In the fifteenth episode of the podcast, Sandile and Fadzai carve a bloody place in the world with Lorenzo "Enzo" St. John.

Joining The Vampire Diaries halfway through its fifth season, Enzo is introduced as a vampire being held by Augustine when Damon is captured, having himself been there a decade already. After helping him get through years of medicalised torture, and hatching a plan for their escape, Enzo is abandoned by Damon who chooses to turn off his humanity to save himself, and presumably perishes in a fire.

In present day, it turns out Enzo was spared by a member of Augustine, and has remained under their capture and experimentation for over sixty years. The season's events result in his escape from his prison, and he focuses his efforts on rebuilding his friendship with Damon and finding his place in the new world, though his propensity for violence towards the other Mystic Falls characters - and his lack of relevance to the goings-on in the main story - make that road virtually impossible.

(This episode focuses on Enzo in seasons 5 and 6.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of familial abandonment, gratuitous violence, medicalised torture, mental coercion and manipulation, obsession, stalking, suicide and suicidal ideation, terminal illness, and torture.

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In the sixth instalment of the Gilbert Journals, your hosts pull out the town charter, because it's time to talk about the Founding Families. Important names in The Vampire Diaries, these are the families that founded Mystic Falls, were privy to the supernatural that lurked within it - and, for better or worse, have historically been charged with protecting the town from it.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of colonialism, enslavement, racism, and sexism.

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In the third instalment of Killer Bites, Sandile and Fadzai protect and swerve with brief vampire hunter, Thomas Vincent Fell III - AKA Tripp Cooke. Introduced at the beginning of The Vampire Diaries' sixth season, Tripp has started up a community protection squad after a string of attacks and murders just outside Mystic Falls, though it appears he has more secret - and more sadistic - motivations for his actions.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of grief, loss of bodily autonomy, mass murder, mental coercion, and torture.

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In the second instalment of Killer Bites, Fadzai and Sandile pull some schemes with the surprising Nadia Petrova. Introduced as a player amidst the Traveler plotline, she is revealed to be the long-lost daughter of Katherine Pierce/Katerina Petrova, which - for better or worse - ties her inextricably to her mother's latest antics.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of child abandonment, child loss, loss of bodily autonomy, maternal loss, sexual assault, and suicide.

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Daggerwatch, baby! In the fifth instalment of the Gilbert Journals, your hosts track the daggers (those dipped in white oak ash to take down an Original vampire) and the consistency of their movements across time - or the lack thereof. Sandile and Fadzai cannot help but get into the weeds on a typical day, and certainly discussing the existence of this artifact is no different.

Content Warning: A lot of stabbing - this is about daggers, after all.

Spoiler Warning: Discussion of events from The Originals, 00:21:50 - 00:29:05.

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A lasting legacy! Fadzai and Sandile close out on now mournful widow, expecting father, Alaric Saltzman.

Joining The Vampire Diaries halfway through its first season, Alaric comes to Mystic Falls in search of a vampire that killed his wife, but finds more than he bargained for in the supernatural goings-on of the town. He very quickly becomes a mainstay amongst the protagonists and, through his relationship with Jenna Sommers, eventually becomes a paternal presence for Elena and Jeremy Gilbert.

Ric leaves the show after three seasons - and a harrowing period consumed by a psychic manifestation of his darkest self, who then became enhanced Original vampire. He is brought back for the last three seasons, though, where he reclaims his life in starts and stops, but continues to be an integral part of the Mystic Falls crew.

(This episode focuses on Alaric in seasons 7 and 8.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of alcoholism, child endangerment, depression, familial abandonment, feticide (intent to cause death or great bodily harm to a pregnant woman or her unborn child), grief and loss, mental coercion and manipulation, mental illness (and related stigma), serial killing, sexism and misogyny, and suicide.

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Sins of the past! Fadzai and Sandile reckon with the life, death, and return of Alaric Saltzman.

Joining The Vampire Diaries halfway through its first season, Alaric comes to Mystic Falls in search of a vampire that killed his wife, but finds more than he bargained for in the supernatural goings-on of the town. He very quickly becomes a mainstay amongst the protagonists and, through his relationship with Jenna Sommers, eventually becomes a paternal presence for Elena and Jeremy Gilbert.

Ric leaves the show after three seasons - and a harrowing period consumed by a psychic manifestation of his darkest self, who then became enhanced Original vampire. He is brought back for the last three seasons, though, where he reclaims his life in starts and stops, but continues to be an integral part of the Mystic Falls crew.

(This episode focuses on Alaric in seasons 3B and 6, including his guest appearances in-between.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of alcoholism, assault and battery, child endangerment, depression, domestic abuse, familial abandonment, feticide (intent to cause death or great bodily harm to a pregnant woman or her unborn child), grief and loss, mass murder, mental coercion and manipulation, mental illness (and related stigma), serial killing, sexism and misogyny, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, sororicide, and suicide.

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In the fourteenth episode of the podcast, Fadzai and Sandile explore history and hunt down vampires with Alaric Saltzman.

Joining The Vampire Diaries halfway through its first season, Alaric comes to Mystic Falls in search of a vampire that killed his wife, but finds more than he bargained for in the supernatural goings-on of the town. He very quickly becomes a mainstay amongst the protagonists and, through his relationship with Jenna Sommers, eventually becomes a paternal presence for Elena and Jeremy Gilbert.

Ric leaves the show after three seasons - and a harrowing period consumed by a psychic manifestation of his darkest self, who then became enhanced Original vampire. He is brought back for the last three seasons, though, where he reclaims his life in starts and stops, but continues to be an integral part of the Mystic Falls crew.

(This episode focuses on Alaric in seasons 1, 2 and 3A.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of alcoholism, child endangerment, depression, familial abandonment, grief and loss, mental coercion and manipulation, sexual assault, and sexual harrassment.

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