The Vampire Diaries
Several characters fromThe Vampire Diariesappeared in the two tailspin - offs , The OriginalsandLegacies . So far , sixTVDcharacters appeared in all three show . Created by Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson , the show premier on The CW in 2009 , andThe Vampire Diariesended with season 8 in 2017 . The supernatural play serial publication established a universe fertile in lore that the tailspin - offs , The OriginalsandLegacies , built on further .
The Vampire Diariesseason 2 introduced Klaus Mikaelson , a fellow member of the Original family of lamia . The villainous Klaus rapidly became a sports fan favorite along with his siblings Rebekah and Elijah , and in 2013 the Mikaelsons got their own spin - off , TheOriginals . At the 2017 Comic - Con , the show ’s Almighty Plec announced season 5 would be the show ’s last and then , in 2108 , The CW order the spin - offLegacies(also created by Plec ) . The show follows Klaus ' girl Hope Mikaelson and a new genesis of supernatural being as they attend The Salvatore School for the Young & Gifted ( Caroline Forbes and Alaric Saltzman get going the embarkment schoolduring season 8 ofThe Vampire Diaries).While all three series are fused with overlapping canyon , The Originalsfound its own fanbase and worked well as a standalone serial . Legacieshas done the same .
That does n’t intend viewer were n’t aroused to see the like of Tyler Lockwood , Stefan , Nina Dobrev ( the first Petrova doppelganger Tatia ) , and Caroline during their crossover voter appearances onThe Originals . With a few notable exceptions , Plec has n’t had much hazard entice conversant faces from either ofLegacies’predecessors to recapitulate their roles . Steven R. McQueen ( Jeremy Gilbert ) , Chris Wood ( Kai Parker ) , Matt Roerig ( Matt Donovan ) , Jodi Lynn O’Keefe ( Jo Laughlin ) , andThe Originals’Riley Voelkel ( Freya Mikaelson ) have all made appearances . Joseph Morgan ( Klaus ) , Ian Somerhalder ( Damon ) , and Kat Graham ( Bonnie Bennett ) have all said they have no interest in revisiting their characters . Dobrev and Candice King ( Caroline ) have been more non - committal . King ’s absence attempt to be increasingly baffling , especially throw Josie ’s downward whorl and the Gemini twins ' muck up - up merge during season 2 . Five role have appeared on all three serial , but withLegaciesrenewed for time of year 3 , fan can contain out hope that bit will increase .
Alaric Saltzman
Alaric Saltzman was a series steady onThe Vampire Diaries . He arrive in Mystic Falls during season 1 , installment 9 , " story Repeating . " Throughout the serial , Alaric went from being a human to an Enhanced Original to a wraith and back to humans . He was best friend with Damon and served as a guardian to Elena and Jeremy . Alaric fell in love with Jo , who became meaning with twins . After Jo was stamp out on their hymeneals day during time of year 6 ’s next-to-last sequence , Alaric learned the Gemini Coven channel his children into Caroline ’s womb . The two became engaged for a short time , and following Stefan Salvatore ’s death , he and Caroline start the Salvatore School to allow for a seaport for supernatural kid .
Alaric appear onThe Originalsseason 4 , episode 8 , " Voodoo in My lineage . " Alaric jaunt from Mystic Falls to save an artifactcrucial to defeating the Hollow . Alaric met eight - year - quondam Hope and urged Klaus to send his daughter to the Salvatore School . In time of year 4 , installment " The Feast of All Sinners , " Hayley enter Hope in the Salvatore School , and Alaric promised he was doing his part to make the next genesis of supernatural people well-situated with who they are . During season 5 , episode 8 , " The Tale of Two Wolves , " Klaus showed up at the Salvatore School and tap Caroline to let her daughters siphon the evil Hollow from Hope and locate it into him . Alaric was adamantly play off to the program until Klaus let on he planned to pour down himself with a White Oak bet once the transfer of training was complete .
OnLegacies , Alaric is a key character who come out in the first episode of time of year 1 . He serves as the acting master of the Salvatore School while Caroline has been traveling the world looking for a way to save Lizzie and Josie from the Merge . He ’s very unaired to Hope and relies on her the most when it comes to fending off the never - end attack of big bads that manage to infiltrate the school . Jeremy work for Alaricfrom prison term to time , and even though Bonnie has never appear on the show , he and the girls remain in contact with her . It also look as if Alaric and Damon vivify their fractured friendship since Damon gave Lizzie and Josie his beloved brawn car as a gift for the Sweet Sixteen .
Lizzie & Josie Saltzman
Jo and Alaric ’s daughter Lizzie and Josie were inclose in season 7 ofThe Vampire Diaries . When Kai killed his significant sister on her wedding day during season 6 ’s penultimate instalment , theGemini witches set the babies into Caroline ’s wombto guarantee their coven future . Josie and Lizzie descend their great power from siphon magical objects . Lizzie ( Tierney Smith ) and Josie ( Lily Rose Smith ) serve as Alaric and Caroline ’s divine guidance for the Salvatore School : a shoes where their daughters would be safe from the outside humanity and where they could learn to command their might . By the oddment of the serial publication , the girls were 5 - years - former .
The twins appeared onThe Originalsseason 5 , episode 12 , " The Tale of Two Wolves . " Elijah , Klaus , and Hope traveled to Mystic Falls to find a way to save Hope from being consume by the Hollow . Klaus appearedand convinced Caroline to get her 13 - year - sure-enough daughters ( both students at the Salvatore School along with Hope ) to siphon the evil liveliness from Hope and place it in him instead . Bella Samman represent Josie , and Allison Gobuzzi played Lizzie .
Fifteen - year - olds Lizzie ( Jenny Boyd ) and Josie ( Kaylee Bryant ) made their first appearing onLegaciesduring time of year 1 , episode 1 . They are key characters in the series , along with Hope Mikaelson . Lizzie is spoiled , vain , and ego - concentrate on ( reminiscent of a immature Caroline ) , but incredibly to her sister Josie who , until she became consumed by dark thaumaturgy , was the sweet and more accommodative of the two . It ’s inferred theteens are near to Bonnie Bennett , who they advert to as " Aunt Bonnie . " Lizzie has inherit the mental instability that guide rearing among phallus of the Gemini Coven . Their sisterly hamper was try out during season 2 ’s premature Merge , and it ’s unclear if either of them emerged victoriously or how they ’ll make up in the consequence .
Dorian Williams
Dorian Williams ( Demetrius Bridges ) made hisVampire Diaries’debut during time of year 8 , episode 1 , " Hello Brother . " Dorian was a college scholarly person who act as an intern for Alaric at the Armory . Dorian believed his sept died in a firm fire , but it was really Stefan who butcher them . AfterBonnie shoot Stefan with the Cure , everyone he compelled began to remember , and Dorian kidnapped Stefan , concur him at point , and eventually pip him . Dorian immediately regretted his action . Eager to atone for his sins , Stefan give Dorian the ammo to bestow him to justice , but Dorian took Matt Donovan ’s advice to set apart the past and focus on micturate a better time to come .
On theVampire Diariesseries finis , Dorian was working at the Salvatore School . He made a very brief cameo inThe Originalsseason 5 , sequence 1 , " Where You Left Your Heart . " After Hope turn over a class fellow her lineage so he could become a hybrid , Dorian informed her Alaric was suspending her and institutionalise her back to New Orleans . The cameo only service to affirm Dorian was still working for Alaric .
Dorian is also a recurring type onLegacies . In season 1 , episode 1 , " This Is the Part Where You Run , " Lizzie and Josie told Rafael Waithe that Dorian is the school ’s librarian . In time of year 1 , instalment 15 , " I ’ll Tell You a Story , " Dorian told Alaric his original purpose for working at the Salvatore School was due to his father and babe ’s expiry . He want to help contain the bookman from becoming killer , however , over prison term , his attitude change , and he stopped watch them as threat and now believes they deserve a shot at a normal life-time as much as anyone .
Matt Donovan
Matt Donovan debut in the first sequence ofThe Vampire Diaries , playing Elena Gilbert ’s jilted puerility sweetheart ( Matt and Elena injure up together in Plec ’s original conclusion . ) Throughout the serial publication , Matt was the only one of his friends to continue human . As the serial progressed , Matt grow progressively resentful of the comportment of vampires in Mystic Falls . He incur himself torn between remain loyal to his protagonist and protecting the unacquainted people who were often treated as verificatory damage .
The Originalsseason 3 , episode 17 , " Behind the Black Horizon . " Matt , the townspeople sheriff , was forced to help Finn and Elijah rescue Freya from Lucien Castle . Matt had banished vampires from Mystic Falls , but he did n’t tolerate a opportunity of surviving a showdown with not one but two Originals who endanger to remove Matt if he try out to stand in their way .
Matt first seem onLegaciesin the net moment of time of year 1 , episode 1 , " This Is the Part Where You go " and is one of the few multitude in Mystic Falls who knows the true purpose of the school . Hope advert the Sheriff of Mystic Falls to Landon Kirby , state he occasionally fall away verbena into the coffee at a gas place outside Mystic Falls . After a coach ram under mystical circumstance exit everyone on board dead , Matt give Alaric and Hope a first looking at the wreckage . In season 1 , sequence 4 " Hope Is Not the Goal , " Matt search to Alaric and some of his educatee for help when two local miss go miss , but Matt could n’t shake his suspicions someone at the Salvatore School was involved . During time of year 2,LegaciesrevealedThe Vampire Diaries’Matt had become mayor of Mystic Falls .
Rebekah Mikaelson
The sole femaleOriginal lamia Rebekah Mikaelson ( Claire Holt)appeared inLegaciesseason 4 , episode 5 , " I Thought You ’d Be Happier To See Me . " Rebekah go after down her niece , Hope , during the young woman ’s time of need . The Original vampire was first bring in inThe Vampire Diariesseason 3 ; she is the 2nd girl of Mikael and Esther , and was resurrected by Klaus in 2010 in club to aid him connect with the Original Witch . Rebekah served as a romantic challenger for Elena ; she became romantically involved with both Stefan and Damon Salvatore briefly , before pursue a more serious relationship with the human Matt Donovan . She was a resort theatrical role inThe Vampire Diariesseason 4 and 5 , then followed her Brother Klaus and Elijah back to New Orleans .
Rebekah was the female protagonist inThe original . Initially , she wished to break free from Klaus and live her own life ; although she was able-bodied to go bouncy " normal " life for some fourth dimension , she inevitably was string back to New Orleans to help her family — which let in becoming Hope ’s guardian . By the end ofThe Originals , Rebekah had declare oneself to Marcel , and presumptively the two are live happily ever after duringLegacies .
Other Vampire Diaries & Originals Characters Who Could Appear In Legacies
prospicient - timeThe Vampire Diariesfans have no doubt been wondering if Caroline will ever show up inLegacies . Caroline Forbes Salvator ( Candice King ) was a main theatrical role inTVD ; in the beginning a man and the undecomposed friend of Elena , Caroline was turned into a vampire when Katherine Pierce killed her after Damon had used his rake to heal Caroline . ThroughoutThe Vampire Diaries , Caroline ’s electric arc largely involved her learning to deal with her new predatory instincts and supernatural might — as well as her burgeon love life . After her relationship with Matt Donovan fell apart , Caroline quest for a romantic relationship with Stefan , and the two finally married .
AlthoughCaroline Forbes has n’t appear inLegaciesyet , she has been mentioned many meter . The character had a guest show in the final time of year ofThe master copy ; she’sSaltzman match mother , and — based on the ending ofThe Vampire Diaries — she was signify to be start the Salvatore School with Alaric . It would be out of the question to tell the story inLegacieswithout Caroline , and the Twin Falls ' female parent has been spell into the show via unheard phone conversations and other references ( they even recorded a voiceover for the musical sequence ) . So far though , the actress Candice King has not appeared onscreen in theTVDspin - off .
There are several lineament fromThe Vampire DiariesandThe Originalswho could still appear inLegacies . The scoundrel Finn Mikaelson ( Casper Zafer ) first appear inTVDand then was resurrect inThe master copy . Marcel Gerard ( Charles Michael Davis ) was also in both shows but has yet to make an appearance onLegacies . And of course Bonnie Bennet ( Kat Graham ) , another principal character fromTVD , is due for an appearance in some manikin — she has been refer in both twirl - offs , but the actress has yet to reprise the role in the latestThe Vampire Diariesspin - off .
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