Tatia

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## Biographical information

### Born

* 10th Century (Mystic Falls, Age Unknown)

### Title(s)

* The First Doppelgänger
* The Original Doppelgänger
* The Original Petrova (by Klaus)

### Species

* Human/Doppelgänger
* Ghost (Formerly)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Amara † (Progenitor Of, Distant Ancestor)
* Unnamed Family †
* Unnamed Husband †
* Unnamed Child † (Son or Daughter)
* Mr. Petrov † (Descendant)
* Mrs. Petrova † (Descendant)
* Katerina Petrova (Doppelgänger, Descendant)
* Nadia Petrova † (Descendant)
* Nadia's Child † (Descendant)
* Isobel Flemming † (Descendant)
* Elena Gilbert (Doppelgänger, Descendant)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Doppelgänger, Descendant)
* Hope Mikaelson (Descendant)
* Alexia Salvatore (Descendant)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'7" (Feet)
* 1.70 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Brown

**Tatia** was a Petrova doppelgänger with whom both Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson fell in love with in the late 10th/early 11th century. She is the first-known doppelgänger to be created from Amara's line after her earliest known ancestor was turned into a true immortal in the 1st century B.C. Elijah and Niklaus' mother used Tatia's blood to turn them into the worlds first vampires, which eventually led to her death at the newly-turned Elijah's hands. After her death, her blood was used in the spell that bound Niklaus' werewolf heritage.

**Tatia** was a member of the **Petrova Family**.

## Early History

During the Middle Ages, Tatia lived in a small village with her Viking husband and their child. However, he ultimately died in battle, and instead of throwing herself on his funeral pyre as was expected of a Viking widow, she decided to live, move on, and try to find love again. Later in time, she met both Elijah and Niklaus, both of whom fell in love with her. However, she ultimately only fell in love with Elijah and she chose him over his younger half-brother. Esther, the mother of Elijah and Niklaus, used her blood in the spell to turn her children into the Original Vampires after the death of her son Henrik at the hands of the werewolves in their village. Tatia's blood, which possessed mystical properties due to her status as a doppelgänger, was enchanted by Esther and mixed with the wine that she and Mikael gave their children with dinner.

After the Mikaelson children's transformations, Klaus made his first human kill while he was feeding and activated his werewolf gene, which also revealed he was actually the illegitimate child of Esther and a werewolf villager named Ansel. When Klaus awoke the morning after his first transformation as a hybrid, he was tended to by Elijah. Unknown to either of them, Tatia had followed the brothers into the woods to see what had happened. What led her to them were body parts of six villagers torn away in Klaus' wake. Tatia eventually saw Klaus covered in blood and ran away in fear, causing Elijah to chase after her to explain what had happened. While she was fleeing from them Tatia tripped and cut her hand badly in the process. When Elijah caught up to her, Tatia told him to stay away from her before scrambling to her feet and demanding to know what he was. Elijah promised her that he loved her and insisted that he was the same man with whom she fell in love. However, she admitted that despite the fact that Esther had asked for her blood, she had no idea she was planning on using it to turn Elijah and the others into monsters with her dark magic. A hurt Elijah tried to explain that he wasn't a monster, but in the middle of his pleas, he caught the scent of her blood and realized that she had cut her hand when she had fallen. Elijah was ultimately unable to control his newborn bloodlust, and when his vampire face began to emerge, he begged her to run, which she did. However, Elijah was too overwhelmed by his new nature and instinctively used his vampire speed to catch up to her before being overcome by his hunger and feeding on her neck until she passed out.

Afterwards, Elijah came back to his senses and realized what he had done and immediately brought her to his mother in hopes that she could save her. However, Tatia had already died by this time, and so Esther, feeling guilty for her role in Elijah's bloodlust, assured him that she would take care of it. She cast a spell on Elijah to help him repress his memories of killing Tatia, which put his memories of the act behind what Elijah now refers to as his "red door". Esther then used what was left of Tatia's blood to cast the Hybrid Curse on Klaus in order to bind his werewolf side and help restore the imbalance of Nature caused by the immense power he had gained from being both vampire and werewolf. Elijah, whose memories of the event had been modified, and Klaus then went on believing that Esther had killed Tatia in order to cast the curse on Klaus.

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

* Book 2
* Book 3
* Book 5

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## Personality

She was described as the purest out of all the Petrova Doppelgängers. She also, in her brief appearances, seemed to be outgoing and inclined to live life to the fullest, judging by the fact that she refused to kill herself after her Viking husband's death, and instead chose to live in order to raise her child and hopefully find love again. Tatia did not believe in fate, and refused to let the concept dictate her heart. She believed in freedom of choice, much like her descendants Elena and Adrianna.

## Physical Appearance

Tatia was a beautiful young woman with an oval face, almond-shaped brown eyes, and wavy, long dark brown hair which, like many women in the Middle Ages, was often worn in many braids. Her height was about 5'7" and she had a slim, slightly athletic physique. Tatia was exactly physically identical to her distant ancestor Amara, and her descendants Katerina Petrova, Elena Gilbert, and Adrianna Gilbert.

## Name

* **Tatia** is of Russian and Latin origin, and the meaning is "*founder*".
* The Ancient Roman form, Tatius, is the male version of Tatia, of which both Latin and Russian forms Tatianus and Tatiana are variations.

## Trivia

* Elijah Mikaelson mentioned that they met Tatia after they moved to the New World. That indicated that she was born in the New World.
	+ She and her doppelgängers Elena and Adrianna are the only known Petrova Doppelgängers to be born in the New World. Their progenitor, Amara, was born in the Old World (presumably Greece) as well as Katerina Petrova, who was born in Bulgaria.
	+ She celebrated Samhain, a Celtic festival and the early origins of Halloween, which suggests that she was of Celtic descent and had immersed herself in the Viking culture upon marrying an unnamed Viking.
* Her blood was used both in the spell that turned Mikael and his children into the Original Vampires as well as Klaus' Hybrid Curse.
	+ Esther later used Tatia's descendant Elena's blood in a similar manner to turn Alaric Saltzman into an Enhanced Original Vampire in hopes that he would become just as great a vampire hunter as her husband Mikael was and kill her children.
* Tatia, unlike Katherine and Adrianna, was a married woman when she had her child.