Hybrid

**Hybrids** are a cross-breed of two or more different supernatural species. The term is commonly used to describe a werewolf turned into a vampire due to the fact that they were the first supernatural hybrid to be introduced in the series. However, since the werewolf-vampire hybrid's creation, there have been other hybrids, such as siphoner turned witch-vampire hybrids, werewolf-witch hybrids, and, in the unique case of Vera Mikaelson, a witch-werewolf-vampire tribrid.

Hybrids possess both the strengths and some of the weaknesses of their parent races, along with powerful attributes unique to themselves alone due to their combined heritage. For werewolf-vampire hybrids, this includes day walking and being able to transform into a wolf without the Full Moon's influence. For siphoner-vampire hybrids, they retain their ability to siphon magic and their own vampirism as a power source for their use in witchcraft; as they did not possess their own magic as siphoners; this is a skill that makes them powerful.

## Creation of Werewolf-Vampire Hybrids

To become a werewolf-vampire hybrid, a werewolf must have either Klaus or Vera's Blood in their system before they are killed so they can awaken a short time later in transition. Because no regular vampire has ever attempted to use their own blood to turn a werewolf into a hybrid, it is likely that such an attempt would be unsuccessful. After a werewolf dies with Klaus' blood in their system, their transformation will be successful only if the wolf completes his/her transition by drinking the blood of a human doppelgänger. If a werewolf is turned with Vera's blood, her blood can also be used to complete their transition as well, just as a doppelgänger's blood would. So far, all hybrids have been created by Klaus; with the exception of Dwayne, Hayley, and Henry Benoit, who were created by Vera Mikaelson.

Only one hybrid, Niklaus Mikaelson, has been turned into a hybrid before triggering his werewolf gene. (This excludes his daughter Vera Mikaelson, who was born a hybrid). However, since Klaus is the Original hybrid and was turned into a hybrid with dark magic performed by his mother Esther as opposed to being turned by another hybrid's blood, it is unknown if untriggered werewolves can be turned into hybrids successfully via the normal procedure. If it were possible, the werewolf would presumably trigger their werewolf gene during their first kill as a vampire following the completion of their transition by feeding on the blood of a doppelgänger or Vera Mikaelson. However, this has never been done before and concrete details are still unknown.

If a newborn hybrid feeds on regular human blood to officially complete their transition, the hybrid will become unstable, causing them to bleed from the eyes, become rabid, and eventually die in pain. This result was demonstrated during Klaus' first attempt to turn werewolves into hybrids in *The Hybrid* after he sired Paige's Pack. However, it is unclear why that happens. It might be a reaction to being fed the wrong blood in transition in addition to feeling the effects of the full moon overhead. After Klaus sired Paige's pack, they all began to experience unbearable pain and profuse bleeding from their facial orifices until they either killed each other, were mercy-killed by Klaus, or dying of failed transitions combined with exsanguination.

It was initially believed that since the doppelgänger (Elena) was resurrected, that the ritual wasn't fully complete, which is why Klaus' first batch of hybrids failed in transition. Bonnie Bennett, an experienced witch, initially confirmed this. However, after Matt Donovan received a message from the ghost of his sister Vicki, who had contacted the witch who created the Hybrid Curse, Klaus realized that the Original witch had been playing him. A short time later, Klaus assumed that the original witch would never help him and gave Tyler Lockwood Elena's blood as a hunch when he awoke in transition because even if it didn't work, he'd die without a successful transition anyway. Klaus' hunch ended up being correct, and Tyler then became Klaus' first successful hybrid since Klaus broke his own Hybrid Curse.

Afterward, Klaus revealed that the Original witch who cursed Klaus had a fail-safe - the doppelgänger had to die in the ritual to turn Klaus, but her blood was needed to turn any hybrids he tried to make. This was put in place in order to avoid the creation of new hybrids if Klaus were to ever break the curse. Klaus believes it was done as the Original witch (who was later revealed to be his own mother, Esther Mikaelson) hated him.

Klaus can still turn humans into vampires, as can his hybrid progeny. Before it was revealed that Klaus' child can make hybrids, every previous hybrid has been directly created by Klaus.

It has also been revealed that Klaus, as a werewolf who was turned into a hybrid with magic rather than by hybrid blood, can have children thanks to his werewolf side. Additionally, Klaus' child's mother, Hayley Marshall was a full-blooded werewolf at the time of the child's conception, and her father is the original hybrid, so the child, Vera Mikaelson, is a witch-werewolf-vampire tribrid, having inherited the ability to practice witchcraft from her paternal grandmother Esther, her werewolf gene from both her parents and vampire heritage from her father. Immediately after Vera's birth, Hayley was killed, but because Vera's blood was still in her system, she reawakened in transition, and eventually drank another drop of Vera's blood to complete her transition to stay in her life.

It has been proven that tribrid blood is a powerful binding agent similar to doppelgänger blood. This eliminates the need for doppelgänger blood during the transition, though only the tribrid's blood can finish the transition of a new hybrid, thus the hybrid race still depends on a single and rare supernatural creature.

## Hybrid Casualties

* A pack of Hybrids that were unsuccessfully turned and died from Heart Extraction, broken necks and blood loss in *The Hybrid*.
* Ray Sutton was killed by Stefan Salvatore in *The Hybrid*.
* Unknown hybrid was killed by Damon Salvatore in *Homecoming*.
* Unknown hybrid was killed by Damon Salvatore in *Our Town*.
* Mindy was killed by Stefan Salvatore in *Our Town*.
* Tony was killed by Jeremy Gilbert in *The New Deal*.
* Nate was killed by Connor Jordan in *The Five*.
* Dean was killed by Connor Jordan in *The Killer*.
* Daniel Warren was killed by Elijah Mikaelson in *The Ties That Bind*.
* Chris was killed by Jeremy in *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes*.
* 12 hybrids were killed by Niklaus Mikaelson in *O Come, All Ye Faithful*.
* Dwayne is killed by Tyler (2nd time) in *Bloodletting*.
* Tyler Lockwood was killed by the Anti-Magic Border and then cured of being a hybrid in *Home*.
* Malachai Parker was killed by Damon Salvatore in *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*.
* Malcolm was killed when Damon Salvatore ripped his heart out of his chest in *Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take*.
* Oscar was killed by Valerie in *I Carry Your Heart With Me*.
* The Spirit possessing Oscar was killed by Enzo in *Live Through This*.
* Beau was trapped in the phoenix stone by Rayna Cruz in *This Woman's Work* and was killed by Damon Salvatore, possessing a vampire body in *Somebody That I Used to Know*.
* Mary Louise was killed in an explosion caused by the destruction of the phoenix stone, sacrificing herself with Nora in *Days of Future Past*.
* Nora Hildegard was killed in an explosion caused by the destruction of the phoenix stone, sacrificing herself with Mary Louise in *Days of Future Past*.
* Henry Benoit was killed when a mysterious assailant ripped his heart out of his chest in *One Wrong Turn On Bourbon*.
* Hayley Marshall-Kenner was killed by exposure to sunlight and her werewolf side was bound, making her no longer a hybrid in *What, Will, I, Have, Left*.
* Niklaus Mikaelson was willingly killed by his brother Elijah Mikaelson in order to finally kill the Hollow and save Vera from her in *When The Saints Go Marching In*.
* Malachai Parker was killed by Alaric Saltzman in *You Can't Save Them All*.

## Powers and Abilities

* Werewolf-Vampire

Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have the powers and abilities of both werewolves and non-Original vampires, both physically enhanced powers and abilities of mind compulsion. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids will grow stronger with age due to their vampirism and will also increase in strength when enraged, due to their werewolf side. Their strength will also increase during a full moon.

* **Super Strength:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids are stronger than Werewolves, Evolved Werewolves, non-Original Vampires, Supernatural Hunters, Immortals and Humans. Due to their vampire side, they also get stronger with age. The full moon will boost their strength and aggression. Older non-Original vampires may be stronger and more challenging for many newborn non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids. However, if a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid fights a non-Original vampire closer to their age range, the non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid will win. Ray Sutton (a dying transitioning, unsuccessful non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid) was shown to be very strong and nearly killed Damon, a non-Original vampire more than 170 years old until Stefan saved him. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids are even capable of putting up a fight against non-Original vampires well above their age range as seen when Tyler was able to gain the upper hand and bite Nadia, a 500-year-old non-Original vampire. It should be noted that Nadia did manage to overpower Tyler eventually and escape, implying that she had equal or slightly superior strength. Julian, while possessing Tyler's body, was able to fend off both Caroline and Stefan and even managed to kill the latter through heart extraction. A non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid in werewolf-form will be immensely powerful and maybe a slight challenge for even an original vampire.
* **Super Speed:** A non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid's intensified quickness, agility, reflexes, and endurance makes them faster than any werewolves, evolved werewolves, non-Original vampires, supernatural hunters, immortals, and humans. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can use this ability in human or werewolf form. As with strength, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids get faster with time. The full moon will increase their speed and being in werewolf form will make them even faster. Tyler was particularly fast as a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid, being fast enough to surprise Klaus and stake him.

* **Super Agility:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids possesses much more superhuman stamina, flexibility, reflexes, agility, and dexterity than immortals, non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves and humans. They can move, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.

* **Super Senses:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, touch, and smell that exceed those of non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves, and humans. Since they're a supernatural crossbreed between werewolves and non-Original vampires, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have the combined senses of both species thus making their ability extremely effective. Tyler Lockwood has been seen to use his super senses on multiple occasions such as when he overheard Katherine (in Elena's body) say that Caroline slept with Klaus or when he was able to hear Nadia compelling Matt but a prime example of this ability is in "Home", when Tyler is resurrected and hugs Caroline but then he tells her that it felt different, because he was no longer a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid.
* **Super Durability:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can bear a lot of trauma. They also hardly ever get tired or fatigued. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can take far more trauma than any non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves and humans, without much discomfort or injury. Stakes and arrows can not kill a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid when they are struck in the heart, they merely become unconscious, they are able to resist the bullets created by The Brotherhood better than non-Original vampires as Stefan said to Tyler, that if he was a normal vampire he would be dead.
* **Enhanced Healing Factor:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have the combined healing capabilities of both non-Original vampires and werewolves, rendering them practically invincible to anything but fatal wounds that can seriously impair their healing capabilities like decapitation or heart-extraction. They can recover/heal/regenerate from any injury much quicker and more effectively than any non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves, and humans. They also seem to heal much more quickly when exposed to vervain, wolfsbane, or wood. Human blood has also known to make the healing process faster.
* **Immortality:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids stop aging the moment they transition. They become immune to all conventional diseases, toxins, poisons, viruses, illness, infections, and injuries.
* **Day Walking:** Due to their werewolf heritage, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids are immune to the lethal effects that u.v. rays and sunlight have on non-Original vampires and original vampires. Allowing them to walk in daylight without the use of a day ring.
* **Emotional Control:** Due to their vampire heritage, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids are able to exert certain control over their own emotions, e.g. They can turn off their humanity.
* **Enhanced Emotions:** Because of their vampiric and werewolf traits, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids experience emotions more powerfully than humans and non-Original vampires. Particularly emotions such as anger, rage, aggression, and violence due to their werewolf heritage. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids are more prone to violence and rage than non-Original vampires. However, emotions such as love, joy, and happiness are intensified for them as well, allowing them to live life more intensely. This ability allows them to feel emotions at their peak regardless of their age.

* **Lycanthrope Enhancement:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids are capable of using their werewolf features to further supplement their powers and abilities. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can grow claws from their nails and werewolf fangs from their teeth even when they are still in their human forms. When Klaus was in Tyler's body, it was shown that a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid's claws are sharp enough to penetrate a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid's very durable skin. Also, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can display both sets of vampire and werewolf fangs. Their eyes also change into those of their werewolf form, presumably granting them better eyesight. Due to their werewolf heritage, a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid's strength and speed are heightened further during a full moon and at its peak in their werewolf forms.
* **Mind Compulsion:** A non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid can compel the minds of Humans. They cannot, however, compel original vampires, non-Original vampires, Supernatural Hunters, Witches or Werewolves.

* **Shapeshifting**/**Transformation Control:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have the ability to transform into their werewolf forms at will. Most of them avoid transforming at all due to the pain it causes. They have complete awareness, but they still, however, have no control of their actions in werewolf form. They can also perform partial transformations, manifesting single features of their werewolf forms. Elijah informs Klaus that he remained a werewolf for two days, even when the sun was up. Showing that a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid can stay in werewolf form longer than a normal werewolf. As seen with Klaus when he bit Katherine, a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid can transform partially, displaying their werewolf eyes and teeth.
* **Sire Bond:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids seem to be sired to the source of their creation. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids turned by Klaus had a deep sense of gratitude and commitment to him causing them to obey his every command. When Vera Mikaelson's blood was used to turn a werewolf into a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid it obeyed Hayley's plea for help as she was still pregnant with Vera and in danger. It is later revealed that Vera's blood like Klaus' carries a powerful sire bond effect causing any non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid created from her blood to protect and obey her. A non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid is capable of breaking a sire bond if they transform into their werewolf forms an excess of 100 times in a row. Transforming so many times in a row causes them to no longer feel pain from transforming into a werewolf and they no longer feel a sense of gratitude, commitment or loyalty to their creator breaking the sire bond. Like non-Original vampires/original vampires, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can form a sire bond if the human they turn into a vampire has feelings for them before being turned. Although like non-Original vampires/original vampires, this is extremely rare.
* **Telepathy:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have the ability, albeit a weak variant, to enter the minds of others as long as theirs is stronger than them. Normally, this ability works in a tactile fashion and the non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid requires physical contact in order for it to work successfully. Hayley has also been shown sharing her memories with others. Like their physical attributes, their mental strength increases with age.
	+ **Dream Manipulation:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids can control dreams and subconscious like non-Original vampires/original vampires. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares, or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability are the distortion of reality and trapped in the dreams.
	+ **Illusions:** Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids have the power to trick the minds of others into seeing/feeling things that aren't actually happening.
* **Werewolf Bite:** Due to their werewolf heritage, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids and Klaus have venom which is fatal to non-Original vampires and they themselves are immune to werewolf venom. Non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid venom seems to take effect much faster than a normal werewolf venom.
* **Immunity to Silver:** Due to their werewolf heritage, magic bonded to silver doesn't affect non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids. Weapons made of silver might wound them, but the wound heals at super-normal rates than regular wounds.

* Witch-Vampire

The hybridization of a witch and a vampire has long been thought to be impossible. However, a subsection of mutated witches with the ability to siphon magic known as siphoners have shown to bypass this rule. A group known as the Heretics consists of these hybrids.

* **Siphoning:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids possess the rare ability to absorb magic, in all forms, from another source.
* **Spell Casting:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids after having absorbed magic, possess the ability to cast spells like any witch.

* **Telekinesis:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids after having absorbed magic, possess the ability to move objects and people with the mind like any witch.
* **Pain Infliction:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids after having absorbed magic, possess the ability to inflict excruciating migraines like any witch.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids after having absorbed magic, possess the ability to create and control fire like any witch.
* **Divination:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids after having absorbed magic, possess the ability to divine future, past, and present events based off extrasensory perception like any witch.
* **Super Strength:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids have the same strength as that of non-Original vampires and are noticeably much stronger than Supernatural Hunters, Immortals and Humans and slowly grow stronger with time. They always have the advantage of superior strength in direct combat with a human. Their other feats include single-handedly lifting grown men high off the ground by the throat and snapping their necks, cutting off a person's head with their bare hands, and ripping out internal organs such as hearts with little to no effort. Their strength is also more powerful than that of Werewolves and Evolved Werewolves in human form. Their strength allows them to jump higher and further than any natural creature.
* **Super Speed:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids possess the same speed as non-Original vampires; able to accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion. Their reflexes are similarly heightened. Like their strength, their speed increases with age.
* **Super Agility:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids possess superhuman agility. They have shown that they can move, jump very high, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. They can jump with their super speed too. These abilities increase with age.
* **Super Senses:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids possess extremely keen senses of hearing, sight and smell that far exceed those of humans and werewolves.
* **Super Durability:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids can take a great amount of physical damage without being slowed down. Even vampires who have been shot with wooden bullets have been seen to continue fighting, as long as they were not shot in the heart, or the head. As they get older they become more powerful.
* **Healing Factor:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids possess the ability to recover tissue from any form of physical damage to their bodies in seconds, but still feel the pain of a wound before it heals. Vampires can snap their bones back into place after being broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement.
* **Immortality:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids stop aging once turned. Upon their transformation, they become immune to all conventional illness, diseases, viruses and infections, though the exception is cancer, which can only be exacerbated by vampirism.

* **Day Walking:** Due to their Siphoner heritage, non-Original witch-vampire hybrids are be immune to the lethal effects that u.v. rays and sunlight have on non-Original vampires and original vampires. Allowing them to walk in daylight without the use of a daylight ring.
* **Enhanced Emotions:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids experience emotions more powerfully than humans. Emotions like love, joy, and happiness are magnified for vampires, allowing them to live life more intensely.
* **Emotional Control:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids have the supernatural ability to remove or dull their emotions by "turning off" or "switching off" their humanity which is directly connected to their emotions. Doing so allows them to block out their more negative emotions, such as fear and guilt, allowing them to feed and kill without remorse.

* **Mind Compulsion:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids have the ability to influence and control thoughts, emotions, and behavior and can alter or erase memories.
* **Sire Bond:** Although rare among them, sire bonds can be formed when a human is turned with the blood of the vampire whom they had strong human feelings for.
* **Telepathy:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids have the ability, albeit a weak variant, to enter the minds of others as long as theirs is stronger than them. Normally, this ability works in a tactile fashion and the vampire requires physical contact in order for it to work successfully. Like their physical attributes, their mental strength increases with age.
	+ **Dream Manipulation:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids can control dreams and subconscious. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and trapping people in their dream.
	+ **Illusions:** Non-Original witch-vampire hybrids have the power to trick the minds of others into seeing/feeling things that aren't actually happening.

* **True Face:** A non-Original witch-vampire hybrid's true face is the appearance they are hiding under their normal human face. When their true face is revealed, the sclera of their eyes turns blood-red, dark veins appear under their eyes as the blood pumps forcefully through them, and their canine teeth extend into razor-sharp fangs. Their true face can be revealed whenever they wish, but it will appear against their will whenever they are aroused by the scent of blood, or are feeling intense emotions such as anger, lust, sadness, etc. Their fangs are extremely sharp which gives them the ability to tear into almost any substance (including and especially flesh) and tear off limbs. Their true face will appear for the first time, either while they drink human blood for the first time or shortly afterward. With the fangs come the darkened veins under the eyes as well.

## Tribrid

Vera Mikaelson is the only known witch-werewolf-vampire tribrid known throughout the franchise, and the first hybrid of all three supernatural species, the full extent and limits of Vera's powers are currently unknown. According to Dahlia, Vera's werewolf temper and vampire blood would possibly taint her witch side. Also according to Dahlia, as a firstborn of her bloodline, Vera will inherit great, but unstable power.

* **Werewolf Gene:** Being part werewolf, Vera's body contains the werewolf gene that provides her with standard werewolf attributes provides her with enhanced senses, such as hearing, sight, and smell, as well as heightened aggression. In *The Tale of Two Wolves*, Klaus states, in response to Caroline's question, that Crescent wolves and by extension, Vera, cannot control their first transformation despite being able to control their shifts with Transformation Control as evolved werewolves. However in *This is the Part Where You Run*, Vera accounts 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, remains unknown.

* **Vampire Gene:** Being part vampire, Vera's body produces vampire blood which is constantly running through her system, tainted with dark magic.
	+ **Enhanced Healing Factor:** Vera can heal from injuries with a speed comparable to normal vampires. Her blood also retains the vampiric ability to heal others as Vera was able to heal her mother while in the womb.
	+ **Siring:** Vera's blood has the ability to turn werewolves into hybrids as long as they first drink her blood during the transition.
* **Witch Gene:** Being part witch, Vera can channel vast amounts of mystical energy. According to Dahlia, as a firstborn of her bloodline, Vera has the potential for great, but destructive magic.
	+ **Channeling:** Vera has the power to invoke extra forms of energy by focusing on external forces.
	+ **Potion Brewing:** Vera has the power to brew and concoct potions, remedies and elixirs that have supernatural properties.
	+ **Spell Casting:** Vera has the power to change and control events through the use of incantations and more.
	+ **Divination:** Vera has the power to divine future, past, and present events based off extrasensory perception.
* **Werewolf Bite Cure:** Vera's blood is the only cure for a normal werewolf or a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid venom; this ability was inherited from her father, the Original hybrid, Niklaus. Like Klaus' blood, Vera's blood cannot cure a bite from the Beast.
* **Malivore Mud Bullets Cure:** Unique to Vera, as her status of being one of Nature's loopholes, her blood is also a curative to Malivore mud bullets, weaponized by Triad scientists; this was proven when her blood healed Josie's wound.