Sybil

The Armory's Monster
Biographical information
Born	Before 10th Century (Age Unknown/1000+)
Status	Immortal
Occupation	Prisoner (Formerly)
Species	Siren
Gender	Female
Supernatural information
Significant kills	Unknown people through Dalton St. John Members of The Armory Alexandria St. John (Possibly) 60 people in West coast through Damon and Enzo
Appearance
Played by	Nathalie Kelley Unknown (Voice of Yvette and Unknown 1882 Female) Nina Dobrev (Voice Only/Hallucination)
Episode Count	1
First seen	Gods and Monsters
Last seen	Gods and Monsters

“	It's not a what. It's not a who. It's what it does to you. It strips away your compassion, it takes away your empathy, your capacity for love, eating away at your soul until all that remains is darkness.	”
	— Virginia to Bonnie in Kill 'Em All

The Armory's Monster is a character introduced in the season finale of the seventh season and the main antagonist of the upcoming eighth season of Template:The Vampire Diaries. She is implied to be a Siren. Through clues left by Enzo, Bonnie deduces the creature is a Siren, as it corrupts and enslaves those that cross it's path, and feeds of the darkness in a person's soul as well as devouring their bodies.

History

Early life

It is yet unknown the early life of the Monster. However, Virginia St. John mentioned that the Monster has been alive for thousands of years and cannot be killed.

1882

Dalton St. John somehow was able to open the vault and went in along with some of his colleagues. He began to hear whispers calling out his name which drew him further into the cave behind the vault. Then both him and his friends found their lamps flames quickly snuffed out which followed with him being attacked by it. Dalton and his friends were able to escape but the monster within seemed to somehow tear his humanity turning him into a vicious remorseless killer who brutally killed his friends.

2013

Virginia St. John forced Lucy Bennett to seal the vault with Yvette St. John inside.

Season Seven

In Somebody That I Used to Know, Virginia tried to kill Bonnie to prevent her from opening the vault where the Monster was.

In Kill 'Em All, because of Damon's deal with Alex, Bonnie is forced to open the Armory's vault. However, because of her previous conversation with Virginia, she makes a plan to keep her promise to Virginia. After unsealing the door of the vault, Bonnie quickly leaves while Alex and her team go inside only to find Yvette's corpse. Suddenly, many of them are killed by the Monster in the vault. Alex and the few remaining try to flee only to discover that Bonnie trapped them inside the building with a spell, in order to trap the monster she unleashed.

In Requiem for a Dream, Damon and Enzo mentioned that the last member of The Eight Everlastings was inside The Armory that was sealed by Bonnie and that the Monster could be a problem. Later, corpses of The Armory members are shown, scattered across the building.

In Gods and Monsters, it uses Elena's voice to lure Damon further into the vault and eventually gets to him. Enzo enters the vault soon after and is confronted by Damon, who asks if it's just him. After a conversation about heroes and their girls, Damon tells him that it doesn't always work out so great, and that at first it hurts, but it then becomes kind of fun, and Enzo is grabbed from behind by the monster.

After three months, Damon and Enzo have been piling up bodies on the West Coast and they are seen in a warehouse, where they are surrounded by multiple hanging bodies with their throats slit as Dalton St. John had done to his fellow The Armory members.

Powers and Abilities

• Possible Immortality: Virginia mentioned that it can't be killed and it has lived for thousands of years.
• Super Strength: The Creature appears to be strong because it killed various members of The Armory. As well as overpowering Damon and Enzo.
• Super Speed: The Creature is super fast, that was seen when evaded The Armory's men searching for it. Also more clearly shown when it dragged Enzo into the shadows.
• Telepathy: The Creature can enter into the minds of another, read their thoughts and access their memories.
• Mind Control: The Creature controlled the minds of Dalton, Damon and Enzo. The reason why and how it did it is unknown.
• Psychic Pain Infliction: The Creature can inflict mental pain onto those it is able to grab a hold of through unknown means.
• Voice Manipulation: As a fabled Siren she is able to manipulate her voice to lure her victims. Whether through enchanting singing or mimicking the voices of others like Yvette St. John and Elena Gilbert.

Weaknesses

• Magic: The Bennett witches were able to imprison the monster which means that it's not immune to magic.

Controlled People

Current

• Damon Salvatore: The Creature is currently controlling Damon and has already made him kill more than 60 people with another person also influenced by her, Enzo.
• Enzo St. John: Enzo is being controlled by the creature and is also being forced to work with Damon to kill people.

Former

• Dalton St. John: Dalton was formerly controlled by the monster and it's unknown that before he died he was released of it's control.

Appearances

Season Seven

• Somebody That I Used to Know (Mentioned)
• Kill 'Em All (Unseen/Mentioned)
• Requiem for a Dream (Mentioned)
• Gods and Monsters

Season Eight TBA

Trivia

• It is possible this species is the oldest creature known in The Vampire Diaries.
  • The Monster has a power very similar to Immortals (mind control).
  • This means it would have to be over two-thousand years old to surpass Silas and Qetsiyah
• According to Virginia the Monster has been alive for thousands of years.
• The Armory's Monster was magically imprisoned in the Armory twice by a Bennett witch:
  • It was first sealed in the Armory's vault by Lucy Bennett in 2013, at Virginia's request.
  • It was sealed again within the Armory by Bonnie Bennett in 2017, moments after she had unsealed its vault.
  • The Monster has many similarities with Silas: both are immortals (Silas was a truly immortal man, and the Monster was told to be unkillable), both are thousands of years old, both were imprisoned by a Bennett witch in their cave cells, both have an ability to create illusions and control people's minds. Both were rumored to bring about hell on earth and the end of the world. Virginia attacked Bonnie when she learnt about the possibility of the vault being opened just like Kol tried to kill Jeremy when he learnt about the possibility of Silas being free.
• Julie Plec has said that the Monster has a name but that it will be a major plot point for season 8.
• This creature will be CGI.
• According to Julie Plec, the monster is thousands upon thousands upon thousands of years old, making it the oldest creature in either show.
• According to the Season Eight teaser, the monster feeds off of all the evil a person commits and corrupts their souls.
• As a Siren she is the first supernatural species in TVD/TO to not fall under, be a mix of, or altered version of either Vampires/Werewolves/Witches in either shows history(it is debatable whether enhanced humans such as The Brotherhood of the Five or Rayna Cruz count as different species).

• Casting for the character was done under the name Sybil for which Nathalie Kelley got the part. The casting call read, "an immortal who uses her immeasurable power and influence to control other people, manipulating them into twisted games and tests for her own amusement and glorification."

Gallery

As seen in Bonnie's vision in 7x21

See also

Template:VD Characters