Emilia and Freddie

## General Information

### Intimacy Levels

Boyfriend and Girlfriend; Close Friends,Fates Mates, Strong Bond; They are in love with each other, Freddie originally forgot about Emilia but still fell for her again after his memories returned, They view each other as their epic love. Freddie is Emilia's Anchor.They have a future together, Passionate feelings; Best Friends, Allies;

### Started Dating

**First relationship:*** March 10, 2040 (Started dating)
* April 19, 2040 (Broken up)

**Second relationship:**

* October 25, 2029
* January 30th, 2030

### Status

Friends; in love; former-exes

Freddie: I promise you, that I will never break your heart again, I didn’t mean it to break
It was the first time.

**This is the complex, romantic relationship between the Tribrid, Emilia Mikaelson and the Nephilim, Freddie Hale.**

The two were originally friends when Emilia lived in Arcadia Oaks with her adoptive family, and the two interacted only briefly when Freddie served her at the Arcadia Grill.

The relationship developed further when Freddie began attending the Alfea. The two grew closer and eventually fell in love with one another, much to the dismay of Alec, Freddie's best friend and his adoptive brother who also had feelings for Emilia.

The two enjoyed a steady relationship and were willing to do anything for one another. Emilia eventually sacrificed herself for Freddie and her friends by jumping into Malivore, essentially erasing her from the world; including the feelings Freddie had for her.

Upon her return from Malivore, she was upset to see that Freddie had began a relationship with Kayleigh, however he still seems to have flashbacks of her whenever he comes back from the dead — something he mentioned to Emilia, however she deflects the question not wanting to reveal herself to Freddie.

## Early History

### Meeting Freddie

Emilia and Freddie initially did not have much interaction as they barely knew each other. Emilia visits the Mystic Grill with her uncle Lucas and Freddie serves the two milkshakes. The meeting is brief, but Freddie asks if Emilia would like to go to the Town Square with him that night, however she declines, citing that she has something to do that night. Lucas asks why she declined his offer, and Emilia tells him that she doesn't want to get too attached considering she will die soon. Shortly after, Emilia watches as some Timberwolf jocks give Freddie grief when paying their bill — Lucas picks up the shortfall in their bill to ensure Freddie isn't out of pocket.
Leaving the Grill, Lucas takes Emilia to the high school where the two watch Connor — the one giving Freddie grief — and the rest of the jocks washing their car. Emilia doesn't see the point, but after Lucas explains, Emilia suggests that he compel them to forget what she is about to do. She uses her magic to freeze the windows on Connor's car and then shatters it, shocking and upsetting him.

Later that night, Lucas takes Emilia to the Town Square and tells her to forget about everything plaguing her mind. Emilia sits with Lucas on the bench when he notices Freddie approach and jokes that Freddie didn't need to take an extra shift at all. Emilia approaches him, and Freddie asks again if she wants to dance, and she agrees. The two seem to be having fun as Lucas and Caroline watch from afar. Caroline suggests they head back to school when the bell rings, however Lucas tells her that she should have the next five minutes dancing while he watches her dance with a "townie".

### Reuniting with Freddie

Emilia and Freddie do not see each other for at least two years after they dance together in the Town Square. The two meet again, when Emilia and Faith rescue Alec Blackthorn from his current family during his first transition into a werewolf. The reunion is sweet between the two, but short as Faith has MG compel Freddie to forget about Emilia and the school.
UnfortuFreddiely, Freddie is able to resist the compulsion, leading to Freddie’s imprisonment in the “werewolf transition space” beneath the school. The two do not interact much, but do end up kissing under the illusion of a starry night when Freddie becomes claustrophobic. Freddie leaves the school the following morning, with everyone under the guise that he has in fact, forgotten the past couple of days events.

### Betrayal and hunt for Freddie

Unbeknownst to the rest of the school, Freddie has in fact stolen the supernatural knife from the Stefan Salvatore Memorial Library before leaving. This angers Emilia, as she feels partially betrayed by Freddie, who she trusted. She, along with Alec and Faith, hunt down Freddie, eventually finding him running from a dragon. She is angry and upset with him at first, believing him to be responsible for killing a bus full of people, however she eventually realizes that Freddie is not at fault and it was in fact, the dragon.
This does not, however, fix the relationship and trust issues between the two. Freddie and Alec take off shortly after the dragon is killed, with not so much as an apology letter left for Emilia.

"*Dear Emilia, You strike me as the kind of person who's not so big on second chances, much less third, but I'm gonna give it a shot. I can't explain why I took that knife. Believe me, I wish I could, but maybe I can explain why I ran. I have never been welcomed anywhere in my life, I'm always the extra. The mouth they didn't want to feed. If I caused trouble, I was out. When you grow up like that, you learn to protect yourself. You do what you have to do to survive. I never had a real family and that's not meant to make you feel sorry for me. I'm trying to make you understand, I lied to protect myself, but in doing so, I hurt you and for that I will be forever sorry. The time I spent with you the other night was one of the happiest moments of my life, I hate that I ruined it. Your school's secret is safe with me.
With regret,
Freddie*"
— Freddie letter to Emilia

The two would not see each other for a short while, but eventually reunite, however the reunion is short, and when the two see one another, Emilia walks away, ignoring him much to his dismay.

The two are forced to be together when Faith assigns Emilia to determine whether Freddie has supernatural lineage. The day spent together is awkward, as Emilia puts Freddie through various tests of speed, strength and agility. All of the tests — including on his blood — come back negative. She uses a truth-orb to determine whether he is lying about stealing the knife, but is shocked to find out he is in fact, telling the truth. Freddie takes this time to properly apologize to Emilia for everything that he did, including breaking her trust.

After Freddie is attacked by Jed, Emilia believes that Freddie is no longer safe at the school, despite initially wanting him to stay. During the Honor Council meeting, she votes Freddie out on the terms that the school is no safe place for a human. Freddie is sad when he has to leave the school, but perhaps knows it is for the best. Emilia walks him to the bus stop and tells him to find her aunt in New Orleans, and she will help him find his mother. This time, she is the one apologizing to Freddie for voting him out of the school, but gives him a bracelet as a parting gift. She explains that if he presses the bracelet, she will be alerted that he is in danger and needs her help. With this, he presses the bracelet and the two kiss before he boards the bus.

When Freddie finds his mother, Amara Morningstar, and is held hostage by her, he sends Emilia a distress signal through the bracelet she had given him. This worries Emilia, who teams up with Faith to find Freddie. While Emilia and Faith try and locate Freddie, he talks with Amara about Emilia, and this is the first time that he refers to Emilia as his girlfriend; he tells Amara that Emilia would kill him, however, if she knew he had called her that. Later, Faith and Emilia manage to track Freddie down, and the two reunite. Freddie explains everything about Amara to Emilia, including that Triad is after the magical urn. Amara believes that Freddie is safer without her, however, and when she tries to leave without him, Emilia confronts her. Amara leaves anyway, and Emilia breaks the news to Freddie. Freddie returns to the school the following day with no recollection of his mother or the previous day's events, given Amara had been consumed by Malivore. Emilia struggles with the decision of telling Freddie, but ultimately decides that it is better if he doesn't know.

Freddie eventually goes with Kaleb and MG to find and talk with MG's mother, however is accidentally killed by MG in a fit of rage.. Emilia is bereft and upset as she stares at his dead body, but is surprised when he returns from the dead moments later; she is further surprised when Faith reveals that Freddie is a Nephilim.

### Emilia's sacrifice

Freddie eventually finds out that Emilia had lied to him about finding his mother, and their memories being erased. He is furious at Emilia and drives a wedge between them despite Emilia's continued apologies. With preparations for Miss Arcadia Oaks coming up at the Alfea School, Emilia is keen to solve the differences between the two but is ultimately unable to and Freddie leaves her alone at the dance. He goes on a walk, but is kidnapped by Veronica Greasley who believes he can help Triad Industries find the third and final Malivore artifact.

Emilia eventually goes in search of Freddie despite Triad having taken over the Alfea School. She finds him and is able to rescue him but not before Ryan Clarke throws the final artifact into Malivore, releasing him. Realizing that her entire life has led up to this moment — and that she wasn't a mistake, but Malivore's loophole — she confesses her love for Freddie and breaks his neck, jumping into Malivore shortly after. Freddie awakens and is unaware of what he is doing at Triad, having forgotten Emilia due to her sacrifice.

### Relationship with Kayleigh

With the Salvatore School on summer break, Freddie remains at the school with Kayleigh and Grace, given he has no home to return to over the summer. He begins having visions of a girl but does not remember that the girl is Emilia, or that he knows her in any way. In order to harness these visions, he repeatedly drowns himself in the lake behind the Alfea School; Kayleigh eventually confronts him believing him to be suicidal, however, he explains the visions.

Over the rest of the summer, Freddie and Kayleigh grow closer and begin spending more time together. This becomes more important when she helps him with a locator spell to track down Alec, who is stuck in wolf-form as a result of the ring Emilia had given him previously.

Emilia returns the same night that Freddie realizes Alec left him, and approaching the gate, she is stopped by Dorian who reveals all of the school are out for summer break. Nevertheless, she sneaks into the school when he is gone, only to witness Kayleigh and Freddie kissing in a moment of sadness. Emilia is distraught by the sight and leaves the school, enrolling in Arcadia Oaks High School shortly after, believing the best option is to keep her identity a secret.

Keeping her identity a secret is hard for Emilia and she protects Freddie from a cyclops. He is unaware that she has just saved his life, however, and approaches her shortly after in the Town Square. The two talk and she tells him that she is in love with someone who doesn't even know she exists. With this, he wishes her well and hands her his smoothie — which he does not know is her favorite flavor — and leaves her in the town square to rectify things with Kayleigh.

"*Uh, old story, I guess, uh fell for a guy who doesn't even know that I exist.*"
—Emilia tells Freddie why she is sad

The 'milkshake moment' becomes an eventual wedge in the relationship between Kayleigh and Freddie, and a symbol of the love between Freddie and Emilia. Whilst at the annual charity football game, the two meet again and begin talking. Kayleigh asks Freddie if he knows Emilia, but he remarks that they simply shared a milkshake one time. When Freddie leaves to play football, Kayleigh asks if they were just sharing another milkshake moment, but Emilia shrugs off the comment.

### Eventual reunion

The football game marks the first moment in which Emilia becomes an obstacle in the relationship between Kayleigh and Freddie. She becomes a bigger obstacle when she reveals to Freddie who she is, and that the two were once in love. Freddie doesn't know how to take the situation but has no choice but to believe Emilia. He does not break off the relationship with Kayleigh, however despite the problems and his newfound knowledge. Emilia eventually decides not to pursue Freddie any more, allowing him to be happy in his relationship with Kayleigh.

The problems between Freddie and Kayleigh eventually topple their relationship, and when Kayleigh finds the song written by Freddie for Emilia, she calls off the two having sex and begins having reserved thoughts about their relationship. Eventually, Kayleigh is left with no choice but to return everyone's memories of Emilia. This puts Freddie in a difficult position and he is constantly questioned by both Kayleigh and Emilia over who he will choose.

When another monster comes for Freddie, the Alfea School Group have no choice but to duplicate Freddie's subconsciousness using Emilia Tig's prism; they dub the duplicate "SimuFreddie". SimuFreddie causes problems for Freddie, as he confesses his love for Emilia, revealing that whilst the real Freddie is afraid to admit how he feels, he is not. Freddie eventually realizes that he was wrong to assume he was in love with Kayleigh, but has actually been in love with Emilia all along, even when he could not remember it. He calls off the relationship with Kayleigh and confesses his love for Emilia; the two kiss under the mistletoe.

"*Hey, Kayleigh. Merry Christmas, I guess? [...] Can we start with the happy? A person could not ask for a better partner, a better conscience. You are literally the best person who has ever had the poor judgment to hang out with me. I love the way you laugh, and your upside-down mouth. The way your face looks when you watch movies. [..] But that doesn't mean I regret a single second, because you are beautiful, and special, and perfect. And doing the right thing should never be this hard.*"
—Freddie breaks things off with Kayleigh

As Emilia struggles with being back at the Alfea, Freddie is tasked with looking after a 500-year-old vampire named Freddie, who wishes to remain at the Alfea. When they hang out with the witches, Alyssa Chang reads and openly announces his personal fears of the modern world, causing him to attack the witches. Freddie tried to stop him, but he easily flung him aside.

Thankfully, the witches were able to defend themselves. Freddie later told Emilia how useless he felt and didn't want to be useless anymore, and asked Emilia to train him in combat. Freddie and Kayleigh learn to overcome their history and become friends again as they decorate Emilia's room with pictures, art supplies, amongst other decorations in Emilias of easing her coping.

### Relationship problems

Newfound problems appear when Freddie asks Emilia to teach him how to fight as he has grown tired of being helpless. Though she agrees, Emilia comes to realize that she wanted him to work as a sidekick in order to keep him out of danger, especially when he got killed by a qareen in hand-to-hand combat, though the monster was killed by Wade Rivers' newfound fairy abilities. That night, she finally confessed her feelings to Freddie about his epiphany, but he insists on continuing his training.

Freddie continues his training, hoping to learn to harness his other phoenix powers other than self-resurrection. During one of his training sessions, he comes across an erote. He tries to capture the creature, only to be easily beaten. Emilia arrives in the nick of time to save him and trap "Cupid". Freddie confides his relationship problems in Cupid until he escapes and kills a bartender in town. While the impromptu Super Squad track him down without alerting Emilia, their attempt to capture Cupid fails until Emilia arrives to save the day. However, they later realize it wasn't Cupid, but one of his brothers, Pothos. The monster immobilizes Emilia and prepares to devour her heart until Freddie arrives and baits Pothos into eating his heart, tricking him to ingest a poisonous plant called Devil's Ivy. Freddie revives hours later and their relationship becomes stronger than ever, culminating in a new ability to levitate.

Emilia is forced to make a choice between saving Freddie and the Blackwells. Having more to lose than her love, she chooses the Blackwells. Meanwhile, Freddie is lured out to the woods by a compelled Dorian WilFreddies, where he is nearly killed by the Golden Arrow: the only weapon that could permanently kill a phoenix. Dorian complies with the compulsion, but turns around at the last second, a loophole, to save Freddie. This upsets Freddie enough to awaken new abilities and fly Dorian back to the Salvatore School in time to send him to a hospital.

While going through the Chambre de Chasse to process her trauma and emotional troubles, Emilia realizes that she worries her duty as a protector would triumph over her relationship with Freddie.

### Malivore takes Freddie

They try to reconnect, but throughout the day, Freddie finds himself unable to be around Emilia and eventually breaks up with her. He is Malivore's son and she is the loophole who defeats him. He believes they exist to destroy each other. Emilia is left heartbroken and Freddie leaves with Cleo to find ways to stop Malivore without forcing Emilia to activate her vampire side. Emilia eventually learns the truth that Freddie has become Malivore's vessel after he consumes Cleo in his darkness. Alaric subdues him in Freddie's body and they trap him in a cage with chains in the Salvatore School gymnasium. MG comes up with a plan to find Cleo, hoping she can inspire them a way to free her, and Freddie from Malivore. While within his subconsciousness, Kaleb and Alaric find Freddie but don't tell Emilia. Cleo shares a memory with Emilia and they enact a plan to try and remove Malivore from Freddie and into Ryan, hoping that Freddie would know Malivore's weakness and how to defeat him. The plan fails and Malivore takes Ethan hostage.

### Seperation

After finding out that Freddie is actually a Prince of Eraklyon, Emilia went to her Aunt Emma for two weeks.

## Dating Timeline

**First relationship:**

* Start up: March 10, 2040
* Break Up: April 19, 2040
* Reason: Emilia is absorbed by Malivore erasing her from the world and Freddie's memory.

**Second relationship:**

* Start up: October, 2040
* Break up: March 15, 2041
* Reason: Emilia wanted space when she found out that Freddie is engaged to someone other than Emilia.

## Significant Moments and Symbolism

* **The** **Epic Love**
	+ Emilia temporarily dies and finds Peace. At Peace, she sees her mother and Freddie in the Bayou. The two talk, and Ariana asks that Emilia promise her one thing: that she have at least "one totally epic love" in her life before she sees her again in the afterlife. Emilia laughs, but takes this as a sign to accept love into her life. Later that night, she takes up Freddie's offer to dance — this symbolises the epic love between them and the moment Emilia allows herself to feel.
* **The Freddie Scene**
	+ Emilia and Freddie meet again for the first time since their dance. Freddie is brought back to the Alfea School and, after resisting compulsion, is locked in the werewolf transition space. He tells Emilia that he is claustrophobic and therefore is having difficulty being in such a confined space. She uses her magic to project the illusion of an open-starry night onto the ceiling of the space. Freddie appreciates this and the two kiss under the stars.
* **The Bracelet**
	+ Emilia tests Freddie to see if he is supernatural, however the test comes back inconclusive and Freddie is told that his future at the school may not be certain. James decides that the Honor Council should be the one to decide if Freddie is able to stay at the school. UnfortuFreddiely, the council votes that Freddie should not remain at the school as it is too dangerous. Emilia reveals this information to Freddie, including the fact that she voted against him staying at the school, but she feels as though the school is too dangerous for him. She does, however, wish him goodbye and gives him a bracelet identical to the one she is wearing. She tells him to press the bracelet if he is ever in dangerous and with this, the two begin kissing before Freddie leaves for New Orleans.
* **The "whole thing" speech**
	+ Both of the two have had long speeches planned speeches to say to each other when the relationship got tough. Emilia had practiced her speech with Freddie's hologram, and eventually brings herself to reveal this to him. She doesn't tell him the speech, but cuts to the chase and tells him that she loves him, Freddie sits with Emilia in front of the fire and tells her that he had a whole speech planned and tells her that he wants to be the man she needs him to be.
* **The Prismatic Hologram**
	+ Fearing that she couldn't bring herself to tell Freddie in person how she actually felt, Emilia borrows a prism from Emilia Tig that allows the user to speak to their subconscious. She uses the prism to talk with Freddie's hologram, attempting to build the courage to tell Freddie she wants him to stay at the school. She eventually practices telling Freddie she loves him, and is able to tell the hologram, but still finds it difficult to tell him in person. She reveals the speech she was practicing with the prism and finally tells him she loves him. She uses the prism again when she finds out that Freddie and Emilia are romantically involved. The hologram tells her that Freddie would not want her to leave him, but she should return to him in Emilia’s that he will remember someday.
* **The Milkshake**
	+ The milkshake has always been a symbol of Freddie and Emilia since their initial meeting when Freddie worked as a busboy at the Mystic Grill. He brings Emilia a "Peanut Butter Blast" with whip-cream on the bottom and remarks that it's how she likes it. Freddie notices Emilia upset on a bench and approaches her. The two talk about their relationship status even though Freddie is unaware that Emilia's story is about him. At the end when Freddie is leaving, he offers Emilia his milkshake, which is her favourite, Peanut Butter Blast with whip-cream on the bottom. He tells her that he doesn't know why he ordered it, but the audience is aware through dramatic irony that the milkshake is Emilia's favourite. Later on at the Annual Charity Football Game, Kayleigh sees the two talking and asks if they know each other, however Freddie remarks that they shared a milkshake once and it's no big deal. Clearly jealous, Kayleigh asks Emilia if it's just another milkshake moment, however she shrugs the comment off.

## Quotes

**Freddie**: *"I love you, Emilia Mikaelson. I-I loved you when I couldn't remember you. I love you as I'm standing here right now. Emilia, I loved you when I was dead. The tiniest thing I think I always will."*

## Trivia

* Emilia votes against Freddie remaining at the Alfea as she fears for his safety.
* It was Revealed that God created the Mate Bond between Freddie and Emilia.