He then tells Klaus, "And neither can you. Later, Stefan sits with Elena on the rooftop of the Salvatore mansion. After Stefan says his goodbye to Katherine he and Damon talk about their eventful days. Stefan's name means "crowned" or "crown of martyrdom". He absorbs information very easily and is able to memorize events and dates at the top of his head as seen in. In Never Let Me Go, Stefan is driving down the abandoned streets of Mystic Falls while leaving Caroline a voicemail. He's mad at his brother for not preventing the original sister from taking the cure. Stefan responds that it is June 5, 1473. Back in Mystic Falls Caroline and Klaus get out a map and figure out that the third massacre could be done in two places and since they don't know which one exactly it would be they go to the forest and decide to pair up-Stefan goes alone to the one possible spot and Caroline and Klaus go to the other. In the novels, Stefan and Damon have never had a close relationship since their childhood. Matt comes in and says that they tracked Rayna and that it is a little late to turn back. Caroline points out that Elena must know that the younger Gilbert is not going to wake up. Before season one, the brothers had not seen each other since the early 1990s; their relationship having taken a steep turn for the worse- their relationship was described as "violent and bitter". He says he won't stop her, but instead explains exactly what will happen, and in the end the guilt of killing Rebekah and her entire bloodline isn't worth it. Stefan peruses the boxes while Damon fields a call from the sheriff, who informs him that Connor's remains were not found at the site of the explosion. Flashbacks show that Stefan felt extreme guilt for the death of Lillian. Young Stefan witnessed as his father burned Damon's hand with a lit cigar as both a punishment for lying and stealing. Stefan's life has been fraught with constant change and various complications: from falling in love and being with Elena to mending his complicated relationship with Damon; from sacrificing his freedom for his brother's life to growing apart from Elena after her transition to a vampire, and suffering the guilt that came from making a split-second decision that resulted in Elena becoming a vampire. Stefan was born and raised in the supernatural town of Mystic Falls, Virginia and came of age during the time of the Civil War. In the woods, Stefan senses something and looks around. While Sloan called Caroline and Enzo to give them the information, the Travelers carried to Stefan unconscious on a stretcher elsewhere. When Stefan arrives at the church for the memorial service, he sees Elena walking away from Damon, who is putting a blood bag into a satchel. Stefan is able to stop Katherine by sacrificing his life to make sure she dies (along with himself) in hellfire from hell. Stefan then looks down to realize his hand shaking. He is one of the main characters and male protagonists of The Vampire Diaries. Klaus lightly admonishes Stefan for his nosiness, but admits that he might be useful in persuading Rebekah to cooperate with Klaus. Later when it's revealed that Stefan has another living relative Sarah Nelson (who was born as Sarah Salvatore), Enzo tries to use the information as leverage before Stefan shoots down his hopes of it ruining his relationship with Damon. He was also close friends with Bonnie Bennett and his ex-girlfriend, Elena Gilbert. Stefan was a casual, yet trendy dresser and he always looks neat, clean and well put together. But Stefan has other things on his mind. Caroline angrily replies "Well, let me summarize them for you: You're a dick. However, Valerie realizes that she will never be first to him and she breaks up with Stefan because he cannot get over his love for Caroline. In Because, Stefan and Caroline check into a bed and breakfast for a little R&R. After Damon realizes Alaric is dead, it is revealed that Stefan ran out of time to save Elena and that she has died. They'll drain her, make her weak, and bombard her with everything she loved, including a letter Sheriff Forbes mailed to her before she died. In Welcome to Paradise, Stefan pulls up to his garage to inform his boss he needs a few days off. Stefan is saddened when he hears that Elena chose Damon. Over the century, Stefan came to believe his love for Katherine was never real and she had simply compelled him to love her. Stefan puts a jacket on her and while they talk, the house starts to rumble and he is then yanked backward by an invisible force and flies out of the house through the nearby window. In Catch Me If You Can, Rebekah comes to the Salvatore boarding house talking to Stefan while reading his diary and they decide to steal Silas' headstone, because the others are way ahead of them in search of the cure; Klaus has Jeremy (a hunter) and Shane has Bonnie. While arriving in a part of the woods, one of the jeep's tires blows out and he notices that it is an arrow. Stefan Salvatore was the hero, the male protagonist (opposite of Elena, the female protagonist), the deuteragonist, and a main character of The Vampire Diaries novel series. In I Never Could Love Like That, Caroline drops a body from the caf rafters, trying to scare the employee to death. They are hoping that Damon will carry out a plan to kill Silas because Qetsiyah has threatened the life of Elena. She then tries to find Jeremy and Stefan catches up with her, he is silent when Elena asks if he has been making Jeremy kill vampires. Stefan jokes, saying, "Who gave you that horrible advice?" She promises to be careful, and they share a moment leaning forehead to forehead. Katherine tells him she would help him recover to Damon, not for Damon or for herself, only for Stefan, she hugs him and then Caroline arrives and interrupt them, Stefan and Caroline stare at each other. Many of them have blood falling from their nose, ear or mouth. When Stefan tries to charge him, Enzo snaps his neck easily. The episode ended with Stefan and Caroline drinking margaritas. In the past, it shows Elena's father asking him to save his daughter and Stefan's confusion as he sees her face. Stefan feels guilty for letting Damon go, but Caroline tries to cheer him up, saying that it isn't his fault and that no one could've stopped Damon from going after Wes the other night, Stefan says her that he have to find Damon. As Tyler begins to transform, Stefan quickly ushers Caroline and Elena out. Stefan asks Caroline to meet them and tag in while they run. Later at the Salvatore house Damon is Elena at the cellar and she is breathing heavily Damon says that she looks terrible, Elena says that she's hungry not that Damon cares but he said that he cares and that's the whole point he cares and she doesn't and its time for it to change he gives her a blood bag, It turns out its laced with vervain and asks her if she's hurt because he betrayed her or scared because its only going to get a lot worse, she runs for the door but Stefan stopped her and says if they want to play and see who breaks her or them first and it ends with Stefan closing the door. He would travel into town to buy tea and flowers, telling himself it was for her, but it was truly his way to avoid her. Not long after, two of the Heretics take out two humans and leave their bodies on display hanging upside down. Stefan disagree on that but then she tells him but Caroline tells him that they only want one doppelgnger alive, so is Stefan or the other. He tells him he and Lily had a deal and that now she has Caroline. Later, over drinks, Damon whines about how Elena is happy without him and Stefan gives him the kick he needs to go see Elena and then find out what happens. He and Elena arrived just in time to stop Damon from killing Caroline. Rayna had Damon and Caroline taken and wants to know which person brought him out of hiding. Elena tells Stefan she needs to talk to him and she asks for his help in getting her into the room with Esther alone. Later Stefan tells Damon to stop treating Andie Star like that. He pulls a vampire off Damon and asks what the hell happened, looking confused when Damon tells him the vampire kissed him. Damon, Elena and Stefan discuss the situation and Elena says that they need to hide Amara and keep her alive so that they can use that again Silas. Later, we see Stefan at the garage working at Damon's Camaro. Tyler takes Matt to Elena at the hospital, but Matt refuses her blood. He tells her that when he is with her the blood thirst disappears and he feels better. Caroline tracks down Stefan in the woods. Katherine is drunk, feeling hopeless about the fact that she is dying. Stefan accepts and drinks the number of blood bags Klaus gives him. Another night, Stefan and Katherine were spending a passionate night together when she suddenly bit Stefan. In The Last Day, Stefan respects Elena's decision on using the Elixir that Elijah has to save her. As a ripper, Stefan once wiped out a whole village in Monterey, earning himself the title 'The Ripper of Monterey' to which even Klaus was impressed. Katherine disputed this and insisted both of their feelings were genuine, she had only compelled him to not be scared of her. Stefan thanks Tripp for the heads up. She knocks him out and locks him in the county Jail. Within in the house, is revealed that Elena and Stefan are needed to perform the spell for their doppelgnger's blood, they are surrounded by many Travelers that begin to perform the spell, they are stuck unable to leave because their rings of light stopped working. They look at the professor's stuff and Stefan is amused by Rebekah's cultural knowledge. Stefan, Damon and Alaric travel to Portland to investigate the Gemini Coven. After they had flirty banter over the quality of her writing, they say their names at that moment a car almost hit to Stefan and wakes of his vision, all was a dream about an alternative life with Elena. Klaus shows up to get the stakes. Elena, overwhelmed by desire, begins to passionately make out with Stefan against a tree. Stefan finally lets go of his anger and comforts her before he asks her to go somewhere with him. Klaus, however, reveals to Damon that maybe his little brother has moved on since he caught him sneaking out of Rebekah's bed this morning. He tells her that if she wants to have fun they should go somewhere more privately. They joke about the bad luck they usually have at the dances and Elena responds saying that they need to live their lives. Stefan tells her that now they have to sleep and close his eyes, Caroline is smiling and watching him resting her head on his shoulder, she close her eyes. She suggests it must be April Young, who was missing, and that they have to help her. At the school, Stefan and Elena join Matt, Jeremy, Caroline, Damon and Bonnie to have the memorial that they didn't have a chance to finish. Season One Body Count | The Vampire Diaries Wiki | Fandom The Salvatore brothers have arrived at Willoughby and try to find where the girls could be. However, Alaric turns human as Jo saves him after his vampirism is stripped off. He and Damon showed up for a funeral of a family member and Damon later convinces Stefan to start drinking human blood again. He is later joined in bed with Ivy and she asks for him to tell a secret to him and he admits that he is a vampire, but she doesn't believe him and hugs with him. As he pulled away you gasped, "that felt way too good.". In Man on Fire, Stefan is with Elena at the Grill, helping her with her studies, they tease each other and in that moment Bonnie arrives, who is worried about what is happening on the other side. Sloan says they need to go deeper and Caroline says he's seeing old memories but then Sloan starts the spell again, despite Caroline's concerns, Sloan goes back into Stefan's head to get more information Caroline stays on the phone and tries to help him, Enzo listens with interest. Abruptly Stefan tells Damon that he and Elena broke up. Katherine says that she won't do that because the cure is the only way for her to get her freedom back. Stefan is a mysterious, handsome century-old immortal. Caroline is desperate to hear screaming Stefan and she begs to him to say something to her and finally he gives her Hazel's address and describes her. As Elena is giving her speech, she and the other vampires smell blood dripping from the ceiling. In I'll Remember, Elena reveals that after four months, Stefan left everything behind to find a witch that can contact the dead, however the lead came up empty and he has now moved on and is now living in Savannah, Georgia, works as a mechanic and also has a new girlfriend named Ivy. Stefan tries to assuage her fears, suggesting that the witches might just be messing with Bonnie's head to teach her a lesson. Silas then stabbed Stefan with a stake in the stomach and then asked Stefan if he knows how it feels to starve for 2000 years, then Silas trap Stefan inside a safe and pushed it under water leaving Stefan to starve as the water came poring inside the safe. Stefan's car is a red 1963 Porsche 356B Karmann Coupe. So they need to find a cure and make him mortal so that he doesn't kill everyone. Stefan asks his brother what will happen when they find Elena, how are they going to make her come back home when they have in mind that she has also an original vampire on her side. One of Stefan's most marked differences without memory was his opinion on being a vampire and giving in to the bloodlust. Elena turns her humanity off. He finds the strength to stay long enough to heal Meredith by feeding her his blood, and then leaves, resisting the urge to drink from her. On one such night of revelry, the club was attacked by what appeared to be the police. The younger Salvatore asks where she has hidden the headstone, but she refuses to tell him as he has already betrayed her twice. In What Lies Beneath, Stefan is still trying to convince Damon to give up on finding Enzo. Later, He stands alone in the crypt when Caroline arrives. It is said that he had a horse named Mezzanotte (Midnight in Italian) when he was human. Caroline states that she has almost forgotten what that feels like. Later, finding out what had happened with Katherine being captured by their father, Damon was extremely devastated and furious with Stefan, as Damon had made him promise not to tell their father about Katherine. Lexi then says what ever Elena feels is for Stefan and Stefan tells Lexi that she is the love of his life and he would go back to her in a heart beat, but if that is not what Elena feels he thinks that it might be what he needs to finally leave. Stefan and Damon then walk into the Lockwood Mansion and finally asks him if he killed Malcolm. He admits he was halfway out of town. Stefan Salvatore: A True Ripper - YouTube After Damon leaves, Stefan looks at the ground, ashamed yet rushes forwards after he hears a commotion in Damon's direction. Damon, Stefan and Caroline walk out onto the front porch and realize that Luke is gone. The Vampire Diaries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. When Damon told Elena what he was doing, they got into a fight. They figure that there must be a third team in the race for the cure. The Vampire Diaries: 15 Worst Things Damon Has Ever Done - ScreenRant He also adds that probably Silas followed them from the island and now he's stealing blood so that he could get his strength back. They lose track of Mary Louise and Nora. Stefan is changing his clothes when Damon comes to his room telling him that Elena has gone and they have to go to her rescue but he doesn't know where she is, so they need leverage. But then he became addicted to human blood, and drank it behind Elena's back. She describes the sensation, that it feels like he is touching every single nerve on her body. Male His best friend Lexi often brought out the more fun, light-hearted, playful side of Stefan's personality. Caroline tries to talk to her but Elena interrupts her and says that there's still hope and she has to hold on it because there's no way her brother is dead. They slide in the school corridor while Matt is sneaking behind them so that he could put her down when Stefan gets the dagger. 1: What Damon does isn't Stefan's fault, it's Damon's. Stefan nods, leaving Elena to process what he had just said, she is about to ask but Stefan interrupts her and tells her that they kissed but he stopped her and that did not happen any more, then Stefan leaves. Her last words is "I guess this is how our love story ends", Stefan just look at her and she dies. This is evident in Stefan when he very quickly and easily became infatuated and fell in love with Katherine Pierce, which is evidence of his youthfulness, naivety and simplicity as a regular teenage human. Cause of death Valerie was healed of her injuries from Julian's beating by Lilian and drowned herself. Stefan nods and walks away in sadness. During this conversation, his father tricked Stefan and drugged his alcoholic drink with vervain. She says that she thinks Damon was right, she doesn't even deserve to be loved. She then storms out of the house. Stefan calls Caroline when they stop at a gas station. The last shot of Stefan shows him sitting over her dead body as tears fill his eyes and he mourns the loss of her human life. Klaus proceeds to tell Stefan that the brotherhood of the Five was a group of highly skilled vampire hunters and that Klaus and his siblings had crossed paths with them in the 12th century in Italy. Stefan quickly realizes who it is and immediately throws her over the couch. Bonnie tells Stefan that she has been unable to perform magic without reliving the horror of watching her Grams be tortured. Stefan comforts her and tells her, "You have me. He is also Jeremy Gilbert, Bonnie Bennett, Matt Donovan, Tyler Lockwood, and Alaric Saltzman's best friend and Caroline . Stefan is the son of (Conti Di) Giuseppe Salvatore and his unnamed mother (who died a few years after he was born), the younger brother of Damon Salvatore, the past love and object of obsession of Katherine von Swartzschild, the one true beloved, ultimate soulmate, and love interest of Elena Gilbert, close friend with Bonnie McCullough and Meredith Sulez, best friends with Matt Honeycutt, ally of Zander, former fling of Caroline Forbes, a rival of Tyler Smallwood and enemies with Misao, Shinichi, and Klaus. In I Alone, Damon confesses to Stefan about what he did to Alaric. Stefan, confused, wondered how that was possible if he had never drunk Katherine's blood, but Emily confessed that Katherine had compelled him for weeks to drink her blood, while Damon drank from Katherine willingly. Caroline and Stefan are talking privately as they walk to a separate section, where Sloan and the other Travelers are. Katherine teases Rebekah by saying that she doesn't understand why she wants the cure, because when she turns back to being human all her enemies will come looking for her and will want vengeance. She didn't think she was ready to go on her own, but her mom knew she was. Elena says he had her but he says, "I lost you the minute I left town". Stefan calls Caroline to let her know that the herbs are more rare than they thought. Later, Stefan visits Caroline and she demands to know where he was. Stefan then goes and helps Caroline pack up her house and then goes and packs up the grill. Why was Stefan Salvatore killed in TVD finale? - Quora She seems disappointed that after everything, Stefan still protects Elena and offers to take every memory of Elena away. Stefan later appears and Elena hugs him. Over a gradual period of time, Stefan and Elena bond, fall deeply, passionately in love and eventually develop a romantic relationship. Then, Stefan gets a call from Caroline, she tells him that the virus that have Damon and Elena isn't the same virus, Caroline says that Wes was working on the next phase of the virus that when Nadia was sick, he was experimenting on her blood and he figured out a way to extract werewolf venom from her blood and put it in the virus. Stefan is the first of the two brothers to embrace his nature and accidentally killed his father, later purposely killing the barmaid, Alice, and forcing Damon to change to feed in order to complete his transition. Damon says that everything she says is a lie and that this isn't even her house, because it doesn't look like her. Stefan tells Damon that Alaric is going to kill him when he finds out that Damon compelled him. As he walks away Elena stops him, implying that she wants to say something to him but then she changes her mind. On the camera screen, he sees Rayna and then runs, while she throws her sword at him. Katherine got under Damon's skin and Damon killed Jeremy with the intention of turning him into a vampire, but due to Jeremy's ring, Stefan was able to identify that he was still human. They find to Jeremy and Enzo and Stefan fight with Enzo meanwhile Katherine save Jeremy, Stefan is winning the fight but Enzo attacks Katherine, Stefan help her to pull out the stake when Damon arrives, he says to Enzo that the spell worked and that they can now go to find Dr. Wes, Enzo leaves the room and when Damon is also going to leave, Stefan tells him that he shouldn't bother in coming back at all, Damon tells him that he did not intend to do and leaves. Stefan reveals that he can't because he hates himself for what he did to her. Instead, she was turned into a, Stefan enjoys listening to music by: Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Kanye West and he even likes one of. Even though she chose Damon in Season 4, Stefan was still in love with Elena. Stefan Salvatore was always the better brother. Stefan Salvatore was one of the two main male protagonists of The Vampire Diaries. He compels April to not remember anything that he and Rebekah talk about, before he turns to Rebekah and tells her that Klaus wants him to fake peace with her so that she'll talk about The Five. Just then Stefan grabs his chest and seems to find it difficult to breathe. The death of his mother was something that Stefan never got over and he never really moved on from her absence. Then they start talking about Markos and his travelers, Stefan says that they're not just going to let her take Tyler but Maria say that Tyler is gone for good and that Julian in Tyler's body he belongs with her. When Caroline enters, he asks her to take a subconscious Enzo. He did not like to see others suffering or in any kind of pain, whether it be physical, emotional, spiritual or mental. They look around and see Alaric hugging Jo. Stefan Salvatore is a 172-year-old vampire and one of the two known doppelgangers (and the last living of these doppelgangers) of the World's first Immortal Man, Silas. Later, once Stefan goes to Caroline's house to see if she was alright, he finds Elena's dead body laying on the floor, he quickly runs over to her, realizing what Caroline has done. In that moment they are interrupted by Nadia, Katherine's daughter who seeks help to carry out a plan and save her mother, Damon tells her that no one will help, but she threatens them with Matt's life, so Stefan and Elena are the volunteers. After that Elena talks to Stefan and says he shouldn't kill Silas, because witches are not easy to kill and Stefan might die. Stefan is hurt and angrily walks away from Damon. As a reward, Caroline gets to sing karaoke. Later, in Stefan's bedroom, Elena finishes leaving a message for Caroline to ask for help adjusting as Stefan walks into the room with two glasses and a bottle of champagne. Katherine had then compelled him to not be afraid of her and after she faked her death. Stefan played the position of wide receiver on the high school football team, both on the show and in the novels. His life flowing out like a crimson waterfall. Rebekah then moves onto finding out about the cure, and Stefan tells her where they can find Professor Shane. Nadia arrives. After she became a vampire, Stefan saved her from Damon and promised her that he would never let anything happen to her. This is news to Stefan, and Damon explains that he intends to teach Elena how to feed from humans without killing them, and that Elena needs to learn "snatch, eat, erase" now more than ever. She sees a figure, who she assumes to be Markos, and she starts trembling in fear. Lexi needed a place to stay, so Stefan brought her home with him, where she found corpses drained of blood lying everywhere. Stefan and Elena are walking along a desolate road, trying to make their way back to Mystic Falls. Stefan just nods his head to her, with which he implies that the little Gilbert is gone. She says she doesn't know what she feels. Stefan doesn't seem to know who she is, and tells Enzo that he wasn't the one who killed her, because he wasn't a Ripper in the 60s, Enzo doesn't believe him, and he makes Liv attack Stefan and Elena with a spell, causing their heads to ache. Liz is rushed back to the hospital. Damon tells Stefan that it's "not cool" but Stefan chillingly replies: "Oh, come on. Stefan reveals that he is concerned that Damon won't be able to say goodbye to Elena. Later, Stefan is walking around outside Mystic Grill on the phone with Klaus, trying to negotiate getting Klaus' hybrids on board with his plan. Stefan is on the phone with Caroline, telling her that he was still in Mystic Falls, and that he'll make up for missing their date. They talk but are interrupted by Enzo who grabs Ivy and then snaps her neck. Stefan tried to give Elena a normal day, but the revelation of Caroline's transformation into a vampire was a shock. Valerie promised to meet him Friday at noon so they could run away together. Salvatore Family, Forbes Family, Mystic Falls Gang, Mystic Falls High School. They are still talking when Enzo arrives at the bar, Enzo joins them and Stefan behaves hostile to him, Enzo starts talking to them about Maggie but Stefan and Elena are confused by what Enzo is saying, then he produces a picture that Sloan gave to him and is Maggie with her head cut off, he shows it to them because he thinks that it was Stefan who killed her. As things begin to spiral out of control, Stefan was unexpectedly killed by Julian, a Traveler warlock, while trying to protect Caroline, but he was resurrected after Damon, Caroline and Elena's plan to bring him back from the Other Side is a success.