Appearance: Being a doppelganger, Elena is identical to her ancestor, Katherine Pierce. In fact, the only real different is that Elena has straight hair. She has long brown hair, and a slightly darker complexion than most, as a call to her faint Bulgarian ancestry, on the Petrova side. At first glance, this sweet young girl doesn't look very intimidating, or at all out of the ordinary. Elena has a fairly innocent face, except when she vamps out. In that case, her pupils darken, and veins bulge around her eyes, while fangs lower themselves in her teeth.
Because of her sixteen year old appearance, Elena generally dresses in darker colours to make herself look older, for cases where being young just doesn't cut it (i.e. bar picking). And because she is the type to care about her appearance, as we can see from the type of clothing she wore at the very beginning of the series, she's usually dressed fashionably.
Personality: Though Elena is identical in appearance, and nature, to her ancestor, Katherine, she is the exact opposite in personality, even after her transition into a vampire. Elena is at heart, a very friendly person and very loyal. The best friends she had were ones she'd known since they were children, and she'd go to any lengths for the people she cared about. She's shown this numerous times, for Bonnie and Caroline. She was considered one of the most popular girls in school due to this, and had no problem with guys either, seeing as she was going out with the captain of the football team.
Of course, after the car crash that ended her parents' lives, and changed hers forever, she changed considerably from that girl next door. Elena has a tendency to blame things on herself as she cares a lot about other people, even those she probably shouldn't. As a result, she holds a lot of self-hate for what happened that night on Wickery Bridge, since it was because of her that her adopted parents, Miranda and Grayson, had even been out that night. It was her fault that they died, and that Jeremy was left without parents. She manages to bury it deep down, with the aid of her super vampire emotion switch, but sometimes wished that Stefan had saved them instead of her.
Speaking of emotion switch, she has abused this vampiric privilege once. And when she did, surprisingly, she wasn't like Katherine, who was hard and manipulative in a seductive manner. Elena took after Isobel, her biological mother, in that aspect; she became cold and unfeeling, just how she wanted. But after coming back to Mystic Falls and seeing Jeremy again, she realized that she wanted to be a part of his life and now she had the strength to protect him. But to do that, she would have to let her emotions come back. And she's come a long way from how she was then, though at times, Elena still finds it difficult to empathize, or understand why someone would find something so disastrous.
As a vampire, Elena started out with Stefan as her mentor, so naturally, that included the all-animal diet and whatnot, but after that first taste of human blood she had while transitioning, it just wasn't enough. But she put up with it, both because she didn't want to feed from humans, and because she didn't want to alienate Stefan, who was her only companion and the only one who could teach her how to get through this. But after meeting Damon, and after her fairly merciless spree of feedings, Elena learned that you could take pleasure in feeding from humans, and give pleasure back, without killing them. Surprisingly, the most difficult part of the vampire abilities for her to accept, was the ability to compel people. Morally, she was reluctant to control people's minds, except in the case of extreme emergency or need.
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Character: Elena Gilbert
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Canon: Vampire Diaries (AU)
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Age: 16 (mentally 17)
Appearance: Being a doppelganger, Elena is identical to her ancestor, Katherine Pierce. In fact, the only real different is that Elena has straight hair. She has long brown hair, and a slightly darker complexion than most, as a call to her faint Bulgarian ancestry, on the Petrova side. At first glance, this sweet young girl doesn't look very intimidating, or at all out of the ordinary. Elena has a fairly innocent face, except when she vamps out. In that case, her pupils darken, and veins bulge around her eyes, while fangs lower themselves in her teeth.
Because of her sixteen year old appearance, Elena generally dresses in darker colours to make herself look older, for cases where being young just doesn't cut it (i.e. bar picking). And because she is the type to care about her appearance, as we can see from the type of clothing she wore at the very beginning of the series, she's usually dressed fashionably.
Personality: Though Elena is identical in appearance, and nature, to her ancestor, Katherine, she is the exact opposite in personality, even after her transition into a vampire. Elena is at heart, a very friendly person and very loyal. The best friends she had were ones she'd known since they were children, and she'd go to any lengths for the people she cared about. She's shown this numerous times, for Bonnie and Caroline. She was considered one of the most popular girls in school due to this, and had no problem with guys either, seeing as she was going out with the captain of the football team.
Of course, after the car crash that ended her parents' lives, and changed hers forever, she changed considerably from that girl next door. Elena has a tendency to blame things on herself as she cares a lot about other people, even those she probably shouldn't. As a result, she holds a lot of self-hate for what happened that night on Wickery Bridge, since it was because of her that her adopted parents, Miranda and Grayson, had even been out that night. It was her fault that they died, and that Jeremy was left without parents. She manages to bury it deep down, with the aid of her super vampire emotion switch, but sometimes wished that Stefan had saved them instead of her.
Speaking of emotion switch, she has abused this vampiric privilege once. And when she did, surprisingly, she wasn't like Katherine, who was hard and manipulative in a seductive manner. Elena took after Isobel, her biological mother, in that aspect; she became cold and unfeeling, just how she wanted. But after coming back to Mystic Falls and seeing Jeremy again, she realized that she wanted to be a part of his life and now she had the strength to protect him. But to do that, she would have to let her emotions come back. And she's come a long way from how she was then, though at times, Elena still finds it difficult to empathize, or understand why someone would find something so disastrous.
As a vampire, Elena started out with Stefan as her mentor, so naturally, that included the all-animal diet and whatnot, but after that first taste of human blood she had while transitioning, it just wasn't enough. But she put up with it, both because she didn't want to feed from humans, and because she didn't want to alienate Stefan, who was her only companion and the only one who could teach her how to get through this. But after meeting Damon, and after her fairly merciless spree of feedings, Elena learned that you could take pleasure in feeding from humans, and give pleasure back, without killing them. Surprisingly, the most difficult part of the vampire abilities for her to accept, was the ability to compel people. Morally, she was reluctant to control people's minds, except in the case of extreme emergency or need.