Brandon Mikaelson

* The Hollow (1st time; as an Original)

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**Brandon William "Bran" Mikaelson** is a Original Vampire and also a supportive character on **The Midnight Rose**.

Brandon was the third child and second son of Theodore and Katara. He was the younger brother of Nicolette and Adam, and the older brother of Dominic, Theresa and Daniel. Brandon was also the older brother of Christopher, Christopher and Elizabeth’s daughter, Evie.

hroughout his long life, Brandon had several romantic relationships. In the early 11th century, Brandon and Christopher were both in love with a Petrova Doppelgänger named Tatia. Brandon accidentally killed Tatia after he became a vampire and was traumatized and horrified by the violence of his actions towards her. Brandon's mother told him to seal the event behind a "red door" and to clean himself up.

As long as he was clean, nothing of what happened behind the red door could hurt him. As such, this became Brandon's defense mechanism to cope with the horrors of his vampirism and a warlock for the next thousand years.

In the 15th century, Brandon was romantically involved with another Petrova Doppelgänger, a young girl from Bulgaria, named Katerina Petrova. In the 19th century, Brandon was romantically involved with a witch named Céleste Dubois, whose death was later caused by his twin brother Christopher. In the 21st century, Brandon rekindled his relationship with Katerina Petrova aka Elizabeth Pierce.

He and Christopher continued to work in a combined effort to stop Katara, Adam and a resurrected Theodore, while struggling with reawakened sins from his past. He also took Gia, one of Marcel's vampires as his protégé, and eventually began a romantic relationship until Christopher killed her.

In the third season, he made it his mission to prevent a prophecy depicting his family's downfall from coming to pass, even taking on his first sired vampire to do it. However, unknowingly, Brandon completed the prophecy himself, by killing Marcel Gerard. After the latter came back to life as the Beast from the prophecy, he bit Brandon and his younger brother Dominic, knowing his bite would kill them both. He then banished Mikaelson from Meridian. However, unknown to Marcel, Brandon's older sister Nicolette linked him and all their siblings to Christopher's life force, giving Elizabeth time to find cures for them all.

**Brandon** is a member of The **Mikaelson Family** and The **Strucker Family**.

## Early History

### Mystic Falls, The Middle Ages, 10th Century

Brandon Mikaelson is the third-born of Theodore and Katara children, born in an area of the New World that would come to be known as Mystic Falls, Virginia. Brandon's parents fled from Europe, with his older brother,Adam, and a few others after the supposed death of his older sister, Nicolette, from the plague while Katara was pregnant with Brandon. His mother lied to him, his father and the rest of the Mikaelson family. His older sister was actually taken by his aunt. Brandon was the first of their children to be born in the New World, followed by three brothers,Christopher, Dominic, Theresa.
The loss of his first born had hardened Theodore and he proved to be a very strict father, who was feared by all his children. Brandon had a close relationship with his mother, who once mentioned to him that, when she was pregnant with him, she would have Nicolette sing to him. This was one of the few times Katara ever spoke of her lost daughter. In addition, Brandon was very close to his siblings, with the exception of Adam, who had never recovered from losing Nicolette and never taken to his new siblings as a result. Brandon was closest to Christopher and Theresa, and his younger brother would often carve figurines and statuettes for his brother and sister.However, while Theodore was hard on all his children, he was hardest on Christopher, whom he saw as weak. Once, when Brandon took his younger brother hunting and complimented him on the improvement of his aim (despite the fact that Christopher had missed his target), Theodore arrived and started beating Christopher to 'strengthen' him, threatening Brandon with violence if he tried to intervene. He carried guilt for the rest of his life for not stopping their father's beatings against his brother. Once, Theodore beat Christopher to near death in a rage and only stopped when both Brandon and Theresa tried to stop him. That night, Theresa tried to kill Theodore as he slept to end his abuse of Christophertopher stopped her and considered killing his father himself. Ultimately, he didn't. He is the most powerful warlock that exists.

They lived among the werewolves for about twenty years and during the full moon, the humans would simply hide in the underground caves while the werewolves turned. During Brandon's early life, Brandon and Christopherboth fell in love with a woman named Tatia who lived in their village. All the villagers wanted to be her suitors including Christopher and Brandon, both of them during their time with her, argued with each other and fought each other because they both wanted her for themselves. Tatia chose Brandon to be her next husband when the time came.

One morning after a full moon, Christopher came out of the woods, holding his dead little brother Henrik in his arms. Brandon came running to join his mother as she grieved Henrik's death.
To ensure that the rest of her family would survive, Katara used a spell to make her children immortal. Theodoregave his children wine laced with Tatia's blood. Then he stabbed Brandon and his siblings through their hearts and made them drink human blood. After becoming a vampire, Brandon, along with his family, made sure that the White Oak Tree, their one true weakness, would be destroyed. However, nature retaliated against them and, for every strength, there was a weakness, none stronger than the desire for what had made them immortal: human blood. They had become the very first vampires.
Shortly after becoming a hybrid Half-Warlock Half-Vampire, one night when Christopher made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf side. Christopher went on a rampage in wolf form. When he awoke the following morning he was tended to by Brandon unbeknownst to them Tatia had followed them to see what happened. Seeing all the carnage created by Christopher she ran from them in fear and was pursued by Brandon. She had tripped and fell while trying to flee and cut her hand. The blood made Brandon lose control and attack her. She tried to defend herself but was no match and was killed. Brandon brought her corpse to a shocked Katara hoping that she could save her. Katara used the rest of her blood as part of the spell used to bind Christopher' werewolf side, whic resulted in Christopher' werewolf gene being dormant. Theodorealso made Brandon help him in tying up Christopher so that his mother could do the spell. Brandon suppressed the memory of how Tatia actually died believing he had been compelled not to kill her in the woods and that Katara killed her when performing the hybrid curse.

### 1002

#### Southern France

Brandon ran from Theodore with his siblings, fleeing to Europe where they fed along the countryside. However, Brandon stressed regulation and rules, taking up the duties of the eldest due to Adam's pessimistic view of their immortal lives. Before they had learned compulsion to help cover their tracks, Brandon made sure that they always disposed of the bodies they fed on and killed whoever knew the truth about them. He also made sure that they stood together and didn't separate, reminding his siblings of their vows.

One day, they killed noblemen in a caravan and Theresa proposed that they steal their fine clothing and take up their identities so they could live in a nearby castle. Brandon reminded her that they were in a foreign land with customs far different than they knew. When they discovered a survivor in the attack, a servant of the castle named Lucien, Brandon urged his siblings to kill him before he could make their presence known, possibly bringing Theodoreto them. However, when Christopher called for a vote, only Brandon and Dominic voted to kill him, with Dominic only doing it to appease his own bloodlust rather than necessity like Brandon. With Christopher' vote, they let Lucien live on the condition that he'd help them pose as nobles and bring them to the castle. Lucien taught them manners so they wouldn't be caught when presented to Count de Martel. When they met the count, Brandon managed to convince the noble of their legitimacy and they pulled off their ruse, being welcomed into his court.

    Later that year, Brandon and his siblings had managed to comfortably integrate themselves into noble society. They participated in activities of the count's court, including ax throwing competitions, and their secret remained unnoticed. However, after Lucien was taken to the dungeons for supposedly having an affair with the count's daughter, Aurora, Brandon and Christopher intended to rescue him from his punishment. However, Tristan was the one punishing Lucien, torturing him, and reminded Brandon and Christopher that as the count's son, he had a right to give punishment in whatever way he wished. When they persisted, he revealed that he knew what they were, as a survivor of one of Kol's feedings had told him about what they really were. He threatened to expose them as monsters to the entire land. Not wanting to risk the news spreading to Mikael, Brandon and Christopher stepped down and watched while Tristan scared Lucien. After Christopher had discovered that his blood healed Lucien before Lucien was killed by a guard, Brandon comforted his brother when they prepared to burn his body. However, Lucien awoke from death, eventually transitioning into a vampire.

One night, Adam told his siblings that word had spread among the villagers of their presence. They decided it was time to run from the castle, in fear that Theodore would be coming. While they prepared to depart, Aurora, who had been turned into a vampire and had had a romance with Christopher, begged Brandon to let her come with them. Brandon refused, saying that she wasn't their blood. Aurora, furious, told him that she knew things that even Brandon and the other siblings didn't know about Christopher. When Brandon demanded the truth, he learned compulsion, which forced her to tell him what she knew. Aurora told him that Christopher had killed Esther and put the blame on Theodore, lying to all of his siblings. Brandon was enraged by the truth and compelled Aurora to see Christopher for the monster that he was, which soon after led to her rejecting Christopher when he tried to take her with them. Brandon never told Christopher about his involvement in the end of the affair, as he had suppressed the memory behind the "red door" in his mind, as he tried to tell Christopher the truth by stating how when Esther broke Brandon's "red door," the memory came back.Some time later, Brandon turned Tristan into the first sired vampire of his line and then compelled him, Lucien Castle, and Aurora to think that they were Brandon, Christopher, and Theresa so they can act as a decoy to lure their father away from them. After that, Brandon and his four siblings left France. A while after that the five Mikaelsons settled in Tuscany, Italy

### 1114 A.D

#### 1114 A.D Italy

Brandon was in Italy along with his siblings Theresa and Christopher, where he worried that Christopher and Dominic's violent behavior was spreading word of the Original vampires and drawing too much attention. They came across a vampire hunter named Brandon who was part of a group called the Brotherhood of the Five, where he publicly executed vampires in presentations on how to kill the "demons". Their sister, however, had fallen in love with Brandon so Brandon and Christopher took advantage of the affair as an opportunity to get closer to the hunter and find out his secrets. One day, the siblings were invited to a party at Brandon's home where they were ambushed and neutralized for the first time by White Oak Ash Daggers. Christopher was unaffected by the dagger thanks to his werewolf lineage and undaggered Brandon and the rest of his siblings except Adam.

### 1200-1500s

#### 1200

Brandon founded the ancient vampire society, The Strix together with his lover Aya, after he turned her. They founded The Strix in hopes of bringing like-minded individuals together to create a new, better world. However, not long after, his father found him, started destroying the society he had built, and Brandon was forced to flee with siblings. Brandon had to abandon The Strix to save his family from Theodorebut asked Aya to come with him. She refused, staying behind while Brandon fled and Theodore slaughtered The Strix members. By the time Brandon returned, it was too late; Tristan de Martel -together with Aya- took control over the organization. Aya never forgave Brandon for abandoning the group and The Strix were slowly corrupted by Tristan into a more savage, ego-maniacal force than Brandon had ever intended it to be.

### 1359

According to Brandon's Journal, he had begun noticing Theresa and Christopher losing their humanity. However, Brandon hoped as their older brother he could lead them down the right path to reclaiming their humanity and carry on the family legacy. But he believed if he fails, their family legacy would fall in ruins.

### England, 1452

In England, Brandon and Christopher were noblemen in the late 15th century. In 1492 Brandon met Katerina Petrova, who was the Doppelgänger of Tatia and moments later, showed her to his younger brother Christopher. Katerina was the key to breaking Christopher' Hybrid Curse through sacrifice. While Brandon was helping Christopher achieve his goal, he started to fall in love with Katerina. And one day Brandon saw Katerina bored, he took her outside to have fun and then they sat at a bench and talked about love. Brandon confessed to her that he didn't believe in love, but Katerina didn't believe him, saying that without love, they wouldn't have a reason to live at all. Christopher then came and interrupted, taking Katerina with him and away from Brandon. Brandon then tried to persuade Christopher to spare her life, but Christopher told him not to bother and that the ritual would go on as planned. On the night of the full moon, Katerina took the moonstone and fled with the help of Trevor. Christopher assumed Brandon helped her because of their discussion the night before about sparing her life. Brandon promised him that he would find her and Christopher responded with a promise of his own; if he did not find Katerina, he would be killed. Brandon attempted to track down Katerina, but failed.Copenhagen,

### Denmark, 1500s

Brandon lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, along with Christopher and Theresa.

### Cádiz, Spain, 1700s

In 1702, Dominic's violence in Cádiz, Spain drew too much attention and brought Theodore, straight to the family, burning the country in his wake. While the flames drew closer, Brandon and Christopher searched for Dominic while Theresa brought the daggered Finn onboard a ship to flee from Europe. They found him in a tavern where he drank and feasted on humans carelessly. Despite their warnings of Theodore's arrival, he refused to flee. When Christopher and Brandon insisted, Dominic attempted to resist them but was subdued by Brandon as Christopher pulled out one of the white oak ash daggers and successfully daggered and neutralized Dominic.

### 1713

In 1713, having fled Europe from Theodore, Brandon, along with Christopher and Theresa, and their two daggered brothers, sailed across the world, through the Mississippi River and arrived in the French colony of Louisiana, off the shores of a town they have named Meridian, 300 years from the present. Upon arriving off the coast of Meridian, they slaughtered all the men who boarded their ship, but left one alive to question and carry their luggage, including the two coffins of their neutralized brothers,Dominic and Adam.

### 1820

In 1820, Brandon, Christopher, Theresa were living in New Orleans at the Governor's mansion and paid him in gold to keep quiet about the existence of Vampires. One day the Governor threw a party for the Mikaelsons. Theresa went upstairs with the Governor's son who she wanted to turn. Brandon was seen kissing a woman and having fun when Theresa came to him with the Governor's son and asked Brandon if she could turn him, to which Brandon suggested it would be an unwise move to turn the Governor's son into a vampire.

Christopher told her no and told her that if she turned every boy she fell in love with, the humans would cease to exist. The boy then argued with Christopher and he threw him down the stairs while Brandon tried to stop it. While the siblings were going to attend the Governor's son's funeral, Christopher saw a boy being whipped and threw an apple at the man and made him stop whipping the boy. Christopher then came to the boy, named him Marcel and brought him to the family, Brandon saw this and told his sister: *"Perhaps there is hope for our brother after all"*.

Later in 1820 Brandon is seen visiting the Witch Celeste, who is seen taking a bath and is looking at Brandon, he likes the view of her. He's seeing it as perfection. Celeste then mentions that his brother, NiChristopher, is again up to no good. He's challenging the gentry to duels as though they have any chance of a fair fight. They talk about NiChristopher and kiss before Brandon goes to meet his brother

Christopher is seen challenging a man in a duel in which Christopher is left standing as the victor and the other man is shot to the head. Brandon then becomes a little worried and asks him if it is not enough that he has slaughtered dozens in the past several weeks, and explains that words of a city littered with bodies will surely travel the oceans and asks him if he wants to bring their father upon them. Christopher tells Brandon to relax because he has sent rumors that the bodies are the result of the witches seeking blood sacrifices for their rituals. Brandon is shocked by this and asks Christopher if he has forgotten that Celeste is one of those witches that he recklessly pointed his finger at. Christopher then asks, who Celeste even is.

Brandon then gives him a meaningful look and Christopher remembers that Celeste is the witch Brandon has been knocking around with. Brandon takes a revolver and shoots Christopher, who groans in pain. Christopher sees that Brandon cares about Celeste and warns him that they're rounding up the town's witches as they speak. Brandon then began to look for Celeste and found her lying in the bathtub, dead. Brandon touches her, lays his forehead on hers. He screams and blames himself for her death.

### 1821

In 1821, Brandon had grown close to Christopher' ward, Marcel, encouraging and teaching him. The growing bond between Marcel and Brandon made Christopher extremely jealous since he had been hoping to be Marcel' mentor. Angrily declaring that he needed someone to spend time with, Christopher revealed to Brandon that he had undaggered their younger brother, Dominic. Brandon was shocked and horrified by his youngest brother's awakening, rushing down to the coffins to find that Dominic had already killed a number of people. Brandon could only grudgingly watch things play out as Christopher and Dominic joyfully spread violence throughout the city, even slaughtering an entire tenement building for fun. Brandon tried to remind them that it was careless and destructive behavior that had cost them homes in the past.

Later, Brandon found Dominic tormenting Marcel, feeding him vampire blood and threatening to turn him, believing in his own twisted mind that it was what Brandon and Christopher wanted. Brandon defended Marcel from Dominic's sadism, grabbing his brother by the neck, only being stopped by Christopher who proceeded to dagger Dominic again, recognizing that he was too wild. Brandon later confessed to Dominic's daggered body that though he didn't like the daggerings, it was for the best since Dominic was a bad influence on Christopher. He also admitted that he'd have to isolate himself from Marcel to allow Christopher to grow closer to the boy since it would make him a better person. Brandon solemnly sacrificed a close and friendly relationship with Marcel for Christopher' benefit, treating Marcel with indifference from that point on.

### 1887

In the year 1887, 52 years after being daggered by Christopher, Theresa had finally been undaggered by him. Brandon had helped her reintegrate herself into New Orleans' society and they went to the opera house together. It was a moment that only Brandon and Theresa shared together.

### 1914

In the year 1914, Brandon attended his family's Christmas party with his siblings. During the party, Christopher gave a toast to the party-goers, revealing that he knew of betrayal planned by their brother Dominic, who had been conspiring with witches against him. Brandon, seemingly having also been informed of his younger brother's treachery, stopped Dominic as he tried to flee, holding him down while Christopher daggered him.

### 1919

In the year 1919, Brandon is seen in a meeting room, meeting with members from the Guerrera Family, a family of thieves and butchers according to Christopher, who says that is nothing compared to what they turn into on a full moon. Brandon told them that Mayor O'Connell was a little late but they should continue with business without him. Brandon assured them that they didn't need to be scared of Christopher as he made a promise they would be safe and Christopher told them his brother always keeps his word. Then a Witch appeared, Brandon told him it was a private meeting. But he said it was a meeting between kings and claimed he was also a king. He presents himself as Alphonz Papatunde Delgallo and that he now speaks for the witches of the French Quarter. He tells them the witches should get their fair share and leaves with a gift to Brandon and Christopher, the Mayor's head.

Later, when Marcel returns home from World War I, he's greeted by both Brandon and Christopher. Christopher tells Marcel, *"The prodigal son has finally learned to hold his liquor."* Marcel tells him being in the army does that to you. Brandon tells him it's g

ood to have him back, and tells him that Christopher was beside himself in Marcel's absence. Christopher then tells him that he and Brandon have had a little argument that Marcel might help with a rogue witch who wants a piece of the city they built. Christopher considered to kill him but Brandon meant that negotiation is their best recourse, as Brandon knows how fast news can travel, but also the very horrors of war itself. Christopher reveals that he invited the witch and Brandon told Marcel he could choose what they should do after he saw the witch. Brandon tried to negotiate with him but after all his sacrifices Brandon decided to meet with him in a private room. However Christopher appeared instead as Brandon only comes when they deal and Christopher comes when the deal is closed.

Later that year, Brandon is seen by both Theresa and Graysin, Theresa asks if she is interested in Brandon but she confirms she is interested in Christopher, Theresa then begins to talk of her older brother Dominic who is also a bad boy and she would like him to. At the bar Brandon meets with Clara Summerlin who was possessed by Céleste Dubois at that time. She had spilled her drink and Brandon gives her his tissue and leaves her with a smile.

Six months later in 1919 Brandon and Christopher are seen with a Werewolf named Lana who's the Werewolf Queen of the Crescent Wolf Clan. Christopher talked of how werewolves, vampires, witches and dirty-cops are happy as clams and drunk as stoats. They're celebrating the new era-collaboration in the face of prohibition. Christopher told him they did it, Brandon said he helped build the city but it was all because of Christopher. Brandon and Christopher sat and drank, until they saw Marcel and Theresa to come, Christopher knew they were a pair, but Brandon told him not to cause trouble. And to his surprise Christopher allowed them to be together and sat with Brandon minutes later.

The next day Brandon enters Christopher' room and sees Lana and jokes of him sleeping with an enemy who is now their ally, Christopher tells Brandon they got tickets to The Opera House and asks him to tell Theresa to bring Marcel with her. Brandon then left them. When Brandon was getting ready for The Opera, his father Theodore visited him and told Brandon he saw the "Le Grand Guignol" piece in Venice. Brandon is shocked seeing his father, Theodore assured him though, he only wished to talk. Brandon told him that he has hunted them for centuries and laid waste to half of Europe and wants to talk? Theodore corrected him that he only hunted Christopher and never his true children, he tells him he's his blood and he's proud to call him a son. Theodore then asks Brandon for his help to kill Christopher. Brandon attacked his father in rage, only to be thrown against the wall. Brandon tells his father that if he thinks he would betray Christopher for his own father, then he's a fool without equal. Theodore tells him that he'll forgive his sentimental affections for his brother, but says that Christopher is an abomination and that they must be erased from existence. Theodore then showed him the White Oak Stake, Brandon tried to stop him but Theodore forced him against the wall and told him that either he stands with him or falls with Christopher and after Brandon chose Christopher, Theodore staked Brandon with a normal wooden stake.

After Brandon woke up again he rushed to The Opera House and saw Theodore at the stage, as he was feeding from Marcel, Brandon urged his siblings to flee the scene. Theodore then burned down The Opera House and continued to hunt his children. Brandon, Christopher and Theresa were only a few blocks away. Brandon told Christopher and Theresa to flee while he delayed his father for a brief time. Christopher and Theresa then left New Orleans, leaving their older brother behind.

### Rostock Germany, 1933

Brandon arrived in Rostock Germany, and reunited with Christopher after not seeing him for thirteen years. Brandon came with warning to Christopher that word of his presence in Germany and spread and rumors of Theodore were spreading across Europe. Brandon explained that numerous massacres of werewolf packs had been happening nearby, but Christopher thought the purging was too systematic for Theodore. Brandon, worried that Theresa might be involved by Christopher, assured him that she was still in Chicago, with a young vampire, Stefan Salvatore. Christopher deduced that the slaughters were conducted by August Müller, a fascist vampire artist, that Christopher had a particular dislike for. August admitting to the murders, seeing it as a thinning of inferior scourges. Brandon initially quelled Christopher' rage but then pinned August to the wall, warning him not to continue since he was a runt in comparison to him. Brandon spared August, not wanting to expose his brother, worried that it would draw Theodore to them.

They came across one of the werewolf massacres and Brandon told Christopher that Christopher didn't have to be the savior of the wolves, and reassured him that he accepted and loved that side of him, despite their mother's infidelity. The two argued about Brandon's inaction until Christopher brought up that he was considering daggering Brandon and stacking him on top of Theresa, revealing that she was already daggered, and the letters Brandon had been receiving from her were really from Christopher. Brandon was disheartened that his brother hadn't changed, and Christopher told him to go back to where he came from, and that if he ever heard rumors of Theodore's approach again, to just let him come. A short time later, Brandon met August's "daughter", Antoinette Sienna, and the two shared their mutual frustrations with their families. He told her that he compelled workers at the railway to help anyone who wants to leave Germany and she took his offer, giving her a chance to escape from her hateful father. Christopher eventually killed August, sparing the rest of his family, Greta, Antoinette, and Roman Sienna.
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## Personality

### Human/Witch

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

### Original Vampire

Brandon is described as unpredictable, over-protective and stubborn, but also very kind, intelligent, selfless, empathetic, compassionate, and friendly. He is extremely loyal and has a loving nature. He strongly believes in trust, honesty and loyalty and whenever he would give his word to someone, he would keep it, as he has said "*I'm a man of my word*". Brandon has been known to break deals but only when he realized he was lied to, such as in his deal with Sophie Deveraux. He has a lot of respect and admiration for human life, which is unseen in many other vampires and is normally very reluctant to kill anyone when unnecessary. He is known for speaking his mind and having a fierce temper, which he possibly inherited from his father though unlike Mikael, Brandon is capable of controlling it. Brandon very rarely has tolerance for those who broke their words to him, shown when he killed Trevor for betraying him and imprisoned Katara for her own betrayal. He also has no tolerance for those that disrespect him. He has been shown to go to great lengths to make those that disrespect him suffer, such as Damon, Thierry, and Marcel. When Marcel disobeyed and disrespected Brandon, he killed Marcel's best friend Thierry in front of him so Marcel would suffer that loss for eternity instead of killing Marcel.
Brandon is very knowledgeable and deceptive in many ways. This encompasses knowledge of how to fight, wield a sword and defend himself. He exhibits an open-minded and optimistic personality. When he meets Elena, he respects her for her bravery and willingness to put herself in harm's way to protect her loved ones, which is something that Brandon himself has done for his family many times.
Brandon in general is a very emotionally hardened character and has difficulty at times handling and accepting certain emotions. This is evident when after losing his family because of Christopher, he turns his sadness and pain into revenge against his half-brother. Brandon is also seen to be uncomfortable and has difficulty accepting romantic feelings, particularly towards Elizabeth. However, despite this, Brandon does believe in love but also believes that, at least for him, it is rare. He even mentioned that for the thousand years that he has lived, he has only been in love twice.
While Brandon is capable of forgiveness, some acts such as betrayal is usually considered unforgivable by him, and even if the betrayer seeks atonement, Brandon has been known to mercilessly kill them. Brandon does have morals, but when ever a member of his family is in danger of being killed, he is forced to commit immoral acts, something he doesn't like to do in the first place, like Christopher, he has a sense of humor. Unlike Christopher, Brandon is caught off guard more easily, even more so when he attacks his opponent(s) in anger. Brandon is most characterized by his devotion to his cause of "redeeming" his half-brother; Christopher. As such, he has, with only one known exception, stayed by his half-brother's side, and will constantly search for the good in him, no matter the situation. However, he is not unaware of Christopher' spiteful, violent nature, and is familiar enough with it to predict his younger half-brother's movements. However, with the birth of his niece, his priorities have begun to shift from redeeming him to ensuring her safety.

## Physical Appearance

Brandon is a handsome man who stands about 5'11" in height, and has a thin but muscular body. He has short brown hair which appeared to have darkened slightly with hazel brown eyes. His facial features are angular - high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and a straight nose. Despite being centuries old, he appears to be 23 or 24 years old. He is older than his half brother Christopher, but is younger than his brother Adam and his sister Nicolette, making him the third oldest sibling of the family. Brandon is similar to his younger brother Dominic in facial features, but resembles all of his siblings in a more general way.Brandon in the present day is consistently well-dressed. His wardrobe typically

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

## Powers & Abilities

As the third oldest of his siblings, Brandon is the oldest Original Vampire alive and the oldest Vampiric immortal in the world, now that Silas, Amara, Theodore, Adam are dead and Nicolette is mortal. As an Original Vampire, Brandon is stronger and faster than any non-original vampire, on par with his siblings, with the exception that Christopher is stronger and faster due to his werewolf side.

His strength is inferior to Theodore and the beasts Lucien and Marcel as Lucien was able to overpower him with ease when he was upgraded. It is unknown how Brandon would do in a fight against his siblings such as Theresa and Dominic, Adam.His supernatural attributes aside, Brandon's greatest asset is his sharp intellect. His penchant for strategies and forming contingencies way ahead of time easily rivals Christopher', despite this, he has been outsmarted by Christopher on more than one occasion.

Often, Brandon is able to discern a great deal of whatever or whoever presented to him after only a few keen observations. He was able to identify Elena masquerading as Katara when they met at Pennsylvania after seeing her daylight ring and was also the first to discern that his former lover, Celeste, was in fact inhabiting the body of Sabine, and then later formulated a plan with Monique Deveraux to corner her the next time that Celeste jumps into another body.

Because he is much more calm, composed, and strategic in battle than Christopher, Brandon is able to fight Christopher almost evenly shortly after being undaggered by Damon despite losing most of his strength from months without blood. His composure also enabled him to single-handedly subdue Marcel's army without getting so much as a scratch on him, evidenced by the lack of cuts on his clothes, something Christopher is unable to do, due to his lack of composure.

Due to his long existence, Brandon has seen countless battles and is very experienced in battle. He is also very adaptable as seen in Diego's attempt to flank him, which apparently failed. It is presumed Diego also tried other tactics which also failed miserably against Brandon. Brandon's prowess in combat even allowed him to defeat ancient vampires like members of the Strix with relative ease, even when outnumbered.

Brandon has slaughtered vampires and werewolves, alike, most often by ripping out their hearts, ensuring immediate death.Despite his prowess against Christopher and Marcel's army, he has been defeated by lesser vampires before, in fact only two, Stefan and Damon; however, they were using hit and run tactics against him, as well using a stake gun and vervain bombs, which ended in Damon outflanking him and staking him to a door.

Also at the time, Brandon underestimated them and showed hubris, believing himself unbeatable. Brandon has not made this mistake since. Brandon also has an extremely high pain tolerance as he didn't even flinch when he used his own body as a makeshift lighter after taking off his daylight ring to kill Adam.

## Weaknesses

Brandon has the typical weaknesses of an Original Vampire. Following the destruction of the White Oak Stake, it is presumed by all original vampires that they cannot be killed, however, this seems to be untrue, following the prophecy, as the Beast can kill him.

## Relationships

**Christopher Mikaelson**

Christopher is Brandon's maternal younger half-brother and his closest brother. When they were humans, they both had fun together by battles with swords, much to their father's disapproval. However their relationship became estranged when they both fell in love with the same woman Tatia. After their mother died, Brandon and Christopher made a pact with Theresa that they would stick together as one, always and forever. In the year 1114, they came across a vampire hunter named Brandon and the Brotherhood of the Five. Brandon and his brothers neutralized four original vampires, but were released (except Adam) by Christopher. In 1492, they met a woman named Katerina Petrova, the first doppelgänger of Tatia.

Christopher planned to sacrifice her, while Brandon started to have feelings for her. After Katerina's escape, the relationship between Brandon and Christopher was broken for a while. During 2010, Brandon was helping Elena Gilbert and the Salvatore brothers to kill Christopher, while Christopher was preparing to break his curse. After the curse was broken, Brandon met with his half-brother and was about to kill him when Christopher revealed their family was safe and only he knew where they were. Christopher daggered Brandon once they arrived at Alaric's apartment, but eventually Brandon was un-daggered by Damon Salvatore. Later, Brandon had undaggered all of their remaining siblings, but when they were about to leave Christopher for good, their mother appeared. Brandon tried to figure out his mother's motives and once he did, Brandon, Christopher and Kol confronted their mother and their brother, Adam. Brandon left Mystic Falls, while Christopher attempted to locate their lost brother Adam. Later, Brandon came back to bargain with Elena for Christopher' body. After Christopher "died", Brandon left again. Once Brandon had possession of the cure, he met with his half-brother again. He later handed his half-brother the White Oak Stake, asking him to spare Katerina, but Christopher refused. Brandon has begun to repair his relationship with his younger half-brother and believes he will find Christopher' redemption through his daughter Evie, Brandon's niece.

Unfortunately, Brandon's relationship with Christopher takes a turn for the worst, though it was not a very healthy one to begin with due to actions made constantly by Christopher, when Brandon chose to believe Tyler's lies over Christopher, that he is (supposedly) aware that his child's blood can make hybrids, and he plans to use his child's blood once she is born to make an army of hybrids, to take over New Orleans. He falsely accused Christopher of only caring about his unborn child, so he can use her to sire more hybrids, unfortunately, he finds out the hard way that he was wrong, and unintentionally damages his relationship with Christopher. Though Brandon was well within reason to believe so. Brandon repairs his relationship with Christopher when he apologizes to him for accusing him of only caring about his unborn child so he can use her to sire more hybrids, despite the fact that their relationship is now repaired, Brandon is barely on speaking terms with Christopher.
Unfortunately, their relationship becomes worse than ever, when Brandon daggered Christopher and allowed Elizabeth to try and take Evie away from him, in retaliation Christopher kills his girlfriend Gia, and daggered him with Papa Tunde's Blade, their relationship becomes estranged/broken after this, as they both want nothing to do with each other any more.

### **Theresa Mikaelson**

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Theresa is Brandon's younger sister. His relationship with her has been very dysfunctional. Brandon is in the habit of being very critical towards Theresa due to her actions. After she requests him to give her the cure for the vampirism, Brandon agrees, provided that she goes a whole day without her vampire abilities. However, they were tricked by Silas with Christopher' help. After finding out that Christopher is going to be a father, Brandon asks her to follow Christopher and him to New Orleans. She refuses to follow Brandon and help him. Brandon is without a doubt the brother Theresa respects most out of all her brothers. After 3 months of not hearing anything from Brandon she returns to New Orleans to find Brandon and make sure he's alright. Once she finds him, Brandon tells his sister to protect the wolf carrying Christopher' child, and once he gets home to the Mikaelson mansion he gets a warm welcome from Theresa. But soon after she tells him that she is leaving town and would ask to come with her, she knows that Brandon would never leave town or Christopher. Unlike Theresa, Brandon believes that his brother can be redeemed. Brandon also is shown to be very protective of Theresa, not letting anyone physically harm her. When she is about to be stabbed with Papa Tunde's Blade, he stabs Christopher with it to save Theresa. He also would not allow Christopher to stake her with the White Oak Stake or harm her in any way.

### **Elizabeth Salvatore-Deveraux**

The relationship between Brandon and Elizabeth began once Brandon was made aware of Elizabeth's pregnancy with his brother's child. Brandon shows Elizabeth his family history, to explain how it is possible that she's carrying a Hybrid child. Brandon makes a promise to Elizabeth that he'll always protect her. A few days later Elizabeth is reading the journals of Brandon and learns more about him and how he feels about his siblings. When Christopher asks what it is about his brother that inspires admiration, Elizabeth responds that Brandon was kind to her. Once Brandon and Elizabeth are reunited, she slaps him and tells him not to make promises he can't keep. The day after when the witches are trying to kill her baby, Brandon tries to do everything he can to undo it and kills the witches who were responsible. One Elizabeth disappeared, Brandon and Christopher thought Marcel had kidnapped her, they then confronted each other about it. Brandon finally found Elizabeth and she tells him about her hybrid baby and what it can do. Brandon confronts his brother about what Elizabeth had told him. It is clear they feel an attraction towards each other, however due to other factors, do not act upon them. After many attempts for them to have their first kiss, when Elizabeth was about to die because of Mikael's threat, Brandon was very afraid of losing her and he decided to open up to her about what he felt. After hearing Brandon's words, Elizabeth decides to take the first step and kiss him.

### **Evie Blackwood**

Evie is Brandon's niece, and he loves her very much. Even before Evie was ready to be born, he was the first person to accept the baby. He is the one that wanted the baby to be alive and tried to convince Klaus to accept the child. He has sworn to protect her and love her. They have a strong relationship and he wants nothing more than to let her be safe. That is why he agreed to send her away to live with Theresa until Alicante is safe for her to return.