List of The Vampire Diaries characters

When Trevor arrived and Rose got distracted while talking to him, Katerina seized the opportunity and hung herself, successfully turning into a vampire by feeding on the human host of the house.

In season five, Silas poses as Stefan for months, killing Mayor Rudy Hopkins and seeking the Cure so that he can die and be at Peace with Amara.

He is portrayed as a charming, handsome and snide person who loves tricking humans, and takes pleasure in feeding on them and killing them during the early episodes of the first season.

Bonnie and Jeremy are reunited after she becomes the new anchor to the Other Side, though she sacrifices her life once more in the finale to save Elena, Stefan, Enzo, Tyler and Alaric.

In the beginning of season four, Bonnie learns that there is a forbidden magic, but she is forced to use it to transfer Klaus back to his original body, as a result, angry spirits attack her grandmother's ghost.

Inspired by her ancestors and Enzo, Bonnie gains new empowerment, saving Mystic Falls by redirecting Hellfire back to hell and destroying it along with Katherine.

After a while, she develops a close bond with Tyler Lockwood, due to their similarities as supernatural beings, helping him through his werewolf transition, which eventually leads to romantic feelings between them.

Caroline remains one of the most emotionally grounded characters, offering support to her friends during difficult times, especially to Elena as she deals with Stefan descending into darkness.

Despite her loss, Caroline remains strong for her daughters and plans to continue her work at the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, which she helps Alaric run.

His mother and sister later go to work for Katherine in order to stay out of Hell: Kelly injures Peter before dying again and Vicki plans on ringing the bell.

In season three, Matt encounters Elijah Mikaelson and a recently resurrected Finn who have returned to Mystic Falls in order to save their sister Freya from Lucien Castle.

Tyler remains imprisoned until Rebekah eventually releases him as a parting gift to Matt Donovon in 500 Years of Solitude in The Vampire Diaries.

It is later learned that Alaric was unknowingly killing people, due to the Gilbert ring giving him a vampire-hating alter ego, which was referred to as "The Darkness" or "Evil-aric".

During the final battle, Alaric is forced to kill werewolf student Jed Tien in self-defense and takes a crossbow bolt to the shoulder to protect Ben.

In response to this, Stefan later finds Enzo, incapacitates him, and turns him over to Tripp Cooke, a vampire hunter with a familial link to Mystic Falls.

Enzo won't reveal the names of other vampires, so Tripp plans to drive him and Damon into Mystic Falls to kill them, reuniting the two friends (in chains once again), who are narrowly saved by Stefan and Alaric.

A policeman finds her with Jeremy, injects her with vervain and takes her to the Gilbert building to be burned with other vampires, repeating the 1864 plan to eradicate their kind.

In season one, Alaric comes to Mystic Falls to seek revenge on Damon, who admits that he killed Isobel, but that he also turned her into a vampire on her own request.

John's fingers (including one wearing the wring) are cut off by Katherine who stabs him, posing as Elena to gain access to the Gilbert house in the season one finale.

Rose subsequently works with the Salvatore brothers to protect Elena from Klaus, learning in the process that Elijah, who had survived Damon's attack, actually has similar goals.

When a string of suspicious murders occur in Mystic Falls, Elena Gilbert and Alaric Saltzman begin to suspect that Meredith is the killer because of circumstantial evidence.

After Caroline Forbes snaps Luke's neck sending him to the Other Side, Liv was forced to perform a spell that allows the deceased to be resurrected.

In the season six finale, Liv was killed by Tyler – at her request – so that he could trigger his werewolf gene in order to heal the wounds inflicted on him by Kai.

Luke's neck was snapped by Caroline Forbes in order to motivate Liv to cast a spell to resurrect him, Stefan and the rest of their deceased friends on the rapidly disintegrating Other Side.

In season six, Jo, working as a doctor at a hospital, meets Alaric Saltzman months after his resurrection and the two begin developing a romantic relationship.

After a final conversation with their mother, Josie and Lizzie reluctantly comply with her wishes and siphon off the magic, causing Jo to fade away and return to Peace.

Kai captures Elena and tortures her in the Mystic Falls high school, testing his new siphoned magic on her, causing her daylight ring to melt and carving his name into her face.

In season two of Legacies, it's discovered that Kai has escaped from his chains and that his prison world has been used by Alaric to imprison several rogue students for their lack of compassion towards humans.

In season four of The Originals, Hayley makes a possible reference to Valerie, mentioning that she had found a siphoner to remove the hex from Rebekah Mikaelson.

Many of the characters on The Originals initially appeared on The Vampire Diaries, including Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah, Finn, Freya, Henrik and Kol Mikaelson.