<sub>Casually whistles that Elijah is a hypocrite.

Elijah was the one who pointed out earlier in the season that the wolves are “Klaus Family” - which struck me as painful as Klaus always wanted to be a Mikaelson, and there is Elijah telling him that his family lies with the wolves.

In the new promo - he gets angry at Klaus for claiming the wolves as family.

People say that Klaus is co-dependent and cruel to his siblings.

Yet, Elijah is equally cruel to Klaus. Elijah is all mental. He is equally conniving, but he is subtle. He knows that Hayley is having Klaus’ child and yet, as he says “If I [Elijah] wants something. I’ll take it.”

So, he wants Hayley. One could go as far as to say that he wants the baby (afterall, he won’t be able to have any of his own, ever, and why should his bastard brother get what he cannot have?), and he will take them, or at least attempt to. He hasn’t truly tried to stay away from Hayley, and I’m not saying that he should. His attraction is just that, an attraction and it cannot be controlled, but he forgets (or ignores) that the child is not the Mikaelsons’ responsibility. She is Klaus’ responsibility. Now, if Elijah wants Hayley, fine. She wants him as well, but that shouldn’t make it so she can’t talk to Klaus and they can’t bond on a different, non-sexual, level (but at some point they had to be attracted to one another or there’d be no Klaus’ daughter impending).

He has not even forgiven Klaus, as he says that he has, because to forgive someone is not to throw their mistakes and vulnerabilities in their face when it suits him. He has spoken of beating Klaus down like Mikael used to do, how is that the mark of a man who loves his brother and forgives him?

Elijah is not trying to save Klaus for Klaus’ sake, He is trying to save him for himself. Elijah is flawed

I am not saying that Klaus is not a manipulative fucker. That he’s not using the wolves for his own end, but I am saying that Klaus could (with good writing which we may or may not get) find his own redemption and salvation within the pack setting of the wolves –

And that’s just it, isn’t it?

Elijah is jealous. Jealous of Klaus and what he can have with Hayley, a family that isn’t twisted and corrupted by the Mikaelson name — but he’s also jealous that Klaus’ redemption may not come from Elijah’s “ever benevolent hand” but from the wolves. I think that is eating him up inside. He wants what Klaus has. He has a good reason to be jealous. Procreation and the continuance of the family name should mean quite a bit to him but the child will not be a Mikaelson. To be fair, in the old way, it would be some variation of Niklausdotter (at work - can’t research properly). The Mikaelson name is dead. It is gone. The Originals may hold it but they can never continue it, not through blood and children. Klaus’ line, the line of the man who seduced Esther, that line carries on.

The Originals are arrogant, Elijah and Klaus are both fiercely arrogant, cruel, and plagued with all the sins and desires of any creature subject to the temptations on earth. Klaus displays his openly. Elijah hides them behind words and a well-cut suit that he seems to use as a way to disguise how very cold and calculating he is.

Elijah comes off as a gentleman but really? He is a man that wants to hold the leash that attaches to the collar around his brother’s throat. He wants the woman and child that his brother has. He wants the Mikaelson name to carry on.

In so little words, Elijah is not the white knight. He is a gangster, capable of cruelty. He is a man who fits into the mentality of a gangster and that includes how he sees women - but, he’s not my character to play so I won’t share my thoughts on that here. Regardless, I’m not sure how I feel with this degradation of the brothers’ relationship but, I knew it was coming. Elijah can’t wear the genteel mask forever, and Klaus can’t be the whipping boy for the family’s sins any longer.</sub>

These are the basic emotions according to Aristotle. Reblog and show your best icon for each!

• Anger

• 
  Calmness

• Friendship/Love

• Hate

• Fear

• Confidence

• Shame

• Shamelessness

• Kindness

• Unkindness

• Pity 

• Indignation

• Envy

Since I play Klaus as being much older than the Originals/TVD age of 1000 years, it gives me the benefit of being able to put him into various settings without it being ‘strange’. He can fit into a historical-based rp because he would have lived through those times.

He is the Original Hybrid - his brother and sister are Original Vampires. They inspired the myths of vampires, right from the start. I peg them as coming in around the Sumerian Civilization, and like in the books, Klaus had fought in many of the major wars of the world, being drawn to the blood and chaos and the power of the leaders.  

Let’s talk about Niklaus Mikaelson -

But first, let’s insert a little disclaimer: I am not saying that the manner in which he grew up is in any way an excuse for his current behaviour. While I never condone child abuse, I also strongly believe that the abused can break the cycle of abuse and not become the abuser – as Klaus has become. Still, I am writing this to show how Klaus (in how I play him) views his siblings, how he thinks that they perceive them, the nature of the wolf side versus vampire, and how his cruelty had exceeded that of his love and passion that he had as a human. Note – this contains a frank discussion of child abuse in a professional tone. It does not glamorise or in any way make light of the subject matter. Read at your own discretion. [For other Klaus accounts, please don’t reblog this, as I doubt it pertains to your portrayal of the character,  this takes into account my own change in the series and making Klaus/the Original family to be older than 1,000 years old. That in turn changes things. The show references more Viking/Norse, but it’d be at the end of the Viking raids, and there are entire civilizations that predate this, and they have their vampire stories. I play Klaus and the Original Family as the ones who inspired those myths – so they have to predate them. This is a mix of canon speculation and original interpretation.]

Klaus was born in the New World before it was nicknamed that. His family were warriors in every sense of the word. Boys grew up to hunt, girls grew up knowing of magic but in how to take care of the home. In some ways, they were liberal minded, wishing to have the girls be literate, but still enforcing the Patriarchal system where the father governed the entire family. The myths of the Trickster and Old Gods came into play (though, some claim Norse, some say Sumerian, Klaus holds claim to both in terms of what he will worship, though he’s far more of the Sumerian due to how he tries to separate himself from Mikael. There are other of his siblings that claim the Judeo-Christian god. They all worship (or don’t)  a different set of gods. They may be old, but even they have their stories.)

Mikael probably had some idea that his wife had been unfaithful, small touches, looks, a drifting of his wife away from him, whatever it was, it caused enough speculation for him to look upon Klaus as the sort of child that may or may not hold his blood and could become the one showed his wife’s infidelity and through that, Mikael’s inability to hold onto his wife (and prove that he’s a strong patriarch). Mikael was brutal to Klaus, for any indiscretion he beat the child down and kept him on the fringes of the familial society. It didn’t help that Klaus dreamed of the sea and of adventure, when the others were content with family and the new land that they had found.

Klaus was close to Elijah and Rebekah, and while they loved him, they never stepped in to halt Mikael’s abuse. They stepped back, lowered their heads, and allowed it to continue, going as far (as Klaus said of Rebekah) to use him as a scapegoat for caught misadventures.  She may have treated him kindly after the beating but it doesn’t change the fact that she allowed it to happen. Elijah didn’t help Klaus after finding out of Ester’s indiscretions and Klaus’ hybrid status, he went along with what tantamounts to abuse, not allowing Klaus to come to terms with something that was so intrinsic to him, that I argue that not allowing him to turn into a wolf, denying him that for millions of full moons, made it so his vicious tendencies (something that all pre-turned werewolves are said to have) only elevated.

Klaus was abused, mentally and physically. He was never given a place to belong, and his family never permitted him to come close, feeding the loneliness and anger until he couldn’t bear it. Klaus feared Mikael as a human. He feared him as a hybrid. He feared him so much that he ran from him and never thought to stay and fight. He might have been able to attack Mikael through tricks and careful planning, but his fear of the man, something beaten into him, became his instinct. 

Both Elijah and Rebekah are aware of this. Elijah has spoken of “must I beat you like Father did?” referring to having to, in the extreme, knock some sense into his brother, beat him until he was afraid. Rebekah allowed Mikael to blame Klaus for the dagger (and I have no doubt that she blamed him for other things, as it was easier to cast the blame than take it), and later called Mikael to New Orleans.

Yes, she tried to take it back, yes, Elijah grew angry when he learned of what Marcel and Rebekah did but if you pay close attention – none of it was done out of acknowledgement of what Klaus had gone through. Rebekah was afraid of Klaus, afraid of what he would do (and considering she called his abuser to kill him, I have little pity for her in the same way that I do pity her). Elijah immediately told Marcel that he ‘blamed himself for a time’ over Mikael finding them, showing that Elijah uses the knowledge to alleviate his guilt instead of worrying for his brother.

Not once do either sibling ever acknowledge Klaus’ fear of his father, of the abuse he had gone through. The only person we’ve seen so far who sees what Klaus goes through and reaches out in some way, is Cami. She tells him that he didn’t deserve that, that no one should go through that.

Guineveve (a badass character I hope we see more of),  offers Klaus kindness to gain his trust. It’s interesting to note how easily he went along with what she was offering because she treated him kindly versus viewing him as a monster or thing to be controlled, reined in, or otherwise distrusted.

Onto Klaus and his behaviour – [ here comes the: I don’t condone this but here’s the insight] – Klaus was abused, he was molded by pain, and reinforced by having no one that he cared for step in to protect him. This wasn’t just when Mikael knew that ‘he was sa monster’ but when he was a child. Klaus grew up learning that to be able to give pain or withhold it is what makes a powerful person. He didn’t learn of gentleness or kindness. He learned of betrayal and his siblings turning on him long before he turned on them. Klaus became like Mikael. Cruel and twisted, focused on family to the point of madness, always believing that they would betray him (like Ester became Mikael).

Klaus, on the same hand, doesn’t want to be Mikael and he believes that if Rebekah fights back, as she is strong as well, he can claim it was a fight, not the abuser going after the abused. He can make excuses, the same as Mikael would make. Is it right, no, it’s not. Is this a product of how he was raised, abused, betrayed, and with no one? You bet it is.

What does this mean for Klaus and the rest? as Rebekah called Mikael and Elijah stabbed him (come on now, Elijah could have distracted him enough, we’ve seen Elijah best him before, he chose the serious ‘i’ll pick the sister over the brother – was he wrong? No. Is he a product of how he was raised? Yes. Rebekah is blood, pure, Klaus is someone needing to be ‘redeemed’. He is half-brother, and Elijah has told Klaus that with the werewolves in New Orleans, he can ‘find his family’. Knife the gut for Klaus.)

Klaus will turn to the wolves. He’ll learn that while vampires fight, wolves have packs. Will he trust Elijah and Rebekah again, can bridges be mended?

Highly, incredibly doubtful. They don’t trust him. They won’t stand with him. They never have, even before they were vampires/hybrid. He doesn’t trust them. With work and some serious realization on the wrongs done on all sides – something could be fixed, but right away? No.

The biggest DEVIANCE I am taking in this blog is making Klaus’ age more…realistic when it comes to being the Original hybrid. 1,000 years old makes no sense when there are myths and legends of werewolves and vampires that predate that. Why? Because the books have a cooler premise:

• In the novels, the character of Klaus was partially based on Rutger Hauer’s character (John Ryder) in the 1986 movie The Hitcher
• John Ryder “The Hitcher”: It is not clear where he came from, who he is or what his motivation is, but the one thing that is known is that his name is John Ryder. He has a sadistic drive for killing everyone and anyone he comes across. From what it seems, he is suicidal and he’s on the look out for someone to do the task for him.

and - 

• In the novels, Klaus seems to have fought in every major war through time (Alexander the Great’s army, in the Trojan War and in the wars that led to the Roman Empire’s downfall).

So ultimately, Klaus’ (and Elijah, as Oathheld wll be making her own) ages are truly going to be unknown. They are Originals. They have to be the ones that make the myths…all of the myths. 

This is me fixing messy writing [good job CW].

<sub>Elijah and Klaus are killers with different methods and this also reflects in the clothing that they wear. Klaus uses his teeth. He bites in and tears out and more often that not, he uses the “monster” hybrid part of himself to make a kill. He uses theatrics and bold moves with recklessness. He dresses in black jeans and a t-shirt, and he fits into the modern age, but he kills as an animal does.

Elijah, in his suit and tie, with his soft words that command that you listen to him and doesn’t need to give you because his entire being demands respect - but don’t mistake the even tone for kindness, for Elijah is far more cruel than his brother. Elijah kills with his hands. He will tear out hearts and snap necks and cut off the head, he will tell another to kill themselves. Elijah gets his hands dirty, he uses the “human” parts, his hands, more often or not to kill.

Klaus is the mad dog best kept on a short leash. Elijah is the cool and detached killer. Klaus is all emotion. Elijah is logic. They are complements but they are both monsters.</sub>

_{The trickster crosses both physical and social boundaries– the trickster is often a traveller, and he often breaks societal rules. Tricksters cross lines, breaking or blurring connections and distinctions between “right and wrong, sacred and profane, clean and dirty, male and female, young and old, living and dead” (Hyde 7). The trickster often changes shape (turning into an animal, for example) to cross between worlds.} 

<sub>Klaus is not a warrior. He is not a man who will meet his enemy on the battlefield and charge in, sword at the ready, prepared to kill or meet an honorable death. He is a man of tricks and wiles, of theatrics and melodrama, carefully crafted plans that have less to do with brute strength and more to do with getting others to take the fall for what he has instituted, it’s getting his way in the easiest way possible and doing it through subterfuge and craft.

The Trickster is by its definition, (mainly) male in form but effeminate (in the old sense) in wiles. He is kept on the fringe of society by choice and force, and Klaus grew up fitting into that role. While he wasn’t magic-bound (and didn’t know of the gene that would make him a wolf at the full moon), he was still playful, dangerous, and tricky with the best of intentions but often went about them in such a way that it would cause his father to become angry - after all, Klaus didn’t fit into the perfect form of a man. He didn’t fight with honor, like Elijah, and when he bested his brother, he did it by trick.</sub>

_{He rebels against authority, pokes fun at the overly serious, creates convoluted schemes that may or may not work, plays with the laws of the universe and is sometimes his own worst enemy.}

_{Even after Klaus was turned into a vampire, he kept his trickster ways. All of his ‘boyish’ qualities that his mother hoped he’d grow outof (his wanderlust, adventure, the desire to take to the sea) only amplified and twisted, compounded on Mikael’s abuse and misunderstandings, until Klaus became, instead of a chaotic good force, he just became chaotic. He wasn’t permitted to turn into a wolf - the natural showing of his trickster side (in the literal sense) was deemed bad, evil, an abomination and shunned by his family even as his beloved Elijah helped string him up so his mother could cast the spell that wouldn’t allow him to change. That upset the balance and made it so he never could learn his instincts and desires, and how it felt to accept the wolf. In trying to tame what his parents thought was the beast, instead, they created the monster.}

_{The trickster can be an ally or companion of the hero or may work for the villain. In some instances the trickster may even be the hero or villain. In any role, the trickster usually represents the force of cunning, and is pitted against opponents who are stronger or more powerful.}

Niklaus - The name was borne by St. Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra who is regarded as the patron saint of Russia and Greece, and of children, sailors, and wolves.

<sub>I have no shame in saying that the women that Klaus tends to be (with few exception) going after all look like his sister.

and in the (very) rare cases there’s a man he’s interested in? You got it - they tend to remind him of Elijah.

Freud would have a field day.</sub>