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ELENA GILBERT
dear diary, today will be different
ABOUT
AGE: Canonically 17 or 18, depending on the season.
VISUAL: Elena has long, dark brown hair that is often straightened, though sometimes is worn in loose curls on special occasions. It is naturally wavy. She has expressive almond-shaped brown eyes. Slim with an average build, she is athletic through years of cheerleading and gymnastics. She often dresses casually in warm colors paired with jeans, sneakers or boots.
AURAL: Elena has a low, sometimes husky voice. She rarely raises it unless emotional or angry.
DEMEANOR: At first impression, Elena is warm, kind, and friendly, if reserved. She is a naturally compassionate person grappling with depression from the loss of her parents. That sadness shows, but she does her best every day to get up and keep going, and sometimes even has fun. She has an unexpected, dry sense of humor.
VISUAL: Elena has long, dark brown hair that is often straightened, though sometimes is worn in loose curls on special occasions. It is naturally wavy. She has expressive almond-shaped brown eyes. Slim with an average build, she is athletic through years of cheerleading and gymnastics. She often dresses casually in warm colors paired with jeans, sneakers or boots.
AURAL: Elena has a low, sometimes husky voice. She rarely raises it unless emotional or angry.
DEMEANOR: At first impression, Elena is warm, kind, and friendly, if reserved. She is a naturally compassionate person grappling with depression from the loss of her parents. That sadness shows, but she does her best every day to get up and keep going, and sometimes even has fun. She has an unexpected, dry sense of humor.
she survived whatever happened.
she forgave;
SPECIES
Elena is human, but she is also the doppelgänger, a supernatural occurrence created by nature to find balance after the creation of immortals. Nature found that balance by creating mortal shadow selves that could die. For this reason, doppelgängers have existed for as long as immortals.
Elena is merely the last iteration of the doppelgänger. She is physically identical to all the ones before her. Her blood is special, carrying magical properties that have been used in immortality spells for thousands of years. Besides this, there is nothing that sets Elena apart from the average human - she has the same strength and mental defenses as anyone else.
Elena is merely the last iteration of the doppelgänger. She is physically identical to all the ones before her. Her blood is special, carrying magical properties that have been used in immortality spells for thousands of years. Besides this, there is nothing that sets Elena apart from the average human - she has the same strength and mental defenses as anyone else.
PERSONALITY
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After Elena Gilbert’s parents died, she pledged that she wouldn't be the sad little girl who killed lost her parents: she would be someone different. She will answer, “I'm fine” when someone asks how she is, but never really wants to know. She will be the invincible, bright girl she was before that night, no matter how unrealistic it is. She will survive because the truth is Elena doesn't know what else she can do. No one can tell her why she's alive and the people she loves most are dead.
That is the crux of every decision Elena makes – be it accepting (and loving, and forgiving, and identifying with) morally questionable vampires, or sacrificing herself to save her friends and family. It’s about how scared she is of losing them, because she seems to lose them at every turn, and that’s all her fault. None of this would happen if she didn’t exist - as merely a normal girl and as she later finds out, the doppelgänger. She is determined to avoid loss more so than dying, if not more so than saving everyone simply because it's the right thing to do.
And yet despite all the sadness and guilt she carries, she still believes that there is good to find and experience in the world. She continues to keep living and wanting to live a normal (or normal enough) life, searching however blindly for a reason besides there's no other option. She keeps trying, because if Elena's anything at the end of the day she's a fighter - not just a survivor.
That is the crux of every decision Elena makes – be it accepting (and loving, and forgiving, and identifying with) morally questionable vampires, or sacrificing herself to save her friends and family. It’s about how scared she is of losing them, because she seems to lose them at every turn, and that’s all her fault. None of this would happen if she didn’t exist - as merely a normal girl and as she later finds out, the doppelgänger. She is determined to avoid loss more so than dying, if not more so than saving everyone simply because it's the right thing to do.
And yet despite all the sadness and guilt she carries, she still believes that there is good to find and experience in the world. She continues to keep living and wanting to live a normal (or normal enough) life, searching however blindly for a reason besides there's no other option. She keeps trying, because if Elena's anything at the end of the day she's a fighter - not just a survivor.
SHE BECAME.
