I cannot even begin to tell you how much I adore Caroline. True, at first, I hated her. She was sassy, bossy, and an oblivious person, not to mention insensitive friend. But unlike for Elena and Stefan, her becoming a vampire was the best thing that could have possibly happened to her.

Caroline Forbes as a human was needy and desperate, pushing everyone around and trying way to hard to be liked and adored by absolutely everyone. A control-freak extraordinaire, Caroline was the head of every committee and had a habit of treating other people the way she thought a queen should treat her subjects. Yikes.

But after Katherine Pierce killed Caroline, turning her into a vampire as a power move, everything changed. At first, Caroline is a mess, and why wouldn’t she be? She wakes up in the hospital afraid and alone, craving blood. But she is somehow the only vampire ever to be an expert at restraint right away. She drains a nurse, yes, but not only does she leave her alive, she also learns how to compel her into forgetting. No one had to teach her the tricks of the trade, that’s for sure! Go Caroline. She figures out most of the ups and downs about being a vampire fairly quickly, and even confronts Damon with all the confidence we now know and love. No more was the pathetic girl who tried to be what everyone wanted her to be.

Now, I know I’ve talked a lot about her transformation, but it’s because it is such an important part of who she is. When the cure to vampirism was brought into play, she is one of the vampires who says she wouldn’t take it, because she likes who she’s become. Her death actually made her become more alive, bringing out her truest qualities of loyalty and compassion.

Okay, now for some juicy gossip. Caroline dates so many guys over the corse of the show, she is only second to the Salvatore brothers in terms of hookups in the main cast- but then again, they have had a century longer than her to cover their bases. Her original fling with Matt Donovan which ended in him finding out she was a vampire, her latter long relationship with Tyler Lockwood, and that weird thing with Alaric Saltzman where she had his babies because of some weird Gemini coven spell… yeah, that was a very creative way for the writers to work in Candice King (who plays Caroline) being pregnant. And that scene with Niklaus!?! Bad girl side of Caroline for the win!

Finally her endgame relationship with Stefan which results in the wedding we’ve all been waiting for and one of the first purely happy moments of the show! (By the way though, everyone seems to forget that little thing she had with Damon… yeah, we all hated that, and would love to pretend it never occurred.)

You know you can’t wait for our blue-eyed bus boy, Matt Donovan!