Stefan Salvatore

Paul Wesley portrays the younger vampire brother Stefan Salvatore and the immortal being Silas.

Main article: Stefan Salvatore

• Played by Paul Wesley

Stefan Salvatore was born and raised in Mystic Falls, Virginia to Giuseppe Salvatore and an unnamed mother, who died when he was younger. Stefan is the younger brother of Damon. When Stefan and Damon were human, they were very close and were best friends in life. Damon always confided and trusted in Stefan and Stefan always defended Damon, especially to their father, and was fiercely loyal to him. However, this all seemed to change when he and Damon fell in love with the same girl, Katherine Pierce, who turned out to be a vampire. Stefan had strong feelings for Katherine before finding out that she was a vampire. Once Stefan discovered Katherine's deep, dark secret, Stefan was both scared and repulsed by Katherine and vampirism in general. Katherine, however, compelled Stefan to not be afraid of Katherine, to keep her secret and go on as if Stefan didn't know she was a vampire. It was also revealed that Katherine compelled Stefan to drink her vampire blood against his will. Damon, on the other hand, drank Katherine's blood willingly, wanting and desiring the immortal life in order to spend an eternity with Katherine. In 1864, Stefan was turned into a vampire after being shot by his father, Giuseppe, along with his brother, Damon with Katherine's blood in his system, before accidentally killing his father during a visit to tell him that he was going to let himself die. Damon, who turned into a vampire as well, promised Stefan an eternity of misery as he was angry that Stefan had forced him to turn and jealous that Katherine had also turned Stefan. A newborn vampire with uncontrollable bloodlust, Stefan was unable to resist the temptations of human blood and became severely out of control and addicted (later on known as the Ripper) to the blood, killing many people because of his lack of control and extreme bloodlust. However, Stefan learned to change his ways when he was taught to control it by a vampire named Alexia "Lexi" Branson, who later on became Stefan's best friend or companion. After decades of absence from the town he called home, Stefan returned to Mystic Falls to visit his home and Zach. On May 23, 2009, Stefan heard the Gilbert's car accident at Wickery Bridge. It was then and there that Stefan fatefully encountered Elena Gilbert for the first time. After only being able to save Elena, Stefan noticed that she looked exactly like Katherine.

Stefan and Elena begin a relationship and he reveals to her that he is a vampire. However, Damon returns to Mystic Falls, too, and also falls in love with Elena. Further on in the series, Damon and Stefan start to bond as brothers again and it becomes apparent that they do love each other. Because of his addiction to human blood, Stefan only drank animal blood in the beginning of the series, which made him weaker than other vampires. In season two, Stefan starts to take small amounts of Elena's blood each day to mitigate its effect on him and to increase his strength. When Katherine returns it is discovered that she has always been in love with Stefan and not Damon; however, Stefan is in love with Elena and not interested in Katherine. Stefan starts to build a friendship with Caroline Forbes after she is turned into a vampire. After Klaus gives Stefan his blood to save Damon from a werewolf bite, he turns Stefan into a ripper again. Stefan starts working for him as he agreed to do to save Damon, and hopes it might also protect Elena by making sure Klaus never returns to Mystic Falls, since he believes her to be dead. Klaus later finds out and compels Stefan to kill her, but when he is able to resist the compulsion, Klaus makes him turn his humanity and emotions off. However, he is later able to get his humanity back, which is seen when he saves Klaus's life to protect Damon, but yet he pretends not to care about Elena anymore. He then takes it upon himself to kill Klaus. He steals Klaus's family as retaliation, and uses them as blackmail, when that fails (the witches give Klaus the coffins when he threatens to end the Bennett line), Stefan threatens to drive Elena off Wickery Bridge with vampire blood in her system if Klaus doesn't get his hybrids out of town, Klaus agrees at the last minute. He and Elena get into a fight. In the season three finale, he kisses Elena. In the end, Elena chooses Stefan over Damon, but when Rebekah causes Matt's truck to drive off Wickery Bridge, she is trapped underwater. Stefan barely gets there in time, but Elena makes him save Matt first and she drowns. It is later revealed Dr. Fell gave Elena vampire blood, meaning she died with vampire blood in her system.

During season 4, Stefan's relationship with Elena is tested. He becomes fixated on finding the cure to vampirism for her, which results in Damon telling him that he can only love Elena as a human. Eventually, Stefan and Elena break up as a result of her feelings for Damon, which were amplified after being turned into a vampire. Hurt, Stefan lashes out by forming a casual relationship with Rebekah, who he also had a brief affair with in the 1920s. After Elena eventually turns her humanity off as a result of her sire bond to Damon and Jeremy's death, Stefan and Damon attempt to find a way to force her to turn it back on. Eventually they do, and as a result of having no emotions, Elena's sire bond is broken. However, she still remains in love with Damon, and seemingly makes her final decision with Damon. Stefan, however upset, accepts the decision and plans to move on with his life. However, before he can, it is revealed that he is in fact the doppelgänger to Silas, who then proceeds to lock him in a large metal safe and push it into the bottom of the lake.

Silas

• Played by Paul Wesley

Silas is the main antagonist of Season 4. He was a very powerful witch before becoming the first and most powerful immortal, being over 2,000 years old. After creating the spell for immortality with his friend, and fellow witch, Qetsiyah, Silas planned to also use the spell on his lover as well so they could be together for eternity. Mad with rage, Qetsiyah murdered his lover and also created the "Other Side", a purgatory for all supernatural creatures (Albeit, those who still have a reason not to pass on into the afterlife due to something holding them back in the real world). She created a cure for vampirism, and left both the cure and Silas in a tomb. This left him with only two choices; take the cure and die which will trap him with her on the The Other Side, or refuse to take the cure and desiccate. To spite Qetsiyah, Silas refused to take the cure, which left him trapped with no blood sources until he eventually desiccated. After over two thousand years, he escapes his imprisonment after being fed Jeremy's blood, but the cure to vampirism is then taken by Katherine Pierce, Silas kills Jeremy Gilbert after draining his blood and snapping his neck. He later takes the form of Atticus Shane, which he uses to manipulate Bonnie into killing twelve witches to finish a powerful "expression" spell, which will destroy the The Other Side and as a consequence, bring back all those that are trapped there. Silas plans on destroying The Other Side once it is down, so he can take the cure, die, and therefore be with his lover for all eternity.

Silas is adept at manipulating minds, seeming to appear as anyone, anywhere, anytime. His power is so great that his form seems physically present, even when there is a crowd of people. Silas tricks Klaus into thinking he was stabbed with a white oak stake and is dying, even taking on the form of Caroline to further torment him. He has also taken on the image of Jeremy Gilbert, Stefan (Though this is later revealed to be his true form), Damon, Caroline, Klaus and Rebekah. When Bonnie drops the veil, her Grams reveals that she has the power to stop Silas and she ends up petrifying him. Damon and Stefan prepare to drop Silas in the ocean so he can never be re-awoken. However, at the end of the season it is revealed that Stefan Salvatore is his doppelgänger, and descendant, and he then proceeds to lock Stefan in a large metal safe and push it into the bottom of the lake, resenting the fact that his "shadow self" lived a better life whilst he starved for 2,000 years.

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