He says she's stood by him through his the multiple rehabs, the jail time, the bullfighting injury. He thinks it won't work because he's never heard of anyone doing it. It's time to start. Kai appears. Katherine is playing smart and doesn't want to tell them so the original sister steals her phone and Elena sees that Katherine has a meeting with someone with the initials EM at two pm. They arrive to Mystic Falls and on that moment the Travelers are doing their spell, suddenly, Liv is standing in the middle of the road, with her hand held out, Stefan scream to stop, Maria gasps and stomps down on the brake. Instead, she was turned into a, Stefan enjoys listening to music by: Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Kanye West and he even likes one of. He falls to his knees. Stefan says that they could judge Katherine all they want but they keep repeating their own history and their mistakes just like she is. Afterwards they look to see if the coffin got opened. He later receives a phone call from Caroline, but he ignores the voicemail and purposely breaks his phone, showing that he is still grieving. 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. The throng of vampires pushed closer, their hissing turning from individual into one massive thing. After that Stefan calls Klaus to come to the Salvatore boarding house where the original hybrid meets with Caroline and starts pissing her off. The books are narrated by Stefan and therefore, are from Stefan's point of view. Then he says that deep down she probably knows that but hey are talking about Elena here-she's feeling grief more than anyone else and her denial right now is the only think keeping her from letting it all in. When Stefan was at his best, he was extremely caring, loving, helpful, understanding, selfless, empathetic, and compassionate. Stefan continues the sensual description, explaining that everything is heightened, including emotions, sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. In the same moment Elena appears behind them and says that she's not in denial, but she thinks that Jeremy has no longer his tattoo which probably means that he has fulfilled his supernatural destiny and maybe he's back to normal. Stefan then walks through the door and into the room Caroline is being held in. Damon wants to see Elena, but Stefan refuses to fulfill his wish as the sire bond still exists and the elder Salvatore could use it to get free. Damon insists that losing control and killing people is inevitable for a vampire, and the sooner Elena accepts that, the better. Rebekah however knows what the Salvatore brother wants and she gives him the dagger herself. He's compelled the doctors to let him take her home so she'll be more comfortable, and he says that she won't survive the day. In the meantime the witches are trying to help Bonnie not knowing that her secret plan is to try to kill them. Instead of striking her, the front end of the car completely smashes in on itself, just as it would in a car crash, Maria dies on the act. Stefan runs away and attempts to start a new life on his own in a town called Fells Church, a town located in the American state of Virginia (it is later said that a powerful force of some sorts drew Stefan to Fells Church, although he couldn't understand why he was drawn to the town in the first place). This affects Caroline, causing her to break down in tears and turn the switch. Stefan lures her into trust by admitting he would want to take the cure with Elena and be human with her, and Rebekah inadvertently admits that she buried the sword with Alexander in Italy. They dance and while the energy is intense they share a light hearted chat about Stefan's usual lack of enthusiasm for dancing. It's strongly indicated that Stefan was Lillian's favorite son and that between the two brothers, Stefan was the son she shared a closer bond and relationship with. "why don't you get the hell out of my house. They are on their way to get more herbs to make more ointment. He then followed Elena and Bonnie to Abby's House, talking to Elena. In that time Stefan steals Amara away and drags her to the woods. Stefan says that he's been alive for almost two centuries now and that with the amount of people he has seen die it must have been easier for him to accept death and to hurt less, but it doesn't. She's angry at Stefan for not feeding her more. He was also seen as athletic, dutiful, respectful, intelligent, scholarly, noble, chivalrous and even-tempered. On the show, Stefan is born in America and is therefore, Italian-American and has no Italian accent. Stefan calls Damon and Elena to tell them what is happening with Katherine. Once Stefan died, Katherine returned to Stefan's body and let him know that she loves him. Stefan feels guilty for letting Damon go, but Caroline tries to cheer him up, saying that it isn't his fault and that no one could've stopped Damon from going after Wes the other night, Stefan says her that he have to find Damon. On the camera screen, he sees Rayna and then runs, while she throws her sword at him. After heart-to-heart chat, Stefan sees the bear's ear. After Lexi's, she is his best friend. Sound logic you've got there. Height Stefan insists that if Elena hurts someone, she will be desperate to turn the guilt off, maybe even enough to shut off her humanity. They agree to figure it out once the Huntress thing is over. Turned In Prayer For the Dying, Stefan joins the party to discover Colin's now a vamp. They would spend every birthday of his together, once attending a Bon Jovi concert. A friend of his called Will was living there. She tricked Stefan into believing that the house was left to John Gilbert after her parents died, but she revealed the truth shortly after. Matt is the only human survivor. Stefan likes to give advice, help people, and comfort others who need comforting and support. In The World Has Turned and Left Me Here, Stefan gets a call from Tripp, who updates Stefan on his torture of Enzo. Then they start talking about Markos and his travelers, Stefan says that they're not just going to let her take Tyler but Maria say that Tyler is gone for good and that Julian in Tyler's body he belongs with her. However, in the novels, Stefan is of full Italian descent. When Stefan touches one of the bullets, it burns him, and Caroline speculates that the bullets might have been spelled by a witch. Matt approaches them about leaving but Sarah covers and the two take off. As a reward, Caroline gets to sing karaoke. Later, Stefan is lying in a car and Caroline comes and lies down beside him, she is saddened by Tom's death and tells him that she is a failure because she couldn't do it, Stefan tells her that he knew that she couldn't do it because she is good, then Caroline tells him that Enzo killed him. He attended Harvard during the 1970's. The status quo is null and void until the body count is high, and not made of me, Elena, or my brother - and you two, I . Stefan then goes and helps Caroline pack up her house and then goes and packs up the grill. Rebekah resists, so Stefan asks Rebekah to forget about helping Klaus and to just help him instead. Patient (2010)Unnamed Frat Boy (2016) (While body possessed by Ambrose)Violet Fell (2018) Caroline says it was a Valerie-sized day full of surprises. Stefan then went to meet Damon, who had also planned to let himself die. He tells Elena he is going to need her help and they go upstairs to find Meredith badly injured and bleeding. Stefan's eyes were open, but barely, his skin still a light sheen of gray. Damon intuits that it's a trap and very quietly warns everyone not to move. Katherine says that she won't do that because the cure is the only way for her to get her freedom back. The younger Salvatore doesn't respond but instead says that he wanted Elena to find him when the safe find opened. They joke about the bad luck they usually have at the dances and Elena responds saying that they need to live their lives. Without telling the others about his knowledge of the cure, he manages to buy himself time to come up with a plan to save the hostages whilst keeping Connor alive by reminding them he may have werewolf venom. For a brief time, Stefan was romantically involved with the Original, Rebekah Mikaelson, and shared a close friendship with her brother, Niklaus. In No Exit, Stefan is first seen with Katherine and helps her study history until Caroline arrives to tell him information about Damon. In the earlier seasons, Stefan had an Samsung Galaxy SIII. It is at the high school that Stefan inevitably and fatefully meets Elena Gilbert, who bears an unusual, and striking uncanny physical resemblance to Stefan's past love from 1864, Katherine Pierce. They grow distance after Elena's transition, and later break up, due to Elena's heightened feelings for Damon. In the novels, Stefan is Damon's moral, benevolent younger brother. In Pictures of You, Stefan and Damon are throwing football in the living room and asks Stefan how long has it been eight or nine days since Elena killed anyone, Stefan says that he lost count and Damon says that's progress and Stefan asks what are they going to do keep throwing the football around for another 150 years until Elena gets her humanity back, Stefan sarcastically says he's cool with that and Damon says that Elena doesn't want the cure and she's going to start killing people if she knows they're still trying to get it for her Stefan says the could always make her want it Damon asks how are they going to make an emotionless vampire want anything Stefan says to get her to flip her humanity switch, Damon asks what are they going to do pull a Lexi, Bombard her with emotions until one of them sticks and Stefan says if that doesn't work they go to plan B lock her and keep her sidelined they he and Damon figure out a plan C, Damon asks what when she gets slammed with every emotion she's repressed since Jeremy died Stefan says that then Damon will be right by her side ready to help her through it and Damon says because Stefan doesn't want to keep reliving history and when its all over he's just going to get out of her life, Stefan says "bingo" and Damon asks him how does he wants to do it. He then sets out to redeem himself for his past actions and succeeds by killing Cade. Damon is unimpressed by his brother's behavior, most importantly the way he is feeding off of girls in the house. Stefan is with Nora as she is making her costume for the Whitmore party him and Caroline invited her and Mary Louise to as a distraction. In the meantime Rebekah and Damon are attacked by Vaughn and manage to overpower him while Bonnie is talking with Shane (who is actually Silas pretending to be Shane) who is trying to convince her that there is a way to bring Jeremy back to life. Elena comes and asks him if killing Silas worked and if he is now ok. Stefan doesn't respond but rather asks her why is this all so important to her. Stefan has lost consciousness. Damon is surprised and doesn't know how to react but he says that they could talk about that after they take the cure. Afterwards, Rebekah calls Stefan and reveals that she wants to kill Elena while Stefan tries to stop her. Valerie and Stefan's relationship started out complicated. Sitting on her mom's hospital bed, Caroline learns from Stefan how to live in someone else's memories. This time Caroline came to the brothers' rescue. She's slowly getting better at this. Stefan is known to be the good vampire brother (between he and Damon) and is seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, heroic and selfless. The car pulls up. Stefan explains that Silas wants to die and be reunited with his one true love, but he's also supernatural so if he takes the cure and dies he'll be stuck on the other side. Elena finally agrees to skip the rest of the school day and have fun, and leaves to go home and change. Initially, Damon Salvatore filled the passionate and angsty role of the "Other Guy" in every triangle. Stefan calls Klaus numerous times until he finally shows up. Elena gives into Stefan's high spirits and pops open the bottle, laughing gleefully as it overflows. He and Elena arrived just in time to stop Damon from killing Caroline. Caroline hung up the phone. Stefan defends. Stefan asks Klaus if he could have some of his blood since Damon is in a werewolf predicament and while he talks, the wound starts to bleed through his shirt and Klaus rips it off. In the meantime Caroline manages to find Elena in the woods. Stefan and Elena defend Caroline against Damon. She knows Stefan doesn't really deserve that mark but somebody else does. He and Damon showed up for a funeral of a family member and Damon later convinces Stefan to start drinking human blood again. She then storms out of the house. Do you still have feelings for her?" As Stefan speeds to attack her, she only glances at him and he falls to the floor in pain. Liz is rushed back to the hospital. Back in Mystic Falls Caroline and Klaus get out a map and figure out that the third massacre could be done in two places and since they don't know which one exactly it would be they go to the forest and decide to pair up-Stefan goes alone to the one possible spot and Caroline and Klaus go to the other. After that they go downstairs and Damon asks him questions about there past to make sure Stefan really got all his memories back. Caroline wants to know since Valerie is out of the prison world, does that change anything for him? The first immortal follows him in the woods and has a heartbreaking confession with Amara until Stefan catches him from behind. Stefan decides to leave town and start over elsewhere. Rebekah takes the cure and Damon does nothing to stop her. The death of a vampire could be counted twice if their human death also appeared in the present or past. In The New Deal, it is revealed that Stefan is hiding Klaus' family coffins with the help of Bonnie. In Ghost World, after Bonnie casts a spell revealing all of the ghosts, Lexi appears. Furthermore, given he was on the run for numerous years, he unlikely killed anyone during those years either. In Homecoming, Stefan participates in the plan to kill Klaus, luring him to Mystic Falls by saying that Mikael is dead (in fact he was dead as Elena daggered him so Stefan could inform Klaus of this and not have Klaus' compulsion stop him from lying.) Julian ask what he is talking about and Stefan tells him that Maria is dead, Stefan tries to comfort Julian, but he recoils angry, Caroline tells him that It wasn't Stefan's fault, Stefan say that he wasn't the one that killed her. After that Caroline and Stefan talk on the porch. She adds that they've both been down the revenge road and it's not worth it. It worked. Pilot (TVD)A Streetcar Named Desire (TO) Stefan was left behind to believe that Valerie just used him and eventually moved on from her. Gender He had a moment of weakness, that is his thing-like them falling for the same girl-that was their thing. However, Alaric turns human as Jo saves him after his vampirism is stripped off. In Memorial, Stefan wakes up in the woods with Elena, where they spent the night in preparation for an early hunt. Caroline saves Mrs. Cuddles, although it needs repair work. Stefan agrees and goes to Rebekah who is preparing for the 80s decade dance. He was particularly practical, charming, playful, mischievous and humorous around his close friends (such as Lexi or Caroline, for example) or people who he knows. Stefan shows little interest in Damon's scheming, and after Damon suggests they blow off steam instead with some brotherly bonding, Stefan laughs and reminds his brother that he knows Damon is probably happy that Elena is now single. Liam responds with yes, however, he says it's not the biting he was thinking of, and Stefan realizes that Caroline had healed Liam and compelled him to forget what really happened. After hearing that Caroline has Sarah Salvatore, Stefan and Elena find Caroline at the grill making three margaritas, one for each of them. Stefan tells Monique that he wanted Sarah to have a normal life no matter what. Stefan was born on Veritas Estate in Mystic Falls, Virginia. Caroline says that she can't believe that after everything the cure is just gone. Stefan asks Damon why he is trying to help him and Damn responds, "Because right now, you're all I got." Within in the house, is revealed that Elena and Stefan are needed to perform the spell for their doppelgnger's blood, they are surrounded by many Travelers that begin to perform the spell, they are stuck unable to leave because their rings of light stopped working. When Stefan had first met Katherine, when she and Emily had come to stay at the Salvatore Estate, he had become strongly attracted to her and eventually had fallen in love with her, as did his brother Damon. He'd felt it, too. Stefan was first seen as a mysterious, handsome and new high school student at Mystic Falls High School. Although Stefan was only 17 years old, he displayed maturity, responsibility and had a wisdom beyond his years. At least she apologizes about the mess he now has to clean up. At the school, Stefan and Elena join Matt, Jeremy, Caroline, Damon and Bonnie to have the memorial that they didn't have a chance to finish. He asked Lily if she knew about the telegram Valerie sent him saying she was coming back to him. Nik is there because he needs a dagger in order to put Kol down, but Rebekah refuses to give her last one to him as she doesn't want to leave herself unprotected. Elena had tears in her eyes. She starts to choke Damon with magic but Stefan appears behind her and she stops. But, his history as a Ripper proves otherwise. In the novels, Stefan is born in Italy and is foreign with an Italian accent at the beginning of the series. Stefan Salvatore - 1000+ Times He's one of the most selfless characters in the entire show, and yet Stefan still dies the most in The Vampire Diaries. He ask to Stefan about her but Stefan looks down at his feet. When Connor starts shooting at him, Elena runs at Connor, exposing herself as a vampire. The guy reminds Stefan that he put his brother in the hospital. The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get, starts from where the previous episode ended. Stefan asked Lexi to go to New York City to help Damon get his humanity back and to get his act together. Stefan says that they have to save Bonnie but Klaus doesn't agree with that because he doesn't want them to fulfill Silas' wish. He heads upstairs to Elena and says he understands if she is still upset with him from the previous day and wants to help her.