Introduction
They say life sucks and then you die. They even say to enjoy all that life has to offer, and to endure the obstacles that life throws at you. There were three doppelgängers born in four total different centuries. They grew up and learned a different kind of hard life. They found out that truth and their lives completely changed. It was completely turned 180 degrees around. They suffered before two of them became vampires and one was killed. Even then, one had to keep running and hiding for survival. This is their story of love, sacrifice, survival, hardship, loss, betrayal, and tragedy.
In the first century B.C in Ancient Greece, there lived a girl named Amara. She was the very first doppelganger and the very first immortal woman in the world, but was also the true love of the very first man by the name of Silas. Back during 1st century B.C., Amara fell deeply in love with a young, gifted and powerful warlock named Silas. Although Amara and Silas loved each other, their love was forbidden as Amara was the handmaiden to a powerful witch, Qetsiyah and Silas was engaged to be married to Qetsiyah, who was also in love with Silas. Silas' love for Amara was so powerful that it motivated him to wanting to live for eternity with her. However, in order to get help in order to create the spell of immortality, Silas told Quetsyiah that he wanted to spend forever with her but secretly, he intended to spend it with Amara. Believing that Silas wanted to be with her forever, Qetsiyah created the very first immortality spell out of love for Silas. Qetsiyah had made the immortality spell for she and Silas to consume on their wedding night. However, everything turned awry for Quetsyiah when she realized Silas had stolen the immortality elixir and had betrayed and abandoned her on their wedding night. Silas had made himself and Amara the first immortal beings. Enraged by Silas' betrayal, she tracked him down, and discovered he had given immortality to her handmaiden, Amara. Qetsiyah then created two doses of the cure for immortality as a "gift" for Silas and Amara. She cured Amara of her immortality and then killed her by slitting her throat and cutting her heart out. Silas found out what Quetsyiah had done and he was completely devastated. After Amara was killed, Quetsyiah lured Silas to an isolated island and entombed him in darkness, burying him with the second dose of the cure for immortality, hoping that Silas would take the cure, die a mortal death and cross over to The Other Side, which is a purgatory meant for supernatural beings after they die. Quetsyiah's motivation behind creating the Other Side was to prevent Silas from ever reuniting with Amara in death on the earth's metaphysical plane, which is the place where human souls go after they die. Therefore, Amara has been on the metaphysical plane alone and unable to be reunited with Silas, her true love, in death. When Amara became truly immortal, nature immediately had to restore the balance, meaning nature needed a version or mortal versions of Amara that could die. Thus, shadow selves, doppelgängers or a doppelgänger bloodline of Amara was created as a way to restore the balance. Amara is known as the progenitor of the Petrova doppelganger bloodline. She is also the earliest known ancestor of Tatia, Katherine, and Elena, all of whom are doppelgängers of her. Amara is an ancestor to all of the Petrova women.
During the tenth century, there lived a girl by the name of Tatia Petrova whom had an unnamed child with an unnamed man. Shortly after that, she met Elijah and Niklaus Mikaelson. Every man wanted to be her suitor, but Elijah and Niklaus loved her the most. Little did they know, she was a doppelganger. She didn't know she was a doppelganger, either.
One day Esther Mikaelson, Niklaus and Elijah's mother, also the wife of Mikael Mikaelson, saw their shared love for the doppelganger. Esther was a powerful witch and she sought to destroy her to keep her family together. She killed Tatia and used Tatia's blood and a dark magic spell to turn her children, husband, and herself into vampires. That was the end of Tatia.
