All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

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On The Vampire Diaries, doppelgangers are central to the mythology and key to ongoing storylines, so who are they and where did they come from?

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All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

On The Vampire Diaries, the mystery surrounding doppelgangers and their connection to the supernatural world took five seasons to unravel, and these magical beings shared more than physical similarities. After Elena Gilbert fell in love with Stefan Salvatore during season 1, she discovered she bore an uncanny resemblance to his ex: a 500-year-old-vampire named Katherine Pierce, aka “Katerina Petrova.” Elena went searching for answers which weren’t immediately forthcoming. Season 2 provided more insight into the doppelganger phenomenon, but not the full story. Doppelgangers remained an integral part of multiple story arcs moving forward in the series.

Much in the same way that The Vampire Diaries introduced vampirism as a plague and made the ability to transform into a werewolf a genetic curse, the series created its own origin story for doppelgangers and gave them a singular supernatural purpose. In the First Century BCE, there existed powerful witches known as Travelers. The two most powerful of these Travelers were Silas and Qetsiyah. They wanted their love to be eternal, so they concocted an elixir that would make them immortal. On their wedding day, Qetsiyah discovered that Silas took the cure and gave the other dose to his real true love, Qetsiyah’s handmaiden, Amara.

Qetsiyah’s and Silas’ actions had far-reaching consequences since immortality upset the balance of nature. Therefore, nature found a way to restore the balance by creating doppelgangers. They were Amara’s and Silas’ shadow selves – living, breathing exact replicants who could die in place of the immortals. They were naturally occurring mystical beings, but they were susceptible to magic, such as compulsion and spells. Katherine and Elena were the first doppelgangers introduced on the show, but they weren’t the last. During season 3, Klaus and Elijah Mikaelson mentioned the first Petrova doppelganger, Tatia. The season 4 finale ended with the revelation that Stefan was also a doppelganger. Season 5 introduced the last known doppelganger, Tom Avery. Elena, Tatia, Katherine, Stefan, and Tom were all descendants of Amara and Silas.

Tatia

All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

The first Petrova doppelganger was Tatia, who lived during the late 10th/early 11th century. Amara had no children, so Tatia was linked to Amara though a child of one of Amara’s siblings. The series established all Petrova doppelgangers were Amara’s descendants even if it didn’t always clearly connect the dots, such as to how the bloodline remained intact over multiple generations.

Tatia lived in the same village as the Mikaelsons – a Viking named Mikael, his wife Esther, a witch, and their six children. Two of the Mikaelson sons Klaus and Elijah, fell in love with Tatia. Klaus and Elijah told Damon and Stefan Salvatore about Tatia during season 3, recalling the “allure of the Petrova doppelganger.” After the youngest Mikaelson, Henrik was killed by a werewolf, Esther and Mikael decided to cast a spell making their children the first vampires, the Originals. Klaus and Elijah revealed Esther killed Tatia and used her blood to turn them. Season 2 of The Originals revealed the truth about Tatia, who willingly gave her blood to Esther, unaware of Esther’s intentions. Elijah, a new vampire and unable to control his thirst, killed Tatia. After Klaus became a vampire, he triggered his werewolf side, so after Tatia’s death, Esther used Tatia’s blood to prevent Klaus from turning. Tatia’s child survived to continue the Petrova bloodline.

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Katherine Pierce

All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

After Katherine gave birth to an illegitimate daughter in 1490, Katherine’s father banished the Bulgarian beauty to England. In 1492 Katherine met Klaus. Katherine questioned Klaus’ romantic interest in her, and she learned from someone in Klaus’ inner circle his true intentions: to use her doppelganger blood to suppress his werewolf side. Katherine used the information to turn herself into a vampire, knowing this would render her useless to him. Klaus needed human doppelganger blood to complete the ritual to undo Esther’s spell.

Klaus and Elijah created the legend of the Sun and Moon Curse to locate the next doppelganger, but if Klaus knew she would be a Petrova descendant, it didn’t make sense for him to murder Katherine’s entire family effectively ending the bloodline (He also appeared not to know about Katherine’s daughter.)

Katherine’s daughter established the ancestral link between herself and Elena, but Katherine’s knowledge of doppelgangers was limited. Katherine was also a descendent of the Travelers, but her father turned his back on the outcast witches and their magic. This would explain why she wouldn’t have known about Amara and the origin of the doppelgangers. Katherine understood doppelganger blood was used to suppress Klaus’ werewolf side, but she told Elena during season 2’s “Katerina” that a doppelganger was also a loophole: one created to undo the spell. Doppelgangers were a loophole, but they were created for a larger purpose.

While Katherine hated Elena, she was friends with Elena’s mother, Isobel Flemming. The latter told Elena during season 1’s “Isobel” that Katherine sought her out not long after she turned into a vampire. Isobel believed it was out of genetic curiosity. Katherine used Isobel to gain access to information about Elena, who she planned to hand over to Klaus as a peace offering for fleeing a half-century earlier. Given Isobel made it her life’s work to study the supernatural, her lack of understanding of doppelgangers was surprising, particularly since she was a descendent of Amara’s. Isobel viewed Elena as nothing more than a biological curiosity.

Elena Gilbert

All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

Since Elena was a Petrova descendent, that meant her mother Isobel was as well. Unfortunately, the link between Isobel and Katherine was unclear. When Katherine’s daughter Nadia Petrova, arrived in Mystic Falls during season 5, she revealed she became a vampire so that she could track down Katherine: a task that required time, skills, and resources Nadia didn’t possess as a human. Nadia never mentioned having children, but since Klaus killed Katherine’s entire family, there was nobody else to keep the bloodline going except for Nadia’s offspring. The series never addressed the plot hole.

As a naturally occurring, mystical being, Elena’s blood (and that of all doppelgangers) contained power that, when compounded with magic, could create spells such as the ones Esther concocted to try and kill her children during season 3, or Qetsiyah’s attempt to complete the Anchor swap. Her blood could also be used to undo the magic, such as the Sun and Moon Curse. Some spells required human doppelganger blood, and others did not, although Elena’s blood was more sought after commodity before she became a vampire. Like Tatia and Katherine before her, Elena was also involved in a love triangle between two brothers, and she suffered personal tragedy resulting from her connection with the Mikaelsons.

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Stefan Salvatore

All 5 Doppelgangers In The Vampire Diaries Explained

The season 4 finale of The Vampire Diaries, fans learned Elena and Katherine weren’t the only doppelgangers. Stefan came face to face with Silas, who revealed that Stefan was Silas’ shadow self. Just as Amara was the progenitor of the Petrova line of doppelgangers, Silas had a doppelganger bloodline of his own – the Salvatores. Stefan’s relationship with Silas was as antagonistic as Elena’s was with Katherine.

Season 5 established a strong connection between male and female doppelgangers: they were fated to find each other and fall in love. Qetsiyah told Damon that during the centuries she was trapped on the Other Side, she watched “destiny trying to get the doppelgangers together forever.” The series canon didn’t support the assertion that there were more than five doppelgangers. The idea that male and female doppelgangers were meant to be together was debunked by Markos, the leader of the Travelers. He revealed they were drawn together because of magic.

Season 5 focused heavily on the consequences of the Amara-Qetsiyah-Silas love triangle. Nature created doppelgangers to restore the balance disrupted by Qetsiyah’s and Silas’ immortality spell, and witches parlayed the existence of doppelgangers into a way to punish the Travelers for Silas’ and Qetsiyah’s actions. While the series devoted multiple seasons to exploring the complexity of the Petrova doppelgangers as individuals and their relationships with each other, revealing Stefan to be a doppelganger felt like an afterthought. Being part of a doppelganger bloodline didn’t impact him in the same way it did the Petrova doppelgangers. First and foremost, Stefan was always a vampire – a “Ripper.”

After Qetsiyah learned Silas made Amara immortal, she created an antidote. During season 5, both Amara and Silas drank the cure for immortality, and they died putting an end to the doppelganger saga. Damon stabbed Katherine, and Enzo St. John killed the other mortal doppelganger, Tom. During the series finale, Stefan sacrificed himself to kill Katherine and save Mystic Falls, leaving Elena as the sole surviving doppelganger. The Petrova and Salvatore bloodlines would continue with Damon and Elena’s children, but doppelgangers would become extinct.

Tom Avery

The Travelers learned of Tom’s existence and dispatched Caroline Forbes and Enzo St. John to kill him. The Travelers’ plan to defeat the witches rested on the blood of the last two doppelgangers. If this was taken literally, Tom would have been the last (as in most recent having been born after Stefan), meaning the Travelers would have considered him indispensable. If it was the last pair, then his death was the only way for the Travelers to succeed. Of all the doppelgangers, Tom was the least significant.

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