Lorenzo St. John

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## Biographical Information

### Turned

* By Lillian Salvatore on November 1, 1903

### Occupation

* Soldier (1940s)
* Prisoner (1950s)
* Augustine Vampire (1950s)
* Member of the Armory (Formerly)

### Titles

* Enzo (nickname)
* Mr. Butterfingers (by Damon)
* Darling (by Lily)

### Species

* Human (Originally)
* Vampire (Currently) (Athena's Bloodline)
* Ghost (Formerly)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Father †
* Dalton St. John † (Paternal Uncle)
* Alexandria St. John † (Paternal Distant Cousin)
* Virginia St. John † (Paternal Distant Cousin)
* Yvette St. John † (Paternal Distant Cousin)
* Bonnie Bennett (Wife)
* Lia Bennett (Daughter)
* Lucy Bennett (Daughter)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Sires

* Farmer John † (2012)
* Ivy † (2012)
* Tripp Cooke † (2012)
* Many humans † (turning humans into vampires to feed Damon) (2012)

### Significant Kills

* Dr. Gabler
* Megan King
* Dianne Freeman
* Farmer John (as a human)
* Tripp Cooke (as a human)
* Hazel
* Tom Avery
* Ivy (as a human)
* Jay
* Shirley
* Monique
* Unknown Spirit possessing Oscar (2nd time)
* Rayna Cruz (3rd time)
* Phoenix Stone vampires
* Cindy

### Cause of Death

* Consumption  (as a human)
* Heart Extraction  (1st and 2nd time; as a vampire)

### Killed By

* Himself (indirectly; killed by Stefan Salvatore (as a vampire)
* Stefan Salvatore (2nd time; as a vampire)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'10" (Feet)
* 1.79 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Episode Count

* 59 (TVD)
* 3 (TO)
* 3 (Legacies)
* 65 (Totaled)

### First Seen

* *The Cell* (TVD)
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*(TO)
* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn* (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic* (TVD)
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*(TO)
* *TBA* (Legacies)

**Lorenzo "Enzo" St. John** was a main character, minor antagonist, and anti-hero in *The Vampire Diaries* and is a guest character in *Legacies*. He was formerly a major recurring character in the fifth season of the series, before being promoted to main in the sixth season. He is a vampire who was previously Damon Salvatore's cellmate in the 1950s, after being captured by the Augustines. He was first mentioned by Dr. Wes Maxfield, being dubbed as the "Augustine Vampire".

In the fifth season during *Man on Fire*, Enzo and Stefan fought intensely with one another. Enzo attempted to set Stefan on fire, but Stefan pushed his hand inside of Enzo, grabbing his heart. Stefan refused to kill Enzo, but Enzo stepped back and his heart was extracted. Enzo told Stefan that his revenge was making Stefan explain to Damon how he killed his best friend. Enzo later passed through Bonnie to the Other Side.

While on the Other Side, Enzo realizes that since Markos has entered the world of the living, that the dimension is falling apart. He tried his best to figure out how to get out of the Other Side and put his trust in Bonnie. In *Home*, Markos was sucked into Hell and Enzo successfully passed through Bonnie, returning to life.

In the sixth season, Enzo began a mission to save Damon, Theo, and Bonnie from the prison world they were trapped in with the help of Caroline Forbes.

In the seventh season, Enzo allied himself with Lily and the Heretics because of his love for her. Eventually, he began working for the Armory as he was interested in his past and finding out what his family stands for. Enzo also hid Bonnie from the Armory because they needed her to open a mysterious vault. He gave her pills to mute her magic and the two end up falling in love. Enzo is last seen running after Damon into a vault in the Armory when suddenly discolored, long-clawed hands grab his face and pull him backward out of view.

He and Damon are then enslaved by Sybil and required bring her victims to feed off from. Enzo is freed from her control and he Bonnie begin spending time together. After they arrive at her house, Enzo overhears something about the cure. When Stefan uses the real estate agent, Karen, to sign the house over and invite him in, Enzo tries to get in, but to no avail. Stefan shoves his hand in his chest, about to kill him but Alex comes in time and uses her magic to stop Stefan from killing him.

**Lorenzo** is a member of the **St. John Family**. He also has ties to the **Bennett Family** through his marriage to Bonnie and his daughters Lia and Lucy.

## Early History

Lorenzo was orphaned as a child, with no idea who his real family was. By the age of four, he was forced into the workhouses. By fourteen, he was living out on the streets, fighting for scraps to survive.

In 1903 Southampton, England, Enzo was denied passage on a ship to New York because of his consumption, but Lily Salvatore helped him get aboard the ship so that he could see a doctor on the ship. However, he turned out to be a charlatan. Lily gave Enzo her blood in order to turn him into a vampire, and he later died of consumption before the ship docked in Manhattan Harbor. Before awakening in transition, the Gemini Coven caught up with Lily and her traveling companions, the Heretics. She and her family had killed everyone aboard except the charlatan doctor, leaving him to Enzo so he could complete his transition. He believed that Lily had left him and was unaware that she had been sealed in a Prison World.

Enzo was found by the Whitmore family after he left his post in Eastern Europe during WWII. He was imprisoned by Dr. Whitmore, who shipped him overseas in a coffin and forced him to endure his torture and experimentation for ten years. In 1950, Enzo remained a prisoner of the Augustine Society and was used as an experiment in the laboratory at the Whitmore House. Maggie James was responsible for the study of his behavior and took notes about him. They began to develop feelings for each other later on. Later, Maggie wanted to help him escape and she asked him to turn her into a vampire. She wanted to escape and be with him forever, but Enzo, in order to protect her, took off her vervain bracelet, and compelled her to forget about him and leave. He returned her bracelet and she left.

In 1953, Damon Salvatore was imprisoned by Augustine and Enzo reached out a hand of friendship to the young vampire. They would talk about many things to keep their hope of escape up. Enzo planned to have Damon take his ration of blood for a year so that he would be stronger and assist in the escape. During the annual New Year's Eve Party at Whitmore, Damon broke free of his chains and attacked everyone but, in the process, caused a fire. Enzo was still stuck in a cage laced with vervain and Damon attempted to free his friend to no avail. Realizing that he could not free his friend and fearful that Augustine would take him back, Damon turned off his emotions and abandoned him. Enzo continuously screamed for his friend to free him and was presumed dead.

## Personality

Enzo is a charismatic person who had lived quite a fulfilling life prior to his imprisonment by Augustine. Despite his imprisonment, he remained optimistic and hopeful to one day escape and possibly take revenge on Augustine for their torture on him. After it is revealed that he was still alive and imprisoned, Enzo seems to have become mentally unhinged as a result of the five decades of torture, as he slowly hums a song just after he introduces himself to Elena. He also showed immense anger towards Damon for being unable to save him, nevertheless after rekindling their friendship, he refused to abandon him when he turned into an Augustine Vampire. He shows that he is loyal and would never abandon those important to him. He is also shown to have a vengeance streak as seen when he helps Damon with the Augustines, when he finds out Maggie was killed by Damon, and that the people who knew that he was dead didn't mention anything to Damon.

Enzo continues to show acts of loyalty to his friends, mainly Damon, looking for leads to find Damon, and punishing Stefan for giving up on Damon. Enzo clearly misses his friend and even kills Stefan's girlfriend for giving up on Damon, and for making his friend Caroline cry. Enzo is willing to do whatever possible for those he cares about.

## Physical Appearance

Enzo is very handsome, with short jet black hair, dark eyes, light olive skin and a solid jaw line. He physically appears to be in his mid twenties despite being nearly one hundred years old. Enzo presents a devil may care attitude in his appearance and is always seen with a cocky smirk, much like his close friend, Damon Salvatore.

His style consists of darker clothing; black shirts, scarves and thick jackets, boots underneath darkened jeans and black trousers, although on occasion has been seen wearing lighter colors, which in general is a "bad boy" style.

## Powers and Abilities

Enzo possessed all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire.

Unlike some of the other younger vampires Enzo possesses a high resilience and tolerance to pain, torture, offensive spells and psychic attacks, having been the Augustine's "lab rat" for approximately 70 years while enduring countless horrific experimentations. He was observed impaling himself with a wooden shaft with no visible signs of discomfort, as well as being able to momentarily ignore the effects (losing consciousness and significant weakening) of a concentrated vervain shot used on him by Tripp.

He is also a skilled fighter. He is physically strong enough to fight Stefan and Damon (individually) on near equal grounds, though ultimately nearly losing his heart due to extraction from Damon. Given his age and prowess, he like many others, were no match for superior supernatural species such as Bonnie when she was the Supernatural Shamanistic Huntress.

He is also one of the few vampires to express knowledge and skill in swordsmanship, having confronted Julian, a vampire more than three times his age, in a sword fight and proved quite capable of fending for himself. However, it should be noted Julian ultimately defeated Enzo.

Most recently, Enzo has demonstrated that he has a mental fortitude beyond comparison for a vampire of his age (due to the Augustine experiments). When on guard, he can repeatedly fend off the psychic attacks from Sybil who has only been able to enter his mind when first surprised (her initial release from the vault) and a second time when Damon struck his chest and gripped his heart.

## Weaknesses

Enzo had the typical weaknesses of a non-Original vampire.

## Attitude

It is unknown what Enzo's original views on humans were but after years of torture, Enzo seems to have little respect for human life. He has fed directly from them and did not show any remorse when attacking or killing people. He did however fall in love with a human named Maggie James, and was unwilling to turn her when she asked him to help him escape Augustine. Instead, he compelled her to forget and leave him, not wanting to see her harmed or corrupted by becoming a vampire.

## Appearances

### The Vampire Diaries

* *I Know What You Did Last Summer* (Unseen)
* *Handle with Care* (Mentioned)
* *The Cell*
* *Fifty Shades of Grayson*
* *The Devil Inside*
* *Total Eclipse of the Heart*
* *No Exit*
* *Gone Girl* (Mentioned)
* *While You Were Sleeping*
* *Rescue Me*
* *Resident Evil*
* *Man on Fire*
* *What Lies Beneath* (Ghost)
* *Promised Land* (Ghost)
* *Home* (Ghost; resurrected)
* *Yellow Ledbetter*
* *Welcome to Paradise*
* *Black Hole Sun*
* *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here* (Mentioned)
* *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*
* *Do You Remember the First Time?*
* *Fade Into You* (Mentioned)
* *I Alone*
* *Christmas Through Your Eyes*
* *Woke Up With a Monster*
* *The Day I Tried To Live*
* *Stay*
* *The Downward Spiral*
* *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*
* *I Never Could Love Like That*
* *Because*
* *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You*
* *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*
* *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*

* *Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take*
* *Never Let Me Go*
* *I Carry Your Heart With Me*
* *Live Through This*
* *Best Served Cold*
* *Mommie Dearest*
* *Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me*
* *Postcards from the Edge*
* *This Woman's Work*
* *Moonlight on the Bayou*
* *I Would for You*
* *Days of Future Past*
* *One Way or Another*
* *Somebody That I Used to Know*
* *Kill 'Em All*
* *Requiem for a Dream*
* *Gods and Monsters*
* *Hello, Brother*
* *Today Will Be Different*
* *You Decided That I Was Worth Saving*
* *Coming Home Was a Mistake*
* *Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell*
* *The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You*
* *The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch*
* *Nostalgia's a Bitch* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *You Made a Choice to Be Good* (Death)
* *What Are You?* (Body/Voice)
* *The Lies Will Catch Up To You* (Spirit)
* *It's Been a Hell of a Ride* (Spirit)
* *We're Planning a June Wedding* (Spirit)
* *I Was Feeling Epic* (Resurrected)

### The Originals

**Season Three**
* *Behind the Black Horizon* (Indirectly Mentioned)

**Season Four**
* *The Feast of All Sinners*

**Season Five**
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*

### Legacies

* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn*
* *I'll Never Give Up Hope*
* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*

## Name

* **Lorenzo** is a Spanish and Italian masculine given name of Latin origin derived from the name Laurentius. It is used in Spain, Italy, and other Latin European and Latin American countries. Enzo is of Italian and Old German origin, and the meaning is "home ruler", variant of Henry.
* **St. John** is Hebrew and means "Jehovah has been gracious; has shown favor". In the bible John the Baptist baptized Christ in the Jordan river. It can also mean "the grace or mercy of the Lord".