Emotions

> "Sometimes emotions can be our greatest weakness."
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> - Conri Tlanta

**Emotions**, also known as **humanity**, are one of humankind's greatest strengths and weaknesses. Vampires, and hybrids are able to feel emotions more strongly because everything is enhanced. Werewolf-Witch Hybrids also have control over their emotions. Emotions can empower witches and their magic, while werewolves are strengthened by anger, though they are also very susceptible to it.

## Species

### Human

> "You don't know how this is for humans, do you? It's hard and messy, sometimes scary and full of grief and loss, but you have to let it in at some point. You can't keep hiding your emotions from your enemies, or even the people who care about you."
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> - Diana

Humans beings are emotional creatures and when they can't control their emotions, it becomes their weakness as it can prevent them from thinking logically or rationally. The basic emotions specific for humans are love (between friends, maternal love or typical romantic love), grief, anger, joy or surprise.

### Witches

> "What do you think gives a witch their motivation? Anger, pain, fear, love. Any emotion."
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> - Fiona

Emotions can greatly affect a witch's power, causing it to fluctuate at times. Like werewolves, they can use strong emotions to fuel their magic, strengthening the potency of their spells. Additionally, a witch can subconsciously block themselves through negative emotions namely fear, grief, doubt etc., preventing them from properly practicing witchcraft.

### Werewolves

> "It's an uncontrollable anger when it starts affecting us. Sometimes it's mild, and sometimes it's major, but it is involuntary."
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> -Ash about his experience as a mortal werewolf

Werewolves are affected greatly by specific emotions, namely anger and rage. While these make them reckless and act irrationally by lashing out, their anger increases their powers. These emotions are felt even by werewolves who have not triggered their gene and felt most intensely on a full moon to the point of going blind with rage.

### Werewolf-Witch Hybrid

> "Yes, our emotions are heightened, but they do not drive us since we know control. But when our emotions take hold, it can take over us and make us irrational."
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> -Conri Tlanta

Werewolf-Witch Hybrids are emotional creatures and, upon the completion of their transition, similar to vampires, their emotions they experience are magnified meaning that pain would turn into agony, sadness into depression, happiness into elation and so on. However, they have the benefit of being able to control their emotions, such as by turning them off. When they want to feel again, they can turn them on or dull their emotions by being in the "middle". When they have completely turned off their emotions, they have completely lost their humanity. This typically makes them carefree and remorseless about their actions and impervious to guilt and conscience, turning some into calculating killers unwilling to turn their emotions back on. This is frequently referred to as their "humanity switch". However after a couple of hundred years, older vampires just have to pretend as they're unable to turn them off, while the hybrids are able to turn them off regardless of how old they are, as shown when Conri Tlanta, a nine hundred year old hybrid turned off his emotions in order to get over his father's death.

### Immortal Werewolves

> "With Immortality comes better control."
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> -Jenefer Monique

Immortal Werewolves, much like mortal werewolves have a drive for anger and rage, but it is significantly more controlled because of their immortality giving them more clarity in order to control their transformations. They have less of a drive for anger and rage the older they get and the more they learn, but there is always that underlying anger, mostly shown by Ash, and his PTSD from the Holocaust.

### Immortal Witches

> "I'm not exactly the blueprint for the perfect role model."
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> -Diana Winchester

While mortal witches are more emotional, Immortal Witches follow a blueprint along the same lines as their sister species, and are more in control of their emotions, despite being more unpredictable when it comes to their emotions, hiding them so that they build up, waiting for the right time to let them out, and turning their rage into power.

## Main Emotions

* **Love** - Is the most powerful emotion and strongest affection and personal attachment. Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of the human kindness, compassion, and affection "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".
* **Hope** - Is the emotional state which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope is the "feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best" or the act of "looking forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence" or "feeling that something desired may happen".
* **Friendship** - Is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree of intimacy. As such, friendship is undoubtedly central to our lives, in part because the special concern we have for our friends must have a place within a broader set of concerns, including moral concerns, and in part, because our friends can help shape who we are as persons.
* **Respect** - Gives a positive feeling of esteem or deference for a person or other entity (such as a nation or a religion), and also specific actions and conduct representative of that esteem. Respect can be a specific feeling of regard for the actual individual given of the one respected. It can also be conducted in accord with a specific ethic of respect. Despite its positive nature, respect is most often associated with subordination or submission to authority.
* **Fear** - Is an emotion induced by a perceived threat that causes beings to move quickly away from the location of the perceived threat, and sometimes hide. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. In short, fear is the ability to recognize danger leading to an urge to confront it or flee from it (also known as the fight-or-flight response) but in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror), a freeze or paralysis response is possible.
* **Anger** - Is a negative emotion that can is associated with frustration and intimidation. Anger often comes from a lack of satisfaction or from a loss of something or someone valuable. It comes from offensive words or actions. Werewolves and Hybrids experience positive effects from anger; anger increases their strength.
* **Hate** - Is a deep and emotional extreme dislike that can be directed against individuals, entities, objects, or ideas. Hatred is often associated with feelings of anger and a disposition towards hostility.
* **Sadness** - Is emotional pain associated with, or characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, guilt, helplessness and sorrow. These feelings of certain things are usually negative. When one is sad, people often become less outspoken, less energetic, and emotional. Crying is often, but not necessarily, an indication of sadness.

## 'Humanity Switch' Users

* **Conri Tlanta:** After the death of his father, Kol. Pushed over the edge by Klaus' compulsion with his consent, while trapped in the living room of the Gilbert House, with Kol's smoldering body in the kitchen.
* **Ash:** To deal with the pain and torture administered to him by the Nazis during the war. It took Conri three years to find him and get him to turn his emotions back on.
* **Hope Mikaelson:** After her full transition into a tribrid, she flipped the switch as she drove a sword through her lover to defeat Malivore.

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