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TITLE | Cliffs Edge
FACE CLAIM | Eiza González
OC NAME | Penèlope Bolivar
SEASON (S) | AU
LOVE INTEREST | Stefan Salvatore
SUMMARY |

❝Just remember, I was human before I was a monster. Just remember, I'm not human anymore.❞

In which Stefan Salvatore remembers the woman that made him lose part of his humanity in the 80's.

OTHER |

In 1987, Stefan was in Chicago watching Bon Jovi. After the opening act, he went out to grab a beer and sees a young woman feeding on some man. Stefan, being the Stefan with humanity and just wanting to have a good time, tells her that she can do that some other time and out of the venue. When she pulls away from the man and turns to him, he's surprised to see someone that's goddamn beautiful. His mind is like "11/10 would bang, but also date." Anyway, her humanity is on but she could care less about the mess she makes, so she drops the half-dead man and brushes past him with a seductive smirk because she wears red lipstick all the time. Stefan, entranced by her, can't stop thinking about her.

Anyway, a friend of Lexi's who took it upon himself to show them around Chicago takes them to a bar that's owned by a vampire named Theodore "Theo" Hopkins (Charlie Hunnam). There, Stefan sees the same girl from the concert on stage, dancing. She flirts with him with her eyes, and after her dance greets him and buys him a beer. They get talking, and she introduces herself as Penèlope, saying her name slowly so he knows that each vowel is pronounced and it's not the English pronunciation of her name. After that, Stefan goes to the club nightly just to see her and talk. When he asks her why can't she leave, she tells him that Theo owns her; he saved her life, and by saving her she basically sold her soul to him.

Anyway, Penèlope was born to a Californio nobleman in 1803, and died in 1821 during a fight between the Mexican peasants and commoners against the Spanish. She was left to die, but Theo found her and offered to save her at a price, that she would be his. Since she was terrified of dying, she agreed. It was how she began her miserable life of serving a man.

She doesn't have a daylight ring, so she can only go out at night.

Penèlope teaches Stefan how to live, by showing him how to drink blood and enjoy it, which brings back ripper Stefan bit with a slight conscience of knowing that what he's doing is wrong. It's how they get closer, each falling for the other (slow burn) while each teaching the other something. But, even though he tried to change her, she refuses to change who she is.

In the end, Stefan helps her kill Theo so she decides to leave him, because after being a prisoner for almost two hundred years, she's finally free. She leaves him with one last kiss and a promise that it won't be the last time he'll see her.