Below is a description for the main characters in the Vampire Diaries books. This information is taken from Wikipedia.com but will be rewritten over time.

* Elena Gilbert A 17-year-old beautiful and popular girl in high school with long blonde hair and blue eyes. There are repeated references as to her looking like an angel. Over the course of the series, Elena transforms from a shallow, self-centered “ice queen” to a more loving, open-minded person; Bonnie has commented in Elena’s diary when she died the first time that she was far from perfect, and she was never the angel, but she was a good person. She dumps Matt Honeycutt right around when school starts, feeling that though he is the perfect boyfriend, she feels no sparks in the relationship. Elena is madly in love with Stefan Salvatore, though she does recognize that she also has feelings for Damon, his brother. Stefan was the first to breeze by Elena, ignoring her beauty, though he was trying his best to stay away from her, making comparisons between her and Katherine, though he realizes that beneath the looks, they are totally different people. Her school reputation is important to her, so she made up a fake boyfriend she had over the summer to hide the fact that Stefan rejected her advances. She dies several times, becoming from human to vampire (after she gets enough blood from both brothers), to spirit (after an unknown power brings her back). In “The Return: Nightfall”, she comes back perfectly normal (initially; until the ‘Nightfall’ was published, L.J. Smith left it at a ‘happily ever after’ setting), though she becomes an innocent, naive angel-spirit with wings, hovering, speaking the White Power’s language, while she can’t speak normally, feeling people’s auras, and able to communicate with Stefan through her thoughts.

* Stefan Salvatore Is portrayed to be very handsome and will do anything for Elena. He loves her dearly and doesnt want her to get hurt so he does everything he can to protect Elena, even if it means killing his own brother. Stefan goes through a lot of terrible events and even though he might suffer he never gives up on trying to live a normal life with his beloved Elena.

* Damon Salvatore Events in The Fury and Dark Reunion show that Damon is also capable of fierce loyalty and affection, though he is often misunderstood, which Elena sees. In The Awakening He calls himself Damon Smith, attending college on a vacation. Back in the day in Italy, where the brothers come from, he graduated from university. He shows feelings towards Elena and Bonnie both, though Bonnie receives less attention. His ‘goodness’ is always in question—he is always the one that everyone suspects of doing something—feeding on locals, etc. Like in “The Fury”, Katherine offers to let Damon live, for him to reign the shadows-both Elena and Stefan knew that he would accept, and didn’t blame him, though in the end, he said to her, “Go to hell.” Damon doesn’t quit until he gets what he wants.

* Bonnie McCullough One of Elena’s best friends, a bubbly, short redhead with brown eyes and a heart shaped face. She is a psychic and a descendant of druids. She always trys to warn Elena, and she always has wierd visions about death and Elena. Bonnie, trying to get a hang of her powers is also trying to hide it from everybody. But nothing stays a secret.

* Meredith Sulez Another of Elena’s best friends; she is tall with olive skin and blonde hair. Meredith is beautiful and some what cautious, never listens to anybody , and she is often the voice of reason throughout the series. She falls in love with Alaric and has a long distance relationship with him. Even though it doesn’t end well she still trys to hide the fact about what Damon told her and is still scared.

* Matt Honeycutt Elena’s perfect ex-boyfriend, a typical All-American high school quarterback with blond hair and blue eyes. While Matt is heartbroken at losing Elena to Stefan, he accepts it. And is very pertective of Elena. He starts have feelings for Bonnie.

* Caroline Forbes A former friend and current rival of Elena’s, she is beautiful with green eyes and auburn hair. Caroline is manipulative, vengeful, and kind of desperate for attention from any boy she can find during much of the series. She first steals Elena’s diary and planed to read it to the town on Founder’s Day, revealing that Stefan was a vampire, though unsuccessful. She had a brief relationship with Tyler Smallwood, working together to plan revenge on Elena and Stefan; she was later kidnapped by Klaus and Tyler, and held hostage, but saved by Stefan and his friends.

* Katherine The young vampire with whom Damon and Stefan both fell in love when they were humans during the Italian Renaissance. Katherine turned the two brothers into vampires before her suicide over the two of them. Katherine supposedly killed herself when she told both brothers that she wanted to be happy with both brothers by going into the sunlight without her lapis lazuli ring, leaving behind a pile of ashes (that were from the kitchen) on one of her dresses. The two brothers fought to the ‘death’ because of her loss. She physically resembles Elena, which caused Stefan’s initial attraction to Elena, though he later realized that Elena was made of stronger stuff then Katherine, who was the maiden in distress.

* Alaric The new young History teacher that was in suspicion of being a vampire hunter when he was in fact studying vampires ever since he discovered that they were real. He falls in love with Merideth later on, and has a long distance relationship with her while he goes abroad to further his studies.

* Klaus Is an Old One (one of the original vampires) who fights the Salvatore brothers, in the end losing. He was a mentor to Katherine, whom she thought she had killed.

* Margaret Gilbert Elena’s little sister and pretty much the only family she has left. Margaret is one of the first people Elena talks to in her new life as a vampire in “The Fury” other than Bonnie, Merideth, and Matt, Margaret is the only person Elena talks to in her family during her very short life as a vampire. Margaret believes that Elena will ‘come back’ because she had visited her, though she does not want to go to heaven because she knows that it is not her time.

* Judith Gilbert Elena’s aunt. She moved in with Elena and Margaret right after the death of their parents. She is young and is the sort of woman who always looked vaguely flustered; she had a thin, mild face and light flyaway hair pushed back untidily. She is engaged to, and by the end of the fourth book is married to, Robert, though she briefly broke the engagement after Elena’s death, thinking it was the best for Margaret. She is caring and one of the last people Elena talks to before dying, the first time.

* Tyler Smallwood A direct descendant of the Smallwoods that were present at the founding of Fells Church. He is also in line with Caroline, by touring Elena and Stefan. In the first book, Tyler took Elena away to the graveyard where she saw his grandfather’s grave. Tyler makes an aggressive move for Elena and to Meredith later on in the books. Stefan comes to save her and Tyler has hated the two ever since. He is later revealed to be a werewolf, turned by Klaus after he has had blood from one of Elena’s friends after she died; it was dormant until he knew how to activate the werewolf gene.

* Vickie Bennett was at the cemetery with Elena when they left the dance. She had stayed there in the church with Dick. She was attacked and that caused her to go insane. Then she is accused of killing Sue because she relapsed after her death and she was the only one present. When Bonnie and Meredith go to her house, she says that the murderer said she is next. She is later murdered by Klaus.