Dark Josie

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## Biographical Information

### Species

* Witch (infused with dark magic) (Formerly)
* Siphoner

## Physical Appearance

### Height

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

## Appearance

### Last Seen

* *Someplace Far Away From All This Violence*

**Dark Josie** is the dark version of Josie Saltzman. She made her first appearance in *You Can't Save Them All* after Josie broke the mora miserium at the end of *Kai Parker Screwed Us*.

## Throughout Legacies

### Season Two

In *You Can't Save Them All*, Josie is more powerful than ever due to the breaking of the mora miserium. She uses the dark magic to force Jade's humanity back on, and Alaric questions what she has done, realizing that Josie is somehow different. She remarks that she has "fixed" Jade.

Later, when she helps save Lily's life, she realizes that something is missing from her memory, and therefore must mean that someone has been consumed by Malivore. They are next seen at the Salvatore Boarding House and she reveals that the Prison World is made of magic, therefore can be siphoned in order to allow them a way out; she formalizes a plan that allows her family and friends to escape, whilst she remains behind. When it comes to finally performing the spell to allow her family to escape, she is successful in allowing Alaric, Lia, Lily, Jade, and Wendy return to Mystic Falls, but is approached by Sebastian before the spell is finished. Sebastian tells her to tell Lily something a better man would say, and then touches her, becoming the anchor to the spell and allowing her to return home. When she returns home, it appears that the dark magic has been left behind and Josie has returned to her former self.

In *There's A Place Where The Lost Things Go*, Josie participates in Emma's simulation; in the simulation, she as well as Lily are Lizzie's assistant. After the murders begin, Josie is accused by Jade of ordering the poisoned champagne — a clear attempt on her life — to gauge the interest of the press onto Lizzie; this failed, however, and Emma died within the simulation.

It quickly becomes apparent that Josie is willing to take the blame for the murders to protect Lizzie, but she is eventually murdered herself by the unknown assailant. It is later revealed that Josie has been overcome by the darker version of herself, who tries to kill Lizzie once and for all within the simulation that she has taken control of with the help of Lily. Hope helps Lizzie defeat her, however she does not awaken from the simulation. When she eventually does, she is trapped within the werewolf transition space, but escapes confidently by blowing a hole in the roof and setting a large portion of the school on fire; this is presumably fixed by the students afterwards.

In *Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself*, she returns to the Salvatore School to plan her birthday party.

Hope and Lizzie later talk but are interrupted by her, who reveals that she and Lizzie will Merge later that night. Hope and Lizzie formulate a plan to deal with her, however this relies on Lizzie winning the Merge. Lizzie believes she cannot win the Merge and leaves the Salvatore School out of fear.

Meanwhile, at the arranged time, Hope arrives to take Lizzie's place and fight with her until MG is able to convince Lizzie to return. The two brawl and she is able to get the upper hand before being interrupted by Lizzie, who saves Hope. Josie and Lizzie begin the Merge and — as she predicted — Lizzie loses and all hope appears lost. Unbeknownst to her, Landon and Hope have formulated a plan-b and were aware that the possibility of Lizzie losing the Merge was high; Hope has placed herself within Josie's subconscious when she was asleep in a bid to find the real Josie.

In *Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing*, while inside Josie's subconscious, Hope and Lia are told (by a pig) a story of how Josie cast a sleeping spell on herself in order to protect the world from the darkness within her. Hope and Lia are brought to a table where Josie is lying, but is unable to wake her and the pig jokes that one of them should try kissing her.

Shortly after a battle with the darkness, Josie is revealed to be the pig in disguise. Josie reveals that she thought she could trick the darkness and allow Hope and Lia to get to safety; this failed, however. After a brief conversation with Hope and Lia, the darkness attacks Josie. Josie cowers in a corner, but soon realizes that she can beat the darkness if she fights. She tells the darkness that she was afraid of being powerful because it meant hurting Lizzie, but now she realizes she can be both like her aunt and her family. Josie takes on the darkness head-on and is able to subdue her, before receiving warnings that she will always return.

Meanwhile, Lizzie and Adella extracts the darkness from Josie and Lily and transfers it into the Necromancer to honor his deal with Alaric. After Josie wakes, she transfers her magic into a coin — much like her mother and Bonnie Bennett did previously — until she is ready to use it again.

### Season Three

In *You Can't Run From Who You Are*, Josie borrows the prism and decides she'll talk it out with her subconscious. To her shock, Dark Josie appears before her.

She doesn't understand how this is possible. She destroyed her with an axe. Her subconscious tells her that she's been hiding inside her, waiting for the perfect time to escape. But she is just as gullible as ever. Dark Josie is really just her subconscious projection. Josie admits that she has trust issues and doesn't believe her, though her subconscious tells her to drop the prism and she'll disappear. Josie does and Dark Josie disappears. Her subconscious is practically harmless. She believes the prism to be malfunctioning, but deep down she must want to hear what she has to say. She does know all of her weaknesses and knows exactly what's wrong with her. Dark Josie tells her that if she really doesn't want to talk to her, all she has to do is just drop the prism. Josie doesn't and they chat.

Her subconscious tells her that she is never gonna have that happy human life that she wants. She didn't want her opinion on her future. She asked why all of my romantic relationships are such disasters. Dark Josie has answered that. The problem is not the relationships. The fault lies in her. She never said that Josie couldn't have "a happy life." They both know that she can't have a real relationship if she's repressing an essential part of herself. She's a witch who's pretending that she isn't. Josie believes it's her subconscious trying to trick her into taking her magic back. Like it or not, Josie could have asked any of her friends the same question, but deep down, she already knew the answer. Meanwhile their conversation is interrupted by Landon and Hope is in trouble.

Using the prism, she's sure that her subconscious still remembers. With the page in hand, 'Dark Josie' translates; to stop a person from becoming a berbalang, you need a pearl-bladed weapon. The blade also needs to be imbued with an enchantment. Josie refuses. She's not going to take her magic back just for her to take back control. Josie however doesn't understand. She already lives within her. If she's so strong and good, why is she so afraid of her own power, she wonders. Josie decides to take back her magic and stops berbalang Hope. Running out of time, Landon has no choice but to stab Hope with the enchanted dagger.

### Season Four

In *See You On The Other Side,* Josie sits in a salt circle casting the spell as Finch paces the room. Josie begins to lose control of the spell, her nose bleeding black and the wind picking up. Finch is too late with the candle and her darkness overwhelms her. When Finch crawls out from under the bed from lighting the candle, Dark Josie is lying on the bed and she snuffs out the candle as she greets Finch.

Josie questions Finch's facial expression. She did warn her that her situation was complicated. Finch brushes her off and believes it to be ridiculous. She doesn't know why the others call her Dark Josie. Finch tells her that she's into Josie just the way she is. First off, she hasn't done anything scary yet, and this is her. Finch doesn't buy it. She's not the only one with a dark side, but Josie takes offense that she's trying to compare her black magic dark side to her werewolf dark side. Finch ignores her, and admits she used to try and hide her other side, but Josie taught her that there's a place for all of her. Finch tries to reason with her. She can't be Josie is one side of her is trying to overtake the other. She doesn't need to fight it. If Josie can't love her other side, then she'll love it for her. Finch embraces her in a kiss and Josie comes back to her senses, pulling her out of the darkness.

In *Someplace Far Away From All This Violence*, Dark Josie confronts Jack and Hope, telling them that they should pick on someone their own size. She demands for Ethan to do his blinky thing and take her unconscious girlfriend out of there. Hope questions what took her so long, though all Josie needed was the proper motivation. Jack mocks Josie for going soft if it was Finch being in danger to bring her darker self out. Finch is just what she needed to let her loose, though. She's here to put her down and wonders if Hope's up for a rematch. Hope is intrigued, believing that someone finally gets it. When it's time to fight, Josie has to rely on her darker half. She's not there to fight; however, she's here to snap her fingers. Jack and Hope is in a similar situation as to Jade who also had her humanity off. She's going to snap her fingers and turn Jack and Hope's humanity back on. The Mikaelson Twins remains confident as Josie snaps her fingers.

Jack and Hope has bad news. Josie's trick didn't work, but she figured that. They're akin to an Original and she doesn't even have the power to do that like she did to Jade. She just wanted to see what would happen, if she could see fear in their eyes. Jack and Hope are adamant that they're not afraid of anything. Josie throws the truth sphere at the twins and Hope catches it and it begins glowing red. They're lying. Hope crushes the orb, but Josie now knows the truth. Jack and Hope are afraid of their own humanity coming back. Of feeling what it felt like when they killed Landon. They can cling to their defense mechanism all they want to, but when it crumbles, they'll have a bigger mess than before. Hope unleashes a spell against Josie, a burst of electricity arcing towards her that she easily siphons. Jack and Hope can't outrun her trauma forever. Jack rushes Josie and throws her through the gym doors.