Elijah Mikaelson

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## Biographical Information:

### Other Names

Elijah Pierce (To Protect Him, and Katherine Pierce)

### Born

* April 1st, 976 A.D. (Mystic Falls, Age 24/1,051+)

### Turned

* By Esther Einar in  September 30th, 1001 (Through The Immortality Spell)

### Occupation

* Nobleman (1002-1700s) (Formerly)
* Historian (2010) (Formerly)
* Founder of The Strix
* Leader of The Faction (Currently)
* Co-Leader of Marcel's Army (Formerly)

### Title(s)

* The Noble Brother
* The Honorable One
* Dad (By Emersyn)
* Uncle Elijah, Uncle Lijiah (By Sophia, Jenna, Håkon,  Alexandria, Miranda, Henrik, Qetsiyah, Mathias, Lillian Salvatore, and Eden Salvatore)

### Species

* Witch (Untapped/Originally)
* Original Vampire

### House

* New Orleans, French Quarter, The Mikaelson Compound (Formerly)
* Italy, Rome, Europe, Elijah and Katherine's Penthouse (Currently)

## Romantic Infomation

### Significant Others

* Aya Al-Rashid (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Hayley Marshall (Ex-Girlfriend)
* Katerina Petrova (Wife)

## Family Information:

### Parents

* Mikael Mikaelson (Biological Father; Deceased)
* Esther Einar (Biological Mother)
* Ansel Olsen (Step-Father)
* Mrs. Petrova (Mother-in-law; Deceased)
* Mr. Petrova (Father-in-law; Deceased)

### Siblings

* Freya Mikaeldotter (Older-Sister)
* Mathias Griffith-Malraux (Nephew, Via Freya, Vincent, and Keelin)
* Finn Mikaelson (Older-Brother)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Maternal-Younger-Half-Brother)
* Jenna Mikaelson (Half-Niece, Via Niklaus and Lorelei)
* Miranda Kenner (Step-Half-Niece, Via Niklaus and Lorelei)
* Alexandria Mikaelson (Half-Niece, Via Niklaus and Lorelei)
* Håkon Mikaelson (Half-Nephew, Via Niklaus and Lorelei)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Half-Nephew, Via Niklaus and Lorelei)
* Neveah Mikaeldotter (Maternal-Half- Younger-Sister)
* Sophia Mikaelson-Salvatore (Half-Niece, Via Neveah and Damon)
* Kol Mikaelson (Younger-Brother)
* Qetsiyah Mikaelson (Niece, Via Kol and Bonnie)
* Rebekah Mikaeldotter (Younger-Sister)
* Lillian Salvatore (Niece, Via Rebekah and Stefan)
* Eden Salvatore (Niece, Via Rebekah and Stefan)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Younger-Brother; Deceased)
* Emersyn Petrova (Sister-in-law; Deceased)

### Children

* Emersyn Mikaelson (First Born, First/Only Daughter)
* Nadia Petrova (Step-Daughter)

### Other Relatives

* Dahlia Einar  (Maternal Aunt; Deceased)

## Loyalty Information:

### Bestfriends

* Niklaus Mikaelson (Close, Live Together)
* Lorelei Gilbert (Close, Live Together)
* Stefan Salvatore (Close, Live Together)
* Freya Mikaeldotter (Close, Live Together)

### Enemies

* Tristan De Martel (Formerly; Deceased)
* The Hollow (Formerly; Deceased)
* Many People (Formerly; Deceased)

### Affiliation

* The Einar Family (By Birth)
* The Mikaelson Family (By Birth)
* The Olsen Family (By Mother's Marriage)
* The Petrova Family (By Marriage/Daughter)

## Supernatural Information:

### Significant Sires

* Tristan De Martel (1002, Deceased)
* Aya Al-Rashid (Deceased)
* Many Members of The Strix (Deceased)

### Significant Kills

* Tatia (First Kill)
* Trevor (As A Vampire)
* Slater (As A Vampire/Compelled)
* Cody Webber (As A Vampire)
* Stevie
* Daniel Warren (As A Hybrid)
* Agnes
* Céleste Dubois (Second Time)
* Thierry Vanchure (As A Vampire)
* Many Vampires of Marcel's Army
* Francesca's guards (Werewolves)
* Antonio Correa
* Benito Correa II
* Carlos Correa
* Domonique Correa
* Many Unnamed Members of The Strix
* Ariane
* Cynthia
* Two of Alistair's Followers
* Dominic (First Time)

## Appearance Information:

### Played by

* Daniel Gillies
* Perry Cox (Young/Preteen)

### First Seen

* *Rose* *(TVD)*
* *Always and Forever* *(TO)*
* *See You On the Other Side* *(Legacies)*

### Last Seen

* *The Devil Inside* *(TVD) (Archive Footage)*
* *When The Saints Go Marching In* *(TO)*
* *Someplace Far Away From All This Violence* *(Legacies)*

**Elijah Logan Mikaelson** (***Elder Futhark:*** *ᛖᛚᛇᚨᚺ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ*) was the deuteragonist of *The Originals*. He was formerly a major recurring character in *The Vampire Diaries*, serving initially as an antagonist in the second season and eventually becoming a supporting character and protagonist in the third season and fourth seasons he is a guest star in Legacies he is an Original Vampire.

Elijah is the husband of Katerina Petrova, who is more commonly known as Katherine Pierce. He is the third born and second eldest son of Esther Einar and Mikael Mikaelson he is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Petrova he is the third eldest step-son of Ansel Olsen his half brother and sister's Niklaus and Neveah biological father. He is the younger-brother of Freya Mikaeldotter, and Finn Mikaelson he is the older-brother of Kol Mikaelson, Rebekah Mikaeldotter, and the late Henrik Mikaelson. The half-maternal-older-brother of Niklaus Mikaelson and Neveah Mikaeldotter the brother-in-law of Keelin Malraux, Sage Benedici, Bonnie Bennett, and Stefan Salvatore.

The half-maternal-brother-in-law of through his half-siblings, Neveah and Niklaus marriages Lorelei Gilbert and Damon Salvatore. The father of Emersyn Mikaelson due to his marriage to Katherine, Nadia Petrova is his step-daughter. The maternal-nephew of Dahlia Einar the uncle of Mathias Griffith-Malraux, Lillian Salvatore, Eden Salvatore the half-uncle of Klaus and Lorelei's children; Jenna Mikaelson, Håkon Mikaelson, Alexandria Mikaelson, and Henrik Mikaelson the step-uncle of Jackson Kenner and Lorelei's daughter, Miranda Kenner.

Throughout his long life, Elijah had several romantic relationships. In the early 11th century, Elijah and Klaus were both in love with a Petrova Doppelgänger named Tatia. Elijah accidentally killed Tatia after he became a vampire and was traumatized and horrified by the violence of his actions towards her. Elijah's mother, told him to seal the event behind a "red door" and to clean himself up. As long as he was clean, nothing of what happened behind the red door could hurt him. As such, this became Elijah's defense mechanism to cope with the horrors of his vampirism for the next thousand years.

In the 15th century, Elijah was romantically involved with another Petrova Doppelgänger, a young girl from Bulgaria, named Katerina Petrova. In the 19th century, Elijah was romantically involved with a witch named Céleste Dubois, whose death was later caused by his half-brother Klaus. In the 21st century, Elijah rekindled his relationship with Katerina Petrova aka Katherine Pierce, before ending it to go to New Orleans to help Klaus. In New Orleans, Elijah took down enemies side by side with his family for 2 months before he and Katherine secretly dated Klaus eventually let go of Katherine to make Elijah happy Klaus said "*Elijah, you've been by my side for a thousand years. Be happy brother this time I won't stop you. But come home*." and Elijah did.

In the second season of *The Originals*, he and Klaus continued to work in a combined effort to stop a ressurted Mikael , while struggling with reawakened sins from his past. He also took Gia, one of Marcel's vampires as his protégé, and eventually began a friendship with her until Klaus killed her with their mother and sibling's help they took down Dahlia but Esther had told them Klaus needed to side against them to stop her.

**Elijah** is a member of The Mikaelson Family, The Einar Family by birth, he is part of by his mother's marriage to Ansel Olsen The Olsen Family, and Petrova Family by his daughter and marriage to his wife, Katherine.

* Name
* **Elijah, (/ɪˈlaɪdʒə/ il-EYE-jə; Hebrew: אֵלִיָּהוּ‎, Eliyahu, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH") is a masculine given name after the prophet Elijah in the Hebrew Bible.**
* **Logan, The given name Logan is derived from the Scottish surname *Logan*, which is in turn derived from a place name. The likely origin of this surname is a place located near Auchinleck, in Ayrshire. The place name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic *lagan*, which is a diminutive of *lag*, which in turn means "hollow". The given name is borne by males and females.** **The given name was the 17th most popular name for baby boys born in the United States in 2007 and was the 455th most popular name for baby girls born there in 2007. It was the 54th most popular name for baby boys born in England and Wales in 2007 and was the 12th most popular name for boys born in Scotland in 2007 and the fourth most popular in 2009. It was also among the top 100 most popular names for boys in Canada, Australia, France and Belgium in the last five years. In 2017 it was the 5th most popular in the U.S., 3rd in Canada, 10th in Northern Ireland, and 6th in Scotland.**
* **The name Mikaelson is a patronymic surname, or a name constructed using the father's given name and a suffix indicating either "son" or "daughter". Strictly speaking, Rebekah would have taken the patronym Mikaelsdotter, or "Daughter of Mikael", in earlier times, but during the 19th century, Scandinavian naming conventions began to evolve, such that families preferred to take a family name rather than a patronymic surname. Mikaelson is an example of a patronymic surname that was "frozen" to become an inherited family name. Iceland is one country where the practice of using patronymic surnames still exists, whereas inherited family names are now mandatory in other Scandinavian countries**

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah\_(given\_name)#:~:text=Elijah%20(%2F%C9%AA%CB%88la%C9%AA,Elijah%20in%20the%20Hebrew%20Bible.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan\_(given\_name)
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelson#:~:text=Michael-,Meaning,Hebrew

## Personality

### Human/Witch

*"In the beginning, our family was human, A thousand years ago, now. Although our mother dabbled in the dark arts, we were actually just a family trying to survive in a time when it was quite difficult to do so. And, for better or worse, we were happy.''*

***Elijah*** *to Lorelei about his family in Always and Forever.*

Elijah is a very attractive, positive, quirky and upbeat person. He always tries to see the good in people and tries to be a friend to everyone. He lives by a code of honor and morality that has been with him since he was a witch. As he told Elena in *All My Children*, he valued qualities such as compassion, honor and virtue long before his mother turned him into a vampire. Having learned to take care of his family over the years and being naturally responsible, Elijah had developed into a very free-spirited, mature and independent person. Elijah was close with his half-brother Klaus and his sister Rebekah, he was also a little close with his youngest brother Henrik and he was devastated after he was killed by werewolves.

### Original Vampire

Elijah is described as unpredictable, over-protective and stubborn, but also very kind, intelligent, selfless, empathetic, compassionate, and friendly. He is extremely loyal and has a loving nature. He strongly believes in trust, honesty and loyalty and whenever he would give his word to someone, he would keep it, as he has said "*I'm a man of my word*". Elijah has been known to break deals but only when he realized he was lied to, such as in his deal with Sophie Deveraux. He has a lot of respect and admiration for human life, which is unseen in many other vampires and is normally very reluctant to kill anyone when unnecessary.

He is known for speaking his mind and having a fierce temper, which he possibly inherited from his father though unlike Mikael, Elijah is capable of controlling it. Elijah very rarely has tolerance for those who broke their words to him, shown when he killed Trevor for betraying him and imprisoned Katherine for her own betrayal. He also has no tolerance for those that disrespect him. He has been shown to go to great lengths to make those that disrespect him suffer, such as Damon, Thierry, and Marcel. When Marcel disobeyed and disrespected Elijah, he killed Marcel's best friend Thierry in front of him so Marcel would suffer that loss for eternity instead of killing Marcel.

Elijah is very knowledgeable and deceptive in many ways. This encompasses knowledge of how to fight, wield a sword and defend himself. He exhibits an open-minded and optimistic personality. When he meets Elena, he respects her for her bravery and willingness to put herself in harm's way to protect her loved ones, which is something that Elijah himself has done for his family many times.

Elijah in general is a very emotionally hardened character and has difficulty at times handling and accepting certain emotions. This is evident when after losing his family because of Klaus, he turns his sadness and pain into revenge against his half-brother. Elijah is also seen to be uncomfortable and has difficulty accepting romantic feelings, particularly towards Katherine. However, despite this, Elijah does believe in love but also believes that, at least for him, it is rare. He even mentioned that for the thousand years the he has lived, he has only been in love twice.

## Physical Appearance

Elijah is a handsome man who stands about 5'11" in height, and has a thin but muscular body. He has short brown hair which appeared to have darkened slightly in the fourth season, with hazel brown eyes. His facial features are angular - high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and a straight nose. Despite being centuries old, he appears to be 23 or 24 years old. He is older than his half brother and sister Niklaus and Neveah, but is younger than his brother Finn and his sister Freya, making him the third oldest sibling of the family. Elijah is similar to his younger brother Kol in facial features, but resembles all of his siblings in a more general way.

Elijah in the present day is consistently well-dressed. His wardrobe typically consists of a dress jacket, dress shoes, dress pants, shirt and sometimes a tie. This continues his trend of dressing well throughout the centuries. As a human, he wore more simplistic clothing, along with the other males in his family. But ever since he and his family journeyed to Europe, it seems he upgraded his attire to clothing indicative of a nobleman. Elijah has also worn different hairstyles in keeping with the times. It was revealed that Esther placed in his mind the idea of remaining clean and forgetting about his victims to save him from the guilt of it.