Damon Salvatore

### Turned

* By Karina Pierce on September 25, 1864  (transition initiated by Giuseppe Salvatore)

### Occupation

* Confederate Lieutenant Soldier of the American Civil War (1864)

* Prisoner of Augustine (1953-1958)

* College Student (Formerly)

* Leader of the Founder's Council (2010)

* Prisoner (Formerly)

* Cade's Soul Harvester (Formerly)

* Ordained Minister (Licensed)

* Member of The 11 (Currently)

* Owner of Salvatore's Bar & Grill (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Dungeon Boy, Vampire Gigolo (by Caroline)

* Man Slut, Caveman (by Carter)

* The Fun Brother, Mate (by Klaus)

* Grandma (by Eliana)

* D-Man (by Ignacio

* Dick (by Jeremy, Alaric, Carter, and Eliana)

* Eternal Stud (by himself)

* Deputy Matt Donovan (Alias)

* My Sweet Boy (by Lily)

* Hemingway, Buddy, Bro (by Stefan)

* Older Sexy Danger Guy, Stranger (by Bonnie)

* Honey Pie, Baby (Both by Bree)

* Dude (by Logan, Jeremy and Tyler)

* Love Struck Idiot (by Anna)

* My Handsome Henchman, Good Boy (Both by Sybil)

* Darling (by Kol)

* Grumpy Pants, Mate (by Enzo)

* Gorgeous (by Kelly)

### Species

* Immortal (Currently)
* Human (Formerly, Before 1864)

* Vampire (Niklaus' bloodline/Broken) (Cured/Formerly)

* Ghost (Formerly)

* Spirit Of The Phoenix Stone (Formerly)

* Spirit (Formerly)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Silas † (Distant or Ancient Paternal Ancestor)

* Unknown Silas Doppelgängers † (Distant Paternal Ancestors)

* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father)

* Lillian Salvatore † (Mother)

* Stefan Salvatore (Younger Brother)

* Ignacio Salvatore (Younger Brother)

* Unborn Niece/Nephew † (via Stefan and Valerie)

* Giuseppe's Unnamed Son † (Paternal Half-Brother)

* Zachariah Salvatore † (Paternal Half-Nephew)

* Zachariah's Unnamed Son † (Paternal Half-Nephew)

* Joseph Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)

* Joseph Salvatore's Unnamed Son † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)

* Zach Salvatore † (Distant Paternal Half-Nephew)

* Tom Avery † (Doppelgänger, Descendant)

* Elena Gilbert (Sister-In-Law)

* Eliana Gilbert (Wife)

* Carter Gilbert (Sister-In-Law)

* Sarah Nelson † (Distant Paternal Half-Niece)

* Jeremy Gilbert (Brother-In-Law)

* Lucas Salvatore (Son)

* Ringo Salvatore (Daughter)

* Miranda Salvatore (Daughter)

* Nathan Salvatore (Son)

* Chris Salvatore (Nephew)

* Rylee Salvatore (Niece)

* Stefanie Salvatore (Niece)

* Jade Salvatore (Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Sires

* Charlotte (1942)
* Isobel Flemming † (2007)
* Vicki Donovan † (2009)
* Caroline Forbes (2010)
* Bill Forbes † (2010)
* Abby Bennett Wilson (2010)
* Eliana Gilbert (2010)

### Cause Of Death

* Gunshot wound to the chest (as a human)

* Explosion (as a vampire)

* Stabbed with the Phoenix Sword (2nd time, as a vampire)

* Staked (3rd, 4th, and 6th, as a vampire)

* Siphoned of Magic (5th time, as a vampire)

### Killed By

* Giuseppe Salvatore (1st time, as a human)

* Julian (1st time, as a vampire)

* Nora Hildegard (2nd time, as a vampire)

* Rayna Cruz (3rd time, as a vampire)

* Himself (2nd time, as a human)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'9 ½" (Feet)

* 1.77 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Ian Somerhalder
* [Gavin Caselgno](Young, age 12)

### Episode Count

* 171 (The Vampire Diaries)
* 5 (The Originals)
* 15 (Legacies)

### First Seen

* Pilot (The Vampire Diaries)
* They All Asked For You (The Originals)
* This is The Part Where You Run (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* I Was Feeling Epic (The Vampire Diaries)
* A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken (The Originals)
* Fate's a Bitch, Isn't It? (Legacies)

**Damon Salvatore** was one of the three main male protagonists of *The Vampire Diaries*. Damon was a 178-year-old cured vampire and the distant descendant and doppelgänger of Silas. He was a major antogonist in the first part of Season One. He was born during the 1800s and lived in the colonial town of Mystic Falls with his two younger brothers Stefan and Ignacio Salvatore, his father, Giuseppe Salvatore, and also with his mother Lillian Salvatore until her death in 1858. He became a vampire in 1864. At the time of his return to Mystic Falls, Damon and Stefan hadn't seen each other in fifteen years due to their bitter and violent relationship. Damon was the youngest child of Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore.

Damon has 4 children with Eliana Gilbert. The oldest is Ringo, followed by his twin sons, Lucas and Nathan, and the youngest, Miranda Salvatore. He is also the paternal uncle of Rylee, Chris, Jade and Stefanie Salvatore.

In the 1950s, Damon was captured and tortured by the Augustine society, led by the Whitmore family, who experimented on vampires for a "bigger purpose". During his five years of captivity, he meets another prisoner, Enzo, with whom he became best friends with. Eventually, the plan the two made failed at a critical moment and thinking Enzo "died" because of him, Damon turned off his humanity to suppress the guilt and sadness. He sought revenge, an act of hunting down every member over generations that left one alive to carry on the family name until he finally killed the last descendant in the Whitmore family, which ended with Aaron Whitmore's death.

Damon's sole purpose in coming back to Mystic Falls was to free his sire Karina Pierce from a tomb she was never in. Damon deeply loved her after 145 years. After realizing that Karina never loved him, his love for her fades as his friendship and love for Eliana, Karina's descendant and doppelgänger, grows. Due to her impact on him and the strengthening relationship with his brother, they begin working together to protect Eliana, and her twin sister, along with her friends and family. He lives with his brothers Ignacio, Stefan, girlfriend Eliana (when she wasn't away at college), her younger (by two months) Sister and their brother Jeremy Gilbert (after Elena burned their house down) in the Salvatore Boarding House.

Throughout the series, his bond with Eliana continuously grows and they eventually fall in love with each other. Shortly after her kidnapping and subsequent near death experience, Damon cannot hold in his feelings for Eliana any longer, and goes to tell her in Season Two. The relationship is complicated, considering they experience several breakups, all of which lead to Eliana seeing other people.

He is best friends with Bonnie Bennett, and Lorenzo St. John along with his wife Eliana. He is also close friends with Carter Gilbert Rory Marshall and Caroline Forbes.

Throughout the series, outside forces threaten those he loved and what he most desired: a normal, long life.

Stefan was apart of the **Salvatore Family**. He also had ties with the **Petrova Family**, **Gilbert Family**, **Flemming Family**, and **Mikaelson Family**.

## Early History

### Human Life

Damon Salvatore was born on June 18, 1839, to Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore in what would eventually become the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. He is the oldest and first born child of Giuseppe and Lillian. During his human years, Damon was seen and described to be rebellious, carefree, emotional, independent, troubled, insecure, misunderstood, principled, impulsive, competitive, and irresponsible and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. People of the town of Mystic Falls even described Damon to be irresponsible and cowardly, including his own father Giuseppe. The reason for this is because Damon rebelled against the town's and his own father's wish, by leaving the Confederacy on his own terms during the time of the Civil War. Later on it was revealed that Damon hated everything the Confederacy believed in and left after an inspiring conversation with Oscar, one of the Heretics that his mother sent to look after her sons. In his human years, when it came to love, Damon was always seen to be the chaser and the pursuer, the opposite of Stefan, who appeared to be harder to get and challenging with women, especially in regards to Katherine and Karina Petrova. Damon during his human years, also displayed womanizing tendencies with the opposite sex. Damon and his father, Giuseppe, never got along or had a good, close relationship and Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment in the elder Salvatore. Despite his very strained relationship with Giuseppe during his human life, Damon was very close to his younger brothers Ignacio and Stefan and they shared a very close relationship and bond. Damon described his brothers as his best friends or companions and the people who he trusted the most. However, the brothers eventually became strained after Katherine, Ariana, and Karina Pierce came into their lives and both brothers started to compete fiercely for their lovers affections, not knowing the sisters were using and toying with them all. He was turned into a vampire in 1864, when he was 25 years old, after he drank Karina Pierce's blood willingly and was shot by his father, Giuseppe, after attempting to save Karina from being buried in the tomb.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

### Season One

Upon arriving in Mystic Falls, Damon torments his brother Stefan by constantly threatening Stefan's new love interest, Elena Gilbert and her sister. Eliana. He remarks that the twins are a "dead ringer" for the brothers' former shared loves, Katherine and Karina Pierce. He also displays his strength in comparison with Stefan, pointing out how much of a disadvantage it is for Stefan to drink only animal blood.

In *Pilot*, Damon claims his first two victims at the very opening of the episode but makes his presence known in a more theatrical way by attacking Vicki Donovan in the woods. Later, when Elena and Eliana visits the Salvatore Boarding House in search of Stefan, Damon is there instead, and he implies that his brother is on the "rebound" from a recently lost love. When the girls leave, Damon taunts Stefan because it is harder for him to effectively compel Vicki Donovan to forget a vampire attacked her. In the end of *The Night of the Comet*, Damon charms and beds young Caroline Forbes, a friend of Elena and Eliana's, ending the night by viciously biting her neck and feeding from her.

In *Friday Night Bites*, Damon drives Caroline to her cheerleading practice, having compelled her to keep his secret and to be unafraid of him. He also takes her to dinner at Elena and Eliana's house, antagonizing Stefan as he continues to fill Elena's head with lies about Katherine. Eliana surprises him by asking which one of the Salvatores dated Karina first, and she renders him speechless by telling him that she was sorry, because he lost her, too. Later that same night, Damon follows Eliana to the parking lot before the football game and attempts to compel her to kiss him, but due to her Vervain necklace, she is free of his influence and slaps him in the face. Angered, Damon confronts Stefan on his way to the field, only to find out Stefan did not give her that necklace but he's further enraged when Stefan claims that he still has humanity in him. Damon responds by killing William Tanner, who is Stefan's football coach and teacher of the twins. That night, when Stefan is writing about how there is nothing good left in Damon, Damon is in Eliana's room, gazing at her and stroking her cheek.

In *Family Ties*, Damon wakes Stefan by manipulating his dreams and creating a nightmare in which Eliana becomes the older Salvatore's next victim. He claims that he can do this because of Stefan's animal blood diet. Stefan responds by throwing a knife into Damon's chest, something Damon doesn't seem to feel, and though Damon admits he deserves it, he later stabs Stefan back for ruining one of his John Varvatos shirts. He also used a large mountain lion to cover up his murders, saying he would be staying in town for a while. He's later shown lounging in Caroline's room reading a book from the Twilight series, expressing his distaste for how 'whipped' the character Edward is. When asked why he doesn't 'sparkle' in the sun, he replies that he has a ring, and that it protects him. Caroline wonders if the bite-marks covering her body will turn her into a vampire, and Damon describes the process of turning as an 'ordeal,' explaining it to her casually. Damon also reveals his extreme disregard for human life in this episode: When Caroline asks him if he's going to kill her, he calmly tells her that he will, but not yet. Later in this same episode, Damon is reading on the couch when Zach approaches, asking him why he's in Mystic Falls. When Zach angers him by saying that he always has a motive, Damon holds him up by his neck, further displaying his volatile personality. Stefan arrives to spare Zach before Damon kills him. Damon also expresses his pleasure with never growing old while getting ready to attend the Founder's Party. He nearly drinks alcohol spiked with Vervain, a part of Stefan's plan to disable him, and remarks that, going to the party angry, "Who knows what I'll do?" At the party, Damon is first invited into the Lockwood Mansion by Carol Lockwood. He appears behind Stefan and Elena just as Elena is reading both of their names on the original registry for the First Founder's Party. Elena expresses interest in hearing more about Stefan and Damon's lineage and, as he's compelled her to distract Stefan, Caroline requests to dance with the younger Salvatore. Left alone with Elena, Damon begins with a very mocking apology, and he spins a tale about the 'original' Salvatore brothers. He says that someone they loved very much was burned in the church during the Battle of Willow Creek, and that when the brothers went to rescue the woman, they were both shot. Later, Damon leads Caroline upstairs and takes a yellow crystal from a secret compartment in one of the objects on displays; a large wooden box. He says he put it there a long time ago. He seems to blend into the party until Elena sees the bites on Caroline's back and confronts him, threatening to go to Caroline's mother. Angered by this, Damon takes Caroline out near the lake. He claims to forgive her, but then says he's over her and bites her neck. He didn't realize that Stefan had spiked her drink while dancing with her, and that he'd just consumed enough Vervain to render him harmless. Stefan took him back to the Salvatore mansion, injected him with more vervain, and locked him in the dungeon under their home.

In *You're Undead To Me*, Damon manages to establish a weak mental connection to Eliana, despite being locked in the dungeon under Salvatore Boarding House. He contacts her first in her room, though this proved rather ineffective, and then again in the hallway at Mystic Falls High School, while she was getting more towels for the Car Wash. She comes all the way to the boarding house and attempts to release Damon, though Zach tries to keep him locked up. Damon snaps Zach's neck and chases Eliana through the house. He catches are, and explains to her that he is a vampire and needs to feed on her blood, thereby making Eliana the first person Damon has ever trusted with his secret in Mystic Falls. He feeds on her, after saying "He could never kill her", however he takes to much blood, causing Eliana to pass out for half an hour. They hang out and talk all day, before Eliana has to return home. Damon does not compel her to keep his secret, which by assumption is because he liked and trusted her.

In *Lost Girls* continues with Damon feeding on his new victims and burning their corpses, using one of their arms to wipe the blood from his mouth. Strangely enough, these actions were performed outside of a crypt with the word 'Salvatore' carved in it. Damon calls Stefan as he burns the dead, demanding to have his daylight ring returned, going so far as to threaten Elena and Eliana's life.

After hanging up with Stefan, Damon finds that one body isn't burning, but when he goes to set her on fire, he realized that Vicki is still alive. Damon seems intrigued by her resilience, and he takes her back to the Salvatore Boarding House, where he feeds her his blood to heal her. This episode (during Stefan's story to Elena and Eliana), also shows Damon, Ignacio and Stefan playing an early version of football in front of their home in 1864, only to be interrupted by Katherine, Ariana, and Karina. In the present, Damon feeds Vicki more of his blood while also feeding on her, and the two of their get drunk together and begin dancing around the house. They end up in Stefan's room, where Damon tears things from their places as he moves around. The two start slow-dancing, at which point Damon snaps Vicki's neck. When she wakes up, he tells her that she must feed to completely the 'process,' but, smiling, he suggests she go to Jeremy's house, where he knows Elena and Eliana will be. He even shows up there later, forcing his way inside and sarcastically warning Eliana about who she invites in. When Stefan is shot by Logan Fell, who was using the Gilbert Compass to track down vampires, Damon appears, kills Logan, and extracts the wooden bullet from Stefan's chest, though he demands to have his daylight ring back. He seems uncaring when Vicki feeds on Logan's body, completing her transition into a vampire.

In *Haunted*, when Stefan is trying to help Vicki adjust to her new life, Damon acts offended that the murder of Logan Fell isn't in the newspaper, and he says that someone is covering it up. He also tells Vicki about the compass he took from Logan. He also taunts Stefan about giving Vicki animal blood, and when he opens the front door to find Elena and Eliana standing there, he acts arrogantly toward them, although Eliana remains unfazed and just rolls her eyes. Later in the episode, Damon invites Vicki outside, where the Salvatores lose her in the forest, and while the events at the Halloween Party take place, Damon sits down with Carol Lockwood. When he tells her his last name, she wonders if there is a relation to Zach Salvatore, but when he attempts to compel her to tell him how she knows Zach, he realizes she's wearing a vervain bracelet, which keeps him out of her mind. He doesn't relent in his quest for information, mentioning the vervain to get Carol talking freely to him. When she mentions the Town Council, Damon seems interested, but Carol quickly changes the subject. Damon continues his relentless flirting and manages to find out how they're eliminating names on the 'vampire suspect' list: Anyone who arrived at the Founder's Party during the day was eliminated, which would include Damon and Stefan. He offers to escort her to the school, where he runs into Bonnie. He asks her where Caroline is specifically to antagonize her, but then he realizes she's wearing the yellow crystal he took it at the Founder's Party. He tries to take it, but it burns his hand when he touches it and Bonnie runs away from him. Stefan calls Damon after he's forced to stake Vicki, and when Damon shows up, he finds Eliana sitting beside her body. His cool demeanor enrages Eliana and she tries to hit him, but he catches her hand. He tells her that none of this matters to him, so when he releases her, she slaps him. Damon seems angered, but he remains calm as he tells her that she needs to leave because of the blood coming from her wounds. He later shows up on Eliana's porch, offering to erase Jeremy's memory because Stefan's diet prevents him from effectively compelling humans. Eliana hesitantly accepts his offer in order to help "Jer".

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