Ever since 2009, fans have been divided over which Salvatore Elena should have ended up with in The Vampire Diaries. Both Stefan and Damon have good and bad qualities, but their romances with Elena are nothing alike. In fact, the only similarity between the relationships is that both brothers are head over heels in love with her.
Elena ended up with Damon when all was said and done, but Elena and Stefan's love story is still a vital part of the series. The Vampire Diaries started with the two of them, and their romance drove many of the show's plot points. Elena and Stefan's relationship changed over the seasons, but their love for each other was eternal.
8 Season 1: Meet And Fall In Love
Stefan and Elena might have followed the "insta-love" trope, but they're one of the rare couples who can pull it off. There were plenty of obstacles on the road to happiness, and Stefan's vampirism was one of them.
Elena had to come to terms with the fact that vampires existed, but after getting to know Stefan, she realized he would never hurt her. They fall more in love over the course of the first season, and Elena convinces Stefan to keep living when he wants to give up.
7 Season 2: Established Relationship (With A Few Hiccups)
Although Damon falls in love with his brother's girlfriend and attempts to win her over, she's completely devoted to Stefan. But Damon isn't the only one unhappy about their relationship, and Katherine tries to break them up so she can have Stefan to herself.
At first, they refuse to let anyone stop them from being together, but Katherine is willing to do whatever it takes. They're forced to split after Katherine hurts Jenna, but they find their way back to each other shortly after Katherine is imprisoned in the tomb.
6 Season 3: Unofficially Broken Up, Stefan Leaves Town With Klaus
Stefan is forced to leave town with Klaus in order to save Damon's life and keep Elena off of Klaus's radar. But even after months of searching, Elena refuses to give up on him. Stefan does everything he can to push Elena away, but by doing so he's trying to protect her. Klaus makes Stefan turn off his humanity, as even under compulsion he refused to hurt Elena.
Stefan becomes unpredictable with his switch flipped, but stops drinking human blood the night he scared Elena into thinking he'd drive her off of Wickery Bridge. Elena admits that she developed feelings for Damon during Stefan's absence, but Stefan is who she's in love with. However, she never gets the chance to tell him. Elena dies after Rebekah causes her and Matt to drive into the lake, and she begs Stefan to save Matt instead.
5 Season 4: Elena Chooses Stefan, But Becomes A Vampire And Chooses Damon
The Vampire Diaries Season 4 begins with Elena waking up to discover that she had vampire blood in her system when she died. Stefan searches for a way to stop her from transitioning, but it was a hopeless cause. Elena tells Stefan that she chose him over Damon and they get back together for a handful of episodes.
However, Elena's heightened feelings for Damon break her and Stefan up, and Stefan becomes obsessed with finding a cure for vampirism. At the end of the season, Elena reiterates her love for Damon, when she still feels the same after the sire bond is broken. Stefan is heartbroken over her choice, and to make matters worse for him, he gets locked in a safe by Silas and thrown into Stevens Quarry.
4 Season 5: Broken Up, But It's Complicated
Elena is the only thing that keeps Stefan from switching off his emotions while he spends months drowning and coming back to life at the bottom of the quarry. After discovering that Silas has been impersonating Stefan for the entire summer, Elena is determined to find and rescue him.
She is successful, but Stefan loses his memories and Elena takes it upon herself to restore them. After a day of reminiscing, they almost kiss before Elena pulls away. They discover later in the season that doppelgangers have been fated to fall in love throughout all of history. Even after the information comes to light, they're still certain their love was real.
3 Season 6: Close Friends
It wasn't until The Vampire Diaries Season 6 that Stefan seemed to finally move on from Elena. To the disappointment of Stelena fans, Elena didn't see Stefan as more than a close friend even after she erased her memories of loving Damon.
Stefan and Elena were both in a dark place after Damon's death and they grieved in their own ways. When Damon returns to the land of the living, Stefan tries to help Damon and Elena find their way back to each other. He never seems thrilled about his brother dating his ex-girlfriend, but he wants them to be happy.
2 Season 7: Elena Is In A Supernatural Coma
When Nina Dobrev departed The Vampire Diaries, a spell tied Elena's life to Bonnie's, causing her to fall into a magic-induced coma until Bonnie's death. Stefan pursues a relationship with Caroline, but it's clear that Elena will always be important to him in some way.
Stefan and Caroline's romance is extremely different than his romance with Elena, which fans either loved or hated. When Damon believes he accidentally set Elena's coffin on fire and killed her, Stefan punches him before breaking down in his car.
1 Season 8: Stefan Dies And Sees Elena In Limbo
Elena is only in the final episode of The Vampire Diaries Season 8, but she's still able to reunite with Stefan during the last few minutes of the series. Stefan makes the ultimate sacrifice by injecting Damon with the cure and killing himself and Katherine to save Mystic Falls.
Since Elena is trapped in a place between life and death while she's under the sleeping spell, she runs into Stefan in the school hallway. It's a callback to how the two first met, and they embrace before Stefan moves on and finds peace with Lexi. When Elena wakes up and lives the life of her dreams with Damon, she writes that she owes it all to Stefan.
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