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[miseternity]

[nick / name]: Tiffany
[personal LJ name]: arcesso
[other characters currently played]: Elle Bishop :: Heroes :: causeblackouts
[e-mail]: live.infamy@gmail.com
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[miseternity]

[character history / background]:Damon was born sometime in the 19th century, the eldest son of Giuseppe Salvatore, who never really approved of him, exactly. He returns to Mystic Falls, their hometown, after what appears to be a long absence when he's 25 and a soldier fighting for the confederacy. He and his brother meet Katherine Pierce, a vampire, and her handmaid Emily Bennett, a witch, and immediately begin to fight over Katherine's affections. Katherine plays them both like a fiddle and after compelling Stefan for some time into allowing her to feed on him, and simply having Damon so intrinsically wrapped around her finger that he allowed it, she feeds them both her blood. Damon willingly drinks it, and Katherine doesn't need to compel him at all except to get him to let the Stefan thing go and be less jealous. At his behest, she demonstrates to him how she hunts and she teaches him a lot of things about the extent of a vampire's abilities -- it's because of this and the human blood diet that Damon is stronger and has a broader range of skills than Stefan.

Then, one night, Jonathan Gilbert leads a siege on the vampires of Mystic Falls and locks them all in a church that he burns to the ground. Stefan sells out Katherine and her posse by accidentally telling his father about them, Damon is horrified. Giuseppe doses Stefan with vervain to knock Katherine out and drag her away. The boys both try to save Katherine and get shot for their efforts, but because they had been feeding on her blood, they don't die.

Damon is secretly aware that Katherine and her posse hid out in a tomb beneath the church with the help of a binding spell that Emily placed on it. Damon and Stefan wake up from death to realize that they've become vampires, but the transformation won't be complete until they feed on a human. Damon refuses and decides to sit it out and wait for death, but Stefan goes through with it. When he discovers the enhanced senses and powers of a vampire, he encourages Damon to do the same and tempts him with blood. Damon gives in and the two become vampires. Some time in the next 140 years, they separate.

Fast forward to 2009. Stefan and Damon both return to Mystic Falls for separate reasons. Stefan meets Elena when he tries to save her and her parents from a car wreck, Damon just wants to wait for the night of the comet to get Katherine out of her tomb and then raze the town for their crimes. He kills a few people, taunts Elena and Stefan, and generally causes a raucous in the town. Stefan poisons Damon by giving Caroline, the girl he was routinely feeding on, vervain. They lock Damon up in the Salvatore boarding house and Damon starves for a while until he can summon Caroline to him to free him. He then feeds on Vicki Donovan, keeping her in the Salvatore boarding house with him during the daylight hours and feeding one another their blood. Damon turns her, and Stefan tries to prevent Vicki from feeding on human blood to complete the transformation. However, when out in the woods Stefan and Vicki are attacked by Logan, Damon saves Stefan and Vicki feeds on Logan to complete the transformation.

At a Halloween Party, Vicki attacks and the Salvatores and Elena are forced to kill her in front of Jeremy, Elena's brother who has a thing for Vicki. Damon erases his memories to "take away his pain" for Elena's sake. Damon gets in with the local vampire-hunting circle that is in the town's structure and throws a vampire friend of Damon's under the bus for all of the killings that he and Vicki committed. Alaric rolls into town with plans to kill Damon, and Damon reveals that the amber crystal he stole belonged to Emily and will free Katherine from the tomb when a ritual is performed. Emily, however, possesses Bonnie and destroys the crystal to prevent Damon from getting inside because she wants to protect her descendants from vampires.