Later Caroline is in the Salvatore house, Stefan arrives and sits down to talk to her telling her that he had been looking for her everywhere, Caroline tells him that he is her friend and she need to hear what he really thinks about she and Klaus, but Stefan starts joking, making smile to Caroline, he also looks at her with a tender smile. Elena asks Stefan if he is okay and he replies telling her they always have a plan for evil, but there is no plan for telling Caroline that she is losing her mom. Rayna had Damon and Caroline taken and wants to know which person brought him out of hiding. 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. 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 got stuck in the tomb with Katherine because Bonnie is unable to release the spell over it. Klaus tells him when a hunter is killed by a vampire, the consequence is that the hunter will torment his killer from beyond the grave until the vampire commits suicide. Stefan rips apart Alaric's engine to lure Tripp in to grab him. Abruptly Stefan tells Damon that he and Elena broke up. From the hospital, Elena calls Stefan, worried that her feelings will come back for Damon if she sees him. Stefan finds Caroline debating which flowers to pick for her mum's memorial service. In that moment they are interrupted by Nadia, Katherine's daughter who seeks help to carry out a plan and save her mother, Damon tells her that no one will help, but she threatens them with Matt's life, so Stefan and Elena are the volunteers. They overcame some of their differences when they tried to free Katherine from the tomb, but after they opened it, they discovered she wasn't there. He did not like to see others suffering or in any kind of pain, whether it be physical, emotional, spiritual or mental. Katherine offers that they should work together, yet Stefan still refuses. In the novels, Stefan is born in during the Renaissance period in the fifteenth century in Florence, Italy. Damon is in the room with Katherine who has been torturing, Stefan asks to Damon to stop and he leave the room. After arriving back at the Lockwood Mansion, Stefan coldly tells him that he could've gotten her back, and Damon tells him that he has to leave town. He informs her that the event was cancelled. Because of his blood addiction, Stefan was a certified "blood-a-holic" (which is a term coined from alcoholic by Caroline). Stefan tries to get back with Elena, but she refuses and decides to wait until she makes sure that she and her loved ones are safe first. When Stefan and Damon enter a room alone, Silas appears, Damon breaks Stefan's neck so that Silas can take his identity and talk to Qetsiyah. Lily stabs Stefan in the hand and snacks on the waiter. But Caroline says that after everything, she doesn't want to be friends with him anymore. Seeing that the bomb is about to go off, Stefan grabs the injured Jeremy and hurls them both over an overturned table for cover. He asks if Jeremy is interested in making Elena human again and he agrees, following Stefan deeper into the cellar to reveal the fugitive who is tied up and in transition. They talk a little more and Damon says that he'll get the cure for Elena even if she doesn't want to take it but in that moment Rebekah comes from behind and breaks his neck. They have to make plans and lists, they need to make a funeral and think up of a cover story. After Lexi disappears, Stefan asks Elena if she's given up, but Elena says no, but Stefan couldn't either, because he would lose her if he did, she would not love a ghost. Tyler starts a fight, ending with him accidentally stabbing Matt. Stefan asks Damon why he killed and turned Abby into a vampire while it should of been him. Stefan hops on his bike, only for it to fall to pieces. When they walk out of the house only Stefan turns back to see the flames while Damon and Elena keep going. They are on their way to get more herbs to make more ointment. Giuseppe retorted with disgusted disapproval that their mother would have been extremely disappointed in her sons, were she alive to see what they had become. When Bonnie answers the door, Stefan sees how despondent she looks and is immediately concerned. The Original sister also wakes up and starts arguing with her brother. They try to get the driver to pick them up, but they fail. Stefan agrees to move out all of the residents of Mystic Falls in exchange for the Heretics to live in his home. They banter about breaking and entering and keeping hostages before Klaus admits that Connor hasn't been forthcoming with information. At the cabin, Stefan talks with Elena about their secret regarding Enzo's death. In I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime, Stefan takes Damon on a trip to convince him not to take the cure. One for Tyler. 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. To calm her down, Stefan tells her the story of when his mum got sick. However, on the show, Stefan and Damon were best friends since their human lives and became rivals later on. Katherine responds that maybe they don't know her at all and have no idea who she really is. He'd felt it, too. After finding her personal records and observing her from afar, Stefan determined that Elena was definitely not Katherine. Stefan then attacked Amber, a girl in the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant. Klaus needs important information regarding the hunter that only Rebekah would know, but she is still angry with Klaus. After that he managed to avoid her for years until she came back home to wish Stefan happy birthday and then all of the guilt and emotions came back rushing through him so that's why he killed her. This is when Katherine had first seen Stefan and described that she was instantly drawn to him and attracted to him. 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'. The Vampire Diaries: 15 Worst Things Damon Has Ever Done - ScreenRant After many drinks Caroline says that she has never ever kissed a Salvatore brother today, making an indirect to Stefan and Elena, they all are in an awkward silence, she asks if she is going to drink or not, Elena asks her if she is implying something but Stefan interrupts saying he wants to do another round, Damon say that never have he ever lied about where Enzo is, they all look around at each other in silence. When Caroline enters, he asks her to take a subconscious Enzo. Rayna's sword is on the table in front of him. Stefan stays to watch over Alaric and he tells him in regards to Elena, "No matter what I go through to get her backnone of that matters if she has feelings for somebody else." Katherine tragically took her own life when she was distraught over the rift she . Lexi found him back then and tried to help him. In Ghost World, after Bonnie casts a spell revealing all of the ghosts, Lexi appears. While Klaus is checking on Connor, who is his hostage and chained to an Inquisition-age rack, he senses that Stefan is behind him. Stefan, already surprised that Elena had kept her difficulties from him, is especially shocked that Elena drank from Damon. 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. He tell Stefan that he has footage of Stefan as well. 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. Elena gathers what little strength she has left and manages to dip a finger in the blood and taste it, completing the transition. The death of a vampire could be counted twice if their human death also appeared in the present or past. Lexi starts teasing Stefan about Caroline, until they watch Sheriff Forbes talking to Markos about an open bar and gathering everyone there and realize there's a plan. Stefan is aloof and jokes about it, asking which guy it was because he was drunk that night. Elena responds that she'll have to deal with that when she gets home. As Tyler arrives, Rebekah provokes him into transforming, compelling Elena, Stefan and Caroline not to 'vamp run' in the hallways. Matt comes in and says that they tracked Rayna and that it is a little late to turn back. In Moonlight on the Bayou, Stefan is driving a jeep and is talking to Valerie who gives him directions. Klaus then calls out a teenage girl from behind the crate and forces Stefan to kill her and drink her blood as his initiation. They go to the diner where Elena is waiting for them. Stefan looks horrified as the vampire is revealed to be Charlotte, having counted every single brick in New Orleans, waiting for Damon. Realizing that there is no food or electricity, he goes and starts up the generator. Caroline and Stefan have a moment on the porch before Caroline tells her mom about her weekend experiment. Stefan apologizes to Matt who doesn't really want to hear it from Stefan. In The Devil Inside, Stefan is in the Salvatore's mansion and Damon arrive, Stefan asks where he was and for Katherine's body but Damon doesn't want to tell him. Physically, Stefan was described to be classically handsome and athletic, with a brooding, mysterious and intense aura. Lucy appears, getting their attention, she gives the moonstone to Katherine. That's probably why she stole the cure-she wants to bargain it for her freedom. He later receives a phone call from Caroline, but he ignores the voicemail and purposely breaks his phone, showing that he is still grieving. Gunshot Wound/Loss of Blood (as a human)Heart Extraction (as a vampire)Stabbed by The Phoenix Sword (2nd and 3rd time, as a vampire)Incinerated by Hellfire (2nd time, as a human) Neither CPR nor the paddles bring her back. He agrees at the last moment. They reveal their past with Tatia, the Original Petrova. Stefan apologizes to her about his behavior but Caroline seems to not want to do anything with him anymore. However, he can feel that someone is there. She tries to attack Meredith but Stefan holds her tight. Caroline was healed of her injuries from a car crash by Damon and suffocated by Katherine. Stefan panics and goes into a frenzy, crying, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." Stefan was born on Veritas Estate in Mystic Falls, Virginia. Stefan, confused, wondered how that was possible if he had never drunk Katherine's blood, but Emily confessed that Katherine had compelled him for weeks to drink her blood, while Damon drank from Katherine willingly. Despite the semi big age difference between the two brothers, Stefan grew up to be the best of friends with Damon and had even said that Damon was his best companion, despite having other friends growing up since his childhood. Rebekah tells Stefan when they get the stone Shane will have to join them and Klaus will be left in the cold. Light Brown He asks her if this is really the memory she wants to revisit? As Stefan is leaving the house, Elena calls him and tells him her plan to kill Kol. In the meantime Elena gets some of Katherine's stuff so that she could impersonate her better and she leaves for the meeting, leaving the original sister and Katherine talking. Rayna is in the chair across from him, telling him that she is exhausted. In The Killer, Stefan writes in his journal his concern about Elena, but adds that there's hope now that there might be a cure. Caroline hung up the phone. They start talking and joking about Caroline, and her delusional positivity and Control-freakiness , Stefan says that her Control-freakiness never really bugged him, Stefan say that if Caroline Forbes were there right now, they would both be laughing. Once the bomb detonates, Stefan calls his mother telling her that her family are no more. Caroline angrily replies "Well, let me summarize them for you: You're a dick. Because of this, Stefan often feels immense guilt and remorse if he hurts, harms or kills a human. Damon ended up blaming Stefan for Katherine's capture although it was not ever Stefan's intention on hurting or betraying Damon and outing Katherine. Stefan wakes up next to Caroline. When Damon says that Elena already has given up on him, since she knew that Augustine vampire can't control their bloodlust, and still cut herself, and when he feed on her she essentially asked Stefan to kill him to save herself. Sometime later, Giuseppe sent her away but then ended up dying. He was the bad boy, the Jacob Black-but-make-it-vampire of "The Vampire Diaries.". After they have completely filled a pot each, their wounds begin to heal and they are released. Lexi found Stefan, now back to his ripper ways in April 1922 before getting him off human blood around 1935. They talk about Valerie and the secrets she kept from both of them. Stefan catches ball and wins everyone over. Caroline shares her concern about Elena with Stefan, and he explains that Elena is channeling all her emotion to rage, and that she'll learn to deal with it better. Katherine tells him that if she "starts to sag. He is the younger brother of Damon Salvatore. Later, Stefan is with the others in the room of his house Salvatore's and Nadia is dying there, they're hoping that Katherine appears and she does. 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. In Home, Stefan watches as Damon, Elena, and Caroline mourn his death until he is nearly sucked up on the Other Side and saved by Lexi. Enzo tells them that Wes was experimenting with him and so discovered the antidote, Caroline ask what does that have to do with them, Sloan say that when Wes died, the Travelers took it. When the bottom is full, she dabs her index fingers into the bowl and puts her finger tips on Stefan's forehead, all the Travelers chant in unison and Stefan screams out in pain. Stefan hangs up; telling Caroline and the hybrid guards that they don't need the sword anymore. Damon warns that if Stefan carries on, they'll be no saving him, but Stefan says he doesn't need that - though Damon points out that Elena thinks differently. Stefan agrees and goes to Rebekah who is preparing for the 80s decade dance. She chooses the "horribly awkward present", next to her mom's open casket, to then ask him what everything between them means. She sees April and decides to go say hi to her while Stefan goes to find something stronger than beer. Stefan's compelled everyone in the bar so Ray is all alone - and refusing to give up the location of his pack. Liam then starts giving a very graphicly detailed explanation, but Stefan interrupts Liam asking if there was there any biting. Damon tells him that he was right, Elena is sired and Damon holds up a photo Stefan realizes of being from New Orleans in 1942. However, in the novels, Stefan is of full Italian descent. Stefan breaks up with Caroline some time before Valerie and Stefan begin a romantic relationship. As they run, Elena suddenly starts choking on water. While driving back to New Orleans, Stefan says he can drop him off a nearby train station and Klaus hands his phone back to him. Once she has fed, Elena releases Matt and tells Stefan that she can still smell the blood. She is still suspicious, so he dangles the offer to talk Matt into giving her another chance, and finally Rebekah gives in. Damon returns to Elena. Stefan has shown himself to be an experienced fighter, able to subdue his enemies easily. Stefan is hurt and angrily walks away from Damon. Stefan then tells her that all that he did to get the cure was for her and it is her choice of being who she wants and then he returns it to Elena. She asks where and he answers that he knows a bar out there off the beaten path. Stefan seems satisfied at finally being able to stop Klaus but a part of him appears sad as well. Stefan asks what is his point and Damon says that his point is that he's sorry. Giuseppe Salvatore (1st time, as a human)Julian (1st time, as a vampire)Nora Hildegard (2nd time, as a vampire)Rayna Cruz (3rd time, as a vampire)Himself (2nd time, as a human) She initially resisted his interest, but not long after that, they became romantically involved. Klaus asks if he loves Caroline and Stefan asks "Why? He responds that he doesn't and suggests that they go to the dance together even if it's cancelled. Damon says "What, I'm gone a couple months, you think it's ok to waste a perfectly good bottle of bourbon." She seems disappointed that after everything, Stefan still protects Elena and offers to take every memory of Elena away. Stefan responds that it is June 5, 1473. In The Last Dance, Stefan attends the 60s Decade Dance with Elena after Klaus starts to send his disturbing messages. They both fight because of Jeremy's death and later Katherine gets the real cure and brings it to Elijah in order to show him that she can be trusted. Bonnie tells Stefan that she has been unable to perform magic without reliving the horror of watching her Grams be tortured. At the end of the episode Elena and Damon leave for New York because Damon wants to follow a lead to the cure and Stefan receives a call from Sheriff Forbes saying that they have a bigger problem-there are six other hospitals from which there was a blood theft. They are about to kiss but Elena tells him she's with Damon, that bothers Stefan and his bloodlust returns, and he disappears leaving Elena alone. Stefan Salvatore is the main male protagonist in The Vampire Diaries. I can't atone for my mistakes if I keep making them. Just as Elena was getting there, Stefan asked what he could do to make her stop. Damon, immediately suspicious about Klaus' involvement, tries to get Stefan to admit what he seems to not be telling them. He has saved her several times and cares about her. Klaus finally answers cryptically that they need to solve the "puzzle" which seems to have disappeared. Stefan asks how is the cure search going and Damon says that he's not doing great because Rebekah has trailed them to New York and he can't also find the information about Katherine in his friend's stuff. Elena then tells Stefan that even though there will be struggles, the important thing is that she will get to live and be there for everyone she loves, including him. Damon tells Stefan that he needs him to investigate the Connor situation while Damon takes Elena to college. He is then shot in the leg with another arrow and Rayna then pulls out her sword. Damon explains that he confiscated Connor's belongings from his RV after he and Klaus killed him, and that he's looking for clues that might explain who Connor was and what he was after. Gloria sets up everything to torture him for the information, and finally sees where the necklace is. They then planned a course of action to get around the guards who were on watch for the vampires, and eventually made it to the cage where Katherine was being held captive. Things turn ugly when Rebekah learns Elena and Stefan broke up and taunts them into knowing the reason. Valerie promised to meet him Friday at noon so they could run away together. Just then Stefan grabs his chest and seems to find it difficult to breathe. Stefan told him what he believed to be the truth: that he had never seen those people before in his life. Katherine says that she doesn't want to, because she wants to see him. While he's trying to get it out Katherine goes behind him and pushes his head in the vervained water while she manages to get out the cure. Stefan was also a bit idealistic when it came to love and romance, even naive at times. She bites Jeremy's neck and puts it in Silas' mouth. Elena says that he's grounding her because she dropped Caroline on her thick neck. Stefan spies on Caroline and Ric through their window and sees how happy Caroline is. Later on, Stefan goes home to find Damon as he got Damon's text. Zach Salvatore had a girlfriend who was pregnant with their daughter at the time, and because Damon is Damon, he killed Zach's girlfriend and nearly killed their unborn child (but Stefan intervened and managed to save the baby). He had a moment of weakness, that is his thing-like them falling for the same girl-that was their thing. She states that she doesn't understand why is he so concerned on whom does she feed or who she kills. While Sloan called Caroline and Enzo to give them the information, the Travelers carried to Stefan unconscious on a stretcher elsewhere. Elena, Damon and Alaric later formulate a plan to catch Stefan off guard and lock him up, to try and restore him to his normal self. Katherine was the one who transformed both of the Salvatore brothers into vampires. He was also seen as athletic, dutiful, respectful, intelligent, scholarly, noble, chivalrous and even-tempered. Stefan Salvatore was always the better brother. Stefan's grateful for the love he and Elena shared, but he's more grateful that she repaired his relationship with Damon. Stefan explained to Tyler that Elena had to be sacrificed to break the curse and Tyler released him. In Elena's room, the door opens once again. They take Luke along with them so that he is able to perform an anti-locator spell which will hide them from the Travelers. After the talk with his brother Stefan manages to find the third spot with Bonnie and the witches. Stefan comes and they have a super awkward conversation, and both admit it's uncomfortable. They go to Shane's office and try to find the headstone and Rebekah comes across some "herbs" and suggests that they have fun. Klaus then asks about Caroline and Stefan says they're going to need more drinks. Stefan pours Elena a glass of bourbon, explaining that alcohol helps with the cravings. He immediately recognizes her and calls her his best friend and that she looks much hotter than the pictures. She writes a note to her daughter Nadia. Finally, Elena rushes in and ends it by compelling the man to go home and forget everything. When he says he wants to talk to Caroline, Elena invites Stefan to the party. A flashback shows Stefan, dressed in his war uniform rehearsing lines to Lexi which to say to his brother. As their relationship progressed, he discovered her vampiric nature and became frightened of her. Stefan is able to stop Katherine by sacrificing his life to make sure she dies (along with himself) in hellfire from hell. When it's clear she's not going to stop, he snaps her neck. Their first and only stop is at a house Stefan lived in during an attempt to start over. Stefan says that they could judge Katherine all they want but they keep repeating their own history and their mistakes just like she is. She can see he's surprised and tries to make an awkward exit, thinking they're in different places with the relationship. Stefan promises to go and deal with it - and vows to return to Klaus. Stefan tells her to close her eyes, that he's come to say goodbye. Damon decides that it's time to play "never have I ever", Elena does not agree but Caroline is enthusiastic about the idea and they begin to play. a page break off and goes through the air, she tries to reach it but Stefan stopped it before it went too far. While they wait they take room in hotel so they could shower, and Katherine flirts with him and then kisses him until Stefan breaks it, telling her that it is wrong, because she just broke up with Damon. As a result of indirectly betraying Damon, Stefan felt extreme guilt for unintentionally being responsible for Katherine's capture and promised Damon that he would do everything he could to help Damon get Katherine back. After that he runs with his vampire speed next to her and manages to put her down with and injection of vervain. In 1851, when Stefan was five years old, during a Thanksgiving dinner in the Salvatore Estate with his parents and brother, his father confronted Damon about money that was taken from his bureau, believing his oldest son to have been the thief.