Camille O'Connell

**Camille "Cami" O'Connell** was a vampire and a main character on *The Originals*. She was a psychology student who moved to New Orleans to investigate the death of her twin brother, Sean O'Connell. Initially, both Klaus and Marcel were attracted to her apparent physical beauty and intelligence, and thus they attempted to keep her sheltered from the major ongoing conflict between the vampires, witches and werewolves of the city. However, she eventually became aware of the surrounding supernatural world and uncovered the truth about Sean's death.

Over time, she became increasingly involved with the Mikaelson family, partly due to her uncle's role as *de facto* leader of the humans in New Orleans, and partly due to her growing relationship with Klaus. This relationship, combined with the fact that she was human, placed her in sights of the family's vengeful enemies, who started noticing the important role that she seemed to play in Klaus' life and therefore saw her as an asset against him. This entanglement culminated in Camille slitting her own throat under compulsion and subsequently turning into a vampire. Klaus' former lover, Aurora de Martel, orchestrated this deadly scheme to get back at him for leaving her and torturing her and her brother. Aurora also expressed jealousy towards Camille, seeing her as her own 'replacement' as Klaus' new love interest.

After becoming a vampire, Camille's personality drastically changed: she became seemingly more confident, determined, and even reckless and careless. As she suspected herself to have a 'darker side' as a human, this sudden shift in personality and behavior associated to her new vampirism can be seen as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

**Camille** was a member of the **O'Connell Family**.

## Early History

Not much is known about her early history. She grew up with a twin brother, Sean, and appeared to have grown up in a different city before it, possibly to attend college. She then moved to New Orleans to be near her uncle, Kieran, and investigate the circumstances surrounding Sean's suspicious and tragic death. At some point, she enrolled in graduate school to get another psychology degree and began working as a bartender at Rousseau's.

In *The Other Girl in New Orleans*, Cami revealed to Aurora de Martel (along with Niklaus Mikaelson, who was eavesdropping on their conversation) that when she was a junior in undergraduate school, her roommate was beaten up by her boyfriend when she attempted to break up with him. Cami to begged her roommate to seek help from the police, the dean, or anyone else who would listen. However, her roommate was too scared to tell anyone else what happened. Later, Cami runs into the same man at a bar and sees him hitting on a freshman; she became so enraged that he would be getting away with his abusive behavior that she smashed a beer bottle into his face, tackled him, and knelt on his chest while she slammed his head repeatedly against the floor. Afterward, Cami was arrested and charged with assault and battery, and she described the experience as one of her deepest, darkest secrets due to the fact that she was ashamed about how much she enjoyed it.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

### Season Four

In *The Originals*, Camille is the bartender at the bar where Sophie Deveraux works. When Klaus comes to the bar and warns Marcel's minions about being followed, she comes to the bar and apologizes for their wait and tells them that they're out of gumbo. Klaus lays down a hundred dollar bill and tells her to give the two minions the bar's oldest Scotch. Later, Marcel is talking to Klaus when he notices Camille walking down the street alone. Marcel tells Klaus that if she's brave he'll let her live. He hops down from a high balcony behind Camille and she turns around when she hears him land. Marcel tells her it's not safe to be alone and she tells him that she has a black belt in karate. Klaus meets again with Camille on one of the streets of New Orleans. Camille describes the painting of an artist, which causes Klaus to show parts of his humanity. When she turns to ask him if he paints, he has vanished.

## Throughout The Originals Series

### Season One

In *Always and Forever*, Elijah converses with Camille over the bar after ordering a drink from her. He tells her about his family history and about his half-brother, Klaus, who has a temper and tells her, his brother and him don't have the same father and says it never bothered him. But it bothered his brother and tells her his brother never believed he felt belonged anywhere. Elijah then continues with saying his brother believes people are conspiring against him. In which Camille responds with *"Narcissistic and Paranoid".* Elijah then takes an interest in her, and she then explains, she's a bartender with a graduates degree in psychology. Elijah then asks where, he can find Jane-Anne Deveraux, and Camille leads him to "someone who might" - a French Quarter tour guide who knows that Jane-Anne is dead.

In *House of the Rising Son*, Klaus compels her to give Marcel a chance. While on the date with Marcel, Rebekah shows up demanding Marcel to take her to Elijah using Cami as leverage. Marcel complies and compels her to not remember the Rebekah part of their date. He promises to make it up to her.

In *Tangled Up In Blue*, she's invited to Marcel's ball by Rebekah so her presence will distract him. Soon after she arrives, Marcel spots her, and says he's sorry for not inviting her to the ball (unknown to Cami that the ball was restricted to supernatural species), they shared a dance, flirted, and almost shared a kiss when Marcel was pulled to the side by one of his minions. Cami stood still watching from a distance as Marcel lost his temper at Thierry. When Klaus approached her, she reminded herself that she always knows better then she leaves. Later that evening, she's seen drinking beer at the bar when Klaus sat next to her, she quickly discourages Klaus from giving excuses to what Marcel had done earlier, Klaus seems to get the impression that she might been hurt badly before, nonetheless, he compels her to remember that she had a great time with Marcel.

In *Girl in New Orleans*, she's informed about the supernatural world by Klaus who compels her not to be afraid and to only remember that he's an vampire when only he's around her. Later when Cami sees him at her bar she expresses curiosity towards his powers which he showed amusement to and compel her to help him meet Davina; who Marcel told her to look after. At the church where Davina lives, she is seen listening to Tim's music in the back, away from the two teenagers. She tells Klaus the reason of why she moved to the city, and how her twin brother Sean O'Connell had murdered an entire coven of priests without prior signs of mental deterioration.

Later in her apartment, Klaus shows up wanting to compel her out of her fixation on bringing justice to her brother, she gets emotional, and tearfully begs him not to make her forget about her torment, yet he compels her anyway, believing that she's stepping into dangerous grounds. Before he leaves, he promises her to find the truth of what really happened to her brother.

In *Fruit of the Poisoned Tree*, Camille visits her brother's grave which was smudged with graffiti writing encircling the word "murderer". she then visits her uncle in the church confessional box to talk about her brother's grave being vandalized and how it's weird she is not upset over it. Kieran tells her if she has found away to turn off the pain then she shouldn't question it. Klaus later makes a deal with Kieran, a deal that he'll protect his niece. She is then later told the truth about what really happened to Sean by Klaus, he tells that the witch responsible is dead, Cami slaps him for using her and making her culpable in murder. She vows and threatens to get his compulsion undone.

In *The River in Reverse*, Klaus has Camille typing up his memoirs. He's upset that Elijah took Hayley's side. Klaus says that the only thing that he's done is try to get their home back. Camille has had enough and tries to make him realize that not everyone is out to get him. He keeps reliving the past because he does it to himself.

Later, Camille is cleaning off her brother's tombstone from the graffiti. Her Uncle finds her and they talk. Cami is worried she's losing her mind too. Father Kieran tells her that maybe she should leave town for a while. She doesn't want to; she wants to find out what those symbols mean. Camille and Father Kieran are in the church. She is sitting looking intensely at her drawing. She says she has finally figured it out, She has sent herself a message. She just figured out about Klaus and Marcel being vampires again.

In *Reigning Pain in New Orleans*, Camille is still typing Klaus' memoirs and still compelled to remember him only when she is around him. However she deciphers some cryptic messages that she has left for herself to find which lead her to her voice recorder in her bag. On it she hears herself talking to Klaus while writing his memoirs. Klaus shows up again at her apartment, this time to compel her to forget about him and to leave town permanently for her own safety. Later, when Cami is packing her bags to leave, Davina comes to Camille's apartment asking for her help and when she realizes that Camille has been compelled yet again, she begins the process of freeing her from the compulsion the same way she did with Josh.

In *The Casket Girls*, Davina uses decompulsion at Cami's request to help her remember and try to understand what's happening to her. Cami now remembers everything that Klaus had compelled her to forget. Cami tells Davina that her uncle Kieran can help them, however Davina tells her that he knew about everything already and kept it a secret from her. As a result, Cami meets up with Kieran upset and storms out as she lost trust in him. Later, Cami spots Klaus and warns him that if he ever hurts Davina or Josh, she will expose him to the world.

In *Dance Back from the Grave*, Camille is visited by a mourning Marcel. Marcel shares some details of his past with her, but things quickly spiral out of control when Papa Tunde shows up. She attempts to help Marcel fight Papa Tunde with little affect. She calls Klaus to inform of the situation at Rousseau's. Klaus manages to arrive in time but is nearly killed in the process. Elijah and Hayley manage to save Rebekah allowing Klaus to have the advantage but Papa Tunde escapes.

In *Crescent City*, Camille learns that her uncle has been hexed just like her twin brother had endured. She is approached by Genevieve who offers a deal. If she stabs Klaus with Papa Tunde's Blade, her uncle will be cured. Camille ultimately decided against betraying Klaus and betrays the witches. Klaus attempts to remove Kieran's hex by compulsion to no avail. Camille is last seen searching for a way to help her uncle.

In *Le Grand Guignol*, Elijah enlisted Camille's aid to help Klaus' recovery. Elijah stabbed Klaus with Papa Tunde's Blade to protect Rebekah. Camille attempts to persuade Klaus from his pursuit of his sister. During this time Klaus shares memories from his past, concerning his father.

In *Farewell to Storyville*, Camille is reunited with Davina whom is visibly shaken by her past death. After talking to her, she tells Marcel that Davina needs professional help and treatment.

In *Moon Over Bourbon Street*, Cami is helping her uncle in the church attic by locking himself up. He's wanting to kill and doesn't want to. He wants Cami to leave but she refuses. Father Kieran is getting worse and goes after Cami to kill her but she knocks him out with whatever she can grab. At Cami's house, she's getting a drink. Marcel comes up behind her. He notices that she's hurt. Cami opens up to Marcel about her fear of losing Kieran. They kind of have a mutual ground about the lack of family. They go out for a drink. Cami and Marcel get back to her house and they're pretty wasted. Cami tells him she's tired of being alone and then they have sex.

In *The Big Uneasy*, Camille is seen at the bar when Klaus shows up with a way to help her uncle, knowing that Genevieve is the one that might help, Camille refuses the offer then changes her mind believing it might be her only way out. Later at the feast thrown at the honor of the witches, Camille crashes the party and goes to talk to Genevieve and hands her a thoughtful gift, in an attempt to persuade the red head witch to save her uncle. Genevieve, who's touched by Camille's gift, agrees to see if there's any hope left.

Camille is preparing herself to leave when she spots Klaus sitting in the dark and drinking. Klaus apologizes for offending Genevieve, causing her to refuse to help Kieran out and Klaus confronts Camille about her relationship with Marcel, which she explains that it was his doing, Klaus gets angry, threatens Marcel, and leaves Camille rather speechless.

In *An Unblinking Death*, Camille enlists Josh's help to try other remaining strategies to lift the hex on now a hallucinating Father Kieran. She brings a doctor to help her try shock therapy on Kieran, but with no avail. Klaus comes to help Camille who's only objective is to remove the hex by any means possible. She asks Klaus to turn her uncle into a vampire which he does when Kieran's heart fails.

Camille apologizes to now-in-transition Father Kieran for turning him into a monster against his faith, and she tearfully says goodbye. When the hex resurfaces on Kieran, he leaves his room after the boundary spell wears off, and attempts to kill his niece, but failing when Klaus swoops in and stakes him after Camille approves of it. Later that evening Camille is in her apartment, shocked and frightened of what happened that day, Marcel drops by her apartment after Klaus allows him to come console a grieving Camille.

In *A Closer Walk With Thee*, Cami is seen in one of Klaus' dreams that takes place at Kieran's funeral. Later, at Rousseau's during Kieran's wake, Cami sits with Klaus while he drinks. Cami tries to thank him but sourly tells her that her thanks are not necessary. When she asks him why he's in a bad mood, he tells her that he's been having dreams about Mikael. He interprets the dreams as his fear of scarring his child just as Mikael scarred him. Cami shows surprise that Klaus has said out loud that he's going to be a father soon. Klaus sees Marcel walk in and tells Cami that he knows more about fatherhood than she thinks. She sees Marcel and points out that the his first attempt didn't work out so well before walking away. While she is in the kitchen, trying to control her emotions away from the party, Francesca Guerrera comes in and asks for Kieran's key stating that she is the new representative of the human faction. Cami angrily tells her that it must have fallen off before storming away from her. Marcel helps keep watch over Kieran's body during the wake and Camille discovers that Marcel took Kieran's key that was meant for her since he didn't think that she was ready for the family legacy. Camille argues that she's involved in the supernatural affairs and isn't backing down. The next day, at the church, Marcel approaches Cami, who is still angry for keeping the key from her. He tells her that the key opens something that can be used against the supernatural community in case of emergency. He tells her that he tried to find what the key opens but was unsuccessful. Cami accuses him of being at the funeral to find out more from her, but Marcel tells her that he's there for her and Kieran.

During the funeral march, Hayley approaches Cami and begins by giving her condolences about Kieran. Cami deduces that she needs something, and Hayley asks if Kieran said anything about Francesca Correa before he died. She goes on to tell Cami that Francesca could have been involved with the bombing in the bayou. Cami tells her that she is trying to stay out of supernatural affairs, but will let her know if she learns anything. At the burial, Cami wanders away and finds herself at Sean's tomb. Marcel finds her and she tells him that Sean didn't have a funeral and that his parent's wanted nothing to do with him; so Sean was buried in a tomb with the homeless and criminals. Cami deduces that maybe Kieran had Sean interred there because he saw an opportunity to hide something there for Cami to find. She looks at Sean's tomb and says that she needs a sledgehammer. In the tomb, Marcel and find a box containing a message in Sean's secret code. Cami tells Marcel that she won't tell him what it says and that whatever the message leads to is her responsibility now.

In *The Battle of New Orleans*, Cami is working on the code that Kieran left for her in the box that his key opens, when several men in suits come in and start clearing out the customers. Camille sees what they are doing and goes over to find out what's going on. Francesca threatens Cami once again and she asks for Father Kieran's key. When Camille maintains that she doesn't have the key, nor does she know where it is, Francesca tells Cami that her family has been in New Orleans a long time, longer than hers, and gives Cami one day to find the key for her before she turns to not-friendly means of "persuasion".

In *From a Cradle to a Grave*, Cami is first seen in the compound helping the vampires who have been bitten by Klaus, when Davina comes in with a cup of a Klaus' blood. Marcel gives the blood to Josh instead, and starts to leave when Cami stops him. She tells him that she has an arsenal, and takes them (Davina and Marcel) to her Uncle's hidden vault of weapons. Soon afterwards, she is seen by the memorial wall for the fallen, and sees the a plaque with Baby Mikaelson written on it. She goes to Klaus and tells him that she's sorry for his loss. Klaus tells her they can't be friends anymore as he doesn't want to ruin her. Cami leaves in tears.

### Season Two

In *Rebirth*, Cami is seen in bed with Marcel. Afterwards, she gets dressed and tells Marcel she has to go to campus and meet her new advisor because her former one died. When Marcel asks if he'll see her later, she emphasizes that it's just a no-strings relationship. She tells him about how Francesca and her werewolves are in control of the French Quarter. When Marcel asks about Klaus, Cami tells him that nobody, including herself, knows. Marcel wonders why Klaus hasn't made a move against the werewolves. Cami says that Klaus is in mourning, but Marcel suspects that something is going on. Cami also tells him that Davina is back in high school and doing well. Cami tells Marcel that maybe it's better to move on and not hold on to the things that they can't change; Marcel gives her a "Yeah, maybe." Later, Cami is walking down the street in the Quarter while being followed by two werewolves. Turning around, she tells them off, hands one of them her coffee, and walks away annoyed and worried. She goes to the Abattoir looking for Klaus.

While she calls for him, Klaus moves silently around watching her unseen. When she calls for him again, Elijah appears and tells her that Klaus doesn't want to see her and that she is trespassing. When he tells her that she's put herself in danger by coming there, she tells him about the Guerrera werewolves following her and running the city like a police state. She suggests that they get help from Marcel in ridding the Quarter of Francesca and her people. She leaves after having impressed both Klaus and Elijah. Later, at her apartment, when the two Guerrera wolves from the street come to her apartment looking for white oak stake, she gives them an address and the key to her uncle's secret room. After they leave, Elijah appears outside her window and nods to her and Cami nods back. Later, at Marcel's place, he and Cami are lying in bed and they discuss the Quarter's future briefly. She apologizes for the loss of Marcel's friend Joe before she tells him that she is ending their friends-with-benefits arrangement, stating that she needs to be more involved with the human world. When she meets her new adviser, Vincent Griffith, she is unaware that he is actually Finn Mikaelson.

In *Live and Let Die*, Cami is heard telling her advisor, Vincent/Finn, that New Orleans is a city of death and that the people party to distract them from the inevitability of death. Finn asks her about her relationships with the people in her life who are still living. She tells him that she's attracted to the wrong kind of guy. She talks about Marcel and how she was just a rebound girl for him and that they're not compatible. She then talks about Klaus, how nothing ever happened between them but he got under her skin. She says that in spite of Klaus' dark past, there was good in him. Finn remarks that Cami wanted to save Klaus; Cami states that some people don't want to be saved. Later, Cami is walking through the crowded streets and she finally gets Davina on the phone. Davina apologizes for not calling Cami back and assures her that she's okay before hanging up. Klaus remarks that it was rude for Davina to hang up, surprising Cami when she sees him. She chastises him because she hasn't seen him in months and just decides to show up. He tells her he needs to find Davina because she has brought Mikael back from the dead and is controlling him. When Cami says that Davina didn't say where she was, Klaus deduces from listening on the phone call that Davina is at her family's cabin in Terrebonne parish. Cami agrees to go with him to try and reason with Davina. Cami is then seen sitting in a bar having a drink when Klaus comes in annoyed that she told him to wait in the car because she said she be right back. Klaus reiterates the urgency of his mission and Cami tells him that she needs a drink to take the edge off of Klaus' revenge fantasy. Cami deduces that he chose her to come with him because he wanted someone to hear his side of his story. Klaus sits down and has a drink and begins to tells Cami about his mother's plan to put the Original siblings into human bodies. He tells her that he can't kill Esther because she would just jump into a new body. He tells her that Mikael has the white oak stake and must be dealt with first. When Klaus gets up to leave, Cami tells him he understands what he's fighting against, but asks him what he's fighting for. She invites him to dance with her and tells him that there's more to life than the pain inflicted on him by Mikael and Esther. As they slowly dance, she tells him that there's no peace in revenge before he twirls her slowly and vanishes, leaving Cami alone. Cami hitchhikes and runs through the roads of the bayou to get to Davina's cabin in the bayou. Cami is angry at Klaus, telling him what she had to go through to get to him. Cami tells Klaus that he will not hurt Davina, to which he gives his word. Cami then pulls Klaus into a one-armed hug before looking down to see Mikael lying on the ground incapacitated by Papa Tunde's blade. Klaus tells her that he decided to take Cami's advice and keep Mikael alive.

In *Red Door*, Camille stops Klaus from killing Kaleb as he is "just a kid" and takes the stake and goes to get the car to take Davina to the hospital after what Klaus did to her. She goes to the care and is abducted by Mikael, who takes her through the woods. Cami demands how he is conscious as she has seen the kind of damage Papa Tunde's blade can do first hand. Mikael tells her that he has endured more pain than anyone living or even dead and that he will not feed off of her as she is leverage for Klaus and that he will use Klaus' weakness for her and as he hesitates when Mikael will threaten to dismember her in front him, he will use this chance to kill Klaus. Cami argues that he is hating a person who's only crime was that he was fathered by another person only to be hushed harshly by Mikael, who tells her that she is the enabler of the weak and no wonder Klaus seeks her company.

Mikael then takes her to a warehouse where Camille tells Mikael that she used to think that Mikael once actually cared about Klaus, that he wasn't all bad, but Mikael says he didn't always hate Klaus as when he was born he thought that Klaus was the one who had the eyes of a warrior and was overjoyed at his birth. But Mikael's hope was short-lived as he discovered that Niklaus wasn't his son and his relief at that was glorious, but he remained loving of Niklaus until he discovered that Klaus was birth from a "beast". Cami argues that that was his mother's infidelity, not Klaus. This leads to Mikael heatedly yelling that everything that followed was Niklaus' fault - the death of his youngest son and when Cami says it is an accident, Mikael cries that Klaus killed his wife, his own mother who sought to cleanse him of his beast-like nature. Cami tells him that the cycle of endless violence is pointless and Mikael guesses that she's an "alienist" and Cami says they're called "therapists" nowadays and he could do with some couch time. Mikael - pushed to the edge - decides that since his wound is not healing in time he could do with some food and a frightened Cami says that he said he would not do so and Mikael grabs her, saying that, despite human blood being useless to sustain him, in desperate times even the Devil himself eats flies and he bites Camille.

When Klaus finds them, he swears to make Mikael pay for hurting Cami and Mikael laughs at this, saying that it is sweet that "the cur whines for its bitch". After a confrontation between the Original Vampires ensues, Mikael walks out victorious, having killed Klaus with the Oak. But the stake doesn't not work, seeing as Davina and Kaleb are draining its very purpose for being, thus surpassing its Natural power to kill Klaus even while in his heart. While Mikael attempts to stop Davina and his son, Camille pulls the stake out of Klaus just before Mikael stops Davina and Klaus' reinforcements show up to save him before he is resurrected. Mikael leaves before telling Klaus to find him when he doesn't have fools - women and children - fighting his battles for him.

Klaus thanks Cami for saving his life and she replies that it is the least he could do for telling him not to kill Mikael. Klaus responds that he would kill Mikael alone for hurting her.

In *Wheel Inside the Wheel*, Cami is seen having breakfast with Vincent. After he pries too much, they decide to stop with the personal questions as it is "happy hour". Vincent orders for them, he orders for himself a neat whiskey and then when it is time to order Cami's drink, he orders a Sazerac with two spoons of honey, which shocks Cami as it is her favorite drink, who decides to make an excuse and leaves. She goes back to her O'Connell inheritance room where she discovers that the "Griffith Family" is a family of witches, Marcel informs her that Vincent is currently possessed by the thousand-year-old Finn Mikaelson and that he was a vampire and he is a powerful warlock now so she should steer clear. Cami tells him she's only begun.

Later, when the two of them are having dinner, Cami, after nearly attacking him with a specialized dagger, establishes what Finn/Vincent's weakness is - *her* and she plans on using it.

In *Chasing the Devil's Tail*, Camille manages to get Vincent to go on a date with her which was part of a plot that was fabricated by her, Hayley, Marcel, Joshua and Aiden. Cami reveals that she found chains that can hinder a witch's power once slapped onto their wrists in the arsenal that her uncle Kieran left behind for her. Once on the date, Cami gets a call and leaves to supposedly take it in private, but Cami does not return, which inspires Vincent's curiosity which leads him to the back of the restaurant where she is attacked by a werewolf that leaves and disappears with Cami when Vincent/Finn shows up. Meanwhile, she actually taken to a church, where it is revealed that it is Hayley who bit her and Cami admits she always thought another woman's mouth on her neck would feel more erotic.

Vincent casts a locator spell that leads him to the church. He figures out that Aiden is a traitor and uses his powerful magic to throw him through the St. Anne's Church doors unconscious. Vincent kills Josh (temporarily) and nearly kills Hayley, who is rescued by Jackson. Cami shows up and slaps the magic-resistant chains on Finn, which renders him powerless. She smugly apologizes but says that he would have done the same to her had she continued to play defenseless human.

Later, a guilty yet victorious Cami is drinking by the bar when a woman she does not recognize enters. Cami says sorry as they're closed, the woman voices her feeling of it being a shame, as she hears that Cami serves the best *"Sazerac"* in town, which makes Cami see the light, realizing it is Esther, who tells her that her sons have taken quite the liking to her before bewitching her with a then-unidentified spell that causes her body to shudder violently.

In *The Brothers That Care Forgot*, Camille awakes in bed and gets a call from Hayley who needs a favor. Cami is then seen speaking to Hayley about her romance with Elijah and Jackson (seemingly unfazed by what happened with Esther the night before) asking about how her relationship with the former has been. Hayley admits that she didn't have the opportunity to bond anymore with Elijah because they've been distant in the last couple of months since she became a hybrid, but he remains under her skin. Cami then tells her there is no right answer to it and she has to figure out what's best for her after thinking about it because she's the one who's going to have to live with it.
Hayley then notices some red dots on Camille's back that seem to have been punctured into her from her neck down her spine.

Cami goes to the compound seeking help from Klaus only to find out that Davina has neutralized him. Cami tells them about the puncture wounds on her back and that in her uncle's files there's information that tells her its an ancient spell and when she hears "ancient" and "spell" in the same sentence she equals it to Esther.

Kol - after examining the wounds - comes to the conclusion that after Esther attacked her she wiped her memories and cast a Preparation Spell on Cami, preparing her body to become a vessel for someone to jump into, which Kol presumes is Esther herself. Cami demands to see Vincent. She goes to where he is chained up and slaps him, demanding to know why they chose her and without hesitating, Finn tells her that it is because she is *"perfect, healthy, beautiful, smart and (ultimately) alone"* thus no one would suspect any personality changes and from what he discovered from their psychological sessions, Klaus would not allow anyone to harm her body, making her the perfect choice for an enemy to possess. Cami tells him to stop the spell and Finn says he cannot as only his mother can. Cami says she will step in front of a moving truck before allowing Esther take her body, which shocks Vincent/Finn, who reveals that Esther was priming her for Rebekah and not herself.

Later, Cami asks Kol how long she has, which he answers not long as Esther's found Rebekah and she's unstoppable and once she goes after Rebekah there will be nothing she or anyone can do to stop her, not unless they stop her before then. Cami (who is afraid for her life/consciousness) is convinced that if Marcel (a vampire), Davina and Kol (Harvest and Mikaelson Witches) can work together they can defeat her. Marcel sacks this idea, as Esther is stronger than anything he's ever seen, even than all three of them combined, they're going to need Klaus. Cami begs Davina to resurrect Klaus for her sake and Davina does so.

In *The Map of Moments*, Camille shows up in the compound, walking in on a moment between Kol/Kaleb and Marcel and convinces Marcel not to kill Kol seeing as he along with Davina is the only one who can protect her from Esther's extreme powers. Later, Cami is seen talking to Marcel, trying to convince him to let her talk to Vincent by pulling him out of the casket he'd spent 900+ years in. She plans to convince him to make Esther see reason. Cami appeals to Vincent only for him to turn her down and bring to light his dislike of redemption and once he is free he will not stop until he has rid New Orleans of vampires once and for all, and if she is to stand with Klaus and the rest of the vampires, he will take her down with them. Cami then tells Marcel to lock him up again and leaves.

Later, while Klaus, Kol and Rebekah have gone to the Lycée to deal with their part of the plan, Cami, Marcel and Davina are in the Compound. There's an hourglass in front of Davina, Marcel and Cami. Davina explains that this one is going to be linked to Esther's hourglass by Kaleb which will make sure they know when to begin a spell that will divert and jam Esther's super power surge long enough so that she won't be able to put Rebekah's inner self within Camille, while simultaneously completely jamming Esther's powers, keeping her spirit from jumping too. They watch the sands flow down the glasses until the last at which point Cami's body shudders as her spirit threatens to be suppressed, Davina quickly summons her own strong powers and does the diversion which ultimately causes Esther's and Davina's power to collide and cause the hourglasses to explode as Cami and Rebekah fall unconscious, it is unclear whether Esther or Davina is victorious as both Rebekah and Camille are unconscious and Davina cannot feel anything.

When Cami's body awakens, everyone has gathered around her and Klaus says, *"Camille?"* then a relieved Cami says she suddenly loves that stupid name and is hugged by Davina, but everyone is worried as Rebekah still has not awoken.

In *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire*, Cami is introduced to Hope. Cami and Elijah bond. She also plays a game with him to get him to open up to her. She gets worried when he begins to act differently. When he calms down, she offers her support if he needs someone to talk to as it is her job to listen.

In *Brotherhood of the Damned*, Cami helps Elijah. She tells him that she knows what it's like when someone forcefully cures them from their pain. Elijah opens up to her and tells her about his red door and story of Tatia. When Elijah suddenly collapses, she talks to Davina over the phone. They realize that Finn is behind everything that happened. She is relieved when Elijah regains consciousness and she is seen holding Hope while Elijah talks to Klaus on the phone.

In *The Devil is Damned*, Cami is watching Hope at the safe house. Hope cuts her forehead. Elijah has a flash of 'The Red Door'. Cami and Elijah talk about his issues. He wants it to go away. She said "it's not that easy". She tells him he needs to occupy his time so he isn't thinking about it. She gives him a list of chores to do. And she leaves the house with Hope. As Cami drives back to the safe house. Hope uses her witch powers to stop Cami's car. Cami watches the safe house burst into flames she looks back to Hope. And Hope turns the car back on.

In *I Love You, Goodbye*, after the safe house explodes, a scared Cami drives Hope away and they stop at a gas station to use a pay phone. Cami gets out and then picks up a crying Hope and, while walking to the phone, Cami drops her change on the ground. Cami swears, apologizes to Hope and tells her she's being brave. Cami hears a noise and yells that she will if anyone tries anything, she'll gouge out their eyes. Elijah appears and they get back in the vehicle and drive back to New Orleans. When they arrive at the Mikaelson mansion, Cami happily gives Hope back to Hayley so she can introduce Hope to Jackson. Later, during Hayley and Jackson's wedding reception, Cami is in the nursery holding hope and looking out the window when Klaus walks in. He says he heard Hope crying and Cami says that she is probably teething.

Klaus thanks Cami for taking care of Hope and Cami says that Hope likes it in the mansion. Cami asks Klaus if he wants to hold Hope, but he doesn't respond. Cami tells him that even though the situation is overwhelming, according to developmental psychology, if the parents are happy, then the baby is happy. This causes Klaus to smile.

In *Save My Soul*, Cami is recruited by Marcel into helping Vincent and talk to him. After some exchanges, Cami convinces him to talk after telling him that she will tell him what Finn did while he was in his body. She tells him what Finn did and notices that he feels ashamed even though he didn't actually do it. She tells him he didn't do anything and whatever else has happened, the only thing he can do is move on. After Cami comes back with a drink, she asks Vincent is he was born in New Orleans. He tells her he was and why he gave up on being a witch. Afterwards, he asks her to bring Marcel in as he has information on Eva Sinclair. Vincent arrives at Rousseau's and sits next to Cami, telling her after the day he had, he needed a drink. He tells her to stay away from the supernatural crowd and make a clean break for it, but she tells him that she's been told that once and that in New Orleans, it's better when you're not alone.

In *When the Levee Breaks*, she arrives at the compound and asks Klaus if he wanted to go for a walk or talk, as he could spend some time not obsessing who not to trust or kill. After some convincing, he agrees and goes with her. They are at an outdoor café and Cami tells him if he ever thought how hard it must have been for Freya growing up with Dahlia, and he tells her that whoever had raised you, you turn into them a bit. She mentions that it was the first time he had brought up Mikael and after telling him that Mikael raised him, he says he should've stayed dead and that they made a good team and could've been allies, but he ended him anyways. He tells her that he's not a terribly good person and she just stares at him. When Klaus arrives back at his place, Cami is there crying and asks him if he really did kill Aiden. After telling him about Freya and other things, Klaus admits he didn't kill Aiden and he tells her it would be better if she feared him and to find a better man, leaving her alone and confused.

In *City Beneath The Sea*, Elijah arrives at Rousseau's and Cami tells him she left him a dozen messages. After telling her that he daggered Klaus, she reveals to him that Klaus didn't kill Aiden and he replies he's going to keep him daggered until Hope is safe. Cami is walking towards Kol's playhouse and has coffee in her hands. She runs into Vincent and he gives her a piece of paper that would be able to tell Rebekah how to unlink herself from the teenage witches. After trying to convince him that the covens need someone who knows what they are doing and can help them. She tells him about losing her uncle and brother, then when he starts to leave, and asks him if he has any ideas about what the golem can bind to. He tells her that the golem needs a heartbeat or a lure, and he starts putting notes down on the piece of the paper, which makes her smile.

In *Fire with Fire*, while working at Rousseau's Cami gets a phone call from Rebekah. She tells Cami that Klaus is up to his old ways again. And Elijah, Freya and herself need Cami's help to get Klaus back. She says that she won't be able to. Rebekah says that she knows Klaus 'Fancies her'. She agrees and goes to the Mikaelson compound. She witnesses Klaus stabbing Elijah. She tells Klaus to stop what he's doing he holds her face and drinks a little of her blood. While he bit her. He gets inside her head and tells her he knows how to defeat Dahlia. She passes out from from blood loss. She eventually wakes up and saves Elijah. She stabs him and gets Papa Tunde's Blade out of him. She tells Elijah Klaus did all of this to throw off Dahlia. She then says that she knows how they can kill Dahlia.

In *Ashes to Ashes*, Elijah gives her a cup full of his blood so she can heal from being bitten by Klaus, and he asks her about Klaus' plan. She tells him that Klaus plans on linking himself to Dahlia and that he has to buy time before he finds the right ingredients. Cami apologizes to Elijah about Gia, but he asks her if she really is and she tells him Klaus had to do whatever he had to, but Elijah tells her he will do whatever he does for himself and asks what else has he done, as Hayley isn't answering her phone. Camille arrives at the bar and is upset that he hasn't even bothered to ask if she was alright, but she then calms down. He tells her he didn't mean to hurt her, but he wants her to look after Hope and that he will make it up to her. Vincent arrives at the bar and he asks her why she feels like she owes the Mikaelsons. He tells her again that she needs to get away from the supernatural influences and she tells him that he shouldn't leave Davina with all the responsibilities and with no teacher to help her. She reveals to him that the reason she stays in town despite her better judgment, sanity and common sense, she has complicated feelings for a monster. Afterwards, she walks into the bar carrying a box full of liquor and tells Klaus that he needs to stop compelling the customers as she needs the tips. He tells her even if he didn't give her the $100, he preferred where they were staring at a painting in Jackson Square and that he would've found her. They stare at each other for a long moment, but instead he thanks her for the drink and rushes out the door.

### Season Three

In *For the Next Millennium*, she's now a Licensed Psychologist and sees Klaus on a profession level. She with Vincent gets involved with the NOPD as there's a serial killer on the lose who they believe to be a vampire. When Klaus comes to visit Cami at her apartment she losses her cool with him. Cami then stops herself from hurting Klaus' feelings more, but he dejectedly leaves her place while she stares at the painting he just gave her.

In *You Hung the Moon*, at Rousseau's with Detective Kinney he reveals his suspicions about Cami's family which unnerves her as they are involved with the city supernatural community. He steals Cami's laptop and pegs Lucien Castle, as the serial killer suspect. He tells Cami that he's looking out for her since he realizes she's mixed up in something, but it's clear she doesn't trust him.

In *I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans*, she learns how Lucien became the first sired vampire ever and despite proclaiming his innocence. She doesn't believe him.

In *The Axeman's Letter*, she is arrested due to Lucien framing her.

In *Beautiful Mistake*, Lucien knocked Kinney out after he had arrested Cami and then he took her hostage, telling her that she had a big day ahead of her. Lucien brought her to his penthouse and revealed that he compelled Kinney. He asked that she helped him find a specific dark object, a medallion, that he believed was in her possession, hidden within her stash. When Cami remained uncooperative, Lucien had Kinney inflict pain on himself as a motivator for her to help him. Lucien remained persistent on his search, making a deal with Cami that he'd heal Kinney and then she'd have to show him where it was, She pulled out a skull and said it was the only place where it could be. Lucien picked it up, only to feel a wave of great pain, the dark object hurting him. Lucien regained his footing when Cami tried to attack him and demanded she tell him where it really was, ordering Kinney to slit his throat. To save her friend, she handed it over to him.

Lucien compelled Kinney to forget everything never be able to solve the investigation and to dwell in his inability to solve the case. He threatened Cami as well and reminded her that against vampires, humans would always lose.

In *Out of the Easy*, Lucien told Cami that he had been invited to Thanksgiving at the Mikaelsons. Lucien continued to text Cami's friends to make them think she was okay, stalling until the vervain was out of her system. He bought in a vampire of his who was assigned to watch Cami when he was gone. However Cami escaped the vampire by cutting of his finger and taking his daylight ring. Only to be abducted by Aurora de Martel when trying to get to the elevator.

In *The Other Girl in New Orleans*, Camille is seen to be unconscious when Aurora opens her car trunk. When Aurora goes to get her out of the car trunk, Camille opens her eyes and hits Aurora with a tire iron. Camille attempts to flee but Aurora vamp speeds in front of her telling Camille that that wasn't nice and that they need to have a heart-to-heart. Aurora takes her by the arm and leads her into St. Anne's Church. There are three men training in the former church turned gym and Aurora tells Camille that she plans to turn them into vampires like they want. Camille comments that she doesn't even know who her captor is and to let the men go and deal with her. Aurora introduces herself and tells Camille that she is Klaus' long-lost love. She explains that Klaus took her brother so she took Camille in return. She further explains that the men she will turn will provide incentive to make Klaus return Tristan. Aurora shoves Camille to the ground and begins turning the men as Camille watches.

Aurora questions Camille about how she can be Klaus' therapist when he was the one who killed her uncle in that very church. Camille tells her that it was a mercy killing. Aurora says that she became curious about Camille because Klaus doesn't care for many so she looked Camille's family up on the internet. She cheerfully talks about Sean and the murders he committed. Camille asks if Aurora enjoys being cruel and Aurora says that she's looking for what they have in common. Aurora says that Klaus has been obsessed with Aurora and is now infatuated with Camille. She tells Camille about her brother and how he's had Aurora committed numerous times. Aurora tells Camille that she has been currently diagnosed as being bipolar. When Camille tries to say how bipolar disorder is treatable now, Aurora snaps at her for being condescending. Aurora then tells Camille to tell her more about herself and how she feels about Klaus.

Aurora laughs when she hears Camille tell her about the conversation she had with Klaus about people not being awful and wanting to be good. Aurora thinks that Camille sounds jealous even though she and Klaus are not romantically involved. Camille says that she cares about Klaus; she sees that he wants to be more than what he is and Aurora wouldn't help him to get there. Aurora says that Camille sees the good in Klaus and wonders if Camille is the one to bring it out of him. Aurora goes on to say that Klaus doesn't care about Camille and that she is just a thing to be used. Camille tells her that Aurora can say what she wants and comments on how angry Aurora is and how Klaus likes Camille because he likes her mind and how she understands him. Camille tells her that in spite of Aurora's strengths, Aurora is worried that Klaus doesn't love her because he sees that Aurora's mind is a little damaged. Aurora then angrily hits Camille, knocking her against the fight cage. Aurora, tired of being analyzed, tells Camille to tell her what her deepest, darkest secret, threatening to kill her if she lies.

Camille tells Aurora about a time during her junior year in college when she was arrested for assault and battery. Camille's roommate had her nose broken by the guy she was dating for trying to break up with him. One night at a bar, seeing him hitting on a freshman girl, she took a beer bottle and hit him in the face and then hit his head repeatedly on the floor. Aurora sees that Camille is ashamed that she enjoyed it. She goes on to say that Camille studies psychology to understand her own dark impulses. Aurora then calls out to Klaus, who appears in the room, saying it's time for the inevitable. Aurora tells him that he is in danger of losing her, the love of his life, because of obstacles, the worst being his affections for Camille. Klaus comments that he has no feelings for Camille but Aurora sees it. Klaus tells Aurora that he loves her and Aurora says that she wanted to Camille to hear it before she kills her.

While Aurora has Camille by the throat, Klaus comments how Aurora's petty jealousies and silly games make her look bad. Aurora is angry that he is distracted by Camille and how Camille is not as innocent as she seems and that she has darkness in her that draws her to Klaus' darkness. Aurora calls Camille a fake and Camille, still held by the throat by Aurora, tells Klaus that she's right and that what she told Klaus is a lie. Camille head-butts Aurora in the face, knocking Camille to the floor unconscious and distracting Aurora long enough for Klaus to get a hold of Aurora and leading her outside the church.

Camille awakens and finds two of the men Aurora turned awakened and hungry for blood. She tells one of the men, who is walking slowly toward her, that he's in transition and needs blood. She breaks a broom in half, using the pointy end to hold the man off. She hits the man, who dives on top of her, and stakes him through the chest, killing him. The other man, heading toward her, is killed by Klaus, who heard her in danger from the outside. Klaus helps Camille from the ground and the two embrace.

At the mansion, Camille sits on the couch with an ice pack to her forehead. She agrees to Klaus' request to stay at the mansion overnight under his protection. When he tries to apologize for what happened, she tells him that it is not his fault. She asks him if he heard what she and Aurora were talking about at the gym. Klaus then jokingly tells her he's sent people to kill the man she assaulted. She asks him not to kill anyone for her and Klaus tells her he won't. She asks if she can close her eyes for a while and falls asleep on the couch. Klaus puts a blanket over her before leaving her to sleep.

In *Savior*, Cami is staying in the compound for her protection. She talks to Klaus about Elijah when she receives a message form Vincent saying Will is in trouble. She goes to meet with Vincent who tells her the problem. Then she goes to Will's house when Klaus appears and asks her if she called first. When they discover Will is going to kill himself Cami asks Klaus to help her. Klaus compels Will in order to try to undo Lucien's compulsion. After helping Will Cami and Klaus go to Lucien's penthouse to get the cure for the Strix's poison. They both go to the compound where Rebekah tries to kill Cami and tells Cami that Klaus sees her as this fragile thing but that she is not precious. Later on Cami attends the Mikaelson Family celebration where she finds out about the bonfire thing. After Rebekah had left she goes to the balcony when Klaus appears and asks her what she is thinking about. Cami tells Klaus she was thinking about him and what Rebekah told her and asks him why did he save Will. Klaus answer it was because she wished. She asks him what he wishes and he kisses her. Klaus and Cami are later on seen making out. When Klaus wakes up he finds a dead Cami.

In *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*, Cami wakes up near Klaus and discovers she is in transition. After this discover she has some chats with Klaus about her not wanting to become a vampire while Klaus is trying to convince her to become one. She is then locked by him but Freya frees her and asks her if she wants to help her. She then helps the Mikaelsons locking Tristan up. After this she talks to Klaus and tells him to give her a choice. She then goes to the cemetery deliver flowers to her dead brother- Sean - and Vincent appears, because she called him asking to meet her there. She tells him that she called him because she knows he wont judge her no matter whatever her choice is. She tells him she wants to become a vampire and to help save New Orleans like Kieran tried. She feeds on him. In her house, Klaus appears while she is drinking blood. She tells him she loves being a vampire and she wants more blood.

In *Wild at Heart*, some time has passed since her transition into a vampire. Due to her changed personality and emotional state, Cami gains a daylight ring from Freya, becomes Klaus' protégé, and becomes an unlikely foe to him when she rebels against his controlling means of mentoring her. She breaks his neck when Klaus attempts control her and this resulted in Hayley having to intervene by giving Cami some advice. Cami, being tired of Klaus and some of the Mikaelsons "controlling her" (her version of the story), takes a handcrafted toy Klaus made for Rebekah nearly a thousand years ago and uses it as leverage against Klaus' influence over her newfound vampirism. She was intelligent enough to figure out a riddle she overheard Elijah and Klaus discussing about the weapon and how the weapon effects the Mikaelson prophecy. Cami now holds the only white oak-made device to kill an Original vampire.

In *Dead Angels*, Klaus eventually finds out Cami's whereabouts after he negotiates a trade for the toy and Cami's dark objects he stole from her after Cami turns on him. Cami allies once again with Vincent in hopes to obtain her objects and get revenge on the one who forced her to be a vampire (Aurora). Cami and Klaus have a tense argument, which also shows the reemergence of Cami's caring humanity. After Klaus hands her a bag with some of her supposed dark objects, Cami, Klaus and Vincent are ambushed at their meeting place (the cemetery) by one of the Strix's witches and both Cami and Klaus lose the only weapon against the Originals.

In *Heart Shaped Box*, Klaus asks Hayley to provide to some safeguarding for Cami so Hayley takes Cami to the gym at St. Anne's Church. After they fight in the ring, Hayley gets a call from Davina. Davina tells Hayley that the sisters are going to kill Hayley for her heart. Just then, the coven breaks down the doors and uses their magic to attack with Cami, using dark objects to stop them to protect her friend before being taken down herself. Surviving the attack, Hayley takes Cami back home and leaves her with a pack of beer and note saying they're definitely sharing the drinks next time, which makes Cami smile.

In *An Old Friend Calls*, Cami is seen training in St. Anne's Church with Vincent Griffith while the talk about the fact that Klaus has chosen not to kill Aurora and Cami remarks that when a time comes that Aurora manages to get out she would be ready for her. Klaus arrives and asks to speak with Cami in private as his therapist. Klaus brings Cami to a café and after a short section Cami informs Klaus that she could no longer be his therapist on account that she doesn't see herself fit to give advice when her own life is such a mess.

Cami goes to Rousseau's to find her co-workers and all the costumers compelled to be silent, she spots Vincent and Cortez in the back room, she rushes to Vincent's side but Cortez gets in the way and threatens her and everyone in the bar, Vincent distracts Cortez allowing Cami time to send a SOS to Klaus however Cortez notices and slams her head in the door frame knocking her out. When Cami reawakens she reminds that Vincent was of no use to him if he died before finishing, snaps at her to shut up and at Vincent to hurry but instead Vincent falls to his side and begins convulsing causing Cami to run to his side. Klaus arrives and begins taunting Cortez's imminent death, but Cami calls his name causing his to take notice of the three men Cortez had compelled to hold knives to the bar patrons throats. Cortez gives Klaus the same warning to Klaus as he did Cami as to what would happen if he made a move for him. Klaus chooses to throw a stake at Cortez and uses his vampire speed to snap the neck of the three men, Cami rushes to them and attempts to feed them her blood to save them but it didn't work as them where already dead. Klaus informs that it is of no use, she stands glaring at him angrily and shoves him out of her way and leaves.

Later that day Klaus approaches her and tells her that despite Aurora's intentions to change his feelings for her it hadn't work however Cami informs him that after what had happened to her the part of her that loved him and saw him as redeemable was gone. Cami is seen sitting with Vincent somewhere in the French Quarter as they speak of Cami's previous encounter with Klaus that day, Vincent questions why she had lied to Klaus to which she tells him that he was more than willing to kill and his inability to protect her from Aurora and his unwillingness to kill her after what she had done to her, made Cami realize she could no longer count on him to protect her and that if history was any indication Aurora would be back and when she did Cami would kill her herself.

In *Behind the Black Horizon*, She's visited by Davina and Kol to find one of his dark objects that is in her possession. Kol demanded she give back what her family stole, but she refused. Kol grew vicious at her defiance but Davina, growing agitated by his increasingly hostile behavior, got him to leave. Davina believed he was just struggling to adjust to his vampire body but Cami seemed to think it was a similar behavior to when her uncle was cursed.

In *The Devil Comes Here and Sighs*, Lucien assaulted Cami, culminating in him biting her with his venomous fangs after she with the joint efforts of Hayley recused Klaus. Cami is saved by Klaus and Freya

### Season Four

Camille is out in the world looking for a way to bring her uncle and brother back to life without the hex.

### Season Five

##### In japan

Camille meets Marcus Hale after he became an Original Preeminent Vampire and saw that his humanity was off and she tried to help him and get him to turn it on and she manage to get him to turn it on but after he forced his blood in her and turned her into a Preeminent Vampire and after he killed her to turn her that woke him up and got him to turn it on by that, Marcus was truly sorry for killing her but she said that it was okay but she said that she was feeling off and then some human was walking by them and her true face came out and they saw that she had new true face it had some features that looked like Marcus true face but she had white sclera and blood red pupils and normal dark veins. Marcus figured that she is like him an Preeminent Vampire now so they figured out that he can turn vampires in to Preeminent Vampire. Camille was happy because she was stronger now so now Klaus wouldn't need to worried over her now, Camille goes back to New Orleans.

**In New Orleans**

As Camille was stepping out of the cab she took, she step into Hayley and asked how she is, Hayley says that she is good and it is good to see her, asked why she is back now and if she found something and she said no but she found Marcus Hale and tells her that something has happened to Marcus and that he is more cold and ruthless then he was before and Hayley tells her that something happened in New Orleans as she was away and that Marcus took the responsibility of making sure that the hollow never will come back but it costed him everything he loves, Camille ask how they could let him do that and Hayley tells her that is was him that asked Vincent if he could take it so Hope could have her family.

As Klaus sees Camille he smiles and goes to hug her as Klaus is hugging her he can smell that there something different about her and he asked her what has happened since they last saw each other, she say that a lot of things has happened she then says that she died and Klaus asked how and who it was and Camille says that she is okay and she is stronger then she was before and that the person that killed her is a friend and that he didn't mean but his switch was off. Camille then shows her true face and Klaus sees that she is way different then before but he tells her that she is still the same Camille to him, she tells her that it was Marcus that killed her but he also turned her into a Preeminent Vampire so she is happy even if it was that awesome being dead again, but it gave her power that is over a normal vampire so he don't need to be worried about her.

## Personality

* Human
* Vampire

Camille did not possess any supernatural attributes, Camille exhibited an air of pluckiness about her by claiming to Marcel that she has a black belt in karate. She was not judgmental. Her brother's murder-suicide had left her with a need to understand the human psyche, to be able to make sense of the supposed chaos within insanity. She also wanted to understand dark impulses after she attacked her former roommate's abusive ex-boyfriend because she was angry that he would get away with his crimes.

She was a person who stands by her morals, as upon learning of her brother's murderer's demise, she felt enraged that someone had gotten killed. Likewise, she possessed a strong will, angrily telling Klaus that she will find a way to break through the compulsion's control over her.

Despite being smack in the middle of all the chaos and bloodshed in the French Quarter, Camille has displayed considerable determination to continue what her uncle worked so hard to protect. She stood tall as a human, despite living in a town chock full of supernatural creatures.

Camille was poised, intelligent and astute, able to decipher the psyches of even thousand-year-old vampires. She displayed a good sense of humor and a personable nature. She was courageous and spirited, displaying this bravery on numerous occasions, in particular against Mikael. Though she was forever in want of an analytical and logical standpoint, she was also compassionate and caring to change others.

After transitioning into a vampire, Camille became more impulsive and was struggling with her apparent, resurfaced dark side. Camille had little to no problem manipulating others by compelling. Camille maintained her caring demeanor, but she slipped in and out of her dark side due to her lack of control of her emotions. Camille then entered a transitioning phase on who she wanted to be both as a new person and as a new vampire.

After a while, Camille seemed to be getting more of her humanity be known. She still manipulated and seemed very childish which might have to do with her being a new vampire. She mentioned that all her actions have to do with the fact she didn't want to be in danger anymore and she wanted to be able to protect herself, which might mean that the human Camille wasn't fully gone.

Camille later started to get more of her human emotions back, and was finally, able to let go of her anger and resentment towards Aurora for turning her. She was even starting to attempt to return to her old life of helping people before she died.
## Physical Appearance

Camille was a young woman in her early to mid-twenties, standing at approximately 5'6", who has an attractive face possessing green-blue eyes, dark lashes and blonde hair. Her shoulder length hair was worn in a variety of different styles, although usually worn pulled back with a clip, exposing her strong jaw line. Camille seemed to be absent of heavy makeup and wore a minimal amount of jewelry, usually only a necklace or pendant. She wore a variety of different styles of clothing ranging from colorful knitwear, denim jackets and jeans, floral summer dresses, cardigans with sandals or boots and occasionally matches them with colored scarves. Camille also had a small tattoo on the inside of her left wrist; the significance is however, unknown and the tattoo is often hidden beneath her clothing.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Super Strength:** Preeminent vampires are noticeably much stronger than Supernatural Hunters, immortals and humans, werewolves, non-original vampires and slowly grow stronger as they grow older. Even new Preeminent vampires who are still in transition can toss an average-size, fully-grown human across a room with great speed and force. 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, depending on the age of the vampire, can be equal to that of Evolved werewolves. Their strength allows them to jump higher and further than any natural creature. Preeminent vampires who feed on humans are stronger than those who feed on animal blood.
* **Super Speed:** Preeminent vampires are much faster than various other human and supernatural beings such as supernatural hunters, immortals, non-original vampire and werewolves in human form. Preeminent vampires can accelerate their movements to cover short distances in an instant, usually faster than the human eye can see. When running across long distances, they appear as vibrating blurs of motion allowing them to appear or vanish quickly and quietly. Their reflexes and dexterity are similarly heightened, allowing them to catch certain projectiles such as arrows and thrown stakes in the air with ease. They can dodge bullets.
* **Super Agility:** Preeminent vampires possess super-human agility, such that they can react quickly, jump very high, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion. For example, Stefan picked up Elena and jumped high enough to propel both of them to the top of a Ferris wheel at a carnival. Similarly, Elena jumped from the ground up onto the roof of a two-story school, and she also jumped down into a ravine that was hundreds of feet deep, landing on her feet with no injuries whatsoever.
* **Super Senses:** Preeminent vampires have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, smell, and taste that far exceed those of humans and werewolves, and non-original vampires. They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far of buildings and on phones, though most Preeminent vampires typically learn how to tune out most ambient noises when it's not necessary to hear them—Josh, a newborn vampire, explained that vampires can turn their enhanced hearing off, which explains why they can occasionally miss auditory warnings, such as the footsteps of approaching enemies, when they're paying attention to other things. Preeminent vampires can also smell blood from several meters away, and see in total darkness. Their senses of taste are also enhanced as well, allowing them to detect the presence of drugs, alcohol, or vervain in someone's blood.
* **Super Durability:** Preeminent vampires can take a great amount of physical damage without being slowed down. Even Preeminent vampires who have been shot with wooden bullets, which have a weakening effect on Preeminent vampires, have been seen to continue fighting so long as they were not shot in the heart or the head. Preeminent vampires still react to physical force in a human manner, particularly young Preeminent vampires, who will occasionally be affected even by human-strength-level force. Preeminent vampires can also still be stunned and dazed by strikes and trauma, though their tolerance for it will increase as they get older.
* **Healing Factor:** Preeminent vampires recover tissue from any form of physical damage to their bodies within seconds, though they still feel the pain of a wound before it heals. Preeminent vampires can snap their bones back into place after they have been broken and have been seen to fully recover from gunshots, stab wounds, and torso impalement very quickly, so long as they had consumed a regular diet of human blood prior to the injury. Those Preeminent vampires who feed on animals will still heal much faster than a human, but their injuries, especially severe ones, will take much longer to heal than a Preeminent vampires who feeds on human blood. The only injury a Preeminent vampires can sustain that cannot be healed on its own or by consuming more blood is a werewolf bite, which requires Klaus' or Hope's blood or a very rare scientifically-created serum to cure. Also, a Preeminent vampires enhanced healing is limited to physical damage to their bodies—many forms of magical damage (such as the damage caused by The Phoenix Sword) and psychological damage are beyond its capability. Preeminent vampires can grow back body parts.
* **Immortality:** A Preeminent vampires stops aging once turned. Upon their transformation, Preeminent vampires become immune to all conventional illness, diseases, viruses and infections. While vampires who were cancer-free as humans will be immune to cancer after they are turned, those humans who were turned while they had cancer will not only still have it as a vampire, but their newly-enhanced healing factor will accelerate the progression of the cancer cells over two-fold, nearly always causing the cancer-stricken vampire to kill themselves to end their suffering.
* **Enhanced Emotions:** Preeminent vampires experience emotions more powerfully than humans. Emotions like love, joy, and happiness are magnified for vampires, allowing them to live life more intensely. This ability allows vampires to feel emotions at their peak regardless of their age. Conversely, sadness, depression, guilt, fear and anger are also amplified, causing many vampires to become so overwhelmed that they "turn off" their humanity. Turning off their humanity allows them to block out their more negative emotions, such as fear and guilt, allowing them to feed and kill without remorse, go against any opponent without fear, and relieve themselves of painful feelings such as grief, loss, depression, and shame. A vampire without their emotions is far more calculating and direct than one who keeps them on. However, the vampire can become a remorseless killer, and are almost unrecognizable from the person they truly are, as blocking out negative emotions also causes their positive emotions to become dulled or nonexistent as well. Vampires are capable of turning their humanity back on and bringing back their emotions, but it is difficult as a result of the fact that they will be bombarded with all of their repressed emotions in addition to the guilt of anything they did without their humanity with enhanced intensity. This ability fades with time and vampires who are over 500 years old have said that they have lost the ability to turn off their humanity altogether. After time and practice, the overwhelming sensations of heightened emotions fade as the vampire learns to overcome their emotions without turning off their humanity all together.
* **Mind Compulsion:** Preeminent vampires have the ability to influence and control thoughts, emotions, and behavior and can alter or erase memories. There is a sort of hierarchy as to how this ability works and have a weaker form than that of Original vampires and can compel humans, and witches.
* **Telepathy:** Preeminent vampires have a limited form of telepathy that allows them to easily enter the minds of humans, and with more effort, the minds of other supernatural beings. Other ways to weaken a vampire to use telepathy on them are to starve them or drain them of blood, inject them with vervain, or expose them to werewolf venom. It is one of the hardest abilities to master, and because of this, it is usually the last of the mind-control-related abilities a vampire learns after becoming proficient in mind compulsion. Normally, this ability works through tactile contact, usually by the vampire placing the palms of his or her hands on the temples of the vampire whose mind they want to enter. The vampire then closes their eyes and focuses on the information they wish to seek, allowing them to sort through their victims' memories until they see what they're looking for. However, Damon and Elijah have been shown to mentally communicate with others from a short distance without tactile contact in order to send distress calls and mental images during emergency situations. Like their physical attributes, a vampire's mental strength increases with age, making it difficult for a vampire to invade the mind of an ancient vampire or even that of the Originals.
* **Poisonous Skin**: A Preeminent vampire has lesser version of the toxin then an Original Preeminent Vampire. If an Preeminent Vampire chooses can make his/hers skin poisonous due to him/her being a Preeminent Vampire. This toxin was designed so that Preeminent Vampires could get revenge if they died and it is fatal to most supernatural beings. The toxin spreads within 1-2 hours and it slowly eats away at your insides until you can no longer move. Then it completely rips you apart. Original Vampires and Upgraded Original Vampire are Very immune to this, though it just makes them weak.

* **Dream Manipulation:** Preeminent vampires can also use their power of telepathy to control dreams and the subconscious. This is an aspect of telepathy that is much easier to learn, and with it, a vampire has the ability to produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares and lucid dreaming, distort people's perception of reality and trap someone in their dreams. Vampires can manipulate and enter the subconscious of other vampires and even an Original vampire if they are vulnerable enough. However, this is a learned skill that requires practice to achieve.
* **Illusions:** Preeminent vampires have the power to trick the minds of other younger vampires into seeing or feeling things that aren't actually happening, such as when Lexi made Stefan believe he had been starved of blood for years.
* **True Face:** A Preeminent vampires true face is the appearance they are hiding under their normal human face. When a vampire's true face is revealed, the sclera of their eyes stay white and the pupils 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, the fangs are longer then normal vampires. On some occasions, a vampire's fang teeth can include both their canines and their lateral incisors, in the case of Katherine, Elena, Isobel, and Lexi, or both their canines and their premolars, such as in Klaus, Lucien, Damon, and Tyler's case. A vampire's 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 fear, anger, lust, sadness, etc. A Preeminent vampires fangs are extremely sharp which gives them the ability to tear into almost any substance and tear off limbs. A Preeminent vampires 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.

## Weaknesses

If Preeminent vampire are killed by a wooden object stabbed through their heart, their body desiccates into a gray color, and their Preeminent vampire veins thicken and protrude from their skin and they will come back to life after some time. Preeminent vampire can build up a tolerance to some weaknesses, such as vervain, allowing them to protect themselves from compulsion by an Original and to help lessen the likelihood that it will seriously incapacitate them when used by enemies. However, it will still burn them upon contact, but if ingested, it will not weaken them as much if they take small amounts over time to increase their immunity.

* **Animal Blood**: Animal blood, while somewhat satisfying a Preeminent vampire's hunger and sustaining their undead life, will make the Preeminent vampire considerably weaker than they would be if they had drank human blood, causing their physical abilities to be inferior to a human-blood-consuming vampire, making them heal much more slowly, and making their compulsion less effective.
* **Broken Neck**: Breaking a Preeminent vampire's neck will not kill them, but it will render in a death-like state for varying amounts of time, depending on the diet and age of the person in question.
* **The Cure**: If a Preeminent vampire takes the cure, they will revert back to being mortal again or if they was a vampire before being an Preeminent vampire they will just be a normal vampire again.
* **Decapitation**: Dismembering or manually removing the head of a Preeminent vampire will result in an instant and permanent death.
* **Desiccation**: Preeminent vampire who abstain from blood for extended amounts of time will eventually desiccate and mummify. Witches can use magic to desiccate a Preeminent vampire, and Wes Maxfield also developed a serum that would cause desiccation in a vampire if they were not given an antidote within a short matter of time not known if it works on Preeminent vampire.
* **Fire**: Preeminent vampire are highly flammable and sensitive to fire, and will quickly burn and die from it if the flames are not extinguished in time. This quality has been proven to be useful in disposing of the remains of a dead vampire without any physical evidence. However, in some cases, vampires have used this vulnerability to their advantage, such as when Elijah and Elena removed their daylight rings and exposed their hands to sunlight near an open gas leak, causing explosions and fireballs to incapacitate or kill their enemies and dampening the flames before they can do harm to themselves.
* **Heart Extraction**: Removing the heart of a Preeminent vampire will result in permanent death.
* **Invitation**: Preeminent vampire cannot enter a home without an invitation by the owner. An invitation can be granted long-distance and even by someone who hasn't lived in the house in years. For example, Josette Laughlin invited Stefan into her parents' home despite the fact that she had not been there in nearly twenty years.
* **Magic**: Preeminent vampire are susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. This is inclusive of mystical objects such as the Gilbert Device and dark objects. A Siphoner can also siphon the magic from a vampire to fuel their spells. Witches have been seen to use magic to cause agonizing pain by inducing aneurysms in their brain or muscle spasms, telekinetically ripping out their hearts or snapping their necks, magically increasing their hunger for blood to unbearable levels, setting them ablaze with a single thought, and desiccating them to the point of mummification.
* **Physical Trauma**: Minor physical injuries such as gunshots, stab wounds, and broken bones will cause pain and also slow them down. However, this is momentary as they will heal completely so long as they haven't been weakened by other means such as vervain or werewolf bites.

* **Sunlight**: Sunlight and UV rays burn Preeminent Vampire on contact but it will not kill them. However, this weakness can be mitigated by the use of a lapis lazuli stone enchanted with a specific protection spell by a witch for a particular Preeminent Vampire, which is usually affixed to jewelry, though it requires the Preeminent Vampire to wear the stone at all times.
* **Vampire Bloodline**: If the Marcus Hale dies, all Preeminent vampires descended from his bloodline will slowly perish as well.

* **Vervain**: Exposure to or ingestion of vervain causes a preeminent vampire to become severely feverish and weak to the point that it can even hinder their healing abilities as well. Also, physical contact with vervain will burn a preeminent vampire's skin. Preeminent vampire cannot compel anyone who has ingested vervain or has it on their person. Many vampire's drink small amounts of diluted vervain to protect themselves from Original vampires' compulsion and to reduce its effects when used against them by enemies.

* **Werewolf Venom**: The bite of a werewolf, which involves injecting toxic venom into the wound, is extremely lethal to preeminent vampire. It will cause them to hallucinate, grow severely weak, and go rabid until it kills them. Klaus', Marcus' or Hope's blood is the only surefire way to cure the bite, though one of the doctors allied with the Travelers managed to come up with a cure for the enhanced Ripper compound, which contained small amounts of werewolf venom. Lucien Castle also possessed a scientifically-created serum that, when injected into a werewolf bite wound, would cure the vampire of the venom's effects and allow them to heal the wound. Preeminent vampire suffering from the bite seem to always hallucinate either significant moments from their past, significant people in their lives, or specific actions of the preeminent vampire that they feel guilty or ashamed about.
	+ **Advanced Werewolf Venom**: Lucien Castle invented an advanced strain of venom derived from the seven werewolf bloodlines with no known cure. The venom is infused in the bite of an Upgraded Original vampire. Similarly, it is fatal to that of a werewolf or hybrid bite, although working twice as fast and more painfully. It is so potent that not even the blood of Klaus or Hope Mikaelson can cure it, nor will the blood of the Upgraded Original vampire. Marcus' blood will cure the bite. Freya has made a cure to the bite.
* **Wood**: Wounding a preeminent vampire with a wooden weapon, such as wooden bullets, will incapacitate them and it will take longer for them to heal their injuries than if the wounds were caused by any other substance. Stabbing a preeminent vampire through the heart with a wooden stake will result in it will render in a death-like state for varying amounts of time but it will not kill them.
* **White Oak Ash Daggers**: It is said that if a preeminent vampire daggers an Original vampire, they will die while the Original vampire is neutralized. This, however, has never been proven.
* **Preeminent Stake:** is the only weapon you can stab them with that will result in an instant and permanent death like a wood stake would to an normal vampire.

## Relationships

### Kieran O'Connell

"*I'm sorry. I just couldn't lose you, not like that.*"
—**Camille** to **Kieran**
*Main article: Camille and Kieran*
Kieran was Camille's uncle. For a very long time he was her only family, as he parents were gone, and her twin brother committed suicide. They both cared about each other deeply, so much so, that Kieran went as far as asking Klaus to compel Cami to forget about the supernatural world, and leave New Orleans, so she wouldn't be in any danger. After that failed, and Kieran was hexed by the witch Bastianna Natale, Cami refused to let him go; she did everything she could to find a way to lift the hex; even begging to Genevieve to help them. But, as she refused, Cami turn to Josh for help, asking him to compel a doctor, so that he may save Kieran's life. But that failed as well, and even after he turned to a vampire and tried to kill her, she always believed in him, and after he was killed, she was devastated, depressed, and heart-broken. And even a long time after his death she kept missing him. After she turned into a vampire herself, she vowed to keep their family legacy, as he would.

### Niklaus Mikaelson

*Main article: Klaus and Camille*
Klaus spotted Camille earlier on before their meeting while with Marcel. He then later met her upon a busy New Orleans street, they were both drawn to the same painting. Her words about the man in the painting being "alone", caused him to show his humanity and seemingly change his mind towards the future of his unborn child. As Klaus wanted to regain control of Marcel's empire, he used Camille and compelled her into being with Marcel in order to get closer to Marcel's weapon. Klaus eventually tells Camille he is a vampire- although compels her not to be afraid and to forget once she leaves. Klaus seems to care for her, more than he would an average human and shows his humanity around her, particularly when taking away her memories so she will have peace of mind due to the events surrounding her brother's supernatural death, although she pleads not to take away her memories he promises he will find out what happened to her brother. While Camille is seen to sympathize with Klaus after he reveals part of his past, after regaining all of her memories, she feels rage towards him and the terms of their relationship is very strained after she threatens him. as the story progresses, the two of them turned allies, especially after Klaus helped Camille with her uncle Kieran's hex. In Season Two, they continue to be friends, and allies, since Camille got involved in the Mikaelsons' family drama, and in which, they both saved each others' lives. When Mikael kidnapped Camille, one could tell by Klaus' reactions that he felt for Camille. In a recent episode, Camille makes a comment to Davina about how the Mikaelson brothers have a way of getting underneath their skins.

In season Three Camille becomes more and more Klaus' love interest. When Klaus' former vampire girlfriend Aurora abducts Camille and Klaus comes to her rescue, he finally admits his feelings to Aurora and to Camille in person at Christmas night, sharing their first kiss. It was their last happy evening, because the next morning Cami is turning vampire being compelled by Aurora to cut her throat after drinking a vile of Aurora's blood. Camille becomes a baby vampire having paranoid issues of her own, just like Klaus, because she thinks Klaus loves Aurora and he only loved her humanity. Just when things become better between them and Camille comes to Klaus' rescue when he is abducted by Lucien and Aurora, Lucien gives Camille a deadly bite.

While she is dying in the compound Klaus brings Camille into a dream world where they share a perfect date at a corner café, the personal wish of Klaus, with the same painter in the background when they met the first time.

Before the end, Klaus reveals his true feelings. He admits to loving her. And that out of his long life and the many people who have been forgotten, he will carry her with him. In that way, Cami realizes that would make her immortal.

Once Cami dies, Klaus does not utter one more word for the rest of the episode. He becomes totally silent.

### Marcel Gerard

*Main article: Marcel and Camille*
Marcel spotted Cami walking alone at night and Marcel decided if she was brave, he'd let her live, and if she was dumb, she was dessert. When he startled her, she promptly told him she has a black belt in karate. She lived. She represents an allure to Marcel. Their relationship will further develop as he is drawn to her. She sees him as a hot, sexy bad boy but is afraid of getting herself hurt again. After Camille realized she was compelled by Klaus to date Marcel, she tried to push her feelings onto the compulsion, however Klaus stated whatever feelings she felt for Marcel were real. Their relationship status seems unknown after her realization of being compelled and his relationship with Rebekah, however it was clear that she had developed some sort of attraction to him. After the events with Hope went down, they had a summer fling, but Cami ended things when she told Marcel that she didn't want to be deep in vampire business anymore. Also, Cami started growing closer to Klaus, which complicated things for her. They are currently friends and allies. However, they are permanently separated when Cami dies a second death and Marcel is currently mourning her loss.

### Other Relationships

* Hope and Camille (Former Guardian-Relationship/Former Allies)
* Davina and Camille (Friends/Former Allies)
* Elijah and Camille (Friends/Former Allies)
* Josh and Camille (Friends/Former Allies)
* Finn and Camille (Former college advisor and student/Ex-Friends/Former Enemies)
* Hayley and Camille (Friends/Former Allies)
* Vincent and Camille (Close Friends/Former Allies)
* Lucien and Camille (Enemies)
* Rebekah and Camille (Friends/Former Allies)
* Camille and Will (Friends/Former Allies/Former Partners)
* Camille and Genevieve (Former Enemies)
* Camille and Aurora (Enemies/Rivals)

1. ↑ Girl in New Orleans