But Katherine Pierce wasn’t about to go gentle either. I left Elena with a bit of a parting gift. If I can’t have Stefan, then no one can. Okay. Now I’m ready.
Katerina Petrova (Bulgarian: Катерина Петрова), better known as Katherine Pierce, was a witch of the Traveler subculture, the third known doppelgänger of Amara, a formervampire, a major antagonist, and one of the main characters of The Vampire Diaries. She was the main antagonist of Season One (through John Gilbert's and Isobel's actions, as both were working for her), and one of the main antagonists of the second season, the second half of the fourth season and the first half of the fifth season.
After giving birth to a baby girl out of wedlock when she was 16, and being forced to give the baby away, she was disowned by her father. She was exiled to England, where she quickly assimilated into her new culture and met two nobleman brothers, Niklaus and Elijah Mikaelson. At first, she was attracted to the two brothers. However, she later learned that she was a Petrova Doppelgänger and that Klaus was planning on using her as a sacrifice in order to break the curse that bound his werewolf side. She sabotaged his plan by running away with the moonstone, which bound the curse, and then tricked Rose into feeding her her blood so she could turn herself into a vampire. Because Katherine was no longer human, she was no longer a candidate to break the curse. Klaus was so infuriated with Katherine's sabotage, that she was forced to live on the run for over 500 years as he hunted her down.
Her activities during her first centuries as a vampire are unknown, but at some point between the 15th and 19th centuries, she took on the alias Katherine Pierce (which is an anglicized version of her birth name) and eventually met and befriended Pearl, Anna, and Emily Bennett. In the late 19th century, she traveled to Mystic Falls, where she met Stefan and Damon Salvatore while they hosted her at the Salvatore Estate. She later fell in love with both brothers, and subsequently turned them both into vampires. When the Town Council found out the identities of the vampires in town, she faked her death and escaped being sealed in the tomb, with the aid of George Lockwood, who helped her in exchange for the moonstone.
During the 20th century, she continued to keep tabs on Stefan, while still hiding from Klaus. In 2010, she came back to Mystic Falls with the intention of finally earning her freedom from Klaus by handing over the Petrova doppelgänger who came after her, Elena Gilbert. To achieve that end, she turned Caroline Forbes, and tricked Mason and Tyler Lockwood into triggering their werewolf curses, just so they could also be sacrificed in the ritual. She fled Mystic Falls again shortly after Klaus broke his hybrid curse.
After failing to induce Klaus' forgiveness by securing the cure and handing it over to Elijah, Katherine managed to draw Klaus away from Mystic Falls by revealing to him in a letter that a witch in New Orleans named Jane-Anne Deveraux was plotting against him. Now that he has moved to New Orleans to investigate her claim, she has officially returned to Mystic Falls.
In Graduation, Katherine initiated a violent fight with Elena. As she was about to rip her descendant's heart out of her chest, Elena forced the cure down Katherine's throat, who became a witch.
Following these events, she goes on the run for the summer, but when she realized how dangerous it was for her to be human, with all of the supernatural enemies she had made over the centuries, she returned to Mystic Falls. She'd hoped to seek Stefan's and Damon's protection, but was forced to flee again when Silas came looking for her at the Salvatore Boarding House and tried to kill her. Silas revealed to Damon that Katherine's blood became the cure after she had ingested it, which is why he tried to kill her and he wanted to cure himself. She ran from him for weeks, but eventually, Damon helped Silas lure Katherine to the house and fed him her blood, which turned him back into a witch. Though Silas drinking all of her blood should have killed her, Katherine managed to live through it. She learned shortly afterward that taking the cure has caused her body to start rapidly aging in order to compensate for the 500+ years she has been alive, and cast a spell on her deathbed to transfer her spirit into Elena's body, so as to stay 'alive'. After the gang discovers this, Stefan stabs her with the Traveler knife, expelling her from Elena's body, but not before making amends with a dying Nadia. Upon learning she was denied entry to the Other Side, and therefore reunion with her daughter, she was dragged by unseen forces into what is presumed to be a hell of some kind.
Katherine's notable ancestors include Amara, who was Silas' true love and presumably the world's first immortal woman, and Tatia, whose blood was involved in the creation of the spell of immortality that was cast on the Mikaelson Family and the curse that bound Klaus' werewolf side. She is also the maternal ancestor of Isobel Flemming and the latter's biological daughter, Elena Gilbert. She was once the romantic interest of Stefan and Damon Salvatore, as well as Mason Lockwood. Since the late 15th century, she has also been the romantic interest of Elijah, with whom she was involved, until he effectively ended their relationship by leaving to join his half-brother Klaus in New Orleans.
Katerina Petrova (Cyrillic: Катерина Петрова) was born into a wealthy Bulgarian family on June 5 1473. In 1490, when she was about 16 or 17 years of age, Katerina became pregnant by an unknown man, and her family disowned her for the shameful birth of an illegitimate daughter. She carried the child to term, but seconds after her daughter's birth, Katerina's father took the child away, claiming it would be better for both of them to never see one another. Katerina was devastated by this and was banished to England, where she quickly adjusted by becoming English. In 1492, she met Trevor, who introduced her to Lord Elijah, who in turn introduced her to his younger brother, Lord Niklaus. Katerina was attracted to Klaus, until she found out what he was, and that he was planning on using her as a sacrifice to break the The Hybrid Curse placed on him. She escaped with the help of Trevor, who had fallen in love with her. He led her pursuers astray and told her to go east, to a cottage in the woods where she would be safe. When she arrived at the cottage, Katerina met a vampire named Rose.
Elijah, Katerina, and Klaus
When Rose found out that Katerina had escaped from Klaus with the moonstone, she locked her in a room and told her that she would take her to Klaus as soon as the opportunity arose. Katerina tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a knife, saying she would rather die than go back to Klaus, but Rose force-fed her some of her blood to heal her. When Rose turned her back to confront Trevor, Katerina hung herself with a length of rope. Later, when Katerina woke up in transition, Trevor asked why she did it and claimed he would have helped her live. Katerina responds by saying that he would have been able to help her run and that running was never going to be enough.
Rose then explains to Trevor that Katerina used him to escape and, knowing Klaus would find out their role in the escape, Rose attempted to kill Katerina with a stake. Katerina used the owner of the cabin as a shield, which resulted in her death. Katerina then gave in to her instincts and drained the little old lady, completing her transition into a vampire. She then threw the body towards Rose and Trevor and fled into the night. Katerina returned to Bulgaria in the latter months of 1492 to find her entire family brutally slaughtered by Klaus. She knew he had done it as revenge for her escape and subsequent transition. She was last seen weeping over her mother's dead body.
1498
Sometime during 1498, Katherine returned to Bulgaria after escaping from Klaus. Katherine searched every village and cottage for her daughter, Nadia Petrova, who was eight at the time, but had no luck in finding her.
1720
Katherine kills a man outside the French Court of Versaille. Nadia while in search for her mother for information offers to pay a man who witnessed Katherine do this, telling him she's been on the run for 228 years.
372 years had passed when in 1864 Katerina arrived in Mystic Falls, Virginia, by which time she had taken the name Katherine Pierce, presumably to avoid detection by Klaus. At some point she had become friends with Pearl and her daughter, Anna, and she saved the life of the witch Emily Bennett, putting Emily in her debt. Emily forged her a special piece of jewelry with the stone Lapis Lazuli which allowed her to walk in the sun without being burned. She was taken in by one of the town's founders, Giuseppe Salvatore, having spun a story about being orphaned by a fire that killed her family. Katherine met and fell in love with his son Stefan Salvatore, though she quickly began a physical relationship with Stefan's older brother, Damon, as well. Katherine created quite a few vampires while living in Mystic Falls, which inevitably alerted the Founding Families to their existence. Pearl warned Katherine that the town knew about the vampires after discovering an elixir containing vervain, which Honoria Fell had asked to be sold at the apothecary. Pearl tried to convince her to leave, but Katherine refused, claiming she had a plan in motion. Her plan, it turned out, was to turn Stefan and Damon into vampires, having seduced them both during her stay at the Salvatore household.
Katherine in 1864
Realizing how quickly the Founder's Council would take action against the vampires, Katherine struck a deal with George Lockwood: she would give him the moonstone if he would help her fake her death. Eventually, Stefan unwittingly suggested to his father that he knew a vampire, and Giuseppe guessed Katherine's true identity. Giuseppe spiked Stefan's drink with vervain and, later that same night, Katherine bit him. She was incapacitated by the vervain in his bloodstream, and, hearing the commotion, Giuseppe burst in to take her away. Damon later went to rescue her, and Stefan, upset that he had hurt his brother and jeopardized Katherine's life, helped him in the effort. They were both killed trying to save her, shot by their own father, Giuseppe, who was ashamed his sons had succumbed to the wiles of a demon.
Katherine leaving town and promises Stefan that they will be together again.
Katherine and the other vampires were taken to Fell's Church to be destroyed, but George helped Katherine escape. She gave George the moonstone, but instead of leaving right away, she turned to see Damon and Stefan's bodies lying in the road. She ran to Stefan, kissed him, and promised they would be together again someday. After transitioning into a vampire, Damon was told by Emily that Katherine was trapped in the tomb beneath the church, and as a result, the older Salvatore never stopped loving Katherine as he awaited the day he would be able to rescue her. In reality, Katherine was still lying low to evade Klaus, and she kept a close eye on the younger Salvatore brother, pointing out that she had seen him in the front row of a concert in the 1980s to prove that she had always been watching over him.
In the 1920s, Katherine was in Chicago at the same time as Stefan, but she only observed him from afar. After a police raid cleared out the speakeasy, Katherine spotted Rebekah's necklace on the ground. She moved to pick it up, but ran away before Stefan could see or notice her. She watched him for a few moments before slipping into the shadows.
1970's
During the 1970s, Katherine employed the talents of the vampire Will, who owned the music club and bar, Billy's, and ran an identity theft ring that secured new identities for vampires. Damon, who was friends with Will and helped him by killing people to steal their ID cards, unwittingly helped Katherine in her mission to remain undetected
1983
Anna had said that she saw Katherine during this year in Chicago.
1987
It was revealed that Katherine was watching Stefan and Lexi from afar at a Bon Jovi concert.
Katherine was possibly mentioned for the first time in The Originals by Elijah in Apres Moi, Le Deluge, Elijah explained to Hayley that he had only been in love twice in 1,000 years — Celeste and Katherine (or Tatia) and that when he finds it, he honors it.
d beautiful girl who was punished by her family for having a child out of wedlock. Initially named Katerina, she had loved her daughter very much and was heartbroken as she was taken from her and she never even got to held her. After she was banished from Bulgaria, she relocated to England and seemed quite capable of making independent and intelligent choices. Katerina was characterized as a caring and polite person. She was quick to adapt to her relocation and enjoyed socializing and playing games with others. Katerina was also known to fall quick for men and yearned to be in the affections of others, even declaring to Elijah that life was not worth living if they did not believe in love. Despite her banishment from Bulgaria and estrangement with her relatives, Katerina maintained affection for them and was particularly close to her mother.
Despite her innocence and naivety, Katerina had a sense of self-preservation and immediately sought to protect herself against Klaus by stealing the moonstone and escaping the ritual that meant her death in the process. She had sought out vampires, Rose and Trevor for assistance, but betrayed them by consciously deciding to become a vampire herself for survival and igniting Klaus's wrath upon them all.
Present Time (2nd Time Witch)
"Do you think that, after all horrible things I've done ... it would be possible to be forgiven?"
After Elena forced The Cure down her throat when she had tried to kill her, Katherine was rendered a weak human and had to spent two months on the run from all of the enemies she had acquired in her 500+ year lifespan. She enlisted the help of Damon, but was momentarily sold out when Silas offered Stefan for Katherine. After that failed, Katherine was granted reluctant protection under Jeremy, Matt, and Damon from Silas. Her transition to human left her weak, disheveled, and miserable as she struggled to get used to her vulnerability. Katherine's personality as a human is largely the same as when she was a vampire. She maintains her sassiness, insensitivity, independence, pride, selfishness, and sense of self-preservation. She had initially left Jeremy to die after a car crash while on the run from Silas and immediately accused Elena of being Katherine while held at gunpoint. However, Katherine soon starts to show some signs of shifting away from her "psychotic bitch" demeanor. She willingly goes back to save Jeremy's life from Silas despite risking her own survival and agreed to help rid Matt of the passenger inside him named Gregor.
Katherine also becomes slightly less hostile with certain members in the Mystic Falls gang, creating a strained but not entirely unfriendly alliance with Caroline, Matt, and Jeremy. She seems to have a soft spot for them somewhere, shown in her decision to save Jeremy from Silas and most prominently her interactions with Caroline to get Wes Maxfield unsuspecting of her and Elena being vampires in return for using her college dorm for a few days. Katherine also helped Matt with his passenger and went to him to help her put off her death by exercises, though Matt still sticks to the belief "Katherine cares only for Katherine." [1] She also met her long-lost daughter Nadia Petrova from 500 years ago and has genuine though complicated love for her, even attempting to cut off all ties with her for the sake of protecting her from Katherine's inevitable death since she couldn't be there for her.
Perhaps one of the most marked differences in Katherine's actions is her increased openness with her true emotions and vulnerability, particularly with Stefan. As she was dying of eventual old age after Silas drained The Cure out of her, Katherine falls into a depression with her loneliness and impending death to point she briefly lost the will to survive. Her misery climaxed into a suicide attempt by jumping off a clock tower, but failed when Stefan saved her. However, Katherine's inspired with a will to live through the recent support of Stefan. She becomes emotionally dependent on him in her darkest hours and quickly fell in love with him again, admitting that he was the only reason she wanted to live. Katherine's softer sides are made more obvious than ever before, wondering to Nadia if she could be redeemed for her past misdeeds and is worthy of forgiveness; a sharp contrast from her vampire self who had no remorse over anything and justified it as means to survival.
"We manipulate, we thirst for power, we control, we punish, but our actions are driven by one singular place deep inside. We're alone, and we hate it."
After she had turned, she immediately fled the only vampires she knew and apparently learned to survive as one on her own. The large gap of time from her transition to her arrival in Mystic Falls is a mystery, but she likely befriended Pearl during this time. In 1864, she seduced both Damon and Stefan Salvatore, revealing to a compelled Stefan that she had big plans for the three of them to be together. Although she did develop genuine affection for both brothers, and even love for Stefan, she was also calculating and selfish, selling out the other vampires in town in order to fake her own death. Her actions both in 1492 and 1864 demonstrate an extremely well-developed sense of self-preservation, almost always at the expense of any human compassion or remorse.
In present day, Katherine remains very much the same in this respect. She returns to Mystic Falls with the goal of securing the moonstone as well as a vampire, a werewolf, and the second Petrova Doppelgänger, solely for the purpose of handing them over to Klaus in exchange for amnesty. In the process, she manipulates and seduces Mason Lockwood to have him do her bidding, orchestrates the activation of both Mason's and Tyler's werewolf gene, turns Caroline into a vampire, compelsJenna to stab herself, lures Jenna out of her house to be sacrificed in Klaus' ritual, and leaves behind her a trail of other casualties, all in the name of securing her freedom. However, she redeems herself to the Salvatores, if only slightly, first by delivering the antidote to Damon's werewolf bite and later by helping in the plan to kill Mikael.
Despite her ruthlessness, it is clear that Katherine has deep, genuine feelings for Stefan. Unable to reveal herself to him without ruining the usefulness of being dead, she still observed him from afar over the years, admitting as much to Stefan in the present day. In fact, Katherine is usually at her most honest about her true feelings when she believes she is unobserved, as when she kissed an unconscious Stefan before leaving Mystic Falls, and when she looked on at him in the 1920s speakeasy.
Her relationships with other characters also sometimes reveal a crack in the "psychotic bitch" facade. Although she claims to his face that she never loved him, Damon still holds some of her affection, and she has offered him genuine help more than once. With regard to her doppelgänger, although she was willing to trade Elena's life for her freedom from Klaus, she never demonstrated any real animosity toward her. In fact she freely admitted an admiration for her descendant's tenacity, a quality she values in herself. And despite fearing Elijah nearly as much as Klaus because of her escape centuries earlier, she has since become his ally, and even seems to genuinely care about and possibly love him.
Katherine's extremely heightened sense of self-preservation has helped her develop a knack for creating elaborate plans and deceptions. Even when she takes a risk, which must be well worth it, she proceeds with caution and a means of escape in place. Thus, despite whatever feelings she has for Stefan, Damon, and now Elijah, it cannot be certain whether she would save their lives over her own, though the evidence so far suggests Katherine could not help but choose her own survival above all else.
Throughout her centuries-long life, Katherine has always been tough, feisty, independent and smart. If a task needs doing, she'll find a way to accomplish it, usually through a combination of uncompromising will and skilled manipulation of people and circumstances. Her personal motto - "Better you die than I" - does well to encapsulate her instinct for self-preservation as well as the detached cruelty which many vampires choose to adopt. But in her private moments, there is yet a glimpse of the human girl who once said that life is too cruel to live without love.
Almost every character that has met both of them have remarked that Katherine looks identical to Elena ; indeed, they are both doppelgängers of their common ancestors Tatia and Amara. As such, Katherine is an extraordinarily beautiful and seductive young woman: she has an oval face with fine bone structure, a wealth of brown curly hair, and almond-shaped, deep brown eyes with thick dark lashes.
Katherine and Elena are remarked as identical, but once you know what to look for you can distinguish the two easily. Katherine's hair seems to be a shade darker than Elena's, and she parts it on the left, while Elena parts hers in a deep part on the right. Elena seems to have naturally wavy hair, shown when she came out of the shower in 5x14, while Katherine's hair has loose or tight curls naturally. Katherine wears make-up very differently to Elena, Katherine bearing a dark smoky eye with thick winged eyeliner, and her choice in lipstick has a darker, sultry pink appearance than Elena, who also favors a bronze smoky eye and thin eyeliner. Katherine obviously has more hair than Elena, seeming much more thick and full, even when impersonating Elena.
There are even more subtle differences that only a true fan of Katherine or Elena can detect. Katherine's iris seems to be a shade darker than Elena's, and Katherine seems to be squinting slightly, while Elena's are wide open, reminiscent of doe-eyes. Katherine is also incredibly theatrical in her movement, exaggerating almost everything as though she had rehearsed the situation she was in over and over.
Katherine's choice in clothes is drastically different than Elena's. In seasons 2, 3, and 4, Katherine is seen wearing either leggings or dark super-skinny jeans to show off her incredibly petite figure, along with either Blue, Purple, or Black tank tops. She will almost always wear a black leather jacket over her clothes, either cropped, full length, buttoned or with a zipper. A big teller for Katherine is her shoes. She can be seen in black high heeled booties, open-toed pumps, and long black "500 dollar boots". Katherine is also seen to wear a lot of jewelry, including her Lapis Daylight Bracelet, chain bracelets in either silver or gold, and a watch. In Season 5 she is seen to care less about her appearance, but is still seen in cute, fashionable outfits. She will be seen in dark grey J-Brand jeans, lower heeled boots than when she was a vampire, and either black camisoles or long-sleeved shirts with lace sleeves. In 5x10 she was seen in sports gear, a baseball cap and during her final scene, a dark burgundy cardigan. When deducing where Katherine buys most of her clothes, she is quoted as buying most of her shoes in Paris, her jeans are J-Brand, and almost the entirety of her tops, especially in Season 5, are from Bebe.
Whenever Katherine pretends to be Elena in Season 5, she parts her hair in a deep right parting, and styles the front of her hair in loose curls and waves, and leaving the back of her hair straight or slightly wavy. However Katherine will choose clothes that Elena wouldn't wear, and the main distinguishing feature being her incredibly thick abundance of hair.
Nadia Petrova is the daughter of Katerina Petrova. Katherine gave birth to Nadia back in 1490 but Nadia was taken from her before she even got the chance to hold her. When Katherine returned to Bulgaria after being exiled to England and escaping Niklaus Mikaelson, she found that he killed her entire family and was devastated. She then began her search for her daughter who was 8 years old at the time, but to no avail, she was not able to find her. Over the years, Nadia was turned into a vampire, learning the story of her mother and searched for her for 500 years. When they meet again, Nadia introduces herself and begins to test Katherine, telling her she killed her mother in Paris. Katherine sees through this lie and Nadia reveals she did kill her mother, only in 1492 in England after she was exiled by her family. Katherine is shocked to learn that Nadia is her long lost daughter and although despite her conflicting feelings, she pushes Nadia away after learning of her impending death. Nadia is angered and clearly upset at her mother's attitude and actions towards her, and that she seemingly cared more about earning Stefan's forgiveness than her own. However, despite her anger, she wishes Katherine would desire to live longer and is conflicted between her anger towards her for her wishing to give up her life, or her wish to be at her mother's side as she dies. Katherine ends up chosing to say goodbye to Nadia as Nadia dies of Tyler's werewolf bite over running away and saving her own life. This choice results in her death at the hands of Stefan.
Katherine fell in love with Stefan when she met him in Mystic Falls in 1864. Although she was also seeing Damon, she had a clear preference for Stefan. She secretly watched over him while running from Klaus, and later admitted she had never once stopped caring about him. Katherine was unwilling to put her love for Stefan above her own survival and when she returned, they became enemies, as Katherine wanted to deliver Elena to Klaus in exchange for her freedom and Stefan was in a relationship with her. Nonetheless, Katherine persisted in her affections for Stefan despite his supposed hatred of her and declared she would wait for him forever if need be. Some time later, Elena tried to kill Katherine in revenge and almost succeeded before Stefan came and saved her. As Katherine's health began to deteriorate after through the loss of The Cure, she developed a friendly but complicated relationship with Stefan. Katherine helped him deal with his PTSD while Stefan in return prevented her from committing suicide. She locked herself and Stefan in the safe where she prompted Stefan to realize he was unable to accept the reality of the loss of Elena and that physical pain was easier to handle. Afterwards, Stefan admitted to Katherine he should move on and they end up sleeping together. Katherine's feelings towards him are stronger than his and her dying wish is for Stefan to find her worthy of redemption.
The relationship between Katerina Petrova and Elijah Mikaelson, was
once sweet and friendly up to the point where Katherine betrayed Elijah for her own freedom and that broke his relationship with his half-brother Klaus. When Elijah found Katherine in the vampire tomb, he compelled her to stay there until he said otherwise. Elijah later revealed that he made Katherine pay for betraying him, by running away from him as he was trying to save her life. She later witnessed his brother Klaus daggering Elijah. In American Gothic, it is revealed that Elijah and Katherine have been sleeping together and was in relationship together, as they both have admitted to being in love with each other, although it is questionable whether Katherine's love for Elijah is genuine or just another ploy to get freedom. However in The Originals, Elijah left Katherine behind in Mystic Falls and went to New Orleans after saying and kissing her goodbye, ending their relationship. Even though he was a hallucination in 500 Years of Solitude, Katherine was happy to see him and had shown to have missed him.
The relationship between Katherine Pierce and Elena Gilbert has been mostly antagonistic throughout the series. When Katherine first came back to Mystic Falls in 2010, she's jealous of Elena for earning the affections of Stefan (and Damon whom she had also loved). Katherine also planned to deliver Elena to Klaus in exchange for his forgiveness for running from him. Katherine, however, has also stated that she's more indifferent to Elena than anything else. She merely saw her as someone who had the same fate as her. After Katherine killed Elena's brother Jeremy, they were each other's only remaining family. After Elena turned her humanity off, she impersonated Katherine for the first time, as it was usually Katherine to impersonate Elena. Katherine later attacked Elena, resulting in Elena giving Katherine the cure, and making her human.
The relationship between Katherine Pierce and Damon Salvatore has been complicated since their meeting in 1864, when Katherine stayed in their estate and Damon was serving in the Confederate army. Damon fell deeply in love with Katherine, but unbeknownst to him, she'd also been seeing his brother Stefan, sparking the brothers' lifelong rivalry. Their relationship ended when the town began eradicating the vampires. She was then taken away, and Damon and Stefan were shot by their own father while in an attempt to save her, causing the latters' turning into vampires. Damon since then, has spent the following 150 years obsessed with freeing her from her tomb, only to find out that she was never in it in the first place.
Emily Bennett - She was Katherine's handmaiden in 1864 as well as a powerful witch. Katherine betrayed her when she told the people in town that Emily was a witch.
Henry - He was a vampire who helped Katherine to investigate the werewolf attacks within the town of Mystic Falls back in 1864. Henry was staked and killed by Alaric Saltzman in the 21st century.
George Lockwood - George was a werewolf and the co-conspirator in Katherine's faked death. She and George made a deal in which George helped her escape and told no one of it, in exchange for giving George the moonstone.
Will - He had a business to get vampires fake identities but due to not being able to walk in the sunlight he had a deal with Damon. He gave her a fake identity back in the 70s.
Mason Lockwood - Mason was a werewolf and a romantic partner of Katherine's in the 21st century whom she manipulated in order to obtain the moonstone. Mason was killed by Damon.
Jimmy - He was a friend of Mason Lockwood. Katherine used her power of mind control on Jimmy and compelled him to attack Mason while accusing him of sleeping with his girlfriend, Marla. Mason accidentally killed him, which triggered the curse.
Isobel Flemming - Isobel is Elena's biological mother and Katherine's descendant. She helped Katherine in her plan to destroy the tomb vampires and seek information about The Originals. Katherine also helped her obtain a Lapis Lazuli necklace to allow her to walk in daylight. Isobel later betrayed Katherine.
John Gilbert - Not directly. Isobel asked John to get a device that was taken from Johnathan Gilbert in 1864. John fails to get the device, so Isobel gets it herself by trading Jeremy for it, whom she had kidnapped. She then gives it to John, who uses it to destroy the vampires that came out of the tomb. Katherine was the one to instigate the plan to kill the tomb vampires.
Jenna Sommers - Katherine used mind control on Jenna to spy on Elena and Stefan. After Katherine learns of Mason Lockwood's death, she orders Jenna to commit suicide by stabbing herself, but she survived.
Caroline Forbes - Katherine turned Caroline into a vampire, and continued to threaten and manipulate her to do her bidding. She ordered Caroline to keep Elena away from Stefan and occupy her for the day so that Katherine could spend time with him.
Matt Donovan - After learning of Mason's death, Katherine uses her power of compulsion on Matt, ordering him to provoke Tyler Lockwood into killing him, in order to trigger Tyler's werewolf curse. She planned to use him along with Bonnie, Caroline and Elena to hand over to Klaus in exchange for her freedom.
Sarah - Katherine compelled Sarah to attack Tyler if Matt failed, and when Caroline breaks up Matt and Tyler's fight, Sarah attacks Tyler and he accidentally kills her, triggering the werewolf curse.
Based on what has been shown in the series, Katherine has no regard for human life. To her, humans are a means to an end, whether as victims to feed on or pawns in a plot for personal gain. The notable exceptions to this general disregard are Stefan and Damon Salvatore.
In 1864, Katherine took sadistic pleasure in demonstrating to a human Damon how a vampire lures in a victim by playing the role of a lost woman in order to stop a coach on a deserted road, anticipating the concern this would draw from its passengers. She fed on and killed her victims without any apparent remorse. In the present day, though she has shown no qualms about harming humans, her violence towards them is usually attended by a vague sense of purpose: she chops offJohn Gilbert's fingers and stabs him as she infiltrates the Gilbert home; she turns Caroline into a vampire as part of her plan to plead amnesty with Klaus; she maims and killsAimee Bradley to emphasize how badly she wants the moonstone and compels Matt and Sarah to provoke Tyler into killing them; she knocks outJeremy to use him to get to Mikael; she kills cemetery visitors in order to feed and awaken Mikael; and she kills various people on the island in order to get to the cure.
The only humans that Katherine, as a vampire, has seemed to not view as mere collateral damage were Damon and Stefan, whom she lived with in 1864. Although her relationships with both brothers seem to have had a certain amount of manipulation and scheming involved, Katherine demonstrated both before and immediately after Stefan's transition-death that she genuinely cared for him. Her relationship with Damon does not appear to have had the same depth of such feelings, but she cared enough about him to want to turn him into a vampire. Still, her behavior around the Salvatores was so wrapped up in whatever her ulterior motives happened to be that it's not always clear where the selfish manipulation ended and the genuine affection began.
Katherine's attitude toward vampires does not diverge far from her attitude toward humans; she merely has to be more clever in how she manipulates them. She was willing to sell out those she considers friends, like Pearl and the other vampires in Mystic Falls at the time. She regards werewolves to be little better than humans: she only deals with George Lockwood in order to procure her escape from Mystic Falls in 1864, and uses Mason and Tyler Lockwood in her plan to strike a deal with Klaus. She deals with witches with a bit more wariness, though her arrogance sometimes gets the better of her. Although she apparently lived with Emily Bennett for years and treated her as a confidante, she betrayed her during her escape from the town. Later, Lucy Bennett helps Katherine to repay a debt, but Katherine underestimates the witch's willingness to turn against her after the debt is paid.
Katherine and Elena.
Like most vampires in the series, Katherine's attitude towards the lives of others has been significantly influenced by the end of her human life and how her vampirism affected her family. She suffered the heartache of being separated from her illegitimate daughter and disowned by her family, and not long after suffered the despair of finding her entire family dead, brutally murdered by Klaus. Any trace of the human girl who still believed in love seemed to evaporate after this last great loss, though it peeks through occasionally when it comes to Stefan.
Overall, Katherine has no respect for anyone's life but her own, and will not spare a life unless it suits her interests to do so. Although she has risked her life in the past to save Damon and Stefan, doing so was in the context of repaying a debt and killing Klaus, it remains untested whether her affection for the brothers could ever truly transcend her sense of self-preservation.
Katherine's attitude towards humans may change as she is human now. Her interaction with humans will increase now as she is a human.
Based on what has been seen, Katherine doesn't really care about her fellow vampires, and would do anything to get things from them. Katherine has been seen to toy with certain vampires as shown with the Salvatore brothers. Katherine has had relationships with original vampires, and betrayed those as well.
She was hiding a long time because of Klaus, whom she feared for his power. She has always proven to be much stronger than most vampires in the series except for the originals. She also is able to manipulate certain vampires very well.
Now as a human, her personality has not changed much as she was as a vampire. But she has become afraid of them as she has people after her and she is not able to defend or protect herself.
Katherine von Swartzschild (born Katerina von Swartzschild) was a young German girl, who was the daughter of Baron von Swartzschild. She was very sickly, weak, and fragile as a young human girl and during her childhood, and was told by a surgeon that she was going to die. After this news, her maid, Gudren, fetched the village vampire Klaus and asked him to turn her into a vampire. He did so, though Katherine had no say in the matter, and she became a vampire.
Believing she was still sick, her father took her to the Salvatore Boarding House to cheer her up. There she met Stefan Salvatore, the younger human son of Conte di Salvatore, and she fell deeply in love with him. However, she also displayed interest in Stefan's elder human brother, Damon Salvatore.
In The Awakening, she said to both of the brothers that the only way to stay in Salvatore Estate was if she chose which Salvatore to marry. She said that she would tell them which one she had chosen for marriage on Sunday in twilight. Katherine first came to Stefan during the night, presumably during lovemaking and she gave him her blood.
However, Katherine also gave Damon her blood as well. Both brothers were furious when they found out that Katherine had given both of them blood and not just one of them, displaying Katherine's coy, selfish and childish tendencies. Katherine told both of the brothers that she refused to choose between the two of them, leading the rivalry and competition between the brothers to heat up even more intensely.
Katherine believed that if she turned both Stefan and Damon, then she, Stefan and Damon could all live happily ever after together. The brothers refused Katherine's wish and it turned the brothers against each other even more. Katherine became extremely distraught and upset by both Stefan and Damon fighting over her, so Katherine decided to commit "suicide". The next day, Stefan and Damon had found her ashes outside alongside her small lapis lazuli ring, which protected her from the sunlight and her dress, along with a note saying that she was selfish.
Damon and Stefan both blamed each other for her death, and ended up fighting each other to death with swords. Stefan and Damon both ended up stabbing each other, and both died. They woke up in their tombs, with their lapis lazuli rings on, having both been transformed into vampires, bounding the Salvatore brothers to each other for all of eternity.
Stefan's Diaries
Stefan describes Katherine as being very beautiful, when she first arrives to Mystic Falls, even though he is supposed to be engaged to Rosalyn Cartwright. She and Stefan kissed in the library at the Veritas Estates for the first time. She stays in the carriage house with Emily and she killed Rosalyn out of jealousy. She acts as innocent to avoid being uncovered as a vampire. Katherine was with Damon before Stefan and compelled him to take her secret better. Stefan believed her to have died. He tells Damon that he is wasting away Katherine's gift.
Name
Katherine is a feminine first name of uncertain origin. It appears to come from the Greek Αικατερινηmeaning "each of the two", or possibly from καθαρος(Katharos) meaning "pure". There are several famous bearers of this name, including Catherine de' Medici and Catherine the Great from Russia. The name is common in English.
Petrov/Petroff (masculine) or Petrova (feminine) is one of the most common surnames in both Russia and Bulgaria. The surname is derived from the first name Pyotr (Пётр, Russian) or Petar (Петър, Bulgarian), both equivalent to the English name Peter. Petrov means "son of Peter" in Russian and Bulgarian.
Trivia
Katherine was born on June 5th, 1473, making her a Gemini.
Most people use the the Anglo version of Katherine for her name. However Klaus , Elijah ,Rose , Trevor and Nadia refer to her by her original name Katerina.
Katherine's doppelgänger blood could have been useful when she was human, making her a target if Klaus had desired to create more hybrids.
Klaus is seemingly no longer interested in doppelgänger blood, something he needed for creatinghybrids , but has instead reunited with his siblings to New Orleans.
Silas had been after Katherine because the cure was running through her veins.
Katerina, Isobel, Rose, and Klaus are the only characters to have an episode named after them.
Nina Dobrev who plays Katherine Pierce, was born in Bulgaria (България) and speaks Bulgarian(Български). For this reason, Katherine, who was German in the books, became Bulgarian in the series.
In the books, Katherine von Swartzschild was German, a vampire of great beauty, but also immature, manipulative and selfish. In the TV series, Katerina is Bulgarian, a vampire of great beauty, but is also self-centered and ruthless. Katherine Pierce and Katherine Von Swartzschild are both vain, sadistic and manipulative woman who faked their deaths.
Katherine Pierce and Katherine von Swartzschild are very much alike; both closely associated with Klaus, evil inMystic Falls /Fell's Church , have easygoing attitude and hate Elena . The only difference between them is Katerina Petrova has black curly hair with brown eyes, and Katherine von Swartzschild is blonde with blue eyes.
Rose was the vampire responsible for turning Katherine on the TV series. However, Klaus was the one who turned Katherine in the novels, completely changing the back stories of Katherine and Klaus for the series. Klaus felt emotion for Katherine, so wanted to avenge her death in the novels.
Katherine was a "birthday gift" from Trevor to Klaus in 1492.
Katherine's life is seriously affected by Klaus in the books and the series. In the books, Katherine Von Swartzschild becomes insane, paranoid, unstable, selfish, cruel, and sadistic because of Klaus's influence for centuries. In the series, Katherine Pierce becomes the same, but because her child was taken away from her, and her family was slaughtered by Klaus.
Katherine's parents are the first of Klaus' victims to be seen in the TV series.
When Katerina first arrived in Mystic Falls, she said she was an orphan who lost her family in a fire. She may have burned down her house with her family inside after they were murdered by Klaus.
Vanessa Monroe, a research assistant and former student of Isobel, mentions in Bad Moon Rising that Katherine arrived in Mystic Falls in April 1864, but this is inconsistent with Katherine's story that her family perished in the Atlanta campaign fires, which occurred in September of that year.
Katherine wore a cameo lapis lazuli necklace until the 1920s.
This necklace is seen in all 1864 flashbacks and in 1920s flashback. After this she wears a different necklace, then turns it into a bracelet.
She is the first of three women in her family to have slept with Damon Salvatore. Both of her descendants Isobel Saltzman and Elena Gilbert have also slept with him.
Many people have fallen in love with or felt attracted to Katherine. Vampires and humans alike Stefan, Damon, Mason, Trevor and Elijah have all been in love with her. Noah was also obsessed with her. It is thought that the Petrova doppelgängers have an uncanny ability to win others affections, especially from men, as evidenced by all of the love triangles the three Petrova women have been involved.
Others can usually tell Katherine apart from Elena by their hair, make-up and wardrobe choices. (See Physical Appearance.)
Katherine is quite adept at disguising herself as Elena. She has been mistaken as Elena by Jenna Sommers on many occasions, which resulted in Jenna inviting Katherine into the Gilbert's home and being lured into a trap after receiving a frantic call from "Elena".
Despite claiming to know all about The Originals in The House Guest, she did not know that Klaus wanted to become a hybrid, that the dagger and white oak ash would not work on him, or that the curse was fake, until after The Sun Also Rises.
Katherine is the first vampire shown to be fed on by another vampire.
Katherine's remorseless behavior suggests she may have "turned off" her humanity, However she did - deliver Klaus's blood to cure Damon, warn Stefan about how dangerous Klaus was and rescued him from the witch Gloria, alerted Stefan to Klaus's intention to possibly kill Damon - plus her own admission, Katerina may still have human emotions.
Katherine possibly knew about Tatia, when Elena asked her in Katerina what the Petrova family has to do with Klaus, she understood the concept of creating a doppelgänger. Katerina has never specifically mentioned Talia or any of the other Petrova Doppelgängers, either by name or other reference.
She is the first vampire to be cured of her vampirism and was technically the second oldest living mortal at 538 years old.
During Season Five, her continuity as a main character will continue and will indeed be a significant part of the season; unlike how she was a recurring character in the third and fourth seasons.[2]
Katherine is the 3rd Doppelgänger of the Petrova line.
Katherine met her daughter Nadia in the episode Original Sin when Nadia kidnapped Katherine.
Nadia is Katherine's daughter and maybe the reason that Katherine became the person she was.
Nadia reveals to Katherine that she is her daughter in the episode Monster's Ball.
Katherine, Nadia , Silas ,Klaus ,Rebekah , and Elijah all speak multiple languages.
It is hinted in Katherine's letter to Klaus that she knows aboutMarcel and Hayley and the baby , "I have caught wind that there is a witch in New Orleans named Jane-Anne Deveraux plotting a move against you. Hunt her down. What she has to say will rattle you so deeply to your core that chasing little old me will be the least of your concerns".
In the novels, Katherine's relationship with Klaus is very different from the TV series. Klaus is the one to save her from a certain death as a human by turning her into a vampire, and, shortly after her death as a vampire, he brings her back to life in order to fight the Salvatore brothers and their friends. Katherine is shown to have been loyal to Klaus for centuries, although it is implied that her companionship with him drove her insane and made her selfish and cruel.
As of Fifty Shades of Grayson, it is revealed that Katherine was never human, but a Traveler Witch, as she received the gene from her father.
Katherine admitted, that Stefan is her one true love in The Devil Inside.
Katherine and all her known doppelgängers and predecessor's names all end with an A, Amara, Tatia, Elena and Katerina.
Both Katherine and Elena were terrorized and eventually drained of blood by powerful immortals in order to achieve a certain goal (Klaus drained Elena to break the Hybrid Curse and Silas drained Katherine to cure himself of immortality).
Katherine is the first doppelgängers to possess and take over the body of her doppelgängers descendant.
Like her Ancestor Amara and her Doppelganger Elena, Katherine had a close relationship with a Bennett Witch . Amara was Qetsiyah 's handmaiden, Bonnie is Elena's best friend andEmily was Katherine's handmaiden.
Ironically in ancient times, Qetsiyah's handmaiden was Amara, Katherine's ancestor, but in 1864 Emily Bennett was Katherine's handmaiden, Qetsiyah's descendant.
Unique among other ghosts in the series, Katherine was the first denied access to the Other Side before being dragged to the "Dark Side".
Even more peculiar is the fact that Katherine was sent to the "Dark Side" at a time when the Other Side was stable. Other ghosts were dragged there because the Other Side was slowly disintegrating, whereas Katherine was simply not allowed to cross over. Whether Katherine's situation will be explained is currently unknown, however Bonnie implied that some being or "higher power" decides who is allowed into the Other Side, meaning Katherine may be in the "Dark Side" because of this "higher power's" decision.
Katherine: (To Stefan) "You hate me huh? That sounds like the beginning of a love story Stefan, not the end of one."
Katherine: (To Damon) "Trust me, Damon. When I’m up to something, you’ll know it. Come on. Kiss me …or kill me. Which will it be Damon? We both know that you’re only capable of one."
- The Return
Katherine: (To Stefan) "Are we really going to do this again? We both know I could rip you to shreds and do my nails at the same time."
Katherine: (To Stefan about Elena) "If I have to, I will snap her neck like a twig, and you know it."
Katherine: (To Stefan) "I love you Stefan, we will be together again, I promise...."
Katherine: (To Damon) "Do you honestly believe that I don`t have a plan B? And if that fails a plan C and a plan D. You know how the alphabet works don`t you. Send my love to Stefan."
Katherine: (To Elena) "Did you enjoy your little rendezvous with Stefan this morning? I will always know, Elena. I will always be one step ahead of you. When are you gonna figure that out? Do you know how easy it was to get inside of your house? To replace Aunt Jenna's vervain perfume, to convince her to stop drinking her special tea?"
Katherine: (To Elena) "Living out of a suitcase is better than dying so you can have you blood spilled over a silly little rock."
Katherine: (To Elena) "Better you die than I."
Katherine: (To Elena) "He killed them, my entire family, just to get back at me for running. Whatever you do to escape Klaus, he will get his vengeance on your friends, your family and anyone that you’ve ever loved."
Katherine: (To Stefan) "My freedom?... That’s where you’re wrong, Stefan. I don’t want my freedom because when Klaus shows up to kill us all and he will, I’ll be in the tomb, where no vampire will enter because they can’t get out. I’ll be the safest psychotic bitch in town."
Katherine: (To Stefan) "It`s stuffy. I've been in this dress for days. Wanna help me get out of it? Come on, Stefan. Don`t be such a grump. We`re here together. We might as well make the best out of it. You really think Damon`s gonna rush to get you out? He`s got what he wants. Elena."
Katherine: (To Stefan) "I know that I want Klaus dead, which puts me squarely on ‘Team You.’ Besides, if you two ever need me to swap places with Elena again, the less people who know that I’m here, the better. Think about it, Stefan, c’mon. Be smart."
Katherine: (To Damon) "Spend 500 years running, and there will be a few people along the way that are looking out for you."
- The End of The Affair
Katherine: (To Stefan) "You two look chummy. Klaus your new bestie?"
Katherine: (To Stefan) "Uh-huh. I forgot. You're bad now. Don't get too cocky. Klaus is smarter than you. He's smarter than everyone. And I've heard about that sister. Be careful. She'll ruin you."
Katherine: (To Stefan) "I loνed γοu. I loνed Damon, too."
Katherine: (To Stefan) "Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness. No matter how easy it is to turn it off, it just keeps trying to fight its way back in."
Katherine: (To Elena in her hallucination) "Don't you ever stop crying? Poor Elena always the victim, except now you're a killer. What does Stefan think of the new you?"
Katherine: (To Elena in her hallucination) "You’re a vampire. You’ll kill again, it’ll change you and it’ll keep changing you until you’re just like me."
Katherine: (To Elena in her hallucination) "I was you before you even existed. And when Stefan knew the real me, he hated me. And now he’s gonna hate you too. But, at least you still have Damon."
- We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes
Katherine: (To Jeremy) "God, I forgot what a brat you were."
Katherine: (To Jeremy) "I'm done playing nice."
Katherine: (To Jeremy) "It's been too long, little Gilbert. Sorry. Family reunion is gonna have to be cut short."
Katherine: (To Elena) "What, no 'I'm here to avenge my annoying little brother' speech?"
Katherine: (To Rebekah) "I've spend the last 500 years running from your big brother. I have no intention of being within sniffing distance of him. But, since it can be used against him, I'm sure he's just itching to get his hands on it. I give him the cure, he gives me my freedom."
Katherine: (To Elena) "This will never work, you know. The bad haircut, the doe eyes. You'll never pass for me."
Katherine: (To Rebekah) "Oh, no? But you do, you want to take it? Are you really that dumb or just naturally blonde?"
Katherine: (To Damon) "Maybe you don't know Katherine at all. Did it ever occur to you that you have no idea who I really am?"
Katherine: (To Elijah) "To tell you that you're right. I've spent so much time running and lying just to survive that I don't-- I'm starting to believe my own lies. I don't even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out."
I hear Elijah has refused you the cure, and in return you have refused my freedom. Shame on you both. But while you boys sort out your problems, I have one last thing to offer you. I've caught wind that there's a witch in New Orleans named Jane-Anne Deveraux planning a move against you. Hunt her down. What she has to say will rattle you so deeply to your core that chasing little old me will be the least of your concerns. It's been a fun five centuries, Klaus, but I've worn down too many good heels running from you.
Katherine: (To Bonnie) "Lying, scheming, and a secret rendezvous with moi? Not very Bonnie Bennett-y, especially when Elena needs her favorite witch."
Katherine: (To Elena) "Yeah, I've done some pretty horrible things to survive, but unlike you poor, delicate Elena, I don't turn it off. I deal with it. You wouldn't last a week as a vampire without everyone fawning over you."
Katherine: (To Damon) "Oops, did I forget to lock her in?.. Let's just say I've lost interest in Elena's recovery, I'd rather watch her tear through an orphanage. Imagine trying to come back from a spiral like that."
Katherine: "See, here's the thing, Bonnie: I can't disagree with you, because I have been feeling out of luck lately. But you know who has been getting all of my luck? My beloved doppelgänger, Elena. My shadow-self is living a better life than I am, so if I don't get that immortality, I may just have to get rid of her altogether."
Katherine: (To Elena) "I never had a graduation, a prom or, you know, a life. But you did. You have everything, and it's not because you're a good little girl who deserves happiness, it's because you stole mine! "
Katherine: (To Matt) " Those blue eyes, they made me soft... I should have ripped your head off when I had the chance. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " You were gonna hand me over to Silas to get Stefan back. I was just protecting myself."
Katherine: (To Jeremy) " Don't play the hero. You two are just waiting for the convenient time to hand me back over to him... I've done this thousand times... I get it. I'm the leverage. I'm that thing that everybody wants. I'm the freaking Moonstone. "
Katherine: (To Jeremy) " Then maybe I can get out of the car because I need to pee, like, in a bathroom, like a lady. "
Katherine: (To Jeremy) " My throat is really scratchy, and my head hurts, like, right here. When I cough, it's green. So get me stuff for all that. "
Katherine: (To Jeremy) " I've never shot a gun in my life...Didn't need to... I was much more deadly."
Katherine: (To Jeremy) " I survived childbirth, the death of my entire family, and 500 years of running from an immortal hybrid. You can understand why I'm a little upset that I am on the verge of being defeated by a sinus infection."
Katherine: (To Jeremy) " Uh, wai-huh. How do you think I survived 500 years? It wasn't because I was a vampire. It's because I never looked back. Don't be dumb, survive."
Katherine: (To Matt) " Welcome back to the land of the living."
Katherine: (To Matt) about Silas" I shot him. So we're even, no more whining... Let's go. Silas won't be down for long."
Katherine: (To Damon and Elena) "What? I get carsick in the back seat. Another charming, human side effect you stuck me with."
Katherine: (To Elena) "Do you really think that I wanna take a road trip with you, America's most boring, self-righteous vampire? Just remember, Damon wouldn't have to play bodyguard if you hadn't shoved that cure down my throat."
Katherine: (To Elena) "I will admit, though, I take great pleasure knowing that you wasted your one shot at a human life on me."
Katherine: (To Elena) "I wanna find Stefan just as much as you do, and not just because I don't wanna be a pawn that you can trade off for his life. I care about him—I always have. And since we've been having the same dream... makes me think you care about him just as much."
Katherine: (To Elena) "I'm just trying to make conversation. Anything to drown out the sound of eggshells breaking. So, Elena, I couldn't help but overhear. You've been dreaming about Stefan all summer? That must be really stressful on a new relationship, especially when you're having those kinds of dreams lying in bed next to his brother."
Katherine: (To Elena) "Oh, no, yeah, sure. I totally get it. There's still a connection between you two. Maybe deep down you know that he was your one true love and breaking up with him was a big mistake."
Katherine: (To Elena) "Or maybe Stefan's been trying to reach out to you all summer, but you've been too distracted with Damon to help him so he reached out to the person that he trusts—me."
Katherine: (To Elena) "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm really glad it's you. My leg is cramping and I'm freezing. Do you mind if I, uh—can I borrow your sweater?."
Katherine: (To Elena) " Or maybe you thought that being human was punishment worse than death for me.."
Katherine: (To Elena) " Well... thank you. I'm glad to know that you care, even if you are a condescending bitch.."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I like to know the identity of my kidnappers. Who are you and what do you want?."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Fine. I was snooping. Trying to find a passport, or a business card, or maybe even a parking ticket, because you won't tell me who you are."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " For food, not packaged poison."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Little tip, woman to woman... don't piss off the diabolical ones, and if you're gonna hold me hostage, the least you can do is feed me properly."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Really? My freedom in exchange for a little Q & A? Hmm. Ok."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I was running from Klaus. I needed to jet solo. I threw a couple of vampire names on the hit list. Sue me. I also impersonated a teenager to get to make my ex-boyfriends to make out with me, staged a fake fight to trigger my lover's werewolf curse, ooh, and I chopped off this douchey guy's fingers with a butcher knife once. That was cool."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I go to Paris for shoes. The shoes, I remember. Everything else requires a few more details."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " There you are. Having trouble getting that out? I grazed your heart on purpose."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I knew it was a fake story. By 1645, I'd been running from Klaus for a century and a half. There was no way any of his minions would have mistaken anyone for me, but you know how my brain works, right? So, you must have known that I wouldn't have fallen for that sob story."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Or he won't. You're the one who said it. I'm pretty good at dodging the diabolical ones. Besides, Silas doesn't need me until he figures out how to destroy the Other Side. If he cures himself before then, he goes back to being a witch. He dies as a witch, well... he's stuck in supernatural purgatory."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Because by 1498, I'd escaped, ditched the people that were chasing me, and found my way back to Bulgaria. I searched every village, every cottage, but I couldn't find you."
Katherine: (To Damon and Elena) " What's so urgent? I'm on the run.... Don't exactly have time for a pit stop.... Or maybe I do. Maybe I have all the time in the world. Katherine Pierce eludes death yet again... and you two finally did something right for once. How does it feel?"
Katherine: (To Damon) " No. No. No, Damon. No, no, please! He need all of my blood. It'll kill me, Damon. Damon, please, I don't want to die. I don't want to die, Damon. I don't want to die. Please."
Katherine: (To Waitress) " I'm celebrating. I thought I was gonna die. I didn't. So now I'm free to be whatever I want to be. It's a good day."
Katherine: (To Caroline) " I just need a place to crash."
Katherine: (To Caroline) " I'm desperate, okay? Damon kicked me out, Stefan doesn't remember me and I just spent my last $20 on a meal that I didn't even get to enjoy."
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Look at you. Moving out, giving up? It's very un-Caroline of you. You need me. Bad."
Katherine: (To Caroline) " In exchange for a place to stay, and Elena's meal card, I will help you deal with Dr. Whoever."
Katherine: (To Caroline) " What? You're scared of a teacher? Aw, honey, you really need to take a crash course on Villain 101, but luckily for you, I have an honorary doctorate. What do you say, roomy?"
Katherine: (To Caroline) " I don't know. It just said "avoid contact with eyes ...and do not ingest." Oops."
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Give me. It's not my first rodeo."
Katherine: (To Dr. Maxfield) " So all I have to do is convince them that Elena Gilbert is not a vampire? Done."
Katherine: (To Dianne) " Of course. Crazy night. Anyway, I'm here for the shindig."
Katherine: (To Aaron) " What? Are you the sandwich police."
Katherine: (To Aaron) " Aaron. Duh. Hi! So, what are you doing here? Are you apart of the secret society?"
Katherine: (To Aaron) " Either you're genuinely clueless or you're very good at keeping secrets."
Katherine: (To Dr. Maxfield) " Mystery. I listened to about half before I nearly blew my brains out from boredom except for the part about your subject's blood being abnormal. That part was mildly interesting."
Katherine: (To Dr. Maxfield) " Actually, my name is Katherine. Elena is my doppelgänger, and while I let you chew on that I'll admit there is something that I can't solve on my own."
Katherine: (To Dr. Maxfield) " It's my tooth. I think I'm dying, and I need you to save my life."
Katherine: (To Dr. Maxfield) " So, what am I looking at here, hmm, blood clot, tumor, what?"
Katherine: (To Dr. Maxfield) " My hair is going gray and my teeth are falling out. I'm not sure what that suggests, but it's definitely not health."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Yeah. I've been a busy girl doing busy things."
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Yeah? Well, I've decided to live a little. Now, may I be excused, scary vampire daughter?"
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Okay. First of all, I never abandoned you. You were snatched out of my arms at birth because my father thought I was a knocked-up, shameful slut, and second of all, it's been 500 years. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Wonderful. Now that Katherine's a human and fragile, everyone thinks that they can just boss her around. "
Katherine: "The cute one's here. "
Katherine: (To Qetsiyah) " Let's be clear. I don't care about Bonnie Bennett or the Other Side going away or Elena getting her best friend back. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Wonderful. Now that Katherine's a human and fragile, everyone thinks that they can just boss her around. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Nothing. Just another tragic side effect from taking the cure. Apparently the universe just doesn't want me to heal from vampire blood. Stupid universe. Find me that damn witch so she can finish that spell! "
Katherine: (To Qetsiyah) " Hilarious. But see, I'm not getting any younger, so spell away. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Enough. I killed you once, don't forget. We still hate each other, okay? "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I don't know what kind of twisted fantasy you have about us, but that's all it is a fantasy. I would rather rip my own heart out than do more mother-daughter bonding with you. And I'm human now, so it wouldn't really be that easy. I don't want to know you. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I'm doing you a favor, Nadia. Okay? I can't be there for you. So take a good look, because you are never gonna see me again. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " How about now? Matty Blue-Blue. I want another drink. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " You realize that every single time you say no, it just makes you hotter, right? "
Katherine: (To Matt) " We're getting started. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " He's a Traveler. Travelers are a faction of witches. They're big on spirit possession. You've got one inside of you. It's kind of like a human parasite that's hitching a ride in your brain. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " That girl, the one that followed you back from Prague, was she, um, I don't know, feisty, a little accent, ridiculously beautiful? "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Hey stranger! Lookie what I stole. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Hey! Come on! Please. Just have one drink with me? Please. Stefan, I've had a bad...year, really. And it would be nice to have a friendly face. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " See? The universe at work. I don't know if you know this, but our doppelgänger stars are fated to be together. So, like it or not, you're going to end up with someone who looks like me. Although, the universe seems to have all of its eggs in the Elena basket; but at this point, I don't really blame it. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Other than the joint pain, the receding gums, and the fact that I have to pee every five minutes, I'm dandy. But hey! Enough about me. Why are you all by your lonesome? "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Well, if you did want to talk to someone, I'm right here. And, uhh, let's be honest, I'm wasted, so I'm not going to remember. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Oooohh. Classic PTSD. You survived a pretty traumatic event, and now you're back, and you've got nothing but free time to just relive that terrible experience in the safe. Well, allow me to give your life purpose. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " I'm just trying to help. What would I know about post-traumatic stress? I only had my newborn ripped from my arms by my judgmental father. Then, I had to run 500 years after my entire family had been slaughtered by a psychopath, but hey! That didn't have any lingering side-effects. "
Katherine: (To Gregor) " Here's the thing. Nadia is my only child. So naturally, I'm suspicious of anyone who wants to date her. "
Katherine: (To Gregor) " see why I don't want you dating my daughter? Because Travelers are ruthless, manipulative, hypocrites. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " You have two options, Stefan. You either deal with this now, or you run, but either way, it's gonna catch up to you "
Katherine: (To Nadia is a letter) " Dear Nadia, Sorry I had to kill your boyfriend but it was the motherly thing to do. Suicide however ... not very motherly of me. I ran from my enemies for 500 years. And then, one day I stopped. Now a new enemy wants me dead. Sure, I could run from The Travelers but there's still one enemy that I can never escape... time. So call it pride or vanity but after the life I've led, I refuse to drift off into the sunset. Goodbye, Nadia. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " I told you: You either face your problems, or you run. I chose option 3."
Katherine: (To Stefan) " I'm dying, Stefan. I'm dying of old age. I don't know. The cure did something to speed up the entire mortifying process."
Katherine: " Deep thoughts, mortal coil, blah, blah, blah. Ugh. My hand's tired. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " That's why I need you not to get mad at me. Because when you get mad, you get anxious and violent and you rip people's head's off. But I'm gonna help you fix that. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " What kind of sentimental idiot writes down everything they feel? Is this what the prophecy meant when it said the doppelgängers were drawn together like magnets? Because if it is, I want my money back. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " You are right about one thing. He needs to get over the root of his problem because right now the score is safe one, Stefan zero. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " Your loss. He’s great in bed. "
Katherine: (To Caroline) " So how do you help the guy who always comes to the rescue. Stefan's the hero; it's who he is at his core. He can't always come through for himself but he can always come through for everyone else. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " You're Stefan Salvatore. Suck it up. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Although, don’t forget you loved me before you hated me. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " So you admit it. I do know what I’m doing. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " Well, Stefan, sometimes.I don't either. Like right now, for example. "
Katherine: (To Damon) " I haven't seen her, not that I've been looking. "
Katherine: (To Damon) " You know, he hasn't seen her either. I know because we were together all night. "
Katherine: (To Damon) " Why? What were you thinking? That our hot, naked bodies collided in one unforgettable night of passion? "
Katherine: (To Damon) " Great. Then my work here is done. Toodle. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " I don't hear you counting. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " No. Seriously. I didn't hear you. Oh, God. I'm doing deaf. I'm doing deaf. My entire body is falling apart. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Wa-- water! Give me some water. Faster. "
Katherine: (To Matt) " Every time I ingest vampire blood, my body rejects it. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Great. So, um, Stefan obviously gave you my suicide note. What's your point? "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " It was a moment of weakness. I'm over it "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " his is raw kale. In what universe would I put this inside of my body unless I actually wanted to live another day. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " It's not so much a matter of what as it is who. Can I ask you something, absentee mother to mildly abusive daughter? "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Do you think after all the horrible things that I've done it would be possible to be forgiven? "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " You didn't just propose spirit possession with a straight face. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " ng on. I'm hardly a Traveler, ok? My father banned us from doing Traveler magic. He said it was the devil's work or something dramatic that terrified us, and then I became a vampire and never thought about it again. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Yes! He lived on in a busboy. Good idea, Nadia. Let's put my essence in some nobody. Thing is, Stefan actually likes this body. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Stefan and I may have rekindled an old flame last night. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " Look. Maybe I don't want to die a sad, lonely 538-year-old. If I have to bow out, knowing that Stefan still cares might not be the worst way to go. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " What's the opposite of funny? Oh, right. Not funny. "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " No. I mean, it's for real this time. Look at me. I'm dying. What does someone have to go through to get a little redemption around here? "
Katherine: (To Stefan) " One night... An eternity... You'd never look at me the way you look at Elena, would you? "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I'm a survivor. Staying alive is my specialty. "
Katherine: (To Nadia) " I think Stefan believes that a part of me can still be redeemed. "
Nadia Petrova to (Katherine) " And what do you think? is he right. "
Katherine fits the Light Feminine And Dark Feminine trope, especially with Elena. Elena and Katherine are both doppelgängers who share an uncanny physical appearance. Elena is the Light Feminine (good, moral) and Katherine is Dark Feminine (bad, immoral). Both share a common love and interest in Stefan and are often in competition with each other for his affections.
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