When she dies the final time, everyone with that mark will die too. In A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Stefan arrives home looking for weapons. He even bribes her by offering her a clean slate, saying that while he is not necessarily willing to forgive Rebekah for what she did to Elena, he is willing to put his anger towards her aside and start over. She tells him he could tell her, or she could torture him for it. [7] This was a sharp difference from the Stefan who had his memories since he maintained his morals despite Elena choosing Damon and did not want to stop being good for even a moment. The next morning after their passionate affair, Stefan awoke with a bloody wound on his neck, and the previous night slowly returned to him. She recalls learning to ride a bike with no training wheels. That night, Stefan and Valerie meet secretly and Stefan is sure Julian will kill him for being with Valerie. Stefan wears a large, silver ring made from enchanted Lapis Lazuli stone (a stone which was enchanted by Emily Bennett back in 1864) that allows him to walk around in the sunlight without burning. Stefan is assumed to be the 4th doppelgnger of Silas, although it is possible that there have been many more of Silas' doppelgngers that preceded him, according to Qetsiyah who said that Stefan had other shadow selves of Silas that were born before him. Once Stefan died, Katherine returned to Stefan's body and let him know that she loves him. Stefan says that he can't dagger Rebekah and Elena responds that she knows vampires can't use the dagger and they'll make Matt do it. Stefan is seen for the last time with Caroline, Tyler, Elena, Jeremy and Alaric watching to Bonnie who is preparing to disappear with the other side. After that Stefan and Damon talk on the phone and Damon explains what happened and Stefan tells him that he wasn't able to stop the massacre. Stefan is highly sentimental and likes to keep objects and souvenirs from his past as memories. Stefan played the position of wide receiver on the high school football team, both on the show and in the novels. After this talk Elena goes upstairs and finally accepts that Jeremy is really dead so she tells Damon to bring his corpse down to the living room. He then tells Andie that she can move, she falls and breaks her neck. So she said that to save Sarah's life, he had to turn his humanity off as well. Alaric enters with breakfast s'mores, the best reason to incinerate something. She writes a note to her daughter Nadia. As Caroline darts away in another direction, Elena and Stefan run through a hallway, slamming a door and trying to use their collective strength to keep hybrid-Tyler out. She adds that they're crashing Bonnie's college visit, as the professor who took over her Grams' classes teaches there and invited her. 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. Bonnie is talking with Enzo about their last hope lost, Bonnie looks behind Enzo and sees Stefan standing there, Enzo also turns around, but sees nothing, she says his name and Enzo is surprised by that, Bonnie can't believe what is happening and she approaches to Stefan's ghost, Stefan begs her to tell him that she has figured out a way to bring them all back but Bonnie tells him that she lost it, Stefan is sad for this and then he touches her shoulders and passes through her to the other side. Stefan agrees to it and lets Matt take Elena. She sees a figure, who she assumes to be Markos, and she starts trembling in fear. She wants Damon to really consider, or reconsider, his decision. Finally, Elena rushes in and ends it by compelling the man to go home and forget everything. After that he runs with his vampire speed next to her and manages to put her down with and injection of vervain. Stefan returns to Klaus, who has extracted the wolf pack information from Ray. Stefan tells her that his mother was strong and kind. 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. Klaus then asks Stefan to talk some sense into his sister, but the younger Salvatore explains that he has to take care of Damon as he's still compelled to kill Jeremy. While they're talking, she's looking at her hands and asks him if her hand looks wrinkled to him. Stefan is quiet but he seems hurt by the news. One of the most heroic, selfless acts Stefan has ever committed is to give up his entire life in Mystic Falls, including his values, morals, and his devotion to his own humanity in order to save the life of his beloved brother (Damon) when he was dying from a fatal werewolf bite. After Elena rejected Stefan's attempt to kiss her and informed him she was dating his brother, he was thoroughly confused and hurt to know she had not told him beforehand. Damon, however, understands her intentions and says that it was exactly what he used to do. They go to look for her in the forest but can't seem to find her. Damon appears behind Rayna and tells Stefan that it wasn't her idea, it was his. When Katherine asks him about what he wanted to say to her, he can't bring himself to ruin her happiness with the bad news about Aaron's death. In Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take, after the aftermath of Elena's 'death', Damon takes Alaric to Europe, where he gets Alaric drunk every night. On vampire watch duty, Jo and Alaric discuss their upcoming wedding, then Elena interrupts their makeout session to say she vampire-proofed the B&B. 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. Damon was ready for a fight, but Stefan refused, knowing this was what could tear them apart with Katherine on the loose. He was also seen as athletic, dutiful, respectful, intelligent, scholarly, noble, chivalrous and even-tempered. Later on, Stefan and Klaus are standing outside talking about Esther. They see Tripp's van pulling up and Alaric tries to stop him but Tripp ends up crashing the car along with Alaric inside the Mystic Falls. As Elena tells him she isn't in love with him anymore, Stefan is hurt and tells Rebekah to 'go to hell' after further goading. He was often seen wearing darker colors such as black, grey and dark blue, although sometimes he wears lighter colors. At the hospital, Damon disagrees with Caroline's suggestion to use vamp blood to cure her mum. He talks to Damon and tells him that the ring wont bring Jeremy back because he was a hunter, which meant he wasn't an ordinary human but a supernatural individual which meant that the ring won't work. He tell Stefan that he has footage of Stefan as well. He is able to learn new languages at an increased speed and adjust to the American customs rather quickly, so much so that his Italian accent becomes less strong. He hates him because he wanted Katherine all to himself. They hide when two young men walk out of Tripp's vampire torture shed. In the novels, Stefan is an aristocrat and comes from a wealthy, noble family. He is then shot in the leg with another arrow and Rayna then pulls out her sword. Terrified, she sobs that Stefan has compelled her and she can't move. Initially, Damon Salvatore filled the passionate and angsty role of the "Other Guy" in every triangle. At first Stefan is shocked, but relieved when Elena sends him a text saying Damon is okay. In What Lies Beneath, Stefan is still trying to convince Damon to give up on finding Enzo. They look at the professor's stuff and Stefan is amused by Rebekah's cultural knowledge. Neither CPR nor the paddles bring her back. Stefan is cleaning up the mess when Ivy enters. "Elena, do you have any idea how pathetic that makes you?". Vaughn then wake up and Damon gives him the cure, with Stefan asking what he is doing Damon tells him that he is going to dig up Silas and calls for Vaughn as he leaves. In Let Her Go, Stefan is first seen viewing Damon failing at his attempts at writing Liz's eulogy. He admits that he was searching as a distraction, but eventually he had given up too. Stefan later kills Galen Vaughn when he is threatening Damon. He says he found Klaus' letters from 'pen pals' over the centuries and is silenced momentarily as Klaus reveals that he memorializes his dead, much like Stefan because of 'loneliness', that keeping letters and writing names on a wall is because they are left utterly alone. Later on, Stefan leaves his house after Elena moves in due to not being able to live in the same house as Jeremy anymore, telling her to 'pick a room'. Qetsiyah arrives and tells Damon, that she plans to use a spell to link Stefan and Silas so that she can strip Silas of his mind control. Rebekah, Katherine and the Salvatore brothers. Flashback again and Stefan is taking Valerie to Lily's grave. Later, Stefan along with Damon is waiting for Elena to wake up. Unknown to Stefan, it was actually his mother who took the money, trying to flee from her husband with her sons. Unable to move he has to lie on the ground together with a tied up Elena. He was the bad boy, the Jacob Black-but-make-it-vampire of "The Vampire Diaries.". Back at the boarding house, Stefan is pouring drinks when Rebekah arrives, having been summoned. Stefan, Damon, and Valerie are in a car together. Underground, Stefan is leading Connor by force through the tunnels when they run into Damon, who wants to kill Connor. Although she was also seeing Damon, she had a clear preference for Stefan. Damon doesn't believe this and mentions that he has taken notice that Stefan has not been drinking human blood lately. While Stefan hangs around a student art exhibit, Caroline learns there's really nothing more the doctors can do. He shakes hands with Damon, only to make Stefan and Alaric disappear from the house, also making then unable to see the house anymore. Later, He stands alone in the crypt when Caroline arrives. He tells Elena that the best thing for them to do is to go to their graduation and with Jeremy thinking the same thing, they go to their graduation. Stefan seems satisfied at finally being able to stop Klaus but a part of him appears sad as well. She apologizes and begins to cry, confessing that she can't stop feeling everyone's grief. Liz explains that the power outage came from three different places in mystic falls, Stefan said the Bonnie is doing the spell and that she was seen with Katherine, Stefan finds the center of the Expression Triangle he and Damon arrive at the school to find Elena, Stefan asks where is Caroline, Elena says that she's inside the school looking for Bonnie. All he had to do was stall her and Damon said that he didn't have a pony to distract her. Elena says that as long as he's alive she's holding on hope that he can help them. Klaus convinces Stefan that he needs to help him dagger Kol because then Damon will be free, Jeremy will live and they'll be able to find the cure. In After School Special, Stefan is drinking alone at the Grill, expressing his bitterness over the phone to Caroline about Damon and Elena sleeping together. Alaric wants Damon to tell Stefan about the cure. He tries to negotiate with Connor, to no avail. 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. She says that there is no science here, only magic and that they need to find Bonnie because she'll be able to bring her brother back. As Stefan is leaving the house, Elena calls him and tells him her plan to kill Kol. Stefan smiles and says he did have some help with it. Stefan explains that this is his home and he's not going anywhere. He asks her if she had fed on the cheerleader and she says that maybe she had. Rebekah admits that Stefan is actually fun tonight and he responds that he can't listen to the 80's music without thinking of Lexi. Stefan tells Connor to run and pins Damon to the wall, but Damon quickly overpowers him and plunges his fist into Stefan's chest, refusing to relent until Stefan reveals what he's up to with Klaus. At this moment Elena calls Stefan and he is wondering whether to answer or not when Rebekah picks up instead of him. She responded that he's her emotional trigger and he's the only one that can bring her back. Elijah wants to talk with his sister but Stefan says that she's not with him and that everything will be ok as long as Katherine hands over the cure. Stefan and Bonnie are talking on the phone about the death of Enzo and Caroline hears the conversation, she walks to Stefan and he hangs up on Bonnie. Silas drains the Little Gilbert and kills him while Katherine manages to take the cure and run away. After some conferring, they expect the Travelers will be coming for Stefan and Elena today to break the witches' curse so they can settle in Mystic Falls. In I Went to the Woods, Stefan is in the body of Marty Hammond who is human and an alcoholic. Elena tells Stefan she needs to talk to him and she asks for his help in getting her into the room with Esther alone. Stefan owns his own iMac desktop computer. He then becomes concerned when Damon reveals that he undaggered one of the Originals. Caroline has always supported his relationship with Elena and she was the person who revealed to Stefan that Elena was sired to Damon. After Damon realizes Alaric is dead, it is revealed that Stefan ran out of time to save Elena and that she has died. He gives her a koala corsage and then they dance. He later discovered that this is due to the creation of a sire bond between Elena and Damon after Elena's transition to a vampire. He then sets out to redeem himself for his past actions and succeeds by killing Cade. 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. He searched for his gunshot wound but found he had been healed, and noticed that he was a wearing an unfamiliar, large silver ring, with a deep blue stone and the Salvatore family crest with the letter 'S' on it. She confesses she killed his boss, Dean, after she woke up when he was burying her in the woods. Stefan knows four languages, English, French, Latin, and Italian, the later two less fluently. They grow distance after Elena's transition, and later break up, due to Elena's heightened feelings for Damon. He was always willing to save people, especially those who need saving the most at a particular time. Stefan tries to stop her but Aja uses magic on him and prevents his actions as she's also linked to the other twelve witches and she has great power right now. 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. Because of his blood addiction, Stefan was a certified "blood-a-holic" (which is a term coined from alcoholic by Caroline). Klaus says he knew Stefan would come back, and Stefan, for his part, claims that he doesn't care about anything anymore. Both Elena and Rebekah seem shocked as Stefan jumps at the chance, telling her to 'do it'. Flashbacks show that Stefan felt extreme guilt for the death of Lillian. Stefan responds that he was a psychotic killer with no emotions back then and Rebekah disagrees by saying that he might have been a killer, but he wasn't emotionless, to which Stefan admits that he really did have fun. When Stefan sees her like this he asks Damon to help her. This was what had caused most the self-loathing and brooding which had become deeply associated with Stefan's personality. After that Elena says that he clearly cares about her. In The Last Day, Stefan respects Elena's decision on using the Elixir that Elijah has to save her. But he shouldn't get her wrong-he's standing there and he looks good and she remember their sex and it was good sex but she just doesn't feel anything about it anymore. Later, Stefan and Caroline are sleeping cuddled, Stefan taking her hand, they wake up to hear strange voices and they out of the car. Sometime later, Giuseppe sent her away but then ended up dying. He has to deal with and immortal named Silas. His attitude is much like that as when Damon first arrived in Mystic Falls in the season one premiere. Damon tells him that he killed Rayna several times but she only has eight lives. He then has to face the consequences of his actions when his compulsion on others wears off and is temporarily detained before Caroline has him freed. Elena, overwhelmed by desire, begins to passionately make out with Stefan against a tree. The car lunges backward a few feet, but Luke stands behind the car, with his hand outstretched as well. As Stefan speeds to attack her, she only glances at him and he falls to the floor in pain. He stops by Whitmore college to see Elena. The news is on. Stefan then tells Bonnie that he thinks they have a new vampire hunter in town. So the brothers took off to find the girls in a small town in Pennsylvania called Willoughby. After a moment with Caroline, Forbes sends her to get coffee and asks Stefan to look after Caroline when she's gone. After they no longer hear Tyler, Stefan and Elena run into the lab after Bonnie's screams of help where they are stunned to find an unconscious April, Stefan feeds her his blood to heal her and forces Bonnie to get herself and April out of the school. He goes to Damon asking if he knew that already, and Damon admits he did. Elena, suffering another hallucination, runs onto the porch and before either Stefan or Damon has time to react, Klaus snatches Elena and disappears. In the novels, Stefan and Damon have never had a close relationship since their childhood. Caroline is surprised and then Jesse arrives. Stefan agrees and goes down while Damon is left up with Rebekah. Stefan and Caroline are at the Whitmore party babysitting Nora and Mary Louise. Stefan broke the news to Caroline and she begins to react in only the way she can. At the moment they kissed in front of Elena's house, someone interrupted this perfect moment. Stefan eventually met Rebekah's older half-brother, Nik. She knocks him out and locks him in the county Jail. Elena and Stefan catch up with each other in the classroom. He finds him with Liv's twin brother Luke who is performing a locator spell to find Enzo but is unable to find anything. Stefan leaves Damon behind and returns to the wedding preparations. Throughout the fifth season, Stefan loses his memories due to Qetsiyah's attempt at incapacitating Silas and suffering effects due to Silas' confrontation, he slowly finds closure with Katherine as she helps him overcome his demons. Realizing she's been beaten at her own game, Katherine concedes, she starts to guess who is going to kill her and when she has already talked to everyone she looks at Stefan, she says to him that she always wanted to know what it felt like to be loved by him, and that she think that they both agree that for a fleeting moment their feelings were real and that this has truly been the role of a lifetime. Stefan tells Damon that he wants Elena to try the animal blood diet so that maybe she can avoid hurting or killing anyone, something that Stefan feels would be especially hard for Elena. At this moment a balloon cracks and Stefan looks around scared but Rebekah then reveals she has the dagger with her in case Kol comes. In the past, it shows Elena's father asking him to save his daughter and Stefan's confusion as he sees her face. Stefan later appears and Elena hugs him. Interestingly, Klaus accuses him of putting on a "good show". Elena however doesn't respond and kills the waitress in the diner in front of them while also adding that if they don't stop there will be more deaths they will be responsible for. Katherine was Stefan's, as well as his brother Damon's creator. Then Rebekah and Damon start looking for the cure themselves as Katherine doesn't say where it is. He flashes back to the day he became a vampire, when he was shot in the gut and left for dead. She tells him that there should be champagne for finally catching him. Furthermore, during his time working for Arcadius, he was temporarily granted the ability to return from death, even matters regarding a stake to the heart. Damon admits that he didn't do anything to stop Rebekah but he thought that if she takes it all of his problems go away and then when she really took it he realized how badly he screwed up. Out of all the characters in The Vampire Diaries universe, Stefan has been most heavily featured. When Caroline is saying that she only has anger and sadness, Stefan interrupts her saying that she has him, he takes her hand and tells her that he will be there for her. In Black Hole Sun, Stefan is ready to leave again and return to Savannah when Elena stops him. This episode reflects one of the strongest points in the relationship between both brothers. Damon leaves and Stefan sees Caroline on the street outside. It turns out that Stefan has begged her to do that as they've heard how reckless the elder Salvatore has become. He looks at her longingly and says, "That's just in case there is no later," and then finally leaves. He then tells Klaus, "And neither can you. He is a 500 plus year old vampire born during the time of The Renaissance, who was one of the Salvatore brothers that fell in love with Katherine von Swartzschild during his human life (which was the time of the Italian Renaissance) and before he was transformed into a vampire. When Lexi returns from The Other Side, she enjoys her time with Stefan and talks to him about moving on from Elena and how he will find someone else.
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