Isobel Flemming

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## Biographical information

### Born

* October 17, 1975 (Grove Hill, Virginia, Age 31/34)

### Occupation

* Researcher at Duke University (Formerly)

### Species

* Human (Originally)
* Vampire (Klaus' Bloodline)
* Ghost (Formerly)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Amara † (Ancestor)
* Tatia † (Ancestor)
* Tatia's Child † (Ancestor)
* Mr. Petrov † (Ancestor)
* Mrs. Petrova † (Ancestor)
* Katerina Petrova (Ancestor)
* Nadia Petrova † (Ancestor)
* Nadia's Child † (Ancestor)
* Mr. Flemming (Father)
* Mrs. Flemming (Mother)
* Elena Gilbert (Daughter)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Daughter)
* Alaric Saltzman † (Former Husband)
* John Gilbert † (Ex-boyfriend/ Father of her children)

## Supernatural information

### Cause of death

* Presumably drained of blood (as a human)
* Burned in sunlight (as a vampire, compelled by Klaus)

### Killed by

* Damon Salvatore (as a human)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (as a vampire, indirectly via compulsion)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'4" (Feet)
* 1.63 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Green

**Isobel Flemming** was the wife of Alaric Saltzman and the biological mother of Elena and Adrianna Gilbert. She was good friends with her ancestor Katherine Pierce, a vampire she often conspired with. When Isobel was still in high school, she met John Gilbert and became pregnant with the twins. Isobel left a few days after their birth, and soon after, John's brother Grayson and his wife Miranda adopted them. Many years later, Isobel met Alaric Saltzman. At first, she did not like him and even had a restraining order against him, but later she changed her mind and they eventually got married. While Isobel was still married to Alaric, she became obsessed with paranormal research. She met a vampire, Damon Salvatore, who turned her into a vampire at her request.

After being compelled by Klaus, she committed suicide by walking into the sun.

**Isobel** was a member of the **Petrova Family** and a former relative of the **Saltzman Family** due to her marriage with Alaric. She was also a relative to the **Gilbert Family**, as she was the twins' biological mother.

## Early History

Isobel Flemming was born on October 17, 1975. She was raised in a small town near Mystic Falls and spent much time there when she was young. As a teenager, she met John Gilbert and the two began dating. Although John ended up falling in love with Isobel, she did not reciprocate his feelings. Shortly thereafter, Isobel becomes pregnant by John. After John tells Isobel about vampires, it sparks her curiosity and she dedicates her life's work to supernatural research.

Isobel was sixteen at the time she became pregnant and had run away from home. John brought her to his brother's office for the delivery and he delivered two baby girls. Isobel was heartbroken to give up her daughters but did so anyway, knowing that they would have a better life with Grayson and his wife, Miranda. They named the girls Elena and Adrianna. Isobel would always dream that she would one day be able to meet her daughters and tell them who she was.

Isobel later attended Duke University, where she studied folklore and parapsychology. She also met Alaric Saltzman during this time and they eventually married, while he accepted she wanted no children. Isobel later earned her degree and started teaching at Duke.

Isobel soon became an expert researcher and started to study many aspects of supernatural lore such as vampires and werewolves. She soon discovered the existence of the Sun and the Moon Curse.

Isobel was later killed and turned by Damon Salvatore after seeking him out and sleeping with him. When it became clear that the police weren't gonna find her body, her parents mourned her with a gravestone assuming her death to be May 4, 2007. Sometime later, she met Katherine Pierce and they became close.

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

* Book 1
* Book 2

When confronted by Alaric, Damon confirmed that he indeed did turn Isobel into a vampire on her own request, but that he only did it because he liked her. Later, Elena dialed her number after finding it on the phone of a man she had compelled. Isobel picked up but she hung up after she heard Elena's voice. When John came back to town, he told Damon that he had sent her to him, but he didn't know that she wanted to become a vampire. She later showed up at the Grill and confronted Alaric.

She threatened Alaric to force him to organize a meeting with Elena and Adrianna. Isobel wanted the device and instructed Adrianna to get it from Damon. She commented on the twins' respective choice of the Salvatores. Two minions, Cherie and Frank, helped her while she was in town. John came to visit her in her loaned house and they discussed their alliance. Damon turned up later and after kissing, he threatens her to stay away from Adrianna.

Isobel made her minions injure Matt and kidnap Jeremy, threatening to kill him, to make Elena and Adrianna work with her. Isobel, Cherie, and Frank later met Elena, Adrianna, Stefan, and Damon and, after being assured that Jeremy was safe, they gave Isobel the device. Adrianna asked how she knew Damon would hand it over, and Isobel told Adrianna that Damon was in love with her. She then leaves town.
As she was leaving town, she called John and reminded him how Elena and Adrianna were their daughters and they owed them something. She told him to kill Stefan and Damon so that the twins wouldn't be in their world anymore. Isobel showed up at the school to say goodbye to Alaric. He gave her his ring and vervain, telling her to either kill him or compel him. She reminds him she wanted this life, then compelled him to let her go.

TBA

## Personality

She views humans at the most as a means to an end to her, as a source of food, entertainment (including sexual), puppets to be robbed of their free will using them as "muscle" against other humans if she wishes not to condescend to do it herself. She has no compassion, even colder than Damon and has no compunction in programming a human as a messenger boy and having him kill himself after the message is delivered. She feels absolutely no guilt in killing and feeding, voluntarily "turning off" any such evidence of conscience. It is only with her daughters and former husband that she does display any affection in any form and it is often fleeting. However, she worries about the twins' relationships with the Salvatores.

## Powers and Abilities

Isobel possessed all the standard powers and abilities of a Non-Original Vampire.

## Weaknesses

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

## Relationships

* John and Isobel (Exes/Parents/Former Allies)
* Alaric and Isobel (Ex-Spouses/Former Allies)
* Damon and Isobel (Ex-Fling/Former Allies/Enemies)
* Katherine and Isobel (Former Friends/Former Allies/Distant Family)
* Elena and Isobel (Mother and Daughter/Former Enemies)
* Adrianna and Isobel (Mother and Daughter/Enemies)

## Name

* **Isobel** means *"pledged to God"*. It is a variation on the name Isabella or Elizabeth.
* **Flemming** comes from Danish, English, and Old French origins. In Danish, it comes from a medieval nickname meaning "from Flanders".