Eliana Gilbert

### Turned

* By Niklaus Mikaelson/Damon Salvatore's blood on April 28, 2010 (initiated by Niklaus Mikaelson)
* By Qetsiyah preforming a un-repression spell (in Handle With Care)

### Occupation

* Babysitter (Formerly)
* High School Student (Graduated)
* High School Cheerleading Team Co-Captain (Formerly)
* Hospital Volunteer (Formerly)
* Psychologist at Salvatore Boarding School for the Young and Gifted (Currently)
* Member of The 11 (Currently)
* Member of the Ursa Major Wolf Pack (Currently)
* Co-Head of the Salvatore Boarding School (Currently)
* Leader of the Valor Coven (Currently)
* College Student (Formerly)
* Honor Council Member (Younger Student Representative)
* Psychiatrist and Psychologist (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Blake Maria Flemming (birth name)
* Eliana Josephine Gilbert (full name)
* Pouty, Buffy, Warrior Princess, El, Ellie Scaredy Cat, Judge, Stone Cold Bitch, Baby, Sunshine, Honey, Robert Frost, Brownie (All by Damon)
* Broken Little Gilbert (by Klaus)
* Ej (by Alaric)
* Cupcake, Darling, My First Love, My First Choice, Prettier Doppelgänger, Gorgeous Sister, Bestie (All by Rebekah)
* Twin (by Elena)
* Darling (by Kol and [Ignacio Salvatore|Ignacio]])
* Savior, The Tribrid, Warrior Queen (All by [Carter Gilbert|Carter]])
* Babe (by Kol)

### Species

* (Tribrid) (Valor Vampire-Werewolf-Witch-Doppelganger) (Originally)
* Vampire (Formerly)
* Possessed Spirit (Formerly)
* Immortal/Doppelgänger (Klaus' Bloodline, broken; has own sire line) (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Amara † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Inadu's Mother † (Distant Maternal Relative)
* The Hollow † (Distant Maternal Relative)
* Freya Mikaelson (Blood Bond)
* Tatia † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Tatia's Child † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Mr. Petrov † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Mrs. Petrova † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Katerina Petrova ( Maternal ancester)
* Katerina's Unnamed Sister † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Nadia Petrova (Maternal Ancestor)
* Nadia's Child † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Damon Salvatore (Husband)
* Stefan Salvatore (Brother-In-Law)
* Johnathan Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Karina Petrova (Maternal Ancestor)
* Ariana Petrova (Maternal Ancestor)
* Christopher Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Samantha Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Mary † (Adoptive Maternal Ancestor)
* Beth † (Adoptive Maternal Great-Grandmother)
* Carson Flemming (Biological Grandfather)
* Maria Flemming (Biological Grandmother)
* Alaric Saltzman (Former Legal Guardian/Step-Father)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Paternal Uncle/Adoptive Father)
* John Gilbert † (Biological Father/Adoptive Paternal Uncle)
* Isobel Flemming † (Biological Mother)
* Ignacio Salvatore  (Brother-In-Law)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert † (Paternal Aunt, via Grayson/Adoptive Mother)
* Jenna Sommers † (Adoptive Maternal Aunt)
* Hayley Marshall (Sister-In-Law/Honorary Sister)
* Elena Gilbert (Older Twin Sister)
* Rory-Marshall (Sister-In-Law, via Elena)
* Carter Gilbert (Half Sister)
* Davina Claire (Blood Bond via Davina resurrecting her)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Paternal Cousin/Adoptive Brother)
* Amanda Gilbert (Paternal Cousin-in-Law/Adoptive Sister-in-Law)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece-In-Law)
* Lizzie Saltzman (Step-Sister/Honorary Niece)
* Josie Saltzman (Step-Sister/Honorary \* Niece/Goddaughter)
* Grayson Gilbert II (Nephew)
* Shelia St. John (Honorary Niece/God-daughter)
* Rylee Salvatore (Niece)
* Jade Salvatore (Niece)
* Miranda Salvatore (Daughter)
* Camila Gilbert (Niece)
* Stefanie Salvatore (Niece-In-Law)
* Chris Salvatore (Nephew-In-Law)
* Ringo Salvatore (Daughter)
* Lucas Salvatore (Son)
* Nathan Salvatore (Son)
* Isabella Gilbert (Niece)
* Jenna Gilbert (Niece)
* John Gilbert III (Nephew)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Pyrokinesis (various)
* Pain Infliction (various)
* Telekinesis (various)
* Illusionary Cloaking Spell (several)
* Acidic Blood Spell (various)
* Healing Spell
* Astral Projection Spell
* Cloaking Spells (various)
* Boundary Spells (various)
* Combustion Spell
* Dark Magic Spell (various)
* Barrier Spell (various)
* Locator Spell (various)
* Nature Spell
* Glamour Spell
* Séance Spell
* Daylight Amulet Creation Spell (for Rory, Carter, and many vampires at the Salvatore School)
* Fire Manipulation Spell
* Unlinking Spell
* Creating a Focus of Magic (with Valerie and Bonnie)

### Significant Sires

* Tara Lockwood
* Unknown others

### Significant Kills

* Many Unnamed Humans
* Aja and Aja's Coven
* Many Unnamed Vampires
* Many Unnamed Witches
* 4 Warlocks  (Agnes' minions)
* The Hollow's Followers
* The Hollow  (2nd time)

### Cause Of Death

* Drained of Blood (1st time; as a human)
* Explosion (2nd time; as a Valor Tribrid)
* Werewolf bite and Stake in the Chest (3rd time; as a Valor Tribrid)

### Killed By

* Niklaus Mikaelson/Damon Salvatore’s blood on April 28, 2010 (initiated by Niklaus Mikaelson
* Herself (second time)
* Kai Parker (third time)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'6" (Feet)
* 1.65 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Nina Dobrev
* Kayla Madison  (Child)

### Episode Count

* 171 (The Vampire Diaries)
* 48 (Legacies)
* 37 (The Originals)
* 256 (Total)

### First Seen

* *Pilot*  (TVD)
* *Always and Forever*  (TO)
* *This is the Part Where You Run*  (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic*  (TVD)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*  (TO)
* *Fate’s a Bitch, Isn’t It?*  (Legacies)

**Dr.** **Eliana "Ellie" Josephine Gilbert-Salvatore** (born **Blake Maria Flemming**) was the lead female protagonist in *The Vampire Diaries.* She was also a former lead star and lead protagonist in *The Originals* and is a current protagonist in *Legacies*. She was a antagonist for the beginning part of Season Six on *The Vampire Diaries*. At the beginning of the series, Eliana appears to be a regular human girl but is then revealed to be a Petrova doppelgänger. In Season Two, she becomes the world's third valor vampire in *The Sun Also Rises*. In The Vampire Diaries series finale, *I Was Feeling Epic*, Eliana takes a cure alongside Damon, so that they are no longer vampires, but are forever immortal.

Eliana was born in Mystic Falls with her twin into one of the two ruling families of the Ursa Major Wolf Pack.The pack was near extinction, and Carson Flemming helped his daughter make the executive choice of hiring a witch to preform Repression Spell of power on Eliana and her sister, thereby making their werewolf gene dormant; and giving them up for adoption. He stated that he would rebuild the pack from the ground, while his grandchildren went away to live normal life, unknowing of the supernatural and their werewolf gene. She and Elena Gilbert were adopted by a family of hunters who loved them no matter what

Eliana was adopted by her biological father's brother, Grayson Gilbert and did not find out she was adopted, until well after her adoptive parents death.

Eliana had been struggling to live a normal life ever since her adoptive parents, Miranda Sommers-Gilbert and Grayson Gilbert, died in a car accident when she and her twin, Elena was sixteen years old. Her life also changed drastically as she and her friends are caught up in the supernatural world that surrounds them and are forced to face powerful supernatural enemies.

Alex is best friends with her twin sister Elena Gilbert; her paternal half sister. Carter Gilbert; Ignacio Salvatore; Bonnie Bennett; Caroline Forbes; Rory Marshall; Enzo St. John; Stefan Salvatore; and her husband; Damon Salvatore. She used to be close to Matt Donovan but she doesn't trust him like she used to do.

Eliana is the mother of the first naturally born Valor Tribrid, Ringo Salvatore, the daughter she had with the vampire, Damon Salvatore as well as Jessica, Nathan, and Lucas Salvatore. She was also the former love of Kol Mikaelson and is the alpha of the 11 Pack. She is currently pregnant with her fifth and sixth child.

As a "human", she was the sociable popular girl in school and the girl next door alongside her twin. She's compassionate, caring, empathetic, kind, intelligent, beautiful, friendly but she can also be pushy, bitchy, selfish, she is also athletic and was a cheerleader. Eliana's dark side is her "deep, deep connection to other people". She's always helping around in her community events and Caroline called her the nurturing type. Like her mother before her, Eliana believes in family, honor, loyalty and community. She is brave and self-sacrificing, though much of her willingness to save others seems to come from survivor's guilt over her parent's death. She has a strong backbone and never displays a sense of inferiority. Eliana exalts personal choice and is known for her forgiving nature. Before her parents' death, Eliana used to be "way more fun" and "into everything, very busy".​

**Eliana** is a member of the **Gilbert Family**, **Petrova Family**, **Gilbert Sisters**, by marriage **Marshall Family**, **Flemming Family** and the **Salvatore Family**. Alex is the leader of the 11 Pack, Ursa Major Wolf Pack and **Valor Coven** until her kids are old enough to take over. Her sister Carter is a reincarnation of the Petrova bloodline, and one of the first Old Ones.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries

In season one of *The Vampire Diaries*, Eliana was still coping with her parents' death with her sister when she meets a mysterious new student at Mystic Falls High School, Stefan Salvatore. Eliana and Stefan become fast friends, while he and Elena fall in love with each other. However, not long after that, Eliana meets his brother. Damon and feels an instant connection to him, despite warnings from Stefan. She then discovers that both Stefan and his brother, Damon, are vampires. She also becomes aware of the existence of Katherine Pierce, and Karina Petrova the women who turned the Salvatore brothers into vampires in 1864, and to whom Eliana and Elena bears a striking physical resemblance. In the process, Eliana discovers a shocking truth - she and her sister were adopted, and their real parents are John Gilbert, her "uncle", and Isobel Flemming, Alaric's wife.

During the first week of Founder's ball events, John visits town on "business". He brings his daughter Carter Gilbert with him, who Eliana is extremely close with and sees as a sister. When introducing Carter and Damon, Damon indulges, that Carter looks exactly like Katherine and Karina’s younger dead sister, Ariana Petrova.

In season two of *The Vampire Diaries*, ELIANA learns that she and Elena are Katherine And Karina's Doppelgänger, which explains their identical appearance. Because of this, an Original Vampire, Klaus, wants to use her and Elena in a sacrifice to break an ancient curse. Klaus also reveals that Carter is a reincarnation, and that a spell needs to be done to unlock her memories of her past lives. Despite Eliana and her friends' best efforts, the sacrifice takes place. She also learns about a thousand year old prophecy. Klaus fed Eliana his blood, not knowing she already had vampire blood in her system making her the thridValor Vampire to walk the earth.

In season three of *The Vampire Diaries*, Eliana is coping with the fact that everyone she loves dies and she can't do anything about it. She also learns how to be a vampire with the help of Ignacio and his other sister, Damon. During the summertime, Eliana has started to control her bloodlust, and ends up killing almost five people.

After Jeremy's death in Season Four of *The Vampire Diaries*, Eliana focuses all of her attention on getting Elena to turn her humanity back on, and neglects her feelings in the process. She also searches for a way to bring Jeremy Back, but comes out empty handed, causing her to have a mental breakdown, and run to New Orleans.

In season five of *The Vampire Diaries*, Eliana and Damon are once again together. Eliana moves into her college dorm, with Elena and Caroline, and starts a freshman year med program. Eliana is later captured, by Quetsiyah, whilst trying to save Stefan. Quetsiyah preforms a repression reversal spell on Eliana, once and permanently, transforming her into a Valor Tribrid. After Stefan's shocking death, in order to bring him and others back from The Other Side, Damon, Eliana, Rory, and Caroline devised a plan, involving Olivia Parker performing a spell that the Travelers had used to bring back their leader, Markos. However, the spell was interrupted before Damon could pass through the Anchor, Bonnie, and as the Other Side began to disintegrate, Eliana and her friends were left heartbroken by their impending deaths.

During Season Six, in an effort to cope with Damon's death, Eliana turns off her humanity, and reaks havok on Mystic Falls to forget about him. However, this was short lived, when Eliana finds out what, when Quetsiyah turned her into a tribrid, it gave her back the ability to have children, resulting in her become pregnant, before Damon's death, without ever knowing. Eliana, overjoyed with the fact that she has something left of Damon's, turns her humanity back on and prepares to become a mother. In *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You* Eliana is killed by Kai Parker.

In *Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take*, Eliana is presumed dead, after being staked and having a werewolf bite transmitted to her via Kai Parker. Unbeknownst, to her friends, who are now raising Ringo Salvatore, Eliana and Damon's daughter without her, Klaus Mikaelson had stolen Eliana's body, and had used Kol to bargain with Davina to resurrect her. While in New Orleans, Eliana and Hayley get fairly close, and she even meets hope. Eliana thanks Klaus for everything, and tells him, "I forgive you, you weren't born evil, life made you that way.", before returning to mystic falls to reunite with Damon and her daughter.

In season eight of *The Vampire Diaries*, Eliana is pushing all of her resources to track down Damon and Enzo. Damon is revealed to be fighting Sybil's mind control. Eliana steals him away, where he proposes to her, but also tells her that he has to go back in order to beat Sybil. Eliana and Damon share a moment of passion which results in Eliana becoming pregnant again. Now fighting to free Damon, so he can be there for their wedding, and the birth of their child Eliana is overwhelmed.

Later on, as the discussion progresses, Sybil reveals that she has manipulated Damon and Enzo's minds into fighting to the death, wanting Bonnie to choose between them. Caroline, Eliana, Sybil and Bonnie drive towards Mystic Fall High School, where the battle will take place. Eliana remains sassy against Sybil all the while texting Kol for "The secret weapon". Short time later, the latter uses her mental powers to look into Eliana's mind. Sybil finds out that Eliana believes that Damon will somehow make things right. Fed up with her, Bonnie slams on the breaks and Sybil is thrown through the front windshield, giving them time to go help Damon and Enzo.

Outside the high school, as Damon chases Bonnie, Alaric incapacitated Sybil with the Tuning Fork. While Sybil is down, Caroline and Eliana, using a combination of super speed and super strength to knock Sybil unconscious. Having captured Sybil, they imprison her in a holding cell within the Armory. Given the events after the fight (Enzo turning off his humanity), Caroline and Eliana tell Stefan that she will be staying with Bonnie for the night.

The next morning, Eliana prepares a bag to go drop of Ringo with Rebekah, and get an updated protection spell from Davina. Stefan walks in and tells Eliana that he's compelled the Sheriff to make the case a priority. Stefan expresses his desire that she tries harder to fight for Damon but Eliana directly refuses. She points out that Damon is her fiancée, but when he's with Sybil, he doesn't care about anything, including his own children, and while he is working with the Sirens he's unethical and dangerous, and that if he tries to come between her and her kids, she will kill him, love be damned. With that said, Eliana removes Damon's engagement ring, telling Stefan that he should keep it until all of this over, and that no matter what, she'll always be his sister. She goes on to tell him she can't afford any distractions, especially when it comes to Damon. Eliana then departs for New Orleans.

After heading to New Orleans, Eliana gets wrapped up in Mikaelson drama, and stays to help. She ends up giving birth a month early in New Orleans, and is heartbroken that it had to be without Damon. Eliana gives birth to twins, Lucas and Nathan, and hence being a vampire, regenerates quickly. A day alter, leaving New Orleans, Eliana angrily uses her magic on an abandoned building, shattering the glass and breaks down. Towards the end of the series, Eliana uses dark magic to resurrect Enzo, after Stefan ruthlessly killed him. In the series finale, Eliana marries Damon and gives up her Valor Status to save the town, but gains an immortal status in the process.

## Throughout Legacies

In season one of *Legacies*, Eliana is co head of the Salvatore Boarding School with Alaric while Caroline is out trying to find a way for her daughters not have to go through the merge. During this time she gives birth to her daughter named Miranda after her adoptive mother. When Eliana returns to the school Alaric updates her that monsters has been coming after a knife that was stolen by Landon Kirby. Eliana helps the school fight the monster that come their way. They learned that the evil that keeps on sending monster is a evil called Malivore which is soon later revealed to be Landon's father. In the finale episode Hope and Ringo gives Eliana phone call and tell her that they can stop Malivore by jumping in. They tell her to burn their stuff before they say there goodbyes. Eliana is the only one who remembers them.

In season two of *Legacies*, Eliana is still recovering from the fact that Hope and Salvatore jumped into Malivore to save Landon and everyone else. Eliana gets a call from Damon saying he remembers, and that he think he just met his first daughter. She finds Hope and Eliana at the bus stop and they have a reunion until a monster from Malivore tips over an empty bus. She meets the new head master Rupert Vardemus who was later known as Ryan Clarke. During the flag football game she had compelled Dennis to be calm and explain to Alaric what happened to him. During the day of the 80's dance at the Salvatore School Alex and Nathan walks out of her office talking to each other. Landon walks up to Eliana and Nathan leaves to let them talk in private. Eliana gives advice to Landon on how you know it's the right time for your first time. Later that day, Kaleb, MG, and Jenna Gilbert comes to her and Alaric and ask on what they should do about Sebastian being desiccated in the coffin. When everyone remembers Hope and Ringo, Alex gathered all the families to throw a party for them. After Josie and Lucas did a black magic spell Alex finds them unconscious and she rushed over to make sure they were okay. When mostly everyone was effected with happy cheer Eliana came to the Salvatore School to see everyone was infected but Hope, Ringo, and Tara and everyone in the school eventually met the Krampus and Santa. Alex visits her grandmothers house to learn more about the Valor Coven The 11 to which she learned she was apart of both. In a series of flashbacks reveal that Eliana attended a freak accident eight years prior to current events, in which a small girl was the only survivor of a house fire. The girl is revealed to be Alyssa Chang. Eliana tells Alyssa that she helps run a school that she can be a part of, and Alyssa agrees. Eliana tells Dorian to cover the whole ordeal up as a gas-leak. Back in the present, Alaric, Eliana, Josie, and Lizzie are trying to slow down the crumbling of the Mora Miserium, however every spell they attempt fails. When Alaric is erratic about sending the Mora Miserium to a Prison World Eliana suggests not that Prison World. Eliana helps the witches create a Prison World and send the sandclock away. When Rylee went dark she helped Lucas, Jenna, Miranda, and Tara with getting them inside Rylee's head. In season finale Eliana found Rylee, Jenna, Miranda, and Tara's s dead bodies and brought them back to the school while her and Damon waits for them to wake up.

In season three of *Legacies*, Eliana helps the twins with their transition and she finds out that Lucas is a ripper, like his grandmother and uncle. She sends him off with Rebekah Mikaelson and Marcel Gerard so that they can help him with the bloodlust while Alex stays and helps Nathan, with his transition, while also finding out she is pregnant with twins again. The following day Kaleb had brought back Chad's dead body to Alaric's office as she, Alaric, and Kaleb talk about what happened to Chad. In the Prison World to save Rafael Eliana gives him a hug goodbye. When the musical was going on Eliana comes in during the middle as she watches Ringo play her and see how far her life has really come and how much she's truly change. The next day Eliana helps Alaric gather people to take out the zombie monsters they've already faced.

## Physical Appearance

Physically, Eliana is a very beautiful and attractive young woman with an oval face, light olive complexion, almond-shaped brown eyes which are sometimes described as doe-eyes, and long dark brown hair. Her height is 5'6"(168 cm), and she has a slim, slightly athletic physique. Eliana has an uncanny physical resemblance to her ancestor and doppelgänger, Karina Petrova who often poses as Elena in order to trick others. However, even though Karina and Eliana look exactly the same in terms of physical appearance, there are some slight differences between the two in terms of fashion and style, and especially personality.

**Eliana as a human**

In terms of fashion sense, while Eliana's human, she's much more casual, sporty and "girl next door" and doesn't wear a lot of make up or favor fashionable clothing unless attending a formal event. Eliana favors wearing dark blue jeans with t-shirts of various colors and Converse sneakers. She primarily wears fashionable clothing or dresses up for special occasions or formal events. Karina's fashion sense or style, on the other hand, is much more high maintenance, expensive and trendy. Eliana wore a special necklace and bracelet containing the herb vervain in it as a human.

**Eliana's new look.**

Eliana as a newly turned vampire wears the same necklace given to her by Ignacio, but spelled with lapiz lazuli in order to protect her from the sunlight. Eliana has a slightly more sophisticated look and trades her usual jeans and t-shirts to dresses and boots. Since Eliana now has the freedom to accessorize, she dips into her jewelry box more often. Eliana is seen wearing more chain necklaces in season 4. After Eliana gave birth to Ringo, she switched to more of mom look, rocking dresses, jeans, leggings, tights boots, and cardigans more often. Eliana is seen wearing a high ponytail often.

14 year old Eliana Gilbert, freshman year.

## Powers and Abilities

Eliana's physical strength was seemingly unusually strong even for a non-original tribrid, and valor vampire. She is stronger than some non-original vampires and has shown to be able to fight vampires of greater age as well, consistently defying normal expectations of such outcomes.

Eliana is also able to stagger Klaus with her attacks more than Marcel could, a vampire of two centuries. Alex is currently one of the strongest Tribrids in the world. Eliana is able to heal vampires from a werewolf bite.

Eliana continued to show great skill in physical combat, such as fighting multiple vampires at once and defeating all of them, seemingly one by one. She even moved fast enough that some of them couldn't even counter her attacks and could remove their hearts in the blink of an eye. Recently, Eliana demonstrated yet another unusual level of her powers by transforming into her wolf form within seconds, something that takes werewolves hours to complete, even previous Eliana such as Tyler Lockwood was unable to transform at such speed. While in her werewolf form she was able to completely dismember them in seconds.

Eliana is one of the most powerful witches alongside Freya, Davina and Bonnie. She has been seen using dark magic and or very powerful magic that would kill witches if they don't have the experience to do so. It is shown in *Bring Out The Dead* Eliana used magic to turn Klaus' blood into Vervain acid and made it feel like he hadn't ate in centuries. In *Gather Up The Killers*, she and Freya did a spell to create a cure for the Upgraded Original Vampire venom.

In her wolf form, Eliana possesses grey fur and has the typical glowing yellow eyes that comes with Lycanthropy.

## Weaknesses

Eliana is very powerful but with all that power there is weaknesses. If not used careful Eliana can destroy a city if her magic is going un-watched. Furthermore, as a possessor of the werewolf gene and part vampire and witch, Eliana will experience bouts of severe aggression. As one of the world's first five Valor Tribrids of all three supernatural species, the full extent and limits of Eliana's weaknesses are currently unknown.

## Relationships

### Damon Salvatore

*Main Article: Damon and Eliana*

"*I'd do anything for you.*"
—**Damon** to **Eliana** in *Rose*
Damon Salvatore is Eliana's husband, as well as Stefan and Ignacio's older brother. Damon is a 178 year old immortal who is described as handsome, athletic, mysterious, brooding, kind, compassionate and thoughtful. After returning home to Mystic Falls after years of being gone, Damon unexpectedly "met" Eliana on May 23, 2009, after he was out walking the road, where Eliana was on the phone.

Damon came back to Mystic Falls with the sole purpose of bringing back Karina Pierce, the vampire with whom he had fallen in love with as a human in 1864. However, after realizing that Karina had secretly escaped the tomb but hadn't cared enough about him to find him, he resented her. He begins to fall for Eliana, who is also Karina's doppelgänger. His love for Eliana makes him want to protect his birthtown instead of destroying it, as was his original purpose when he arrived. They form a rocky friendship.

Eliana constantly forgives Damon from doing horrible things to her, such as using her as a bargain chip, or feeding her vampire blood (essentially ending her human life). Eliana has admitted she sees the good in Damon and believes he's worth saving. Eliana begins to fall in love with Damon in *Bloodlines*, when he saves her life, but still remains frenemies with him, because of his past.

Their friendship deepens, leading to them becoming best friends. Eliana cares whether Damon lives or dies, and even when she chooses Stefan or Ignacio over him, Damon continues to still be there for her when she needs somebody and feels she can't turn to anyone else about it. Damon has never lied to her and would always tell her the truth, although he has admitted that he will lie to her if it saves her life.

After becoming kidnapped by Rose, Damon admits his feelings to Eliana, and starts to compel the, away so she can be happy, but she stops him, admitting she is in love with him too. They share a passionate kiss, where Damon tells Eliana he would do anything for her, and they begin what could be described as a roller costar relationship.

Eliana and Damon break up in *The ties that bind* after Damon kills Bonnie's mom, Eliana assures him that isn't the reason for the breakup, and that she just needs time to herself. Damon however becomes suspicious when she takes an immediate liking to Kol.

In season four, Eliana and Damon are having a hard time connecting. They struggle to find any common ground. Damon ultimately sleeps with another girl. Eliana is not upset, seeing as she dumped Damon and he has a right to move on. In *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*, Eliana and Stefan begin a secret relationship, after sleeping together. Stefan is upset that Elena has feelings for Rory and starts to use Eliana, but in a way she's using him too. It starts out pyhschial, but turns romantic. This lasts up until *Pictures of You*, when Eliana dumps Stefan, telling him that it's not healthy for them to use each other to get over the other's sibling. She tells Stefan he needs to move on from Elena, and she needs to figure out if she wants to be with Damon.

Eliana and Damon get back together in *The Originals*, after Eliana visits New Orleans, where she spends a period of time with Klaus, who explains that she and Damon are soulmates, saying, "If you would leave my brother for him, he has to be the one." Eliana laughs, telling Klaus that she will see him soon, and that she forgives him before returning home and getting back together with Damon.

Their relationship lasts the whole summer and briefly becomes long distance when she begins attending college. After realizing how he's changing her, he decides to break up with her, causing her great heartbreak. Ignacio makes Damon realize how stupid he was acting and he decides to try and win her back. However, Eliana who had just did dark magic hours before, is not herself and blows him off. This sends him off the deep end and he becomes guilty when he finds out the truth. After he tells her the truth, they mutually decide to end their relationship as they realize they have too much control over each other. However Eliana tells Damon that they need to stop breaking up and start communicating.

After getting kidnapped by Markos, nearly dying and with a little encouragement from Stefan she tells Damon that she thought she would never see him again and couldn't think of a worse way to die and so they both are absolutely 100% all in their relation by then. No breaking up, no backing out, just being in love. In the finale of Season Five, in order to bring Stefan back from the Other Side, Damon and Eliana go on a suicide mission. However, when the resurrection spell starts, Damon is unable to come back from the Other Side. Knowing that the Other Side is disintegrating and there is no other way for Damon to return, Eliana breaks down completely. A ghost Damon confesses to her that she is the greatest thing that ever happened to him and the fact that he will die knowing he was loved by Eliana Gilbert is the epitome of a fulfilled life. Damon says I love you and leaves while Eliana continues to cry and pleas with him to return to her.

Months after Damon's death, Eliana desperately mourns him. During that time, Elena had been using a witch drug that allowed her to hallucinate Damon as she does not want to believe that he's dead. Unable to go on with the memory of Damon, Eliana wanted to have Alaric erase every good memory she has of him and doesn't remember loving him but decides it would just be better to stop caring at all. So Eliana, for the first time since she became a vampire, turns off her humanity. After Eliana finds out she is pregnant, she turns it back on from joy, which is followed by Damon's return from death. They both decide to make new memories and start their relationship anew, while preparing to be parents. As they started to bond, Eliana began to see the human side of Damon that she never met.

Eliana is dead in the beginning of season seven or at least thought so, Damon is taking a week away with Alaric, while everyone is grieving the loss of Elena and Eliana while helping to raise Eliana's new daughter, Ringo. When she returns from the dead, she breaks down after having saw Damon and her daughter after two months.

### Elena Gilbert

*Main Article: Elena and Eliana*

"*You can't help the way you're made*."
—**Elena** to **Eliana** in *The Darkness In The Doppelgänger*
Elena is the older twin sister to Eliana and they have been really close since birth. Elena and Eliana were opposite in taste of personality and some communication but other than that they're like the same person. She and Eliana always knew that they're stronger together and not apart and that showed in *The Vampire Diaries* and *The Originals*.

### Caroline Forbes

*Main Article: Eliana and Caroline*

*"How else was I gonna out-Eliana-Gilbert, Eliana Gilbert."*
—**Caroline** to **Eliana** in *You Decided That I Was Worth Saving*
Although Eliana and Caroline had been friends since birth, Caroline's constant insecurities as a human, which made her jealous of Eliana at times, had created and maintained a friendly rivalry between the two. When Caroline became a vampire, her insecurities went away, and their relationship improved a lot as a result. When Eliana turned into a vampire, Caroline helped her through her transition, alongside Ignacio.

At Whitmore, Eliana and Caroline shared a dorm house, alongside Elena, Carter, and Rory, annd they were later joined by Bonnie after she was made the Anchor to the Other Side and was able to interact with the living world again. After the Travelers cast the Magic Purification Spell, which destroyed the Other Side and indirectly resulted in the deaths of Bonnie and Damon, Caroline dropped out of school for a brief time, though she and Eliana remained close friends. Caroline helped Eliana figure out she was pregnant, and turn her humanity back on. It was even Eliana who convinced Caroline to return to Whitmore for their sophomore year and tried her best to help Caroline through her mother's illness and subsequent death.

However, the tables were turned when Caroline chose to turn off her humanity to deal with it, causing a reversal of roles where Eliana was the one urging Caroline to come back and coming up with schemes to help speed up the process while Caroline fought back with violence. However, once Stefan managed to get through to Caroline and convince her to turn on her humanity, Caroline apologized to her best friends for her actions, which Eliana accepted without question. Unfortunately, their reunion was short-lived, as the Gemini Coven leader Malachai Parker, desperate to get even with Bonnie and Damon for leaving him behind in the 1903 Prison World, killed Eliana. Caroline called Klaus, who ran to mystic falls, with a witch, who did a spell which saved Eliana's baby.
She continued to help raise it in season seven, until Eliana was found alive, but even then was constant in Ringo life, and even made sure Ringo saw Josie and Lizzie as her cousins when they were born.

In Season Eight, Eliana and Caroline have a lot in common, seeing as they had both been proposed to by the Salvatore brothers, and were getting married together. They were both moms fighting for their kids, and trying to save their husbands. In the end, Caroline and Eliana got their June wedding, and now run The Salvatore Boarindg School For The Young & Gifted together.

### Bonnie Bennett

*Main Article: Eliana and Bonnie*

*"You brought back the love of my life, and you knew the risks. I'd jump into fire if you asked me to."*
—**Bonnie** to **Eliana** in *We're Planning a June Wedding*
Bonnie Bennett has been close friends with Eliana since birth. Bonnie is also a close friend of Caroline Forbes, Carter Gilbert, and Elena Gilbert. Bonnie has mentioned that she and Eliana are so close they're like sisters, and she would die for Eliana in an instant without hesitation. Throughout the series, Bonnie is protective of Eliana, even risking her life to ensure Eliana's safety and protection, even when Eliana was harsh to her. Eliana used to joke about Bonnie's "supernatural" or psychic powers until Bonnie eventually discovered she is descended from a long line of powerful witches. Although Bonnie has always been supportive of Eliana, after Eliana blamed Bonnie for Caroline getting into a car crash, and Damon almost dying, Bonnie and Eliana begin drifting apart. Their friendship was strained when her Grams died after being weakened by a preforming a powerful spell to help the Salvatore brothers release Katherine and Karina Pierce. From the episode "Isobel" and onward, their friendship has remained relatively consistent and the two remain best friends. Ever since Jeremy died and Eliana and Bonnie became a rock for each other, despite Elena having no humanity and trying to kill them.

### Kol Mikaelson

*Main Article: Kol and Eliana*

*"Kol Mikaelson it's been a hell of a ride. I will remember you, Always and Forever."*
—**Eliana** to **Kol** in A Streetcar Named Desire

Kol Mikaelson is the former boyfriend of Eliana Gilbert. She has always tried to find the good in him when everyone else said that there is nothing good left or never was. Even though he's hurt her friends, and tried to kill her brother she would always tell him he's not alone and that she's there for him when he needs it.

### Stefan Salvatore

*Main Article: Stefan and Eliana*

*“Nothing could ever destroy us."*
—**Stefan** to **Eliana** in *Pictures of You*
Stefan is the brother-in-law of Eliana. They have been good friends since junior year of highschool. Stefan has always been protective of Eliana, and the two have shared such a close bond, few people have even assumed that they were dating at one point. Eliana and Stefan were in a a romantic relationship, but ended it, due to being in love with each other siblings.

### Ignacio Salvatore

*Main Article: Ignacio and Eliana*

*"You don't need me, Eliana. You don't need anyone. I'm the one who needs you."*
—**Ignacio** to **Eliana** in *The Sun Also Rises*
Ignacio Salvatore, is the brother-in-law of Eliana Gilbert. They originally met the summer after Eliana's parents died, when she needed time away from mystic falls. Ignacio instantly recognizes Eliana but knows that she isn't Katherine or Karina. He gives her a golden heart locket necklace, and compels her never to take it off.

Ignacio returns to Mystic Falls on the night John Gilbert orders up all the vampires to be gathered. He gets stuck in the burning building, but is rescued by Stefan. Eliana recognizes him instantly, but does not know who he is, until he grabs her face and compels her to remember.

### Carter Gilbert

*Main Article: Carter and Eliana*

*“Sisters."*
—**Carter** to **Eliana** in *The Return*
Carter Gilbert is Eliana's biological maternal half sister, via John. She was born exactly two months after Elena and Eliana, and had no knowledge of them being siblings, or the supernatural world, until coming to Mystic Falls during Founders month. Eliana and Carter have been close since childhood, seeing each other as sisters. They liked the same foods, bands, and style.

### Jeremy Gilbert

*Main Article: Eliana and Jeremy*

Jeremy is Eliana's biological cousin/adoptive brother. Although Jeremy and Eliana are biological first cousins, they've been raised together as siblings. After their parents died, they wanted to help and protect each other. Once the two of them became more aware of the supernatural activities and entities of Mystic Falls, Eliana and Jeremy worked to keep each other and their other loved ones safe. Although they sometimes were led apart, they still seemed to retain their closeness as siblings. They love each other and are always willing to risk their lives to save one another. They have a bond that no one could ever break. After becoming a tribrid, he still loves her regardless of what she is. They continue to protect each other seeing that they are what they have left each other. Losing her younger brother crushes her but she vows to do right by him.

### Rebekah Mikaelson

*Main Article: Rebekah and Eliana*

Since she first met Rebekah she wanted to be friends with her. She helped Rebekah get used to the 21st century and was very protective of her from the start. They eventually become close friends, and Rebekah takes care of Eliana's kids on several occasions.

### Rory Marshall

*Main Article: Rory and Eliana*

Eliana and Rory are close friends and sister in laws. Rory and Eliana first meet when Rory moves to town in the beginning of senior year, and forms a crush on Elena.

### Tyler Lockwood

*Main Article: Eliana and Tyler*

Tyler and Eliana met when they were babies. As they grew older their friendship blossomed into a high school romance. They started dating in eighth grade and broke up after Eliana's parents died. Their relationship became strained since Tyler became the jock stereotype and him bullying her little brother. They eventually get back together, after going on a triple date with Elena, Matt, Caroline and Stefan. However the rekindled romance is short lived when Tyler cheats on her with Matt's mom, Kelly Donavan. When he triggered his wolf curse he became less of a dick. When he was turned into a hybrid and always following Klaus they're friendship was not perfect but after he broke the sire bond they're friendship was back to normal as he had full self control.

### Other Relationships

* Damon, Eliana, Ringo, Lucas, Nathan, Miranda, (Father/Mother/Daughters/Son/Allies)
* Eliana and Ringo (Mother/Daughter/Allies)
* Eliana and Lucas (Mother/Son/Allies)
* Eliana and Miranda (Mother/Daughter/Allies)
* Eliana and Nathan (Mother/Son/Allies)
* Elena, Eliana, Jeremy, and Jenna (Family/Former Allies)
* Hayley and Eliana (Honorary Sisters/Allies)
* Klaus and Eliana (/Friends/Allies)
* Klaus, Stefan, and Eliana (Allies)
* Damon, Stefan, and Eliana (Former Love Triangle/Best Friends/Allies)
* Katherine and Eliana (Family/Enemeies)
* Camille and Eliana (Good Friends/Former Allies)
* Marcel and Eliana (Friends/Allies/)
* Eliana and Davina (Family through ressurection/Allies/Close Friends)
* Karina and Eliana (Former Enemies/Family)
* Alaric and Eliana (Legal Guardianship/Step Father & Daughter/Allies)
* Mikael and Eliana (Enemies)
* Esther and Eliana (Enemies)
* Freya and Eliana (Friends/Allies)
* Elijah and Eliana (Friends/Allies)
* Eliana and Josh (Friends/Former Allies)

## Name

* **Eliana** is a feminine given name, derived from Italian culture. It means "My god has answered me"

* **Josephine** is the French form of Joséphine, directly derived from Latin Maria. It means, "God will increase"

* **Gilbert**, which is Eliana's surname, is a surname of Germanic origin. The English-language surname is derived from Giselbert, a medieval personal name composed of the following Germanic elements gisil ("pledge", "hostage", "noble youth") and berht ("bright", "famous").

* **Salvatore** means "savior" and is of Italian origin.