Josie Saltzman

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## Biographical Information

### Born

* March 15, 2014 (Mystic Falls, Age 17/32)

### Turned

* By Alex Gilbert's blood in Spring of 2030

### Occupation

* Member of the Gemini Coven (Formerly)
* Salvatore Boarding School Student  (Graduated)
* High School Student  (Formerly)
* Member of The Heretics (Currently)

### Titles

* Daddy's Girl  (by Lizzie)
* Jo  (nickname)
* Jo Jo  (by Penelope)
* Joanie, Kiddo  (Both by Kai)

### Species

* Siphoner (Formerly)
* Hybrid (Vampire, Witch)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Chris Reyes †  (Maternal Ancestor)
* Erika Claire †  (Maternal Ancestor)
* Athena Mikaelson  (Maternal Ancestor)
* Antheia Claire  (Maternal Ancestor)
* Ed Saltzman  (Paternal Grandfather)
* Dianne Saltzman  (Paternal Grandmother)
* Joshua Parker †  (Maternal Grandfather)
* Joshua's Twin Brother †  (Maternal Great-Uncle)
* Alaric Saltzman  (Father)
* Josette Laughlin †  (Biological Mother)
* Malachai Parker †  (Maternal Uncle)
* Joey Parker †  (Maternal Uncle)
* 1 Unnamed Maternal Uncle †
* 2 Unnamed Maternal Aunts †
* Olivia Parker †  (Maternal Aunt)
* Lucas Parker †  (Maternal Uncle)
* Arielle Labonair  (Older Step-Sister)
* Elena Gilbert  (Older Step-Sister/Godmother)
* Alex Gilbert  (Older Step-Sister)
* Caroline Forbes  (Surrogate Mother)
* Xavier Parker (Maternal Cousin)
* Lizzie Saltzman  (Older Twin Sister)
* Luna Lockwood  (Adoptive Younger Sister)
* Adella Mikaelson (Adoptive-Sister-In-Law)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Siphoning  (various)
* Telekinesis  (various)
* Pyrokinesis  (various)
* Prison World Banishment Spell  (with Lizzie, Jack, Hope, Artemis, Jax, Nina, Lily, Lia, and Luna, instructed by Bonnie)
* Fire Manipulation Spell  (with Bonnie, Hope, Nina, and Lily)
* Siphoning Spell  (with Lizzie)
* Dark Magic Locator Spell  (with Nina)
* Pain Infliction  (various)
* Shock Wave Spell  (twice)
* Rebound Spell
* Locator Spell  (various)
* Harming Spell  (twice)
* Barrier Spell
* Japanese Purge Spell  (various)
* Illusionary Cloaking Spell
* Consciousness Golem Creation Spell
* Emotion Channeling Spell
* Lineage Spell  (on Rafael)
* Electromagnetic Charge Spell
* Vision Spell  (on the mora miserium)
* Prison World Transportation Spell  (with the Salvatore School witches)
* Illusion Spell
* Humanity Spell  (on Jade)
* Sleeping Spell
* Prison World Portal Creation Spell
* Suggestion Spell  (on Salvatore Students)
* Spark Spell
* The Merge Ritual  (with Lizzie)

### Significant Kills

* Gargoyle (with Hope, Lily, Luna, and Lia)
* Arachne (with Hope, Artemis, Nina, Lia, and Lizzie)
* Josette Laughlin (3rd time/with Lizzie; with Jo's consent)
* Mummy (2nd time; with Lizzie and Adella)
* Lizzie Saltzman (Resurrected)
* Landon Kirby (9th time; indirectly)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

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

## Appearance

### Played By

* Kaylee Bryant  (Legacies; Teenager)
* Bella Samman  (TO; Teenager)
* Lily Rose Smith  (TVD; Young/Child)

### Episode Count

* 16 (TVD)
* 3 (TO)
* 52 (Legacies)
* 71 (Totaled)

### First Seen

* *I Carry Your Heart With Me* (Flashforward)
* *This Woman's Work* (First Present Day Appearance/Birth)
* *In New Orleans* (TO)
* *This is the Part Where You Run* (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* *I Was Feeling Epic* (TVD)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In* (TO)
* *Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay?* (Legacies)

**Josette "Josie" Olivia Saltzman** was a major recurring character on *The Vampire Diaries*, a guest character on *The Originals*, and is a former main character on *Legacies*. She is one of the twin daughters of Alaric Saltzman and Josette Laughlin, the other being Lizzie Saltzman. She is the step-daughter to Tyler Lockwood and adoptive older sister to Luna Lockwood. Due to Josette's death, she was carried via surrogacy by Caroline Forbes. Her existence was revealed in *Let Her Go* by Kai, the babies' uncle. However, in *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*, Kai stabs Jo in the abdomen multiple times, killing her and supposedly killing the twins. However, in *Best Served Cold*, it was revealed that the Gemini Coven transferred the twins into Caroline's womb. Since then, she has been raised by both Alaric and Caroline.

**Josie** is a member of the **Saltzman Family** and the **Parker Family** and a member of the **Forbes Family**, due to being Caroline's surrogate daughter. She also has ties to the **Lockwood Family** and **Claire Family**. She was a member of the **Gemini Coven** before transitioning into a hybrid. She is also a member of **The Heretics**.

## Early History

Josie was born on March 15, 2014 as a set of twins with her sister, Lizzie. She is the daughter of Alaric and Jo, and the surrogate daughter to Caroline.

## Personality

One-half of the powerful Gemini twins, Josie is level headed, borderline brilliant, and comfortable in her pansexuality. Though well-liked and her twin's social equal in every way, Josie is content to play second fiddle to her sister Lizzie. With Gemini's prone to bipolar behavior, the stable Josie is quick to protect Lizzie when her sister starts to go off the rails.

Having never known their biological mother, the twins were raised by Caroline Forbes. Now at this key time in their development, with their mother often absent, their need for their father's approval and love is heightened.

Josie, like her sister and ancestors, battles with an inner-darkness that she doesn't quite understand. Through this, she is susceptible to the use of dark magic and negative influences. The lack of her father's involvement in her life led Josie to rely on the than-believed Professor Vardemus, who used her yearning for magical knowledge and the ability to protect her loved ones, against her. When she broke the Mora Miserium containing all the dark magic she used while partnered with Vardemus, the darkness consumed her and she became someone devoid of rules, human-life, and boundaries. Out of fear, the real Josie hid in her subconscious to avoid confronting her dark side. She was afraid that being powerful also meant being Evil. When she realized she can be both strong and good she was able to embrace her full potential and rid herself of dark Josie.

## Physical Appearance

Josie is a pretty young woman with brown hair and eyes. She also has an athletic build and light skin. Josie often wears her hair up, mostly in a simple, loose ponytail, but she once wore it in messy twin buns for a football game.

## Powers and Abilities

Josie was originally born as a siphoner, a witch with no power of her own, meaning that she could only practice magic by siphoning it from another source. However, after becoming a vampire, she retained her siphoning abilities, allowing her to function as a witch-vampire hybrid.

## Weaknesses

Josie had the typical weaknesses of a siphoner-witch. After dying and completing her transition, she has the typical weakness of a siphoner-witch non-Original vampire hybrid.

## Relationships

### Alaric Saltzman & Caroline Forbes

*Main Article: Alaric, Caroline, Lizzie, and Josie*

Alaric Saltzman and Caroline Forbes are Josie's biological and surrogate parents, respectively. Josie's ancestry is made up of bloodshed and a witch coven, which was decimated prior to Josie's birth. After Josie's biological mother, Jo Laughlin, was killed by her twin brother, the Gemini Coven placed Josie's fetus into Caroline, saving her life. After Alaric and Caroline found out about what truly happened, they agreed to raise Josie, and her twin sister, Lizzie, together. Today, Josie now lives in Mystic Falls and attends the Salvatore Boarding School, where she grew up. As a siphoner, Josie grew up with her parents and aunt running the school, while they raised her. Currently, Alaric and Alex are primarily raising Josie and Lizzie extensively due to Caroline's involvement in school-recruitment in Europe. Josie copes without her mother as her father is more involved with running the school. This, however, puts the burden of assisting Lizzie on Josie, though she's dutiful in this task so that they're both happy, even though their parents aren't as involved as either she or Lizzie would like. However, Josie still loves her parents and visits Caroline in Europe whenever she can.

### Lizzie Saltzman

*Main Article: Lizzie and Josie*

Lizzie is Josie's twin sister, closest friend, and helps Lizzie to see reason whenever she goes off the rails. They have known each other for basically their whole lives and currently go to the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted. Alaric Saltzman and Caroline Forbes are their father and mother, but Jo Laughlin was their biological mother. There is a dark history in which their biological mother, unfortunately, paid the price from her life. Also, both twins are descended from a dark history involving their magical lineage, which is partly due to their siphoner heritage. Despite this dark history, Josie is growing and learning to control her magical powers with Lizzie. Josie is also learning to become more comfortable with herself with Lizzie by her side though, between the two, Lizzie is more outspoken and demanding, so much so that Josie is content to play second fiddle. This is notable when Lizzie outright assumed that she'd be voted on to the school's honor council, without question from her sister. Josie implicitly helped Lizzie campaign and was forced to endure listening to Lizzie asking Rafael out as a deal if she voted with him to have Landon stay. However, Josie is surprised that she won over Lizzie, due to Penelope's influence. However, over the course of her friendship with Hope Mikaelson and reigniting her relationship with Penelope, Josie begins to stand up to her sister more and has opened up about how much her sister puts her through. Their relationship becomes strained when Penelope has to leave the school and Lizzie hid the fact from Josie. Angered by this and seeing her sister for the person that she is, Josie turns her back on Lizzie, even culminating in a magical fight between the two that Josie wins.

### Alex Gilbert

*Main Article: Alex and Josie*

Alexandria Gilbert is Josie's older step-sister due to Alaric Saltzman's marriage to her biological mother Isobel Flemming. They have the best sister/aunt-niece relationship. Since Caroline Forbes is on a school-recruitment in Europe, often Josie asks Alex for advice whether that be on magic, school, or just needs someone to talk to on a female point-of-view.

### Other Relationships

* Elena and Josie (Family/Step-Sisters)
* Josie and Jo (Biological Mother/Former Allies)
* Josie and Jade (Former Frenemies)

## Appearances

### The Vampire Diaries

* *Let Her Go* (Mentioned)
* *A Bird in a Gilded Cage* (Mentioned)
* *I Never Could Love Like That* (Mentioned)
* *Because* (Mentioned)
* *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You* (Ultrasound and mentioned)
* *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime* (Mentioned)
* *I'm Thinking Of You All The While* (Mentioned)

* *I Carry Your Heart With Me* (Seen in the flashforward)
* *Best Served Cold* (Mentioned)
* *Mommie Dearest* (Ultrasound and mentioned)
* *Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me* (Mentioned)
* *Cold as Ice* (Mentioned)
* *Things We Lost in the Fire* (Mentioned)
* *Postcards from the Edge* (Mentioned)
* *This Woman's Work* (First Present Day Appearance/Birth/Flashforward)
* *Moonlight on the Bayou* (Baby/Flashforward)
* *I Would for You* (Archive footage/Baby)
* *Days of Future Past* (Mentioned)
* *I Went to the Woods* (Mentioned)
* *One Way or Another* (Mentioned)
* *Somebody That I Used to Know* (Photo/Mentioned)
* *Kill 'Em All* (Mentioned)
* *Requiem for a Dream*
* *Gods and Monsters*

* *Hello, Brother*
* *Today Will Be Different* (Mentioned)
* *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* (Mentioned)
* *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

* *In New Orleans*
* *Where You Left Your Heart*  (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *God's Gonna Trouble the Water* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *The Tale of Two Wolves*
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*

### Legacies

* *This is the Part Where You Run*
* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn*
* *We're Being Punked, Pedro*
* *Hope is Not the Goal*
* *Malivore*
* *Mombie Dearest*
* *Maybe I Should Start From The End* (Mentioned)
* *What Was Hope Doing In Your Dreams?* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True*
* *We're Gonna Need A Spotlight*
* *There's a Mummy on Main Street*
* *The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Let's Just Finish the Dance*
* *I'll Tell You a Story*
* *There's Always a Loophole*
* *I'll Never Give Up Hope*
* *This Year Will Be Different*
* *You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know*
* *Since When Do You Speak Japanese?*
* *Screw Endgame*
* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*
* *It Will All Be Painfully Clear Soon Enough*
* *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*
* *I Couldn't Have Done This Without You*
* *This is Why We Don't Entrust Plans to Muppet Babies*
* *What Cupid Problem?* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Kai Parker Screwed Us*
* *You Can't Save Them All*
* *There's A Place Where The Lost Things Go*
* *Life Was So Much Easier When I Only Cared About Myself*
* *Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing*

* *We're Not Worthy*
* *Salvatore: The Musical!*
* *Hold on Tight*
* *This is What It Takes*
* *To Whom It May Concern*
* *Yup, It's a Leprechaun, All Right*
* *Long Time, No See*
* *Do All Malivore Monsters Provide This Level of Emotional Insight?*
* *All's Well That Ends Well*
* *You Can't Run From Who You Are*
* *I Was Made To Love You*
* *One Day You Will Understand*
* *This Feels A Little Cult-y*
* *A New Hope*
* *Fate's A Bitch, Isn't It?*
* *You Have to Pick One This Time*
* *There's No I In Team, or Whatever*
* *We All Knew This Day Was Coming*
* *See You On The Other Side*
* *I Thought You'd Be Happier To See Me*
* *You're A Long Way From Home*
* *Someplace Far Away From All This Violence*
* *You Will Remember Me*
* *I Can't Be the One to Stop You*
* *The Story of My Life* (Mentioned)
* *Follow the Sound of My Voice* (Mentioned)
* *Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost* (Mentioned)
* *Was This the Monster You Saw?* (Mentioned)
* *I Wouldn't Be Standing Here If It Weren't For You* (Mentioned)
* *By the End of This, You'll Know Who You Were Meant to Be* (Mentioned)
* *Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay?*

## Name

* **Josette** is a French girl name. The meaning of the name is '**God Will Increase'**
* **Olivia** is a Latin name meaning "olive" or '**olive tree.'**
* **Saltzman** is an Ashkenazic Jewish occupational name for a producer or seller of salt, from German Salz "salt" + Mann "man". Altered spelling of German Salzmann.