Freya Mikaelson

## Freya Kaylee Mikaelson-Malraux

**Freya Mikaelson-Malraux** (***Elder Futhark:** ᚠᚱᛖᛃᚨ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ*) is a powerful witch. She was introduced as a recurring character in the third episode THREE she is the wife of Keelin she is born to Esther and Mikael she is the step daughter of Ansel the step-sister to his unknown child he is the mother of Mikael also she is the bereaved mother of her and Mathias' unborn son she is the aunt of Sheila and Henry she is the half-aunt of Aria, Ariana, and Ansel she is the older sister of Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik she is the half-older sister of Niklaus and Aryia she is the sister-in-law of Stefanie, Katherine, Bonnie,and Stefan she is the half-sister-in-law of Kiana and Barrett she is the mother of one child.

Freya was born in the late years of the 10th century to a Viking warrior named Mikael and his wife Esther. Her parents had met after her mother was captured during a Viking raid, and fell in love before marrying. Freya was their first born child. Her birth was a result of a deal her mother made with her aunt, Dahlia, who used magic to make the barren Esther able to have children of her own. She was, according to Esther, the apple of Mikael's eye. However, when she was five, Freya was taken by her aunt as part of Esther's deal when Esther was pregnant with Elijah and her life following that is a mystery. Esther claimed that she was the victim of a plague in order to cover up what she and Dahlia had done, which is what caused Mikael and Esther to move from Norway to a village in a "mystical land" far away in the New World, which was later called Mystic Falls. They moved there under the advisement of Esther's dear friend and mentor, a witch named Ayana, who told them that the inhabitants were extremely healthy and had increased strength and speed. These villagers were later revealed to be werewolves. In the modern day, Freya was mentioned by Elijah, when he explained to Elena that his mother and father had seven children, and again by Rebekah, when she told Elena the story about how her family ended up in Mystic Falls. Rebekah explained that their parents had lost a child in Europe to the plague, and that later, Esther, Mikael, and Ayana moved to Mystic Falls, where Mikael and Esther eventually had the rest of their children, excluding Finn and Elijah, who were born in the Old World. It was also said that Freya's death is what made Mikael become so cruel and abusive, as she was his favorite child.

In *Wheel Inside the Wheel*, it was revealed that Freya had not been killed by the plague, but was instead given to Dahlia as payment for reversing Esther's infertility and allowing her to have her children. The payment was stated that Esther was to give Dahlia Freya, the first born child of each of her children, and every subsequent first born child for as long as Esther's line will last. Dahlia used a spell to increase her power, while also binding Freya's power to Dahlia's. Freya lived under Dahlia for many years, ostensibly as a member of her coven, but in reality, Freya was more of a slave. Dahlia poisoned Freya's mind, telling her that her mother did not want her, and that Dahlia was all she had. When Dahlia learned that Esther had turned her children into the first vampires, and thus ended her bloodline, the weight of carrying on Dahlia's plans fell onto Freya, who swore that she would never fall in love, or have a child, in order to spare any child the fate of being Dahlia's. When Dahlia attempted to cast her pseudo-immortality spell on both of them, Freya at first resisted, only to have Dahlia force it on them. For centuries they existed, slumbering for a century while their aging arrested and their power magnified, to then live for a single year.

Esther told Mikael that Freya had died of the plague while he was off hunting, when in fact her aunt Dahlia took her as payment for performing a fertility spell using Dark Magic that would allow Esther to have children. Dahlia allowed Freya to live planning to use her to brand a new form of power which she would absorb from the powerful Freya, casting a spell on her that causes her to hibernate for a hundred years to preserve her youth and to only age for a year upon awakening which is also presumably what Dahlia has done to preserve herself as well. Freya escaped from under Dahlia's wing and fled from her powerful aunt. Centuries later, desperate to find out more about her family, she traveled to New Orleans in 1914 where she attended a Christmas party thrown by her siblings. Attending as her brother, Kol's date, she was witness to Klaus' cruelty when he staked Kol in front of the entire party. Freya then puts herself in a glass coffin in the Dowager Fauline Cottage where she then repeated her hibernation cycle until awaking December 31, 2012. she woke up and found her family months before her mother was brung back to life when Esther with Ansel came to her and her younger siblings including half-siblings asking forgiveness she yelled how she sold her to her aunt who used her power and manipulated her

she is seen in episode 3 of TMD THREE she is seen talking to Klaus to about Kiana liking him more than he knew

she is seen in the eleventh episode ELEVEN she and Kiana told everyone their pregnant

she is seen in the thirteen episode THIRTEEN she finds out Rebekah is 4 weeks pregnant

she is seen in the twenty episode TWENTY she gives birth with her mother in the room after she brings everyone in and shares her son's name

she isn't seen but there for Kiana, Rebekah, Bonnie, and Aryia's birth