Inheritance Profile: Lizzie Saltzman
• Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman
• March 15, 2014 (McKinley, Virginia, Age 14-15)
• Member of the Gemini Coven
• Wonder Twins, Little Munchkins, and Little Squirt (All by Damon)
• Mean Girl (by Hope about Lizzie and Josie)
• Queen of Mean (by Penelope)
• Crazy Lizzie (by herself)
• Bottle Blonde, Lesser Evil, Queen Elizabeth (by Harmony)
• Alaric (Paternal Great-Great-Grandfather)
• Ed Saltzman (Paternal Grandfather)
• Dianne Saltzman (Paternal Grandmother)
• Joshua Parker † (Maternal Grandfather)
• Joshua's Twin Brother † (Maternal Great-Uncle)
• Malachai Parker † (Maternal Uncle)
• Joey Parker † (Maternal Uncle)
• 1 Unnamed Maternal Uncle †
• 2 Unnamed Maternal Aunts †
• Olivia Parker † (Maternal Aunt)
• Lucas Parker † (Maternal Uncle)
• Josette Laughlin † (Biological Mother)
• Alaric Saltzman (Father)
• Josie Saltzman (Twin Sister)
• Elena Gilbert (Step-Sister via Alaric)
• Caroline Forbes (Surrogate Mother)
• Stefan Salvatore † (Late Step-Father via Caroline)
• William Forbes † (Surrogate Maternal Ancestor)
• Gerald Forbes † (Surrogate Maternal Ancestor)
• Margaret Forbes † (Surrogate Maternal Ancestor)
• Bill Forbes † (Surrogate Maternal Grandfather)
• Elizabeth Forbes † (Surrogate Maternal Grandmother)
• Bob (Surrogate Maternal Great-Uncle)
• Mary (Surrogate Maternal Great-Aunt)
While Jo Laughlin was thinking she was sick from food poisoning it was revealed by her brother that she's pregnant after she gives him her power for him to survive the consequences of the jacked merging ritual he performed with his brother, Luke, instead of Jo. Jo and Alaric began to pick out names for the baby. Elena finds out about Jo's pregnancy when she tells her that Kai had been imprisoned in the 1903 prison world.
Jo and Bonnie are attacked by Lily during Jo's bachelorette party. As she is about to feed on Jo, Lily hears the babies' heartbeats and tells her that she is expecting twins. Later, Jo tells Alaric that they will be having twins and that the Gemini Coven will want to get their hands on them to strip Kai of power by performing another twin merge.
Damon reveals that Jo is dead after Kai stabbed her in the abdomen and believed the twins were killed too.
It is revealed by Valerie Tulle that the twins survived Kai's attack on Jo because the Gemini Coven performed a spell to transfer the twins into another body. It was also revealed that Caroline Forbes is currently pregnant with twins. It was revealed that she and her sister had siphoned a bit of magic from Caroline's body for a long time, but as they grew in her womb, they siphoned more and more magic out of her system, until Caroline began to desiccate. Before she was born with her twin, they used telekinesis to keep her from being born because they were attached to the magic in Caroline's body. Bonnie and Valerie finished the job by drawing magic out of Caroline's body as the doctors perform a C-section, allowing Lizzie and her twin sister, Josie, to be born on March 15, 2014.
Alaric, the twins, and Caroline head to Dallas as he wants to keep his promise to Jo. While at a diner, the twins begin to cry and Caroline is having a hard time putting Josie to sleep. After talking to Klaus for a few minutes, Josie is silently sleeping and Klaus mentions they shouldn't wake her up, and he proceeds to hang up.
3 years later, Caroline is seen with the twins in New Orleans at St. James Infirmary looking for Klaus. The bartender tells Caroline that Klaus hasn't been seen or heard from in 3 years, which leaves Caroline puzzled.
Lizzie, along with her sister and her father, calls Caroline before they go to bed. They appear to miss Caroline being around as she has been on the run with Stefan Salvatore, trying to get away from Bonnie. Before they go to bed, they say their good-nights to Caroline before Alaric takes the phone from them to talk to Caroline alone. Alaric and Caroline both decide to use Lizzie, along with her twin sister Josie, to siphon Bonnie's spell over the Armory as Bonnie was suffering from the effects of Rayna's poisonous blood. Lizzie, along with Josie, was successful in opening the Armory doors and she embraces Caroline in triumph, while Alaric hugs Josie.
Lizzie and her sister, Josie, video call Alaric until he asked for Seline. Seline tells them to go put on their swimsuits while they chat. Later, the girls visit Caroline at work; Seline leaves to go have a salad for lunch and leaves the girls with Caroline. When she left, Caroline mentions that Seline probably loves kale, which makes Lizzie ask her what is kale; Caroline responds you don't want to know. The video, that is given to her by Seline from Pete, which Caroline is attempting to watch gets to a certain point and the sound messes up to which Lizzie tells her mommy that it is too loud. Later that evening, Virginia breaks into the house, attacks Seline, and tries to kill the girls for opening the armory. Virginia stalks through the house where she comes to the girls' room. When inside, she hears laughing come from the closet and proceeds through before she can approach is knocked out by Caroline. Caroline checks the closet and finds the girls, Lizzie saying hi to her mommy, to which Caroline tells the girls don't move while she goes to handle Virginia. Lizzie and Josie are first seen fighting over the tuning fork, to which Alaric tells Lizzie to put the fork down immediately. She tells her dad she had it first, which prompts Alaric to yell at Lizzie to drop it. Lizzie drops the fork and she and Josie begin to scream over the vibrations the tuning fork makes. Alaric picks up the fork to stop the vibrations and proceeds to comfort the girls. Josie and Lizzie are getting ready for bed. Lizzie asks Seline for a bedtime story, to which Josie answers nothing sad. Seline then tells them "The Legend of Arcadius". Seline takes Josie and Lizzie to the local carnival where the sisters have fun playing games and won a goldfish. However, it's dead and Seline explains that the deceased need to be treated with dignity so that they can find peace in death. She also explains to them how their souls are taken by Cade and that they can show him what they've done. She teaches the twins the Incendia spell and sets a pile of wood, albeit hiding a corpse underneath, on fire. Caroline and Alaric issue an Amber Alert for her and Lizzie as Seline has kidnapped them. She and Lizzie are taken to a diner and then to a motel, where Seline offers them to Arcadius, who Seline and Sybil have called out to. To spare the twins the same fate as the sirens, Stefan offers himself to be Arcadius' servant; an offer which Cade accepts. Josie and Lizzie visit Caroline for Christmas since they haven't been with her since their dad took both to a safe location.
Alaric brings the girls back to Mystic Falls and takes them to the Armory. He calls Caroline wanting to bring the girls over and admits that he needs good parenting advice as unbeknownst to her, they've been acting up and their siphoning and magic are growing unstable. As he checks in on the girls, they continue coloring as levitating crayons above their heads.
Alaric soon arrives at Caroline's later that night with Lizzie and Josie in tow. Both are thrilled to see their mother and embrace her in warm hugs, commenting about how big they've grown seen she last saw them. They sit down as a family to get dinner and Lizzie accidentally siphons Caroline as she wants to use her sister's cup, the pink one. Josie sits by as she watches Alaric scold her sister and sees that she hurt their mom. Josie is visibly upset at her sister and attempts the Incendia spell on Lizzie but the spell failed without any magic to draw from. Nevertheless, Alaric and Caroline intervene grabbing the two girls; Caroline scolding Josie that those words could seriously hurt her sister. Alaric and Caroline look on, worried about their wild and troubling behavior.
When Kai Parker was brought back to life, she and her sister hide under their bed when Kai breaks free from his cell in the Armory. After he's subdued by Alaric and Caroline, she and Lizzie, with Bonnie's guidance, lock him away in a new prison world, ensuring their safety.
Josie and her sister are the flower girls for Stefan and Caroline's wedding. Later that night, during the reception she, Lizzie, and Bonnie are caught in the crossfire when Kelly Donovan made the Lockwood Mansion explode although, with Bonnie's guidance, she teaches them the spell that they need to survive, ultimately, Bonnie removes all the fire from the building and leads them to safety. Bonnie leads the twins out of the charred building. Alaric and Caroline are overwhelmed with joy as Bonnie saved them. They soon learn that they are not out of danger and they all leave Mystic Falls, stopping briefly at the Armory. They are seen later playing outside the Salvatore Boarding House as Alaric unpacks the newly designed Salvatore Boarding School sign, established for supernatural kids. Josie and Lizzie, as well as Alaric, are last seen being watched over by their mother, Jo's spirit, who had found peace.
In July 2019, 5-year-old Lizzie and Josie are introduced to 7-year-old twins, Hope & Harmony Marshall. The twins take a liking to them, but Lizzie mostly bonds with Harmony.
In December 2020, Alaric was supposed to go Christmas Tree shopping with the 6-year-old twins but was alerted by Emma about a magical surge appearing on the Potential Student map. Unable to go shopping with the twins, Alaric left with Dorian to retrieve this new student. One night, Josie rushed into their dorm and told Lizzie that she learned their father went to collect a student who killed her parents over her Christmas presents. This lie fueled the fire in Lizzie's mind over the "injustice" of her dad skipping out on them & lead to her spreading this rumor throughout the school to make the new girl pay for ruining Christmas shopping for her. So when Alyssa Chang arrived the next day, she was singled out and ostracized during her first days at Salvatore. She enjoyed watching 8-year-old Alyssa being outcasted by the rest of the students upon arrival. However, the joy began to lose its luster and slowly formed into jealousy when she saw Harmony becoming fast friends with the girl. This would indirectly lead to years of feuding with Alyssa with Harmony acting as the referee.
In 2021, 7-year-old Lizzie and Josie began noticing that Alaric began paying special attention to the Marshall twins and started having sparring lessons with them. One day, having been annoyed to see their dad heading to the quarry to spar with the Marshalls, began ranting to Josie about how unfair it was when Harmony came to their dorm asking them to join her and her sister. With some convincing with the assurance that Alaric was patiently waiting for them, the twins agreed and chained into their fitness clothes before following Harmony. However, when they got to the quarry, all three girls saw that Alaric and Hope had started without them despite Harmony promising they wouldn't. Hearing Alaric hyping Harmony and Hope up while downplaying his daughters for them to hear made Lizzie run away in tears. Harmony eventually caught up and tried to console her, but in her distress, Lizzie accidentally siphoned off of her and pushed her to a wall, causing her to bleed and have a concussion. Horrified, she ran back to her dad, who quickly retrieved Harmony and brought her to the infirmary. For a few days, Lizzie was completely guilt-ridden until she heard the news that Harmony woke up. She was scared to approach her until being encouraged by Caroline on the phone. To her surprise, Harmony was happy to see her and easily forgave her as it was an accident.
In 2025, with Lizzie and Josie's upcoming 11th birthday coming up, they invited almost everyone at school, except Hope. Harmony told them off about it but Alaric brought Hope, which resulted in it ending with the entire party ruined and descending into chaos. Harmony got injured getting in the middle of Hope and the twins fight as a result. Both sets of twins were punished accordingly.
This sequence of events caused Lizzie to have an emotional meltdown that caused her to destroy her and Josie's dorm. Josie and Harmony had to calm her down, the latter needing to use her empath abilities to calm her down. Lizzie was later diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. Sometime after, under the advisement of Emma, Lizzie started writing in a diary featuring a Star Wars-inspired world filled with her interests.
Before Spring Break, Lizzie and Josie were preparing to go to Florida with their parents. However, it was halted due to a massive fire in Harmony and Hope's dorm - burning almost everything they had, including a cherished picture Hope painted with Klaus and nearly Harmony's violin. Believing Hope did this to ruin her Spring Break, Lizzie came up with a plan to even the score. One night, she snuck into Emma's office and looked through her files hoping to find dirt on Hope. Seeing the files labeled "H. Marshall #1" and "H. Marshall #2", Lizzie deduced that #1 was Hope's file and found a CD titled "Sessions with Marshall". However, instead of watching it, she chose to upload it onto the school website. However, she soon earned that the video wasn't of Hope, but of Harmony- who unbeknownst to her was trying to talk to Anastacia, a spirit living in her head. Realizing what she'd done, she tried to undo her mistake, but the damage was done and Harmony was humiliated. She confessed to Alaric and Emma, who were livid and ashamed of her but managed to get the video down, but not before Lizzie was hit with a mental spell that trapped her in her mind by Harmony for her betrayal. Under this spell, Lizzie suffered from a manic episode in which she heard voices of loved ones calling her "a failure" and that she wasn't "good enough". After this episode, the spell was lifted by Harmony, remorsefully regretful for what she'd done. Seeing as they both did horrible things in a spur of anger, they exchanged apologies. But Harmony, unable to get past Lizzie's irrational reasons behind her actions, ended their friendship. This deeply hurt Lizzie and began the start of a strained, antagonistic association between the two.
In February 2026, she and her sister are students at Salvatore but have a reputation for being mean girls. They are constantly in competition with the Midnight Falls Coven (consisting of Harmony, Alyssa, and Penelope Park) for the title of "Most Powerful Witch". Upon news that Hope & Harmony Marshall are the daughters of Klaus Mikaelson after Hope created a hybrid from a werewolf, Henry Benoit, Lizzie hears of her suspension. With Hope suspended, they tried to grow their on the witch's popularity but were halted by Penelope and Alyssa. However, they didn't try anything once learn that a vampire student, Roman Sienna, was an older vampire and part of a group of "nazi vampires" responsible for the deaths of Henry and Hope and Harmony's mother, Hayley.
A month later, Lizzie and Josie see their mom in the middle of a school tour. She pulls them aside later that day and explains the situation of the Mikaelson twins needing their help. They bargain with Caroline as she asks them to help Hope and Harmony - who are dying due to The Hollow's dark magic inside them. Caroline also tells Lizzie that it would be the first step toward gaining Harmony's forgiveness, effectively guilt-tripping her. Before Klaus could get a chance to talk to them, Alaric shoots him with an arrow through the chest, leaving the twins looking shocked at what happened. At night during the full moon, the girls begin a spell to siphon the magic out of Hope & Harmony to insert it into Klaus, who will proceed to kill himself. After the spell is completed, Alaric takes the girls away.
Some days later, Lizzie and Josie come to learn Klaus passed away, leaving his daughters orphaned, and, by word of their mom, Harmony would be permanently living in Mystic Falls with Bonnie Bennett and continue attending Salvatore with Hope.
In May, Lizzie and Josie soon learn that Harmony had disowned Hope as her sister and vowed nothing to do with her.
When Summer began, they went to Europe to spend time with Caroline in Rome. When they return for the school year, they are surprised to learn Harmony changed her last name to "Kenner", cementing her separation from Hope. Lizzie expressed that she didn't know sisters could disown each one another.
In December of 2026, Lizzie was immediately sent to the ER because Alyssa linked Lizzie to a fire spell with her notebook. She wouldn't know it was because of a Josie telling Alyssa she was responsible for the accusations against her when Alyssa first came to Salvatore.
At some point, Lizzie watched as Josie fell in love and began a romantic relationship with Penelope despite the objections of Lizzie, Alyssa, and Harmony. She mutually disliked the witch, but let the relationship go. However, Penelope broke up with Josie, unbeknownst to her reasoning that she can't watch Josie drag herself down to build up Lizzie.
Lizzie appears to be a typical high school mean girl, underneath bubbles of darkness that cannot go unaddressed. Given both her sinister lineage and the questionable biology (being birth by a vampire) that accompanies it, Lizzie possesses the power to render great harm to the world if her behavior continues to go unchecked. She shows signs of mood swings, self-absorption, and over-possessiveness. Some even say that Lizzie's exactly like her surrogate mother, Caroline, in neurotic tendencies and other traits. It's ultimately Lizzie's attachment to the superficial that will prevent her from doing the introspection necessary to avert the breakdown clearly on the horizon.
While she cares deeply for her family and would do anything for them, she is incapable of seeing things from their perspective unless pushed. She is capable of remorse, as when she realized she mistakenly hurt Harmony.
Lizzie is also a narcissist with a fragile ego that hates when she doesn't have her father's (or anyone she cares about) full attention.
Lizzie is originally born as a siphoner, a witch with no power of her own, meaning that she could only practice magic by siphoning it from another source.
Although people describe Lizzie's personality and possibly even her appearance compared to being a "mean girl," she is a beautiful, young woman with light skin, blue eyes, and light, blonde hair.
• Elizabeth is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Elizabeth is: From the Hebrew Elisheba, meaning either oath of God, or God is satisfaction.
• Jenna is of Arabic origin, and the meaning is "heaven." In the Western world, it is a variation of Jennifer, the Cornish variant of Guinevere which means white (fair, pure).
• Saltzman is an Ashkenazic Jewish occupational name for a producer or seller of salt, from German Salz "salt" + Mann "man". Altered spelling of German Salzmann.
• If the Gemini Coven found out about the twins then they would have tried to take them from Jo and Alaric to strip Kai of his power as leader of the coven.
• ⬆️ However since it was revealed that they were siphoners, the Gemini Coven would wait for another set of twins to lead them because of their prejudice against siphoners.
• ⬆️ She and her twin sister, Josie, are the first babies that are known to have been carried by a vampire.
• ⬆️⬆️ However, she and Josie were the first to be born via C-section.
• She and her sister were the third birth after Nadia's, Hope's, and Harmony's birth.
• Lizzie is a natural blonde (resembling her Aunt Olivia's shade) but dyes it to match Caroline's shade.
• Lizzie was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at 11.
• ⬆️ It's suspected she was misdiagnosed and has Borderline Personality Disorder.
• ⬆️⬆️ Because Bipolar and Clinical Depression are categorized terms under Depression, Harmony believed she and Lizzie were the same.
• Lizzie had a butterfly clip that went missing in the 3rd grade.
• Despite disliking Hope, Lizzie had a close bond with her sister, Harmony.
• Lizzie is a closet nerd (liking Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, ninjas, and comic books).
• Lizzie had a diary when she was 11.
• Lizzie's favorite color is Lavender.
• Lizzie once had a crush on Jed.
• Her favorite dessert is Key Lime Pie.
• It is speculated that Alaric treats Lizzie differently from Josie because she takes after him and Caroline in looks and personality.
• While Lizzie disliked Hope for her loner attitude, she saw Harmony as an older sister before they fell out.
• ⬆️⬆️ Harmony shared a few spells she created with her.
• Lizzie got pneumonia in the 4th grade during Witch Week and believed Hope gave it to her to stop her from going to Spring Break.
• ⬆️ It is later revealed she caught it from Alyssa.