Katherine Pierce Fauxbituary

After five hundred years of running, Katherine Pierce, the ultimate mean girl and
quintessential survivor, died at the hands of her former love, Stefan Salvatore. She is
survived by no one. There will be no funeral. In lieu of services, please say the most
horrific thing she has done to you, and take a shot. Donations can be made in her honor
to the organizations she cared about most - Prada, Gucci, and Dior. Out of respect for the
dead, we will make no mention of Elena Gilbert in this fauxbituary.
Katherine never ceased to surprise us as a character. She was a 500-year-old
vampire and for almost all of Season 1 we had only seen her in 19th century flashbacks.
So when she arrived on the scene in present day Mystic Falls, we as writers expected her
to be an old-world, distinguished woman with a taste for the classics. But she wasnt.
She was a sexy, modern-day woman of the world who wore designer heels and drove an
Aston Martin. One carving knife and four severed fingers later she quickly made her way
into our hearts forever.
Using both seduction and good old-fashioned blunt force trauma as her weapons
of choice, she was never afraid to do whatever it took to get what she wanted. But over
the years we really got to see what was underneath those snarky one-liners and cascading
curls. Katherine wasnt born evil. Her life made her that way. Her infant daughter was
torn away from her at birth. She lost her entire family to a rampaging Klaus. And she
spent the next 5 centuries running, with no real place to call home. The closest thing she
had to a family was her vast network of sketchy underworld contacts.
We always knew that Katherine would be one of our leading antagonists. What
we didnt know was just how much we, and the fans, would come to love her. Ms.
Pierces survival skills had become so good even the writers couldnt kill her. We tried
so many times, so many ways. Allowing a 2000-year-old immortal being to suck her
blood dry. Suicide. Old Age. Nothing would work. Every single time, she called out
from the page, manipulating us into granting her survival. She was under our skin. The
writers actually have shot glasses that say Youre Katherine Pierce. Suck it up.
When Stefan ended the tragic life of Katherine Pierce for good, Katherine got the
most unique post-death experience of any character who has ever died on The Vampire
Diaries: she got sent to something that felt suspiciously like 'hell'. So much running, but
a girls Jimmy Choos can only take her so far. Her fate beyond death remains a mystery,
but wherever she is, its safe to assume shes not floating on a white cloud strumming a
harp.
RIP, HBIC. You will be missed by some, forgotten by none.