Adyelya Petrova

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**Adyelya Petrova** (**Bulgarian:** *Адиела Петрова*), more commonly known as **Alice Pierce**, is a witch of the Traveler sub-culture and a former main character of *The Vampire Diaries*. She was also the second-known Petrova doppelgänger of Ismene.

In 1490, Alice and her sister were disowned by their father. Katerina was disowned because she had brought shame upon the family after having a daughter out of wedlock when she was seventeen and Alice was disowned because she supported Katherine and was fine with her having a child out of wedlock, which made their parents think Alice would do the same thing Katherine did. Thus the two sisters were exiled to England after Katherine gave birth. They quickly assimilated into the English culture and met two nobleman brothers, Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson. Unlike her sister, she wasn't attracted to either of the brother's but she did become close friends with their sister, Rebekah. Though in time, Katerina learned that her and Alice were Petrova doppelgängers and that Klaus planned on using Katherine as a sacrifice to break the curse that bound his werewolf side. Katherine convinced Alice to sabotage Klaus plan, so they fled together, took the moonstone which bound the curse, and tricked Rose into giving them blood; which led to the two sisters becoming vampires. Because Katherine was no longer human, as well as Alice, her blood no longer was a viable component of the ritual to undo the curse. Klaus was so infuriated with Katherine and Alice's sabotage, that they were forced to live on the run for over 500 years as he hunted them, though mainly Katherine, down.

Her activities during her first centuries as a vampire are unknown, but at some point between the 15th and 19th centuries, she took on the alias "Alice Pierce" (an anglicized version of her birth name) and eventually met and befriended Pearl, Anna, and Emily Bennett. In the late 19th century, she traveled to Mystic Falls, where she met Stefan and Damon Salvatore, whose family hosted her at the Salvatore Estate. She later fell in love with Damon Salvatore. When the Founder's Council found out the identities of the vampires in town, Alice ran and didn't look back. She knew Katherine would be found out but that she could handle herself as she always did.

In 2010, she came back to Mystic Falls with as it had been a while and she heard that her sister wanted to hand her newly-found human doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert, over to Klaus to earn her freedom.

Alice's notable ancestors include Amara, who was Silas' true love and presumably the world's first immortal woman; Ismene; Daria; and Tatia, whose blood was involved in the creation of the adapted spell of immortality that was cast on the Mikaelson Family by Esther, as well the curse that bound Klaus' werewolf side. She is also the distant maternal ancestor of Isobel Flemming and that of Isobel's biological daughters, Clara and Elena Gilbert. She was once the romantic interest of Damon Salvatore.

**Adyelya Petrova** is a member of the **Petrova Family**.

## Powers and Abilities

Alice possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-original vampire. Being 538-plus years old makes Alice one of the most powerful vampires to appear in the series.

## Weaknesses

Alice has the typical weaknesses of a non-original vampire.

## Name

* **Alice** is a feminine name of Old French origins. It appears to come from the Old French *Alis*, which is short form of *Adelais*, which is derivation from the Old High German *Adalhaidis*. The name means "*of nobility*". **Adyelya** is of Bulgarian and French origins and means "of the nobility".
* Petrov/Petroff (masculine) or **Petrova** (feminine) is one of the most common surnames in both Russia and Bulgaria. The surname is derived from the first name Pyotr (Пётр, Russian) or Petar (Петър, Bulgarian), both equivalent to the English name Peter. Petrov means "son of Peter" in Russian and Bulgarian.

## Tropes

* A Day in the Limelight - has an episode named after her alongside Katherine, plus frequent flashbacks into her and her sisters origins.

## Trivia

* Alice's birthday is June 5 and her astrological sign is Gemini.
	+ In a deleted scene of season two, her original birthday was June 22, ironically and coincidentally the same birthday as Elena and Clara. But this was later retconned.
* Most people use the the Anglo version of *Alice* for her name. However Katerina, Klaus, Elijah, Rose, Trevor, and Nadia refer to her by her original name *Adyelya*.
* She shares some similarities with Hayley Marshall:
	+ Both came from old supernatural lineage.
	+ Both are called by an other name that their birth one; Hayley being born as Andréa Labonair and Alice as Adyelya Petrova.
	+ Both of their astrological sign are Gemini.

* Adyelya, Katerina, Isobel, Rose, and Klaus are the only characters to have an episode named after them.
* Alice's parents are the first of Klaus' victims to be seen in the TV series.
* When Adyelya and Katerina first arrived in Mystic Falls, she said she was an orphan who lost her family in a fire. She may have burned down her house with her family inside after they were murdered by Klaus.

* Vanessa Monroe, a research assistant and former student of Isobel, mentions in *Bad Moon Rising* that Katherine arrived in Mystic Falls in April 1864, but this is inconsistent with Katherine's story that her family perished in the Atlanta campaign fires, which occurred in September of that year.
* Others can usually tell Alice apart from Clara by their hair, make-up and wardrobe choices.
* Alice possibly knew about Daria and Tatia, when Elena and Clara asked her and Katherine in *Adyelya & Katerina* what the Petrova family has to do with Klaus.
* Alice is the 2nd Doppelgänger of the second Petrova line.
* Alice, Katherine, Nadia, Silas, Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah all speak multiple languages.
* As of *Fifty Shades of Grayson*, it is revealed that Alice was never human, but a Traveler Witch, as she received the gene from her father.
* Like her ancestors Amara and Ismene and her doppelgänger Clara and Elena, Alice had a close relationship with a Bennett Witch. Amara and Ismene were Qetsiyah's handmaiden, Bonnie is Elena's best friend as well as Clara's friend, and Emily was Katherine's handmaiden as well as Alice's friend.

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice\_(given\_name)
2. ↑ https://www.momjunction.com/baby-names/adyelya/
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrov\_(surname)