Hope Mikaelson

Hope Anastasia Petrova De Novo Delacourt Mikaelson (born Hope Andrea Mikaelson) is a main character in Legacies, she was a former majorly recurring character in The Originals before being promoted to a main character in the fifth season. She was a major recurring character in season eight of The Vampire Diaries. Hope is the tribrid daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall-Kenner. She is the adoptive daughter to Ana Pierce. She is the granddaughter of Ansel, Esther Mikaelson and two unnamed werewolves, as well as the step-granddaughter of Mikael. She is also the niece of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik Mikaelson, and the grand-niece of Dahlia. She is the adoptive younger sister to Ella, Daniela, Lily, Marcel, Rosie, Nora, Mary Louise, Layla, and Davina as well as the paternal older sister to Apollo, Artemis, and Nemesis Mikaelson. She is also a distant relative of Lana, Eve, and Cary. Due to his marriage to Hayley, Jackson Kenner was her step-father for almost a year, until he was killed by Tristan de Martel.
She was named Hope by her father, who took inspiration from his half-brother Elijah's words about his newborn child being their family's hope. Her middle name was Andrea after her mother's birth-name. After Ana adopted her she asked Ana if she could have Anastasia as her new middle name. Hope decided to add Petrova De Novo Delacourt to her Mikaelson last name.
As a result of her unique heritage, she is the world's fourth werewolf-witch-vampire hybrid. She inherited her werewolf gene from both of her parents, while her vampire and witch legacy came from her father who is the Original vampire-werewolf hybrid and the son of the Original Witch. Through her mother's Labonair lineage, Hope is werewolf royalty.
Hope was sent away to be raised by Rebekah, Catherine, and Rosie, in order to protect her from her father's enemies: the Guerrera Wolves, Esther, and Dahlia. Her death was faked to protect her. However, Esther had found Rebekah, Catherine, and Rosie whilst they were with the children at the park, this is signified by the presence of starlings. At the end of the second season, Hope is living with Hayley and Jackson (stepfather by marriage) in the Bayou, and by the end of the third season, she is living with Ana on the road. By the fourth season, she lives with Ana and the Mikaelson Family at the Abattoir.
After having the Hollow's spirit separated into five members of her family, she, Ana, and her siblings leave for Mystic Falls. She becomes a student at the boarding school and as time goes by, she becomes determined to see her father again, despite the consequences that could ensue. 
Hope is a member of the Mikaelson Family, Labonair Family, Kenner Family, and an unnamed family of werewolves. She also is apart of the Petrova Family, Vidov Family, and De Novo Delacourt Family through adoption. Hope is by birthright a member of the Crescent Wolf Pack and the North East Atlantic Pack, as well as an unnamed witch family, and one of four children fathered by the Original Hybrid.
==Physical Appearance==
According to Rebekah, Hope looks like her mother. On the other hand, Klaus blissfully implies that Hope has inherited his eyes. As a baby she had dirty-blonde hair and round dark-blue eyes.
As a child she has long auburn hair and light blue eyes. Her cheeks have little freckles scattered across them. She is seen in light colored sleeveless dresses, that normally have flowers or other prints on them. Hope also has little dimples in her cheeks.
Now as a teenager, Hope has auburn hair and light blue eyes. Katherine described her as beautiful. As a Labonair, she has the Crescent birthmark on her right shoulder, just like her mother, siblings, aunts, cousins, and distant relatives, Eve, Lana, and the Hollow.
In her wolf form, Hope possesses white fur like her mother and has the typical glowing yellow eyes that come with Lycanthropy. In her vampire form, Hope maintains her golden yellow eyes but gains black veins that cascade from her lower eyelids to just above her cheekbones.
==Personality==
Hope was born a fighter, having inherited Hayley's toughness and Klaus' tenacity, something both her parents pointed out when Hope was a baby. She was a very calm and happy baby, with Freya mentioning how Hope inherited her paternal family's resilience. She is also seemingly very intelligent, as she was able to use her magic to turn Camille's car on and off, saving her from immediate danger, all despite being a baby. As a young child, Hope was a kind and gentle girl. She had a sweet and innocent persona. She enjoyed helping innocent creatures and once used her magic to heal a butterfly's broken wing. She once expressed to her father that she was lonely, never having any other kids her own age to play with.
As a teenager, Hope was stubborn and brave as she was willing to put herself through extreme pain and possible death to get her mother back. Both Klaus and Caroline described Hope as smart, possibly too smart for her own good, like her father. Hope did whatever she could to protect her family and always offered to help save those she cared about or considered family, including Marcel. However, when Hope magically absorbed the Hollow's soul, the constant whispering nearly drove her insane. The only way she could end the madness was by committing acts of violence. With her father's assistance, she took her anger and frustration out on those she deemed guilty. Her desire to quell the voices by using violence and magic caused her to accidentally kill an innocent human, which triggered her werewolf curse. She struggled to come to terms with his death and referred to it as something that has stayed with her.
Hope struggles to forge meaningful connections with other people and make friends with the other students at the Salvatore School, not only because of her one-of-a-kind supernatural classification, but also because she's already endured a lifetime of grief and heartbreak. To her peers, she seems closed off. She is forgiving to MG when she thought he killed her boyfriend Landon. Due to her often disastrous past, she has resigned herself to isolation, considering it the path that will provide the least heartbreak in her life. She sees loneliness as less of a burden to bear than her formative experiences of loving so deeply and losing so terribly. However, she has begun to open up more to people, tediously forming friendships and entering a romantic relationship. She is slowly becoming more optimistic that she will be happy.
Hope often puts her safety and life in danger to save others, making her a true hero. She is incredibly loyal to her friends, despite initial difficulties working with a team. She is independent and believes she can complete any task by herself, though she slowly becomes more willing to work with others.
==Powers and Abilities==
As a hybrid of three supernatural species a witch, a werewolf, and a vampire; the full extent and limits of Hope's powers are currently unknown.
Hope, her adoptive mother, her siblings, are Nature's loophole that could be used against Malivore. Due to this, they can remember those that she previously knew and have been consumed by Malivore as well as heal others with her blood that have been shot with weaponized Malivore bullets.
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Hope is a witch-hybrid, having inherited her witch gene from her father, the son of Esther Mikaelson. According to Dahlia, as a firstborn of their bloodline, Hope has inherited great, but devastating power. Dahlia also notes that Hope's magic will be tainted by Klaus' vampire blood as well as the aggressive wolf temperament. Despite this, Genevieve states that Hope's magic is strong enough to fuel the French Quarter Coven's ancestral power for generations, while one of the Hollow's acolytes reiterates this sentiment when he states that Hope and her siblings might be the greatest witch the world may ever know.
As a baby, Hope demonstrated heightened awareness of the impending explosion at her family's house and she used her magic to temporarily turn off Camille's car (as they were on their way there) to protect herself and Camille. She then used it again to turn the car back on.
After five years of being hidden from the world with her siblings, Hope has been able to heal insect wings with no formal training, with her bracelet removed. She's also had a connection to the Hollow, drawing her sigil, the Ouroboros, though whether that was an inherent connection or the link that was used in an attempt to sacrifice her, remains to be known. Her connection to New Orleans soil, despite not being a Harvest girl or apparent knowledge of the Ancestors, allowed her to communicate with them, where as non-witches could not. It is worthy to note that Hope has detected these events while still wearing her bracelet that blocks her power. While other children were unconscious as a result of being tied to a spell that was draining their energy, Hope was able to retain her consciousness like her siblings until her magic sealing bracelet was removed by Klaus. Hope managed to counter the boundary spell cast by her aunt Freya on Marcel. She and her siblings would later use their telekinesis to break the salt circle that bound the spirit of Davina to the mortal plane, sending her back to the Ancestral Plane, and returned their father back to his body.
Seven years later, Hope has improved control over her magic as a teenager; however, such control is lost during bursts of anger. She has also shown skill in creating her own spells with her siblings, such that she and her siblings created a spell combined with a cloaking spell that she and her siblings performed on Ana, as she and her siblings were the one to kidnap them and lure Klaus back to New Orleans. She and her siblings claimed that it was the "perfect" cloaking spell and that it would keep them safe; despite this claim, they were kidnapped again.
While she, Apollo, Artemis, and Nemesis were the Hollow's vessels, containing both spirit and Dark Magic, there magic was amplified by that of the Hollow, as she whispered to them in her attempt to corrupt them. During this time, their telekinesis and pain infliction seemed to be amplified as purging their pain, by using their magic, seemed to be the only course of treatment.
Two years later, now with the Hollow expelled from her body, her magic seems to have become more stabilized and in her own control. However, she and Artemis continues to use Dark Magic. She and Artemis performed a Death Spell that wounded Dragon, that caused her to revert back into to her human form.
Unlike every witch that transitioned into a vampire, Hope did not lose her ability to practice magic when she became a full tribrid. She was, however, unable to access her magic when she was in transition which left her vulnerable. After feeding, she regained access to her magic, in addition to her vampire and werewolf natures.
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Hope is also part werewolf, having inherited the werewolf gene from both of her parents. Prior to triggering her curse, she displayed some increased agility and grace, above that of a normal human. Since she has triggered her werewolf gene, she has gained all of the powers of lycanthropy. With Hope's first transformation with her siblings looming, Caroline questions that Crescent wolves could control their transformations. In response, Klaus states that the first transformation is a rite of passage and cannot be controlled. This implicates that her werewolf nature as an Evolved Werewolf with the ability of Transformation Control. However, Hope states to Landon that her ability to control her transformation stems from her tribrid status, as like with other werewolf-vampire hybrids.
Currently, whether it's the former or latter which grants her transformation control, or additional abilities as an evolved werewolf, remains unknown. Additionally, Klaus explains that during werewolf transformations, the pain will make one want to delay the shift because that is all they believe they can handle. However, should one let the pain in, then it cannot break oneself. Following Klaus' instruction, Hope has accepted the pain during her transformation, thus it allows her to fully transform within a few minutes instead of a few hours. Despite that the werewolf curse was originally casted upon Native American witches, preventing them and their descendants from using magic, Hope's lycanthropy does not negate her ability to practice magic; further reasoning about this has not been elaborated upon.
Upon completing her transition into a fully activated tribrid, Hope gained the ability to transform from human to wolf form within seconds while magically maintaining her clothing. Her transition also included an energy wave that rippled over her body as she transitioned from one form to another, a trait that is not present in other werewolf transformations.
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Before becoming an activated tribrid, Hope possessed a few vampiric traits, specifically her blood. Her blood was able to help heal her mother while in the womb as well as she's able to heal herself, such as when she sliced open her hand and stabbed her foot with a trash picker. Her blood can be used to sire new vampires and hybrids, the latter being an ability possessed by the Original Hybrid as well as to heal vampires from a werewolf bite.
After completing her transition, Hope was still able to practice magic, as she created a sword out of her blood. Her true form did not alter much, as she maintained her golden eyes. Hope now is truly immortal and can only be killed by a red oak stake from the Red Oak Tree. Hope showed great proficiency in utilising her vampire powers. At the Carnival of Vampires, Hope showed her ability to compel fellow vampires. Previously, this has only been possible by an Original vampire.
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==Weaknesses==
According to Dahlia, firstborns of her family's bloodline inherit great power; however, it is unstable and will damage and, ultimately, kill the witch if they are not taught to contain it. Furthermore, as a possessor of the werewolf gene, Hope will experience bouts of severe aggression.
As one of the hybrid of all three supernatural species, the full extent and limits of Hope's weaknesses are currently unknown.
Emmett claimed that Marcel's advanced werewolf venom can take down a hybrid, an Original, and even Hope Mikaelson, her siblings, and her nieces and nephews. However, he gave no evidence as to why it would or could be lethal to Hope, her siblings, or her nieces and nephews; nor has this been proven to be true.
Similar to that of her biological family, Hope can be daggered and temporarily desiccated by the white oak ash daggers. However, she cannot be daggered for long without resurrecting due to her tribrid nature. This is a feat that even the original vampires were unable to do, as someone else had to remove the dagger for them.
==Name==
*Hope is a feminine first name of English origin referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope.
*Andrea comes from the Greek word andrós which means "manly". For a girl's name, some people extrapolate that the meaning is "courageous" or "womanly".
*Anastasia is a girl's name of Greek and Russian origins, meaning "resurrection." The name derives from the masculine Greek name Anastasius, which shares the same etymology.
*Petrov/Petroff (masculine) or Petrova (feminine) is one of the most common surnames in both Russia and Bulgaria. The surname is derived from the first name Pyotr (Пётр, Russian) or Petar (Петър, Bulgarian), both equivalent to the English name Peter. Petrov means "son of Peter" in Russian and Bulgarian.
*De Novo is a Latin expression used in English to mean 'from the beginning', 'anew' 
*Delacourt De la Cour is a French-language surname, meaning "of the court".
*Mikaelson is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
**If Hope was to truly follow Norse traditions, her surname should technically be Niklaussdotter (daughter of Niklaus) as oppose to Mikaelson (son of Mikael).
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