Abby Bennett Wilson

Biographical information

Born

August 16, 1972 (Age 38/43)

Turned

By Damon Salvatore in 2010

Status

Undead

Occupation

High School Student (Graduated)

Species

Witch (Originally)
Vampire (Niklaus' bloodline)(Broken) (Currently)

Gender

Female

Family information

Family Members

Qetsiyah † (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
Qetsiyah's Child † (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
Ayana † (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
Ayana's Child † (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
The Witch of The Five † (Distant Maternal Ancestor)
Emily Bennett † (Maternal Ancestor)
Emily's Unnamed Brother † (Maternal Ancestor)
Emily's Unnamed Children † (Maternal Ancestors)
Ernestine Bennett † (Maternal Ancestor)
Amelia Bennett † (Maternal Grandmother)
Unnamed Father
Sheila Bennett † (Mother)
Sheila's Unnamed Sibling † (Maternal Aunt Or Uncle)
Rudy Hopkins † (Ex-Husband)
Bonnie Bennett (Daughter)
Jamie (Foster Son)
Marie Bennett † (Maternal Ancestor)
Pauline Bennett † (Maternal Cousin)
Joanna Bennett † (Maternal Cousin)
Lucy Bennett (Distant Maternal Cousin)

Supernatural information

Significant spells

Desiccating and entombing Mikael
Breaking the seal to open Esther's coffin (with Bonnie)

Significant kills

Unknown Human

Cause of death

Broken Neck (as a witch)

Killed by

Damon Salvatore (as a witch)

Physical appearance

Height

5'8

Hair color

Brown

Eye color

Brown

Appearance

Last seen

A View To A Kill

“	I'm not the one that needs to be saved. You are.	”
	— Abby to Bonnie in A View to a Kill

Abigail "Abby" Bennett Wilson is the daughter of Sheila Bennett and the mother of Bonnie Bennett. She was born in Mystic Falls Hospital, attended Mystic Falls High School from 1984 to 1988 and was best friends with Miranda Sommers (Elena's adoptive mother and Jeremy's biological mother) and possibly Kelly Donovan (Matt's mother) along with Liz Forbes (Caroline's mother). Abby was once a witch, but when she abandoned Bonnie to successfully imprison Mikael, her magic was weakened to the point where she could no longer use it. She is now a vampire, after being turned by Damon Salvatore to prevent Esther from killing the Originals in order to save Elena Gilbert. After not appearing on the show as frequently, Bonnie makes a statement that Abby actually enjoys her vampirism and she is still a part of Bonnie's life.

Abby is a member of the Bennett Family.

History

Early life

Abby was born to Sheila Bennett and an unnamed father on August 16, 1972, presumably in Mystic Falls, Virginia. After the arrival of a diabolical vampire named Mikael, Abby Bennett was forced to abandon her family and friends in her attempt to imprison the Original inside of an ancient tomb. Although Abby's plan was a success, due to the over-exerted magic needed to sedate Mikael, Abby has since lived without the aid of witchcraft. She had a short relationship with a man who had a son named Jamie. When he left, she took Jamie in and has raised him as her own.

Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

Season Three

Bonnie is visited by one of Klaus' hybrids while trying to figure out how to open the coffins in which Klaus carries the members of his family. After a dream of Abby helping her, Bonnie and Elena decide they need help on how to open one of the coffins. They suggest that they should go visit Bonnie's mother and look up every Abby Bennett in the area. They eventually find her and decide to go see her. They meet the boy she took in, Jamie. Abby does not recognize Bonnie at first. She is very welcoming to Elena and Bonnie and makes them food, which she considers an ice breaker and a piece of goodwill. Bonnie, still angry with her, tells her they only came for help. Abby informs them of her loss of magic and her friendship with Elena's mother, Miranda. Later, Bonnie and Abby discuss the past. She tells of her reasons for leaving. Mikael came and she lured him away. She entombed him, but it drained all of her magic. Wanting a new life, she started over as Abby Wilson. Bonnie sadly tells her of Grams' death.

Abby subdues Bonnie with magic-muting herbs when Bonnie turns her back. She takes Bonnie to Klaus' hybrid because Jamie is compelled and will shoot himself if Bonnie fails to tell them the location of the coffins. She secretly tells Bonnie to warn her friends. Abby later tells Bonnie that her magic had been starting to fade the farther she got away from her and perhaps it was "nature's way of punishing me for leaving you."

Together with Bonnie, she has to open the sealed coffin. They found a spell to unbind something but were trying it for over an hour. Abby kind of gives up, but Bonnie gets her to continue. Finally, Bonnie and her do the spell again and Bonnie has to go away. Abby realized that the coffin was opened and is later found knocked out with Bonnie by Damon and Esther, who was in the coffin, is gone.

Later, both Abby and Bonnie were visited by Esther for aid to exterminate the Originals by channeling the power of the entire Bennett bloodline. As Esther's plans became endangered, so did the lives of Abby and Bonnie as Elijah demanded Stefan and Damon kill the two witches (believing it to be the solution to prevent Esther from channeling them) or Elena would be killed by Rebekah. When Esther was confronted by her three sons, Bonnie and Abby fled to the abandoned house, seeking protection from the witch spirits.

To Bonnie's surprise, Stefan appeared and explained to her that he needed to find a way to prevent Esther from channeling the Bennett bloodline. Shortly after, Abby was unexpectedly fed Damon's blood. Damon then killed her, turning her into a vampire. The Bennett line was severed as one cannot be both a witch and a vampire, thus thwarting Esther's ritual. Abby's body is later seen, with Bonnie at Caroline's while 'transitioning' into a vampire.

Later in Break On Through, Abby accidentally bit Jamie and then left Jamie and Bonnie afterwards.

In Before Sunset, Bonnie calls on Abby to help her with the desiccation spell to use on Alaric; the same spell she had previously used to entomb Mikael. After getting inside the Salvatore Boarding House, Damon offers Abby some blood to drink, but Abby was still mad at him for turning her into a vampire. She then explains to Bonnie how the desiccation spell works.

Season Four

In A View to a Kill, Abby surprisingly appears at Bonnie's doorstep as she was attempting to leave against her father's orders. It was revealed Rudy called her to join the family meeting which was really an intervention for Bonnie. While there, she had a brief confrontation with Jeremy Gilbert, though Bonnie was able to calm him down before anyone was harmed. Bonnie informed Abby (and Rudy) that she was very capable of handling her power and revealed to Abby that she was the key to reverting her vampirism. While initially relieved at the possibility of being cured, she quickly dismissed the idea in effort to save her daughter from self-destruction. Using magical herbs, she neutralized Bonnie and later prepared additional herbs to subdue her until they (with the help of other witches) could erase Bonnie's knowledge and power of Expression. Before she could finish her preparations, Bonnie awoke and destroyed the vials and threatened Abby. Bonnie announced her broken allegiance with the spirits and left to help Elena.

In Because the Night, Rudy calls Abby to tell her that Bonnie needs the help of a lot of witches to cleanse her from expression.

Season Six

In A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Bonnie tells Damon that she found the cure for vampirism in the 1994 prison world and that she had planned to give it to her mother but found that Abby was surprisingly happy as a vampire so she decided to give it to Damon instead.

Personality

Born in picturesque town of Mystic Falls, Abby is a very charismatic and down-to-earth young woman who loves nature and cares deeply about her family and friends.

She stills maintains her old personality as a witch, but is upset she can no longer communicate with nature and is angry with Damon for turning her. She cares a lot for her daughter's well-being and even came into contact with Rudy to help Bonnie be cleansed of expression.

Powers and Abilities

Abby possesses all standard powers and abilities of a human/witch. When she became a vampire and lost her witch powers.

Abby possesses all the standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire.

Weaknesses

Abby has the typical weaknesses of a human/witch.

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

Appearance

Abby is a beautiful woman. Bonnie seems to take her looks after her more so than her father. Abby is about 5"6" with almond eyes, long brown hair, and an elegant figure.

Relationships

Bonnie and Abby (Family/Close Mother & Daughter)
Abby and Jamie (Family/Close Adoptive Mother & Son)
Rudy and Abby (Ex-Spouses/Allies)
Sheila and Abby (Family/Mother & Daughter)
Stefan and Abby (Former Allies)
Damon and Abby (Former Allies/Enemies)

Appearances

Season Three

Season Four

A View to a Kill

Season Five

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Mentioned)
Dead Man on Campus (Mentioned)

Season Six

Yellow Ledbetter (Mentioned)
A Bird in a Gilded Cage (Mentioned)
Because (Mentioned)

Season Seven

Somebody That I Used to Know (Mentioned)

Name

Abby is an abbreviation of "Abigail", from the Hebrew, meaning "Father of Exaltation". It's the name of King David's third wife, sometimes referred to as a Hand Maiden.
Bennett means "blessed" and was a medieval form of Benedict.
Wilson is an English surname, which is common in the English speaking world. It is derived from a patronymic form of Will. The medieval "Will" is derived from any of several names containing the first Germanic element wil, meaning "desire".

Trivia

Abby's birthday is August 16 and her astrological sign is Leo.
She is the first witch known to use Dark Magic in the series.
Abby believed she lost her magical abilities because Nature was punishing her. It was later revealed that her own subconscious guilt of abandoning Bonnie was the reason she couldn't access her powers.
She's the first of Bonnie's parents to appear in the series.
She and Miranda Gilbert were best friends like their daughters, Bonnie and Elena, and similarly to their daughters' ancestors' relationships (Emily and Katerina's, as well as Qetsiyah and Amara's)
Abby is the first witch to desiccate an Original Vampire; Mikael.
Abby was the first witch shown to not have powers.
Abby is the only person in Bonnie's family that is a vampire.
She is the sixth parent to be turned into a vampire in the series, the first being Mikael, followed by Pearl, Katherine, Isobel and Bill Forbes (although Bill Forbes chose not to complete the transition).
- Abby is the fourth mother to be turned into a vampire; Pearl (first), Katherine (second), and Isobel (third) and before Nadia (fifth), Lily (sixth), and Caroline (seventh/surrogate).
- Valerie lost a child before turning.
Abby favors Stefan over Damon because she still has not forgiven Damon for turning her into a vampire.
Abby reinforces the canon that witches cannot retain their magic after they transition into a vampire.