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You know when someone breaks up with you and there's a song that reminds you of them. First, you hate it but then it brings back all the good memories of them. Counting the bricks is my song and I've been playing it for decades.


Charlotte is a vampire, who was turned by Damon in the 1940s. She first appeared in We'll Always Have Bourbon Street, which was also her last appearance. Charlotte was sired to Damon, until he let her go in the same episode.

History

1942

It is unknown how exactly Charlotte and Damon met, but it is assumed that they met in New Orleans. In 1942, after she found out Damon was a vampire, she begged him to turn her into a vampire to be with him forever. He turned her and she became sired to him. She was madly in love with him. He asked Valerie LaMarche to help him. She proposed to help him with expression, but obviously failed as Charlotte still felt loyal to Damon in 2010. It is unclear if Valerie really tried anything to help to break the sire bond or if she only used the sacrifice to tap into expression for her own ends. The last time Charlotte saw Damon in 1942, he told her to wait for him on a street corner and to count every single brick that made the buildings in New Orleans until he returned.

Throughout the series

Season Four

When she saw Damon for the first time in decades, she surprised him with a kiss. Apparently, Charlotte helped the brothers recall the events that took place that could help them find out what is going on with Elena. When Damon found out how to break the sire bond, he broke up with Charlotte for good to encourage her to let things go, move on with her life, and more importantly to forget about him. This left Charoltte heartbroken even if she forgot what had just happened. 

Personality

Charlotte-Present

Charlotte in 2010

Her personality before becoming a vampire is unknown, but she was madly in love with Damon. When she turned into a vampire, she became sired to him, doing everything he asked, even if he was being sarcastic or ironic. She did seem to be caring by always protecting and trying to please Damon. Sadly, she loved Damon more than he could ever love her. She was aggressive when she wanted to drink blood and towards humans in general: this actually troubled Damon as the latter was trying to bond with his brother before his leave.

Physical Appearance

She is of medium height, curvy figure, pale skin, beautiful, with brown/hazel eyes, and a light brown hair, however in the daylight, she has a different hair color, bright auburn red.

Powers and Abilities

These powers grow stronger with age and blood.

  • Super Strength - Vampires are much stronger than humans and grow stronger with time. Even new vampires who are still in transition can toss a fully grown human across a room with great speed and force. Their strength is also more powerful then werewolves that are not in wolf form.
  • Super Speed - Vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion.
  • Emotional Control - The supernatural ability to control and manipulate the emotions of one's self, and others.
  • Dream Manipulation - Vampires can control dreams and subconscious. The vampires can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapped in the dreams.
  • Heightened Senses - Vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight and smell that far exceed those of humans and werewolves.
  • Mind Compulsion - Vampires have the ability to control minds, plague people's dreams, and alter/erase human memories.
  • Immortality - A vampire stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, vampires then on become immune to all conventional illness, disease, virus and infection. The only known disease or infection that can kill a vampire is a werewolf bite.
  • Healing Factor - Vampires can snap their finger bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.
  • Super Durability - Vampires can take a great amount of damage. 
  • Fangs - Vampires can grow fangs which they use to feed, they might come out when a vampire is close to blood or angered.

Weaknesses

  • Decapitation: The act of dismembering or removing the head of a vampire will result in permanent death.
  • Fire or Sunlight: The act of exposing a vampire to fire or sunlight will result in permanent death.
  • Vervain: The act of exposing or ingesting a vampire with vervain causes a vampire to become severely feverish and weak. Also, If a vampire's skin is exposed to vervain, it can result in burning them. Also vampires can't compel anyone on vervain.
  • Wood: The act of wounding a vampire with wood will cause the vampire to become severely weak and if a vampire takes a wooden stake through its heart it will result in permanent death.
  • Heart Extraction: The act of extracting or removing the heart of a vampire will result in permanent death.
  • Invitation: Vampires cannot enter a home without an invitation by the owner.
  • Magic: Vampires are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft including the creation of harmful magical objects.
  • Desiccation: Vampires who abstain from blood for extended amounts of time will eventually desiccate into mummification.
  • Vampire Bloodline: If an Original vampire dies, all vampires descended from their bloodline will slowly perish.
  • Werewolf Bite: The bite of a werewolf is extremely lethal to vampires. It will cause them to hallucinate, grow severely weak and go rabid until it kills them. Klaus' hybrid blood can cure the bite.
  • Broken Neck: Breaking a vampires neck is a common way to subdue one, it will not kill them but it will keep them unconscious for several hours and when they are still unconscious they won't have a pulse and appear to be dead.

Relationships

Damon Salvatore

Main article: Damon and Charlotte
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Damon in 1942

Damon was the stronger romance than Charlotte had in her whole life. As a human, Charlotte felt a great attraction and loyalty to Damon, when she turned vampire, loyalty is returned devotion, and the attraction in obsession. This love, caused serious problems for Damon, as Charlotte became a puppet, unable to identify sarcasm, or indirect. Eventually, Damon tried to break the sire bond with Charlotte, but she was still devoted to him. Decades later, Charlotte becomes mentally unstable but continued her love for Damon. Damon breaks up with Charlotte with the intention that she continues to existence, without more obsession and false hopes.

Name

Charlotte is of French Origin, but with Germanic roots. It is female diminutive of "Charles " (free man), and many believe the meaning is "petit" or "feminine". However, there is another interpretation - strong woman.

Appearances

Season 4

Trivia

  • Damon and her had an intimate past.
  • Charlotte is one of the most interesting and the only recurring prototype character that has been mentioned by some spoilers of Season Two, Three, and Four.
    • Season Two - Charlotte would be the progenitor of the Petrova Family, but the character's story, and name did not match the timeline of history, and was discarded.
    • Season Three - Charlotte's name was used as a way to reveal the whereabouts (cemetery) of the oldest vampire in the new world, Mikael.
    • Season Four - Charlotte would be Niklaus' former girlfriend, and was described as a woman mentally unstable and dangerous, but the idea was discarded, and in the end, Charlotte has a past with Damon.
  • Interestingly, Charlotte is considered by many fans a supernatural being -
    • In Season Two, she is considered a Doppelgänger.
    • In Season Three, she is considered a witch.
    • In Season Four, she is a vampire.
  • Charlotte is one of the Damon’s former flames, this meaning, she was sired by Damon.
  • Charlotte is the earliest (and possibly the first) known person that Damon turned into a vampire.
  • Ironically, the story of Charlotte with Damon began during World War II, the same period when planning the introduction of the Progenitor of the Petrova Family.
  • She and Lee are the only living vampires seen in one episode.
  • She, Lee, Nandi and Lucy are the only living supernatural characters to be seen in just one episode.

Gallery

See also

Template:VD Characters

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