Is a Same Sex Couple Headed to ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Next Season?

The Vampire Diaries‘ seventh season is all about changes. Star Nina Dobrev has left the series, and now the show’s first same sex couple could be headed to the Mystic Falls to do some damage when it returns.

According to TVLine,”three new vampires will be thrown into the mix when the CW drama returns (Oct. 8, 8/7c), including the show’s first same-sex couple. (Note: This is all based on preliminary casting intel. It’s still early, so the particulars of any or all of these roles are subject to change.)”

The couple’s names are Nora and Mary Louise, both of whom are in their mid-20s and both of whom are “down low lovers with murderous tendencies.”

The site also received some casting intel on a character named Valerie, “another 20-something vampire who relies on her dry sense of humor to counter a life of pain and dismissal.” Valerie will supposedly end up falling for someone in the cast who “who helps her remember the happier, free spirit she once was — and she’ll do whatever it takes to keep him in her life.” Yikes…

To read more about the show’s possible first same sex couple, head on over to TVLine

The Vampire Diaries returns to The CW on Oct. 8 at 8/7c.

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