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TIMELINE CHANGES
Since I do not have Elena being turned into a vampire at end of S3/start of S4 that means there are some inherent changes to the plot that I'm going to try to address here. A lot this isn't written in stone as 100% how it now happens, it's more like, a list of places things are different because of this and a kind of default solution around it.
Also included are some additional edits to take into account how my own doppelganger lore and portrayal of Elena would act.
If you've got critiques or things you feel would fit better with your character then that's totally fine and I'd love to talk about it!
TW: death (drowning, suicide), familial death
SEASON 4
Naturally Elena doesn't like, Die-Die. She doesn't need nor have vampire system at the time of the crash so when she drowns she just dies. But between Matt knowing CPR and the guys calling for paramedics Elena does survive.
This also means that she's not in the cells with the vampires at the farm and so she's able to help Stefan and Rebekah escape earlier by sneaking around.
Elena is not sirebound to Damon. Her feelings for him are certainly still VERY complex, but it's not further complicated by the existence of a a sirebond.
The desire to get Elena the cure isn't a thing anymore, naturally.
The impetus for the hunt for the cure becomes a mix of things โ the newest harebrained scheme to kill Klaus, people wanting it for themselves, and factions targeting Jeremy, Bonnie and Elena for their connections to Silas and usefulness forcing them all into this mess.
Jeremy is a still a hunter but Elena is not a desperate unhinged maniac anymore so even if she thinks about killing Kol as a solution she's not going to suggest it. If Kol still dies then she wasn't the one trying to make it happen and would only get involved to defend her loved ones.
After Jeremy dies Elena doesn't turn off her humanity since it's not a thing she can do anymore. She does however try to kill herself. She is almost successful but the Salvatores manage to save her life.
Instead of the no humanity drama Elena instead grappling with the loss of her last living family and being Stalked by Silas who is still obsessed with her/Amara. (Also, if Delena were to start this is the earliest likely place it would)
Bonnie does not die trying to bring Jeremy back as neither Elena nor Jeremy could stomach the danger it puts Bonnie in and stop her from doing it. (for those who want/need this event to happen: Bonnie either dies or survives it because she channels Elena, the mystical nuclear power plant)
SEASON 5
TBA I'm in the middle of a rewatch and I'm not into S5 yet. Given how I've got a whole new lore for travelers I don't just want to use wikis to try and refresh my memory so I gotta actually rewatch it.
SEASON 6
see above
SEASON 7
Imma be real I didn't even finish this season the first time I watched the show
SEASON 8
never even watched it.
LORE: TRAVELERS
Travelers are entities from other dimensions who find ways into our world and aim to stay. Their origins, goals and reasons range wildly from individual to individual. To stay here in our world they must feed on things like human emotion, psychic energy and souls โ primarily only those of people with abilities like witches and psychics. As they are not from our reality they are entirely in opposition to nature and creatures of chaos.
The forms they take can very wildly and are heavily determined by what they are, their intelligence and their power. The more powerful they are the more it's possible for them to steal a body, the more intelligent, the more they're able to appear human. So long as a traveler can feed it can sustain itself and it's stolen form in our world in perpetuity.
The process in which they take over a human body is messy and inconsistent, it can lead to something more like a classic possession, to an enmeshment of the human and traveler to the traveler straight up devouring their soul and taking their body. Regardless they do sometimes retain things like the hostโs memory and personality. Sometimes there are actual disfigurations of the body or the insides literally are devoured.
Itโs not unheard of or impossible for travelers to be able to engage in normal human reproduction but they donโt need to nor usually want to. When they do the child is either a generally normal human child or something monstrous, it all depends on how much is left of the human host. Generally theyโre more interested in consuming the powers of psychics and witches to keep themselves in our world or increase their powers. Usually they have a goal for being here even if the goal is just staying and eating, though for the smarter ones it's usually more complex than that.
When unable to get their hands on someone to consume or for special reasons like, rituals or power grabs, travelers will cannibalize each other. It's also common practice for travelers to cannibalize their dead so that all their stolen energy doesn't go to waste. Some travelers even exclusively feed on their own kind to get the most out of each meal as finding prey can have long gaps.
Using/consuming the body/bodily fluids of any traveler can empower spells, or strengthen other supernatural beings but the most potent is the Doppelgรคnger because of her regeneration cycle and the fact that she's the only successful true hybridization of a traveler and a human body.
The most prized meals of travelers are Eyes, clairvoyants so potent their average sight is supernatural synesthesia and when focused can tear through reality. They will also target powerful witches and covens, usually stealing the body of a member to infiltrate.
Their abilities vary wildly but all tend to err towards the more psychic end of things, but those that have enough power can forcibly transmogrify their human forms to allow for some of the features their true form has to come through, which is how one can get the more upsetting appearances and things like corrosive/infectious blood.
If a traveler can communicate then it is one of the more dangerous kinds and if it looks totally human except for the reflective eyes then it's the most dangerous kind of all.
โ๏ธ VERSES
โ๏ธ PRIMARY VERSES
MAIN : Post Series, Post College. (age: anywhere from 24 to 34) Elena is working as an office admin and totally out to sea at what to do with her life. She's just trying to make it day to day and keep out of supernatural trouble as best as she can. v : gen / main / and somehow the normacy is the worst part.
COLLEGE : (age: 18-23) Takes place while Elena is in College so it takes the place of Seasons 5 to 8 or so. She still goes to Whitmore but struggles to really do well as she can't really settle or decide what she wants to do with her life. After a brief stint at going back to being a party girl that got dangerously close to being alcohol dependency and self-harm she settled on an English degree and just tried to survive until graduation. v : gen / college / the tiniest lifeboat full of people i know.
HIGH SCHOOL : (age: 17-18) For anything that takes place during seasons 1-4 or so. Elena has been freshly orphaned, learned about vampires, discovered she's a doppelgรคnger, and that people want to kill her for her parts. She's suffering more and Jesus and just trying to keep it together (she is failing). v : gen / high school / drowning on dry land.
โ๏ธ AUS
THE AMELIAVERSE : a private verse with wornkindness set in Amelia's lore. v : au / ameliaverse / the princess and the doppelgรคnger.
THE ORIGINALS : Basically instead of going to college at Whitmore she went to Tulane in New Orleans without knowing that's where all the Originals went and by pure bad luck is now trapped in their bullshit. Again. v : au / orgnls / guest star in a vampire soap opera.
PROFESSIONAL CAPTIVE : Klaus succeeded in getting her and Tyler out of Mystic Falls in early season 3 after he learned he needed her blood to successfully make hybrids. So now she's living at the mercy of Klaus and his henchmen, not sure if it's smarter to stay put where Klaus can take out like 90% of the dangers that will inevitability come for her no matter what or if she should try to escape before things inevitability get worse. v : au / professional captive / is this more blue beard or misery?
What is a Doppelgรคnger?
TO BEGIN: I HEAVILY rework and expand upon doppelganger lore so it's best to at least skim this to get the #Vibes. It's also important as I have completely reworked the travelers because the canonical ones read too much to me like a very ugly stereotype of the Romani and similar groups like Irish Travelers.
ย A DOPPELGรNGER IS A TRAVELER. WHAT IS A TRAVELER?
A traveler is an entity from another dimension that has found a way to travel into our reality. This beings can vary wildly in motive, intentions, danger, intelligence, form etc. They can be anything from an invisible ghostly being, a mindless meat monster to something that seems totally human. That final one is the Doppelgรคnger.
The doppelgรคnger is one of the earliest known travelers to come here, back in the neolithic and was part of a small community of similar entities. The Doppelgรคnger was the most successful physical assimilation, almost totally indistinguishable from humans, even down to the genetic level. Her name was Amara and she learned that as she was seen as the most expendable, she was going to be used as a sacrifice by her people to give them more power. She came to realize she had been betrayed by the woman she served, Qetsiyah who was one of their leaders, who chose the group and power over her life. Silas, another powerful traveler, offered to help her but she knew he was dangerously obsessed with her and his "help" would likely be worse than death.
So she came up with a plan. She was powerless to truly stop them, but she could find a way to continue her own life. She would die, but she would live, and live far away from those who would try to hurt her. So she ran away, found a human man and had a child with him, a child that carried inside it the Seed of her spirit. Once the child was born she ran away from the man and allowed herself to be captured and killed. But in every generation since there has been a girl who is exactly like her born. Because they are her.
ย WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
Basically, the Doppelgรคnger is a kind of reincarnation, somewhere between perfect cloning and a hivemind of individuals. The succession of doppelgรคngers after Amara are not just her descendants who look like her, they're facets of her. Like the regenerations of the Doctor in Doctor Who, with there being a long term interconnected memory/intelligence between all the doppelgรคngers though unlike the Doctor, they all look the same. However, the context in which they are born and the course of their lives has a lot of impact on them.
So like, if you took a 5yo Elena and a 5yo Katherine and you raised them in featureless white rooms they'd end up exactly the same because their core is the same. But because Katherine was born in the 1500s and lived the life she did and Elena was born in the 1990s and lived the life she did, they're more like sisters or cousins in terms of similarity in personality.
ย SO LIKE, WHAT DOES THIS DO OR MEAN OR WHATEVER?
Basically:
โ๏ธ Elena and Katherine aren't as different you'd first think (something Katherine just looooooves :/)
โ๏ธ Elena is part of a hivemind, she's the latest in a millennia old line of doppelgรคngers. Most of the time the only way she really taps into this is in her dreams, but with the right stimulus she can do it while awake (ex. if someone started to talk in Bulgarian she could understand it and reply in the same language without even realizing what was going on). When she's actively trying and isn't getting magical help she can achieve something like 1-50% synchronization/understanding of the hivemind/past lives.
โ๏ธ Elena cannot do magic herself without a lot of loophole abuse (ex. Bonnie doing something Crazy and using her blood or whatever to make her a wish-granting amulet or some bullshit like that)
โ๏ธ Every part of her body is HIGHLY magical, not just her blood. As all travelers are beings from another dimension, even the weakest ones are incredibly magically potent, given they work outside the bounds of Nature and had to push through the veil between worlds to get here. The Doppelgรคnger is considered one of the rarest and most potent magical ingredients and many have been bled, butchered and used down to the last hair as magical fuel over the centuries.
โ๏ธ Elena cannot take human medicine as she is not actually human, the only medical treatments that work for her are magical in origin.
โ๏ธ Doppelgรคngers essentially work by brood parasitism. I will not elaborate.
โ๏ธ Doppelgรคngers, like all travelers, are elements of chaos. For the Doppelgรคnger this element of chaos comes in the form of being a weirdness and danger magnet.
โ๏ธ Because the Doppelgรคnger is always in danger and has no natural physical ability, as well as only being able to continue its own hive-life via procreation/maintaining its genetic line, Doppelgรคngers are peternaturally attractive/alluring. This supernatural attractiveness is a means of securing a partner who will both protect them and enable them to reproduce.
โ๏ธ This supernatural allure, along with the fact they're otherwise pretty much just normal girls though, means they they tend to garner all kinds of unwanted sexual and romantic advances and attention.
โ๏ธ All doppelgรคngers have a very strong reproduction drive and the vast majority die very young.
โ๏ธ Doppelgรคngers alive at the same time can speak telepathically, share their senses/bodies and become more alike the longer they're near each other. This is one of those things they'll only notice after prolonged contact.
โ๏ธ The sameness of the doppelgangers can confuse certain spells/kinds of magic. Ex. a locator spell might confuse Elena and Katherine but since Katherine most likely has had an anti-locator spell defense on her for at least a century, you might not see two dots appear on the map if you were looking for only Elena. But if you were looking for Katherine, you would definitely see Elena.
โ๏ธ All doppelgangers are genetically the exact same. The doppelganger code overwrites the human DNA it piggybacks on. Essentially Amara is using these human bloodlines as a metaphysical surrogacy for her own regeneration.

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๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ I am aware of book canon as Iโm reading the original series currently. Iโm only on book 4 but I do know the basic differences ex. Salvatore personalities, Angel!Elena etc. So I do not expect book muses to be anything like their show counterparts. And given how different my Elena is from Book and even Show Elena Iโm more than happy to cede the narrative position of Elena Gilbert to Book!Elena even when not in threads with her. My Elena in those contexts can just be another supernatural coincidentally named Elena (tho I would change her last name to something like Flemming or Sommers and might even change her first name too if it makes more sense)
๐๐. ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ย ย Please be over 18, ideally 21+, as I will not rp with minors. Iโm a mutuals exclusive blog โ meaning that Iโm only interested in rping with people Iโm mutually following. Iโm extremely open to crossovers and OCs. It can take me a sec to go and look through blogs and their pages before following back so give it a little. This is a blog I'm planning to be extremely picky on so if I don't follow back it's not on you, it's because I want to keep things very small and specific.
๐ ๐๐ I do not follow anyone else from the petrova line first. Am I dying to rp with people like Katherine? ofc! But I also have really altered the lore a lot and have created this idea of a doppelgรคnger hivemind that I don't want anyone to feel they have to engage with if they don't want to. I am really trying to stick firm to my ideas and not just throw them out for convenience sake so I am opting to let other doppelgรคngers decide if they're interested in it or if it blends well with their own ideas. I'm also thinking of taking the same stance on Stefan's for similar reasons as I don't really acknowledge Silas having doppelgรคngers. I would love to rp with Stefans! But I want people to feel comfortable engaging with the lore I've set up. Even with all this I AM dupe friendly for those interested in doing stuff with eldritch doppel nonsense. ๐๐๐ย If you have a โBilly Hargrove DNIโ in your rules please do not follow me. I rp him elsewhere and given how heated people get over him itโs deeply uncomfortable to be in a position where you seem to have someone make a value judgment about you as a real ass person but then still want to play with your toys when it works for them. And all because you thought a fictional character from a mid ass Netflix show was Kinda Fun.
๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ I don't have time for it. Unless someone is a legit danger or a terrible person I do not give a fuck about how supposedly problematic they are. I don't care about callout culture or the laws of "acceptable" fcs, or if this or that is problematic. Like the whole point of fiction is to navigate these topics and I don't wanna hear debates on shit like age gaps when Thor is like.... a thousand years old or if Tony calling Namor "fishsticks" is really racist or not. It's not that these things aren't important it's that the well is so fucking poisoned for these discussions that I just am not fucking getting into any of it.
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๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ย ย This is a blog that will be geared more towards plotting or at least a kind of cohesive storytelling, where the events/effects of one thread directly effecting other threads, even if all the threads in question are with different writing partners.
๐๐. ๐๐๐๐๐ & ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ย ย While normally I don't really do exclusives, given the nature of this blog I will be doing so here. This will not be a particularly strict thing, but I'm really only interested in building up narratives, plots and relationships here. I plan to only have one real timeline here, in that I will talk about events from other threads inside of current ones and things like that. If I say a character's name, I'll probably only mean a specific person's version.
๐๐๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ย ย Iโm fairly open to shipping of all kinds with characters in and outside of her base text. I donโt like having things forced on me tho and will only do romantic ships with people Iโve talked to OOC for a bit thanks to past experiences. I am not a fan of how Delena was handled in the show at all, I'm not completely against it but I will not do anything that looks like its canon iteration.
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Elena was dating Tyler and not Matt before the accident.
Elena does not become a vampire at the start of season 4. If she ever does it will happen under different circumstances and later on.
Jeremy died in season 4 and does not get brought back. Details pending.
Elena does not burn their house down after he dies. She became the legal owner of it when Jenna died and she hasnโt been able to bring herself to sell it yet. She is not living there as she can't bear doing that. Sheโs only able to maintain it/pay for it and her apartment due to financial aid from the Salvatores.