Elijah Mikaelson

**Elijah Mikaelson** is an Original Vampire. He is the thirdborn child and second son of Esther Gallio and Mikael, the younger brother of Finn and Freya, older maternal half-brother of Cassian, and the older brother of Kol, Aaron, Rebekah, and Henrik. He is also the uncle of Freya and Mathias' unborn son, Cassian and Hayley's son, Chance, and Rebekah and Jordan's sons, Henry and Damian. He almost became a great-uncle, posthumously, when Chance impregnated two girls on two separate occasions, but both children died before they were born.

Throughout his long life, Elijah had several romantic relationships. In the late 8th Millennium BCE, Elijah and Cassian were both in love with a Petrova Doppelgänger named Tatia. Elijah accidentally killed Tatia after he became a vampire and was traumatized and horrified by the violence of his actions towards her. Elijah'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 Elijah's defence mechanism to cope with the horrors of his vampirism for the next thousand years.

In the 15th century, Elijah was romantically involved with another Petrova Doppelgänger, a young girl from Bulgaria, named Katerina Petrova. In the 19th century, Elijah was romantically involved with a witch named Céleste Dubois, whose death was later caused by his half-brother Cassian. In the 21st century, Elijah rekindled his relationship with Katerina Petrova aka Katherine Pierce, before ending it to go to New Orleans to help Cassian. In New Orleans, Elijah has developed feelings for Hayley Marshall, after he promised to protect her and the child she was carrying. Elijah respectfully kept his distance while she was married to Jackson Kenner.

## Physical Appearance

Elijah is a handsome man who stands about 5'10 in height, and has a lean, muscular body. He has short brown hair which appeared to have darkened slightly on occasion, with hazel brown eyes. Like the other Mikaelson males, Elijah is very handsome, even more attractive than younger vampires. His facial features are angular - high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and a straight nose. Despite being centuries old, he appears to be in his mid-to-late twenties. He is older than his half brother Cassian, but is younger than his brother Finn, and his sister Freya, making him the third oldest sibling of the family. Elijah is similar to his younger brother Kol in facial features, but resembles all of his siblings in a more general way.

Elijah 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. Elijah has also worn different hairstyles in keeping with the times. It was revealed that Esther placed in his mind the idea of remaining clean and forgetting about his victims to save him from the guilt of it.