Alaina Olsen

"*I'm a witch; but I am also a mother, a grandmother, an elder, and a widow. I have done everything I have ever wanted in my life.*"
— **Alaina Olsen**
**Alaina Michelle Olsen** (formerly **Olsen-Phillips**) is a witch and the mother of Dianna and Athina Labonair as well as Apollo Olsen. She is the ex-girlfriend of Cyrus Labonair and the mother of his two daughters. She was also the wife of John Phillips until his passing.

She is the mother-in-law of Elijah and Henrik Mikaelson. She is also the maternal grandmother of Olympia Mikaelson and the maternal adoptive grandmother of Saga Mikaelssen.

**Alaina** is a member of the **Olsen Family** and the **Eriksson Family**. Alaina also has ties to the **Mikaelson Coven**, the **Crescent Wolf Pack**, and the **Midwest Wolf Pack**.

## History

### 1979 and 1980s

Alaina was born on April 10, 1979 in Arlington, Texas to Michael and Frigga Olsen. Alaina is the eldest of four children and was raised up in her father's religion, Roman Catholicism. When she was ten, her parents divorced and Alaina walked out of her confirmation class; in protest and solidarity with her mother, who was being thrown out of the church.

Alaina was trained in witchcraft by her mother Frigga and her two maternal uncles, taking very special care to learn how to control her firstborn powers. She ended up surpassing all of those who taught her by that time her parents got divorced.

### Early 1990s

When she was twelve, Alaina moved with her family to Iowa, where she ended up meeting thirteen-year-old Cyrus Labonair. Cyrus was in Iowa because he had just ran away from hom after the murders of his brother and sister-in-law and the dissappearance of his niece, Andrea. Alaina and Cyrus then started dating, a relationship that would be on-and-off, that lasted until February 2001.

Not much else is known about her life from her teen years and before; except that she once tried to commit suicide through overdosing and that she and her mother has a rocky, but solid relationship.

### 1996

Alaina was only sixteen-years-old when, on the day of February 4, 1996, she gave birth to her and Cyrus' first child, a daugher they named Dianna Nicole Olsen-Labonair. Alaina then began to train her daughter how to control her firstborn powers as soon as she was able to comprehend speech.

Alaina was also pushed to the fringes of her and her mother's coven for birthing a child that was not just a witch, but also a werewolf, and only her mother was bothered enough to defend them.

### 2000

Despite that their relationship was rocky and that his addiction was growing, Alaina chose to continue an on-and-off relationship with Cyrus. This resulted in the birth of her and Cyrus' second child, a daughter named Athina Paige Olsen-Labonair. The couple later officially ended their relationship in February 2001.

### 2005-2006

After her and Cyrus' breakup, Alaina had a string of romantic relationships as she contiued to raise her two daughters as a single mother and train them in witchcraft. She was later introduced to John Phillips in November 2005 and they eventually began a romantic relationship.

A little while into said relationship, Alaina admitted to John that she and her daughters were witches and that her daughters also carried the werewolf gene, and what that meant. Alaina and John then moved in together. After that, Alaina prematurely gave birth to her and John's first and only child, a son named Apollo Olsen-Phillips, who was born on March 6, 2006.

### 2010

Due to unknown causes, Alaina's mother, Frigga Eriksson-Olsen; passed away on March 17, 2010 and just three days later; Alaina and John got married on March 20, 2010.

## Throughout The Originals

### 2012

In January 2012, Alaina recieved a surprise phone call from her ex-boyfriend, Cyrus Labonair. He informed her that his niece Hayley, their daughters' paternal cousin, was alive and currently living in New Orleans. Alaina then arranged a trip down to New Orleans, so that she could meet her. Alaina was present when Hayley became a werewolf-vampire hybrid.

On February 2, 2012, while Alaina was still away meeting Hayley and providing her moral support through the loss of her daughter; she recieved a call from John that following an accident, that Dianna ended up triggering her werewolf curse. Alaina then traveled with Hayley back to Illinios, where she intriduced Dianna and Athina to their cousin, Hayley. Hayley also compelled away the possiblility that Dianna could face any legal charges or punishment for what happened.

Alain then spent the rest of the year helping keep her daughter, Dianna and her pack safe during the full moons. Alaina also told her daughter about the Unification Ceremony and the implications when she heard about it from Hayley. She also later traveled to New Orleans with her daughters to attend the ceremony. Alaina later decided that her eldest, Dianna, should remain in New Orleans in the interest of helping build the now unified pack.

### 2013

Alaina was in frequent contact with her daughter, Dianna, in New Orleans; making sure that she didn't feel like that she had abandoned her there.

On February 2, 2013, Alaina received from her daughter's boyfriend of one month, Elijah Mikaelson. Elijah asked Alaina and her husband, John, for permission to ask Dianna for her hand in marriage. Alaina, realizing how smitten Elijah and Dianna were with one another, agreed.

Dianna later called Alaina after Elijah proposed to her and Alaina encouraged her to accept the proposal if it is what would make her happy. Alaina also began flying to Louisiana during the time her eldest daughter, Dianna, was under the Crescent Curse every month.

When Dianna was finally released from the Crescent Curse, Alaina began to help her daughter plan her and Elijah's wedding. She even discouraged Dianna when she was emotional and attempted to break off her and Elijah's engagement. Alaina; her husband, John; and her two other children, Athina and Apollo ended up coming down to New Orleans to celebrate and spend another Christmas with Dianna and her fiancé, Elijah's family. Alaina also helped assist in the attempt to unhex Rebekah.

When Camille O'Connell woke up in trasition after killing herself through Aurora's compulsion, Alaina helped Dianna get the required materials to help fashion a daylight ring for her. Though, while leaving the shop where they were getting the materials; the two were ambushed by members of the Strix, who ended up kidnapping Dianna. Alaina was later seen crying over the box that contained her daughter's torn out heart. She was also there with her daughter, Dianna, when she woke up in trasition and also attended her and Elijah's wedding on December 30, 2013.

### 2014-2015

Alaina was in communation with her daughter, Dianna, during this time. But she wasn't seen in person until she ends up taking in her daughter, Dianna; her adoptive granddaughter, Saga; and her daughter's new ward, Grace into her home after the downfall of the Mikaelsons into their five year slumber.

Later on, Alaina begins to notice the signs of her daughter's pregnancy within the first few months of her moving in with her. On January 30, 2015, Alaina traveled over to Chicago to help assist her daughter in the birth of her granddaughter, Olympia Elisabet Nikole Mikaelson.

### 2019

Alaina give Dianna all the background information that she knows on the history of the Labonair bloodline. She is also now the guardian of her two granddaughters, Saga and Olympia, and returns to New Orleans with them to herlp Dianna after Elijah's death by the hands of the Hollow.

Alaina later comforted her daughter when Elijah left and had his memories of his family, including Dianna and Olympia, compelled away.

### 2028

**Alaina**: "*Do you have children, Greta?*"

**Greta**: "*I have two, an adopted son and an adopted daughter.*"
**Alaina**: "*Good. So here's the deal, you tell me where mine is or I'll send someone to kill yours.*"
— **Alaina** and **Greta**

Alaina arrives in New Orleans whem she learns that her daughter went missing and tries to help Freya locate her, even assiting in the creation of the locator beacons. She ends up remaining in New Orleans for Dianna's funeral to help her granddaughters, Saga and Olympia and comfort her surviving daughter, Athina. She later learned about her daughter being remade into an original immortal tribrid.

Alaina returnes with her daughters, Dianna and Athina, and her granddaughters, Saga and Olympia, to Illinois; but did spend Christmas with the Mikaelson family in New Orleans. She also assisted in the fight against the purist nightwalker vampires and aidded in the effort to save Hayley's eldest daughter, Hope Mikaelson.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

She is a first-born Norwegian witch of the Eriksson bloodline. She is a very powerful and educated witch but as she has gotten older is no longer able or willing to perform the dark magic that her bloodline is known for.

She has a weakness to Lobelia Flower.

## Personality

She is a caring, strong willed, sarcastic and loving maternal figure, described by her kids' friends as treating all of them as if they were her own. She is also capable of forgiving as shown in her relationship with her son-in-law but is also extremely protective of her children and grandchildren.

## Physical

She stands five foot five inches tall, she has shoulder length blonde hair, and blue eyes. She is heavyset in build after having 3 children.

## Name

* Her first name 'Alaina' is of French origin and means 'beautiful and fair woman' or 'dear child'.
* Her middle name 'Michelle' was after her father's first name of 'Michael' and is of Hebrew origin meaning 'Who is Like God?'
* Her last name 'Olsen' is a Danish-Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Ole"