Miranda Salvatore



Miranda Rose Salvatore is a main character in Legacies, she was a former major recurring in The Tangled Diaries before being promoted to a main character in the eighth season. Miranda is the daughter of Damon Salvatore and Louise Gilbert-Salvatore. She is the granddaughter of Giuseppe Salvatore, Lily Salvatore, Isobel Flemming, and John Gilbert; as well as the adoptive-granddaughter of Miranda and Grayson Gilbert. She is also the niece of Elena Gilbert and Stefan Salvatore.

She is named in honour of Louise's mother, Miranda and Damon's friend, Rose in her passing.

She attends the Salvatore Boarding School of the Young & Gifted.

Miranda is a member of the Gilbert Family, the Salvatore Family, and the Petrova Family.

Season Five
In Where You Left Your Heart, Miranda is first seen at the Salvatore school with Hope, trying to convince her to sell her blood. Originally, Hope wasn't sure, but eventually caves when Henry Benoit comes in, and Miranda admits that she already said that she was selling it. Unfortunately, this caused Hope to get suspended and Miranda waited, hoping she wouldn't get suspended too. Thankfully, when Dorian comes back with the news, Hope didn't throw Miranda under the bus, even though she probably should.

In The Tale of the Two Wolves, she is seen when Caroline gives a tour around the Salvatore Boarding School.

Season One
In This is the Part Where You Run, Miranda is seen welcoming Rafael Waithe, a newly turned werewolf and the latest new student to the Salvatore School.

In Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn, Miranda prepares for the football game; she is irritated after encountering Penelope and becomes upset when she is told that her mother won't be attending the game.

Personality
Miranda is incredibly headstrong and courageous. She is not a fan of people telling her what she can and can’t do and will often go out of her way to prove them wrong. She is incredibly kind, with a heart that no doubt mirrors her mother. While mostly sweet,  Miranda can get a bit of a temper at times. She’s inherited her father’s sarcasm, quick-wit and snark; she's been described as the female version of Damon. Miranda tends to push people’s boundaries without even realizing it.

Physical Appearance

 * "Funny, she's all her mother but those eyes — that's all me."
 * — Damon about Miranda

Miranda is describe as looking very sweet and innocent. She resembles her mother most, sharing Louise's soft, gentle features, oval shaped face and long, dark brown hair. However, she possesses the piercing blue eyes of her father, Damon. She is quite fair in skin tone, though this generally changes when she spends more time outside—  she’s known to get a bit more colour. Miranda has a very baby-like type look to her features which often makes her more delicate than she really is. As a teenager, Miranda is the shortest among her friends and peers standing at 4'9" tall. When at school, Miranda tends to stray away from the school uniform as much as she could. She wears relaxed yet edgy clothing; lots of leather jackets and jeans. She is always seen wearing Vivienne Pierce' s cameo necklace, which Miranda claims she found in the Salvatore School archive down in the basement; this is much to her parents displeasure.

Powers and Abilities
Miranda is a seer, having inherited this gene from her mother. The power of premonition manifested itself through her mother while still in the womb, granting Louise a vision of the future. She triggers this power when she touches or is in the presence of something that is related to the subject of her premonitions, making them a form of psychometry. This originally only encompassed precognition, to see the future, but grew to include retrocognition; to see the past, as well. Just like her mother, this power was initially uncontrollable, but with training she learns to summon premonitions at will.

Being the daughter of two cured vampires; her blood is the cure. If every bit of her blood is drank by a person affected by Qetsiyah or Esther's version of the Immortality Spell; which are original vampires, non-original vampires, augustine vampires, true immortals, and vampire hybrids; the the recipient will become the cure and effectively human.

She possesses fighting abilities to defend herself against vampires as she trained under Damon. She knows how to stake vampires and also the traits of a vampire hunter.

Weaknesses
Miranda has all the typical weaknesses of a seer.

Louise Gilbert

 * Miranda: "Don't worry about me much, okay, mum?."
 * Louise: "That's the one thing that won't change."
 * — Louise and Miranda in I Was Feeling Epic

Main Article: Louise and Miranda

Louise is Miranda's mother and it is shown various times that Louise strongly loves her daughter.

Damon Salvatore

 * Miranda: "I did it to keep you safe."
 * Damon: "That’s my job. you’re my daughter, it’s not your job to keep me safe."
 * — Damon and Miranda

Main Article: Damon and Miranda

Damon is Miranda's father.

Elena Gilbert
Main Article: Elena and Miranda

Elena is Miranda's aunt on her mother's side.

Stefan Salvatore

 * "You've been through a lot. You are so strong but you gotta cut yourself some slack, okay?"
 * — Stefan to Miranda

Main Article: Stefan and Miranda

Stefan is Miranda's uncle on her father's side.

Hope Mikaelson

 * Miranda: "Hey, you need to stop being so hard on yourself — you can't single handedly save the world every single time something goes bad."
 * Hope: "Then what use is all this power if I can't save people I care about?"
 * — Hope and Miranda

Main Article: Hope and Miranda

Other Relationships
Salvatore Family, Gilbert Family, Mystic Falls Gang, Salvatore Boarding School for the Young &amp; Gifted

Main Article: Miranda Salvatore/Relationships
 * Damon, Louise and Miranda (Parents and Daughter/Allies)
 * Jeremy and Miranda (Uncle/Niece/Allies)
 * Lizzie and Miranda (Step-Aunt/Step-Niece/Friends/Allies)
 * Josie and Miranda (Step-Aunt/Step-Niece/Friends/Allies)
 * Miranda and Caroline (Honorary Aunt-Niece/Allies)
 * Bonnie and Miranda (Honorary Aunt-Niece/Allies)
 * Matt and Miranda (Honorary Uncle-Niece/Allies)
 * Alaric and Miranda (Step-Grandfather/Step-Granddaughter/Allies)

Name

 * Miranda is derived from Latin Mirandus meaning "admirable, wonderful". The name was created by Shakespeare for the heroine in his play The Tempest (1611),  about a father and daughter stranded on an island. It did not become a common English given name until the 20th century. This is also the name of one of the moons of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
 * Rose is derived from the Latin "Rosa", the name of a fragrant flower.
 * Salvatore is of Italian origin and means "saviour".

Trivia

 * Bonnie described Miranda as "one of Nature's loopholes"
 * Miranda is the first being born with the cured blood, meaning her blood can reverse immortaily, or colloquially, vampirism.
 * Miranda is named in honour of Louise's mother, Miranda and Damon's friend, Rose.

Tropes

 * Daddy's Girl - Miranda seems to light up whenever her father is around. It's clear how much Miranda adores her father and it's clear how much Damon loves her. Damon was besotted with her even before she was born.
 * Protective Mom - Miranda has a mother that adores her and it's clear that Miranda feels the same. Whenever Miranda sees her mother, she's always laughing.