Lexi Branson

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## Biographical Information

### Titles

* Wench (by Katherine)
* Lex  (by Alex)

### Species

* Human (Originally)
* Vampire (Unknown Bloodline)
* Ghost (Formerly)
* Spirit (Currently)

## Supernatural Information

### Cause of Death

* Unknown (as a human)
* Staked (as a vampire)

## Appearance

### Last Seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic* (Spirit)

**Alexia "Lexi" Branson** was a character who first appeared in the eighth episode of the first season in *The Vampire Diaries*. She was a vampire and was also Theo and Stefan Salvatore's best friend and companion. She had known Stefan and his brothers Theo and Damon for over a century. Damon killed her to make the Town Council think that she was the vampire terrorizing Mystic Falls. She was 350 years old, placing her birth date around 1659 and her turning year in 1680.

Lexi sees Alex again after a year. She briefly meets Elena Gilbert before she died and gave her some relationship advice, encouraging her to give Theo a chance. Elena thought of Lexi as a friend after they talked, realizing how much she cared about both Theo and Stefan.

She came back as a ghost in *Ghost World* to help Stefan, who had turned off his humanity and returned to his ripper behavior. Also, she was one of the ghosts who appeared in Mystic Falls when Bonnie dropped the veil in *The Walking Dead* and *Graduation.*

In Season Five, she returns in *Home*, and saves Stefan from going into Hell, but she manages to find peace and disappears. She continues to watch over him and greets him when he too dies in *I Was Feeling Epic*.

## Early History

* 1659-1680
* 1864
* 1922-1935
* 1942
* 1977

Although not much is known about her, Lexi was born around 1659 and became a vampire at the age of 21 under unknown circumstances. According to Stefan's Diaries, Lexi had a younger brother and she had been taking care of him since their parents died. One day, Lexi was turned into a vampire by a man she met who asked her if she wanted to live forever so she could take care of her brother. So she became a vampire, and eventually her brother was killed when villagers who were suspicious since Lexi never grew older. They set her cottage on fire, trying to kill Lexi but she escaped. Her brother, however, didn't; he was only 16 years old.

In 1864, Lexi arrived in Mystic Falls and met a newly turned vampire named Stefan Salvatore, who tried to attack her, not realizing that she was also a vampire. After discovering that Stefan was a ripper, Lexi took it upon herself to help Stefan recover his humanity and keep his addiction in check, and they became close friends. Lexi was good friends with a woman named Callie Gallagher during that time period.

Lexi found Stefan again in April of 1922, again he was off the rails terrorizing and killing innocent people. She got him on the mend, spending over a decade rehabilitating him before he was finally off of human blood around 1935. They maintained their friendship and would spend his birthday together every year, once attending a Bon Jovi concert. At that particular concert, unbeknownst to either of them, Katherine Pierce observed them from afar. Lexi had never met Katherine, though what she knew about her through Stefan, made her take a strong dislike to the older Doppelgänger.

In *We'll Always Have Bourbon Street*, a flashback to 1942 reveals Lexi was in New Orleans with Stefan. She knew that Damon was also in New Orleans, and told Stefan that it was time for him to make peace with his brother. After rekindling his relationship with his brother, Damon announced his intention to go to war with Stefan, but Lexi talked him out of it. She argued that once Stefan found out that Damon had murdered twelve innocent people without guilt or remorse, Stefan would turn to Damon for guidance about how to live that way. Lexi reminded him how badly it ended for Stefan the last time he listened to Damon in 1912. Damon reluctantly agreed and walked away from Stefan and the war.

Lexi tracks down Damon because his reckless behavior was getting him noticed. She told Damon that she had come to find him because she and Stefan had heard about his reckless murders as far away as Mystic Falls, and Stefan was worried about him. Damon wanted none of her help, but Lexi was persistent and refused to back down.

Over the course of six months, Damon played into Lexi's mission by partying with her and permitting her to try to rehabilitate him from his profligate ways. Eventually he fooled her into thinking that her plan had worked, that he had finally flipped his humanity switch back on because of his feelings for her. Lexi, having grown fond of Damon, believed him, and they proceeded to have a night of wild sex.

The next morning, asleep on the roof, Lexi awoke when the sun started to burn her skin. Panicked, she ran to the door to get inside but it was locked and wouldn't open. Damon then revealed that he had played a cruel joke on her, reinforcing the locked door, and paying her back for annoying him for the past six months. Damon abandoned her on the roof, leaving her stranded in the tiny shadow of the locked doorway.
## Personality

Lexi has been around for over 300 years. She has learned a few things. One of them is to enjoy life and have fun. She is probably one of the most down-to-earth and "normal" vampires a person will ever meet. She is also comfortable being a vampire and has no problem socializing with humans. Lexi was one of the few vampires who respected and even cherished human life. Her attitude towards humans is what partly influenced to mentor Theo and Stefan Salvatore, a then-Ripper, on how to feed as to not hurt a human. Her patience and her perseverance has helped many people over the course of her life. Lexi felt that as a vampire, life is too short to spend on brooding and dwelling on the past. Living in the present is her philosophy.

## Attitude Toward Humans

She had a very generous nature to mortals and a regard for human life. As mentioned she did drink human blood, but strictly from blood bags in hospital blood banks. Unlike Stefan when he ingested human blood she was able to easily control her innate bloodlust without murdering humans. She didn't hunt them or regard them as her playthings, but as equals. Indeed, she was in love with a human male named Lee as much as Elena Gilbert was in love with Theo as Stefan was to Alex Gilbert Lexi dissuaded Alex and Elena's worries about being romantically involved with vampires including them slowly growing old with them being forever young. She turned Lee into a vampire with his consent and wish. The only time in her brief time in the series she looked like she was about to attack a human was in self-defense when Sheriff Forbes and two other deputies captured her with vervain and were taking her away to a quiet place to kill her. As outlined below Damon betrayed and killed her to maintain his cover and to put the Sheriff's fears to rest.

Lexi seemed to have the healthiest attitude of all the vampires so far. Like Damon and Isobel she was totally comfortable with the fact that she was a vampire and craved and drank human blood with little thought about it, but unlike them did not harm humans and regard them as less than herself, nor did she feel any guilt about her existence like Stefan. It is a compromise Stefan hasn't worked out with his strict 'no human blood under any circumstances' attitude and emotional self-flagellation about the feelings and dangerous desires within him.

## Physical Appearance

Lexi was physically a very beautiful woman. She had long blonde hair (hairstyle changing in each passing decade: in the 19th century it was curly, in 1942 it was wavy, and in the 21st century it was straight). She was tanned and had hazel-green eyes. She was also tall and had a curvy figure.

## Powers and Abilities

As a vampire, Lexi possessed all standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire. Being over 350 years old, Lexi also possessed more strength and speed of other vampires such as Stefan Salvatore. Unlike other non-Original vampires seen before, Lexi also possessed the ability to project illusions onto other vampires. As seen with Stefan, Lexi was able to make Stefan feel thirst as if he hadn't drunk blood in an extended period of time and started to desiccate.

## Weaknesses

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

## Name

* **Alexia** is a feminine first name and the female form of Alexis, a unisex name *Αλεξις* a Greek name meaning "*defender*" or "*helper*". The name fits Lexi because she did both defend and help Stefan, especially during his times of trouble as a vampire.
* **Branson** is of English origin and means "son of the raven" and "sword".