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!
Katerina Petrova (Bulgarian:Катерина Петрова; English:Katherine Pierce) is 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 major antagonists of Season Two. She was also a recurring character in the third and fourth seasons.
After giving birth to a baby girl deemed "illegitimate" and being separated from her, she was banished off to England, where she met Niklaus Mikaelson and Elijah Mikaelson. At first, she was attracted to the two brothers. However, after finding out that Klaus planned on using her as a sacrifice in order to break the curse that had been placed on him (as she was Tatia's Doppelgänger as a human), she sabotaged his plan by turning herself into a vampire, stealing the moonstone, which Klaus needed in order to break the curse, and then running away. After that, she ran from him for over five centuries.
Her activities during her first centuries as a vampire are unknown, but at some point between the 15th and 19th centuries, she 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 and subsequently turned them both into vampires after falling in love with them. When the Town Council found out that vampires were in the town, she faked her death and escaped with the help of George Lockwood in exchange for the moonstone.
During the 20th century, she watched over Stefan while still hiding from Klaus. In 2010, she came back to Mystic Falls with the intention of finally earning her freedom from him. To that end, she turned Caroline Forbes into a vampire, and Mason Lockwood into a werewolf. She escaped Mystic Falls again shortly after coming back, when the Original family came back to the town as well.
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 is gone, she is officially back in Mystic Falls.
In Graduation, Katherine gets into a violent fight with Elena. As she is about to rip her descendant Doppelgänger's heart out of her chest, the latter forces the cure down the former's throat, making her fall unconscious. It seems that Katherine is now human again, after being a vampire for over five centuries.
In her early life, Katherine was a young and attractive girl who was punished by her family for having a child out of wedlock. After she was banished from Bulgaria, she relocated to England and seemed quite capable of making independent and intelligent choices. After she met Klaus, discovered that he and Elijah were vampires and that Klaus planned to sacrifice her in a ritual, she escaped them and ran for her life. On her way she even conned Rose into turning her into a vampire, securing at once the means to outrun Klaus as well as his eternal ire for thwarting his plans.
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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 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 ancestor Tatia. 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.
The simplest way of distinguishing Katherine from Elena is in observing basic cosmetic differences: Katherine favors a curly hair style, while Elena typically wears hers straight; Katherine often pairs a sensually cut outfit with heels, while Elena is usually seen wearing comfortable, practical options like jeans, T-shirts and sneakers; and Katherine tends to wear more makeup than Elena.
However, there are subtler differences between the two that only a keener eye can detect. Katherine's eyes seem to be a shade darker than Elena's, having a smoky, shadowy appearance; where Elena's eyes are guileless, Katherine usually seems to be hiding something behind hers. Her mannerisms are more deliberate, almost as though she is performing for her audience - a skill that comes in handy when she wants to borrow the identity of the younger doppelgänger. Even her speaking voice seems harsher, more cutting than Elena's.
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.
Former Powers and Abilities
Some of these powers are more potent when the vampire gets older and feeds on human blood.
Super Strength- Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful then werewolves that are not in wolf form.
Super Speed - Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.
Emotional Control- The supernatural ability to control and manipulate the emotions of one's self.
Dream Manipulation - Vampires can control dreams and subconscious. The vampires can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapped in the dreams.
Heightened Senses - They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far off buildings, smell blood, and see in total darkness.
Mind Compulsion - Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.
Immortality - A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus and infection. The only known disease or infection that can kill a vampire is a werewolf bite.
Healing Factor - Vampires can snap their finger bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.
Lapis Lazuli- She possess a Lapis Lazuli necklace that she later turned into a bracelet that enables her to walk in daylight without being harmed.
Vervain Immunity - After her plan was almost stopped in 1864 after ingesting vervain in Stefan's blood, Katherine started to ingest vervain every day for over 150 years, causing it to have less of an effect on her than other vampires.
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.
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.
Stefan thinks Katherine is 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.
In Slavic-language countries, like Bulgaria, surnames typically take both a masculine and a feminine form. For instance, Katerina Petrova's father would have had the surname Petrov, while she and her mother had the feminine form Petrova.
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.
Pierce is a medieval form of PETER. This was the name of the main character in the 14th-century poem 'Piers Plowman' by William Langland.
Trivia
Katerina, Isobel, Rose, and Klaus are the only characters so far to have an episode named after them.
Nina Dobrev, the actress who plays Katherine Pierce, was born in Bulgaria and speaks Bulgarian. For this reason, Katherine, who was German in the books, became Bulgarian in the series.
In the books, Katherine von Swartzschild was a German girl who was a vampire of great beauty and kindness, but at the same time, immature, manipulative and selfish. In the TV series, Katerina Petrova, a.k.a. Katherine Pierce, was a Bulgarian girl who was also of great beauty and kindness, but also self-centered and ruthless after she became a vampire. Katherine Pierce and Katherine Von Swartzschild are both selfish, vain, sadistic and manipulative, and both faked their deaths.
Katerina Petrova is Bulgarian, but her name and surname are Russian in origin.
Rose was the vampire responsible for turning Katherine on the TV series. However, Klaus was the one who turned Katherine into a vampire in the novels, completely changing the back stories of Katherine and Klaus for the series. Klaus felt emotion for Katherine, so he wanted to avenge her death in the novels.
Katherine was a "birthday gift" from Trevor to Klaus in 1492.
In the TV series, Katherine is much older than in the books. In the books, Katherine was born in 1614 and turned in 1631, whereas in the TV series, she was born in 1473 and turned 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 selfish, cruel, manipulative, and sadistic, because her child was taken away from her against her will, and because her family was slaughtered by Klaus.
Katherine's parents are the first of Klaus' victims to be seen in the TV series.
When she arrives in Mystic Falls, Katherine claims to be an orphan who lost her family in a fire. She may in fact have burned down her house with her family inside after they were murdered by Klaus, out of respect for them.
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 up until the 1920s at least. Katherine's Lapis Lazuli necklace.
This necklace is seen in all 1864 flashbacks as well as the 1920s flashback. After this she wears a different necklace, which she later begins to wear as 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 people like Stefan, Damon, Mason, Trevor and Elijah have been in love with her. Noah was also obsessed with her. It is thought that the Petrova doppelgangers 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 typically suggests that she "turns off" her humanity, but a few of her actions - delivering Klaus's blood to cure Damon, warning Stefan about how dangerous Klaus is and rescuing him from the witch Gloria, alerting Stefan to Klaus's intention to possibly kill Damon - as well as her own admission, have suggested that there are still human feelings within her, whether or not she always lets them affect her.
It is possible Katherine knows about Tatia, as when Elena asked her in Katerina what the Petrova family has to do with the Klaus, she was familiar with the concept of creating the doppelgänger. However, she has never specifically mentioned the Original Petrova, either by name or other reference.
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. C’mon. Kiss me …or kill me. Which will it be Damon? We both know that you’re only capable of one."
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) "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 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 Dαmon, 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."
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 Devereux 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."
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