Margaret Gilbert

Margaret Gilbert
Biographical information
Born	1987
Status	Alive
Occupation	Elementary Student
Species	Human/Angel Hybrid
Gender	Female
Family information
Family Members	Principle Guardians (Maternal Ancestors) Celestial Guardians (Maternal Ancestors) The Blonde Guardians (Maternal Ancestors) Other Angels (Maternal Ancestors) Ryannen (Maternal Relative) Mylea (Maternal Relative) Thomas Gilbert † (Father) Elizabeth Gilbert † (Mother) Judith Gilbert-Maxwell (Legal Guardian/Paternal Aunt) Katherine von Swartzschild † (Maternal Older Half-Sister) Elena Gilbert (Older Sister) Breanna † (Cousin) Paternal Grandfather † Paternal Grandmother † Tilda (Great-Aunt) 2nd Unnamed Great-Aunt 3rd Unnamed Great-Aunt
Appearance
First seen	The Awakening
Last seen	The Salvation: Unseen The Salvation: Unmasked (Mentioned) (Official) Evensong: Paradise Lost (Fanfic)

Margaret Gilbert is a character of The Vampire Diaries novel series. She is the youngest daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gilbert, the niece of Judith and Robert Maxwell, the younger sister of Elena Gilbert. When her parents died, she was only a year old, therefore, she barely has any memory of them.

Appearance

Physically, she is described to have a strong physical resemblance to her elder sister Elena. She has white platinum blonde hair, very fair skin with peachy colored cheeks, and light blue eyes.

Personality

Due to her very young age Margaret is ingenuous to Elena's desire to protect her from any harm and was gullible to accept the explanation of Elena being appointed her guardian angel after being visited by her.

Name

• Margaret is a feminine name of Greek origin. The meaning of the name is "pearl" or "the child of the light".
• Gilbert is a surname of Germanic origin. The English-language surname is derived from Giselbert, a medieval personal name composed of the following Germanic elements gisil ("pledge", "hostage", "noble youth") and berht ("bright", "famous").

The Original Series

• The Awakening
• The Struggle
• The Fury

In The Awakening, Damon threatened to bite Margaret when she was asleep because Elena would not come with him.

When Stefan goes missing, Elena becomes extremely depressed. She refuses anyone's company, but allowed Margaret to hug her. One day when Elena comes home, she finds Damon there. Margaret arrives with a tiny kitten that she names Snowball. Elena decides to introduce Snowball to Damon. The kitten scratches at him and runs away. To comfort a crying Margaret, Robert helps her find the kitten.

When Elena dies, her family is deeply saddened. Elena, a newly turned vampire, goes to visit her house and finds Margaret innocently sleeping in her bed. Snowball comes in and Elena notices she is showing signs that other dangerous animals are showing. Elena manages to scare the kitten away and get Margaret to invite her in the house. She talks to Margaret and tells her she is her guardian and will protect her. It is later revealed that Margaret's kitten was in fact Katherine von Swartzschild, the vampire who turned the Salvatore brothers. When the crazed animals attack the townspeople, Robert, Judith and Margaret are protected by Meredith and Matt.

The Vampire Diaries

Margaret does not appear in TV series. Instead of Elena having a little sister, she has a younger brother/cousin Jeremy Gilbert who is portrayed by Steven R. McQueen.