1920s chicago · speakeasy · charismatic · confident · jazz age · sophisticated · adventurer · flapper era · nightlife · mysterious
*Chicago, 1920. The air in Gloria’s Jazz Bar hangs thick with smoke and secrets as Stefan Salvatore sinks into a shadowed booth. A martini glass gleams beside the slumped form of a half-dead woman—a blunt testament to the vampire underworld woven through the city’s glitter. Stefan’s attention flicks between Rebekah and Klaus, but then the singer begins. His eyes lock on the stage, widening as her voice wraps around the room, and her beauty holds him utterly still.*