John Gilbert

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## Biographical information

### Occupation

* Member of the Town Council (Formerly)
* Vampire Hunter

### Species

* Human
* Hybrid (untriggered Werewolf, untapped Witch; Originally)
* Ghost (Formerly; by having equipped the Gilbert Ring)
* Spirit (Currently)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Irene † (Distant Paternal Ancestor)
* Inadu's Mother † (Distant Paternal Relative)
* The Hollow † (Distant Paternal Relative)
* Samantha Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Christopher Gilbert † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Grayson Gilbert † (Older Brother)
* Miranda Sommers-Gilbert † (Sister-In-Law)
* Jeremy Gilbert (Nephew)
* Elena Gilbert (Biological Daughter/Adoptive Niece)
* Adrianna Gilbert (Biological Daughter/Adoptive Niece)
* Damon Salvatore (Son-In-Law)
* Hope Mikaelson (Granddaughter)
* Alexia Salvatore (Granddaughter)

## Supernatural information

### Significant kills

* Pearl (as a vampire)
* Harper (as a vampire)
* Anna (as a vampire)
* Charlie (as a vampire)
* Several Tomb Vampires (as vampires)

### Cause of death

* Broken Neck (1st time)
* Drained of Blood (2nd time)
* Sacrificed Life (3rd time)

### Killed by

* Damon Salvatore (1st time)
* Isobel Flemming (2nd time)
* Klaus Mikaelson (Indirectly/ With Bonnie Bennett/ 3rd and Final time)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 6'0" (Feet)
* 1.83 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Blue

**Johnathan "John" Gilbert II** was a major recurring character and an antagonist of the first two books of the *An Epic Kind of Love* series. He was Grayson Gilbert's younger brother and Elena and Adrianna Gilbert's biological father. He met and fell in love with Isobel Flemming when she visited Mystic Falls before she turned into a vampire. After she turned, John left town for a while before returning. He was a member of the Town Council. John, along with Alaric Saltzman, possessed a ring that prevents the bearer from being killed by something supernatural. John and Grayson inherited these rings. John gave his ring to his first former lover Isobel who then gave it to Alaric, her husband.

After Grayson died, John inherited his brother's ring. When he first came back to Mystic Falls, he conspired with Isobel to destroy the tomb vampires under Katherine's orders. Around that time, Elena and Adrianna learned he was their biological father. After finishing his job, Katherine attempted to kill him, but failed and John left. A few months later, he returned with Isobel to help protect the twins from Klaus. After Klaus killed Elena, John sacrificed himself to bring her back to life, by which he needed a witch to bind his soul to her, so Bonnie offered to do the spell.

**John** was a member of the **Gilbert Family** and the **Labonair Family**. He was also a relative of the **Petrova Family**, due to being the biological father of Elena and Adrianna, and a member of the **Town Council**.

## Early History

In his teenage years, John learned about the vampires that had once threatened Mystic Falls from his older brother, Grayson, whom he held in high regard. Later on, he met and fell in love with Isobel Flemming and they went out a couple times. One day, Isobel told him she was pregnant and John brought her to Grayson so that she could give birth to twins, Elena and Adrianna. Isobel left them in the good hands of Grayson and his wife Miranda, who didn't know that John was the father. Reading Johnathan Gilbert's journals, John discovered a number of secrets such as the existence of the tomb under Fell's Church and that Damon and Stefan Salvatore were vampires. John also discovered the existence of the Originals and of The White Oak Ash dagger which came from an old tree called the White Oak tree.

Sometime later, Isobel came to see him and asked him if he knew about the vampires. He told her that he knew Damon and he sent her to meet him. When Isobel was turned into a vampire at her own request, John harbored a deep hatred for the vampires who stole his "true love" from him and felt guilty at having sent Isobel to Damon.

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

* Book 1
* Book 2
* Book 3

John returned to Mystic Falls and went to the Gilbert House where he saw Elena, Adrianna, Jeremy, and Jenna. Jenna asked John why he is back and he told her that he won't let her sell his older brother's office. Later, he was warmly greeted by Richard Lockwood and the other members of the town council. John told all of the Founding Members that nothing had been solved and that the vampire problem is still real. However, he knew much more than them, including that the tomb vampires had been released and he was secretly planning to eliminate them all. Before going to the Founders' Party, he and Jeremy were eating dinner together and when Jeremy told his uncle he wasn't interested in going to the party, John told him he had to since he was a Gilbert and told him that one day he would tell Jeremy about the Gilbert legacy.

When John came to the Founders' Party, he went to the balcony and met Damon Salvatore. He quickly let Damon know that he knew about the tomb vampires and threatened to out Damon and Stefan to the council. Damon then snapped his neck and threw him over the balcony. However, John's ring brought him back to life.
After coming back to life, John gave a speech in front of the entire party, alerting Damon to the fact that he was still alive and that he possessed the same ring as Alaric. Later, John was confronted by Damon, Alaric, and Adrianna, where he confirmed that he knew Isobel and that he was the one that sent her to Damon.
The next day, John offers to work with Damon in front of the Sheriff to figure out who was stealing blood from the blood banks in the county. Later, John arrives at the Salvatore Boarding House and threatens to expose Damon again if he didn't get the Gilbert Device from Pearl. This just makes Damon angry and he threatens to kill John and the rest of the council if John ever threatened him again.

John is seen with Jeremy talking about what it means to be a Gilbert, unaware that Jeremy already knew about the existence of vampires. John later sees Jeremy with a girl and asks Jenna who the girl was and Jenna tells him that her name is Anna. He realizes that it is Pearl's daughter. A few days later, when the twins are about to leave the house John appears and tells them that he knows that they know about vampires and asks what their mother would say if she knew that they were dating vampires, to which Adrianna replied, "which one?" and stormed off.
Later, Pearl meets up with John and they are eating together. She knows that he wants the invention and tells him that she won't give it to him. He then attempts to appeal to her emotions by telling her that Johnathan Gilbert regretted his role in her death. When John saw that she was getting emotional, he laughed and told her that Johnathan hated her and wished that he could've driven a stake through her heart himself. She, in return, told him that she gave the device to Damon and then returned home to pack up and leave before she gets killed by John or someone else. However, just before Pearl and Harper left, they were both staked by John.
When Isobel returned to Mystic Falls she threatened to kill everyone in the town if she didn't get Johnathan's invention. John met up with Isobel in her loaned house and expressed that he didn't like the way she was using people. Isobel told him that she didn't believe he could get the invention so she wanted to take matters into her own hands, which John thinks is a bad idea.
Later, John is in the kitchen in the Gilbert House where he heard Jeremy and Jenna talking about Anna and asked Jeremy if he had trouble. John then asked Jeremy how well he knew Anna, to which Jeremy said very well. John then said he would help Jeremy with whatever since his brother, Grayson, would want him to.

Later, Isobel calls John and he meets up with her at her house and finds out that she kidnapped Jeremy. When he tried to tell her to let Jeremy go, she took his ring and had her minions beat him up. When John was able to get himself up he explained Johnathan Gilbert's device and what Isobel wanted to Jeremy. John said he had to destroy all the vampires but Jeremy was against it because he believes that there are good vampires. John says there is no such thing then said that both he and Grayson believed vampires to be pure evil. They were both later released by Isobel and made up the lie that Jeremy fell and hit his head. Isobel later leaves the device and John's ring to John and told him not to fail. She then revealed that he was Elena and Adrianna's father and that she wanted him to kill Damon and Stefan in order to protect the twins.

In the final chapter of the book, John talked Richard Lockwood into striking against the tomb vampires by using the invention and, knowing that the Sheriff would not approve their plan, they went over the plan with her deputies before confronting her. Sheriff Forbes was furious and refused to go through with the plan, however, John knocked her out and cuffed her to a table so she wouldn't be able to interfere.

When the fireworks started during the Founders' Day celebration, John activated the invention and neutralized every vampire in Mystic Falls. The deputies injected them with vervain and they were thrown in the basement of Grayson's old building. Among those captured were Damon, Anna, and Richard Lockwood, who had been affected by the device due to his werewolf heritage, unknown to others who believed him to be a vampire.

The deputies doused the basement with fuel and when Anna woke up and tried to get up, John staked her as Damon watched. Richard Lockwood died in the fire while Stefan, with help from Bonnie Bennett, saved Damon. Later at the Gilbert House, John admits to Elena that he fell in love with Isobel and part of the reason he hates vampires is due to what she had become. She asks if he needs help cleaning up and then she catches sight of his ring and cuts his fingers off. While screaming in pain, he sees "Elena"'s eyes turn red and fangs emerge. He immediately recognizes her as Katherine, who then stabs him. Adrianna was home and heard his scream so she ran down the stairs and saw him on the ground with a stab wound, trying to point out something behind her. Just then, Elena returned home and Adrianna realized that Katherine was back.

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## Personality

John Gilbert was always close to his older brother Grayson Gilbert and held him in high regard. John met and fell in love with a woman named Isobel and after a time it was known that she was pregnant. John then took her to his older brother who is a doctor so that Grayson could deliver the babies. John continued his hunt for vampires while his brother took care of his daughters and protected them from any vampire that would come for them. John became very vengeful when he found out that Isobel had become a vampire and hated them even more than he already did. After the death of his brother, he began planning a way to get rid of the vampires in Mystic Falls.

## Physical Appearance

John had a slim build and tall stature, and wore a variety of dark and light colored clothing. He had blue eyes and short, light brown hair.

## Attitude Toward Vampires

At an early age, John Gilbert learned about the existence of vampires from his older brother Grayson and both of them started hunting and killing vampires with weapons they had from their summer house. They later became members of the Town Council. Both John and Grayson had a Gilbert Ring that protected them from death by any supernatural species, which they both inherited from their father. One of the main reasons John hates vampires is because of what happened to his former girlfriend Isobel, the mother of his daughters Elena and Adrianna.

After the death of his older brother Grayson, John came back to Mystic Falls and would put an end to the vampire threat. John met a vampire named Damon when he returned and wanted to kill him from the start and along the way threatened to expose him and his brother if he got killed without his ring on him. When John used his ancestor Johnathan Gilbert's device to take down every vampire in Mystic Falls, he made sure that every police officer had vervain with them so they could capture the vampires and place them in the basement of a building he owned and burn the vampires alive. Just before he leaves, he stakes Anna while Damon's watching and then he burns the rest along with the mayor who is not a vampire but a werewolf.

## Relationships

* Elena and John (Biological Father & Daughter/Former Allies)
* Adrianna and John (Biological Father & Daughter/Former Enemies/Former Allies)
* John and Damon (Frenemies/Enemies)
* John and Alaric (Enemies)
* John and Isobel (Ex-Girlfriend/Frenemies/Former Allies)

## Name

* **Johnathan** derives from the Greek *Ιωαννης* (Ioannes) meaning "Yahweh is gracious". The name is the most popular English name, probably because there are two saints with this name. After the First Crusade, this name was given to one-fifth of all British boys. There are several variations.
* **Gilbert** comes from English (Norman origin), French, and North German: from Giselbert, which compromises of gisil "pledge", "hostage", "noble youth" + berht "bright", "famous".

## Trivia

* John gave his Gilbert Ring to Isobel when they were young.
* After Grayson's death, John took his brother's ring to be protected from the supernatural.
* John seriously affects Alaric's relations with Isobel and Jenna, along with Jeremy's relationship with Anna.
* John and Isobel die in the last chapters of Book 2 to save their daughters.
* Although John was the main antagonist of the five last chapters of Book 1, he returns as a protagonist in Book 2. However, he does retain an antagonistic role due notably to his prejudices against vampires, and particularly Damon. He also has a deep rivalry with Alaric.