#thread: Mikael

[whispercddesires]

"Can you stop being so stubborn and come out here." / @writermuses

[blvshed]

continued from here. / @wantcn

they had never been together like this before. they'd had so many moments of passion between them, and certainly more than one encounter when he'd left marks on her body from how much he'd needed her in the heat of the moment. times like those were driven by pure desire and a need to have her closer, or quickly in the short moments when he didn't have long with her before having to return back to his duties. but never rough like this before, never without so much as ensuring that she was wet enough for him to take it like this. despite that, he couldn't deny that through his anger there was also an absolute torrent of lust that came from fucking her like she had no choice but to take him. "then say it." he mutters, setting a punishing pace as his hips snapped against hers, the sound of flesh on flesh filling the room. he held her down with one hand as the other one took a fistful of her hair, pulling her face up so he could see it in the mirror, cock pulsing when he caught sight of the two of them in the reflection. his hand pressed against her back to keep her still, the other keeping her head up. "say that you're my whore, anna. tell me that you love it when i treat you like one."

[mikaels0n-elijah-writing]

@orginalhatedbastard asked: “ you'll soon learn what it means to ally yourself with the likes of this garbage.”

"Father, please, your choice of words suggests that you've been away for a long time and don't know what you're talking about."

Elijah seemed calm on the outside, but on the inside he was anything but calm. His father was here and wanted something from him. Or warn him about something, who knew? Mikael wasn't known for radiating fatherly love, especially not when it came to Elijah's half-brother Niklaus.

Why didn't he attack? Why did he want to talk? "What do you want from me?"

[swcctcrbittcr]

it couldn't help himself around aurora, she was a magnet, hard to keep away from. so when he saw her just standing there, there was no way he could keep his hands to himself. they found her hips, moving up them, pulling her against him before sliding under her tank. "what? you don't enjoy my company?" mikael smirks, leaning in to press a kiss against her shoulder as his hands continued to massage over her breasts.

open to: m / f / nb (25+ only)

connection: boyfriend, girlfriend, fwb, stranger, whoever !!

plot: based on this (dark & taboo extras are okay)

muse: aurora gray, early-thirties. a professional organizer.

aurora gasped in surprise when a body pressed against her back and hands moved up her slender hips, snaking their way under her tank top. she hadn’t been expecting them to come by, but was happy to have the company – and the affection. “ever heard of knocking? i thought i was alone.”

[blvshed]

OPEN TO: f & 21+ CONNECTION: girlfriend. or ex-wife SETTING: he brought her along to an afterparty full of his fellow politicians, sat her in his lap and then let all of his friends fuck her while he holds her legs open. EDITOR: beta !

"you're being such a good girl." he murmurs it lowly against her ear, pressing another kiss to her neck as he looks down at her breasts, exposed from when he'd tugged the top of her dress down and spread her legs in the first place. he's a jealous man, possessive, but there was a certain amount of power if bringing her here for this, letting all of his friends have a go with her and letting them all know that this was his. they could only have her like this because he allowed it, because he loved watching her come again and again each time a new man stepped between her legs. he grips her thighs a little tighter, spreading them wide again where they'd slackened just as another of his friends unzipped his pants and pressed inside her. "you love being used like this, don't you?"

[deadlyflames]

This is a playlist I made for a fic I'm working on to explore an au post 3x09 where Klaus actually reacts to the MFG recruiting Mikael to try to kill him. And things go down hill for everyone from there.

This is definitely a dark (kinda toxic) version of Klonnie, but I like dark ships ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Let Me Crawl Inside Your Veins

I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Choke ~ "if I could burn this town, I wouldn't hesitate to smile while you suffocate and die"

MILCK - Devil Devil ~ "to think I would ever settle for that devious dance between you and me"

Scissor Sisters - I Can’t Decide ~ "I can't decide whether you should live or die"

Melanie Martinez - Tag, You’re It ~ "little bit of poison in me, I can taste your skin in my teeth"

Shinedown - I Own You ~ "strip down, show me flesh and bone, cause now I own you"

Nicole Dollanganger - Dog Teeth ~ "you draw blood just to taste it, you hold bones just to break them"

Depeche Mode - Corrupt ~ "you'd be calling out my name, begging me to play my games"

Florence + The Machine - Seven Devils ~ "I've come to burn your kingdom down, and no fires and no lakes can put the fire out"

Sickick - Mind Games ~ "once I grip onto your mind and soul your brightness starts to dim"

Ellise - Nightmares ~ "so sick of thinking of all the things you need from me, who you think that I should be"

I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Bleed Magic ~ "to drain you, and bleed your magic out"

Blood Red Shoes - God Complex ~ "you left me high and you left me dry, then you fed me to the wolves"

Shayfer James - Villainous Thing ~ "cause youre a villainous thing, and I don't think anyone knows"

Digital Daggers - The Devil Within ~ "I'm gonna make you suffer, this hell you put me in, I'm underneath your skin, the devil within"

Muse - Undisclosed Desires ~ "I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart"

Valerie Broussard - A Little Wicked ~ "to that king I will bow, at least for now; one of these days a-comin', I'm gonna take that boy's crown"

Miike Snow - Genghis Khan ~ "but you can't be free, cause I'm selfish, I'm obscene"

Blue Foundation - Eyes on Fire ~ "and I'm not scared of your stolen power, see right through you any hour"

Rosenfeld - I Want To ~ "your on my mind, been there all night, I've been missing seeing my midnight queen"

renforshort - mind games ~ "taking up my headspace, sleeping in your brain, I swear this boy is deadly, he loves these silly games"

Air Traffic Controler - This Is Love ~ "you could kill me and you should, I'm an idiot for thinking this was anything but blood"

BANKS - Beggin For Thread ~ "strapped down to something that you don't understand, don't know what you were getting yourself into"

Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You ~ "I hate everything about you, why do I love you?"

Halsey - Hold Me Down ~ "I sold my soul to a three-piece and he told me I was holy, he's got me down on both knees, but it's the devil that's tryna hold me down"

The Bravery - Hatef - - k ~ "I will show no mercy for you, you had no mercy for me, the only thing that I ask, love me mercilessly"

Florence + The Machine - Howl ~ "drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart, my fingers claw your skin, try to tear my way in"

Troye Sivan - BITE ~ "you can coax the cold right out of me, drape me in your warmth"

Daughter - Landfill ~ "'cause this is torturous, electricity between both of us, and this is dangerous, 'cause I want you so much, but I hate your guts"

Super Pipo - I Wanna Be Your Slave ~ "I wanna make you quiet, I wanna make you nervous, I wanna set you free but I'm too fucking jealous"

girl in red - bad idea! ~ "you pushed me up against my wall, threw my clothes down on the floor, 'darling, are you ready for more?'"

Nine Inch Nails - Closer ~ "I wanna fuck you like an animal, my whole existence is flawed, you get me closer to God"

Halsey - Young God ~ "there's a light in the crack that's separating your thighs, and if you wanna go to heaven, you should fuck me tonight"

SIAMES - The Wolf ~ "out of my head, of my heart and my mind, 'cause I can feel how your flesh now is crying out for more"

Lana Del Ray - Once Upon a Dream ~ "yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem, but if I know you, I know what you'll do, you'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream"

Dutch Melrose - RUNRUNRUN ~ "run for your life, gonna tear out your heart, it'll always be mine, oh, there she go losing my head, say you'll love me to death"

Melanie Martinez - Toxic ~ "with a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride, you're toxic, I'm slippin' under, with a taste of a poison paradise, I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic?"

Aesthetic Perfection - Big Bad Wolf ~ "because, my dear, you look so good, you're good enough to eat, I'll never let you, once I have sunk in my teeth into you"

AURORA - A Dangerous Thing ~ "something about you is soft like an angel, and something inside you is violence and danger, I knew from the moment we met, you are a dangerous thing"

Reignwolf - I Want You ~ "I get the feeling that you just don't understand, I'm crying wolf and I'll always be your man"

BANKS - Waiting Game ~ "what if the way we started made it something cursed from the start? what if it only gets colder? would you still wrap me up and tell me that you think this was smart?"

The Brobecks - If You Like It Or Not ~ "oh my girl, just give me a chance, I don't want to explain, I just want to dance on the graves, on the graves of every girl that I knew before you, they're all dead to me too"

Zella Day - Shadow Preachers ~ "I close my eyes, just close the door, you want a minute, I'll give you more, maybe I don't want you either, we're both unsettled, nighttime creatures"

Neon Trees - Your Surrender ~ "I got close to your skin while you were sleeping, I taste the salt on your hands, I reached out to touch you, the morning light disarms you, won't you let me in?"

Charli XCX - enemy ~ "you’re the only one who knows the way I’m really feelin’, now it’s really clear to me, you could do a little damage, you could cut me deeper, maybe you’re my enemy"

Sleeping At Last - Dark Horse ~ "So you wanna play with magic, girl you should know what youre falling for, baby do you dare to do this"

Billie Eilish - ocean eyes ~ "I'm scared, I've never fallen from quite this high, falling into your ocean eyes"

The Neighbourhood - A Little Death ~ "I want you to touch me there, make me feel like I'm breathing, feel like I'm human"

Of Monsters and Men - Silhouettes ~ "a thousand silhouettes dancing on my chest, no matter where I sleep, you are haunting me"

Hozier - NFWMB ~ "give your heart and soul to charity, 'cause the rest of you, the best of you, honey, belongs to me"

Melanie Martinez - Carousel ~ "and it's all fun and games 'til somebody falls in love, but you already bought a ticket and there's no turning back now"

Muse - I Belong to You ~ "How much pain has cracked your soul? How much love would make you whole? You're my guiding lightning strike"

Billie Eilish - hostage ~ "let me crawl inside your veins, I'll build a wall, give you a ball and chain, it's not like me to be so mean, you're all I wanted, just let me hold you like a hostage"

BOBI ANDONOV, Son Lux - Smoke - Son Lux Remix ~ "now you got me where you want me cause I'm on the ropes, baby, don't make me rush, 'cause I only wanna save you slow and breathe you in like smoke"

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams ~ "Nothing lasts forever, but this is gonna take me down, he's so tall and handsome as hell, he's so bad, but he does it so well"

The Civil Wars - Poison and Wine ~ "oh, your mouth is poison, your mouth is wine, you think your dreams are the same as mine, oh, I don't love you, but I always will"

Stateless - Bloodstream ~ "I think I might've inhaled you, I could feel you behind my eyes, you've gotten into my bloodstream, I could feel you flowing in me"

Beyoncé - Crazy In Love - Remix ~ "it's the way that you know what I thought I knew, it's the beat that my heart skips when I'm with you, but I still don't understand just how your love can do what no one else can"

Måneskin - FOR YOUR LOVE ~ "I wanna be a good man and see you smile, and I wanna swim between your thighs, I wanna fuck you 'til you scream and cry, I wanna hold you in my arms tonight"

Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love ~ "The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out, you've left me in the dark, no dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight in the shadow of your heart"

Fall Out Boy - The Last Of The Real Ones ~ "I am a collapsing star with tunnel vision, but only for you, my head is stripped just like a screw that’s been tightened too many times, when I think of you"

Paris Paloma - the fruits ~ "As you eat it up whole, my body and my blood, you've claimed it now, so come drink up"

Tamino - Persephone ~ "indeed, it's wrong to keep you near me, one could call me cruel and deceiving, but in your sacred air I am full of light, your loving arms are the true delight"

Halsey - Graveyard ~ "it's funny how the warning signs can feel like they're butterflies, 'cause I keep diggin' myself down deeper, I won't stop 'til I get where you are"

Tom Odell - Can’t Pretend ~ "oh, feel our bodies grow, and our souls they play, yeah love I hope you know how much my heart depends"

Lana Del Ray - Dark Paradise ~ "every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise, no one compares to you, I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side"

Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine? ~ "satisfaction feels like a distant memory, and I can't help myself, all I wanna ever say is, 'Are you mine?'"

Avril Lavigne - I Fell In Love With The Devil ~ "got me playin' with fire, baby, hand me the lighter, tastes just like danger, chaotic anger"

Hozier - Sunlight ~ "I had been lost to you, sunlight, and flew like a moth to you, sunlight, oh, sunlight, oh, your love is sunlight"

Fleurie - Love and War ~ "broken pieces of the night, sing like hollow lullabies, you and I, always in disguises; lover, hunter, friend and enemy, you will always be every one of these"

Tamer - Beautiful Crime ~ "take what you need, say your goodbyes, I gave you everything and it's a beautiful crime"

The Crane Wives - Pretty Little Things ~ "but trust is now something I make people earn, so I'm not inclined to just give it away to a pair of blue eyes with some nice things to say"

alt-J - Breezeblocks ~ "please don't go, I'll eat you whole, I love you so, I love you so, I love you so"

Billie Eilish - Bored ~ "givin' you what you're beggin' for, givin' you what you say I need, I don't want any settled scores, I just want you to set me free"

Steve Lacy - Dark Red ~ "why I feel this way, I don't know, baby I think of her so much, it drives me crazy, I just don't want her to leave me"

Melanie Martinez - EVIL ~ "took me way too long to put this to bed, lovin' you was lethal, guess that makes me evil"

Set It Off - The Haunting ~ "no one will love you like I did, will touch you like I did, so good luck finding something better"

Olivia Rodrigo - Can’t Catch Me Now ~ "I'm in the trees, I'm in the breeze, my footsteps on the ground, you'll see my face in every place, but you can't catch me now"

Ramin Karimloo - You’ll Be Back ~ "when you're gone, I'll go mad, so don't throw away this thing we had, 'cause when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love"

Taylor Swift - my tears ricochet ~ "and I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home, and you can aim for my heart, go for blood, but you would still miss me in your bones"

Arctic Monkeys - 505 ~ "when you look at me like that, my darlin', what did you expect? I'd probably still adore you with your hands around my neck, or I did last time I checked"

Olivia Rodrigo - vampire ~ "I see the parties and the diamonds sometimes when I close my eyes, six months of torture you sold as some forbidden paradise, I loved you truly, gotta laugh at the stupidity"

Taylor Swift, Bon Iver - exile~ "we always walked a very thin line, you didn't even hear me out (you didn't even hear me out), you never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs)"

The Neighbourhood - Baby Came Home ~ "baby just came back around, told me she's leaving this town, said she needs time to explore, she said I can't love her no more"

Taylor Swift - Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve ~ "I can't let this go, I fight with you in my sleep, the wound won't close, I keep on waiting for a sign, I regret you all the time"

The xx - Fiction ~ "were we torn apart by the break of day? you're more than I can believe would ever come my way"

Paramore - Interlude: I’m Not Angry Anymore ~ "I'm not angry anymore, well, sometimes I am, I don't think badly of you, well, sometimes I do"

Black Math - Flesh and Bone ~ "this bleeding heart that's in my hands, I fell apart, I walk alone, beside myself, nowhere to go, my flesh and bone"

Penelope Scott - Feel Better ~ "of course I don't wanna feel better! can you fucking imagine?! no one's ever gonna love me like that again, I don't wanna get over it, I wanna rip the stars to shreds"

Coldplay - The Scientist ~ "come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry, you don't know how lovely you are, I had to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart"

Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out ~ "and it's hard to dance with the devil on your back, and given half the chance would I take any of it back? it's a fine romance, but it's left me so undone, it's always darkest before the dawn"

[noblemonstreux]

If you would like a starter, there is some helpful info under the cut and that's where most of my threads will pick up. Just take a peek and then give this a like! I hope to get to these once I am caught up on Stefan.

The final episode of season one: Hayley gives birth, after which the witches kill her and leave with the baby. Davina has brought Mikael back to life and is controlling him to use him as a secret weapon against Klaus. Hayley, who—having died with her daughter's blood in her system—is now in transition to becoming a hybrid, joins Elijah, Klaus, and ultimately Marcel to go after Hope. Klaus later comes up with a plan to keep his daughter safe, which includes sending Hope away with Rebekah. Cassie, the fourth harvest girl, puts a rose on Esther's grave, accompanied by a boy who calls her "mother".

[crimsonlyinglilly]

No. 20: EMOTIONAL ANGST

Shoulder to Cry On | Giving Permission to Die | "It's not your fault."

Here's Day 20 of @whumptober 2024, a little late sorry

A Lost Coat - in the aftermath of losing Freya, Esther bleeds and Elijah is born of another woman and Mikael, one with her own secrets. Selkie!Elijah

character death, but it's one of mine. Juliana meets her grandfather, it couldn't have gone worse, and Elijah learns his selkie children are born with Vampire blood in their veins.

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Juliana is the fifth child born to her parents, the first to have children of her own; she never thought she’d be the first to die.

But she did and she will.

She was two hundred and fifty eight.

Too young considering her family.

Selkies are ageless, never growing old or fragile, never fearing old age and the death that came with it but unlike her parents, uncles and aunts, they aren’t much harder to kill than a human.

Even with uncle Kol and father’s witches attempts.  

Her first meeting with her grandfather had ended before she even got a word out, her neck broken and left on her dad’s bed.

She had woken up shortly after he found her, pressed into his chest, fearsome Klaus Mikaelson sobbing over her, tears falling into her hair. The vampire blood she was born with waking with her death, either from her Pa or Father, giving her a second chance. 

She winced at the thought of her father, she wouldn’t get to see him again, she had written a letter for him at least. Tristan De Martel was prone to over reacting when it came to the few things he loved, she hoped placing her children in his care would distract him from endangering himself, for all they were adults by Selkie standards, even older than her youngest brother Jacques.

Oh, she hoped Jacques wouldn’t blame himself, it was bad enough that clearly dad and pa would. She had returned to the land to travel with the Mikaelsons, to help lessen their dad’s sadness over Jacques leaving for the sea.

It was something they all felt as they grew a call to the ocean, uncle Kol understood it the best out of their human-vampire family members, with his loss of magic.

Pa understands, even if none of them will talk about it, worried it was break the thread of his sanity if he learn his whole life had been a lie, that he had been denied half himself, flayed at birth and forced to grow deaf to the call of their birthright, and the cut from it in a new was with the spell to make him a vampire. Grandmother, the mother pa was taken from and even now kept, from found them all when the time came to explore the waves on their own. She taught them what she should have once taught pa and promised that one day she would find a way to fix what the witch had done and allow them the chance to truly swim with pa.

Juliana was never going to have that chance of that. She knew if she even showed a hint of regretting the choice she had already made her dad would vanish and return with some poor human for her to drink.

So she kept smiling, as her hands tightened on her seal skin, while held in pa’s arms.

Aunt Rebekah and Uncle Kol had stayed behind to stop Mikael from delaying them but even with their vampire speed she could feel herself fading as they arrived at the coast.

Her choice had been made the moment she woke up, the moment her grandfather had killed her to spite her dad without even knowing who she was.

She loved her papa but she couldn't live like him separated from her skin, the call of the sea dulled, she had felt that freedom and couldn’t risk losing it.

“We’re here.” Dad said as they arrived on the shoreline, his voice raw and thick as it had been when she first woke up. As soon as pa put her down she skipped over to him to pull him into a hug.

His arms shake as they tighten around her, and more tears join the rest in her hair. She had always been one of dad’s favourites, the one to share his passion for paints, there had never been any jealousy among her siblings. 

Freya had preferred Uncle Finn.

Pa had clung onto Bellamy after his fall out with Freya, who had only just started to reach back out to them after Juliana had been born.

Aloisa was auntie Rebekah’s favourite

Théodore was Father’s, his heir even though as an immortal he doesn’t need one.

And she had dad.

Now she was leaving dad behind. She pulled away slowly before another shiver could hit her, it was bad enough they were watching she wouldn’t let dad feel it. Dad reached for her as she stepped back and she twirled out of his reach, laughing as her skirts flared, a fun thing about human’s need for layers of clothes to preserve their precious modesty.

Pa watched with a small smile, dried eyed, he hadn’t cried, even when they had thought her already lost to them, he had left dad crying over her and ran to collect her sealskin from her hiding spot.

He understood.

‘How could things change so much’ she thought as she slipped free of the dress and under clothes, just the day before she had been walking arm in arm with dad speaking of his favourite scenery spots in that town as they went to get new paints.

“Come with me.” She called to pa offering a hand. 

“Of course.” he replied without hesitation, shrugging off his jacket and handing it to dad, before taking her hand and walking with her towards the surf.

“I’m sorry.” she said as she found herself clinging too tightly to his arm, her nails likely biting into skin as she tried to ignore the transition, it ached, her blood too hot, her skin felt wrong and she was starved.  

"It's not your fault." he reassured her and for a moment she wonder what he had been like for him, the first of their kind having no understanding of any of it waking up after his father had killed him, but she could dwell on it for too long as she notice the guilt in his eyes

“It’s not yours either,” she told him,  “any of yours. Just Mikael’s.” she said clearly as she leaned into him to rest her cheek on his shoulder as they walked, she had once dreamed of meeting her grandfather, she thinks they all had before they learnt what a monster he was.

“I’ll-” he started,

“No.” she cut him off “I don't want any of you going after him, I want you all to be safe and happy.”

“Juliana” he sighed as he stopped walking.

“Papa.” she replied, turning to look at him and reaching up to wipe the first tear away.

They walked until it was too deep and then they swarm a short while until Juliana stopped and looked back the shore was a blur of colour in the distance, her dad barely more than a speck.

They floated for a while in the silence other than the waves, her bare other than her seal skin over her shoulders and pa in his full suit other than his abandoned jacket.

The setting sun made the ocean alight with colour and her hands itch for a brush to catch it on canvas.

Too late for that she felt a sudden ache at all the painting she would never get to create, never get to see her children find their own families, never- so much unfinished. 

“It’s alright my sweet,” Elijah called, smiling at her softly and setting one hand on hers and lifting the other to wipe away the unshed, “you can let go.”

Juliana swallowed around the lump in her throat and looked away from the ocean to her pa, the one that brought her into the world, Elijah Mikaelson, looked at her with unwavering love and pride and she smiled back and did.

First letting go of her human shape, returning to flippers and whiskers, it lessened the ache of the transition but she could still feel her death approaching fast.

She swam around pa in a few loops splashing him and nudging him until she managed to get a soft laugh from him, she ignored the tears she could hear in it, retreating to him as she grew tired.

A positive of being the smallest of her siblings in seal shape, pa could and did slip one of his arms under her to pull her to him much like her, all of their first swims.

Juliana looked up into her papa’s face and died peacefully, with the last thing she saw being the same as her first.

—

Elijah didn’t make a noise as his daughter's form went limp in his arm, his supernatural hearing catching the moment her heart stopped beating even over the waves.

He kept treading water as his tears slipped silently into the sea.

[slghtr]

#PSA, PORTRAYAL NOTES.

since my canon for klaus is a mix of book and show (and my added creative flair), i'm going to pull all of the thoughts running around in my head here, in this one post for easy access. i will be adding to this as i think of things, and in some cases, there will be more detailed info to come!

my klaus is a haphazard mixture of canon. he is primarily book-based with minor details of show canon and my added creative flair thrown in; he is heavily canon divergent and unaffiliated with the vampire diaries/the originals show canon by default in his main verse. the details below will be the most important points to read and any other information can be given through plotting and character development. as always, if you have any questions, please feel free to shoot me a message!

i will often refer to the "old ones" as purebloods. they are capable of passing down their vampire genetics through birth, and niklaus was born the product of an affair. his pureblood mother, esther, held a steady affair with a pureblood werewolf, and the result nine months later was klaus.

concerning canon ships: my main love interest for klaus is katerina/katherine (see this post). all other ships need to be plotted due to the canon differences here (and klaus' serious toxicity), but i do ship caroline/klaus as well. hayley/klaus only when it concerns the vampire diaries show canon as i do not acknowledge the legacies canon or the events leading up to it (re: hayley's pregnancy and hope's birth). in his main verse, klaus is childless. — i will have a heavily divergent verse up for the originals/the legacies show canon acknowledging hayley's pregnancy and hope's birth because i don't want to give them up entirely and i do love them, but interactions in this verse will need at least some basic plotting due to canon divergencies here—or at the very least, open communication. i'm super flexible with it, of course, and i will have separate verses for more show canon-aligned threads and aus.

depending on what character i’m writing against, i’ll change some things up or throw you a show canon-esque verse vs my default one! it just depends on what works best for us both and we can plot the details out! if there’s ever a canon divergence point i have strong feelings about or feel is more of a concrete thing for my portrayal, i’ll tell you!

klaus is the one to turn katherine, and she's considered as formidable as he is. as a child she was always sick and when a doctor of human sciences told her she would die soon, her maid sought klaus out because she knew he was in the same village at the same time, and he saw something in her that made him want to turn her... because he certainly didn't do it out of the kindness of his own heart.

as far as klaus' siblings are concerned, i take a lot of inspiration from the originals show canon there. i love them too much to throw them away, and their bonds will stay relatively the same except that they parted ways nearly a millennia ago and they have more long distance type relationships presently, with klaus typically only visiting them if he needs something or he finds he misses them too much *in my default verse. he used to send them postcards and trinkets from his travels (especially elijah, rebekah and freya), and in modern times, he stays in contact consistently over the phone. — when they flee from their father sometime in the first millennia, they stick together for awhile as old ones, traveling and running from mikael, a pureblood vampire turned hunter when he found he couldn't cope with what he was—what his family was. in earlier years, they often pose as royalty, most notably lords and ladies of a wealthy, aristocratic family.

as far as his father is concerned, klaus is unaware of his birth father ansel, who had been a pureblood werewolf. mikael, who esther attempted to pass off as klaus' father, somehow always knew. a lot of this is taken from show canon in the sense that klaus still grew up with a shitty, abusive father who hated him for being different. for being the product of an affair his mother had—solid proof of her infidelity staring him in the face every single day. a lot of these feelings contributed to mikael's eventual breakdown and becoming a hunter. he grew to hate what he was, what his family was, but the hatred for klaus was even stronger. when his children fled after mikael's first attempt at killing them, he trails after them for quite some time until they finally put him down with the aid of klaus' witches.

presently, klaus has sired numerous successful hybrids using the blood of doppelgangers and continues to search for werewolves to turn, although they are often scarcely found. in his main verse, he has a small army of them at his disposal, but the sire bond doesn't exist in these cases unless plotted.

speaking of his army, it doesn't consist of only hybrids. klaus is a master at networking and has cultivated an "army" of those loyal to him, including powerful witches working on his side and in his trusted inner circle. something something slater contacting elijah through a fucking craigslist ad something something. it's the same with klaus. odds are, somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody... knows how to initiate contact with klaus or those in his circle, but it's never direct. "how do i find klaus? you don't find klaus... klaus finds you."

a key point: there is no hybrid curse in klaus’ canon. he comes to fell's church/mystic falls in the early 90s to avenge katherine's death at the hands of elena and her friends. the ending is changed, with klaus never dying—because how are we supposed to believe that humans who just learned of supernaturals like 6 months ago have the power to take him down? no, thanks. they do drive him out of the town, however, and he goes on to remain nomadic, but not before making his mark on the humans of fell's church. — when it comes to interactions with show characters in klaus' main verse, i often take inspiration from the vampire diaries show canon for his antics against elena and her friends and their consequences, however due to canon divergencies here, we might have to have some basic plotting.

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klaus and his brothers and sisters are the progenitors of the vampire race, but klaus is the sole progenitor of vampire/werewolf hybrids. he is the very first. — as the progenitor of the vampire/werewolf hybrids, klaus is able to create hybrids by feeding a werewolf his blood, snapping their necks or killing them in some way, and then having them drink the blood of a doppelganger or principal guardian descendant, but he can also create them by passing down his genes through genetics, but only with werewolf women capable of bearing children, as vampires are typically unable to change their bodies to accommodate a growing baby. *he could, in theory, have children with other purebloods and pass down his hybrid genetics this way, but if we're including that his family was the original vampires, that'd be gross, you know?

verses available. (full details coming soon, but for now we've got plotting)

the vampire diaries / the originals *canon divergent.

more coming soon.

[supremeuppityone]

Writing exercise #1

Procrastinating on all my Klaroline WIPS. Here's a quick writing exercise that I hope to turn into a Klaroline one-shot sometime.

The might of the Forbes’ forge was spoken in the same breath as that of fanciful legends. The skill of the Forbes blacksmith was attributed to Master Forbes’ belief in the old ways. Klaus had been skeptical when he first heard such praises for a mere mortal in the rundown taverns that dotted the land, but his own quest had borne no fruit and his need was far too great to dismiss.

            He wrinkled his nose in distaste at the blacksmith’s thatched roof, his vampire hearing easily detecting the rustle of vermin skittering to and fro. Master Forbes must take his payment in trade with the villagers rather than coin. With a sigh of irritation, Klaus knocked on the crooked, dusty door, reminding himself that a bit of restraint might be in order as Master Forbes was well-known in this land, and his brutal death would draw unnecessary attention. Frightened whispers spoke of Mikael slaughtering Varangian princes far off villages of Novgorod and Pskov. But one could never be too careful in these uncertain times.

            A quiet voice broke the threshold spell that bound his vampiric nature and he stepped inside, taken aback by the sumptuous furnishings and gold-threaded tapestries that lined the surprisingly expansive chamber. It was a clever illusion of a derelict peasant’s hovel to hide the obvious riches inside. What sorcery is this? Narrowing his gray gaze at the hooded figure stoking the fires of the clay hearth, he asked suspiciously, “What are you, Master Forbes?”

            A leather gloved hand continued to grip the iron tool as the figure turned around, tossing back the hood to reveal blazing blue eyes and the lovely visage of a creature with delicate pointed ears. “Not a ‘master’. The rest is...a bit complicated.”

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"you seem charmed enough to still get flustered over me." he teases lightly in return, his gaze catches on her fingers and his heart rate picks up at the sight of her. he follows her towards the bedroom, shrugging of his own clothes along the way. his coat hits the floor, shoes kicked off followed by his shirt. "i can be an hour late." he stops in front of her, hand reaching out to caress her cheek. the mere sight of her like this, open and vulnerable and his? it made his heart clench, made him want to keep her close for as long as he could. "no. there are a million things waiting on my desk. you're just a very compelling reason not to care." he climbed onto the bed, leaning down to kiss her as he guided her back onto the mattress.

"ever so charming." she teased before pressing a chaste kiss on his lips and pulling away ever so slightly. just enough for her to be able to unbutton the top she had on. each button is handled with care and at a pace that postponed the inevitable but instead of the clothes pooling at her feet she instead made a trail. she started to walk towards the bedroom and fully expected him to follow her. "and what about work? i don't think they would appreciate the absence of their golden boy." perched on the edge of the bed and legs crossed, the woman looked up at the man with such adoration and appreciation that it would have made any man melt at the spot.

"do you have the time?"

[blvshed]

closed for: anna ( @bitemescftly )

there's a rage burning behind his eyes as he stands in the middle of his room, waiting for her to arrive after he'd had her summoned. he'd at least had the good sense to send one of his loyal men, one of the ones who would never dare betray any of his indiscretions. he'd already had his blood boiling after his encounter with his wife this morning. it's a rarity for him to bother much with her at all unless they're in public, but he could hardly look away when she'd undressed in front of him that morning, had teased her hand over him before withdrawing, laughing. cruel woman, so similar to him in such a way. he never needs a real reason to seek out anna's company, but that one had seemed as good as any. only instead of finding her so he could signal her to meet him and help the rock hard bulge he hid, he'd found her laughing. a man flirting with her, the pair of them smiling, her hand on his arm. it had pushed mikael quite over the edge, so much so that when she steps into his room, he's immediately grabbing her arm, dragging her towards the desk. "do you have any idea what you looked like with that man?"

[morningstargirl666]

THE LITTLE WOLF UPDATE

It's here. The new improved chapters 1-3 have posted. Read The Big Bad Wolf's prequel from the beginning here. Chapters 4 & 5 should be posted a week from now, either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, depending on when I finish it.

Think of it as my little gift to you all - I hope you all have a Merry Christmas (or a Happy Hanukkah!). And for those who don't celebrate either, then Happy New Year!

If you want more details on all the changes I made to The Little Wolf, read below. It's not too spoil-ery but it's not exactly spoiler-free either, so by all means come back later to see if you found all the changes I made! Extra kudos to those who notices them all.

Over 20k+ of brand new content. This includes two new chapters (chapter 2 & 4 respectively) and around 20 or more new scenes to devour across the entirety of the fic.

Original scenes have been tweaked and expanded upon, with longer conversations or scenes between characters.

All punctuation, grammar and spelling has been proof read repeatedly. I won't say it's all perfect, because I've probably still missed bits, but its in a much better state than it was before. Dialogue grammar in particular has had a complete overhaul, which should make everything much easier to read.

Each chapter has song lyrics at the beginning, fitting the vibes or themes of the chapter. This is a part of a playlist that I will share in Running With Wolves after completing the editing to The Big Bad Wolf (which has it's own share of songs, compiled with a mix of the music I listen to while writing and music I feel embodies each chapter).

In a similar thread, new timestamps have been added whenever there is a time or location jump. Again, this is a change that will be happening to The Big Bad Wolf as well to make flashbacks clearer. Upon completion of TBBW's edit, a timeline will be added to Running With Wolves so you can see all of the events that take place in the series in chronological order.

Historical accuracy has been given a bigger focus. Obviously, there's still a need for suspension of disbelief (vikings never travelled that far south in America, horses weren't introduced to America until the 1500s etc) as I'm no history buff and I personally believe you can allow a little leeway for sake of creative freedom. However, that said, I've tried to right the most egregious wrongs by Julie Plec: the white washing of the native Americans, the almost European-Christian culture of the Mikaelsons' village (views on bastards, women like Rebekah not carrying arms and being all innocently feminine even though they were warrriors too in viking culture, lack of historical accuracy in settings/costumes/props etc) and of course, the complete lack of explanation behind how the vikings arrived in Southern America. Hopefully it should feel more alive, and I'll probably add even more in the final FINAL edit that will happen once I've finished TBBW.

The Little Wolf's main focus is Klaus' characterisation arc. However, in this rewrite, all the Mikaelson siblings get more screen time and you get their characterisation arcs in the background, as a treat.

Henrik is much more fleshed out as a character. He's mischievous and playful, a lot like Kol, with other attributes from the other siblings thrown in. He's also got more Youngest Sibling energy, just as the other siblings have Middle Child/Eldest Child energy, because in a fic about family, really that's the most important detail of them all.

I've delved deeper into Mikael and Esther's treatment of Klaus and how it wasn't much different to how they treated the other siblings after all. Don't get me wrong - in my mind Klaus was dealt the worst of Mikael's physical fury, but I don't believe 'he was singled out' is as black and white as the show would lead you to believe. That's not how abusive households work.

Talking about Klaus' characterisation, think of this fic as the death of Niklaus Mikaelson, leading to the birth of Klaus, The Original Hybrid. The Little Wolf leading the way for The Big, Bad Wolf. You'll get innocent baby boi Niklaus of course, but that same innocent kid has a feral side. When you become a vampire, it heightens who you already are and Klaus - he had that fury and violence in him all along, and it wasn't just because of the wolf.

In a lot of human-era Originals fics and the actual shows, when they're turned into vampires its all very planned out. Idk, like Esther and Mikael are evil villains twirling their moustaches? Turning their children into vampires, its all very pre-meditated, oh the horror and everything. And although there is elements of that in this rewrite (they ARE shitty, evil parents after all) I tried to do something a little original myself. In this fic, more focus is given to the family's grief and how Henrik's death becomes the shatterpoint for EVERYTHING. His death causes every bad decision made by the family from that moment on. It's less of "I planned to make my children the most powerful beings to ever walk this earth" and more of "I tried to save my children and didn't expect ANY of this so wtf do I do now, another bad decision? Yeah let's do that". You feel me? Hopefully that comes across anyways.

Okay what haven't I mentioned yet... WEREWOLF LORE. Yeah that's been expanded on and fleshed out some more. You get a glimpse into my take on how the werewolf gene is triggered, along with a coming of age ritual, general culture, outsider prejudice against werewolves etc...Klaus' views on them is much more explored, especially in relation to his heritage. Kinda playing with the idea that him being a bastard was never the problem to Mikael or Klaus - it was him being a werewolf.

Since I started re-writing this I watched way too many of Mike Flanagan's series'. So I kinda went all 'Midnight Mass' on the Mikaelson's village. Oopsies.

In a similar thread, the raven from the Fall of The House of Usher left a bigger impact on me than I like to admit. That's something so sexy about an omen of death okay leave me alone I NEED THE FORESHADOWING

There's probably more, I'm disclaiming that now, but I've forgotten. Go forth and devour my lovelies ✨

[obl1tus]

Just a quick note on the difference between affiliates and exclusives on this blog! Affiliates are friends or people I have been writing with for a long time whose portrayals are very near and dear to me and whom are the people I would go to first with plot ideas and will take priority for replies and starters. When I tag dynamics for a specific character, it's their muse whom it will be primarily based off. Storylines with them may be mentioned in other threads.

Exclusives: I will only write with that version of the muse. I will only write with that mun for that particular muse. Any mention of that muse is threads would be this muns version.

That said, affiliates are as follows:

@astormymind (Sage and Mikael), @insufferablemonsters (Damon), @feylived (Hayley and Rebekah).

Exclusives: @itsonlyfinn

I'm always happy to chat about becoming exclusives or affiliates but the former I am extremely selective with. I have been writing with Myka's mun on and off since 2013(?) which is why I consider her portrayal of Finn to be the only Finn I wish to write with. It's absolutely not a slight on anybody else! It's about comfort and familiarity and enjoyment.

[blvshed]

it endears him to watch the innocent confusion flicker across such lovely features, but more than anything it intrigues him. he was raised to be nothing more than a political pawn when his father was king, to be used as the man pleased. his own father had marrie dhim off the same way gwen had become betrothed, and a life of such complexities and expectations had turned him cynical. with her, it seemed to do the complete opposite. it was what fascinated him most about her, what drew him in aside from her obvious beauty. he relishes in the soft flush of her cheeks, at the sheer disbelief she seems to be in as though he hasn't spent weeks being more flirtatious with her than he had been with anyone since his wife died. he can't quite help the smirk his mouth tugs into, amusement gathering as he maintains her eye contact. "but you do." his cock is slowly hardening, the closeness to her as well as the possibility of something more quickening the process. he reaches for one of her hands that isn't hlding the sheet so tight, thumb stroking over the back of it. he then moves her hand down between his legs, over the thickening bulge of his cock. "this is what you do to me." he steps closer again, gaze burning into hers as the tension grows taut between them. "i've planned a meeting with your father. he and i are going to discuss our terms, and by the time we're done you are going to be my betrothed. mine to breed an heir into. mine." he breathes it possessively, his want for her clear in the husky tone of his voice as his other hand reaches out to gently rest against her hip. "you would be my queen."

𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗞𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗘𝗦. or maybe she was simply not understanding his meanings. hearing him say he was in peril made her confused— there was no rush or panic in his voice, but that wasn't even where the strangeness laid, the fact that he had come to her for aid was unnerving on it's own. or maybe it was the way he was looking at her. those eyes were enticing, enchanting, dangerous. why wasn't she feeling safe? he was the king, after all. she was there to marry his son, if there was anyone who could feel safe inside that kingdom, that someone should be her. still, before she could react or walk any further, he blocks her path... and the words leaving his lips elicit a small gasp from hers, cheeks becoming impossibly flustered as she felt the air thickening around them. "your grace, please," she pleaded, softy, voice low just meant for the two of them to hear. she was well aware of what would seem like to have someone walking in on them, or trying to open her door just to find it locked. no one would speak of the king, of course, but she would be ruined, the alliance would be severed, their kingdoms surely at war, or at the brink of it. still, she couldn't deny her body responded to his advances, an unfamiliar feeling settling between her thighs at the sheer proximity. "i don't know what you mean, your grace. i hold no effect over you," her breath heaved as she took a step back, distancing herself from the imposing man. "i am to marry your son, your grace. is that not the deal you have made with my father? is this not the duty i've come to fulfill? to marry him and birth an heir to your kingdom? i shouldn't have any bearings over how you feel. please, my king."

[oblitum]

Anybody in the TVD fandom interested in developing a Bridgerton AU Group Verse?

I've been meaning to create a Bridgerton verse for a while and I think it would be fun to have people to write in it with. I am absolutely thinking all human. The Mikaelsons ofc being a prominent high born family. Not quite following the show's plot points so much as being set in that world.

Finn would potentially be taken by a friend I raised the idea to.

Edit to add: it would be a very vague verse to leave room for everyone to have their own versions or their character and how they'd handle events. The main canon events kept would be:

- Henrik's death (illness perhaps? A tragic accident? Maybe even a hunting accident?)

- A Mikaelson Ball or two

- Esther and Mikael could be dead or alive based on people's preferences. I have none.

- I feel it would be fun to have Freya join at a later point. . . Scandal for the Mikaelson family. As to why she's given away at birth would naturally be up to the writer.

- Other TVD muses would obviously have full control over their characters and canon. I simply think it would be fun to have an alloted group of people that we could all write with. And group threads and plots!!!!