He's a textbook narcissist so we have to remember everything he says comes from a place of being unable to look outside himself or to empathize with others. Which makes the entire narration of TO unreliable.
One example I can think of is when Elijah and Klaus are talking about Tatia (Elijah is also an unreliable narrator because he centers everything on Klaus. In my opinion due to guilt). We hear, and in TO see, how much Elijah cares for Tatia. But not really Klaus. We hear him and Elijah say Klaus loved Tatia, however, in the scenes in TO, Klaus essentially assaults Tatia by kissing her without even being concerned if she wants him to. Even when she pulls away from him, he just moves on. This isn't the actions of someone who is in love. And then when we see Tatia and Elijah interact, there is clearly some history. They have an ongoing flirtation. Yet, when Elijah and Klaus tell the story, it essentially focuses on their brotherly bond and less on Tatia. We don't hear how devastated Elijah was from her death, but how loving Tatia nearly broke their bond apart. Even when Elijah learns he was responsible for Tatia's death, instead of allowing him to feel that pain and grieve, he has to apologize to Klaus (and also deal with Klaus murdering his own father). Klaus doesn't react the way he did when he learned of what Elijah did to Aurora because he truly didn't care about Tatia. But he continues to push the narrative to center Elijah's past love interest around himself.
We see him do the same with Stefan in TVD, to the point where a large majority of the fandom believes Stefan and Klaus were romantically invovled despite being explicitly told that Rebekah and Stefan were invovled at the time. I'm not saying yes or no to either, but pointing out how the narrative impacts the viewers.
We also see this with how little emphasis the show puts on anyone that is not directly related to Klaus. Klaus is not the sole narrator of the show, but we can safely say it revolves around him. So characters like Aya, Celeste, Gia, Emil, etc. Their flashbacks are quick and just serve to explain how they know the Mikaelsons. Whereas, Klaus' love interest in the past, Aurora, gets exposition and depth through flashbacks.
The narration is told in a way that continues to victimize Klaus and brush aside his crimes. For example, when he lets Cami into his head to "scare her" and show her what a beast he is. He could show her endless slaughters, and that's just in the past year. He could show himself sacrificing a teenage girl or killing Jenna, stabbing his siblings, killing his mother, etc. But instead he shows himself turning for the first time and his family chaining him up to suppress his werewolf side. He doesn't even show the plethora of village people he just murdered which even scared Elijah. He only shows her what will create sympathy for him. We see this throughout their "talks." Even Cami calls him out on it multiple times for phrasing the story in a way that undermines how his siblings were feeling.
Contrast this to how Elijah's story is told. We already talked about Tatia and a lot of his exes. They are either explained very quickly and then moved on without allowing him/the audience time to grieve, or he they are handled through Klaus' POV so that their death's are justified/excused. But more than that, simply how his backstory is told, or Kol for that matter, is done in a less sympathetic light than Klaus.
We don't really see Elijah feed from people or murder without cause. That is up until the show decided to introduce the Red Door. This entire storyline is used to retcon Elijah as "the worse brother." But lets be honest, they've all killed so many people, why is Elijah killing seen as worse? Because they make it scary and bloody and it scares even the main characters. Whereas Klaus' trial is made to be humorous. The audience is supposed to laugh at Klaus forcing a girl to watch her mother burn alive because she was coughing too much. Even Klaus killing main characters like Carol are made to be humorous. They make Kol seem like this unhinged killer, but Klaus is the one who goes off and kills with him. When Kol does it, it's out of control. When Klaus does it, it's funny so their lives don't matter.
We see this with how the show treats Rebekah and her suitors. Rebekah is seen as naive because she keeps falling for the wrong people who take advantage of her. But Klaus is seen as compelling when he allows Caroline to manipulate him, to the point that it gets his brother killed. Or Aurora manipulate him to the point that it gets Rebekah kidnaped. Or Genevieve manipulate him to the point it gets Hayley killed and almost Hope. But when Klaus is manipulated, it's because he cares too much and the women took advantage of him. When it happens to Rebekah, it's because she's stupid and needs Klaus to make her decisions.
We see it in how Cami's transition is told. Cami is struggling throughout Season 3 but all Klaus sees is himself. To the point that when Cami snaps at him for pushing too far, the next scene is him killing a random art critic, essentially implying that it was her fault. She shouldn't have prioritized her own emotions and snapped at a grown man because he can't be responsible for his own actions.
TO thrives on Klaus being an unreliable narrator because it allows his misdeeds to be pushed to the back of the audience's mind and his victimization brought to the front. Even how he speaks about himself is unreliable. Initially, he blames Mikael for making him a monster. But then he learns his mother made him weak and blames her. But then he later blames Elijah for what he did to Aurora a year later. And throughout the show he blames all of his siblings for "abandoning" him when we never see a moment of them attempting to abandon him. Yes, I'm sure all of these things contributed, but the main point is that at no point does he blame himself. He never once takes accountability for his actions and no one ever makes him. Elijah and Rebekah attempt to several times, and lord knows Cami tried, but they are seen as unsympathetic in those moments through Klaus' eyes.
Thanks for the ask! I answered this one so quickly because I don't think I've talked about this individually and it is so fascinating to me. Let me know if you agree or disagree <3
How would you change the humanity switch to make it less annoying lol
I love this question so much anon because it presumes that I find the humanity switch annoying which I 100% do. That is so true and valid. Who doesn't?
Every time someone turns off their humanity switch, I have to play the next few episodes on double speed to get through it because I despise it. There are no ramifications or consequences to anyone's actions. At least in BtVS, it explains that vampires have no souls so when they get their souls back it's like "oh no the horrifying things I've done. I'm gonna go feel guilty now byeeee". But in TVD, it very much implies that vampires still keep their human souls so when they flip their humanity switch off and start doing deranged things then it's like "wait are you telling me that you have always wanted to do these horrible things but just didn't because of your conscience?" It's also confusing because it seems as if they have access to anger or jealously which are emotions but no humanity seems to strictly apply to compassion and empathy.
In ideal vampire lore, I'd just say the humanity switch is more like a dimmer and the older you get the further away from your humanity you become. Vampires who are so far removed from the concept of time that they might leave someone locked in a room and forget that they need to eat because they can't remember needing food so frequently and weeks to them feel like nothing. That sort of thing.
But in keeping with the notion of a switch, something that can be turned off and on - -
I would have preferred to see a complete reversion of Self and Identity. A transformation similar to werewolves where they do not have access to their human thoughts. A vampire without their humanity is a single-minded creature that only cares to feed, sleep, and find shelter. They don't have the capacity to plan or plot or fulfil any higher desire.
It is incredibly taboo and rare for anyone to choose this revenant state because getting out of it is difficult. Most end up being put down because you can't torture someone back to their humanity or plead with their emotions. They are too far gone to reach. The only real way to return to their humanity is that they've done such atrocities that it breaks their psyche and reaches that part of them they've crushed deep down. That individually they have the strength of character and fortitude to see the cracks at the surface and move towards the light despite the pain it brings them.
Stefan as a ripper is the closest thing to this revenant state but that's what makes him so horrifying is that he relishes in that state while anyone who has turned it off comes back haunted by what they did despite having had no way of controlling themselves.
That would probably be a lot darker than TVD ever wanted to go but I prefer that to how they used no humanity story lines to just make people more quippy and sassy with no real repercussions on their lives or friendships.
With Stefan, it makes Klaus forcing him to turn it off even more of a monstrous decision. That if Klaus can't have his friend lover back as he likes him then he will force him into that state. Because he'll take Stefan however he can as long as he can take him.
With Damon choosing to turn his back on his only friend during those experiments, it reveals how hard it was to leave Enzo. That the only way he could do it was to give up total control of his Self because even a shred of his humanity would have caused him to stay and help.
For Damon then later to force it on Elena makes another statement about how he can't handle her grief. That he knows what she will become and how this will hurt her later but really plays into his own character trait of putting difficult things off until later which only makes them more difficult down the line. And then later for Elena to deal with the trauma of not only living through what she was but having had it forced by someone she loves (loved?).
And then for Caroline to choose this really makes a statement too. Either her own sort of newness to being a vampire that she wouldn't take the humanity switch seriously or her confidence that she could handle it or introduce an even deeper storyline that its not just her mother's death that she wants to avoid thinking about but her own tightly wound sense of control. That she's exhausted holding it all in and that there is a part of her that wants to give up all control. That even though she's witnessed what she will become, she doesn't care because for even a second she just wants to Not Think.
Klaroline + meeting in a bar + baroline friendship
So, I know I said I would post chapter 8 to Evolution next, but I got this ask and I couldn’t resist writing this.
I know, I know, I'm incorrigible.
This is like my mid-exam stress relief.
One of the lines I've used in this is an iconic one from Grey’s Anatomy, but I couldn’t resist putting it in here. I love that line, and it just seemed to perfect to not use.
This takes place when Klaus is in Mystic falls trying to break his curse, and he meets Caroline under slightly different circumstances.
Disclaimer: I own neither Grey's Anatomy nor TVD.
Enjoy!
XXX
Mystic Falls looked so peaceful in the winter.
It always had, with its quaint small-town personality, then and a thousand years ago. Of course, then it had been a Viking village, and it had looked as peaceful as Viking villages were.
And now, the only problem was it wasn’t winter, it was summer, and it was hot.
So hot, in fact, Klaus had been contemplating scrapping the whole plan with the doppelganger to just retire to the Swiss Alps and live in peace.
Well, in reality, that was Rebekah’s plan, he had just approved of it slightly.
He, Rebekah, Kol, and Elijah were back in Mystic Falls, something they had thought they’d never do, to break his curse and unlock his werewolf side. Rebekah had not been pleased when she had heard of the location, whereas Klaus had been exasperatedly amused.
Of course he’d have to go to the place where he was bound to unlock the curse. How fitting.
And he was not leaving simply because of a temperature problem.
Kol had been off radar for the past two years, occasionally resurfacing for a call or two to let them know he was alright. Rebekah took her trips, but always came back within a month or two, and where Klaus went Elijah went.
Finn, on the other hand…well, thank god for silver daggers.
He already had his sights on the doppelganger, and already had plans for her two so-called boyfriends. They were more like bodyguards, and honestly, didn’t they ever let her think for herself or make her own decisions? Feminism was a thing, and people said he was old.
Which he was, but that wasn’t the point.
Mystic Falls had lost its abundance of witch covens, now only having four or five lying in the background. So far, he knew of only three, a grandmother, mother, and a daughter, the grandmother now dead and the mother MIA. The daughter wasn’t strong enough to cater to the spells of his needs, so of course he had to take extra measures and find a new witch after his had been murdered by the werewolf boy.
Irritating fucker. He had had plans for the boy, planning to make him his very first hybrid after he broke his curse, but now he just held a very strong dislike for the boy for pushing back his plans. He was contemplating using him as the werewolf sacrifice in the ritual, and he already had the doppelganger, now he just needed to find a vampire.
Which, ironically, Mystic Falls was full of.
He had heard from Kol that there was a coven or two on the outskirts of Mystic Falls and he and Elijah were currently in a skeevy looking bar, nursing a glass or two, on the eye out for witches.
“Niklaus, I fail to understand why you think you could find powerful beings such as witches in a place like…this,” Elijah said distastefully, picking at a spot on his coat.
“Come now, brother, you do realize that witches aren’t the purest of souls on the planet, do you not? You do recall the uprising in 1478?”
“We both know that was Kol’s fault,” Elijah pointed out immediately.
Klaus smirked. “Indeed.” He motioned to the bartender to get them another round, then shook his head in amusement when Elijah let out an offended sniff. “Really, Elijah, the liquor’s not that bad, must you always—”
He broke off as he realized that Elijah was in fact, not looking at the bartender, but instead at a pair of girls who had just walked inside the bar.
One of them, the shorter one, was giggling drunkenly and waving her arms around in the air, her dark hair flying around her as she whirled around on the spot, a feather boa wrapped around her neck. Elijah stared at her disapprovingly, his attention fixed on the way she immediately stumbled over to the bar and ordered a round of shots.
“That kind of alcohol is not good for the system,” Elijah said sniffily.
But Klaus wasn’t focusing on him; hell, he had stopped looking at him a few seconds ago.
A very ravishing looking blonde had just followed her friend into the bar, nearly toppling over in her high heels in her haste to get to the bartender. She was just as drunk as her friend, tapping her on her shoulder and whispering something in her ear, then giggling when the brunette eagerly nodded. She promptly turned to the deadbeat live band playing a few sad 1970s tunes (who obviously didn’t know that the 1960s and 1990s were the better decades in which western music was composed, the idiots) and snatched the microphone from the singer. Either the boy was too tired to take it back or had just given up on getting the crowd to listen.
“Folks!” the girl cried out, and even though her speech was slurred, Klaus noticed she had a musical lilt to her voice. “Gather round, because my very good friend Betty—”
“Bonnie!” the brunette shouted drunkenly, swaying on her feet.
“Yeah, Bennie,” the blonde girl said, then turned back to the microphone, “anyway, she's just had a really bad breakup, so she’s just looking for something to cheer her up, okay? I mean, the guy fucking cheated on her, okay, and that is so not okay. Right?”
The crowd was silent, so the blonde indignantly huffed. “Right?”
The people surrounding him nodded readily, and she grinned, and Klaus couldn’t help but smile at her antics.
“Yeah, so anyway, she’s just very, very, very, sad right now, aren’t you, Binnie?”
“Mm hm,” the other girl—Bonnie, if Klaus remembered correctly—said distractedly, already making eyes at a boy across the room. “Yep, whatever you say, Care.”
Care? What kind of a name was Care?
Well, modern people did like strange names nowadays. Really, what kind of a name was Harry Styles?
“Is anyone single here?” the girl asked loudly, and a few patrons raised their hands, and she nodded. “Great. So, just hook up with Bessie, and you can just leave in the morning, please and thank you. I'm Caroline Forbes, so you can personally thank me for giving you a chance of a lifetime, cause hooking up with Betty is great. At least, that’s what she says.”
Caroline. Her name was Caroline.
A fine name, if he thought so himself.
Elijah huffed irritably next to him, and Klaus laughed. “Oh, let it go, Elijah. Not every person is as sophisticated as you are.”
Elijah shifted on his seat, delicately sipping his bourbon, making a face at the taste. “I thought we were here to look for the Bennett witch’s daughter, Niklaus.”
“We are,” said Klaus, his eyes still fixed on the blonde girl—Caroline—watching her as she climbed up onto the surface of a table. The deadbeat band had resumed their efforts in entertaining the crowd again, this time with slightly more gusto. Caroline was dancing on the table top as a few dozen people around her clapped, a few even cheering when she did a sort of dip and her skirt rode up a few inches. Klaus felt his mouth go dry as her thighs were exposed, and his head nearly exploded when he thought he saw a flash of pink lace in the air.
“Niklaus, don’t stare,” Elijah sad grumpily. “It’s unbecoming.”
“Yes, well,” Klaus smirked, regaining his composure, “so is dancing on a table top in the middle of a bar which I'm pretty sure hasn’t been washed in at least a decade.”
“Hooligans,” Elijah sniffed. “The lot of them.”
But Klaus wasn’t paying attention; he had gotten up and walked over to where Caroline was dancing. Her blonde hair was flying around her face, and she immediately tripped when she stuck one leg in front of the other in the hope of doing some weird modern hip hop move, probably.
She fell down, her arms in the air, and it was only due to Klaus’s vampire reflexes that he manged to swerve through the crowd and catch her.
Caroline groaned. “You know, this is the first time I have ever had a movie moment and no one’s even there to see it. Great.”
“Oh, I assure you, love, a conversation with me would be better than any movie you’ve ever watched.”
She snorted. “Very smooth, buddy. I'm impressed.” She stuck out a hand and smiled slightly. “Caroline. You?”
“I'm Kl—” he started, then broke off when he noticed a very familiar stone on her hand.
Vampire.
He smiled. If this girl was a vampire she could very easily be an ally of the Salvatores and the doppelganger, and he did not want any disturbance or any information getting to them.
And this girl really was lovely, it would be a shame to kill her.
He gave her a smile that was all teeth. “Nik,” he said, and shook her hand. “Pleased to meet you, love.”
She immediately withdrew her hand, and raised an eyebrow at him. “You're a vampire.”
Well, this was a surprising turn of events.
“I could say the same for you, love,” he said, nodding towards her hand.
She scoffed. “Do all vampires immediately assume that seeing a lapis lazuli ring automatically means that the wearer is a vampire? Obviously not. I just have good taste in jewellery.”
“Obviously,” he said, rolling his eyes playfully. “How’d you know?”
“You're wearing a ring too,” she said dryly.
“How deductive of you. And hypocritical.”
She narrowed her eyes. “You know, if I wasn’t so drunk right now I’d wouldn’t actually find you attractive.”
“Now, love, let’s not lie to ourselves and say you wouldn't find me attractive even when you'd be sober.”
She scoffed. “You're really full of yourself, you know that?”
“I know,” he said, giving her a dimpled grin. “So, if you're not a vampire, and you're obviously not a werewolf or a witch, otherwise I would’ve sensed it—”
Caroline snorted. “You would’ve sensed it? Sorry, Nik, but you don’t look like a witch to me.”
“And I'm not. But what are you? Not a witch, vampire, or werewolf. Human, then?”
Caroline shrugged. “What's left? I'm not anything special, just a very drunk seventeen year old girl who’s very, very drunk.”
“Just because you're a human doesn’t mean you aren’t different,” said Klaus, who was immediately puzzled by how easily the words had come out. Humans were different, but not in a good way. They were food, and only a few were innovative. The rest were like every other; boring and uninteresting.
She’s different, a voice in his head whispered.
She’s drunk, Klaus snapped to the voice inside his head. She doesn’t know what she’s saying. She’s being open with a stranger because she’s drunk. That’s all.
Caroline let out a bark of laughter. “Oh, I'm different, alright. I'm very different according to my ex-boyfriends.”
“Your ex-boyfriends are idiots,” Klaus said indifferently.
“I like to think so too,” Caroline murmured. She waved the bartender over and asked for a round of shots, getting them almost immediately.
Klaus looked at her in surprise. “I thought you were underage.”
“You're in Mystic falls, Nik. Nobody except the parents cares. The bartender’s probably underage as well,” she shook her head, then raised her glass. “Cheers, Nik. To many more months of being dumped by guys.”
“Now, love, surely you can't be that pessimistic.”
“I'm not, usually,” she said, looking at him with wide eyes. Blue, he noticed. “I'm optimistic. I am. But Bennie’s whole cheating episode jut brings back memories, you know?” she muttered. “Not of me, but of my parents. They didn’t have the greatest marriage.”
Klaus looked hesitant. “My parents didn’t get along either.”
He was sharing important details of his life with a complete stranger. And not just a complete stranger, one who could possibly be friends with the Salvatores and the Bennetts, judging by her knowledge of the supernatural.
Wonderful. Obviously, he needed to stop thinking with his dick.
She looked at him, her eyes heavily-lidded now. “Huh. Guess it’s true what they say.”
“And what do they say?”
“That meeting strangers in bars can really change your perspective at the moment. Of course,” she said haughtily, “my perspective on life hasn’t been altered. Just the whole movie moment’s in my brain. Which makes me ditzy.”
Klaus smiled at her. “I like ditzy.”
He hated ditzy.
“No one likes ditzy, Nik,” she smiled. “You know,” she said, leaning towards him, “when I get drunk, I usually have no filter at all, so if I say something weird and embarrassing, you have to excuse me. I don’t mean to say it.”
“On the contrary, I find your candor refreshing, sweetheart.”
She giggled. “Nice accent,” she said, resting an elbow on the countertop and Klaus gently pulled away the tray of shots away from her when she wasn’t looking. “Where’re you from? London? Or Wales?”
“Wales,” he said, pleased that she had asked him. It wasn’t a complete lie, his old village had been in a part of Wales. “But I’ve, er, stayed in London since my childhood.”
She nodded, and he smiled. “And, how about you? Where are you from?”
She laughed. “Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm right from here. My house is fifteen minutes away.”
“You should come to Wales. You’ll love everything about it. The city, the culture…have you been?”
She laughed once again. “I've…never really been anywhere.”
“Where would you like to go?”
She pondered his question, then spoke, “Switzerland, probably. I've always wanted to go. It sounds amazing,” she said wistfully.
“You'll get to go,” said Klaus, looking at Elijah out of the corner of his eye, who was looking at him irritably, pointedly gesturing towards his watch. Klaus made a threatening face at him and turned back to Caroline. “And if you never get the chance you always have me.”
She grinned. “And you’d take me?”
“I’d take you,” he said. “Rome, Paris…Tokyo?”
“Oh, wow,” she laughed. “I can't believe I'm actually talking to a person who’s offered to take me around the world. While I'm drunk. Which is actually kind of sad since I kind of like you and I want to kiss you.”
Klaus’s throat felt like sandpaper. “You should. Kiss me, then.”
Caroline smiled ruefully. “I don’t kiss guys when I'm drunk, Nik. I did once, and it turned out badly. And I know you're not like the other guy, I do. I don’t know why, but I do. And the problem is, I would kiss you. But I can't.”
Klaus leaned towards her, noticing she smelled of tequila. “You don’t have to. Right now. But you could. Tomorrow.”
What was he doing?
Caroline cocked her head. “Why?”
“Why?”
“Why. Why do you like me? I'm nothing special. I'm a human. You're a vampire. Why are you even talking to me?”
“Because you're beautiful,” Klaus said honestly. “And intelligent. And honest. Even when you're drunk. And you intrigue me.”
Caroline snorted. “I intrigue you? Really? I'm just a girl in a bar.”
He smiled, tipping his glass to her. “I'm just a guy in a bar.”
Seeing these Kol asks reminded me how cute he was lol. How do you think Kol would help Incubus!reader get control of his new powers? I could imagine Kol being in exhausted Bliss after a whole night of marathon sex 😂😂.
"In all my thousand years of living I have never met someone who can tire me out like this"
"Well I'm still horny so you better get ready to go again"
"Can at least take a snack break?"
"Fine I'll jerk off while you snack like a wimp babe"
favorite male character: Damon off of just TVD, but factoring in what I’ve seen from TO as well, Klaus.
favorite female character: Caroline or Elena. I go back and forth, but usually I lean towards Care.
least favorite character: Matt maybe? I liked him in the earlier seasons, but he got grating later on.
prettiest character: Katherine. (Yes, the makeup and hair does make her win out over Elena).
favorite season: three
favorite episode: uh, I don’t know. My favorite kiss is in 3x19 so I’m just using that.
favorite romantic ship: DELENA. I understand why they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I absolutely love them.
favorite family ship: Elena, Jenna, and Jeremy.
favorite friend ship: Carolena
worst ship: I don’t really “hate” any of the canon ships I don’t think (besides maybe Caroline and Alaric. Yikes). But I’m gonna go with B*mon. It just… no. Damon would never look at another woman like that. He just wouldn’t. Especially Elena’s best friend.
If the Mikaelsons’ & Co. raised Hope, what do you think her relationships would be like with each of them?
I adore thinking about Hope being raised by the Mikaelsons. They are such a dysfunctional family but they all truly loved that little girl.
I think Hope would have been a different character than we saw in Season 5 if she had been raised by her family. Likely more entitled and spoiled despite Hayley's attempts to ground her.
Hayley and Hope would still have the closest relationship out of all of them. Throughout her life, Hayley was always her constant. This would never change. Even when the whole family was around, we often saw Hayley still the one looking after Hope (or Elijah honestly). Hope would also lean on her when the codependency and the toxic Mikaelsons got to be too much. I can see her swooping Hope up and going on weekend trips just the two of them. When Hope was sad that the kids at school were mean to her, she would run straight into Hayley's arms. She will always be Hope's biggest comfort and biggest cheerleader.
Hope has always been said to be a "daddy's girl" and would have still been that way with her whole family around. Although, I do think a big part of Klaus' appeal to Hope is that he was this fantasy. All she knew about him were stories she was told so he couldn't mess up. When they did interact, he scared her and hurt her. I think they definitely would have had more ups and downs had they been around each other longer. They both have tempers and can be hot headed. They would have gone through a lot of the typically fighting. Klaus would have tried to control her as she got older and she would have rebelled. But he always had a soft spot for her. His temper would flare up but all it would take is one sad look from Hope to straighten him out. He would spoil her making it up to her. He would always go overboard, often times even Hope would tell him it was too much.
Hope would rely on Elijah to settle Klaus down and often go to him for advice on how to handle Klaus and his tantrum. Elijah would offer her guidance and be her rock in the hectic family. He would teach her to play different musical instruments and cook and just generally help her with her studies. She would have fond memories of sitting on his lap and reading with him as she grew up. She would get excited anytime she found a new book she loved and instantly text Elijah about it. He would dutifully read it and they would get together to discuss.
Kol would be the uncle she went to when she didn't want to understand her dad. She just wanted to be upset. He would tell her all about the chaos he caused (leaving out some of the more gruesome details). He would give her ideas on how to annoy the rest of the family. He would also be able to relate to her when Hope was feeling left out of the "always and forever." They would come up with their own thing to say and not allow anyone else to be a part of it.
I want to say Rebekah and Hope would be close but canon really fights me on that. Rebekah would be the fun aunt that every time she's around they have the best time. Rebekah would spoil Hope, taking her on extravagant trips around the world and sending her gifts from her own travels. She would be the person Hope calls to talk about dating and fashion. She would adore Rebekah and want to be just like her.
Freya is basically Hope's second mother. She would teach Hope everything she knew about magic, giving Hope the teacher she always wished she had. They would have a special bond due to their shared magic. Also do to the fact that they were humans surrounded by vampires. Freya and Hayley would be able to handle all of the human concerns the Originals were all too old to remember. Freya would know all of Hope's secrets because Hope would go to her first. Freya would help keep Hope level headed, reminding her of the dangers in the world while the rest of the family attempted to completely shield her.
I don't necessarily see a sibling bond between Marcel and Hope because of the age difference and the marriage to her aunt, but they would be super close. Marcel would understand Hope better than nearly anyone. He would be the first person she called anytime she got in trouble. He would pick her up and take her out to get some food, letting her explain her side of the story. He would never judge her but would offer his wisdom when needed.
Davina would be more like a sister than any of them because she would be closer in age than the rest of them. She remembered what it was like to be a teenage, New Orleans witch. She would love to help Hope with her magic and would always warn her to be careful with the New Orleans coven. Davina and Kol would often be away on their travels, but they would bring Hope along at least once a year. Always returning for her birthday and the holidays. Davina would plop down on her bed and demand Hope fill her in on all of the New Orleans drama.
Keelin and Hope would have a very quiet relationship. They would just be comfortable in each other's presence and not talk much. Growing up, Hope would often drag her board games or coloring books into the room Keelin was studying in and just work quietly, liking the company. Keelin would take breaks to color with Hope, letting Hope have the peace and quiet she needed in the hectic household. As Hope got older, Keelin would be the person Hope went to when she needed a break from the chaos. Keelin would bring her to work, joking that the ER in a hospital was less hectic than their household. She would teach Hope to love science and get excited to study. Hope would borrow Keelin's white jacket growing up and pretend she was a doctor.
And of course Hope would go to Cami with all of her big feelings she was learning to process. Hope would struggle with her temper having the werewolf gene and Cami would be more than ready to handle it. She would teach Hope coping techniques to deal with the family. Cami would have her own office in the house and unlike Keelin's study area, it was anything but quiet. Cami would often have music on and she and Hope would have dance breaks when the day was just too stressful. Cami would teach Hope to bake and they would drive Elijah crazy, always moving his things in the kitchen.
