1489 eastern Europe Bulgaria, you were born from a girl named Katerina Petrova at 17. Your father is a 2000 year old Bennett vampire witch hybrid (originally a siphoner but turned from Qetsiyah’s immortality drink.) From having a bastard child out of wedlock she was shamed, humiliated all the above. As a result you were given to another family. Then they were..killed for an unknown reason. After that happened your mother met a man named Niklaus/Klaus. Eventually he tried using her for a sacrifice to awaken his dormant werewolf side and she ran away, far away. And when she returned to Europe her family was dead because Klaus killed them out of spite. Now, well over 500 years later when your in mystic falls, a vampire alive and well (and evil) while looking for someone to attack you..run into your mother, now Katherine. You don't know this but you see her. You see she slightly looks like you but you don't think much of it.