𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝑒𝓃𝒹

Name: Elena Gilbert
Door: Door Pass

Canon: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: Season 3, Episode 22 "The Departed" after her conversation with Caroline about adding vodka to her tea + CRAU from Hadriel

*In Hadriel, Elena very quickly found out the Caroline who found her was from years in the future. She is fully aware of Caroline's future fate, Caroline being with Stefan and Caroline having children. She also knows she ended up with Damon. The Caroline in Hadriel mothered her because they were from completely different points in time. After fighting through the awkwardness of timeline differences, an event circling around rage brought out the worst in Elena and Caroline. To teach Elena a lesson, Caroline fed her her blood and then killed her, effectively turning Elena into a vampire. After, the emotions were too overwhelming and Elena retreated for some time before taking up Lance Sweets on his offer for therapy. She worked through a lot of her issues and her past and discovered why she felt the things she did, along with taking up journaling once again as an outlet for thoughts that could otherwise overwhelm her.

In Hadriel, Elena learned how to survive on her own and she made real friends. Connor Walsh from How to Get Away With Murder, Will Graham from Hannibal and Nathan from Uncharted were her best friends there. She also felt she and everyone else were pawns in these "gods" infighting and she even doubted they were actually gods. She believes in magic and multiverse travel now and if it's possible, she's even more open to different kinds of people and beings.

Because of their circumstances, (a dark underground cave with backwards technology), she had to grow up and mature pretty quickly. She skipped a lot of the reckless college years and graduated to, living on her own without any parental figures except for Caroline and wasn't that weird!

...She still can't cook. Don't eat her chili.

Age: 18
Appearance:

History: Here’s a link!
Personality:

Elena Gilbert is a strong-willed but often stubborn eighteen year old girl who lost her parents too young when she was just starting to find herself. This devastating freak accident shaped who she was from then on. When it comes to Elena, people always described her – she's the popular girl, she’s the girl that lost her parents, she’s the girl who’s dating Stefan, she’s the doppelganger - but in a lot of ways, she hasn’t had a chance to be Elena Gilbert. Yet, in truth, despite not being aware of it, she has a very strong sense of self. Because of her losses, because her friends are pawns in a supernatural wild goose chase, Elena stubbornly makes her own decisions. She will dig in her damn heels if need be, because it's what she wants.

Because she fights both the memory of who she was before her parents died and the frightening reality of Katherine Pierce's entire existence, Elena is also indecisive unwittingly stringing along both Damon and Stefan Salvatore. She possesses a tremendous amount of guilt thanks to everything she's lost and everything she feels. She feels deeply and this can overwhelm her, sometimes to her own detriment. In the fourth season, as a vampire, she lost her brother Jeremy and she had to turn her emotions off to deal with it. That's how deeply she feels when she wants to. Because of her great losses, Elena has developed a bit of a guilt complex. Her parents died in the car crash but she didn't. Had she not been in this town, had she not existed, her family and friends would be safe. She’s the reason Klaus targeted Mystic Falls, targeted Stefan. (Technically, Katherine is, but she was still born.) She’s the reason Katherine has Jenna stab herself and why Caroline is a vampire. She blames herself for how dangerous the town of Mystic Falls has become for Jeremy. She even feels indirect guilt for Bonnie’s grandmother’s death because she dies after a spell cast for the Salvatore’s benefit. Despite feeling this guilt, she doesn’t dwell on her own problems. She never lets this guilt consume her.

Elena can also be impulsive when it comes to taking her life into her hands. She makes deals for her own life, she decides like that especially if she knows she can prevent someone from being harmed. Unfortunately, this usually means putting her own life in danger. Because of all of this, she has been described as reckless in both how she loves and acts. She speaks glibly to Damon knowing he's capable of hurting her. He calls her both brave and stupid. Elena tends to make huge, sometimes dangerous decisions without thinking or asking, usually because she believes it's for someone's own good. And, most of the time, they don’t pay off in the long run. She undaggers Elijah, an Original and Klaus' brother, on a whim because she believes he’ll be the best ally against Klaus. Elijah ends up saving his brother. She daggers Rebekah to keep her out of the plan to kill Mikael because she doesn't trust Rebekah to be an impartial sibling, as Elijah hadn't been. This factors into her betrayals, as well, because she attacks her after a very sweet moment the two share. She asks Damon to erase her brother, Jeremy’s, mind twice and the second time she sends him off to Denver to stay with distant relatives. The first time, he straightens out, does better academically and then discovers Elena’s journal and her lies. This causes a minor rift but because they’re brother and sister, they work through it. The second time, Bonnie has to come to terms with the decision and that causes friction between friends. Some of the time, these decisions she makes are strategic. She returns Rebekah to Klaus undaggered before dropping the bomb that Rebekah was aware that Klaus is the one who killed the Originals’ mother and knows that Klaus will simply dagger his sister again, preferring not to deal with her drama. (But mostly, not to face what he's done.) She makes a deal with Elijah regarding the sacrifice to keep her family and friends safe and so that Stefan will be freed from the tomb. She does this without consulting anyone. She won't hesitate to leave anyone out of a plan if it means they’re safe. And if she's left out, she sticks her nose in. When the gang bands together to take down Katherine in "Masquerade," she sneaks out. This ties into her stubborn streak. (This is ultimately a good thing because of a linking spell put on the both of them, but she doesn't sit idly by.)

Elena is fiercely loyal when it comes to her friends and family. She loves Jeremy with all her heart even after she realizes she's been adopted. She brow-beats him for doing drugs and pushes him to be the best that he can be. She wakes him up in the morning when he’s late to work. She worries about his well-being to the point of sending him out of town (which I’ll address in the paragraph below.) Other than Jeremy, Jenna is and was the most important person in her life. She was her connection to her mom. She respected and loved her. She worried about her. Elena doesn’t leave her friends behind and she isn’t the friend who backs away when they have a fight. She reaches out, or, she waits until they're ready and they come to her. She doesn’t push Caroline away after Katherine kills and turns her. She welcomes Bonnie with open arms when she comes out as a witch. Even after breaking up with Matt, she makes an effort to be friends. She hadn't broken up with him because she didn't love him as a person, but because she knew they'd dated because they both believed they should. (And Elena doesn't believe people should do things because they think they should.) She fights for her friends. She roots for them. She also protects and cares about family members of her friends. She’s there for Caroline when her dad decides against transitioning and he dies. She’s there for Matt after Vicki goes missing, and she accompanies Bonnie to meet her biological mom. She will be your port in the storm. Later in canon, after Elena and Stefan aren't in a relationship anymore, they successfully carry out a friendship free of judgment. There's a comfortable air of nostalgia and the feeling of trust that never goes away.

She is also strong because she keeps moving. She perseveres. She doesn’t give up and spend all day in bed. Instead, she gets up, greets the morning as best she can and she lives her life. Even if she has to remind herself to breathe in and out, she perseveres. Even when Klaus has hybrids crawling all over Mystic Falls she refuses to live her life trapped in her house. She goes out running. She goes to the Grill. Elena Gilbert lives her life in the face of adversity and loss. She may spend a night wallowing, or even a few minutes, but then she moves on. She isn’t all about her. Elena protects her friends. She lashes out at Damon when she thinks he’s abusing Caroline. She reaches out when she doesn’t talk to Caroline or Bonnie for a few weeks.

Powers and Abilities:

Elena has been shown to be decently proficient in light combat, as Alaric has spent offscreen (and briefly onscreen) time training her. These lessons ended regularly mid-season, but Elena manages to stay in shape. In "It Smells Like Teen Spirit," Elena proves her own stake by successfully launching three wooden stakes from her wrist by punching Stefan. Additionally, she works out with Damon and frequently running. Before the series starts, she was also an active cheerleader. Overall, Elena is an athletic person.

It's also mentioned how in high school, she took naturally to most things, which only means that she's a good student and what she learns, she conquers. She's proficient in high school level subjects and has a great grasp on the English language.

Finally, though Elena is human, she was also born a doppelganger which was the key to the ritual meant to break a curse on a vampire-werewolf hybrid named Klaus. After the curse is broken, her blood is the final ingredient needed for Klaus to make more vampire-werewolf hybrids like himself. Once a werewolf is in transition to becoming a vampire, drinking her blood solidifies the transition, or else they die a painful, bloody death. Because she's a doppelgänger, it's confirmed that Elena is a supernatural being. As killing Alaric, brings him back when only death by a supernatural being would.

Inventory:

+1 daylight ring
+1 yellow moped (from Hadriel)
+1 phone (Caroline's) with pictures of her kids and with pictures of her and Stefan, plus whatever texts were left as well... something Elena completely needs, obviously

*if no on the moped, just the keys to the moped would also be hilarious

Samples: THINKING and COMMUNICATING + the TDM up above