Elena Gilbert

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## Biographical Information

### Born

* June 22, 1992  (New Orleans, Age 18/53)

### Turned

* By killing Alaric Saltzman on October 21, 2010  (as a werewolf)
* By Niklaus Mikaelson's blood on November 6, 2010  (administered by Alex Gilbert) (as a hybrid)

### Occupation

* Member of the Crescent Wolf Pack (Currently)
* Member of the Divine Coven (Currently)
* Member of the Trinity Coven (Currently)
* Member of the French Quarter Coven  (Currently)
* High School Student (Graduated/Formerly)
* Cheerleader for the Timberwolves (Formerly)
* College Student (Formerly)
* Hospital Volunteer (Formerly)
* Doctor (Currently)

### Titles

* Gabriella Labonair (birthname)
* Love, My Lovelies (by Klaus to Elena, Alex, Jules, and Jenna)
* Dull As Dishwater Doppelganger (by Katherine)
* Elena Williams (an alternate identity)
* Darling, Former Blood Bag (all by Kol)
* Human Blood Bag, Stupid Human Girl (both by Theo)
* Doppelgänger Bitch, Doppelgänger Wench (all by Rebekah)
* Bloody Cow, Lena, Twin (by Alex)

### Species

* Hybrid  (Werewolf, untriggered, Witch, untapped; Originally)
* Ghost (Briefly/Formerly)
* Hybrid (Vampire, Werewolf)(Niklaus' Bloodline; Broken) (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Amara † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Inadu's Mother † (Distant Maternal Relative)
* The Hollow † (Distant Maternal Relative)
* Freya Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law)
* Finn Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Athena Mikaelson  (Sister-In-Law)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Kol Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Tatia † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Sister-In-Law)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Brother-In-Law)
* Tatia's Child † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Mr. Petrov † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Mrs. Petrova † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Katerina Petrova (Maternal Ancestor/Sister-in-Law)
* Katerina's Unnamed Sister † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Nadia Petrova (Maternal Ancestor)
* Quentin Lescheres † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Sofia Lescheres † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Vivianne Lescheres † (Maternal Ancestor)
* Marcel Gerard (Brother-In-Law)
* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father-In-Law)
* Johnathan Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Lillian Salvatore † (Mother-In-Law)
* Damon Salvatore (Brother-In-Law, via Arielle)
* Theo Salvatore  (Husband)
* Stefan Salvatore † (Brother-In-Law)
* Unnamed Brother-In-Law †
* Christopher Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Samantha Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Mary † (Adoptive Maternal Ancestor)
* Beth † (Adoptive Maternal Great-Grandmother)
* Carson Flemming (Biological Maternal Grandfather)
* Maria Flemming (Biological Maternal Grandmother)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Adoptive Father/Paternal Uncle)
* Logan Labonair † (Maternal Uncle)
* Lilith Labonair † (Maternal Aunt)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert (Adoptive Mother/Paternal Aunt)
* Isobel Flemming † (Biological Mother)
* John Gilbert † (Biological Father/Adoptive Uncle)
* Alaric Saltzman (Former Legal Guardian/Step-Father)
* Jenna Sommers † (Adoptive Aunt)
* Keelin Mikaelson (Sister-in-Law)
* Scott Delgado †  (Maternal Cousin/Honorary Brother)
* Arielle Labonair (Maternal Older Sister)
* Hayley Marshall (Maternal Cousin/Honorary Sister)
* Alex Gilbert (Younger Twin Sister)
* Davina Claire (Sister-in-Law)
* Ariana Gilbert  (Paternal Younger Sister)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Adoptive Brother/Paternal Cousin)
* Valentina Gilbert (Paternal Cousin-in-Law/Adoptive Sister-in-Law)
* Jack Mikaelson  (Nephew)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece)
* Lizzie Saltzman (Step-Sister/Honorary Niece)
* Josie Saltzman (Step-Sister/Honorary Niece)
* Jax Salvatore (Nephew)
* Nina Salvatore (Niece)
* Lily Salvatore (Niece)
* Stella Marshall-Kenner  (Maternal Cousin/Honorary Niece)
* Lia Bennett (Honorary Niece)
* Grayson Salvatore (Son)
* Sarah Salvatore (Daughter)
* Stefanie Salvatore (Daughter)
* Adella Mikaelson (Adoptive Niece)
* Vivian Mikaelson (Niece)
* Vanessa Mikaelson (Niece)
* Miranda Mikaelson (Niece)
* Jenna Mikaelson (Niece)
* Lucy Bennett (Honorary Niece)
* Sebastian Gilbert (Nephew)
* Victoria Mikaelson (Niece)
* Camila Gilbert (Niece)
* Finn Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Mason Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Issac Gilbert (Nephew)
* Nik Mikaelson (Nephew)
* Daniella Mikaelson (Great-Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* Alaric Saltzman (5th time/Revived by Gilbert Ring and 8th time, indirectly)
* Connor Jordan
* Jeremy Gilbert (4th time/Revived by Gilbert Ring)
* Jolene
* Jesse (as a vampire)
* The Travelers (including Markos, with Theo)
* Olivia Parker (out of mercy)

### Cause of Death

* Drained of Blood (1st time/as a hybrid untriggered werewolf, untapped witch)
* Drowned (2nd time/as a hybrid werewolf, untapped witch)
* Explosion (3rd time/as a hybrid vampire, werewolf)

### Killed By

* Niklaus Mikaelson (1st time/as a untapped witch/untriggered werewolf)
* Athena Mikaelson and Rebekah Mikaelson (2nd time/as a untapped witch/triggered werewolf)
* Theo Salvatore (with her consent) (3rd time/as a hybrid)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'5" (Feet)
* 1.65 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Episode Count

* 171  (TVD)
* 16  (TO)
* 7 (Legacies)
* 194  (Totaled)

### First Seen

* *Pilot*  (TVD)
* *I Love You, Goodbye*  (TO)
* *This is the Part Where You Run* (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic*  (TVD)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*  (TO)
* *TBA* (Legacies)

**Dr. Elena Rose Salvatore** (née **Gilbert**) (born **Gabriella Labonair**) was the former two main female protagonist of *The Vampire Diaries*. She was a guest character on *The Originals* and is a recurring character on *Legacies*.

At the beginning of *The Vampire Diaries* series, Elena appears to be regular human girl, but is then revealed to be Petrova doppelgänger. In the Season Three finale, she became a hybrid despite never wanting to be one.

Elena had been struggling to live a normal life ever since her adoptive parents, Miranda and Grayson Gilbert, died in a car accident when she 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.

Elena was described as a star student. She was popular, sporty, smart, compassionate, empathetic, caring and friendly. She could be very vulnerable and a damsel in distress.

Elena is best friends with her twin sister Alex Gilbert; Bonnie Bennett; Caroline Forbes; Matt Donovan; Damon Salvatore; Arielle Labonair; Ariana Gilbert; and her husband, Theo Salvatore. She was also close friends with her late brother-in-law, Stefan Salvatore.

In Season One, Elena was still coping with her parents' death along side her sister, Alex. Not long after school has started again her sister tells her that Stefan, Theo, and Damon Salvatore are, in fact, vampires. She also becomes aware of the existence of Katherine Pierce, the woman who turned the Salvatore brothers into vampires in 1864, and to whom Elena and Alex bears a striking physical resemblance. In the process, Elena discovers a shocking truth - she and Alex were adopted, and their real parents are John Gilbert, their "uncle", and Isobel Flemming, Alaric's wife.

In Season Two, An Original Vampire, Klaus, wants to use her and Alex in a sacrifice to break an ancient curse. Despite Elena's and her friends' best efforts, the sacrifice takes place. Her biological father, John, sacrificed his own life to keep Elena alive and human.

After Jeremy's death in Season Four, at Damon's command to ease her pain, she turned off her humanity so she wouldn't have to feel all the guilt. After a brief time, she was finally able to regain her humanity after a surprising plan was carried out by Damon and Matt.

During the events of Season Five, After Stefan's shocking death, in order to bring him and others back from The Other Side, Damon, Theo, Elena, 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 and Theo could pass through the Anchor, Bonnie, and as the Other Side began to disintegrate, Elena and her friends were left heartbroken by their impending deaths.

During Season Six, in an effort to cope with Theo's death, Elena turned to abusing drugs to hallucinate him. However, these drugs enhanced her blood thirst and she decided to resort to a different mechanism which involves erasing her memories of loving Theo.

After the memories of their relationship were erased, she began to see him as the selfish and arrogant person. Soon after, Theo came back to life and she decided to give him a chance. She began to fall for him again after seeing his acts of attempting to rescue Bonnie from the prison world, and they start their relationship anew. Eventually her twin sister, Alex siphoned the compulsion from her and Elena got all the memories of Theo back.

For most of her life, Elena lived at 2104 Maple Street, in the Gilbert family house. During the fourth season, she briefly moved to the Salvatore Boarding House, when her brother, Jeremy, became a member of The Five and developed an uncontrollable urge to kill vampires, making it impossible for them to live together. Later in the season, after Jeremy's death, Alex burned down the Gilbert house. After that, she lived in the Salvatore Boarding House for several months, before moving to the Whitmore College dorm.

She attended Mystic Falls High School from Seasons One to Four, where she was a cheerleader, honor student, and one of the most popular girls in the school. Elena wanted to become a great writer and she has a diary in which she writes everything that happens in her life. She was originally turned in this direction by her adoptive mother, who gave Elena her first diary when she was ten. In Season Five, she began attending Whitmore College and in Season Six, she majored in pre-med, wanting to become a doctor. Elena achieved her dream of being a doctor and married the love of her life, Theo.

Elena is the mother to Grayson, Sarah, and Stefanie Salvatore. She is the aunt is Jack Mikaelson, Hope Mikaelson, Jax Salvatore, Nina Salvatore, Lily Salvatore, Vivian Mikaelson, Vanessa Mikaelson, Miranda Mikaelson, Jenna Mikaelson, Sebastian Gilbert, Camila Gilbert, Issac Gilbert, and Nik Mikaelson. She is the adoptive aunt to Adella Mikaelson.

**Elena** is a member of the **Petrova Family**, **Gilbert Family**, **Labonair Family**, and **Lescheres Family**, by marriage the **Salvatore Family**. She also has ties to the **Mikaelson Family**. She is by birthright, a member of the **Crescent Wolf Pack** and **Divine Coven**, **Trinity Coven** in which she descends directly from the main branch of witches in the powerful **Lightwood Family**, and **French Quarter Coven**.

## Personality

* Human
* With Humanity
* Without Humanity

As a human, she's the sociable popular girl in school and the girl next door. She's compassionate, caring, empathetic, kind, intelligent, beautiful, friendly but she can also be pushy, judgmental, selfish, at times prying into other peoples' business, Elena is also athletic and a cheerleader. Her favorite hobby is writing in her journal and says that she's always wanted to be a writer. Elena's "dark side" from the books as a human is never explored because it "didn't ever feel like a characteristic" the show wanted for their heroine. Elena's actual dark side is her "deep, deep connection to other people". Elena's always surrounded by drama. She's always helping around in her community events and Caroline calls her the mothering type.

Like her mother before her, Elena believes in family, honor, loyalty and community. She is shown to be consistently polite, calm and composed, though prone to great anxiety and panic. Despite being something of a skeptic, she has a vivid internal life. She is extremely introverted. 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 back bone and never displays a sense of inferiority. However, Elena can also be a hypocrite, and gradually becomes more and more self-absorbed as the seasons continue, but undergoes several huge changes due to trauma, stress, loss and finally healing. She is flawed; not always able to treat her friends with proper respect, and acting in a smothering, if not controlling, manner toward her brother, Jeremy. Elena exalts personal choice and is known for her forgiving nature.

As a hybrid, Elena's personality is amplified. In some ways, Elena is considered to be the opposite of Katherine. In terms of blood consumption, Elena wants to live on a diet of animal blood, in an attempt to avoid hurting someone. However, after she is unable to keep down animal blood, human blood from a blood bag or vampire blood, she begins to feed from Matt. It is discovered that her inability to consume other sources of blood was unintentionally due to the spell placed on her to be in love with Damon, and eventually begins to live on a diet of blood bags from a human blood bank. Now that Elena is a hybrid, her feelings are magnified.

She also struggles with magnified grief from the loss of so many family members, and anger towards those who put her remaining friends and family in danger. As she's learning to live as a hybrid, she begins to learn more. Elena has now accepted being a hybrid. With her humanity back, she becomes more determined than she wants, she goes back to being tearful in situations of pain and suffering. And more determined to discover mysterious situations making use of their gifts of compulsion.

Elena had gone through a drastic change after Theo's death.

When Elena's brother Jeremy dies during their failed attempt at obtaining the cure, Elena's in denial that he's dead, believing the Gilbert rings will bring him back to life and rejecting anyone who says otherwise. When she finally accepts that he's gone, she breaks into tears. Damon hugs her and tries to calm her down, eventually telling her to "turn it off." She complies.

She doesn't care who sees her doing what. As well as losing her humanity, she's lost her modesty. She doesn't care about the rules. Elena always lived by her set of rules, what she thought was right and wrong, and now it's like she's thrown all the rules to the wind and she just does whatever she wants to do. Elena is more blunt and honest and, "It is what it is and I am what I am and want what I want. And right now I would like to feed on that girl over there. And I resent you for trying to stop me." Elena is more direct about getting exactly what it is that she wants. Elena speaks the truth all the time and it's brutal and not fun for the people who have to listen to it.

Without her human emotions, such as compassion and grief, she doesn't care about anything anymore. She feeds indiscriminately, walks around without clothes, and does what she pleases. While she and Katherine differ in their personalities, with Katherine always lying and playing games, Elena is more blunt and brutally honest, speaking without any tact for anyone's feelings, and saying whatever she has to so that she can get her way. She and Katherine are similar in their abilities to manipulate others, and to think several steps ahead of Stefan or Damon, who are trying to save her. Her actions without her emotions push Stefan and Damon to track Katherine so that they can steal the cure back from her and give it to Elena, hoping it will solve her problems, but they are pushing their beliefs and what they want on her so hard that she feels resentful and frustrated with them, which causes her to act out in unexpected ways, such as getting into a physical fight with Caroline after attacking her mother. She tells them she has no interest in the cure now that she's taking advantage of the perks of being a hybrid, and wants them to respect her choice; the more they push her, the more she pushes back. While Damon and Theo are worried that she will cross the line while her human emotions are shut off and won't be able to take it back, Elena warns them that she has no intentions of taking the cure, and if they don't accept her decision, that there will be consequences.
## Physical Appearance

Physically, Elena 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.

As a Labonair, she has the Crescent birthmark on her right shoulder, just like her distant relatives, Eve, Lana, and the Hollow.

Elena has an uncanny physical resemblance to her ancestor and doppelgänger, Katerina Petrova, who often poses as Elena in order to trick others.

However, even though Elena and Katherine 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. In terms of fashion sense, while Elena'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. Elena favors wearing dark blue jeans with t-shirts of various colors and Converse sneakers. Elena primarily wears fashionable clothing or dresses up for special occasions or formal events. Katherine's fashion sense or style, on the other hand, is much more high maintenance, expensive and trendy. Another distinct difference between Elena and Katherine's physical appearance is that Elena always wears her hair straight with a middle part in which Katherine doesn't like, while Katherine wears her hair curly. However, Katherine often straightens her hair in order to fool people when she's posing as Elena.

Elena as a newly turned hybrid wears a necklace with a silver heart as the pendent. Elena has a slightly more sophisticated look and trades her usual jeans and t-shirts to dresses and boots. Since Elena now has the freedom to accessorize, she dips into her jewelry box more often. Elena is seen wearing more chain necklaces in season 4. After she abandons her humanity, she becomes more womanly in the way she looks. She gets red streaks in her hair and curls it. She also begins to wear skirts and belts. Later on, she gets rid of the red streaks and goes back to her normal color.

In *American Gothic*, Elena impersonates Katherine for the first time. As she has now changed her style, she's able to temporarily fool Elijah of her identity. As Katherine's wardrobe is much more adult, Elena switches her comfortable boots for high heels, casual denim jacket for slim fitting leather and took Katherine's sparkly eye catching jewelry including earrings, bracelets and her watch. To pass for Katherine, Elena also applies more make up, particularly dark eye shadow and eyeliner to a much more "sluttier" degree, as said by Rebekah. At first glance, Elena and Katherine are identical yet their personalities, mannerisms, style, and makeup differ greatly and are generally aspects which give away their identity.

In Season Five, Elena starts to wear more skinny jeans, low-heeled boots, low heels, combat boots, sleeveless blouses, leather jackets, short skirts and super short shorts, varied dresses, makeup, and plunges more in her jewelry box.

In her wolf form, Elena possesses white and black fur with shades of brown and has the typical glowing yellow eyes that comes with Lycanthropy. In her vampire form, Elena maintains her golden yellow eyes but gains black veins that cascade from her lower eyelids to just above her cheekbones.

## Powers and Abilities

* Human/Untriggered Werewolf Untapped Witch-Hybrid
* Vampire-Werewolf Hybrid

She possessed fighting abilities to defend herself against vampires as she trained under Alaric and Damon. She knows how to stake vampires and also the traits of a vampire hunter. Elena also possesses the abilities of the doppelgängers, meaning her blood can be used for various spells, particularly the magic stripping spell. Elena is also a Doppelgänger which means her blood in an unlimited (while she's alive) source of power for witches and siphoners as well.

Elena possess all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire werewolf hybrid.

## Weaknesses

* Human
* Vampire-Werewolf Hybrid

Elena possessed all the typical weaknesses of a human.

Elena possess al the typical weakness of a non-Original vampire werewolf hybrid.

## Appearances

### The Vampire Diaries

* *Pilot*
* *The Night of the Comet*
* *Friday Night Bites*
* *Family Ties*
* *You're Undead to Me*
* *Lost Girls*
* *Haunted*
* *162 Candles*
* *History Repeating*
* *The Turning Point*
* *Bloodlines*
* *Unpleasantville*
* *Children of the Damned*
* *Fool Me Once*
* *A Few Good Men*
* *There Goes the Neighborhood*
* *Let the Right One In*
* *Under Control*
* *Miss Mystic Falls*
* *Blood Brothers*
* *Isobel*
* *Founder's Day*

* *The Return*
* *Brave New World*
* *Bad Moon Rising*
* *Memory Lane*
* *Kill or Be Killed*
* *Plan B*
* *Masquerade*
* *Rose*
* *Katerina*
* *The Sacrifice*
* *By the Light of the Moon*
* *The Descent*
* *Daddy Issues*
* *Crying Wolf*
* *The Dinner Party*
* *The House Guest*
* *Know Thy Enemy*
* *The Last Dance*
* *Klaus*
* *The Last Day*
* *The Sun Also Rises*
* *As I Lay Dying*

* *The Birthday*
* *The Hybrid*
* *The End of the Affair*
* *Disturbing Behavior*
* *The Reckoning*
* *Smells Like Teen Spirit*
* *Ghost World*
* *Ordinary People*
* *Homecoming*
* *The New Deal*
* *Our Town*
* *The Ties That Bind*
* *Bringing Out The Dead*
* *Dangerous Liaisons*
* *All My Children*
* *1912*
* *Break On Through*
* *The Murder of One*
* *Heart of Darkness*
* *Do Not Go Gentle*
* *Before Sunset*
* *The Departed* (Death)

* *Growing Pains* (Resurrection, as a hybrid)
* *Memorial*
* *The Rager*
* *The Five*
* *The Killer*
* *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*
* *My Brother's Keeper*
* *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*
* *O Come, All Ye Faithful*
* *After School Special*
* *Catch Me If You Can*
* *A View to a Kill*
* *Into the Wild*
* *Down the Rabbit Hole*
* *Stand By Me*
* *Bring It On*
* *Because the Night*
* *American Gothic*
* *Pictures of You*
* *She's Come Undone*
* *The Darkness In The Doppelgänger*
* *The Walking Dead*
* *Graduation*

* *I Know What You Did Last Summer*
* *True Lies*
* *Original Sin*
* *For Whom the Bell Tolls*
* *Monster's Ball*
* *Handle with Care*
* *Death and the Maiden*
* *Dead Man on Campus*
* *The Cell*
* *Fifty Shades of Grayson*
* *500 Years of Solitude*
* *The Devil Inside*
* *Total Eclipse of the Heart*
* *No Exit*
* *Gone Girl*
* *While You Were Sleeping*
* *Rescue Me*
* *Resident Evil*
* *Man on Fire*
* *What Lies Beneath*
* *Promised Land*
* *Home*

* *I'll Remember*
* *Yellow Ledbetter*
* *Welcome to Paradise*
* *Black Hole Sun*
* *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*
* *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*
* *Do You Remember the First Time?*
* *Fade Into You*
* *I Alone*
* *Christmas Through Your Eyes*
* *Woke Up With a Monster*
* *Prayer For the Dying*
* *The Day I Tried To Live*
* *Stay*
* *Let Her Go*
* *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*
* *Age of Innocence*
* *I Carry Your Heart With Me*
* *Live Through This*
* *Best Served Cold*
* *Mommie Dearest*
* *Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me*
* *Cold as Ice*
* *Hell Is Other People*
* *Things We Lost in the Fire*
* *Postcards from the Edge*
* *This Woman's Work*
* *Moonlight on the Bayou*
* *I Would for You*
* *Days of Future Past*
* *I Went to the Woods*
* *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*
* *An Eternity of Misery*
* *Coming Home Was a Mistake*
* *Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell*
* *The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You*
* *We Have History Together*
* *The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch*
* *Nostalgia's a Bitch*
* *You Made a Choice to Be Good*
* *What Are You?*
* *The Lies Will Catch Up To You*
* *It's Been a Hell of a Ride*
* *We're Planning a June Wedding*
* *I Was Feeling Epic*

### The Originals

* *House of the Rising Son*  (Voice Only)
* *The Big Uneasy*  (Hallucination)
* *Suffering Grief*
* *I Love You, Goodbye*

* *A Streetcar Named Desire*
* *The Bloody Crown*
* *Haunter of Ruins* (Mentioned)
* *Bag of Cobras* (Mentioned)
* *Voodoo In My Blood* (Mentioned)
* *The Feast of All Sinners*

* *From Fiancée To Wife*
* *New Members of The Mikaelson Family*
* *Despite the Mother*
* *In New Orleans*
* *Oh Sweet Memories Vol. 1* (Flashback)
* *Mikaelson Baby...I Think Not*
* *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea*
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*
* *The Kindness Of Strangers* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*

### Legacies

* *This is the Part Where You Run* (Voice Only)
* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn*
* *There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True* (Mentioned)
* *We're Gonna Need A Spotlight*
* *Let's Just Finish the Dance*
* *There's Always a Loophole* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *I'll Never Give Up Hope*
* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*
* *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*

## Name

* **Elena** is a feminine first name of Greek origin ‘Ελενη (Elene) or ‘ελενη (Elene) which means "**torch**". The meaning of Elena is "the shining light", "the bright one", or "light". It is a variation of the name ***Helen***. This likely means Elena and Katherine are based on Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, twin sisters, Helen being the most beautiful mortal in the world and Clytemnestra, a less beautiful version.
* **Rose** is derived from the Latin "Rosa", the name of a fragrant flower. Unlike Damon's and Stefan's, the name was quite popular in the times when Rose became a vampire.
* **Gilbert**, which is Elena'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** is Italian and means "savior".
* Elena's birth name, **Gabriella**, is a girl's name of Spanish, Italian origin meaning "God is my strength".
* **Labonair** may be derived from Bonaire. This interesting name has a number of possible origins, each with its own distinct derivation. Firstly, the surname may be of Old French origin, derived from the Old French term "bonnaire", from the phrase "de bon(ne) aire", meaning "of good bearing or appearance", and adopted into Middle English as "boner(e), bonour", gentle, courteous, handsome, thence used as a nickname for someone thought to embody these qualities. The surname from this source is found particularly in England and Scotland; one Thomas Boner was the first of the name to be recorded in Scotland as a charter witness in Aberdeen in 1281. Secondly, Bonner may be an Irish (County Donegal) translation of the Gaelic "O'Cnaimhsighe", descendant of Cnaimhseach, a byname meaning "Midwife". Finally, the surname may be of Welsh origin, as an Anglicized form of the patronymic "ab Ynyr", son of Ynyr, a personal name derived from the Latin "Honorius", Honoured.