Katerina Petrova (Katherine Pierce) (Vampire Diaries)

Katerina Petrova (Vampire Diaries)

Nisha Gode

    Katerina Petrova is a cunning and manipulative woman who only cares about saving her own skin, even if it meant harming others along the way.  She has been this way ever since she met Prince Klaus in 1492. When she learnt that she was going to be used for a sacrifice, Katerina Petrova ran for her life. She became a vampire shortly after running away because she knew that she would be worthless to Klaus.  

   She spent 500 years running away from this same man because he was going to use her as a sacrifice for a curse that was place upon him. He needed a doppelganger to break the curse.  Katerina Petrova has the unfortunate status of being a doppelganger of the Petrova bloodline. She was the first doppelganger and therefore very valuable. It would take one of Klaus’s guardsmen falling in love with her and turning her for her to become invaluable. Her attempts to run away in the end would be futile but not before she made lots of bonds and enemies along the way.

   Katerina ran off to America and changed her name to Katherine Pierce. In 1864, she pretended to be an orphan of the Atlanta Campaign and was taken in by the Salvatores. She fell in love with both Stefan and Damon, though one was real and one was lust. She planned to turn them both and have all three of them live happily ever after. That never happened because she was poisoned with the vervain that Stefan’s father had put in his tea. She was dragged away to be burned in a church with 27 other vampires. Katerina managed to escape the tomb by bribing the mayor, a werewolf, with a moonstone that would give him the ability to not have to change.

   Katherine spent the rest of her years avoiding Klaus. She was spotted in 1963 at a Chicago fair by a younger vampire whose mother had been friends with Katherine. Katherine later returned to the Salvatores and their home in Mystic Falls to retrieve the moonstone so Klaus couldn’t find it.

   She pretends to be good and help the next Petrova doppelganger, Elena, survive Klaus by being on Team Salvatore. Katherine really goes and crosses them with Elena’s birth mother Isobel, but Isobel double crosses Katherine to protect Elena. Katherine finally gets caught by Klaus and is currently being forced to make up for the 500 years of pain Klaus went through for loosing his opportunity to break his curse.

   Katerina Petrova (Katherine Pierce) only has her own best intentions at heart. She appears very sweet and seductive on the surface, but her personality could change in an instant into someone who is impulsive and, at times, not very friendly.