Sandile and Fadzai turn off their maternity switch with the mother of the Salvatore brothers, Lillian "Lily" Salvatore.
Virtually never referenced in the first half of The Vampire Diaries, Lily is thereafter mentioned once or twice to have died of "consumption" (tuberculosis) in the late 1850s. In the sixth season, however, Bonnie Bennett encounters her by chance in the Gemini coven's 1903 prison world; when Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert return with Bonnie to rescue her, it appears she is a vampire - a ripper like her younger son, Stefan - and could not return to them when they were children, for fear of harming them.
Once back in the real world, though, Lily makes clear that she's no longer the mother they knew, and isn't keen on rebuilding their relationship. More importantly, her focus is on rescuing her new family of Heretics - the witch/vampire hybrids who helped her settle into her new vampire life, and were trapped with her in the prison world - who the Mystic Falls gang are not intent on letting out. This scores a divide between Lily and the Salvatore brothers and, once reunited with her Heretic family, cements them as the antagonists for the seventh season.
Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of physical and mental abuse, domestic violence, child abuse and endangerment, familial abandonment, and suicide.
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