

Damon then tricked her into becoming stuck on a rooftop with sunlight and with no way to escape until nightfall. In the 1970s, Damon hosted wild parties and was feeding upon people when Lexi found him and tried to get his humanity back. He only stopped when Bonnie, grief-stricken over Enzo’s death, injected him with the cure, turning him human and, thus, bringing back his emotions as he remembered everyone he slaughtered for Cade. So when did Stefan turn his humanity back on in Season 8? When Cade offered him a choice to be off the contract and instead kill Elena as a bargain, he remorselessly killed Enzo. Like always, he fell off the wagon and became a Ripper while he tipped people toward darkness to corrupt their souls. In exchange, he offered himself up to Arcadius, the creator of Hell, and chose to turn off his humanity for a year to bring him souls. The last time Stefan turned off his humanity was to save Lizzie and Josie Saltzman, Alaric’s daughters, who were kidnapped by Seline, the siren. It was only when Damon brought back their mother, Lily, who had been turned into a vampire, that Stefan turned on his humanity again. He then made Caroline join him in his killing spree, during which they fed and then left behind injured victims and dead bodies. In Season 6, Episode 16, "The Downward Spiral," Stefan turned off his humanity again when Caroline, with her humanity switch flipped, threatened to kill his niece, Sarah. That showed his humanity had returned although, he acted as if he no longer cared about anyone. But when Damon tried to kill Klaus with the White Oak Stake, Stefan saved Klaus, because he knew the hybrids were programmed to kill Damon if the original vampire died. It was never shown how Stefan regained his humanity. While Stefan kept Elena "safe" for Klaus’ plan to create hybrids with her blood, he reverted back to his early Ripper days, not caring for anything or anyone. In Season 3, Episode 5, "The Reckoning," the original vampire, Niklaus Mikaelson, compelled Stefan to turn off his humanity.
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She became his best friend and mentored him on how to turn his humanity back on, as well as how to survive on a strict diet of animal blood.


Unaware he had turned off his humanity, Stefan lost control over his blood lust and went on a killing spree, until he met another, older vampire, Alexie "Lexi" Branson. Portrayed by Paul Wesley ( Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Stefan Salvatore turned off his humanity four times, although, the first time he so unknowingly, because he was a new vampire at age 17, guilty and alone after his brother, Damon, left him.
