Finn and Elijah

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## Relationship Information

### Intimacy Levels

Brothers, Allies, Former Enemies; They grew to care about each other again before Finn's final death, they liked spending time together once, Finn despised Elijah for not undaggering him for 900 years, Elijah saw Finn as a threat for their family because of his self-loathing, Elijah is the second to trust Finn after being cured of the Beast venom bite.

### Status

Brothers, Former Enemies; Allies

**This is the family relationship between the two original vampire brothers, Finn and Elijah Mikaelson.**

Elijah revived Finn from being daggered in *Bringing Out The Dead* along with Kol and Rebekah. Elijah and Finn do not seem to have a great brotherly relationship, and they don't talk to each other unless necessary. Elijah once told Rebekah that he didn't trust Finn because he hated being a vampire, and now that Finn has returned in a mortal witch body, Elijah is even more distrusting of him, knowing that he is their mother's lieutenant.

***They are referred as "Finijah by fans.***

## History

### The Middle Ages

Finn and Elijah are the eldest brothers of all their siblings, with Finn being the eldest. They had a good relationship when they were humans, but Finn seemed to have some resentment towards his younger siblings after the loss of his beloved elder sister Freya as a young child. Meanwhile, Elijah had a closer relationship with his younger half-brother Niklaus, his younger sister, Rebekah, and Finn's wife Athena. Finn was shown to be more obedient to their mother, Esther, and has been shown as willing to tell her anything if asked, whereas Elijah would hold his tongue if it meant protecting his siblings. They were all humans during the Middle Ages until the death of their youngest brother Henrik at the hands of a werewolf, which was the catalyst for their family's eventual transition into the Original vampires.

In 1002, while traveling through Southern France and feeding on the innocent, they stumbled upon a man named Lucien. While Elijah wanted to kill him to protect their identities, Finn stressed letting him live so he could help them pose as nobles.

In the 1100s, Finn was daggered by a member of the original Brotherhood of the Five, and afterward, Klaus decided to leave him neutralized for roughly nine hundred years because he loathed Finn's judgmental attitude, Elijah on the other hand, disliked Finn because he considered him pretentious and dull as well as seeing him as a threat to their family's survival.

## Trivia

* After much debate between fans during the run of *Vampire Diaries*, it was revealed by Michael Narducci and later confirmed in *The Originals* series that Finn is older than Elijah.
* Finn accused Elijah of leaving him daggered due to him being jealous of Finn being the oldest sibling, and essentially accused Elijah of taking the duties of the eldest child away from him.
* Finn is considered the most moral of the Mikaelson children, but since his resurrection, he has recently displayed more of a black and white view of morality, going so far as to tell Camille that he believes Klaus cannot be redeemed, nor does he believe in redemption itself - only that someone is either good or evil.
* In *Every Mother's Son*, Elijah nastily said that he left Finn daggered for 900 years, because he considers him pretentious and dull, but in *Behind the Black Horizon*, Elijah confirmed that he left Finn daggered, because he despised being a vampire and he threatened their survival, when they run from Mikael. However Elijah feel remorse when he learned what his brother has been through.
* Like the rest of his siblings, Elijah eventually grew to severely hate Finn, partly because of his brother's pretentious/dull, and judgmental nature, and mainly because of him always remaining loyal to their mother, as Finn has no loyalty to Elijah or his siblings. This hatred for Finn no doubt grew even more pronounced when Finn hex their brother Kol to death, and later when he tried to kill their niece, Hope.
* Both care deeply for their older sister Freya.