forever we're young and we are dying

Name: Katherine Pierce
Door: left - love scares the hell out of me

Canon: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: early 4 x 19

Age: physically - 18 | actual - 539
Appearance: LINK

History: WIKIA
Personality:
+ INDEPENDENT : Katherine Pierce, also called Katerina Petrova, has not lead an easy life. First she was cast out by her family as a teenager for having a child young and out of wedlock. Then the young girl was targeted by Niklaus Mikaelson for her bloodline in helping break a curse, resulting in Katerina turning into a vampire in the first place. Katherine learned quickly in her young life that she was alone in this world and could depend on no one else. Spending five centuries running for her life, Katherine developed a strong sense of independence. While Katherine doesn't shy away from company where she can safely find it, she's just as happy to do things on her own. Sometimes even more than happy to do them herself. Katherine is a strong believer in taking her fate into her own hands, and thus does as much as she can to not be reliant on others.

- SELF-PRESERVATION : The flipside of Katherine's independence is her strong sense of self-preservation. For most, this might be a healthy thing. But in Katherine, this sense is only heightened by her fierce independence. It drives Katherine to a near self-imposed solitude. It makes it hard for her to be trustworthy, and harder to trust others. This trait also fuels many of Katherine's other negative traits. While it's not her central negative quality, it is the one that informs on her strongest ones.

- MANIPULATIVE : In her bid for independence and survival, Katherine has learned the art of manipulation. While Katherine has her compulsion for her strongest manipulation tool, she doesn't need it to get what she wants. Katherine knows how to play a person, whether it's through seduction, kindness, innocence, vulnerability, or exploiting their fears. She will always find a way to get someone to do what she wants. This is part of why her self-preservation makes her completely untrustworthy. At the end of the day, most of her actions are fueled to her greater desire to survive. She uses people and manipulates them into letting her use them to ensure her survival.

- SELFISH : As Katherine herself has said "I always get what I want." Katherine will wield her manipulation to obtain anything she desires. While this is primarily used for self-preservation, it is also used for much more selfish desires. Katherine is not without her own wants and needs. She wants to find love, after all, and she loves having nice things on top of it. Ultimately, if Katherine wants and can take it without endangering her life, she will.

Powers and Abilities:

VAMPIRE ⇢ Katherine Pierce is a vampire. Vampires originate from the Original vampires, whose bloodline is what created all vampires that live today. If someone from the Original family dies, everyone sired from their bloodline dies as well. Killing the Original family effectively kills the entire vampire race. The Original family was human in the 10th century, but when one of their brothers died their parents found a way to turn them into immortal vampires. Their mother, a powerful witch named Esther, performed the ritual by feeding blood to her children and using the White Oak tree to give them immortality.

As a vampire, Katherine has many strengths:

ENHANCED ABILITIES : Super strength, speed, and senses. Vampires are strong at birth, and the older a vampire is the stronger they are. Vampires are more agile and move, jump, and flex more easily. Katherine’s senses are also heightened to where she has the ability to see farther, clearer in the dark, hear better, smell better, and any other such thing. Typically, these senses are not activated all at once, as that might get overwhelming. Katherine utilizes these senses by focusing in on what she wants to hear, see, etc.

HEALING/DURABILITY : Vampires are able to survive nearly any attack on them. They will heal from any injury, so long as nothing is obstructing the wound. They can even have their necks snapped and ‘die’ and still heal themselves and revive again. They are able to withstand more pain and trauma as well. They do feel it, though, and have to bear the pain no matter how much they can survive it/heal it.

CONTROL : Vampires have heightened emotions at the time of their change. To cope with the feelings of intense guilt, sadness, depression, etc., vampires are able to ‘turn off/turn on’ their ‘humanity switch,’ as they often call it. This numbs those emotions and allows vampires to act without remorse. Rose suggests, however, that older vampires don’t have that switch anymore. After awhile it all just becomes as it is meant to be.

DREAM MANIPULATION : All vampires have the abilities to affect the dreams of people sleeping, manipulating them the way that they want to. This can be used for better or worse, and is able to be detected if the person affected pays enough attention.

COMPULSION : All vampires have the ability to compel people by looking into their eyes and making them do what they want, usually by voice command. This can be used to dictate a command or even change someone’s thinking patterns/erase memories/etc. If a compelled person is turned, though, everything they were compelled to do returns to them. So if they were compelled to forget, they will remember everything after turning. However, it is shown that a human with great control over their minds can resist compulsion. It takes great effort, though. Bill Forbes trained for decades to be able to resist compulsion.

IMMORTALITY : Vampires cease aging at the time of their turn. They can live forever, and won’t die of natural causes. Only outside forces can kill a vampire. Vampires are immune to sicknesses, as well. They are only affected by poisons generated from one of their weaknesses.

HEALING PROPERTIES : These properties are found in the blood of vampires. Vampire blood can heal any injury that it could heal in a vampire. It does create the risk of the human potentially dying while vampire blood is in their system, though.

Vampires are not without weaknesses, however:

FIRE/SUNLIGHT : Sunlight and fire are deadly to a vampire. They can stand in the sunlight for a short time, but it burns and is extremely painful to do so. And standing outside in sunlight only accelerates the burning until the person bursts into flames and burns to death. The only way to go out in the sun without pain is to wear something with lapis lazuli that is spelled by a witch to allow that wearer into the sunlight. Katherine has a bracelet with this spell on it.

WHITE OAK ASH DAGGER : While potentially not dangerous to vampires ( unless through the heart ), any vampire that uses the white oak ash dagger on an Original will die. The dagger can only be wielded by a human, according to rumors.

VERVAIN : The flowers were found at the base of the white oak tree that gave the Original family immortality. Touching the flower burns anyon. A human on vervain is dangerous to a vampire. Their blood will taste of vervain and poison a vampire. They also cannot be compelled so long as they have vervain on them or in their system.

STAKES : Wooden stakes are a sure way to kill a vampire. A wooden stake in the heart is immediate death. Wooden stakes through any part can immobilize a vampire or greatly injure or both. At one point, another vampire is shown to be kept pinned to her desk with two wood pencils in her hands. Nothing holds her down, but the pencils through her hands keep her from being able to lift her hands or remove them herself. Wooden bullets are dangerous, but if they don’t hit the heart they only hurt severely.

INVITATION : Homes that are owned by a person in any way cannot be entered without invitation. Once allowed in, you cannot uninvite a vampire. Homes with only vampires living in them and no human owner can be entered freely. Being inside a home where they are not invited is disorienting, crushing, painful, and smothering.

MAGIC : Magic can weaken a vampire. Witches are often shown to use aneurysms to bring down a vampire, as it causes great pain while they constantly try to heal from the injury. Other magic is just as dangerous, it all depends on how the witch uses their magic.

DESSICATION : Vampires who go days without blood will dry out and desiccate. Going a week leaves them fully desiccated. Witches are also able to perform a spell that does this instantly.

WEREWOLF VENOM : The myth about werewolf bites is true, and even a scratch from the teeth of a werewolf can kill a vampire.

Inventory:
1. Lapis Lazuli Daylight Bracelet (allows her to walk in daylight unharmed)
2. Leather jacket
3. High fashion heels

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