Still, he was strongly intrigued by her and decided to pose as a new transfer student at Mystic Falls High School to get to know her. He stops by Whitmore college to see Elena. Stefan talks to Damon over the phone about each other's situations. 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. Stefan then threatened John's life by giving him blood to turn him into a vampire, and would do it if John didn't leave town. Damon leaves and Stefan sees Caroline on the street outside. Stefan returned to Mystic Falls this year along with Lexi. She's finally able to tell him the truth. Kai appears. 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. After the brothers escaped, Stefan wanted to run away with Callie who was killed by Damon, much to Stefan's horror. When they arrive at the dance and begin to slow dance Stefan mentions that he has been meaning to apologize to Bonnie. They figure that there must be a third team in the race for the cure. She tells him he will be alright and tells him to hold on to the fact that she loves him. 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. She realizes he never listened to all the messages she left him. Caroline quickly lifts the bomb up with no care in the world. After receiving a tip that Tripp's men have taken Liz into hostage and ask that they make an exchange. They were instantly drawn to each other and they immediately bond, beginning a romantic relationship shortly afterwards. - Stefan Salvatore "The real animal is still out there. The girl, Bridget, was healed by the little blood Stefan could spare and her father insisted on giving Stefan room in his household, even though Stefan appeared to be a vagrant. Rayna's sword is on the table in front of him. As Stefan and Damon leave New Orleans, Stefan tells him he doesn't think he will be able to let Elena go, as 'selflessness isn't a trait of his'. She flashes back to the day she became a vampire, when Matt's truck fell into the river under Wickery Bridge, Stefan suddenly cowers in pain. Damon understands why Stefan was being nice to Katherine. At the boarder, Stefan puts barriers across the road, stopping people from getting in. Stefan looks troubled by this, but knows better than to try to intervene. 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. Shocked and overwhelmed with grief to see his brother dying, Stefan picked up a gun to shoot whoever had shot his brother, but before he could do so, Stefan was also shot directly in the chest. Later on Stefan is at the house sitting and looking upset. Damon leaves, and Elena admits that although she was able to feed successfully, she hated the experience and how it made her feel. Stefan describes himself as a loner and doesn't feel that he always fits in. He is portrayed by Paul Wesley in the television series CW's The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. ", In Before Sunset, Stefan appears the most upbeat he has been all season. Elena says he had her but he says, "I lost you the minute I left town". Humans don't stand a chance against a vampire. Stefan says that it was her humanity, everything she had left but Damon responds by saying that humanity means nothing when you don't have anyone to care about anymore. 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. Elena is the ex-girlfriend and close friend of Stefan. 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 is next seen at the hospital, checking through clipboards for potential vampires, and finds a police officer guarding a door. Whatever was inside is gone now. She hopes a small part of him came back to check on her. Stefan says she doesn't have to worry about that anymore because he realizes hating Klaus and getting revenge isn't worth it. When Damon told Stefan to turn off his humanity, Stefan refused in case he escaped. She can't believe he was going to dump Ivy on her and leave. Elena gives Caroline the letter, but Caroline orders Stefan to burn it. Klaus offers him a deal to save Damon from a werewolf bite: he will become his right-hand man, leaving everything including Elena and Klaus will cure Damon. Stefan was forced to marry Bridget because of Damon as he wanted to mess with his little brother. Valerie tries to convince them both of how evil Julian is. She also told him about how Julian had found out, and how "He made sure it wasn't a problem anymore.". He tells him he and Lily had a deal and that now she has Caroline. While Katherine remained somewhat difficult with him, she enlisted the help of Caroline so he could resolve his own personal problems first rather than handle her own. Literally. Stefan retorts 'I can only assume you took full advantage of that?' He responds that he doesn't and suggests that they go to the dance together even if it's cancelled. Stefan alerts Elena to the growing pool of blood on the ground. He then interrupts Damon, "I need your advice, and I need you to not be a dick about it because I have no one else to ask," Stefan says. Seeing that the bomb is about to go off, Stefan grabs the injured Jeremy and hurls them both over an overturned table for cover. 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'. As a ripper Stefan is prone to losing control when drinking human blood, making him stronger and emotionally unstable even to the point where Damon, an older vampire, feared him. Damon initially had no desire to rekindle any brotherly relationship with Stefan, but Stefan convinced Damon to join him for a drink, saying he had missed him. Stefan is known to be the good vampire brother (between he and Damon) and is seen to be kind, caring, compassionate, heroic and selfless. Stefan snacks on a student, tempting Caroline to join. They argue about Elena going to Damon for help instead of Stefan, and Elena admits that she felt that Damon would understand. They're fine. She tricked Stefan into believing that the house was left to John Gilbert after her parents died, but she revealed the truth shortly after. Stefan rushes over and manages to push him off of her. Stefan was born and raised in the supernatural town of Mystic Falls, Virginia and came of age during the time of the Civil War. He was born and raised in the town of Mystic Falls and had just moved back to town, where he lives with his nephew Zach in the Salvatore Boarding House. In I Alone, Damon confesses to Stefan about what he did to Alaric. Discovering that Stefan was a ripper- meaning he only fed and hunted and has lost his humanity, Lexi took it upon herself to help Stefan regain his humanity by not turning his feelings off, where she succeeded eventually. He tells Valerie that she passed away when he was ten. He seems disappointed saying it was all for nothing and that he is back where he started. Katherine had then compelled him to not be afraid of her and after she faked her death. Rayna had Damon and Caroline taken and wants to know which person brought him out of hiding. he pushes Stefan, they begin to discuss and Caroline sneaks behind him and attempts to snap his neck, but he catches her in the act. Later at the Salvatore house Damon is Elena at the cellar and she is breathing heavily Damon says that she looks terrible, Elena says that she's hungry not that Damon cares but he said that he cares and that's the whole point he cares and she doesn't and its time for it to change he gives her a blood bag, It turns out its laced with vervain and asks her if she's hurt because he betrayed her or scared because its only going to get a lot worse, she runs for the door but Stefan stopped her and says if they want to play and see who breaks her or them first and it ends with Stefan closing the door. Damon thought he hadn't been trying, but Stefan admitted that he actually had and Mason was unnaturally strong. As Tyler begins to transform, Stefan quickly ushers Caroline and Elena out. In The Originals, Damon is talking to Stefan saying that Elena is calmest desiccating vampire that he has ever and said he remembered when Stefan starved there and he would've wept at his feet for an orange peel, Stefan says that she's not going to beg for blood and begging means desperation, emotion and Elena was still in no-humanity zone Damon asks how hungrier that she has to be before they can torture some feelings into her, Stefan says a lot hungrier than she is now and Damon asks what were they supposed to do in the mean time and Katherine appears and says that she might provide a little excitement, Stefan says Katherine and she says "the one and only, sort of" and asks when is the welcome home party and Damon is surprised at Katherine's boldness considering that Klaus was plotting her eternal demise, Katherine says that it doesn't matter because Klaus is gone and Stefan asks her what does she mean by he's gone and she says that werewolf girl Hayley turned out to be just the thing they needed to get Klaus out of their lives for good. Pilot (TVD)A Streetcar Named Desire (TO) Stefan later kills Galen Vaughn when he is threatening Damon. Then Stefan attacks Enzo by clutching his heart but without taking it out. Stefan and Damon then walk into the Lockwood Mansion and finally asks him if he killed Malcolm. In Ordinary People, Damon frees Stefan, seeing Lexi's approach as useless. She says that she thinks Damon was right, she doesn't even deserve to be loved. In A Bird in a Gilded Cage, Stefan arrives home looking for weapons. Klaus attacks him. They go to a bar and Stefan asks for Elena's daylight ring then and then gets down on one knee and proposes to Elena Williams (an alternate identity). Stefan was confused, worried and concerned about what was happening to Katherine and could not understand why Katherine appeared so sick and weakened all of a sudden. Clearly trying to fight his blood-lust as Charlotte tosses the corpse over to him, his fingers bloody and veins appearing underneath his eyes. He texts Valerie: "Let's keep moving". It's all part of humanity-filled Stefan's plan to help return Caroline's humanity. Klaus, however, reveals to Damon that maybe his little brother has moved on since he caught him sneaking out of Rebekah's bed this morning. After Johnathan had left, Stefan went inside to talk to his father one last time, who was shocked to see that Stefan was "alive." Connor shoots Jeremy before Elena tackles him. Sheriff Forbes surprises Caroline at Whitmore and brought all of her favorite Christmas things. Even though she chose Damon in Season 4, Stefan was still in love with Elena. Stefan and Elena arrive with Nadia to a old house, she tells them that is looking for a Traveler for do a spell where Katherine take her body. She starts to choke Damon with magic but Stefan appears behind her and she stops. Following Cade's death and Stefan being cured of his vampirism, he lost this ability along with his vampric abilities and enhancements. Damon says that this guy got his neck snapped in New York and this guy is royally pissed off. As they find out that Elena doesn't answer Damon's calls, them they realize that Elena doesn't appear. He was in Chicago with Lexi at a Bon Jovi concert, which unbeknownst to them was Katherine watching them from afar. Stefan returns to Klaus, who has extracted the wolf pack information from Ray. Downstairs, he and Damon argue about what to do next: Stefan wants to do everything they can to find a way out of Elena's transition, while Damon wants her to accept the inevitable, feed on human blood and not risk dying permanently. Katherine kidnapped Elena and posed as her, but Stefan knew where Elena was, and he gets stabbed with vervain. Stefan explains to Tyler and Caroline that the bullets were specially carved, and that if he were a normal vampire instead of a hybrid, he would be dead. Stefan asks why Damon he freed him, but Damon brushes the question off. Stefan then walks through the door and into the room Caroline is being held in. Damon objects to Stefan's idea and thinks that they have more important things to do, like tracking down the vampire hunter, but Stefan they need to do this first. After leaving New Orleans, Stefan moved to New York and while hunting a squirrel, he found the body of a young girl who was bleeding to death. She suggests it must be April Young, who was missing, and that they have to help her. She didn't think she was ready to go on her own, but her mom knew she was. He admitted that Katherine had been right and that he had to focus more on moving on from Elena than his 3 months drowning during the summer. After leaving Enzo he calls Elena (Katherine) and tells her that he wants to talk with her and Katherine invites him on Bitter Ball, although at first he refuses then accepts her offer. He expresses that he is just honored to be her date that night. Stefan insists that if Elena hurts someone, she will be desperate to turn the guilt off, maybe even enough to shut off her humanity. Julian however tried to stop their growing friendship and even romance, but they eventually have sex for the first time. Stefan asks Damon why he is trying to help him and Damn responds, "Because right now, you're all I got." However, he later tells Damon that he did it to get freedom from Klaus, not because of any feelings for his brother. They then continue their relationship (albeit physically only) as they go on a killing spree. He absorbs information very easily and is able to memorize events and dates at the top of his head as seen in. Damon is in the room with Katherine who has been torturing, Stefan asks to Damon to stop and he leave the room. A miss comes out of the sprinkling system as a woman with scabs and sores all over her face says "night, night" to them. He is then on a stretcher by the back of an ambulance and is getting checked out by a paramedic. Stefan tells Nadia that Katherine is dying. 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. She adds that Stefan is at a kegger full of hot girls, and he's single and he should have some fun. Katherine breaks his arm, and then leaves when Damon and Elena walk into the house. Elena says that as long as he's alive she's holding on hope that he can help them. She apologies for her involvement to the Salvatore's and leaves. She tries to calm Stefan but he asks if she has bags of blood, she says that she has some in the car but then Stefan disappears. Again, believing that he is drunk, the police officer arrests him and handcuffs him. Damon notices that Stefan seems to be having a hard time going back to his animal diet. Realizing that there is no food or electricity, he goes and starts up the generator. At first Stefan is shocked, but relieved when Elena sends him a text saying Damon is okay. Before he ignites it, he grabs his journal. She's angry at Stefan for not feeding her more. She initially resisted his interest, but not long after that, they became romantically involved. Later on, Stefan, Damon and Tyler begin to desiccate Klaus' body with help from Bonnie. Katherine gets rid from Vaughn for the moment. Stefan sees Enzo dead lying on the ground, and takes his phone, he sees that Damon had sent a message to Enzo before. Tripp crosses the border and dies, proving that in Stefan's absence, Enzo turned him into a vampire. Stefan had a tattoo of a rose on his right shoulder. He is the younger brother of Damon Salvatore. Characters: Stefan Salvatore, Damon Salvatore (mentioned), Matt Donovon, Tyler Lockwood, Elijah Mikaelson, Niklaus Mikaelson, Lockwood!Reader .