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NAME :     MIKAELSON ,   NIKLAUS   (  KLAUS  ) .

AGE :    OVER ONE THOUSAND . 

HEIGHT :    7 ' 0 .  HAIR COLOR :    BLOND .  EYE COLOR :    BLUE. 

HOMETOWN :    BEACON HILLS ,   CALIFORNIA .     WHEN IT WAS JUST A SAD LITTLE VILLAGE , AT ITS VERY ORIGIN , SO VERY MANY LIFETIMES AGO .

FAMILY :     MIKAEL , FATHER , DECEASED . ANSEL , BIOLOGICAL FATHER , DECEASED . ESTHER , MOTHER , DECEASED . FINN MIKAELSON , HALF - BROTHER , DECEASED . FREYA MIKAELSON , HALF - SISTER , PRESUMED DEAD . ELIJAH MIKAELSON , HALF - BROTHER , ALIVE . KOL MIKAELSON , HALF - BROTHER , ALIVE . REBEKAH MIKAELSON , HALF - SISTER , ALIVE . HENRIK MIKAELSON , HALF - BROTHER , DECEASED .

TITLE :     THE ORIGINAL HYBRID ( VAMPIRE / WEREWOLF ) .

WERE YOU BORN TO RULE OR SUFFER ? YOUR OWN PARENTS WOULD CLAIM YOU TO SUFFER . AN ENTIRE YOUTH SPENT TREMBLING UNDER YOUR FATHER'S HATEFUL EYE AND BUMPING ELBOWS AGAINST SIBLINGS ⸻ UNTIL YOU LOSE ONE . YOUR FAULT . YOU AND HENRIK , THE ADVENTURERS , TOO CLOSE TO WEREWOLF TERRITORY . YOUR GRIEF IS LOUD , BUT YOUR PARENTS' IS LOUDER . THEY PERFORM A SPELL TO ENSURE THEY NEVER HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH ANOTHER CHILD'S DEATH ... AND DAMN ALL OF YOU IN THE PROCESS . YOUR GRIEVING WITCH OF A MOTHER CREATES THE ORIGINAL VAMPIRES THAT DAY , AND THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS PLAY OUT IN CONSEQUENCE .

( SOMETHING SCRATCHES AT YOU . YOU IGNORE IT. )

SO MANY BLOOD - DRENCHED CENTURIES ; YOU COME OUT ON THE OTHER SIDE NO LONGER FEARFUL BUT AS SOMETHING TO BE FEARED . A SAVAGE CREATURE , BLOODTHIRSTY , THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF EVERY WAR . OFF AND ON , AGAIN AND AGAIN AS TIME CONTINUES TO MOVE AROUND YOU , YOU CLASH WITH THE PARENTS WHO HUNT YOU , DESPISE YOU ; YOUR SIBLINGS , WHO GROW UNCOMFORTABLE IN THEIR CHAINS THAT BIND YOU ALL TOGETHER , WHO DON'T SEEM TO NEED YOU LIKE YOU NEED THEM , WHO WOULD ABANDON YOU AND LEAVE YOU ALONE IF YOU GAVE THEM THE CHOICE . SO TIME AND TIME AGAIN , YOU TAKE THAT CHOICE AWAY .

( SCRATCH , SCRATCH , SCRATCH . )

YOU FINALLY RECLAIM YOUR BIRTHRIGHT WHEN YOU RETURN TO THE VILLAGE YOU WERE RAISED IN , HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER . BEACON HILLS IS A BUSTLING TOWN NOW , WITH PRECISELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED THEREIN : AND SO YOU BREAK YOUR CURSE . THEY THOUGHT YOU WERE POWERFUL BEFORE , AS AN ORIGINAL VAMPIRE , BUT THEY HADN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET . THE SUCCESSFUL RITUAL UNBINDS THAT WEREWOLF HALF OF YOU , AND NOW YOU HAVE EVERYTHING . YOU CAN CREATE OTHERS LIKE YOU , YOU CAN TRANSFORM WITH THE MOON , YOU CAN DEVASTATE ANY WHO HOPE TO OPPOSE YOU . KLAUS MIKAELSON WILL CONTINUE TO BE A NAME THAT HAUNTS .

( SCRATCH . SCRATCH . SCRATCH . )

⸻ YOU MET A GIRL ONCE . TATIA . YOU MIGHT HAVE KNOWN WHAT LOVE WAS BACK THEN , BUT THE FEELING IS TOO HUMAN AND TOO LONG - AGO FOR YOU TO BE SURE ANYMORE . BUT YOU THINK ABOUT IT , SOMETIMES , OR YOUR LOST BROTHER , OR THOSE RARE , FLEETING MOMENTS WHEN YOU AND YOUR SIBLINGS KNEW PEACE . WHEN YOU'D SAY YOU'D BE A FAMILY ALWAYS AND FOREVER AND MEAN IT IN FULL . THEY COME IN YOUR WEAKER MOMENTS , IN THE HANDFUL OF QUIET NIGHTS WHERE YOU FEEL THE VAST AND LONELY STRETCH OF ETERNITY LIKE ANOTHER KIND OF TORTURE , AND YOU WONDER IF MAYBE IT'D BE EASIER IF YOU JUST LISTENED TO YOUR PARENTS AND FINALLY LET IT ALL END .

( IT'S STILL PAWING AT THE DOOR OF YOUR MIND , BUT AGAIN YOU IGNORE IT . BETTER TO LEAVE IT OUT IN THE COLD . )

BUT YOU ARE A CREATURE BORN OF SPITE , AREN'T YOU ? THIS TEMPER CLEAVES CITIES IN TWO , CONQUERS ARMIES , OVERTHROWS ROYALTY . YOU DO NOT BELONG TO THE GHOSTS OF YOUR PAST , NOT TO A PLACE , NOT TO A LOVER , NOT TO YOUR FATHER OR YOUR MOTHER OR ANY OF THE TRAITOROUS , ROTTEN SIBLINGS WHO WILL NEVER GET AWAY FROM YOU . YOU ARE A KING , AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SOLELY YOURS .

THIS LONELINESS HAS NO HOLD ON YOU .

( SCRATCH , SCRATCH , SCRATCH . )