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Damon Salvatore
Biographical information
Born
  • October 30, 1470 [1]
Turned
Marital status
  • Single
Alias
  • Damon Smith
Titles
  • Condottiero
Physical description
Species
Gender
  • Male
Height
  • Between 5'7 - 5'9
Hair colour
  • Black
Eye colour
  • Black
Skin colour
  • White
Family information
Family members
Animal transformation
  • Crow
  • Wolf
Affiliation
Occupation
Turned by
Sires
Loyalty
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"Little brother, the world is full of what you call 'wrong'. Why not relax and join the winning side? It's much more fun, I assure you."
—Damon to Stefan[src]

Damon Salvatore (b. October 30, 1470[1][3][4]) was the eldest son of Conte and Contessa di Salvatore and the older brother of Stefan. He and his brother were fed vampire blood by Katarina von Swartzschild and, after Katarina staged her death, both became vampires after they killed each other.

In 1991, Damon and Stefan, who developed a hatred of each other over who was to blame for Katarina's apparent death, were led to Fell's Church, Virginia by the very vampire they believed was dead. There, they met Elena Gilbert, who had a strong resemblance to her. Both fell in love with her, which resulted in Katarina unsuccessfully attempting to kill all three of them, though Elena managed to kill her. Shortly after, Damon helped in the fight against Klaus, and later against Shinichi and Misao.

Biography[]

Childhood[]

[5]

15th-20th century[]

Arrival in Fell's Church[]

Physical description[]

"Well…perhaps not quite ordinary. He was remarkably good-looking. His face was pale in the artificial twilight, but she could see that his features were cleanly defined and nearly perfect under a shock of dark hair. Those cheekbones were a sculptor’s dream."
—Description[src]

Damon had dark, fine straight hair,[6] pale skin,[7]black eyes,[8]and a compact body.[9]

Damon has habit of wearing all black and dressing in a casual manner.[10][11]In the 15th Century he dressed in the fashion befitting a noble in that era.[12]

Personality and traits[]

"Charming as he seemed, Damon was dangerous almost beyond imagination. That graceful, lounging body was ten times stronger than a human's. Those lazy dark eyes were adapted to seeing perfectly at night. The long-fingered hand that had pulled her up to the roof could move with impossible quickness. And, most disturbing of all, his mind was the mind of a killer. A predator. She could feel it just beneath his surface. He was different from a human. He had lived so long by hunting and killing that he'd forgotten any other way. And he enjoyed it, not fighting his nature as Stefan did, but glorying in it. He had no morals and no conscience, and she was trapped here with him in the middle of the night."
—Description[src]

Relationships[]

Parents[]

Stefan Salvatore[]

Katarina von Swartzschild[]

Elena Gilbert[]

Bonnie McCullough[]

Behind the scenes[]

Etymology[]

  • Damon is a Greek name meaning one who tames or subdues.
  • Salvatore is an Italian name meaning Savior.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Damon was able to pass for a university student (which, indeed, he was when he was Changed) and is often described as being a young man. As such, he could have been no more than a few years older than Stefan, whom he could be mistaken for.
  2. Damon and Stefan are said to have been Changed by Katherine "almost half a millennium" ago in, among other places, the sixteenth chapter of The Return: Nightfall. As this book takes place in 1992, this must mean that the brothers were changed in 1491 or later. As Stefan was born between 1473, the latest that he could have been Changed (as he was eighteen years of age at the time) is 1491 (taking into account the possibility that he was turned in the year that he would have turned nineteen). As Damon was Changed at the same time, this dates also prove true for him.
  3. Damon: She [Elena] thought he was two and a half years older than she was. (Evensong: Paradise Lost)
  4. Stefan: They had it all wrong. The wrong age for Damon, who had been just-turned-twenty-one for five hundred years. (Evensong: Paradise Lost)
  5. He was still Damon, and he'd be a lot happier without the weight of all that hatred and prejudice and cruelty. He wouldn't keep remembering his youth and the other young blades who'd mocked his father for being an old fool, with his disastrous investments and his mistresses younger than his own sons. Neither would he endlessly dwell on his own childhood, when that same father had beaten him in drunken rages when he neglected his studies or took up with objectionable companions. And, finally, he would not go on savoring and contemplating the many terrible things he'd done himself." (The Return: Nightfall - Chapter 34)
  6. Her [Bonnie] eyes went to Damon's hair, finer and straighter than Stefan's. Dark Reunion - Chapter 5
  7. The Awakening
  8. They were as black as the spaces in between the stars. (Dark Reunion)
  9. Damon didn't care that much for tall girls because he wasn't very tall himself. (After Hours)
  10. And he’d been almost invisible because he was wearing black: soft black boots, black jeans, black sweater, and leather jacket. (The Awakening)
  11. The Return: Nightfall
  12. The Awakening
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