal, saying he knew Damon was looking for it. Stefan assures him that the journal has nothing helpful in it, but offers his help to Damon if only Damon will leave Mystic Falls after. Suspicious of his motives, Damon rejects his offer. Minutes later, Damon gets a call from Adrianna, saying that the compass was detecting a vampire in their house.
Damon immediately goes over to the Gilbert House, looking for the vampire as soon as he entered the house. When Damon tells them that Stefan left their house a few minutes before him, they assumed that it was Stefan that caused the compass to start acting up. Damon and Adrianna left the room and, almost immediately, Elena is attacked by the vampire but Stefan shows up in time to stop him. Realizing that the vampire had been invited in and therefore could hurt them at any time, they decide to go to the 50s Decade Dance to hunt the vampire down. Damon and Adrianna attended the dance as dates, while Stefan was Elena's date.

While Damon is watching Adrianna, Caroline, and Bonnie at the dance, he is approached by Alaric, who wonder about his presence there. He asks Damon a long series of questions, but when they become too personal, Damon becomes suspicious and stops answering, which leads to Alaric leaving. Damon then dances with Adrianna for a few songs before returning to the bar. When the vampire stalker attacks the twins, Damon and Stefan come to their rescue, but Damon notices Alaric lingering near the cafeteria door. When he confronts him, he attempts to compel him to tell him what he knows, and satisfied that he knows nothing, Damon leaves him there. Stefan then offers again to help Damon get the tomb open and Damon accepts this time. However, later at the Gilbert residence, Damon overhears Stefan tell Elena that he was lying. Adrianna then decides to help Damon without letting Elena or Stefan know.
Damon is sitting at the end of Stefan's bed when Stefan and Elena wake up, telling them that they needed to get started on figuring out how to open the tomb. He tells them they need to find Johnathan Gilbert's journal, which will hold the location of the Grimoire. He then leaves the room, telling them not to "screw it up", before he texts Adrianna and finds out that a teacher has the journal. Damon then later goes to the high school, where Adrianna already is getting the journal, to make sure that she was ok. He realizes that Adrianna had taken pictures of the copied pages of the journal.

Later, Damon is at the Gilbert House, making dinner and talking with Jenna Sommers. When Elena arrives, Damon questions Stefan's absence and they speak about trust. He asks Elena if he can trust Stefan's help and when she says yes, he delivers a veiled threat should either of them get in his way. After dinner, Damon and Jeremy are playing a video game. Stefan arrives and tells him that the Gilbert journal was missing. Damon realizes that Jeremy also knew where the journal was, so he asks him who he showed it to. When he reveals that Anna knew about the journal, Damon takes him to meet her at the Grill. Damon follows Anna back to her hotel room and attacks her, but as they're at equal strength, he relents and they both release each other. Both Adrianna and Damon seem to figure out that the grimoire will be in Giuseppe Salvatore's grave at almost the same time. Damon then gets Adrianna and confronts Stefan and Elena at the grave, revealing that he knew that Stefan wasn't really helping him in the first place. In order to get the grimoire from Stefan, Damon feeds Elena his blood and threatens to turn her into a vampire. However, Stefan retaliates by threatening to snap Adrianna's neck with no vampire blood in her system, permanently killing her. The brothers decide on a trade where Stefan would get Elena if he sent Adrianna back to Damon with the book.
After Elena is kidnapped, Stefan comes to Damon but he refuses to help, not even giving up the location of Anna's motel room. He tells Stefan that he hopes Elena dies. Damon goes to Bonnie's grandmother, Sheila Bennett, looking for Bonnie, but when he threatens her, she uses her magic to immobilize him. Anna suggests that Damon and she work together but he doesn't want to. She later kidnaps Adrianna and threatens her so he agrees to meet her. However, this was just a ruse to distract her while Stefan got the girls. Later, Adrianna goes to him to try to convince him to work with Bonnie, Grams, Stefan, and Elena. They hug and he decides to trust her, and by extension, them.

They gather in the tomb, and when the door is finally opened, Damon takes Elena inside to make sure they won't close the door back on him. When Adrianna realizes that Damon would be trapped in the tomb, she ran inside to get him out. While in the tomb, Damon searches for Katherine with a blood bag in his hand, and he's devastated and enraged to find that she's not there. He throws the blood at the wall, where it splatters, and refuses to leave the tomb. It takes both Stefan and Adrianna to coax him outside, where he stares vacantly into space. Adrianna immediately hugs him and says she's sorry that Katherine wasn't in the tomb, though Damon seemed too numb to respond. Adrianna ends up driving Jeremy and Damon to her house, where he takes an unconscious Jeremy to his room before leaving. Damon later appear in Anna's hotel room, threatening her mother, Pearl, who was retrieved from the tomb, and confronting Anna about knowing Katherine wasn't in there. Pearl tells him that Katherine got away, and Anna points out that Katherine always knew where he was, but didn't care. Damon then leaves and returns to the Gilbert residence, getting in bed with Adrianna, and she tells him that she would never leave him.
Stefan questions Damon about a woman named Isobel, though Damon doesn't seem to remember her. He tells his brother "very few is important right now", to which Stefan replies, "what's included in the 'very few'?" Damon speaks to Alaric again at the bar, though he still seems suspicious of him. Sheriff Forbes comes to sit with Damon, hoping he'll be one of the bachelors in the Bachelor Auction. Later, Adrianna visits him and ends up picking out his outfit. When she tells him she found out who her birth mother was, he dismisses her saying that "she sucks." Stefan questions Damon again about Isobel, and this time Damon realizes that someone else must want to know. When Alaric mentions his dead wife, Damon realizes the connection between Stefan's questioning and decides to torment Alaric about it. He doesn't know that the woman he killed was Elena and Adrianna's birth mother and when she confronts him about, he reacts with extreme surprise. Later, in the boarding house, Alaric demands to know what Damon did to his wife and where she is. When he attacks Damon, Damon stabs him, killing him. He sits on the couch by the body until Stefan arrives, at which point he claims self-defense and leaves. He goes to Adrianna's room and apologizes to her, though she still tells him to leave.

Damon is visited in his home by Anna and her mother, Pearl. Realizing that she's stronger than him, he sits down and listens to her. She reveals that some of the twenty-five vampires in the tomb are living with them in a farmhouse just outside of town. She also knows about the Town Council and wants a list of the members' names. She wants their supply of vervain to stop as well. It's Pearl's plan to retake Mystic Falls, and to get him to help her, she offers him Katherine's location. He says that he doesn't want to see Katherine, but to further convince him, she pushes both of his eyes in, threatening his life. He later meets Kelly Donovan, the mother of  Matt and Vicki Donovan, at the Mystic Grill, and they are soon joined by Jenna. The three of them sit down and start drinking. Jenna leaves when Damon and Kelly begin flirting more heavily, and the two of them end up at the Salvatore Boarding House. He decides not to sleep with her, however, Stefan, Elena, Caroline, and Matt show up and assume that something happened between them. Everyone leaves but Stefan and Damon and they're soon attacked by two tomb vampires, Frederick and Bethanne. Stefan manages to kill Bethanne, which sends Frederick running. Later, Damon gets Adrianna from a club and allows her to sleep in his bed for the night.
The next day, Damon is at the Boarding House, where he, Stefan, and Elena are discussing what to do about the tomb vampires. Damon leaves the room after he hears Adrianna wake up. He later takes her to the Grill so she could meet up with Caroline. Two hours later he finds out that she never met up with Caroline and he realizes that Stefan is also missing. He checks with Elena to see if she's heard from either of them and when she says she hadn't, he goes straight to Pearl's farmhouse. Damon demands that Adrianna and Stefan be let go but Frederick doesn't listen to him and Damon is unable to enter the house because the human owner of the house was compelled to never let him in.
When he gets back to his house, Elena is there and he tells her what happened. She wants to go in on her own but Damon refuses because he believes she would mess up whatever plan he came up with and he doesn't want to put Adrianna's sister in danger. The two of them go to Alaric, and Damon lies to Alaric by insinuating that Pearl would know something about Isobel because of her connection to Katherine. Damon continually refuses Elena's attempts to help them, eventually allowing her to drive the 'get-away car'. During the mission to save Adrianna and his brother, Damon manages to kill several vampires without being badly injured, and when Elena and Stefan leave together, he, Alaric, and Adrianna remain behind to face the tomb vampires. Pearl comes back before they're attacked, admitting that she had no idea Stefan and Adrianna had been taken, and that it shouldn't have happened. Damon responds by saying that taking Adrianna and Stefan was not a good way to get on his good side. Damon went to the bar and when he returned home later, he finds Stefan surrounded by blood bags and devouring as many as possible.
Damon tries to coax Stefan to drink human blood to get his strength back. He even leaves his glass full of blood behind and sarcastically runs back to get it. He later attends a Town Council meeting, where he first encounters the twins' uncle, John Gilbert. Later, Adrianna calls him after Elena asked because she's worried that Stefan might have lost control over his bloodlust. Elena asks Damon how long Stefan would be this way and Damon responds by saying he does not know. While perusing the room, Damon tells them that John is in the town council.

At the Founders' Day Kick-Off Party, Damon taunts Stefan about drinking to stop the blood cravings. Damon later speaks to the twins about Stefan dancing on the dance floor and then questions why Jeremy was talking to the Sheriff. As he was speaking to the Sheriff, she tells him that they might have more vampires in town because what John Gilbert said about blood banks being robbed was completely true. When John Gilbert and Damon talk outside of the party, John reveals that he knows what Damon is. Damon begins walking away but when John mentions Adrianna he responds by snapping John's neck and pushing him from the balcony. Damon later reports to Stefan and Adrianna that he killed John. He later sees John Gilbert standing to give a speech and expresses shock and, to Alaric and Adrianna, points out that John is wearing the same ring that Alaric was wearing. They talk again later (with Alaric and Adrianna present), and John reveals that he knows Katherine and he knew Isobel and that he gave Alaric's ring to Isobel in the first place.
Damon is visited by John Gilbert and Sheriff Forbes and John suggests that he and Damon work together to track down whoever is stealing from the blood banks. Anna comes to visit him later, and though he warns her about the Founders' Council being onto the tomb vampires, she says she hasn't been to the blood bank in at least a week, and the other vampires are gone. Damon goes home and confronts Stefan for being the thief, though he seems elated by Stefan's new diet. He also finds Stefan's fridge of human blood.

Adrianna skips school and goes to the Salvatore Boarding House and Damon ends up showing her the Miss Mystic dance. They are about to kiss when they are interrupted by John Gilbert. He tells Damon that he wants the Gilbert Device and he wants Damon to get it from Pearl, who was 'friendly' with Johnathan Gilbert back in 1864. Damon rejects the idea of helping John, but when he sees Anna again at the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, he inquires about the device. Later, he tells Adrianna and Elena about Stefan's fridge full of blood. When Stefan vanishes before the dance begins, Damon steps in to escort Adrianna, who had switched places with Elena, onto the dance floor. After the dance, Adrianna, Elena, and Damon search for Stefan in the woods, only to find him feeding on one of the contestants. Bonnie arrives and manages to subdue Stefan, but, in his right mind again, Stefan flees. Later, Pearl brings Damon the device she stole from Johnathan Gilbert as a peace offering because Anna wants to stay in Mystic Falls. After Adrianna tricks Stefan and injects him with vervain, Damon carries him to the dungeon and locks him inside, and the two of them sit in the hallway together.
While Elena watches Stefan, and Adrianna watches Elena, Damon and Alaric go on a quest for information about Isobel, where they encounter one of the tomb vampires, Henry. The vampire reveals that John Gilbert has been working with him to keep an eye on the other tomb vampires. They end up killing him and having a moderately deep conversation about searching for their ex-lovers. Damon returns home to see the twins still at his house and tells Adrianna the rest of his and his brother's vampiric origins, which is that Stefan forced him to feed on a human. Stefan later approaches Damon while he's drinking in the living room, and Damon tells him to stop feeling his guilt. He then says that he hated him for all those years not because he forced him to turn, but "because she turned you." Damon thought Katherine's love was only for him.
Damon expresses distaste for Stefan's new 'cured' personality while on the phone with Adrianna and Elena. He also seems concerned by Adrianna meeting Isobel for the first time, telling her that she didn't have to meet her if she didn't want to. While the twins and Isobel are meeting, Damon is pacing beside Alaric just outside the Grill. Damon explains that Isobel has a 'switch' she can use to turn off her emotions, though he denies that he has humanity himself. Isobel later finds Damon in her temporary home, playing a game of cards involving stripping. She attempts to threaten him, but Damon continues questioning her about the Gilbert Device. When she kisses him, Damon pins her to the ground and threatens to 'rip her to bits' for going after Adrianna. He tells her to tell Katherine to come get the device herself. Later, Adrianna convinces Damon to give her the device so Bonnie can de-spell it and they can trade the device for Jeremy, who has been kidnapped by Isobel. Damon admits that he doesn't trust Bonnie, but he trusts Adrianna. When they make the trade with Isobel, Damon and Stefan are present. Adrianna asks Isobel how she knew Damon would give her the device, and Isobel responds, "Because he's in love with you." Stefan later confronts Damon about it and warns him not to hurt Adrianna as it will also hurt Elena. Damon also reveals that John Gilbert is Elena and Adrianna's real father, and he's amused that the others didn't put it together as quickly as he did.

Damon is shocked when Adrianna arrives at the Founders' Day celebration looking just like Katherine. He is later with the twins and Stefan when Stefan tells them about John being their real father. When Adrianna and Bonnie are watching the parade float, Damon goes over to them and thanks Bonnie for de-spelling the device, surprising her with his sincerity. Damon later tells Adrianna that he likes her better in normal clothing and tells her about the conversation he had with Stefan the night before. When Damon overhears Jeremy's argument with the twins, he's angered by Jeremy's response to Adrianna and follows him, telling him to give his sister a break. Stefan 'rescues' Jeremy from him and insists that Damon is only doing it for his own benefit. While wandering around during the celebration, Damon encounters Anna, who tells him the tomb vampires will be killing the founding families as soon as the fireworks start. Damon, afraid for Adrianna's life, goes straight to Alaric, and then to Adrianna, Elena, and Stefan, who he tells to leave the party as soon as possible. He goes to the building where John Gilbert is setting up the device, but, unfortunately, Bonnie never de-spelled it, and it makes him collapse. He was then injected with vervain and put in the basement of the Gilbert Building to be burned alive. Stefan, with the help of Bonnie, manages to save Damon's life.
After being rescued, Damon tells Jeremy about Anna and offers to compel his memories away but Jeremy declines his offer. Damon then takes Adrianna and Jeremy home where he thanks Adrianna for being the reason that Bonnie decided to help Stefan save him. They are about to kiss when Elena opens the door and interrupts them. They say goodbye and Damon leaves the house. It turns out that it was not Elena, but Katherine pretending to be her.

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* Book 2
* Book 3
* Book 4

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* Book 2
* Book 3

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## Personality

* Human
* Vampire

"*You know, I used to miss being human. Now I can't think of anything more miserable on Earth*"
—Damon to Adrianna

Damon was originally a very free-spirited young man, who was best friends with his younger brother Stefan Salvatore, both of whom were instantly smitten with the vampire Katherine Pierce. He had a positive relationship with Stefan and he held his position as elder brother in high regard, being the one to teach Stefan how to fight when they were younger. As a human, Damon also held a sense of duty as he enrolled in the confederacy, however their father saw him as very irresponsible and reckless, proving he was very much a free spirit who did things on a whim, taking no mind to what people thought.

Damon could be considered much the opposite to his brother in many regards. Whilst they both were respectful and polite, Damon had a dark side which came in to play when he fell in love with Katherine. Whilst initially terrified at the prospect, his love for Katherine and dependency for her affections made the choice easy and he willingly drank her blood and conspired with her to kill innocent humans, a trait which passed on to his vampire lifestyle. Damon was very naive as a human, he loved Katherine deeply and recklessly, regardless of the consequences and not caring that his father was ashamed of him. His carefree life fell apart when Stefan betrayed Damon by alluding to their father that Katherine was a vampire; information that resulted in Katherine being trapped and taken to a church to be burned, also doing whatever he could to get her back, even if it resulted in his death.

"*And you know what makes me able to drink my fill and leave someone breathing and not rip their head off like my brother; is that I can revel in it. I can make it fun.*"
—Damon to Bonnie and Adrianna

After he became a vampire, he left Stefan's side, wanting no part in the life of the man who betrayed him. He selfishly kept the fact that Katherine was still alive from Stefan, jealous that his brother had also been turned by their shared lover. By the time he appears in Book 1, he's been away from Stefan for at least eighty years, and he immediately begins taunting his brother, as a colder, more calloused version of his human self.
Throughout Book 1, Damon pretends to be arrogant and sarcastic, showing little to no regard for human life and using whatever people he can get his hands on as his personal playthings. He shows no pity to neither Caroline Forbes nor Vicki Donovan, even going so far as to kill Stefan's football coach to "prove" that he has no humanity left. He is also portrayed as a very impulsive vampire, known for his self-destructive behavior and his devious, sadistic mind. Despite this, he stays focused on his only goal: getting Katherine out of the tomb. This shows his ability for planning and forethought, and certainly the patience to wait one hundred and forty-five years for the necessary comet to return.
After Katherine is discovered to have been alive the entire time, and his reason for doing the things he has been doing shattered, Damon becomes more dangerous because he drinks alcohol constantly, bonding with others at the bar. He destructively taunts Alaric Saltzman about being the one to kill his wife, Isobel Flemming, but is confused when he finds out that Isobel is Adrianna's birth mother. He tempts his brother with human blood, though he knows exactly what Stefan used to be, and when Stefan goes off the deep end, Damon helps detox him. He also genuinely thanks Bonnie Bennett for disabling the device that could kill him, surprising her with his sincerity.
Every time his brother is put in a situation that endangers his life, Damon protects him, but he's not afraid to cause Stefan non-lethal harm. Despite his anger with Stefan fo his actions in the past, he hangs around, protecting him and working with him, though he sometimes destroys the good in his life.

Adrianna is the oddity of Damon's behavior, the anomaly that makes his personality far from psychopathic. In the beginning of the first book, Stefan is prepared to give up on his brother, believing him to be an irreparable monster, but Damon displays true feelings for Adrianna. They became friends as soon as they met and she became what he clings to for humanity. He became her protector and guardian of sorts.
Throughout the second and third books, Damon is slightly kinder, if only for the fact that he no longer mindlessly kills and torments humans without good reason. He proves that he is capable of love, nobility, loyalty, and selflessness, masking the most intense of his emotions to spare himself from seeming weak, but expressing just enough to draw in a very small circle of friends.
By the end of Book 5, Damon makes the biggest decision he's ever made; sacrificing his life to save his brother and everyone he cares about over on The Other Side. He was unable to come back in the process but was thankful to Adrianna that she had become a part of his life and for falling in love with him.

## Physical Appearance

Damon is very handsome, standing 5'10" in height with a well-built, toned physique. His physical appearance is of around a 24-25 year old despite being over 170. Damon has a light complexion with olive undertones and has a strong bone structure with high cheekbones and a solid jawline. He has black hair, which hangs just over his ears, usually styled in a casual disarray yet sometimes gelled for special occasions. With striking, intense light blue eyes contrasting wonderfully against dark eyelashes and eyebrows, and a "bad boy" smile, he can be described as relatively athletic, tall, strong, sexy, and seductive. He also considers himself the "eternal stud".

Damon's clothing style has remained somewhat similar throughout the entire series, usually favoring darker clothing; black shirts, t-shirts, and boots underneath darkened jeans and black trousers, although on occasion he has been seen wearing lighter colors. Damon is rarely seen without his leather jackets and his favorite clothing designer is "John Varvatos". On special events, such as dances, he wears smart attire such as tuxedos and dress shoes. As a vampire, he wears a large lapis lazuli daylight ring, enchanted by Emily Bennett, as a means to walk around in the sunlight as a vampire. The ring has the Salvatore crest and an embedded "D" for his first name.

In flashbacks, as a human in the 1860s era, Damon generally wore the same attire as his younger brother; Stefan, including dress shirts with suspenders, waistcoats, dress coats, hats, cravats, and leather laced boots as his usual style. His color scheme as a human was much lighter, and Damon was seen wearing a red waistcoat, yet still formal, showing the Salvatore family's wealth. His hair was slightly longer in style, with slight curls, showing a much more youthful appearance.

## Powers and Abilities

* Vampire
* Augustine Vampire

Damon possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire. He has shown himself to be an experienced fighter, easily able to subdue his enemies. Being that Damon is over 170 years old, he is an old and powerful vampire.

For vampire standards, he is a relatively young non-Original vampire, along with his younger brother Stefan. Damon's initial advantage over his brother was due to him being older and regularly consuming human blood. Due to this Damon is physically able to easily beat younger vampires, although he has been shown capable of standing up to vampires much older than him, in part due to his determination. Though ultimately still inferior to much older vampires like Katherine Pierce, Pearl, and the Originals to name a few. However, given his intellect, he has been shown to take vampires down through surprise attacks, such as fighting the ancient vampire, Elijah Mikaelson with his brother's help and surprising Kol using his super-speed.

Damon, when at full strength, can be extremely dangerous, especially when fighting for the ones he love. Such as, when Damon, alongside Stefan, were able to fight Katherine Pierce, a non-Original vampire of 538 years of age, though she still bested both of them. Damon is also a very skilled user of mind compulsion. Damon is shown to use this power effectively many times throughout the long course of the series. Mind compulsion remains to date one of Damon's most frequently used powers of being a vampire.

Initially Damon's strength was much more powerful than Stefan's due to his frequent feeding spree on humans. Stefan was unwilling to face him without an advantage and told his nephew he wouldn't be able to beat Damon without feeding on humans himself, something that Damon told him earlier. Later in the series, the power distance between the brothers shortened as Damon fed less frequently and usually on blood bags, and Stefan may have moderated at some point as demonstrated by the battles where Stefan is able to fight evenly against his brother, though Damon still usually wins fights.
Damon appeared to have an increase in strength whenever he felt the urge to feed on Vampire blood, he had all the abilities that a normal vampire would have except, enhanced to further levels making him much more powerful than vampires that are much older than him.

## Weaknesses

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

## Relationships

### Stefan Salvatore

*Main Article: Stefan and Damon*

"*You're my brother, I'm not going to give up on you. I never will.*"
—Stefan to Damon

Stefan is Damon's younger brother. When they were human, they were very close up until the arrival of the beautiful Katherine Pierce. After Katherine's "death", Damon swore to make Stefan's life a misery, and succeeded in 1912 by making him lose control of himself, fifty years after their last meeting. In the 1940s, for the first time since their transition, Damon showed a rare selflessness by backing out of his plan to join Stefan in war so that Stefan could try to control his urges, as Damon would've been a bad influence. Despite not knowing the truth of Damon's selfless act, Stefan still returned the favor to his brother in the 1970s by sending Lexi to help Damon turn on his humanity. From these glimpses of the past, it is shown that while they may outwardly despise the other, deep down they truly care. Before Book 1, the brothers hadn't seen each other since the early 1990s, their relationship having taken a steep turn for the worse, as their relationship was described as "violent and bitter". Due to Katherine's influence they became enemies, yet have recently began repairing their strained relationship. Stefan was the best man at Damon's wedding to Adrianna and Damon was the best man at Stefan's wedding to Rebekah.

### Adrianna Gilbert

*Main Article: Adrianna and Damon*

"*I love you too, Damon.*"
—Adrianna to Damon

Adrianna Gilbert is the love of Damon's life, his wife, best friend, and mother of his daughter. He first met Adrianna when he was in Mystic Falls looking for Katherine Pierce. He then talked to Adrianna but afterwards, compelled her to forget their meeting. They then met again a year later in almost the exact same place. They formed a bond and become close friends, with Damon falling for her, even though he was still actively trying to rescue Katherine. It becomes very clear to the people around them that they both care for each other deeply. When it comes to Adrianna, Damon is very selfish, willing to put her life before anyone else's, including her loved ones. They finally acted on the increasing sexual tension and chemistry after Adrianna transitions into a vampire. The first time he tells her directly that he loved her was while she was in transition and he thought she was asleep. However, Adrianna heard him and this is one of the reasons why she decided to complete the transition. They first made love and officially became a couple a few days after her transition. They both showed unconditional love for each other during the course of their relationship, willing to everything and anything for each other. They broke up during Book 4 after Adrianna finds out that Elena was in love with Damon and was sired to him. She believed that they both had to be in love with each other in order for the sire bond to be formed. However, she later found out that this wasn't true. Before they got a chance to talk and reconcile, Damon and Bonnie became stuck on the Other Side with everyone thinking that they were dead. This devastated Adrianna and she left Mystic Falls with Kol to find a way to bring them back. Damon later returns and finds out that Adrianna was pregnant with Klaus' child. They rekindled their romance almost immediately and, after neutralizing the threats to her baby, they get married. They later have a daughter together.

### Alexia Salvatore

*Main Article: Damon and Alexia*

"*You will always be my little girl*"
—Damon to Alexia

Alexia is Damon's first and only child, who he had with his wife, Adrianna. Damon and Adrianna were surprised to find out about the pregnancy after they returned to New Orleans and they decided that it would be best if they moved back to Mystic Falls during the pregnancy. They also decided to keep the baby a secret, only telling their close friends and family. Throughout the pregnancy, it was very clear that Damon was overjoyed and absolutely enamored by his unborn child because he didn't think it would be possible for him to have children. He was overjoyed when he found out that they would be having a girl. Damon was very protective during the pregnancy, becoming overbearing at times. This is mostly due to all conflicts that occurred during Adrianna's first pregnancy. Though the pregnancy was conflict free, there were some complications due to Alexia inheriting her mother's siphoning ability. After Adrianna gave birth, the couple returned to New Orleans, where there was a party held for the new baby. Damon chose the name Alexia, to honor Stefan's deceased best friend. From the moment she is born, Damon was completely taken by her and swore to always protect her. Alexia can be viewed as a little bit of a daddy's girl and Damon often spoils her, giving her whatever she asks for. However, there are times when Alexia becomes very angry at her father because he tends to scare off her dates. Alexia inherited many traits from her father, including her charming and often flirtatious personality and her tendency to get really angry and hold grudges. Alexia and Damon have a very strong bond, both willing to do anything for each other.

### Alaric Saltzman

*Main Article: Damon and Alaric*

"*I miss you too, buddy.*"
—Alaric to Damon

Alaric was Damon's best friend. It started out antagonistic towards each other since Alaric knew that it had been Damon who had possibly killed his wife but it later turned out that she wasn't dead and that she had in fact been turned into a vampire by Damon. From that point on, they have been becoming closer and they often team up to fight the usual threats to the town. They are often seen drinking together; it's often seen that they do taunt each other as well though. Throughout the series, they become like brothers. Towards the end of Book 3, Alaric is turned into an Original vampire by Esther Mikaelson, fed on Bonnie Bennett to complete his transition, and then took the White Oak Stake from Bonnie. Alaric died in Damon's arms at the end of Book 3, moments after Elena's death, as Elena and Alaric's lives were linked. At the end of Book 5, Damon gives up his life to save their loved ones, including Alaric, whom were still on the Other Side, which causes Alaric much grief over losing his best friend. When Damon returns they reconnect before Damon goes to New Orleans to find Adrianna. Towards the end of Book 6, Alaric has Damon as his best man at his wedding, expressing that Damon is the closest thing he ever had to a brother. Damon is devastated when Alaric is killed at the wedding.

### Bonnie Bennett

*Main Article: Damon and Bonnie*

"*You're my best friend and if anything ever happened to you, I would lose my mind.*"
—Damon to Bonnie

Damon's relationship with Bonnie originally started out antagonistic, particularly from Bonnie's side. Bonnie would only save Damon for Adrianna's sake and the two were often forced to work together for the sake of their friends and loved ones. By Book 4, Damon seemed to actually care for Bonnie, refusing to leave Nova Scotia without her when he thought she got lost. In Book 5, he was upset at hearing of her death and attended her funeral. At the end of Book 5, they got stuck on The Other Side and hold hands as it collapses. They end up trapped in a 1994 Prison World for four months. This time impacted their relationship significantly as they were working together to find a way out and bonding as much as they argued. Damon is very protective of Bonnie, threatening Kai when he threatened Bonnie when she first refused to do the spell to get them out of the Prison World. Bonnie eventually does the spell and they escaped the Prison World, along with Kai. Bonnie and Damon then spend time with some friends in Mystic Falls before going to New Orleans to find Adrianna and Kol, respectively. Bonnie was a bridesmaid at Damon's wedding to Adrianna and Damon was present at Bonnie's wedding to Kol.

### Other Relationships

Salvatore Family, Petrova Family, Gilbert Family, Labonair Family, Augustine, Town Council

* Silas and Damon (Enemies/Partners-in-Crime/Ancestor and Descendant)
* Katherine and Damon (Ex-Girlfriend/Former Enemies/Allies/Friends)
* Damon and Elizabeth (Close Friends/Former Allies)
* Damon and Caroline (Friends/Allies)
* Damon and Elijah (Frenemies/Allies)
* Damon and Klaus (Partners-in-Crime/Frenemies/Allies)
* Damon and Rebekah (Sister-in-Law/Brother-in-Law/Frenemies/Allies)
* Damon and Kol (Former Enemies/Close Friends)
* Damon and Kai (Former Enemies/Close Friends/Partners-in-Crime)

## Name

* **Damon** is a masculine name of Greek origin, from the Greek δαμαω (*damao*) meaning "to tame" or "subdue".
* The name **Damon** is a Greek baby name. In Greek the **meaning** of the name **Damon** is: Gentle. In Greek legend **Damon** was a loyal friend of Pythias.
* **Salvatore** is of Italian origin and means "savior".

## Trivia

* Damon is extremely fond of dancing.
* Damon doesn't like Taylor Swift but is willing to listen to her to impress girls.
* As a child, Damon used to have a pet turkey called Sammy, until his father made him eat her for Thanksgiving when he was twelve.
* Damon's ethnic background is half-French (from his mother) and half-Italian (from his father).
* Damon is a veteran of both the American Civil War (1861-1865) as a soldier, Second Lieutenant, in the Confederate Army until 1864 and the US Army in World War II (1939-1945) when he joined in 1942. During his time in the Civil War, Damon was a part of the 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiment.
* Damon was the second vampire to be bitten by a werewolf after Rose and before Katherine, and the second to be cured, after Katherine.
* Damon is the only known vampire whose blood was used to turn a mother and a daughter into vampires, Isobel Flemming and Elena Gilbert. Damon is also the only known vampire whose blood was used to turn a father and daughter into vampires, Bill Forbes and his daughter Caroline Forbes.