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Basic information

Biographical information

Born

February 10, 1992 (Mystic Falls. Age 21)

Turned

By Killing Sarah (Werewolf – First Time)

By Klaus Mikaelson in 2010 (Hybrid)

By Killing Liv (Werewolf – Second Time)

Status

Alive (Resurrected)

Occupation

High School Student (Graduated)

Football Player (Formerly)

Prisoner (Formerly)

College Student (Formerly)

Militia Recruitment (Formerly)

Vampire Hunter (Currently)

Family information Jacob Lockwood (Paternal Ancestor)

Benjamin Lockwood (Paternal Ancestor)

Nancy-Marie Lockwood (Paternal Ancestor)

Barnette Lockwood (Paternal Ancestor)

George Lockwood (Paternal Ancestor)

Marianna Lockwood (Paternal Ancestor)

Richard and Mason’s Unnamed Father (Paternal Grandfather)

Richard and Mason’s Unnamed Mother (Paternal Grandmother)

Richard Lockwood Father)

Carol Lockwood (Mother)

Mason Lockwood (Paternal Uncle)

Gracie Lockwood (Paternal Relative)

Jeffrey Lockwood-Hamilton (Paternal Relative)

Significant Kills

Sarah (First kill)

Dwayne (both times)

Nadia Petrova (werewolf bite)

Unnamed Traveler (in Elizabeth Forbes’ body)

Liv Parker

Cause of death

Broken Neck (1st time)

Magic Purification Spell/Broken Neck (2nd time)

Killed by

Klaus (First time)

Marcos (Second time)

” I almost killed a girl today. It was an accident. She`s okay though. But there I was… you now just for a moment, for a split second I hoped she`d die. Whatever this is inside me, I don`t want any part of it. I don`t wanna feel that way again. I won`t. “

Tyler Lockwood, Season 2, Episode 05 – Kill Or Be Killed.

Tyler Lockwood was a main character and a former hybrid who played for the football team at Mystic Falls High School. He is a werewolf and he became the first successful hybrid of Klaus’s bloodline. After he was resurrected in Home, he was reborn as an untriggered werewolf due to the effects of the Magic Purification Spell. He was an untriggered werewolf after his death and resurrection in Home. Later in I’m Thinking Of You All The While, he mercy-killed the already-dying Liv to re-trigger his werewolf curse so he could heal and save his life.

He had always been seen to have a short temper, and angered very easily. Tyler never understood why he was like this, that is until Mason came to visit after Richard’s death. Mason informs Tyler of the curse, the werewolf gene that runs through their family. He had tried his hardest not to break, though after accidentally killing Sarah, Tyler triggers his curse becoming a werewolf for the first time.

Tyler tried to adapt to what had happened, finding help in an unlikely source, Caroline Forbes. She offers her help though the pair weren’t friends at the time, helping him through his first transformation and preparation for his new life. Tyler slowly begins to fall for Caroline, but questions their relationship when Jules, another werewolf, reveals that she along with Damon and Stefan killed Mason. Tyler felt betrayed after discovering the truth, and leaned towards the werewolf pack. Caroline, along with the Salvatores, are soon captured by Jules and her boyfriend Brady. With the betrayal still fresh in his mind, he hesitates to help them. During this time he helps Jules to find the moonstone and doppelgänger, though Stefan later tells Tyler Jules had lied to him. And that Elena would have to die to break the curse.

Tyler was born to Mayor Richard Lockwood and Carol Lockwood on February 10, 1992 in Mystic Falls, Virginia. After discovering that the werewolf gene runs through his family, Tyler was scared to become a werewolf himself and his fears became true when he accidentally killed Sarah and triggered the curse. Caroline Forbes, a vampire who wasn’t his friend, offered her support to him, helping him through his first transformation and preparation for his new life. Tyler eventually fell for Caroline, but questioned their relationship when Jules, another werewolf and Mason’s friend, told him that Caroline and two other vampires, Stefan and Damon Salvatore, killed Mason. Finding out that this was true, Tyler felt betrayed and leaned towards the werewolf brethren. He hesitated to help Caroline when she and the Salvatore’s were at the brink of death, which hurt her, causing her to cut off their friendship. He was the one who revealed Mason’s plan to break the curse to Jules and her boyfriend Brady. He then helps them find the moonstone and the doppelgänger. Stefan reveals to Tyler that Jules and Brady had lied to him and that Elena would die in the ritual to break the curse. He releases Stefan who kills Brady before he can capture Elena during which time the rest of the pack is killed by Elijah. He then decides to leave town with Jules, the only survivor, with a promise that she wouldn’t lie to him anymore. After receiving a phone call from his mother telling him that she had an accident and was in the hospital, Tyler and Jules returned to Mystic Falls. They were both captured by Maddox and Greta Martin, witches working for Klaus, and were to be used in the sacrifice that would make Klaus a vampire/werewolf hybrid. Tyler and Caroline, who had also been captured for the sacrifice ritual, were rescued by Damon, who was later bitten by Tyler during his transformation. Tyler and Caroline eventually start a relationship, which becomes rocky when he becomes Klaus’s first successful hybrid. His life is made much easier when his transformations cease to happen unwillingly and Tyler becomes very respectful of Klaus, trying to sabotage his friends’ plots against him, which is later revealed to be due to a sire bond. However, he soon becomes angered at the prospect of being sired to him after he bites his girlfriend, Caroline Forbes. He manages to break the sire bond and continued to help other hybrids break the curse of being sired. This came at a price once Klaus found out about his actions, as Klaus murdered his mother and last remaining family member. Since then, he swore revenge on Klaus for his actions. Tyler then chose revenge towards Klaus, over remaining with Caroline.

Later we see the temperamental hybrid, following Klaus to New Orleans in a bid to finally get his vengeance. Though of course his attempt to kill Klaus’ child, resulted in Tyler being imprisoned in the garden, until he was released by Rebekah as a favour to Matt. With his tail firmly between his legs, Tyler returns back home to Mystic falls.

In Man on Fire, Tyler became possessed by Julian, a Traveler, in the same manner as Matt and Elena were possessed by Gregor and Katherine, respectively. His control over his own later resurfaces without the Travelers realizing, allowing Tyler to uncover what they were planning: the eradication of spirit magic and everything that witches ever created through it. He ultimately escaped and quickly relayed what he learned to his friends. After the Travelers used the Body Sealing Spell on Tyler, Julian got permanent control of Tyler’s body and due to Markos destroying the Traveler’s Knife that was needed to remove Passengers, Julian could not be banished. Later, Julian was captured by the Travelers and they brought Julian to Mystic Falls, where they had cast the Magic Purification Spell, which can undo any non-traditional magic, including the magic that created vampirism. As a result, when Julian was forced to enter Mystic Falls in Tyler’s body, Tyler’s vampirism and activated lycanthropy were both stripped away before Tyler and Julian both died, as vampirism was what was keeping them alive. Tyler, ended up on the Other Side, but thanks to Bonnie’s sacrifice and Liv’s magic, he was able to be resurrected and rejoin his loved ones in the living world. Shortly after he returned, he discovered that he was no longer a hybrid due to the . At the beginning of the sixth season, Tyler is seen struggling to control his renewed anger issues due to his return to being a human with a werewolf gene, and desperately wanted to prevent himself from triggering his curse once again. He ultimately reactivated his curse, despite his best efforts to avoid it, when a dying Liv begged him to kill her and save himself in I’m Thinking Of You All The While. While he was saying his goodbyes to Elena, she encouraged him to leave Mystic Falls and do whatever it is that he wants to do, insisting that he embrace his lycanthropy and let it be what makes him extraordinary, indicating that Tyler would be leaving town.

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