Ansel and Niklaus Mikaelson's Family Bloodline

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## Family Heritage

### Species

* Witch
* Vampire
* Hybrid
* Tribrid
* Werewolf
* Werewolf  (TWU)
* Werejaguar
* Original Hybrid
* Original Vampire

### Notable Family Members

* Ansel's Unnamed Parents †
* Ansel †
* Ansel's Unknown Children †
* Niklaus Mikaelson †
* Cary
* Hope Mikaelson
* EJ Mikaelson
* Andrea Mikaelson
* Blade Mikaelson
* Artemis Mikaelson

## Relationships

### Related Families

* Dahlia and Esther's Family Bloodline
* Mikaelson Family
* Labonair Family
* Talbot Family
* Raeken Family

## Affiliation

### Property

* The Abattoir
* St. Louis Cathedral
* Mikaelson Mansion

### Loyalty

* North East Atlantic Pack
* Crescent Wolf Pack
* McCall Pack

**Ansel and Niklaus Mikaelson's Family** is an unknown ancient bloodline of very powerful werewolves that goes back at least a thousand years. They are all members of the North East Atlantic Pack, that is native to America and is said to have existed since the genesis of the werewolf species.

This bloodline's known werewolves have all been powerful and noteworthy. The family's known oldest ancestor is Ansel, and known most powerful ancestor is Niklaus Mikaelson. This family has had a bad relationship/rivalry with the Crescent Wolf Pack, a pack in the Southeastern United States, since the beginning of their existence.

## History

The full history of their bloodline remains a mystery. However, at some point, a werewolf named Ansel ascended to the role of Alpha of the North East Atlantic Pack, where he became beloved by his people and feared by other werewolf packs. It was around this time that Ansel caught the eye of the powerful witch Esther, who had moved to the neighboring village years with her husband Mikael and their two sons Finn and Elijah after the "death" of their eldest daughter Freya Mikaelson. Mikael had become distant from Esther after the loss of Freya, which eventually led to Esther beginning an affair with Ansel, who she grew to love deeply, especially after Mikael quickly became violent and abusive to both her and her children. During this time, Esther and Ansel conceived a child together, Klaus, and though Ansel knew it was his son, Esther forbade him from admitting the truth or having a relationship with his young son Klaus, instead passing him off as Mikael's own child.

Knowing Klaus was born with the werewolf gene - which, if triggered, would reveal her infidelity - Esther made a magical amulet for Klaus to wear in order to secretly make him physically weaker, ensuring that he wouldn't be strong enough to take a human life and activate his lycanthropy. Unfortunately, Esther and Mikael's youngest son, Henrik, was killed near the turn of the 11th century on a Full Moon after he and Klaus sneaked out to watch the men in Ansel's pack turn into wolves. Unable to bear the thought of losing another child, Mikael and Esther made the decision to turn Mikael and the rest of the Mikaelson children into what became known as the Original Vampires as a form of protection, as their new supernatural abilities were superior to that of the werewolves.

However, this transformation also came with an unintended consequence - an insatiable hunger for human blood. After Klaus accidentally made his first human kill while feeding shortly after he was turned into a vampire, he triggered his werewolf curse, revealing his true nature to his family and becoming the world's first werewolf-vampire hybrid. The revelation of Esther's infidelity coupled with the realization that Ansel's pack had also been responsible for Henrik's death, Mikael went into an unstoppable rage due to the heightened emotions that came with being a vampire. He went on a rampage and slaughtered over half of the werewolves in the village, including Ansel himself. However, it has been insinuated that at least one of Klaus' paternal half-siblings survived Mikael's massacre and continued Ansel and Klaus' bloodline, as Klaus continues to have distant werewolf relatives living in the present day.

## Family Members

* **Ansel:** Ansel was the Alpha of the North East Atlantic Pack in the late 10th/early 11th century.
* **Ansel's child/children:** Ansel presumably had at least one more child, and possibly multiple, who survived Mikael's rampage and carried on their father's werewolf bloodline.
* **Niklaus Mikaelson:** Ansel's son with Esther, he is the Original Hybrid and the most powerful immortal/supernatural being on earth, which also makes him the most powerful member of this family.
* **Cary:** A direct descendant of Ansel, and a distant relative of Klaus and Hope.
* **Hope Mikaelson:** Ansel's granddaughter and Klaus' daughter, she is the world's first hybrid of three supernatural species (werewolf, witch, and vampire) and got the werewolf/werejaguar gene from Alpha, Derek Hale.

## Relatives

* **Mikael:** Klaus' step-father, he was one of the Original vampires and one of the most powerful Vampire Hunters of all time. He was also known as Mikael the Destroyer.
* **Dahlia:** Klaus' maternal aunt, she was one of the world's most powerful witches.
* **Esther Mikaelson:** Ansel's lover, who was the mother of Klaus. She was a Witch with whom Ansel had an affair, and Klaus was the product of their love together.
* **Hayley Marshall-Kenner:** Hayley (born Andréa Labonair) is a werewolf who had a one-night stand with Klaus ("Bring It On"). It was revealed in *The Originals*, that Hayley had become pregnant with their daughter Hope Mikaelson after their tryst. It was Hope's hybrid blood (which she inherited from her father Klaus) that ultimately turned Hayley into a hybrid after Hope's birth and Hayley's subsequent murder. Because of this and her status as the mother of Klaus' child, she became an honorary member of this family. She is currently the Alpha of the Crescent Wolf Pack.