one leg crossed over the other while fingers tapped against her thigh. isabelle listened to everyone’s story — each a struggle in their own right. she was proud to be surrounded by people who were overcoming an addiction. the raven haired beauty did not feel so alone anymore. of course she could not speak about the yin fen, but still stayed true to her story — only replacing the word with heroine. suddenly, her eyes met with that of a handsome male, but what caught her attention was the fact that he was not mundane, but a vampire. it had become easy for her to distinguish downworlders, and it was obvious he knew that she was not human either by the amused stare upon his features. 

           isabelle walked over to the table with snacks, and grabbed a water bottle. she could feel him behind her, and was unable to control the smile that graced her lips as she turned around. ‘mhm, a friend of mine recommended it to me. what about you? let me guess, addiction to mundane blood?’ 

       Words,  though  coveted,  were  not  necessarily  needed.  Much  less,  desired.  She already  knew.  His  reputation  preceeded  him  afterall.  It  wasn’t  that  long  ago,  (  30  or  so  years,  give  or  take  )  since  he  wandered  these  same  city  streets  and  fed  on  the  blood  of  innocent  humans.  Or  as  the  Shadowhunters  liked  to  call  them,    mundanes.  He  was  every  bit  the  notorious  ripper  of  monterrey.   His  past,  however  heinous,  he  wasn’t  at all  proud  of.  Which  was,  what  brought  him  here;  to  weekly  AA  meetings held  in  some  tiny  brick  building  just  outside  of  Brooklyn.  Perhaps,  Stefan  was  still  trying  to  atone  for  past  sins.  Wasn’t  that  why  he  came?  Or  why  he  left  Fells  Church  to  start  over?  To  try  and  do  something  remarkable  with  his  gifts.  Or  rather,  his  curse.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Described as the ultimate looker with the features of a God, Stefan has the perfect pale complexion of a vampire, and will eternally look eighteen in terms of physical appearance despite being over 500 years old (since he was turned into a vampire at that age). There is a notable resemblance between him and his older brother, Damon, which both Elena and Bonnie have noticed. The difference between the two brothers would be while Damon’s handsomeness is blatantly sensual and seductive, Stefan’s charm has a touch of boyish innocence and purity. He is described as being of average height, about five-foot-ten. In fact, he is taller than Damon. He has thick, silky-soft, curly dark hair, and perfectly-set eyes a shade of green that is often compared to many things such as: oak tree leaves on a summer day, holly green leaves, malachite, and emeralds. His facial features are described as so fine that they seem to have been sculpted: high cheekbones, a straight classical nose, and sensual lips. His physique is said to be lithe, lean, and flat-muscled, with broad shoulders and long legs. Stefan has the classic romance novel look; dreamy and mystical in appearance and he has a strong, compelling aura. However, when Elena describes him as hauntingly beautiful, she is often referring to Stefan as a whole, including his personality.

Stefan tends to wear expensive clothing, usually dark or black in color. Part of this is because he was once a member of the Italian nobility and his tutor had taught him to dress as befitted as his position. However, most of the time, he’s been spotted on several occasions wearing T-shirts (mostly form-fitting or of a snug fit) and jeans (most of the time, faded), and he shows an odd penchant for wearing sweaters. Stefan’s trademark is wearing black leather jackets of unusual cuts. Stefan wears a large, silver ring with a small, round lapis lazuli stone on the index finger of his right hand as a talisman to protect himself against the sunlight.

PERSONALITY

During the flashbacks of Stefan’s human life, it appears that Stefan was a relatively happy, content and successful individual who had many ambitions, responsibilities and he was also deeply connected to and attached to his family, his friends, his studies, and to the city of Florence. During Stefan’s human life, he displayed the traits of kindness, gentleness, empathy, compassion, responsibility, intelligence and nobleness. These traits in which he possessed as a human, were transcended into his personality even as an immortal. Despite Stefan’s tendency to blame himself for things and him being guilt ridden from memories of his dark past, Stefan possesses a lot of good, honorable traits and qualities that display his humanity and his concern for other people, despite him being a vampire. Stefan tends to be guilt ridden from time to time and tends to blame himself for things, which can lead to long periods of depression. However, Stefan is described as very good-hearted, very kind, caring, understanding, empathetic, romantic, gallant, noble, heroic, brave and shows intense compassion for other people and mankind. He deeply cares about and shows concern for the people who are most important to him. Stefan is a humanitarian by nature and frequently shows compassion towards human beings and cares about their well-being and their safety, which is the complete and total opposite of Damon, who normally only looks out for himself (although later on, Damon does learn a thing or two). However, despite all of Stefan’s good qualities, he often has a hard time making friends easily, partially due to his reclusive, mysterious and reserved nature.

Although Stefan has a tendency to be prone to melancholy and depression, Stefan is quite pleasant and charming and he also displays a wicked sense of humor from time to time. He is also very relaxed and down to earth whenever he is around his friends. Stefan has a quick and sharp mind; he is well spoken and highly intelligent. According to Damon, the things that were most important to Stefan during his human life were his responsibility and duty to Florence, his family, his friends and his studies and ambitions. Damon has said that his brother has “lived among books and paintings and therefore, lives a particularly shadowed life in terms of darkness within the world. Stefan is stoically loyal and fiercely protective, especially of those he deeply and strongly cares about. He has a strong sense of duty and responsibility and is highly dependable and trustworthy. Stefan is also very trusting of people; this makes him a somewhat naive individual. However, Stefan does have a tendency to be especially naive when it comes to trusting or believing in his brother, Damon. Stefan has a strong sense of heroism and bravery and he always feels the constant need to save people, to look out for mankind and humanity. Stefan is also very highly accepting of people, takes people for who they are, is accepting of his own flaws and everyone else’s flaws, and frequently tries to see the best in everyone, including his brother, who frequently engages in immoral acts. Although it is very obvious that Stefan has had a longtime strained relationship with his older brother Damon, Stefan still loves and cares about him and he always tries to believe in him as much as possible. Unfortunately, Stefan always ends up disappointed due to his naivety when it comes to his elder brother. There have been many hints throughout the course of the series that suggest that Stefan is part of the key to bringing out Damon’s inner humanity, although Damon frequently tries to hide the strong impact or influence that his younger brother has on him. Stefan usually has a very kind, gentle, calm and serene nature, although he is prone to anger, aggressive and violent tendencies, and a significantly darker side of him can surface when he is strongly provoked, letting out his “inner beast”.

STEFAN’S DIET

Stefan lives on an animal blood diet (he hunts for various different forest animals such as deer, rabbit, doves, birds etc.), and because of this, Stefan is the weaker vampire brother in terms of Power, compared to Damon, who kills innocent human life without any remorse or regrets, and feeds on their blood. Stefan is weaker then Damon because he doesn’t feed off of the blood of humans and human blood is what is essential in giving vampires the greater Power. The more humans a vampire kills and the more human blood they consume over a period of time, the more powerful their Power is. Despite the fact that Stefan doesn’t live off of a diet of human blood, he still possesses the basic, standard vampire powers and abilities. Some of Stefan’s abilities include superhuman senses (super-hearing, super-sight, super-smell), super agility, superhuman or enhanced strength, telepathy, mental quickness (Stefan has a very quick mind and can sense other people’s minds and their thinking), and mind compulsion/influence (the ability to influence or manipulate people’s minds and thoughts).

Reverting  this  blog  back  into  my  Stefan  account.  &&  will  be  tacking  on  an  alt  book  based  fc  for  him  which  will  likely  be  Matt  Daddario.  I’ll  still  occasionally  use  Paul  for  anything  show  related  though,  so  never  fret!  Feel  free  to  stick  around  or  not.  I  know  some  followed  this  with  the  intention  of  me  making  this  a  multi  muse  but,  I  feel  like  Stefan  deserves  his  own  blog  again  &&  quite  frankly,  I  haven’t  made  the  effort  to  explore  other muses.

                Blood.  Fresh  blood,  existed  everywhere.  Under  buildings,  painted  on  the  dusty  old  walls  and  pavement  of  former crime scenes,  and  pumping  in  various  living  carcasses  all  throughout  New  York  City.  Every  heartbeat  called  out  to  him  in  a  steady  fast  rhythm.  All  but  one.  The  one  belonging  to  her.   Hers  sounded  different,  felt  different,  smelt  different  and  Stefan  was  genuinely  intrigued.  He  heard  about  various  shadowhunters  swooping  in  and  out  of  the  shadows  along  motley  streets.  But,  never  had  he  ever  SEEN  one  up  close.  Until  now.  It  was  her  turn  to  speak.  Share  with  the  group  about  her  addiction.  She  claimed  she  was  hooked  on  heroin.  Or  at  least  that’s  what  it  sounded  like.  Then  again,  everyone  thought  the  same  about  him  but  his  drug  of  choice  was  actually  their   life  force.  He  was  a  recovering  bloodaholic.  Getting  past  his  relapses  had  always  been  easier  with  Lexi  around  but,  Stefan  didn’t  have  her  anymore  to  reach  out  to.

      “ oh but on the contrary, stefan. — i deal with my feelings, I DON’T TURN THEM OFF. you and i both know that i care more than you’d like to admit. ”

          ❝      no rules  ,  stefan   —   did you forget   ?      ❞

“ You’re being MEAN —- I like it. Isn’t it obvious, though ? I want the one thing I’ve always wanted. You, Stefan. ”