DAMON SALVATORE.

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canon divergences.

First things first, this blog is ignoring basically most of the show's canon. My portrayal of Damon will be mostly HC based with inspiration taken from SEASON ONE ONLY, unless stated otherwise. In other words, you can expect my Damon to have his HUMANITY OFF and be a villain. He also has no intentions of bringing Katherine back, as he stopped being in love with her when she chose Stefan over him. If you have any questions about his canon divergence, feel free to ask and I'll be happy to explain. I have not watched all of TVD, I think I stopped around season four or five...? And I have not watched the spin offs nor read the novels, nor have any intention to in the near future.

Secondly, Damon has the ability to use mind compulsion on humans, meaning he has the ability to make them do as he wants, make them forget anything he wants them to or alter their memories, etc. If you don't want your muse to be affected by this, I am happy to plot something where your muse either wears jewelry with vervain in it, or have vervain in their system, so it won't work, however I'd prefer if you told me this before we start writing. Of course, I won't make Damon use this ability on a muse unless it feels natural for him to do so, but I also won't hold him back from using it, as he is known to use this ability a lot for his own selfish purposes.

biography.

Human life (1839-1864): Damon Salvatore was born June 18, 1839, to Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore, his younger brother, Stefan born almost eight years later. Growing up, Damon was rebellious, carefree, impulsive, competitive, and irresponsible and seemed to lack a general sense of direction. He had a close to his younger brother growing up, and always looked after him. Damon and his father, however, never got along, and Giuseppe frequently expressed extreme disappointment and resentment in his oldest son. His father was often abusive towards him, and would among other things burn him with a cigarette as a way to teach him a lesson for misbehavior.

As a young man, Damon joined the confederate army on his father's order, to defend the south during the American civil war. However, Damon secretly hated everything the south stood for, and had been wanting to desert for some time, the only thing stopping him being the fear of Giuseppe's disapproval. Though eventually, he met a man who convinced him to follow his own beliefs rather than his father's, and he deserted while his squad was decimated during the following battle, leaving the townspeople as well as his own father to view him as irresponsible and cowardly.

Damon and his brother's relationship eventually became strained too, after Katherine Pierce came into their lives, both brothers falling for her and competing for her affections. After learning that she was a vampire, Damon wanted to give up on his human life to spend eternity with her, and asked Stefan to keep it a secret, as their father hated vampires. Though Stefan inadvertently told Giuseppe, which led to Katherine being taken away by the townspeople, their father furiously scolding Damon for trying to hide her secret and protect her.

In an attempt to save Katherine, both Damon and Stefan were shot and killed by their father, with Katherine's blood still in their system. Damon waking up first, witnessed the burning of Fell's church, where the townspeople had imprisoned vampires, including Katherine. His reason for living now dead and gone, Damon told Stefan he wouldn't complete the transition into a vampire, however later that same day, Stefan (having been unable to resist the urge for blood, and having killed their father,) returned, and forced Damon to drink blood from a young woman, causing Damon to turn into a vampire against his wishes.

At that point, Damon promised Stefan an eternity of misery.

1864-1952: Despite his promise to make Stefan's life filled with misery, Damon spent quite a lot of decades away from his brother, only meeting up with him a couple of times, in which Damon actually was more concerned for his brother, whose bloodlust was out of control, than resentful. 

1953-1958: In 1953, Joseph Salvatore lured Damon to Mystic Falls in order to hand him over to Dr. Whitmore, the leader of a secret society called Augustine, whom experimented on and tortured vampires in the hopes that the research would come to benefit humanity. After Joseph injected Damon with vervain, Damon killed him, but Dr. Whitmore entered the room shortly after and injected Damon with another dose of vervain, forcing him to pass out. When he woke up, he was strapped to a table and Dr. Whitmore cut one of his eyes out, in order to experiment and study vampire healing abilities. Damon was brought to a cell and in the cell next to him was another vampire named Enzo. The two vampires bonded and it was Enzo's friendship that allowed Damon to hold on to his humanity. As Damon's eye grew back, Dr. Whitmore continued to torture and perform experiments on him and nicknamed him 21051.

Every year Dr. Whitmore would show the rest of the Augustine society Damon and Enzo, and demonstrate his research on the annual new years party. Enzo then came up with a plan where one of them would drink the others blood ration in order to build up strength until the coming new years eve. Damon was the lucky one, and when the next new years eve party came, he broke free from his chains and he slaughtered every member of Augustine while the building set ablaze. Enzo was still trapped in his cage and Damon tried to free him, but the cage bars were soaked with vervain and he couldn't get him out.

Damon knew that if he was going to save himself he had to stop caring about Enzo, so he turned his humanity switch off. Free of his emotions, he left Enzo to burn alive. After finally being free from five years of torture, Damon kept the promise he made to Enzo to kill every member in the Whitmore family, except one, and let that person live long enough to build a family, only to then kill them too, all but one, and then do the same thing again and again. Damon did exactly that and among the ones he killed was Aaron Whitmore's parents and Aaron was among the ones that he kept alive.

1970's: Damon lived in New York City during the 70s, where he maintained a wild life full of parties and feeding off of people. At the time, he still had his humanity switch off and he killed locals of New York; a soon-to-be-fed-upon victim asked if he was the son of Sam, to which Damon replied, "Son of Giuseppe, but close enough". Damon was friends with Will, another vampire, who ran a bar and let Damon feed on the people there, while in exchange, Damon stole his victim's IDs for him.

Lexi had eventually found Damon and told him that she and Stefan had heard all about Damon's current life and that Stefan was worried for him. Lexi tried to help convince Damon to turn his humanity back on, but Damon rejected her offer. However, Lexi was stubborn and she stuck with Damon for the following six months. She had gotten Damon to talk about Katherine Pierce, thinking that if he talked about her, his switch would flip on. However, Damon had only been tricking Lexi into thinking that his humanity was back by pretending it was.

The next morning, Lexi woke up on a roof because the sunlight was burning her skin. She tried to escape by opening the door to get into Billy's, but it was locked. Then she found out the truth: Damon had tricked her. Damon told her that it was his way of getting back at her for annoying him for the past six months. He then ditched Lexi on the roof thereafter, leaving her trapped until nightfall.

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