Mikael and Klaus

The relationship between two of the Original Vampires, Klaus and Mikael is extremely antagonistic.
Klaus is Mikael's step-son, who was born after Esther had been unfaithful with a different man, who belonged to a bloodline of werewolves. Mikael hated Klaus even before he knew about the betrayals and lies, and even he didn't know why.
==Early History==
===The Middle Ages===
During their time in the new world, Klaus and Mikael never had a positive relationship. However, as Mikael mentioned to Cami, he didn't always hate Klaus. On the day Klaus was born, Mikael was overjoyed and thought Klaus to be worthy, saying to Cami that he had the eyes of a warrior. As shown in the flashbacks to their childhood, Mikael regularly abused Klaus physically and emotionally, one such time for having little skill at aiming a weapon in order to hunt for food. One day, Mikael caught Klaus whittling little chest pieces with Mikael's hunting knife and beat him mercilessly. Also, years later, Klaus and Elijah have a playful sword fight. Mikael is unimpressed by Klaus' skills and attacks him. Klaus does not wish to fight with his father and does not do much to protect himself, causing him to lose the fight. Mikael leaves him with the words "Some days, it's a miracle you're still alive, boy", and stated that he thought Klaus was foolish and impulsive. After Henrik died, Mikael changed his entire family into vampires (apart from his wife), including Klaus. Even with their relationship as it is, Mikael wanted to save him. While Mikael was indeed abusive, in his mind, he was trying to toughen Klaus up as he saw him as a liability to the family who had to constantly fight for their survival.
When Klaus made his first human kill as a vampire, it triggered his werewolf gene, leading them to discover his mother had an affair. Mikael saw Klaus as a beast. Esther cursed him to keep the werewolf side of him dormant. As a result, Klaus killed his mother out of resentment and anger that she had abandoned him.
According to Rebekah, Mikael's pride and temper was heightened when he was turned. Mikael wants to kill Klaus because he killed Esther, his own mother, who is also Mikael's wife. Mikael feels Klaus betrayed him, fueling his rage to murder Klaus. He also wants to kill Klaus for blaming the murder on him, which turned his children against him. Mikael saw Klaus as an abomination, as he despised werewolves, thinking they are filthy beasts. Mikael may have also been aware that Klaus had begun neutralizing his own siblings, which could have given Mikael more reasons to want to kill him. For these reasons, he hunted Klaus down all over the world for over 1,000 years, causing him to constantly flee, and gaining the title "The Destroyer" for burning many cities to the ground while hunting Klaus. This included Cádiz, Spain and even half of Europe according to Elijah. New Orleans was the last known city that he destroyed.
=== Cádiz, Spain, 1702 ===
In 1702, Kol's violence in Spain drew too much attention and brought Mikael, straight to the family, burning the country in his wake. While the flames drew closer and Mikael beheaded Klaus' horse, Theo.
===1900's===
Mikael is summoned by Rebekah and Marcel with the help of the witch Genevieve in 1919. Six months later he arrives in New Orleans to kill Klaus, burning down the city in the process. This forces Klaus to leave behind Marcel who he thought was dead and the city which he and his siblings built and flee with his siblings. 
===1920s===
Klaus was running away from Mikael after he had fled New Orleans in 1919. He escaped to Chicago along with his sister Rebekah but when Mikael arrived in Chicago looking for Klaus, Klaus fled..
==Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series==
===Season Three===
In The Reckoning, Klaus flees after Mikael is mentioned by Damon. This shows both his hatred towards Mikael and his fear that one day Mikael might come and kill him.
In Homecoming, Mikael teams up with Damon and Elena in order to kill Klaus.
Mikael arrives at his son's residence and the two have a bitter exchange of words. Klaus taunts his father that he hasn't been invited in, to which Mikael replies that he should come outside and face him. Klaus refuses to do so and indicates that he can watch while he sets his hybrids loose on Mikael. The elder counters that they cannot kill him. Disgusted by Klaus' cowardice, he antagonizes Klaus further by showing him that he has Elena. 
He demands that he come outside and face him or he will kill Elena. Klaus doesn't believe him and dares him to do it. Mikael then says to him, "If she dies this lot will be the last of your abominations", indicating Klaus' hybrids. Klaus still refuses and Mikael then stabs Elena with a dagger. Klaus, distracted by these turn of events, is surprised as Damon, wielding the White Oak stake attacks him from inside the house. Elena is revealed to be Katherine who then throws vervain bombs at the hybrids. Just as Damon is about to kill Klaus, Stefan intervenes. While the Salvatore brothers are struggling with each other, Klaus grabs up the White Oak stake and leaps upon a surprised Mikael, stabbing him in the heart with it. Mikael then bursts into flames, burning the stake along with him.
==Throughout The Originals Series==
===Season One===
In Le Grand Guignol, it is shown through flashbacks that Mikael arrived in New Orleans in 1919 hellbent on destroying Klaus. Mikael appeared behind him at the opera and aimed The White Oak Stake at Klaus' heart and expressed how embarrassed he was over him and wondered what his biological father would think of him. He tells Klaus that after he has killed him he will make sure that every memory of Klaus in the city is forgotten,making it seem like Klaus never have existed. Mikael then told him when the opera was about to begin that he had made some alterations in his honor, the scene at the opera showed Klaus' friends and lover to be dead and his adoptive son Marcel to be chained. When Klaus tries to free Marcel, Mikael stops him and Rebekah, they flee the scene with Elijah, and Mikael burns down the Opera house with everyone in it.
In Farewell to Storyville, It is shown how truly abusive Mikael was as a parent, punishing Klaus for failing to shoot a doe and talking back to his father. He told Klaus that he was nothing more then a burden and tries to make a man out of Klaus by punishing him. Mikael also whips Klaus almost to death for taking his blades for carving chess pieces sometime before he had Esther turn them into Original Vampires.
In A Closer Walk With Thee, Mikael is seen tormenting Klaus through his dreams as the Other Side is falling apart. As Hayley was brought to the Other Side temporarily from a hex, Mikael was able to interact with her due to the Other Side's destruction. Mikael tried to finish Hayley off and keep her dead in order to kill Klaus and Hayley's unborn child to further torment Klaus. He wanted to spare that child from being Klaus' daughter as a mercy killing, believing Klaus would ruin his own child one way or another.
In From a Cradle to a Grave, unknown to Klaus, Mikael is resurrected by Davina Claire, as he made an alliance with her to rid New Orleans from Klaus and his vicious actions. By channeling the power produced from the miracle birth of the Original Hybrid's daughter, a pocket of mystical power called a Nexus Vorti, Mikael successfully instructed Davina on how to bring him back through a spell from his wife Esther's grimoire. Mikael is about to kill Klaus, but Davina stops him, having used the Bracelet of Obedience as a power source in the spell that brought Mikael back to life, which also gave her control of Mikael's actions, making him a slave to Davina's will. She tells Mikael that he can punish Klaus, but only when she is ready, as she did not want Josh or Marcel to die with Klaus' bloodline upon his death until she could find a way to save them.
===Season Two===
In Alive and Kicking, Mikael wanted to kill Klaus but Davina wouldn't let him without first finding a way to unlink her friends from Klaus' bloodline. Later, she summoned Mikael to help her against attacking werewolves and Elijah showed up. Mikael told Elijah that he was hoping to run into Klaus first but he also had issues to resolve with him. Mikael nearly killed Elijah before being forced to flee with Davina. Klaus was quickly alerted to Mikael's resurrection. Despite briefly showing horror at the idea of facing both Mikael and the resurrected Esther, Klaus quickly recovered and simply stated that the only question is that which one of their parents do they kill first.
In Live and Let Die, Davina and Mikael went to a cabin owned by the Claire family now that news of his resurrection and her involvement with it had spread to Klaus. Mikael trained to keep himself focused as he was currently affected by werewolf venom and prepared to face Klaus while there. Klaus, deciding Mikael was more dangerous as he had the White Oak Stake and also the more easy one to be killed, decided to confront Mikael first and though he believed he could kill both his father and his mother having did so before, Klaus took Papa Tunde's Blade with him should the fight go ugly. Having deduced his and Davina's location, Klaus arrived, calling for Mikael to face him. Mikael forced Davina's friend "Kaleb", who was secretly his resurrected son Kol, to unlink him from Davina's magical hold on him. Kol did so and Mikael was able to face Klaus outside the cabin. As Klaus seems unnerved to see Mikael in the flesh, Mikael mocks Klaus for his eagerness to face him, stating that it is almost as if Klaus is impatient to be killed, but Klaus merely says he only looks forward to stand over Mikael's burning corpse and enjoy it even more than last time. Mikael says he traveled all the way back from the afterlife just to kill Klaus and Klaus, grinning, says that he would hate to keep Mikael waiting before attacking his step-father. Although Klaus put up a fierce fight, Mikael's dominance was clear from the beginning and he eventually gained the upper hand and overpowered his step-son, stabbing the White Oak Stake into him, but as it was only stabbed in his shoulder, it didn't kill him and Klaus was able to blindside Mikael and stabbed him with Papa Tunde's blade, which burrowed into his chest and put him in a state of complete agony and weakened him further. Klaus threw Mikael into the back of a truck, letting him suffer while he went to speak to Davina. Mikael, through sheer willpower, managed to remove the blade from within his body.
In Red Door, Mikael kidnapped Cami after Klaus had given her the white oak stake to take care of as Klaus, who suspected Kaleb was Kol and Mikael was still paralyzed, only realized after calling out to Cami and getting no response. Panicking over the idea of having to face Mikael weaponless while Mikael had the White Oak Stake and Papa Tunde's Blade as well as Cami as a hostage, Klaus tried to contact Elijah for reinforcement but as Elijah wasn't responding, Klaus had no choice but to confront Mikael alone anyway. Through compelling an entire Halloween party, Mikael managed to draw Klaus to them. Klaus killed them all, feeding on them as much as he could, and was so concerned of Mikael's growing power and determined to put an end to Mikael that when Hayley and Marcel contacted him and asked him to find the missing Elijah, Klaus prioritized getting rid of Mikael first as he had Cami hostage and two weapons that could end up defeating him and told Hayley and Marcel that if they met Elijah, they should tell him to help him face Mikael. Meanwhile, Mikael told Cami that there was a time when he loved Klaus but everything bad that had happened was his fault, including getting Henrik killed, murdering Esther, and turning the other siblings on Mikael. Klaus tracked them to a warehouse where he faced Mikael, who now had both the white oak stake and Papa Tunde's blade. As Klaus angrily promises to make Mikael pay for biting Cami until she fell unconscious, Mikael promises sadistically to drain all her blood before he burns, which causes Klaus to angrily leap at Mikael. This time, however, Klaus is able to best Mikael, as he was further weakened by Papa Tunde's Blade, but Mikael, by throwing the blade at Cami, distracting Klaus, managed to finally impale Klaus with the stake, seemingly assuring his death. Klaus fell to the floor, his body growing gray but unlike other Originals, who would burst into flame once stabbed with the stake, Klaus did not. Mikael's moment of joy turned to fury at Klaus not burning. The lack of flames was thanks to interference from the magic of Davina and Kol, who had temporarily blocked the stake's power. Mikael was assaulted by Klaus' allies while Cami removed the stake from Klaus' chest. Outnumbered and still weakened by Tunde's dagger and wolf venom, Klaus mocked Mikael and asked if he was going to beg for his miserable life only for Mikael to scoff at Klaus for only having been able to save himself with help from others, which to Mikael's eyes only proved how weak he was, and told him to come find him when he was ready to face him alone. Mikael left, leaving Klaus to his temporary victory.
In The Map of Moments, Klaus learned that Esther had made an alliance with Mikael against him, promising Mikael could kill Klaus if he'd assist her in reuniting their family, having given up on putting Klaus into a new body.
In Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Mikael and Klaus become allies to kill Dahlia because of how their respective daughters are in danger from Dahlia's plans. Mikael and Klaus tracked Dahlia to St. Anne's Church, and Mikael had Davina use the ingredients he collected to kill Dahlia bound to a knife, creating a weapon to kill the ancient witch. After failing to kill Dahlia and losing their only weapon against her, Klaus attacks and threatens to kill Mikael, who doesn't even fight back, knowing they need more Viking Ash to make more weapons. Klaus becomes emotional and cries, wanting to know why Mikael hated him. Mikael himself seems to have either not known why, or forgotten why. As Klaus asks for his final words, Mikael apologizes to Freya and tells her he loves her before being staked by a distraught Klaus. In his dying moments, Mikael reaches out for the step-son he named, briefly grabbing Klaus' hand as he fell to the ground, as a small act of one-time affection. This showed there was a part of Mikael that cared for Klaus all this time up until Mikael died, Mikael visibly showing he made peace with his son before bursting into flames. Klaus himself was more emotional when killing Mikael than the last time, crying before vainly attempting to hide his sadness by stating to procure Viking ash, one only needs to burn a Viking corpse.
In When the Levee Breaks, Klaus attempts to hide his true feelings over his recent murder of Mikael by trying to celebrate with his siblings that Mikael is permanently dead but neither Rebekah or Elijah found anything worth celebrating from the death of their father, annoying Klaus. When Cami has a therapy session with Klaus regarding Mikael, Klaus at first attempts to say he only felt annoyed Mikael didn't stay dead but eventually admits that he did regret killing Mikael and when they worked together, that day was rather good, even giving a rather sad smile, and being briefly affected when Cami pointed out how Klaus killed Mikael partially because he was jealous of Mikael's love for Freya.
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==Trivia==
*They both have been desiccated by a Bennett witch.
*Klaus claims in the flashback episode Klaus, that it was Mikael who named him.
*Klaus despises Mikael for what he had to endure as a child.
*Mikael still has a deep psychological hold over Klaus.
*Despite their antagonistic relationship, and despite Mikael's statement of the contrary, the two still seem to view each other as father and son. Mikael is the only father figure Klaus has known and Mikael raised Klaus thinking he was his son, even having Klaus turned despite their broken relationship. He has called Klaus his son to Marcel and Davina.
*Klaus gets very angry whenever he talks about Mikael.
*Ironically, of all of the Original Vampires, Klaus and Mikael are the most alike; both are proud, cruel, controlling, abusive, violent and sadistic.
*According to Klaus, the only reason why Mikael tried to kill him, for the last 1,000 years, wasn't because he killed Esther, it was because Klaus was a reminder of Esther's betrayal/affair.
*However, according to Sebastian Roché in an interview, it was indeed due to Esther's murder.
**Mikael tells Cami that he murdered his wife in Red Door.
**However, in Night Has A Thousand Eyes, moments before Klaus kills Mikael with the White Oak Stake, he asked his step-father why he hated him so much, Mikael replied that he didn't know, either he forgot the original reason or he just didn't have a reason to hate his step-son; implying that it was because Klaus was a reminder of Esther's betrayal/affair.
*In A Closer Walk With Thee, Klaus revealed the reason he still refers to Mikael as his father, is because he has "done damage only a father can".
*In From a Cradle to a Grave, Mikael has been resurrected, but he failed to kill Klaus because of the spell that Davina put on him.
*Despite their antagonistic relationship, Mikael once loved Klaus, as he was the one who named him and tried to protect him by turning him into an Original Vampire.
*Klaus suspects that Mikael also had an abusive father who ruined him.
* Sebastian Roché believes that Mikael really does love Klaus to some degree.
* Whenever Mikael talks directly to Klaus, he refers to him as "boy". This is done so can degrade Klaus and make him feel smaller despite the fact that Klaus is now a grown man.
*Whenever Mikael is talking about Klaus, he calls him a "beast". This is due to Klaus being part-Werewolf and Mikael feelings about werewolves being beasts.
* In The Map of Moments, Esther made a deal with Mikael that in exchange for helping her with her plans, Mikael will get the right to kill Klaus.
* Mikael hunted Klaus for a 1,000 years.
* In Night Has A Thousand Eyes, is the first time in history that Mikael and Klaus chose to be allies instead of enemies. Although it is only temporary because they need to kill Dahlia to protect their daughters, Freya and Hope Mikaelson.
* Klaus had always feared his step-father, being so frightened that he either used to flee if knew Mikael was arriving or stayed inside a house Mikael wasn't invited into. In the Originals, Klaus still feared his father but was able to manage it better, even willing to fight him this time with only some fear showing. By the episode Night Has A Thousand Eyes, he is able to approach Mikael easily and even trade insults with him, however, he showed hubris and incorrectly thought himself to outmatch Mikael when talking to him in a bar, even when the latter has proven to be stronger in their past conflicts.
* In his dying moments, Mikael reached for his step-son, perhaps out of the affection he may have once had for Klaus.
* Klaus was even more affected by killing Mikael this time around, the first time, he was expressionless and somber, the second time he was crying and more emotional.
** It is implied that Klaus regrets killing Mikael the second time around as during a conversation with Camille where he initially avoided the topic, he laments that He and his step-father made a good team and they had one good day together. Klaus quickly tries to cover this by saying killing friends and foes is just "what he does".
*Klaus has killed Mikael twice.
*They both enjoy "glorious murder".
*Despite his hatred for Mikael, Klaus still loves his step-father in a peculiar way; however, he could not forgive Mikael for what he did to him as a child.
==See also==
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