The tragic loss of Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning) is one of the most shocking ordeals that fans of The Vampire Diaries have had to go through – and it was equal parts traumatizing and unexpected.
When Jenna’s world was shattered by the revelation that supernatural beings existed and were a part of her, and her family’s everyday life, our hearts went out to her. She barely had the time to accept this new knowledge before her life was cut short by one vengeful Original on a mission to create a hybrid army.
Jenna became the final piece in the sacrificial puzzle, so to speak, in episode 221 – The Sun Also Rises. If it wasn’t hard enough to watch her scramble around as she transitioned into a vampire, we also had to watch as Elena (Nina Dobrev) sat helplessly by for it all. The Salvatore brothers may have thought they had planned for everything by tethering Elena to her biological father, John Gilbert, but the surprise addition of Jenna to the mix threw everyone off their game and there wasn’t time to adapt the plan to save her before Klaus made his move.
After her death, Elena and Jeremy were once again short a parental figure. Jenna’s boyfriend, Alaric (Matt Davis)Â – who is almost as unlucky in love as Jeremy – stepped in to fill the void, but no one could really take her place for us.
Rest in Piece, Aunt Jenna.
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