Stefan N Salvatore Male Seventeen/One Hundred and Sixty-two Straight Italian Paul Wesley Play by Alias: Dean | Appearance
Stefan has dark brown hair but it used to be a lighter color when he was a young child. He has a slim muscular build and he works out a lot. His eyes are green and you can usually tell what kind of mood Stefan is in by his eyes or facial expression. Stefan typically wears darker colored clothes.
Personality
As a human, Stefan was compassionate, kind, noble, honorable, intelligent, athletic, and a gentleman. He was definitely seen as the 'Golden Boy' and he had the admiration and respect of the entire town of Mystic Falls and most of all, of his father Giuseppe. Stefan was also seen to be ambitious and studious and he desired to become a doctor during his human life. . In his human years, when it came to love and romance, Stefan was liked, admired by and popular with women. He was seen to be chivalrous, gallant, romantic, well-mannered, courteous and polite, traits which made Katherine Pierce fall deeply for the younger Salvatore.
Before turning into a vampire in 1864, Stefan was seen to be happy, optimistic, light-hearted, playful, mischievous and naive. Stefan was very close to his older brother Damon growing up. Although Stefan was very popular and had many male friends during his human life, Stefan always considered Damon to be his best friend and companion. Stefan was also a bit idealistic when it came to love and romance, even naive at times. 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. Although Stefan was only 17 years old, he displayed maturity, responsibility and had a wisdom beyond his years. Because of this, Stefan always seemed to be much older than his actual age.
As a vampire, Stefan's personality became increasingly complex. Much of Stefan's personality as a human transcended into his vampire personality, although his basic human traits became significantly more heightened. Although Stefan became increasingly darker by nature due to his vampire nature, he still retained the same basic personality traits that he had as a human. As a vampire, Stefan was described as mysterious, brooding, intense, kind, caring, empathetic, compassionate, loving, affectionate, heroic, selfless, brave, intelligent, protective, and loyal. On the dark side, Stefan can be incredibly self loathing, self-destructive, addictive, guilt ridden, martyring, unpredictable, self-righteous, naive, secretive and judgmental. Since he turned in 1864, Stefan had always had trouble controlling his blood lust, that has often become a major problem for him throughout the course of his immortal life.
History
Stefan Salvatore was born on November 5, 1846 in the small town of Mystic Falls, VA. He and his brother, Damon who is 7 years older than him, were born to Giuseppe and Lillian Salvatore. Lillian Salvatore died of Consumtion when Stefan and Damon were young and they were raised by their father. Stefan and Damon were very close, best friends, until Katherine Pierce came to town and came between them. Katherine was a young girl whose family died in a fire and Giuseppe Salvatore agreed to take her in. Stefan and Damon both fell in love with Katherine. Stefan was the first one to fall for her when she came to live with them. When Damon came home from the war and met Katherine he quickly fell for her too. Then they both found out what she was, she compelled them to keep her secret. There was a plot to get rid of the vampires by the founding families and when Stefan and Damon tried to rescue Katherine they were both shot. Stefan didn't know it at the time but he had vampire blood in his system, Katherine had been compelling him to drink it for weeks, Damon had drank from her willingly and wanted her to turn him. Little did they know that it was their father that shot them both. They woke up in transition to becoming vampires and after Stefan killed their father by feeding on him to complete his transition into a vampire he then forced Damon to complete him transition as well. After that Damon vowed that he would give Stefan a lifetime of misery for his betrayal and they parted ways and did not see each other for a long time. So would begin their love/hate relationship and they both stayed away from Mystic Falls for a very long time.
After turning into a vampire, killing his own father and betraying his brother, Stefan was feeling extreme guilt and basically wanted to die so he turned off that part of himself, the human part, the part that can feel. 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. She drove Stefan to the ground and turned out to be another, much older vampire by the name of Alexia Branson. Lexi did not have a daylight ring, like himself so Stefan brought her home with him, where she found corpses drained of blood lying everywhere. Lexi told Stefan that there are good parts of being a vampire and there are bad parts, and that he was the bad parts. He was a ripper. Determined to change that, she worked with him and helped him to see that everything was heightened for a vampire, pain and suffering were more intensified for a vampire but love was too. 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. He hadn't seen Damon in almost fifty years but he wanted to apologize and make things right between him and his brother. At first Damon was resistant to see Stefan but he soon came around. Later, 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. He then became the Ripper of Monterey.
After Mexico, 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, Rebekah. She initially resisted his interest, but they soon 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. In a rush to leave Rebekah dropped her necklace that her mother had given her. Stefan 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. He would later give that same necklace to Elena, a girl that he would later meet and fall in love with.
In 2009 and it had been 15 years since Stefan had been home or had seen his brother Damon. Stefan initially came home to visit his nephew Zach and to see his home but at that time he ended up saving a girl, who happened to look just like Katherine the woman who turned them into vampires. He was planning on leaving town but he found that he couldn't because he had to know who she was and why she looked like Katherine.
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