Rebekah Mikaelson

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## Biographical Information

### Turned

* By Esther in Autumn 1001  (Through The Immortality Spell)

### Occupation

* Noblewoman  (1002-1700's) (Formerly)
* Nurse  (1919) (Formerly)
* High School Student  (Graduated)
* Guardian of Hope Mikaelson  (Formerly)
* Prisoner  (Formerly)

### Species

* Untapped Witch  (Originally)
* Original Vampire  (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Paternal Grandfather †
* Godric Gryffindor † (Maternal Grandfather)
* Mikael † (Father)
* Esther Mikaelson † (Mother)
* Dahlia † (Maternal Aunt)
* Freya Mikaelson (Older Brother)
* Finn Mikaelson † (Older Brother)
* Elijah Mikaelson † (Older Brother)
* Niklaus Mikaelson † (Older Maternal Half-Brother)
* Kol Mikaelson (Older Brother)
* Henrik Mikaelson † (Youngest Brother)
* Freya's Unborn Son † (Nephew)
* Marcel Gerard (Husband)
* Keelin Malraux (Sister-In-Law)
* Davina Claire (Sister-in-Law)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece)
* Josie Mikaelson (Adoptive Niece)
* Scorpius Malfoy (Great-Nephew)
* EJ Malfoy (Great-Nephew)
* Grayson Lightwood  (Adoptive Great-Nephew)
* Andrea Malfoy (Great-Niece)
* Lizzie Malfoy (Great-Niece)
* Caroline Lightwood  (Adoptive Great-Niece)
* Arden Lightwood  (Adoptive Great-Niece)
* Salem Malfoy (Great-Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Sires

* Aurora de Martel  (1002)
* Lenore †  (2012)

### Significant Kills

* Genevieve  (Indirectly, 1st time)
* Clara Summerlin  (Indirectly)
* Unnamed Guard
* Unnamed Girl
* Elena Gilbert  (2nd time, as a human)
* Alaric Saltzman  (through Elena's death)
* Galen Vaughn  (Indirectly)
* 6 of Marcel's Nightwalker Vampires
* Unnamed Witch
* Unknown Number of Bayou Werewolves
* Eva Sinclair  (Consciousness)
* Numerous members of the Strix
* One of Sofya's Vampires
* The Hollow's Followers

### Cause of Death

* Stabbed through the heart  (as an untapped witch)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'6½"  (Feet)
* 1.69  (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Claire Holt

**Rebekah Mikaelson** (***Elder Futhark:** ᚱᛖᛒᛖᚲᚨᚺ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ)* is the sole female Original vampire half-blood and second daughter to Mikael and Esther. She is the younger sister of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, and the elder sister of Henrik and the younger half-sister of Klaus. She is the aunt of Freya and Mathias' unborn son, Klaus and Hayley's daughter, Hope, and Freya and Keelin's adoptive daughter, Josie, and is the wife to Marcel Gerard.

**Rebekah** is a member of the **Mikaelson Family**, **Gryffindor Family**, and an unnamed **Norwegian family of powerful witches**.

## Personality

Initially, Rebekah's personality is erratic, spiteful and vindictive. After being turned, the aspects of her personality were heightened. Rebekah mentions this, saying, "*We're vampires. Our emotions are heightened. I'm stubborn, Elijah moral, and Nik. Nik has no tolerance for those who disappoint him*". After her mother's death, Rebekah grieves deeply, sometimes crying herself to sleep calling out her mother's name, as said by Esther. After spending centuries with Klaus, with whom she shares a close bond with, she has become dependent on him, although she is not fond of him making decisions for her.

Because of the heartbreak she has endured, Rebekah has built up an emotional wall and she comes across as being cruel, aggressive, brutal and mean. Despite her aggressive and brutal nature, she has shown to be emotionally fragile. In reference to Rebekah, Elena says, "*I learned that she is just a girl and that she lost her mom too young. And she loves blindly and recklessly, even if it consumes her*". She very much wants to be like a normal teenager and longs to have the normal teenage life she missed out on. Rebekah is also shown to be very punctual, as she showed up on time to clean up the dance that she organized, but didn't attend due to the incident with Esther and reprimanded Caroline for showing up two minutes late.

Rebekah fears being left alone and she doesn't believe it when people treat her kind as a friend or a lover. Over the centuries, she was let down by her half-brother Klaus and her lover Stefan. She is just a lonely girl who wants someone who actually cares about her. Rebekah had her heart melted when she saw Stefan and Elena's devotion to each other, possibly because she wanted to be in a similar relationship.

She grew closer to Matt Donovan in the fourth season, and his influence seemed to rub off on her. She was not as spiteful and arrogant as she was before and was willing to assist the main gang whenever she was needed. Despite her rivalry with Caroline, she didn't hesitate on saving her life by harshly knocking her out of her trance. Finally, the inner good within herself shined through when she saved Matt from being blown to pieces by Alexander.

However, Rebekah can be just as bad as her half-brother Klaus, although she is intelligent and calculating, Rebekah is extremely reckless and impulsive far more then Klaus; although Klaus is known to be reckless and impulsive, he never does something to draw unwanted attention to himself, like when she summoned Mikael to New Orleans to "kill" Klaus because she could no longer take his cruelty, she had a change of heart, however, it was too late, as this action of hers, not only backfired but Mikael also burned New Orleans to the ground.

Despite being over 1000 years old, she is still childish and immature; evident by the fact that she is very naïve, according to Klaus, Rebekah's temper is worse than his, she has also stated that she inherited her temper from her father; hinting that Rebekah has a bad temper.

Ever since moving to New Orleans, Rebekah has shown a lot more of her inner humanity. She has shown a special affection for Hayley and the baby she is carrying, breaking Tyler Lockwood's neck when he outwardly threatened the baby's life. She has also supported for Hayley when she needed her help, and Hayley was among the few people that Rebekah said goodbye to, hoping that she would tell crazy stories about her to her unborn niece and asking Hayley to give the child her love. She sympathized with the young witch Davina and made sure that Marcel and her brothers didn't get their hands on her during the Casket Girls festival. She silently berated Klaus for costing the life of an innocent human in his attempt to prove a point to Davina. Even in flashbacks, her capacity for heroism is evident, having saved young women who were about to be taken advantage of by men of ill will. She has even saved Matt Donovan from the safe he was trapped in and greeted him with a smile. She sent Tyler Lockwood to him has a parting gift. Rebekah's past eventually caught up (when her treachery for bringing Mikael to New Orleans is exposed) with her and this caused her to try every way possible to escape her half-brother's clutches, she tells him she only wanted to force him to run but he forces her to say she wanted him dead. She was exiled from New Orleans, but optimistic of a bright future that awaits her.

Rebekah returns to New Orleans to take her niece, Hope, and keep her safe from Esther. She has exhibited a light-hearted and warm air upon meeting her beloved brothers again, as if the bad blood between them didn't matter in the slightest.

It appeared that upon leaving New Orleans with baby Hope, Rebekah was a nurturing and gentle guardian, often telling Hope stories of her family and parents, referring to them as a fairy tale with Klaus the 'king' and Hope his 'princess'. Rebekah was also seen playing with Hope at the park, enjoying the human-like life she was experiencing.

Later on, it became evident that Rebekah was willing to do anything to keep her niece safe, even if this included becoming violent towards those related to her. Upon meeting Elijah at the cafe where the exchange of baby Hope would occur, Rebekah saw the massacre that Elijah had performed in the cafe kitchen. Fearing for Hopes life, Rebekah resorted to temporarily killing Elijah. It was also shown that still after failing to get the cure, Rebekah still longs for the human life. Rebekah, went on to mention that she feared the time when she would have to return Hope to her parents, after spending so much time together and experiencing a human life. Eventually she became the mother she always wanted to be when she saved Lizzie and Josie.

## Physical Appearance

Rebekah is a beautiful and very attractive woman and has natural light blonde hair, light blue eyes, full lips, and pale light skin with a small dusting of freckles across her cheeks and nose. She is a tall and slim Caucasian female. She's over 1000-years old, but looks like she is about 16 or 17 years old teenage girl. When Rebekah is in her vampiric form, her eyes will turn red with small veins protruding around the area of her eyes and her teeth will lengthen into fangs, possibly longer than that of regular vampires. Her eyes also seem a lot redder than normal vampires.

In terms of fashion sense, Rebekah is often seen wearing stylish and mature clothing with trendy coats and fashionable jewelry, such as long necklaces and pendants or dangle earrings. She is mostly seen wearing the colors of white, black, brown or gray. She often wears low-heeled boots and shoes with dark jeans or leggings. As a human and early years as an Original vampire, she was very in-tuned with fashion and her style was very "in" to the times, for example in the 1920s, Rebekah wore the classic "flapper" dresses with long pearl necklaces and matching jewelry.

Rebekah has long, icy blonde-hair, which is usually naturally wavy; however, she can occasionally be seen with straight or curled hair or pulled back in a casual style, rarely wearing any hair accessories. In early centuries, Rebekah had long, waist length hair with braids and flowers; however her hair changes with the times.

During special occasions, such as dances and balls, Rebekah wears very elegant dresses, for example, at the Mikaelson's Ball she wore a beautiful green one-shoulder dress. However, she mainly wears slacks and jeans and has an overall very formal sense of style. Rebekah's makeup usage is minimal, subtle daily; but she tends to wear more for special occasions.

## Powers and Abilities

Rebekah possesses all of the standard powers of an Original Vampire. Rebekah is currently the strongest female vampire alive and one of the strongest vampires in the world, perhaps with the exception of her older brother, Kol. Previously, Rebekah was weaker than her hybrid brother Klaus, until his death. Due to her Original Vampire status, the powers Rebekah possesses are stronger than those of a non-Original surpassing in strength, even the most ancient ones, like Aurora De Martel, who was the first vampire she ever sired. She was easily capable of subduing both Damon and Stefan Salvatore, both of whom are almost two centuries old and very skilled fighters, Marcel Gerard and Katherine Pierce to name a few.

Rebekah is shown to be a skilled operator of mind compulsion. Throughout the series, she has been shown to compel people to do her bidding. A testament to her skills with this ability is when she compelled Tyler Lockwood to turn without the full moon after becoming a hybrid. Although being inferior to her brother Klaus, Rebekah has been shown on many occasions to stand up to him without fear, however, she has been easily subdued by Klaus on many occasions. Due to her advanced age, Rebekah has a higher threshold for werewolf venom than any other non-Original vampire. She was seen able to kill many fully transformed werewolves on a full moon, before being finally subdued herself. This shows her physical strength as Rose-Marie, despite being over five hundred and sixty years old, failed to defeat even one werewolf.

Rebekah has subdued almost every non-Original vampire she has encountered. The only times she has been defeated was when they had the element of surprise, but she was quick to turn the outcome of the battle around. It has been shown that Rebekah possesses an adequate skill in hand-to-hand combat, being able to kill many members of the The Strix and hold her own against the very skilled fighter Aya — despite having not fed for six months. In *Savior*, It was shown that Rebekah is an extremely strong vampire. She was able to fight hybrid Hayley Marshall-Kenner with ease to the point of her near death. Rebekah was also able to subdue Elijah, an equally powerful vampire, easily by snapping his neck. When infected with the cursed stake, it took both Klaus and Elijah — both extremely skilled and powerful Original Vampires — to restrain a rabid Rebekah, showing the power she possesses.

## Weaknesses

Rebekah has the typical weaknesses of an Original vampire.

## Name

* **Rebekah** is a feminine name of Hebrew origin (רבקה). The name means "*to tie*". \*It's a biblical name, of the wife of Isaac and mother of Esau and Jacob. Alternate version of it is *Rebecca*.
* **Mikaelson** is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
	+ If Rebekah was to truly follow Norse traditions, her surname should technically be **Mikaelsdotter** (daughter of Mikael) as oppose to Mikaelson (son of Mikael).