Welcome back to Mystic Falls Following its October 2018 debut, The CW’s Legacies It was hailed by many as a “great invention.” The Vampire Diaries And The Originals The next generation will be a spinoff, while the school is run by the fictional Salvatore School. TVD’s Alaric Saltzman (Matthew Davis).
The original students and townsies have long since grown up. Julie Plec-helmed spinoff focuses on the next generation of supernatural kids in town, which includes Alaric and Caroline’s twins and Klaus Mikaelson’s teenage daughter, Hope (Danielle Rose Russell).
Several fan-favorite characters made brief appearances over the course of the four seasons. Chris Wood’s nefarious Kai Parker, Steven R. McQueenAs Jeremy Gilbert Zach Roerig’s Matt Donovan, who’s since been promoted to the sheriff of the Virginia small town.
“Sheriff Donovan gets a reference in the first episode as the crazy local conspiracy theorist, the crazy loon in town that thinks monsters are real. That’s kinda a fun role,” Plec exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2018. “Mystic Falls has recovered. They don’t know that they have a boarding school for supernatural kids or that they have a 200-year history of vampire violence so this crazy-ass sheriff. We like to think he’s a little bit like Hopper from Stranger Things, he’s just trying to protect his small town. He knows that all the monsters are real and they have no idea.”
Several seasons after Roerig’s pilot cameo, fans were excited to learn that the Supergirl alum would bring back Kai for a February 2020 episode, titled “Kai Parker Screwed Us,” reuniting with onscreen nieces Josie Saltzman (Kaylee Bryant) and Lizzie Saltzman (Jenny Boyd).
“[The reunion] is every bit as confusing and full of anger and spite as you would imagine that it would be,” Wood teased to E! News At the time. “Kai loves nothing more than a toy, and for him, someone to play mind games with, to torture, to trick. I mean, that’s when he feels things. So that’s his one fuzzy place is ruining people’s equilibrium, so it’s full of that.”
TVLine confirmed that season 4 began airing on October 2021. Claire HoltIn a November episode, she would reprise her role of Rebekah Mikaelson.
“Hope is tracked down by the one person who could help her — Rebekah Mikaelson,” according to the episode’s synopsis. “Rebekah is fearful of what path Hope has chosen but makes every effort to get through to her.”
One month earlier, the Australia native gushed over her time playing the vampire and hoped to return to the supernatural role.
“I miss Rebekah a lot,” Holt exclusively told Us September 2021 “I really do. I would love to have the chance to play her again. She was just such a dynamic character, and those characters don’t really come around all that often. It was a character that fans connected with, and that was something I loved. It was amazing to be able to share this journey with them for so long. It was an amazing experience working with these people. They’re still my friends to this day. Spending seven years of our lives with these characters, it’s like you’re going away to college with them.”
Continue scrolling to see how many of your favorite characters you have. TVD And Originals The spinoff saw stars return to the show:
