Bloodlines & Houses · Era V, The Doppelgänger War
Elena Gilbert
Seventeen, newly orphaned, and the last Petrova doppelgänger. Her biological parents are Isobel Flemming — later a vampire — and John Gilbert; she was raised by John's brother Grayson and his wife as their own. Her blood is the key to a thousand-year-old curse, which makes her the most valuable object on Earth before she has any idea vampires exist.
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- Her survival of Klaus's ritual is the accident that makes hybrids impossible and drives the next two seasons.
- She is human, then a vampire, then human again, then asleep for two seasons, then human and old. The franchise treats her mortality as a dial.
- Grayson and Miranda Gilbert died in the Wickery Bridge crash; Stefan saved Elena first because Grayson, the only one conscious, refused rescue until his daughter was out.
- Isobel Flemming was Alaric's wife before she had herself turned. She is Elena's birth mother and dies in front of her.
- Elena turns in 2012 after dying with Damon's blood in her, becomes sire-bonded to Damon, takes the cure in 2015, and spends two seasons asleep.