Sorry for the ramble. Just have some thoughts I want to share and ask your opinion on.
I’ve been thinking of Chapter 5 a lot. Mainly because I’ve read maybe two other fics that address Elijah compelling Aurora and the fallout. I can see why Klaus was angry at Elijah. I don’t exactly remember what she said (been a bit since I saw that episode) but I imagine it did have an effect on Klaus. Mainly bc at the time, they were still newly turned and from what I remember of the flashbacks, he seemed to be insecure at times. What do you think?
The details of Elijah's compulsion and what Aurora's rejection did to Klaus will be addressed! 😬 I did a slight change and moved all of those flashbacks to a different moment in the story where they made more sense and will actually cause more damage. 😂 So that will all be addressed in TW as well.
Personally, I don't like to think of Aurora as Klaus' villain origin story because it's so simplistic and actually cheapens his character a lot. But I do think it's understandable that would've had a big effect on him, especially at the time. Klaus was a different person back in then, in the sense that they were still learning how to navigate what they were, were not aware of just how powerful and virtually unkillable they actually were, still felt a lot of guilt and had spent close to 100 years on the run. They kept quiet and were almost ashamed of revealing themselves because they were always in hiding. And what they show is that up until the moment they joined the De Martel's court, they had been basically living like peasants.
Klaus' whole relationship with Aurora, the way it was shown, was super silly for me, but he came to like her a lot, he became comfortable with her, she was probably the first person outside of the family he ever truly came to trust. So he opened himself up to him in a way he hadn't before since they were turned, which probably made him obsessed with her. He was also very ashamed of having killed his mother back then, knew that Mikael had been chasing them to avenge Esther's death while he basically lied to his siblings about the whole shebang and they could have been free and safe if not for his life, so the fact he trusted that secret to Aurora and she didn't immediately turn on him also quenched some of his fear of abandonment.
And then she betrayed him in a very cruel way. It was as if she had used his family to become immortal, and then couldn't be with him anymore because she was disgusted by him. She threw his secret back at him. So not only she broke his heart, she also crushed him with all the complexes he carried with him.
It made Klaus a lot wearier of strangers, shut off, and, over time, that made him completely turned off by the idea of love. He came to see it as a weakeness precisely because of how vulnerable Aurora made him feel. I know there's like these TO books allegedly written by Julie Plec where Klaus was married at some point??? But I ignore that and don't consider it canon lol So my version of things is that he didn't fall in love again. Whenever he felt himself slipping into it, he'd do something drastic in order to stop it from happening. Marcel was the exception, but it was also a different kind of love, something that was rooted in his parental issues, and not romantic. But when he also "lost" Marcel, I think that only made it all worse.
That's my interpretation of canon btw, not necessarily what I wish would have been the case with the whole Aurora deal. While TW will follow canon in a lot of ways, that whole thing will have a slightly different twist that will hopefully make more sense to Klaus' character and still match the story that is shown.
Sorry about the rambly reply, I don't know if I'm making much sense here. 😂😂😂
