Elena Gilbert
Birthdate	June 22, 1992
Family	Tatia (Ancestor/ Unknown) Katerina Petrova (Ancestor/ Doppelgänger) Johnathan Gilbert † (Ancestor) Samantha Gilbert † (Ancestor) John Gilbert † (Father) Isobel Flemming † (Mother) Grayson Gilbert † (Paternal Uncle/Adoptive Father) Miranda Sommers Gilbert † (Paternal Aunt/Adoptive Mother) Jeremy Gilbert (Cousin/Adoptive Brother) Jenna Sommers † (Adoptive Aunt) Alaric Saltzman † (Legal Guardian)
Occupation	Student
Species	Vampire Petrova Doppelgänger
Transfiguration date	Late 2010
Significant kills	Elijah (3rd time) Mikael (2nd time) Rebekah (3rd time) Alaric Saltzman (5th time and 8th time)
Status	Undead (In Transition)
Cause of death	Drained of blood (1st time) Drowned (as a human)
Killed by	Klaus (1st time) Rebekah (2nd time)
Played by	Nina Dobrev
First seen	Pilot
Last seen	The Departed

“	I don't want to be a vampire, Stefan. I never wanted to be one.	”
	— Elena to Stefan in The Last Day

Elena Gilbert is the main female character, the main protagonist and the heroine of The Vampire Diaries. She is an 18 year old vampire who is yet in transition who lives in the supernatural town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, with her adoptive brother and biological cousin Jeremy at 2104 Maple Street. Elena was in a romantic relationship with Stefan Salvatore, a 162 year old vampire, before losing him when he gave himself over to Klaus in exchange for the cure to a werewolf bite a hybrids blood to save his brother.

However, she also shares a complicated relationship with Stefan's elder vampire brother Damon Salvatore, who is both dangerous and seductive. She attends Mystic Falls High School, where she is a former cheerleader, honor student, and one of the most popular girls in the school. Elena wants to become a great writer; she stated this in a conversation with Stefan, and she has a diary in which she writes everything that happens in her life.

Elena has to deal with trying to lead a normal life ever since her adoptive parents died in a car accident and since she became involved in a romantic relationship with a vampire named Stefan Salvatore. Stefan unexpectedly saved Elena's life on May 23, 2009 when her adoptive parents, Grayson and Miranda Gilbert's car went off at Wickery Bridge. He tried to save them but her father, Grayson, insisted on him saving Elena first.

When Stefan pulled Elena out of the car, he said that he was shocked and taken back when he saw that Elena looked like Katherine, he could not believe the uncanny resemblance between the two. Stefan then took Elena to the Mystic Falls General Hospital, and had been watching her ever since for about four months, and learning about her to make sure that she is safe and not at all Katherine Pierce, or like her. Elena said that it was a "miracle" that she had survived such a horrific and tragic car accident and she questioned how it was in any way possible that she survived and made it out of the car.

After she discovers the secret of the Salvatore brothers, Elena has to deal with murders and lies in her life as well as with supernatural events and characters. She is described as a star student. She is popular, sporty, smart, kind hearted, compassionate, selfless, empathetic, caring and nice. She can be rather vulnerable and a damsel in distress, although she does possess a strong-willed, determined, passionate and fiery streak.

This character is a member of the Gilbert Family and Petrova Family.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Season One 3 Season Two 4 Season Three 5 Physical Appearance 6 Appearance 6.1 Season 1 6.2 Season 2 6.3 Season 3 7 Relationships 8 Novels 9 Trivia 10 Comments

Early lifeEdit

Elena Gilbert was born June 22, 1992 to John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming, who fled after giving birth. Grayson and Miranda Gilbert, John's older brother and sister-in-law, adopted the baby. It was easy to arrange since Grayson delivered Elena and Isobel disappeared. The Gilberts were trying so hard to have a baby but it wasn't happening, so everything fell in perfectly. Elena later learned that she might be a distant relative to Katherine Pierce, the vampire that caused the feud between Stefan and Damon Salvatore back in 1864 and turned both men into Vampires.

In sophomore year, Elena was dating Matt Donovan, but the realized she was not into the relationship they have anymore. At the bonfire, the two of them got into an argument where, afterwards, she called her parents to pick her up. There she met Damon who confused her with a girl named Katherine. Damon compelled her to forget him, but also to have adventure and fun in her life before disappearing. Elena's parents turned up and she didn't remember her meeting with Damon.

This happened on May 23, 2009. After leaving with her parents, the Gilberts' car unexpectedly crashed into a river near Wickery Bridge . Elena somehow miraculously ended up in the hospital. It was later revealed, that Stefan arrived at the accident scene after hearing the unexpected and tragic event and he saved Elena's life after her father, Grayson, begged him to take care of her first before helping him and Elena's adoptive mother, Miranda. Fortunately, Elena survived the accident, but unfortunately, her adoptive parents died. It was later revealed that John Gilbert, her supposed adoptive uncle, was actually her biological father. It is said that it was Miranda who got Elena to start writing into a diary.

Season OneEdit

Elena at the cemetery. "Pilot"

Elena and her younger brother Jeremy were being raised by their Aunt Jenna after their parents died in a car accident. After the death of her parents, she broke up with her childhood best friend, first love and boyfriend, Matt Donovan. After the tragedy of losing both of her parents, Elena makes an attempt to start over and learn how to cope with the tragic loss and start to regain some of her happiness again. When the school year started, Elena meets Stefan Salvatore and is immediately and undeniably drawn, intrigued and attracted to him. Meeting Stefan immediately brought things back to normal for Elena again.Her best friend is Bonnie Bennett and Caroline Forbes. Unknown to her, she is also a doppelgänger of Katherine Pierce, someone from Stefan's past

Elena dances with Stefan. "Family Ties"

Shortly after meeting Stefan, she started to bond with him. Later on, she asked Stefan to escort her to the Founders' Party, but became angry when he began to keep secrets from her. Eventually, she discovered that he and Damon were vampires, causing her to become hostile towards both of them, until they gained her trust again. When Vicki Donovan was turned into a vampire, she attempted to convince both her and Jeremy to stay away from each other, only to be threatened by Vicki and reprimanded by Jeremy.

Jeremy grieves Vicki's death."Haunted"

At the school's Halloween party, Vicki was killed by Stefan when she lost control of her vampire side, devastating both Elena and Jeremy. As a result of this, she asked Damon to wipe Jeremy's memory of Vicki's death, making him believe that she "Had left town and was not coming back. It was for the best." She and Jenna noticed that, as a result of this, Jeremy had stopped doing drugs.

Damon "kidnaps" Elena. "Bloodlines"

Elena was also a witness of Lexi's death at the hands of Damon and of the destruction of Bonnie's talisman in order to prevent Damon from freeing the vampires underneath the tomb, after which she told Bonnie the truth about everything. She got into a car accident when swerving to miss a vampire after spending the night with Stefan, subsequently discovering the photo of Katherine.

He almost attacked her, but Damon appeared just in time to save her life. A pizza guy named Noah came one night and Jeremy invited him inside. He later turned out to be the vampire that was following her. He showed up at a dance and threatened to kill Jeremy if she didn't leave the dance. Elena ran into the hallway with the vampire following her. She ran into the cafeteria and managed to fight back, stabbing him with pencils, until Stefan and Damon arrived and killed him after interrogating him. He was shown to have been friends with Anna and Ben, fellow vampires. He knew Katherine, which was why he was stalking Elena.

Elena dances with Damon. "Miss Mystic Falls"

After the tomb was opened, and the vampires were released, she helped Damon save Stefan from Frederick and the other vampires who were torturing him. When Frederick stabbed him, Elena gave Stefan her blood so he would survive. She consoled Matt when the news of Vicki's death had been revealed.

However, Stefan became addicted to human blood, since he never learned how to control his cravings, and started drinking human blood that he stole from a blood bank behind Elena's back. When Damon told her what he'd been doing, they got into a fight, and Stefan attacked Amber, a girl in the competition for "Miss Mystic Falls," drank her blood, and almost killed her. Elena and Damon locked Stefan in the basement to try to get him back to normal.

Elena dresses like Katherine on Founders day. "Founder's Day"

When Bonnie's grandmother died, Bonnie left town for a while. After she came back, she started to blame Stefan and Damon for her grandmother's death and was angry with Elena. Elena tried to fix things, but Bonnie told her there was nothing she could do, and to just leave her alone. Bonnie came back to school and resents Stefan and Damon because the tomb vampires came out and there was no Katherine, so "Grams died for nothing." When Elena's mother came to town, she and Bonnie repaired their relationship and Bonnie pretended to unspell the Device. It was eventually activated on Founder's Day by John Gilbert. Damon caught up with Elena (who in fact was Katherine) on the porch of her home & they shared a passionate kiss, which was interrupted by Jenna.

The night ended with Elena arriving home after someone had taken her stuff. After entering the house, she heard a noise in the kitchen and went to investigate it, unaware that Katherine was in the room who just recently hurt John.

Season TwoEdit

Elena headed towards the kitchen and was shocked to find John on the floor bleeding to death. She ran over to him and dialed 911. John let her know that someone was behind her and Elena grabbed the knife Katherine had used earlier to stab John with. She tried looking for the attacker and Katherine just watched her, super speeding around the house, and then Katherine left the house shortly after.

Elena remembered that Jeremy was also in the house and ran up the stairs in a hurry to find an unconscious Jeremy , who had just taken her whole bottle of pills and Anna 's blood. She shook him hastily and he awakened.Bonnie showed up at the hospital to see how Caroline was doing. Later, Damon offered to give Caroline some blood to make her better, while Elena disagreed, Bonnie told her that they couldn't let Caroline die.

When Elena was alone, Damon confronted her about the kiss they shared, moments into the conversation, Elena's aunt Jenna arrived. Elena and Jenna had a confusing conversation and at that point, Damon found out that it was Katherine he kissed, not Elena. Stefan was watching Jeremy when Katherine arrives posing as Elena, soon Stefan realized it was Katherine and tossed her aside. A sound at the door bid Katherine time to flee. Damon and Elena walked in and Stefan told them that Katherine was just there. He was also not happy when Damon revealed that he kissed Katherine but thought it was Elena. Elena and Stefan later visit John at the hospital, but he showed contempt toward Stefan, offending Elena who left immediately.

Later on at the reception for Richard Lockwood, Damon asked Elena about the kiss again, and she said that it was no surprise that he would kiss her, but that it was a surprise that he thought she would kiss him back, hurting Damon immensely. A panicky Bonnie then arrived and told the two that Katherine had left with Stefan and they found him on the Lockwood grounds recovering from a wound Katherine had given him. That night, Elena found Damon drunk in her room. He tried to force her to confess that she loved him, but she denied, insisting that she only loved Stefan. Angered and heartbroken, Damon attempted to turn Jeremy and snapped his neck, much to Elena's horror, but she discovered that Jeremy wore a Gilbert ring which would bring him back.

Later she was also kidnapped by a vampire named Rose who wanted herself and her friend Trevor to be free, in exchange for Elena. She learned that she must die to break the curse of the moon stone. Elijah, a powerful vampire, one of the Originals, who was trying to get the moonstone heard Elena talking about it. He tried to compel her but failed to do so, because of the vervain necklace. He then rips the necklace from her neck and compels her to tell him where it is. She then is saved by Stefan and Damon, and was brought home. At home Damon comes to give return her necklace which she thought she lost, and before returning her necklace he tells her he loves her, compels her to forget he said it.

Elena helps Rose after she is bitten by a werewolf and reassures Damon he's not a monster, after he kills Rose. Elena decides to try to keep out John in her plans with Elijah, and Elena along with Bonnie give support to Caroline after she suffered with the incident with Tyler, Jules, Brady and the other werewolves. Elena then goes with Stefan to the Gilbert Family Lake House to get away from John and everything that was happening. They discovered a secret door containing more of Johnathan Gilbert 's journals.

After discovering the Gilbert journals Elena starts to read it and discovers that Stefan was just like Damon back then.She confronts Stefan about it and he tells her the story about what he was like back then, and how Lexi was the one that changed him. Later Elijah shows up at the lake house, Elena wants to renegotiate, asking him to promise not to harm anyone, but he calls her bluff. She stabs herself in the stomach with a knife and he says she has his word, as she stumbles forward, stabbing him in the chest. He falls to the ground as Stefan feeds her his blood.

In The House Guest, Elena is shocked and upset that Katherine is free from the tomb, At school she goes to Alaric as they both discus on how Jenna is answering a lot of question about Isobel , Elena states after they take care of Klaus they will tell her everything. Later that evening...Elena, Bonnie, Caroline and Jenna go to the grill for some dancing, Jonas Martin attacks looking for Elena after Stefan gets her out he use Katherine to pretend to be Elena and attack and end up killing Jonas.

Elena lashes out at John for Isobel's return and the fact that he invited her into the house. Later on Elena sits down and listens to what Isobel has to say. She goes with Stefan to the Lockwood house to accept a check (donation) from the Historical Society for her mother's foundation. Where Katherine then kidnaps her for Isobel. At grove hill cemetery Isobel takes Elena there to show her the grave that Isobel parent make when they could find Isobel body. Isobel then tells Elena that she is sorry that she was a disappointment to her, then she removed her lapis lazuli necklace and burned to death.

In The Last Dance, Elena plans on attending the 60's decade dance with her friends and starts receiving disturbing messages from Klaus. She discovers that Bonnie might die if she channels to much power of the witch's power. Elena confronts Damon about because he knew about it and slaps him. But after Damon explains what happen she apologizes to him and then sneaks down in the basement and pulls the dagger from Elijah heart.

Elena is able to strike up another deal with Elijah. Damon is very unhappy about this, but Stefan accepts that this is what Elena wants to do. Elijah has a special elixir that would bring Elena back from the dead after the sacrifice, but no-one knows if it will work 100% Elena wants to take the risk, but Damon gets upset. He decides he is the only one who knows how to save Elena and so forces her to drink his blood. This would mean that Elena will come back from the dead after the sacrifice but she will be a vampire. This new development causes Elena to break down, and confess to Stefan that "I was supposed to grow up. Decide if I want to have kids and start a family. Grow old. I was supposed to have a lifetime of those choices, and now it's all gone. I don't want to be a vampire, Stefan. I never wanted to be one."

Elena then says goodbye to Stefan and is taken away by Klaus for the sacrifice. Elena arrives at the site to find that Klaus had made some changes to the sacrifice and that Jenna was being used as the vampire, having been turned by Klaus. Jules is brought along and all three are placed in fire rings by Greta Martin, Klaus's witch. Klaus then arrives and kills Jules as the first part before adding her blood on the Moonstone that has been set ablaze.

As Klaus is about to kill Jenna, Stefan arrives and asks to take Jenna's place but Klaus refuses and stabs Stefan as he says he has other plans for him. He then moves to kill Jenna as Greta breaks the flames, Jenna runs towards her and bites her. However, Klaus gets to her and kills her before she can kill Greta. As he brings Elena out for the final part of the sacrifice, he thanks her and Elena tells him to go to hell. He then drinks her blood and Elena dies.

As Klaus starts to turn, Bonnie arrives and starts attacking him. Damon kills Greta and retrieves Elena so as to bring her back to the witch burial site. Bonnie attacks Klaus to the point of death at which point, Elijah intervenes and goes to finish Klaus but he betrays everyone when Klaus tells him that he can help him find his siblings that Klaus had killed and supposedly buried at sea. Elijah and Klaus escape and Bonnie is unable to stop them.

At the burial site, Elena awakens as a human because Bonnie and John had found a spell that could return her to life as a human by binding a parent's life force to hers. As Elena returns to life, John dies. Before the funeral, Jeremy gives her a letter from John and his ring. In the letter, being read by John's voice as the others go to the funeral, he tells her that it is hard to be an ordinary father to an extraordinary daughter and that he had failed her because of his ]prejudices.

He tells her that he gave his life so that she could remain human and make the choices she wanted to make about having a child and all the choices a human could make. He tells her that the reason he gave her the ring was because he wanted her to give it to her child if she ever had one and that she would therefore succeed where he had failed. Elena is seen crying for both her father, her aunt and her adoptive parents as she places roses on each of their graves.

In the last episode of season two she was forced to confront her feelings for Damon after she finds out he is dying. In a encounter in with Damon hallucinates she is Katherine offering blood and he sucks the blood of Elena's neck she tells him to stop and surprisingly he does.

Later in Damon's bedroom, as he is dying, he confesses his feelings to her and tells Elena he wishes she could have met him in 1864, because she would have liked him. Elena answers she likes him now just the way he is, and kisses him. Looking sad and sorrowful because he's dying.

Suddenly Katherine appears with the cure and tells them that Stefan traded himself for it and they will likely never see him again but it's alright because she has Damon there to keep her company. Elena is left in shock.

Season ThreeEdit

In The Birthday, Elena has just turned 18 and is still desperately trying to find Stefan ever since he left Mystic Falls. She gets a lead fro

m Sheriff Forbes and tells Damon about it. Damon goes with Alaric to Tennessee, while Elena stays with Caroline and Tyler to help in her 18th birthday party. Later that night, Damon gives Elena the necklace that Stefan gave to her once, which she lost a while ago. After Elena discovers that Damon has been looking a lot more for Stefan then she thought, she confronts him about not telling her. Damon tells her that Stefan is gone and is not coming back. At the end of her birthday, she gets a call from Stefan and tells him that she loves him and to hold onto that. Elena is as determined as ever in The Hybrid to find and bring Stefan back home. After unsuccessfully asking Damon for help, Elena goes and seeks help from Alaric. She then finds out information about werewolves and where certain packs could be hanging out from Tyler, specifically those packs in Tennessee. Alaric and Elena head off to the mountains, where they engage in bantering, and her telling Alaric that he's not a lost cause. Damon surprises her and flings her into the lake.

It turned out Alaric sold her out, as he didn't want to take her somewhere without protection. The trio find Ray Sutton in the woods, where he attacks Damon. After bombing him with a wolfsbane grenade, they tie him up, and Elena is determined to ask him the whereabouts of Stefan. Ray starts to change into a werewolf while the sun is up, and they flee. As Damon lures him away, Elena and Alaric run off to the car. Back at the house and in her room, Damon tells Elena that he will help her search for Stefan and bring him back, but he wants her to remember that in Stefan's absence, she was worried about Damon getting hurt, and that she has to remember those feelings.

Later Elena with Damon goes to Chicago where Stefan and Klaus are, They go into his apartment and she see a list if all his victims and is shock. Later she hides in the closet when Stefan and Klaus enter only Stefan see her but doesn't say anything . She gets Damon to distract Klaus so she can talk to Stefan and drug him with vervain but it doesn't work.Elena then is hurt when Stefan tells her he doesn't want to see her again.

In Disturbing Behavior, Damon is helping Elena make so chill for the Lockwood party and the two share a moment. Later when Damon wants to go after Bill Forbes Elena along with Alaric tries to stop him but Damon kills Alaric in Elena shock, she calls Caroline then for help. After the fight between D

amon and Caroline she yells at Damon whats wrong with him he tells her he not Stefan.

In The Reckoning, Elena and the others are planning Senior Prank Night when she walks into Klaus he brings her to the gym.Later she watches him turn Tyler into a hybrid. When Stefan enters saying Elena means nothing to him Klaus hits Elena as she falls, Stefan attacks Klaus and gets compelled to attack Elena in 20 minutes. When times up Elena runs away while Stefan tries to follow, Klaus then makes Stefan turn it off and he bites Elena.It is later on revealed that Elena's blood helps create a hybrid. Later Damon saves her from the hospital and brings her to the Salvatore boarding house where she is upset.

In Smells Like Teen Spirit, Elena is being trained by Alaric. At their first day of senior year, Elena is hurt because its her and Stefan anniversary.Later she meets Stefan where he tells her he's only there to watch her. After this, Elena, Damon and Alaric hunch a plan to capture Stefan . Elena is now chilling on the bleachers all drunk like and pretending to fall. Stefan is there as well telling her not to be stupid. She does end up falling, and he catches her. They have what sort of feels like a moment. But, Alaric shoots him down as plan.

They load his body into the car, and Elena gets in. Vicki’s there and spills some gas and throws a cigarette in to make things fun and fiery. Elena’s trapped in the car Vicki’s keeping the locks down so she can’t get out. Elena wakes Stefan who kicks the back door open, and they get out just in time. Damon does some first aid on Elena before Alaric prepares to take her home. Stefan is surprised that Elena thinks his humanity can be salvaged – he calls her pathetic. In retaliation, she stabs him.

In Ghost World, Elena ask Jeremy to contact Lexi so she can help Stefan. Once Lexi arrives, her and Elena trap Stefan in an old prison. Lexi begins to drain every inch of blood from Stefan and stabs him multiple times in the chest. Stefan then begins to confess his love for Elena but Lexi tells her not to let him in.

In Ordinary People, Elena, Alaric and Damon, are investigating the cave with images about the history of the original family. Elena decides to go to the source of the story: Rebekah. Elena and Rebekah have a long conversation about what happened to her family and the beginnings of the vampires. After discovering what had happened, Elena returns to the cave with Alaric and Bonnie. Elena learns the truth about Esther and her death. Elena returns with Rebekah, who tells her: "Klaus killed your mother, not Mikael, Klaus".

In Homecoming, Elena neutralizes Mikael in order for Stefan and Rebekah to attract Klaus to Mystic Falls. Elena and Damon make preparations for the destruction of Klaus. Damon does not trust Mikael, or Stefan, so that tells Elena that has a Plan "B". Use Katherine to avoid putting her on the battlefield. When Matt is going to pick up Rebekah, Elena tells him that if he does not mind going with "someone" else.

Eventually, Matt and Elena (actually Katherine) arrive at the party, but they learn that Klaus is planning something. When Mikael comes to the celebration, he used to Elena to attract Klaus but she is "killed" in the process. In the middle of the fight of Klaus and Damon, Katherine is revealed and attack the hybrids. Shortly after, Elena finds out what happened and tries to console Damon. Elena tells Damon that she accepts that Stefan is gone and never returned.

In The New Deal, Elena is seen jogging around town and is being chase by one of Klaus hybrids Tony. She then met Bonnie at the Grill and she tells her about her weird dreams. Elena hints that these dreams could reveal a way to kill Klaus. Bonnie switches to another topic: Damon. Elena talks with a drunk Damon, who was playing dart. They exchange about his good looks and get interrupted by Klaus who was there with Tony. Klaus orders them to find Stefan, so that he can get his family back.

Preparing lunch with Alaric, Jeremy comes home and told them he was hanging out with Tyler. He then invites him in and they talk about his sire bond to Klaus. Elena learns how serious it was when Tyler says that he would rip his heart out if Klaus demanded that. After Tyler left, Elena and Alaric turn there back on Jeremy and the next moment he was gone, not wearing his ring.

They went outside and saw him standing on the street, unable to move. A car comes and was about to hit Jeremy when Alaric pushed him away, saving his live. Instead of Jeremy, Alaric dies but he wears his ring. She calls Damon and he tells her that Stefan has four coffins. She remembers Bonnie's dream and calls her to prove her guess. Together with Damon she goes to Stefan. As Damon couldn't move on, she goes to talk to Stefan. When shows no emotions as she tells him, Klaus tried to kill Jeremy, she smacks his face and told him to go to hell.

She lets Damon alone and goes back home. There Alaric awakens but something was wrong with his ring. He calls the ambulance but Tony who stands in the door, compelled them to leave. He gives Elena the option to let him in but he was then killed by Jeremy, cutting his head off. She makes a deal with Klaus to get Jeremy spared. In exchange she shows her Rebekah. Klaus promises that he could control Rebekah and she told him that Rebekah knows that Klaus killed her mother. Damon comes to Elena and she tells him what she did. She gets him to compel Jeremy to leave town, as he then did. In the last scene Damon and Elena share a kiss.

In Our Town

, she is shown training at Alaric's place. She then goes to school, informing Bonnie that Jeremy was compelled to leave town. Bonnie is seemingly not pleasant to heat that. Together with Bonnie and Matt, Elena prepares a party at the Forbes' House for Caroline as it is her birthday. As they see, she is not in the mood they throw her a funeral at the cemetery.

She reveals the cake and Bonnie then lights the candles. All four friends have a good time talking about Caroline's achievements and Caroline reveals she is upset because she will be 17 forever. Bonnie then becomes angry with Elena, claiming she "Controls everyone's life" because she made Jeremy leave town and Bonnie then leaves. Looking outside for Caroline after she went away with Tyler, Stefan grabs Elena and kidnaps her.

She is in a car with him. There Stefan calls Damon to

inform him about him having kidnapped Elena. He feeds her his blood and threatens to Klaus that he would transform her into a vampire by driving her off the Wickery Bridge. Klaus agrees that he will do what Stefan wants, and Stefan wants Klaus' hybrids out of town, causing Stefan to stop the car because Klaus agreed. Elena is sad and angry at Stefan and wanted to know his reasons to do that. Stefan drove off and Damon takes her home. They talk about the kiss but that it doesn't happen again. In the morning she says good bye to Jeremy, who is leaving. Together with Bonnie she looks till Jeremy is gone. Later, she meets with Matt at Wickery Bridge, talking about how it would be to have a normal life.

She was taken to Abandoned Cottage by Bonnie, who showed her the coffins there. Against Stefan's will she brought here there and then starts to say that her mother could help opening the coffin. Elena helps Bonnie doing researches, having the data of every single Abby Bennett in town. Damon came and showed them the right one.

Bonnie doesn't know why Damon and Elena behave so different and Damon explains that they've kissed. Elena goes on a trip with Bonnie to Abby's House. They were let in by Jamie who is Abby's stepson whom she raised since she left his father. Abby appears and tells Elena that she knew her adoptive mother and that she was the one who entombed Mikael in the 90s to save the doppelgänger.

Elena went outside, looking around and suddenly Stefan appears in front of her. They talk but get interrupted by Jamie who tries to protect Elena from Stefan. But he compels Jamie to leave and not long after he came with a rifle, shooting Stefan. Elena was tied up to a pale by him. Later, Elena knocks him out and helps Stefan to get the wooden bullets outside. She admits that she kissed Damon and Stefan tells her that she's better than both of them were. She later walks in the Gilbert House when Alaric and Meredith Fell were kissing.

Sheriff Forbes visits Alaric and Elena, informing them that the stake which was used on the medical examiner is one of the Gilbert arsenal. Later, she calls Damon and informs him about this while he is meeting Elijah, Because she suspects that Stefan has killed the medical examiner she went to him and they talk. But Stefan suggests she should ask Damon if he recently killed someone. She meets Caroline in the Hospital, visiting Bill Forbes. After Caroline calls him and hears his phone ringing they find him dead, a Gilbert dagger driven through his heart. But he was fed vampire blood before so he awakens in transition. During the dinner with Klaus and Elijah Elena is mentions several time.

When Elijah talks about Tatia and when Klaus thinks that Elena should grow old with Matt so they can have a children, so that every hundred years there will be a new Petrova Doppelgänger. Because it's only a matter of time before Damon and Stefan will turn her into a vampire, Klaus states that the worst thing for her the Salvatore Brothers were. Elena comes home with Matt, finding Alaric bleeding to death. He wanted her to stab him because she's supernatural and he would came back to life. Rebekah threatens to kill Elena so that Nik will be alone for eternity.

In Dangerous Liaisons, Elena is attacked by Rebekah, but before Rebekah could kill Elena, Elijah came in to save her. The following morning, Elena receives an invitation from Esther, asking her to come to the ball. Elena wants to find out what Esther wants so she tries to go to the ball, but Damon refuses by saying that it was a bit too dangerous for her to go. In the ball, she asks Stefan to help distract Damon so she can go and see Esther alone.

After Stefan has Damon distracted, Elena goes to Esther, but before she gets there, she meets Elijah, who asks Elena to tell him what Esther said to her. Elena says that she will find him later and goes to Esther's room. In the room, Esther explains the reason why she is really back from the dead, and she also says that she requires Elena's help to kill all her children. Esther pricks Elena's finger and takes a few drops of blood.

Esther says that she needs the Petrova Doppelgänger's blood to complete a spell that will bind all the Originals as one, so if one dies, they all die. Elena goes down stairs, where she meets Elijah who asks what his mother told her, and Elena lies by saying that his mother only wanted to say sorry for trying to kill her. Later on in the evening,[Damon gets upset that Elena went behind his back to meet Esther, and she rejects him. After being dropped home by Stefan tries to ask Stefan if he felt anything, and he says no and leaves.

In All My Children, Elena tries calling both Stefan and Damon but none of them want to listen to her. Angrily she goes to the Salvatore Boarding House and sees Damon and Rebekah together, she gets upset knowing that they slept together. Angry about that she leaves and goes to Caroline's house, where they try a privacy spell with Bonnie.

Later on, Elijah goes to Elena's house, where he requests for her to join him. He brings her to the forest area correlating with the Lockwood's land, explaining his world prior to the modern change. Elena tries to compose herself however Elijah points out he knew that she was lying the whole time. Unable to lie anymore, she confesses the truth and her guilt expressing that she'd do anything to help. Elijah who has planned everything, grabs her and shatters the ground, trapping her in the underground cellars. While down in the cellars, Elena realizes that Rebekah is down there with her too.

After Damon, Stefan, Caroline and Alaric successfully plan and dagger Kol, Rebekah drops down and this give Elena time to run away, she gets to the cave under the old Lockwood property, where vampire can't enter. Getting creative, Rebekah returns with a tank of gasoline and a box of matches more than willing to end Elena. Elena however stalls her under the guise that Rebekah has always wanted to see her suffer so what would it be for her if she were to end it right in the present. Elena hears the news and the price of saving her leading her to seek Bonnie who is watching over Abby who is in transition.

Caroline asks her to better leave, because even though Bonnie is alright since the goal was to save her friend it seems that Bonnie is the one who always gets hurt. Elena decides to leave but asks Caroline to tell Bonnie her gratitude and love. Elijah leaves Elena a letter of apology saying that his actions were to preserve the one thing that matters most to him, family. He tells Elena that her compassion is a gift and that he truly regrets what he has done.

In 1912, Elena and Matt go on a run. She's upset. He mentions he's talked to Bonnie. Abby has decided to complete the transformation and become a vampire. Caroline's going to help her through it. Damon turned her mom into a vampire to save Elena's life. She feels responsible. Elena gets a call from Liz and goes to the courthouse. Damon tells Elena he plans to stay out of it. He needles her. "I'm mean, you hate me - the earth is back on its axis," he says. She tells him if he keeps pushing people away, he's going to end up alone. Elena goes to meet Meredith at the hospital, but Meredith doesn't want to listen to her. Matt helps Elena break into Meredith's place.

Elena checks the closet and finds a secret compartment, like a true founder. There are boxes of files. There are files on Brian Walters, Bill Forbes, and Alaric. In Meredith Fell's box, they find an old Gilbert journal. A country coroner's report contradicts the ME's time of death. They hear footsteps and hide in the closet. Meredith comes home. They wait until it's quiet and open the door. Meredith is standing outside it. After being released from the Sheriff's, Matt and Elena come around the corner of the Mystic Falls Grill and see Stefan with blood on his teeth. Elena is aghast and walks off. "So, that's gonna take a little time," Damon sums up.

Back at Elena's house, Matt doesn't understand her thing with the Salvatores. She says she felt safe with Stefan after he parents died, which she realizes sounds crazy. She knew he'd never stop loving her. He'd never die. And Damon just sort of snuck up on her. "Once you fall in love with someone, I don't know if you can ever shake them," Matt says. Matt gives her the old Gilbert diary he swiped from Meredith. Liz didn't notice he took it. "Sometimes it pays to be the only normal one in a town of vampires, you're practically invisible," Matt says. Alaric comes home. Elena rushes to hug him.

Elena reads through the old Gilbert diary. Alaric tells her he doesn't want her getting in trouble for him. She suggests they agree to take care of each other. She thought it was Johnathan Gilbert's diary., It ended up being his granddaughter's, who went just as crazy as he did. Elena reads the diary, in which Samantha says she's losing time and doesn't feel like herself. Elena and Meredith realize that the ring makes Alaric commit the murders.

In Break On Through, Meredith and Elena talking about Alaric's condition and how it can be cured. Elena asks Meredith when she found out Alaric was the killer and why she didn't tell anyone. Meredith then replies that she found out when Alaric told her about the ring, and it's because she's a doctor and she doesn't enjoy seeing people suffer for things that they have no control over and that it's because when she met Alaric, she knew that she just has to help him. Damon shows up the hospital to come and get Alaric and he promises Elena that he will make sure that Alaric won't kill anyone.

Elena is angered but it's not about Alaric. It's because Damon let Stefan feed on an innocent girl. Damon tells her that he is helping him by teaching Stefan how to control his bloodlust. Elena then tells him that he is the last person that should teach Stefan of self control. Elena arrives at the Salvatore Boarding House and is surprised when she sees Stefan. Stefan tells her the story of Samantha Gilbert. Elena calls Bonnie and asks if she can help Alaric.

In The Murder of One, Elena drops by at Alaric's apartment and asks Damon if she can see him, but he refuses and she goes. Later on, in the woods Elena tells Caroline that Alaric might have killed her dad. Matt, Damon and Stefan also arrive. Stefan and Damon tell them that they found more, all of them quickly make a plan to kill the Originals. Finn and Sage arrive in the middle of town, where Caroline and Matt ask Elena to call Stefan and tell him of the Original, being in the area. Stefan comes to the Grill, where Finn and Sage are taking shots.

In Heart of Darkness, on Stefan's suggestion, Damon and Elena go to Denver to see Jeremy. Elena still seems to struggle with her feelings for Damon. They share a passionate kiss in the motel but end up fighting later.

In Before Sunset, after a rough day with Alaric and Klaus, Elena mysteriously passes out.

In The Departed, Elena remembers how her life was before vampires. While heading back to Mystic Falls Elena and Matt drive off Wickery Bridge and Elena flashbacks to when her parents were underwater and died. While Stefan is saving them, Elena points to Matt wanting him to be saved first. Elena wasn't saved in time and she had drowned. Meredith gave her some vampire blood because she had a cerebral hemorrhage resulting in Elena waking up as a vampire.

Physical AppearanceEdit

Elena is a beautiful young woman with an oval face, almond-shaped brown eyes and sometimes mistaken as doe-eyes, and smooth, long dark brown hair (in the novels, she is described as having light blonde hair and lapis lazuli blue eyes). Her height is about 5'6" and she has a slim, slightly athletic physique.

Elena looks exactly like her ancestor, Katherine Pierce, who often poses as Elena. However, even though Elena and Katherine look exactly the same in terms of physical appearance (as a result of being Petrova Doppelgängers), there are some slight differences between two girls in terms of fashion and style.

Elena is more casual, sporty and girl next door and doesn't wear a lot of make-up and fashionable clothes often. Elena favors wearing jeans, sneakers (Converse) and T-shirts, though she wears fashionable clothes for special occasions or formal events. Katherine's style, on the other hand, is more high maintenance and more seductive. Katherine favors wearing tight clothing, both shirts and pants, and often wears high heels, especially spike heels. Another distinct difference between Elena and Katherine's physical appearance is that Elena always wears her hair straight, while Katherine wears her hair softly curly. However, Katherine often straightens her hair in order to fool people and pose as Elena.

Elena wore a special necklace containing the herb vervain in it (which is really the Original Witch, Esther's, talisman, which cannot be destroyed) given to her by her boyfriend and love interest, Stefan Salvatore. It protects her from vampire compulsion and can go with anything she wears. Elena also has a scar on the left side of her neck from when Rebekah and Stefan bit her there.

AppearanceEdit

Season 1Edit

• Pilot
• The Night of The Comet
• Friday Night Bites
• Family Ties
• You're Undead To Me
• Lost Girls
• Haunted
• 162 Candles
• History Repeating
• The Turning Point
• Bloodlines
• Unpleasantville
• Children of The Damned
• Fool Me Once
• A Few Good Men
• There Goes the Neighborhood
• Let the Right One In
• Under Control
• Miss Mystic Falls
• Blood Brothers
• Isobel
• Founder's Day

Season 2Edit

• The Return
• Brave New World
• Bad Moon Rising
• Memory Lane
• Kill or Be Killed
• Plan B
• Masquerade
• Rose
• Katerina
• The Sacrifice
• By The Light of the Moon
• The Descent
• Daddy Issues
• Crying Wolf
• The Dinner Party
• The House Guest
• Know Thy Enemy
• The Last Dance
• Klaus
• The Last Day
• The Sun Also Rises
• As I Lay Dying

Season 3Edit

• The Birthday
• The Hybrid
• The End Of The Affair
• Disturbing Behavior
• The Reckoning
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Ghost World
• Ordinary People
• Homecoming
• The New Deal
• Our Town
• The Ties That Bind
• Bringing Out The Dead
• Dangerous Liaisons
• All My Children
• 1912
• Break On Through
• The Murder Of One
• Heart Of Darkness
• Do Not Go Gentle
• Before Sunset
• The Departed

RelationshipsEdit

Main article: Elena Gilbert/Relationships

NovelsEdit

In the books, she is described as beautiful and a popular girl in high school with long golden hair and lapis lazuli blue eyes (so much like Katherine, Stefan actually mistakes her for Katherine in the first novel). 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 because of her love for Stefan. Elena is madly in love with Stefan Salvatore. Though she does recognize that she also has feelings for Damon, his brother. 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). She is torn between both brothers and she doesn't know who to choose.

For more info, see Elena Gilbert (novel).

TriviaEdit

• Elena is friends with Bonnie, Caroline and Meredith but in the series, Meredith and Elena don't know each other and Bonnie and Caroline are Elena's best friends.
• The first significant kill of Elena is a vampire Original: Elijah. In the books Elena kills Katherine.
• Elena is the doppelgänger of Katherine Pierce.
• Elena had a relationship with Matt, but broke up with him and began a relationship with Stefan at the beginning of the series and books.
• In the books, her middle name is Marie, but in the series, her middle name, if she has one, is never mentioned.
• In the series, many physical and personality aspects of Elena in the books are passed to the character of Caroline Forbes.
• In the books, Caroline hates Elena. In the series, Caroline and Elena are best friends.
• In the books, Elena becomes a vampire. In the series, Caroline becomes a vampire.
• In the books, Elena is ready to become a vampire. In the series, Elena doesn't want to be a vampire.
• In the books, Elena has blond hair. In the series, Elena has brown hair.
• In the series, Elena has a younger brother named Jeremy and an aunt named Jenna. In books, Elena has a little sister named Margaret, an aunt named Judith, and an uncle named Robert.
• In the series, Elena is a popular girl but kind. In the books, Elena is a popular girl but selfish and strong.
• Damon tried to turn Elena into a vampire on two occasions:
  • The first was when Stefan and Elena manage to find Emily's Grimoire.
  • The second was when Elena is ready to die and Damon gives his blood to return her.
• Stefan force-fed Elena his blood to turn her into a vampire in order to press Klaus into giving in to his demands.
• Both Stefan and Damon have force-fed Elena their blood.
• Both the first and second seasons end in the Gilbert house.
  • Season One: Elena enters the house to find John Gilbert wounded.
  • Season Two: After being revived by Bonnie's magic, Jeremy hears noises and discovers that Vicki and Anna are in the kitchen as ghosts.
• Elena is the only person who woke up as a human after dying with vampire blood in her system.
• Elena is the only human that has neutralized 3 Originals (Elijah, Rebekah, and Mikael), but removed the dagger in two cases (Elijah and Mikael).
• Elena once said that, just like her mom, she cannot cook.
• In both the books and the series, Elena drowns with vampire blood in her system after a vampire causes the vehicle to drive over the Wickery Bridge. In the books, it was Katherine; in the series, it was Rebekah.

• All of Elena's kills were Original Vampires, with the exception of Alaric, who was a human when Elena first killed him, but became an original later. Ironically, Elena was also responsible for Alaric's death as an original.
• Elena is the sixth main character to be turned into a vampire after Vicki, Caroline, Jenna, Tyler (as a hybrid), and Alaric.

Vampire Diaries Characters
Main Characters
Stefan Salvatore | Damon Salvatore | Elena Gilbert | Katherine Pierce | Jeremy Gilbert | Bonnie Bennett | Matt Donovan | Caroline Forbes | Tyler Lockwood | Alaric Saltzman | Jenna Sommers | Vicki Donovan | Klaus
Recurring Characters
Elijah | Rebekah | Kol | Finn | Esther | Mikael | Rose | Mason Lockwood | Isobel Flemming | John Gilbert | Anna | Pearl | Carol Lockwood | Emily Bennett | Sheriff Forbes | Logan Fell | Sheila Bennett | Kelly Donovan | Lexi
Guest Characters
Richard Lockwood | Vanessa Monroe | Trevor | George Lockwood | Giuseppe Salvatore | Frederick | Johnathan Gilbert | Harper | Lee | Noah | Cherie and Frank | Deputies | Samantha Gibbons | Mystery Man | Tiki's Grandfather  | Tiki  | Amber Bradley | Sage | Miranda Sommers-Gilbert | Grayson Gilbert | Ben McKittrick | Slater
Minor Characters
Season One | Season Two | Season Three
Families
Gilbert Family | Salvatore Family | Lockwood Family | Bennett Family | Donovan Family | Petrova Family  Forbes Family | Fell Family | Martin Family | Mikaelson Family | Founding Families
Species
Vampire | Witch | Werewolf | Human | Ghosts | Doppelgänger | Hybrid