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. He was in the car with his sister Elena. He is later joined in bed with Ivy and she asks for him to tell a secret to him and he admits that he is a vampire, but she doesn't believe him and hugs with him. Stefan often emphasizes the importance of free will, freedom, liberty, choice and respecting one's decisions. She's angry at Stefan for not feeding her more. Later when it's revealed that Stefan has another living relative Sarah Nelson (who was born as Sarah Salvatore), Enzo tries to use the information as leverage before Stefan shoots down his hopes of it ruining his relationship with Damon. Klaus mentions that the dance's 1920s theme reminds him of their friendship and "brotherhood". At the moment they kissed in front of Elena's house, someone interrupted this perfect moment. Stefan guesses that the tattoo is the puzzle, and Klaus elaborates that the tattoo is a map that will lead them to the treasure. He is one of the main characters and male protagonists of The Vampire Diaries. Stefan asks him if he really still wants to get the cure, because that means he could lose her and Damon says that this is a chance he's willing to take. He agrees at the last moment. At this moment Elena calls Stefan and he is wondering whether to answer or not when Rebekah picks up instead of him. Katherine tried to return the favor by helping Stefan through his PTSD in the next episode, where sparks flew while locked in the safe. Valerie spits on him and tries to light it on fire, but it doesn't work. Stefan catches ball and wins everyone over. They argue about Elena going to Damon for help instead of Stefan, and Elena admits that she felt that Damon would understand. At that moment appears Sloan and Enzo to do the spell, Stefan asks where is the antidote, but Sloan says him that he will have the antidote when they are done, Stefan is disagree and says he will do what they want but first he need the antidote, Enzo says that will take care of the antidote for Elena and Damon, one of the Travelers comes behind Enzo and hands him the serum, Enzo invite to Caroline to join him but she stays with Stefan while he goes through the process of "mind searching" for the doppelgnger. Her try at negotiating fails, and Stefan reveals himself after Connor begins a countdown to shoot Jeremy. Valerie promised to meet him Friday at noon so they could run away together. In Dangerous Liaisons it is learned that Elena had been invited to the Mikaelson Family home for a ball and that the mother, Esther has requested an audience with her. Rebekah then moves onto finding out about the cure, and Stefan tells her where they can find Professor Shane. "New plan. In the episode 1912, it was revealed that this was the year that Stefan went into "ripper" mode again. He starts provoking them with the idea that Elena's "choice" will shake them up a bit. [8] In both cases he had been in awe of being a vampire and sought to embrace it. Since then, Stefan has been taking care of Caroline like her mentor, helping her to be a good vampire. As he discusses this with Katherine, strong sexual tension quickly appears between them and this time they resolve it by passionately making out in front of the fireplace at the Salvatore Boarding House. Elena tells him that she doesn't remember anything from his last encounter with Damon, Stefan tells her it's been three weeks since then. The plan fails thanks to Vicki interfering and trying to kill Elena, but Elena does see a glimmer of hope for Stefan: that there may still be a part of him left. Amara yells devastated and kills herself too. In the books, Stefan's mother died a few years after Stefan was born, but on the show, Stefan's mother died when he was about 9 or 10. Before turning into a vampire in 1864, Stefan was seen to be happy, optimistic, light-hearted, playful, mischievous and naive. The next morning after their passionate affair, Stefan awoke with a bloody wound on his neck, and the previous night slowly returned to him. Stefan is the only character amongst the main trio that has never killed. Later Stefan finds Elena and makes her dance with him and she tells him to let go or she'll bite him Stefan reminds her that he's the one that hates to dance and Elena says that she finally sees why, Stefan then asks Elena that she's only here to help Rebekah get the cure on what happens to be the most sentimental night in high school and Elena asks him if he thinks that this is her cry for help and that she'll be happy to show him what a real cry for help sounds like, Stefan asks her does she feel anything about them she says that feels nothing Stefan says that he doesn't believe her and she says that she doesn't care, Stefan start to dance slowly with her and asks her that she doesn't remember what it used to feel like when they danced and when his hands would touch her waist as Stefan slowly puts his hands on Elena's waist, Elena says no and Stefan holds her hand asks how does she feel their fingers would touch Elena says she feels nothing and then Stefan lays her down and asks her if her heart refuses to remember, Elena asks what heart and leaves, later Stefan asks Caroline to dance with him after Elena stole her dress and asks Stefan if she can kill her, Stefan notices that she found another dress Caroline says its from Klaus and Stefan says that she has him wrapped around her finger she says that if she had Klaus wrapped around her finger then she will be with Tyler and asks him about any progress with dress thief, Stefan says its affecting him a whole lot more than its affecting her Caroline asks him what does he mean he says that every time he tells himself that he's moving on there's this part of him that just can't seem to shake her, Caroline says that normal and that they were in love and that doesn't go away because he declares that When it's clear she's not going to stop, he snaps her neck. Damon, immediately suspicious about Klaus' involvement, tries to get Stefan to admit what he seems to not be telling them. Stefan asks why Damon he freed him, but Damon brushes the question off. While searching for Luke, Damon asks Stefan what he thought he'd do when he found out Enzo was dead. His best friend, and supposedly one of his few friends, was a vampire named Lexi Branson. They got Katherine out of the cage, but as soon as they were ready to escape with her, Damon was shot by an unknown person. Enzo still insists that Stefan tells him what he believes is the truth, so he decides to threaten Bonnie, Stefan sees that Bonnie is in danger, so he admits that he was the one who killed Maggie. 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. When Damon told Stefan to turn off his humanity, Stefan refused in case he escaped. Stefan tells Caroline to let Sarah go, but instead, she told Liam to cut out Sarah's heart. Nora successfully siphons it and Caroline snaps her neck. 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. Given the degree to which he's tortured him, he thinks Enzo is telling the truth that Mystic Falls doesn't have much of a vampire problem, and that it's moved down to Savannah. Rebekah looks at Elena, knowing she is hiding something and compels her into 'fessing up', Elena admits that she slept with Damon because she's in love with him, leaving Stefan looking visibly hurt and heartbroken at the admission. Klaus then gives his blood, the cure, to Katherine to be delivered to Damon. Stefan finally stands up, but he soon crumples back to the floor. Valerie introduces Stefan to Julian and Stefan assumes he is Valerie's father. Stefan swoops in and wins the tie-breaker, so Caroline flips a coin to decide who lives. Stefan then rushes into the house when the out of control Jeremy attempts to stake Elena and pulls the stake from her neck. They figure that there must be a third team in the race for the cure. Stefan called her and convinces her to join forces in the race to the cure, saying they both hate their brothers, both have nothing, so they're better off as partners as if they find the cure first, they can decide what to do with it. Once she has fed, Elena releases Matt and tells Stefan that she can still smell the blood. The younger Salvatore doesn't respond but instead says that he wanted Elena to find him when the safe find opened. As the summer ends, Blake starts his junior year of high school. However, he later tells Damon that he did it to get freedom from Klaus, not because of any feelings for his brother. He tells her she's the last person who should be giving him advice on coping mechanisms. They fight for a short moment until Stefan throws a knife at him and kills him. Tyler takes Matt to Elena at the hospital, but Matt refuses her blood. Stefan tells Elena that he wishes that he could promise that everything would be okay, that he could save her from craving blood and a heightened sense of pain, but unfortunately, being a vampire will be all those things. In The Departed, Stefan and Damon decide that one of them needs to go back to Mystic Falls to keep on eye on Elena. Then Stefan attacks Enzo by clutching his heart but without taking it out. She asks Stefan and Klaus if it's a trick, wondering aloud how this hunter could be one of The Five if he doesn't have the tattoo. In Plan B, Stefan jumps into a well to try and find the moonstone that Mason hid, but didn't realize the water was full of vervain and he couldn't move, his face and body beginning to burn; Elena comes down to rescue him. Damon sees an aquarium with no fishes and than understands that the water is vervained. Katherine jumps off the tower. Stefan wants to tell Damon, whose own agenda involves killing Connor, but Klaus is adamant and threatens to dispense with their search altogether if Stefan tells anyone. Supernatural information Stefan also not wanted to come back to life still because Damon and Lexi continue on the other side, as Damon makes it to Bonnie, its too late as Liv and Luke have stopped the spell and left. Later, Stefan and Caroline are waiting on Bonnie near their car, they are concerned that Bonnie hasn't arrived, at that moment Julian approaches them. Elena responds that she'll have to deal with that when she gets home. Upon meeting each other, Stefan and Elena are instantly, undeniably drawn to each other and the two instantly connect. Klaus, however, keeps to respond ironically. and Klaus tells him to let her go as he will sacrifice everything good with her for his brother. He calls Elena, but when she picks up he remains silent, Elena realizes who is on the phone. He was also more inclined to bold bluntness and his sense of humor was slightly more sarcastic as well as almost taunting, particularly to Damon and Tessa. In the meantime Katherine takes Damon and Rebekah to "her" house. As Stefan leaves the boarding house, Damon intercepts him and asks what he's up to. The scene is inter cut with a scene from the night before, when Stefan argued with Damon about the best way for Elena to feed. Eventually Damon drank the girl's blood and told Stefan that he was right, that it felt like a whole new world being a vampire. 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. Stefan grew up in the town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. He makes remarks to the paramedic and a police officer walks towards him. She is later staked by Damon and dies before she can attack the sheriff and/or reveal his secret. She tells him she's just passing through town. However, not too long afterwards he began to display remorse for the horrible person he at some point seemed to be, openly calling himself a monster and admitting that he even scared himself once he nearly killed a innocent girl while thinking he could handle it. Stefan throws the dagger, again undoing the cloaking spell on the house hitting a piece of wood on the exterior of the house. Bonnie tries to write a message to Damon but Enzo grabs her phone, Enzo calls Damon and asks him for Stefan's diaries , Damon says that Stefan burned his diaries, and then Enzo says that he will kill Stefan because he was the one who killed his girl in the 60s, Damon tries to tell him that Stefan wasn't a Ripper in that decade but Enzo hangs up the phone. Later, Stefan is seen at the hospital looking for Liam. He is drowning and waking many times helplessly with no exit. Later, Caroline is with Stefan waiting for him to wake up, when he wake up Stefan teases her calling her "Rebekah" and she cares for him, then he call her "Lexi" and she realizes it's a joke, Stefan asks her if the spell worked and then arrives Enzo, he thanks her for her call and says it's time to go, Stefan ask her what is happening and Caroline says as Sloan was going to fry his brain to kill his doppelgnger and that she wasn't about to let that happen, so she have volunteered to help Enzo deal with it, that mean kill him. The episode ended with Stefan and Caroline drinking margaritas. Silas then stabbed Stefan with a stake in the stomach and then asked Stefan if he knows how it feels to starve for 2000 years, then Silas trap Stefan inside a safe and pushed it under water leaving Stefan to starve as the water came poring inside the safe. Later, Stefan phones his brother to see how he and Alaric are doing. Stefan says that he knows she would do that, why not manipulate people with sex and that this is the same trick Katherine used to pull. She knocks him out and locks him in the county Jail. When he awakens his emotions immediately turn back on and he feels the full weight of everything he did while his emotions were off, filling him with immense guilt. Now Stefan is continuing to teach Lily to drive and she asks if there is anything else Stefan would like to know. 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. He asks her how they met and Elena leads him to school to relive the moment. It is there that Stefan confesses his regrets about Elena not feeding in order to complete her transition. Damon tells him to stop wasting his time with him. "I had to do that, for Enzo. In a selfless move, Stefan sacrificed himself so that his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder) could have his happily ever after with Elena (Nina Dobrev). Rebekah resists, so Stefan asks Rebekah to forget about helping Klaus and to just help him instead. Unlike Damon, Stefan had a very close relationship with his father Giuseppe and Stefan was Giuseppe's favorite son. Klaus reminds Stefan that he is too far away to be able to cure anyone should they become infected with the venom, and charges him with finding and catching Connor, keeping him alive in order to use his tattoo. Connor shoots Jeremy before Elena tackles him. Stefan is known to be the heroic character on the series who is a martyr and is constantly willing to sacrifice himself for those he loves. As he walks away Elena stops him, implying that she wants to say something to him but then she changes her mind. Stefan asks he what's wrong after she pushes him away, and they see that the veins in Elena's arms pulsate and look inflamed. After Elena has freed Elijah from the dagger, Stefan respects her wishes and lets her try to talk with him alone and soon after is seen protecting Jenna from Klaus who is still in Alaric body. She asks for Stefan and she tells him that Tom has been gone for months. Damon urges Stefan to get Luke out of the burning building. Caroline tries to talk to her but Elena interrupts her and says that there's still hope and she has to hold on it because there's no way her brother is dead. It's his brother when he turns around, Damon returns unexpectedly and asks why his house is now occupied by a bunch of Heretics. Seeing that the bomb is about to go off, Stefan grabs the injured Jeremy and hurls them both over an overturned table for cover. She tells them that in a tree stump, they should find a dagger. Afterwards, Rebekah calls Stefan and reveals that she wants to kill Elena while Stefan tries to stop her. It doesn't work. Over a century later, in the episode Rose, Stefan apologizes to Damon for betraying him and admits that he was selfish by getting Damon to complete his transition. Stefan asks what, Elena smiling? Stefan agrees to deal with Rebekah's body and compel Jeremy to forget the day's events, as well as keep mum about the cure, while Klaus travels to Italy to retrieve the sword. After Stefan says his goodbye to Katherine he and Damon talk about their eventful days. They leave, but then a girl they compelled comes into the apartment with a note telling them that for every hour that Oscar is not returned, a Whitmore student will die. When Enzo is digging a grave in the woods, Stefan arrives and Enzo asks for help but Stefan threatens him and tells him to leave and that leave his brother alone, because he is afraid of Enzo's bad influence on Damon. When Lexi brings up that Stefan is missing his chance to take part in Elena tacking the cure or not, Stefan tells Lexi that the cure is not their biggest problem as the sire bond is gone and Elena's emotions are back on and now she knows what she really feels for Damon. He and Damon showed up for a funeral of a family member and Damon later convinces Stefan to start drinking human blood again. Later, Enzo appears as a ghost listening their conversation, he says he will not miss a good revenge, which means he still plans to take revenge on Stefan and Damon. Stefan tells her that not yet, but she won't open her eyes again. Stefan asks what is he supposed to do-just grab a girl, take her over his shoulder, take her to the dance floor to which Caroline responds that he should take his own advice and have some fun. After making his way through the tunnels and into the back room of the Grill, Stefan tells Matt and April to leave before he cautiously makes his way into the main restaurant, ducking behind the bar as Connor shoots at him. After Johnathan had left, Stefan went inside to talk to his father one last time, who was shocked to see that Stefan was "alive." While talking to Elena, Stefan was distracted when he smelled blood from Caroline's victim. Stefan promises to go and deal with it - and vows to return to Klaus. Whereas he pretended that he was doing it for her, Stefan was actually in denial about her impeding death and in fact, was afraid to see her in such a sick and grave condition. Stefan had also been seen wearing plaid shirts in lighter tones from time to time. Giuseppe than urged Stefan to let the sheriff know that they have another vampire in Katherine captured and for him to go the sheriff as quickly as possible. She tells him to prove that he's ok by showing his moving on system and if it works then she will let him go, otherwise she'll subject him to "Enzo-sized" harassment. He is the youngest child born to Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore. Later, we see Stefan at the garage working at Damon's Camaro. Giuseppe then set in motion Katherine's capture, which corresponded with a town-wide vampire round-up. He says she's stood by him through his the multiple rehabs, the jail time, the bullfighting injury. Stefan retorts he couldn't even if he wanted to due to Klaus wanting more hybrids with Elena's blood. Stefan has jet black, wavy hair and emerald green eyes in the book series. She opens a safe and says that the cure is not there. She does the spell in which she begins to fry Silas' brain. Stefan then steps inside the town and manages to save both Damon and Enzo in time. So the cure ends up at the original family-Elijah and Rebekah go back to Mystic Falls. Stefan then goes and helps Caroline pack up her house and then goes and packs up the grill. Elena says that he's bluffing but Stefan reminds her that he also had his switch flipped in this town too and he knows where to take someone to have a good time. He sees that it is Klaus and is greeted by him. The bar people claps for the "happy couple". Stefan begs him to heal her with his blood, and Klaus feigns reluctance before cryptically suggesting that Elena might still prove useful to him, and he heals her. Damon gets angry with Stefan when he realizes that Stefan stopped him from killing Klaus in order to save his life again. So she said that to save Sarah's life, he had to turn his humanity off as well. After Matt forces Elena to decide which brother to say goodbye to, she calls Damon and reveals that she has chosen to say goodbye to Stefan. Stefan nods and walks away in sadness. Rebekah interrupts to say that it was not just any weapon, but Klaus tells her to not get ahead of the story. After being turned, he continued to be incredibly empathetic and dedicated to those he loves. Elena was healed of a cerebral hemorrhage by Meredith with Damon's blood and died of drowning. I don't think you can be both". Stefan wakes up in the middle of the road by a crashed car and a dead body inside of the car. Stefan broke the news to Caroline and she begins to react in only the way she can. Back in the bar, Ray's being tortured, he's chained up and Stefan's throwing wolfsbane soaked darts at him. Last seen Stefan and Elena agree that she should meet with Esther while Damon doesn't want her to go. When the vision abruptly ended, the real Stefan was home at Salvatore Mansion with Elena. Back out of the dream, watching over Elena, Caroline asks Stefan if he'll be okay because she won't. Later, Stefan halts Elena from going after Rebekah with the white oak stake. Elena bears a strong resemblance to his old and first love, Katherine, and because of this, he repeatedly tries to avoid her at all costs during the beginning of the series, feeling that her uncanny resemblance to Katherine brings up painful, sorrowful memories of his dark, mysterious past. Later, Stefan is seen at the hospital with Damon and he says that he just "missed the donuts" and explains that he was burning off a few thousand hate filled calories with Elena and asks why he didn't help him and Damon was avoiding because he knew that her goal was to end Katherine's life and it wasn't going to simply disappear with Pilates, Sheriff Forbes is seen and they ask her why were they invited and she explains that hospitals kept the blood banks empty since they were raided and they thought it would keep the vampires away and then she shows them a dead body and that there were four other victims had been nearly drained of blood and asks if they think its Silas, Stefan assumes that he is fueling up for something big. Stefan owns his own iMac desktop computer. Caroline says that she can't believe that after everything the cure is just gone. He dated a human, Callie Gallagher, as he tried to free Damon from Callie's father's imprisonment. Their first and only stop is at a house Stefan lived in during an attempt to start over. 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. Stefan then offered her to have dinner with him that night. Stefan often drinks alcohol to help curb his blood cravings. She says that there is no science here, only magic and that they need to find Bonnie because she'll be able to bring her brother back. All he had to do was stall her and Damon said that he didn't have a pony to distract her. She then explained that he felt nothing because he had managed to turn off the part that makes him feel, the human part of him; that in spite of the intensified pain and suffering vampires feel, love is what makes life worth living. Stefan leaves Damon behind and returns to the wedding preparations. 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. She tells him she loves him and that she always will love him, at that moment, Stefan stabs her with the traveler knife. Although Stefan was very popular and had many male friends during his human life, Stefan always considered Damon to be his best friend and companion. 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.