John, Isobel, Elena, and Evelyn

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## General Information

### **Intimacy Levels**

Biological Parents and Daughters; All Frenemies, Former Allies, Former Enemies; The parents loved their daughters (Elena only loved John, but only as an uncle; Evelyn came to love him as a father), John and Isobel gave their daughters up at birth (which Elena resents them for; though Evelyn understand why they did it), The parents tried to keep them away from the Salvatore brothers by any means necessary (which annoyed Elena), John and Isobel are dead leaving Elena and Evelyn as orphans once again (Elena admits to mourning their loss and Evelyn admits to mourning Isobel as she mourned John's public from the start).

## Family Information

### **Status**

Parents and Daughters; Frenemies, Former Allies, Former Enemies; Ended (John and Isobel are dead)

**This is the family relationship between human, John Gilbert; vampire, Isobel Flemming; cured hybrid/hybrid doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert; and tribrid doppelgänger, Evelyn Gilbert.**

## Early life

Elena Marie and Evelyn Maria Gilbert; born Juliette Isobel and Lynette Adaline Gilbert-Labonair; were born to their parents on June 22, 1992. John and Isobel had met during high school and slept together, conceiving their twin children. At the end of Isobel's pregnancy; John led her to his older brother, Grayson Gilbert; who delivered the baby girls he and his wife renamed Elena and Evelyn. Because they were so young; John and Isobel were forced to give their daughters up, and both teenagers left their daughters with the Gilberts.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries

### Season One

In *Bloodlines*, Elena and Evelyn find out they are adopted and begin their journey to discover their true parentage.

In *A Few Good Men*, John returns to Mystic Falls to visit his family, but he is not given a warm welcome; except by Evelyn. At the same time, Elena and Evelyn are trying to find their biological mother and learns that their mother's high school friend Trudie is close by, so they go to see her. After their visit, Elena and Evelyn hear their mother's voice for the first time on the phone.

## Quotes

**Elena**: *"Who's our father?*"
**Evelyn**: *"Yeah Isobel; who's our father? Tell us."*
**Isobel**: *"It's not important. He was a teenage waste of space.*"
— *Isobel*
**Elena and Evelyn**: *"As our father, it should.*"
**John**: *"You know.*"
— *Founder's Day*
## Trivia

* John and Isobel were teenagers when they had Elena and Evelyn.
* John and Isobel both did not approve of Elena's relationship with Stefan and friendship with Damon.
* All four have been dead at some point.
	+ Elena, unlike her parents, was resurrected but was in comatose as of *I'm Thinking Of You All The While* and woke up as of *I Was Feeling Epic*.
	+ Evelyn was killed by Monique Deveraux in *From a Cradle to a Grave* but after a while; woke up due to her daughters Hope's blood turning her.
* Three of the four have been antagonists.
* All four were associated with Katherine and Lily Pierce; Isobel, Elena, and Evelyn being their descendants/occasional allies and John being their minion/ally.

* Elena did not have a good relationship with either of her parents, but she still loved them, as evident by her sadness when they died.
	+ Unlike Elena, Evelyn did have a good relationship with John but like her sister, not with Isobel. She still loved both though, evident by her sadness when they died,

* Elena and Evelyn lost their mother before they lost their father.
* Evelyn named two of her children after her biological parents.
	+ Her eldest son, Johnathan Mikaelson and her youngest daughter, Isobel Mikaelson.