Elena Gilbert

A 17-year-old beautiful and popular girl in high school with blond hair and blue eyes. There are repeated references as to her looking like an angel. Over the course of the series, Elena transforms from a shallow, self-centered “ice queen” to a more loving, open-minded person; Bonnie has commented in Elena’s diary when she died the first time that she was far from perfect, and she was never the angel, but she was a good person. She dumps Matt Honeycutt right around when school starts, feeling that though he is the perfect boyfriend, she feels no sparks in the relationship. Elena is madly in love with Stefan Salvatore, though she does recognize that she also has feelings for Damon, his brother. Stefan was the first to breeze by Elena, ignoring her beauty, though he was trying his best to stay away from her, making comparisons between her and Katherine, though he realizes that beneath the looks, they are totally different people. Her school reputation is important to her, so she made up a fake boyfriend she had over the summer to hide the fact that Stefan rejected her advances. She dies several times, becoming from human to vampire (after she gets enough blood from both brothers), to spirit (after an unknown power brings her back). In “The Return: Nightfall”, she comes back perfectly normal (initially; until the ‘Nightfall’ was published, L.J. Smith left it at a ‘happily ever after’ setting), though she becomes an innocent, naive angel-spirit with wings, hovering, speaking the White Power’s language, while she can’t speak normally, feeling people’s auras, and able to communicate with Stefan through her thoughts.

Stefan Salvatore

The younger of the two vampire brothers. He is classically handsome, with dark, wavy hair and green eyes. Stefan is tortured by his vampirism and by Katherine’s death, thinking that it was his fault, until falling in love with Elena, Stefan does not believe that he can be redeemed. Though he does not think he is good enough for Elena, he would fight for her love if she accepts. Elena offers for him to feed off of her, which is an amazing experience, though he fights it, he gives into temptation. In “The Return: Nightfall”, Elena comes back as an undefined spirit, and he refuses to kiss her because she is still mentally innocent, though in the end he also gives into temptation.

Damon Salvatore

Stefan’s older brother, brash and arrogant, with dark hair and black eyes. He’s dark and sadistic, but also charming and seductive; the playboy that is careless about what he does, and the effects of his actions. Events in The Fury and Dark Reunion show that Damon is also capable of fierce loyalty and affection, though he is often misunderstood, which Elena sees. In The Awakening He calls himself Damon Smith, attending college on a vacation. Back in the day in Italy, where the brothers come from, he graduated from university. He shows feelings towards Elena and Bonnie both, though Bonnie receives less attention. His ‘goodness’ is always in question—he is always the one that everyone suspects of doing something—feeding on locals, ect. Like in “The Fury”, Katherine offers to let Damon live, for him to reign the shadows-both Elena and Stefan knew that he would accept, and didn’t blame him, though in the end, he said to her, “Go to hell.

Bonnie McCullough

One of Elena’s best friends, a bubbly, short redhead with brown eyes and a heart shaped face, who is a psychic and a descendant of druids. She currently shows feelings towards Matt, while he is protective of her as a friend, while also showing feelings for Damon, who saved her. Damon is intriged by Bonnie, once trying to seduce her for blood (though Matt stood up to him—even though he was no match for Damon); he is protective of her when Shinichi in “The Nightfall” tried to hurt everybody.

Meredith Sulez

Another of Elena’s best friends; she is tall with olive skin and dark hair. Meredith is level-headed and thoughtful, and she is often the voice of reason throughout the series. She falls in love with Alaric and has a long distance relationship with him. In the story, her friends expect her to get married with him—that’s how serious their relationship seems.

Matt Honeycutt

Elena’s prefect ex-boyfriend, a typical All-American high school quarterback with blond hair and blue eyes. While Matt is heartbroken at losing Elena to Stefan, he accepts it. When Elena comes to him after she has died and came back as a vampire, though he has a hard time accepting it, he does in the end. He is protective of Elena, and he still shows signs of being in love with Elena.

Caroline Forbes

A former friend and current rival of Elena’s, she is beautiful with green eyes and auburn hair. Caroline is manipulative and vengeful during much of the series. She first steals Elena’s diary and planed to read it to the town on Founder’s Day in The Struggle revealing that Stefan was a vampire, though unsuccessful. She had a brief relationship with Taylor Smallwood, working together to plan revenge on Elena and Stefan; she was later kidnapped by Klaus and Taylor, and held hostage.

Katherine

The young vampire with whom Damon and Stefan both fell in love when they were humans during the Italian Renaissance. Katherine turned the two brothers into vampires before her suicide over the two of them. Katherine supposedly killed herself when she told both brothers that she wanted to be happy with both brothers by going into the sunlight without her lapis lazuli ring, leaving behind a pile of ashes (that were from the kitchen) on one of her dreses. The two brothers fought to the ‘death’ because of her loss. She physically resembles Elena, which caused Stefan’s initial attraction to Elena, though he later realized that Elena was made of stronger stuff then Katherine, whom was the maiden in distress.

Alaric

The new young social studies teacher that was in suspicion of being a vampire hunter when he was in fact studying vampires ever since he discovered that they were real. He falls in love with Merideth later on, and has a long distance relationship with her while he goes abroad to further his studies.

Klaus

Is an Elder (one of the original vampires) that fight the Salvatore brothers, in the end losing. He was mentor to Katherine, whom she thought she had killed.

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