Rebekah Estherdottir

**Lady Rebekah Normani Salvatore** (Born **Estherdottir**, Legally/née **Mikaelson**) (***Elder Futhark:** ᚱᛖᛒᛖᚲᚨᚺ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ*) is the recurring star of *Queen Diaries* (QD). Rebekah is an original vampire she is also a recurring star of *The Royal Diaries* (TRD).

Rebekah is the wife of Stefan Salvatore. The second daughter and third child of Mikael Johnson and Esther Mikaelson and is Esther's sixth born child she is the daughter-in-law of Giuseppe Salvatore and Lillian Salvatore I. The younger sister of Freya Estherdottir, Finn Mikaelson I, and Elijah Mikaelson the maternal younger half sister of Niklaus Mikaelsonthe maternal older half-sister of Kaitlyn Estherdottir the twin sister of Kol Mikaelson the older sister of the late Henrik Mikaelson the granddaughter of John Olsenson.

the mother of her and Stefan's daughter Lady Lillian Salvatore II the niece of Dahlia Mikaelson-Stuart the aunt of Freya and Keelin's son Finn Mikaelson II, Kol and Bonnie's daughter Maisie Mikaelson, and lastly the half-aunt of her favorite brother Klaus and Qetsiyah's children their first born Princess Amani Mikaelson, their second born Princess Normani Mikaelson, and their yet to be born first born son and youngest child.

The second daughter of Mikael and Esther, Rebekah grew up largely influenced by the behaviors of her brothers, Klaus in particular. Nonetheless, Rebekah’s desire to live a human life have always been paramount and this has been reflected through her numerous romantic relationships over the years. Through her years of running from Mikael, Rebekah had relations with several vampires, including Stefan Salvatore whom she is married to and Marcel Gerard, but also enjoyed a brief and dangerous relationship with the vampire hunter Alexander.

In the flashbacks that show Rebekah before being turned into a vampire, she is a caring, supportive and overall sweet teenage girl. Like the rest of her siblings, she was scared of her father and often witnessed her brother being abused by Mikael, to a point that she even tried to kill him, unable to tolerate her father's abusive nature towards Niklaus anymore. She had desired The Cure so that she could become human again and fulfill her dreams of having kids and family of her own. The closest she came to this was when she fostered a child. This pushed Rebekah to desire a family of her own, to the point were she said that she would find it hard to return Callie to her parents.

Initially, Rebekah's personality in the series 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.

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.

After Gloria revealed to Klaus that Rebekah had what she needed to contact The Original Witch, Klaus reluctantly resurrected his sister. While she is resurrecting, Klaus compelled a guard to let her feed from the guard and also told the guard to tell her where to meet Stefan and Klaus. After rising from the dead, Rebekah is delighted to see Stefan again, but is furious after she is unable to find her necklace. She was appalled by modern music and fashion. Gloria uses Rebekah to find the amulet and after doing so, threatens to kill the girl with her necklace and her friends.

In the flashbacks that show Rebekah before being turned into a vampire, she is a caring, supportive and overall sweet teenage girl. Like the rest of her siblings, she was scared of her father and often witnessed her brother and sister being abused by Mikael, to a point that she even tried to kill him, unable to tolerate her father's abusive nature towards Niklaus and Neveah anymore. She had desired to be human again so that she could become human again and fulfill her dreams of having kids and family of her own. The closest she came to this was when she fostered a baby girl. This pushed Rebekah to desire a family of her own, to the point were she said that she would find it hard to return the baby to her parents. So when her mother did a spell to allow her and Stefan along with Kol to have children she was overjoyed as Dahlia had been killed after she came for Amani and it was always a dream of hers to have children.

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.

Rebekah is close to Niklaus Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, and Mrs. Johnson. She is best friend with Queen Qetsiyah Bennett, Hayley Marshall, Dr. Meredith Grey all whom consider her to be their sister they all love and care for each other deeply also are protective of one another.

Rebekah is apart of the **Mikaelson Family**, the **Stuart Family**, and the **Johnson Family** by birth and **Salvatore Family** by her marriage to Stefan and their daughter.

## 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 it also means "captivating" or "snare." in Ancient Norse: ᚱᛖᛒᛖᚲᚨᚺ.***

***From root name Norman.* From the Old French Normant, derived from the Frankish nortman, which is composed of the elements nort (north) ande man (man): hence, "northman, Norseman." The name was originally used to identify a member of the group of Scandinavians who occupied Normandy in the 10th century and, later, the native inhabitants of Normandy.**

**Mikaelson *(Elder Futhark: ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ)* is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".**

**Other spellings of the name Mikaelson include *Michaelson, Michelson, Mikelson, Michaelsen*.**

**The name Mikael comes from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el), which translates as the question "Who is like God"?**

**The name Mikaelson is a patronymic surname, or a name constructed using the father's given name and a suffix indicating either "son" or "daughter". Strictly speaking, Rebekah would have taken the patronym Mikaelsdotter, or "Daughter of Mikael",**

**in earlier times, but during the 19th century, Scandinavian naming conventions began to evolve, such that families preferred to take a family name rather than a patronymic surname.**

**Mikaelson is an example of a patronymic surname that was "frozen" to become an inherited family name. Iceland is one country where the practice of using patronymic surnames still exists, whereas inherited family names are now mandatory in other Scandinavian countries.**

**She changed her name to Mikaelson her father name, since her brothers had grown up with that name and everyone assumed it was hers.**

**Salvatore ([salvaˈtoːre]) is an Italian name meaning saviour.**

## References

1. ↑ #https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca\_(given\_name)
2. ↑ #https://mom.com/baby-names/girl/63317/Normani

3. ↑ #https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelson#:~:text=Michael-,Meaning,Hebrew
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore\_(name)#:~:text=Salvatore%20(%5Bsalva%CB%88to%CB%90re%5D)%20is%20an%20Italian%20name%20meaning%20saviour.