STEFAN SALVATORE.

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portrayal.

• by default i strictly write stefan pre-series to season one only, and anything past those timelines will be highly canon divergent and/or au from the show out of personal preference. that being said, if you have a really cool plot idea that bases around something in the later seasons, don't be afraid to suggest them and we can probably work something out. that being said, it's ages since i've watched anything past season 3, and i never finished the two final seasons of the show or watched the spin-offs, so don't expect me to know anything about those.
  
  

• my stefan was turned into a vampire at the age of 19, rather than 17, as i feel like that's more accurate to the actor's actual age by the start of season one.
  
  

• i'm moving the timeline of the plot a couple ages forwards for this reason, meaning that stefan did not meet elena face to face before after she started going to whitmore college, and the events of the first season remains the same, except the school plots takes place at college rather than high school.
  
  

• this is not for shipping or romance as i'm not really interested in writing those subjects anyway, it's more just because lbr, stefan does not look 17 years old gskgks.

biography.

stefan was born on november 1st, 1846, on veritas estate in what would eventually become the town known as mystic falls, virginia. he is the youngest child born to giuseppe salvatore and lillian salvatore, and the younger brother of damon salvatore. in 1851, when stefan was five years old, during a thanksgiving dinner in the salvatore estate with his parents and brother, his father confronted damon about money that was taken from his bureau, believing his oldest son to have been the thief. young stefan witnessed as his father burned damon's hand with a lit cigar as both a punishment for lying and stealing. unknown to stefan, it was actually his mother who took the money, trying to flee from her husband with her sons. in october 1852, damon broke stefan's nose trying to teach him how to throw a right hook.

in 1858, his mother lillian became very ill with tuberculosis. deciding not to spend any time with her while she was ill, he instead did whatever he could do to avoid her, such as walking into mystic falls and getting the tea she liked or picking out her favorite flowers. whereas he pretended that he was doing it for her, stefan was actually in denial about her impeding death and in fact, was afraid to see her in such a sick and grave condition. sometime later, giuseppe sent her away and she then ended up dying.

stefan felt extreme guilt for the death of his mother. giuseppe had sent stefan to retrieve a remedy to help with lillian's illness. stefan felt guilty because he felt that he did not retrieve the remedy fast enough before his mother was then sent away to a tb ward where she ended up dying. unknown to stefan, she ended up turning into a vampire. the death of his mother was something that stefan never got over and he never really moved on from her absence. stefan was very close to lillian as a child, so much that damon himself even referred to stefan as being a "mama's boy".

after his mother's passing, stefan lived with his father and his brother damon. despite the semi big age difference between the two brothers (7 years), stefan grew up to be the best of friends with damon and had even said that damon was his best companion, despite having other friends growing up since his childhood. stefan was also giuseppe's favorite son, and had a rather close and good relationship with him, the complete opposite of damon, who appeared to have had a rather strained and tension-filled relationship with giuseppe. personality wise, stefan was seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, introverted, intelligent, well-spoken, responsible, dutiful, noble and an overall respectable young gentleman.

one day in 1864, stefan was fixing a broken carriage when a man who was riding a carriage carrying katherine pierce and emily bennett had stopped to talk to him. this is when katherine had first seen stefan and she was instantly drawn to him and attracted to him. when stefan had first met katherine, when she and emily had come to stay at the salvatore estate, he had become strongly attracted to her as well, and eventually had fallen in love with her, as did his brother damon. however, despite damon's feelings for katherine, it seemed to be evident that the younger salvatore was katherine's preference, as it was stefan that she had asked to escort her to the founders ball.

one night, stefan and katherine had spent a passionate night together. another night, stefan and katherine were spending a passionate night together when she suddenly bit stefan. it was during that time that katherine revealed her true identity to stefan and that she was a vampire. it is unknown if katherine had compelled stefan to forget after she had bitten him. the next morning after their passionate affair, stefan awoke with a bloody wound on his neck, and the memories of the previous night slowly returned to him. he was clearly frightened of her, saying that her face resembled that of a demon and also told her to get away from him. to calm him down, katherine compelled him to not be afraid of her.

after hearing of the town's plan to kill the vampires, stefan went to see his father giuseppe and unintentionally hinted to him that he knew of vampires staying in mystic falls, when he suggested that vampires might not be as bad as they are made out to be. during this conversation, his father tricked stefan and drugged his alcoholic drink with vervain. when katherine went to see stefan that night and bit him so that she could feed on his blood as a form of foreplay, the vervain within stefan's blood had poisoned and incapacitated her. stefan was confused, worried and concerned about what was happening to katherine and could not understand why katherine appeared so sick and weakened all of a sudden. giuseppe, hearing katherine collapse, entered stefan's room. he then told stefan that he had tricked stefan and had put vervain in his drink after stefan had asked his father how he knew about katherine and other vampires existing because "he did not raise his sons to be so weak". giuseppe then urged stefan to let the sheriff know that they have another vampire captured, and for him to go the sheriff as quickly as possible. giuseppe then set in motion katherine's capture, which corresponded with a town-wide vampire round-up.

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. damon ended up blaming stefan for katherine's capture although it was not ever stefan's intention on hurting or betraying damon and outing katherine.

as a result of indirectly betraying damon, stefan felt extreme guilt for unintentionally being responsible for katherine's capture and promised damon that he would do everything he could to help damon get katherine back. they then planned a course of action to get around the guards who were on watch for the vampires, and eventually made it to the cage where katherine was being held. they got katherine out of the cage, but as soon as they were ready to escape with her, damon was shot by an unknown person. shocked and overwhelmed with grief to see his brother dying, stefan picked up a gun to shoot whoever had shot his brother, but before he could do so, stefan was also shot directly in the chest. he slowly lost consciousness as he watched katherine, who lay on the ground nearby, still weakened by the vervain. once stefan died, katherine returned to stefan's body and let him know that she loves him.

the next morning, stefan woke up confused and dazed. he searched for his gunshot wound but found he had been healed, and noticed that he was wearing an unfamiliar, large silver ring, with a deep blue stone and the salvatore family crest with the letter 's' on it. emily bennett then approached stefan and told him that katherine had her make that ring for him (and damon) weeks before. she explained everything that had happened since he was shot: she had found him and damon lying dead in the woods, brought them to the quarry, and he and damon were now transitioning into vampires. 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. stefan soon approached damon, who recounted seeing the townspeople dragging katherine into the church and setting it on fire. the two discussed their options, and both brothers seemingly agreed to die without transitioning, as neither one wanted to be a vampire without katherine.

later in the evening, stefan began to notice that he had heightened senses, including super-hearing. he overheard his father and jonathan gilbert discussing the vampires being captured and destroyed, and that his father wanted to keep secret that his sons were vampire sympathizers, preferring they be known for dying nobly and bravely in the fight against the vampires. after jonathan had left, stefan went inside to talk to his father one last time, who was shocked to see that stefan was "alive." stefan wondered aloud to his father that even in their death, he still felt ashamed of his sons. giuseppe retorted with disgusted disapproval that their mother would have been extremely disappointed in her sons, were she alive to see what they had become. he then confessed to stefan that he was the one who had shot and killed both him and damon, shocking stefan.

stefan then told his father that he had not fully turned into a vampire yet and that he was choosing to let himself die instead of drinking human blood. not taking any chances, giuseppe tried to stake and kill stefan. underestimating his new-found vampire strength, stefan threw giuseppe against the wall, causing him to accidentally be stabbed by the wooden stake in the stomach. overwhelmed and shocked, stefan tried to help him, but giuseppe refused him, disgusted by what stefan was becoming. when stefan pulled the stake out of his father's stomach, his bloodlust became too much for him to suppress and he tasted his father's blood, completing his transition into a full vampire.

stefan then went to meet damon, who had also planned to let himself die. he told damon about how amazing it felt to be a vampire, that it was a gift; how he could willingly turn off his emotions, the pain and the guilt. stefan had compelled a young woman to go with him to damon, where he forced his brother to become a vampire by drinking her blood. damon tried to refuse, but stefan would not relent, saying he couldn't let him die, and shoved the woman at damon. unable to resist the urge to feed, damon drank the girl's blood and told stefan that he was right, that it felt like a whole new world being a vampire. stefan hoped this meant they could be brothers and companions together forever, but instead damon promised stefan that he would make stefan's life miserable for the rest of eternity.

weeks after he was newly turned and still lacked control of his bloodlust, stefan went on a rampage, killing members of the founding families out of revenge for what they had done to katherine. one member was jonathan gilbert, though he later came back to life with the help of his gilbert ring. stefan continued on a blood-drinking bender to try to make the guilt and pain of what he had done to damon and his father go away. he compelled young women to go home with him, so he could toy with them and feed on their blood. when damon found stefan like this, he was upset by his brother's uncontrollable behavior and compelled all of the women to leave and to never come back. damon tried to convince stefan to control his bloodlust and moderate his behavior, but could not get through to stefan until he announced he was leaving town. desperate to keep his brother in his life, stefan begged damon not to leave, that he promised he would do better. damon showed no sympathy for his brother's pleas and left, saying he would not let stefan get them both killed.

one night, stefan went to a camp where the war-wounded lay, and discreetly fed on their blood. it was there that he spotted a girl in the shadows and tried to attack and feed on her. instead, she drove stefan to the ground and turned out to be another, much older vampire by the name of alexia "lexi" branson. lexi needed a place to stay, so stefan brought her home with him, where she found corpses drained of blood lying everywhere. lexi told stefan that he was a "ripper", and that there are good parts of being a vampire and there are bad parts, and that he was the bad parts. determined to change that, she later walked with him through the camp where they had met, asking him how he felt about the suffering war victims. stefan told her that he felt emotionally numb, that he felt nothing. she then explained that he felt nothing because he had managed to turn off the part that makes him feel, the human part of him; that in spite of the intensified pain and suffering vampires feel, love is what makes life worth living. over the course of many decades, lexi became stefan's mentor, best friend and companion, and she showed stefan the 'good parts' of being a vampire; how to live compassionately and reclaim the caring, empathetic person stefan had been as a human.

from 1864 to 1912, stefan lived on a strict animal blood diet and no longer fed on human blood.

in 1912, stefan returned to mystic falls to attend the funeral of his half-nephew, zachariah. it was there that stefan saw damon for the first time in almost fifty years. damon initially had no desire to rekindle any brotherly relationship with stefan, but stefan convinced damon to join him for a drink, saying he had missed him.

later, while at a boxing ring, damon tried to persuade a very resistant stefan to have a drink of human blood with him again, selecting marianna lockwood and luring her away from the crowd. stefan fed on her, but quickly lost control of himself and accidentally ripped her head off, astonishing both of them. out of extreme guilt and remorse, stefan irrationally apologized and tried to put her head back onto her body. stefan, angry with damon for forcing him to drink human blood, refused damon's offer to help him learn to control it, then ran off into the woods. damon watched him go, concerned for his brother's well-being, though not enough to pursue him. after drinking human blood in 1912, stefan fell off the wagon and returned to his former ripper lifestyle.

stefan traveled to chicago in 1922. it was there that he frequented a particular speakeasy, and one day caught the eye of a beautiful blonde vampire, rebekah. she initially resisted his interest, but not long after that, they became romantically involved.

stefan eventually met rebekah's older half-brother, nik. at first, nik disliked stefan because of his relationship with rebekah. as time went on, however, they bonded over their similar family histories, as well as stefan's penchant for petty cruelty toward humans, and became best friends who enjoyed each other's company immensely. the three of them frequently partied together at the speakeasy, enjoying booze, blood and dancing all night long.

on one such night of revelry, the club was attacked by what appeared to be the police. discovering that the police were using wooden bullets, stefan realized they knew there were vampires inside. he sensed rebekah's panic when she responded cryptically "he's here," but before he could find anything out, nik compelled stefan to forget about him and rebekah.

unbeknownst to stefan, katherine was in the club while the police were searching it; she spotted rebekah's necklace on the floor and went to pick it up, but fled when she heard stefan approaching. he in turn saw the necklace and picked it up, observing it carefully. a detective then approached him, showed him a sketch of nik and rebekah and asked if he had ever seen them before. stefan told him what he believed to be the truth: that he had never seen those people before in his life.

in april of this year, lexi found stefan again, "dragged him off the train tracks" and started to help him recover his humanity again and get off of human blood. according to stefan's journal entries, it took the better part of a decade to do so; around 1935 he still felt cravings for human blood, but it was getting easier, and by the 1940's, still under lexi's guidance, he continued to make progress with his rehabilitation.

before he left for the war, stefan, at lexi's insistence, sought out his brother damon in new orleans in order to make amends with him. he approached his brother in a bar, and after an initial skepticism, damon welcomed the reunion and seemed glad to have stefan back in his life after thirty years apart. after stefan told damon about his plans to join the war effort as an ambulance driver, damon proposed spur-of-the-moment that he could join stefan. unknown to stefan at the time, lexi talked damon out of leaving with stefan, citing his profligate lifestyle and how damon's behavior would not be good for stefan's rehabilitation. she seemed to be proven right when, after charlotte had brought a bleeding victim back to the bar, stefan started to lose himself at the sight and smell of human blood. lexi's interference proved instrumental in the brothers' long estrangement

stefan left for the north african campaign believing damon had abandoned him yet again. the brothers would meet again in may, 1994, when stefan came back to mystic falls to be with his great nephew zach. damon, who hadn't seen stefan for nearly 50 years, and had his humanity turned off, claimed he wanted to go straight and narrow. stefan, who knew that damon had sent lexi flowers to apologize for leaving her to burn on a rooftop 17 years earlier, reluctantly let him back into his life. he thought damon was living on animal's blood until he saw bite marks on the wrist of zach's pregnant girlfriend, gail. it turned out damon had weened zach and gail off their vervain and didn't consider feeding on his relative and a pregnant women bad, since he was keeping it all inside the house.

stefan had snapped his neck and had taken him to the shed of the boarding house, where he took off damon's daylight ring, and gave him time to cool off, while berating him for always ruining his life. damon, who just missed his little brother and wanted him to go off on a road trip with him, snapped, killing all the people at the party, including gail. he promised stefan an eternity of misery—resentment for stefan turning him into a vampire against his will all those years ago. damon then left. stefan was able to compel zach to forget about gail and the deaths, but he couldn't hide the body count. stefan then took gail to the hospital, and although the doctors couldn't save her, they saved her baby. he then made sure that the baby was adopted right out of the hospital by a great family.

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