Elijah Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson

## Elijah Benjamin Mikaelson

* Uncle Elijah, Uncle Lijah (Both by Aurora, Hope, Neveah, Aiden, Mathias, Kol, Sheila, and Henrik)
* Mr. and Mrs. Mikaelson (With Katherine Pierce)

### Occupation

* Nobleman (1002-1700s) (Formerly)
* Historian (2010-)
* Founder of The Strix
* Co-King of New Orleans (Currently; with his half-brother of the french quarter vampires)
* Leader of The Faction (Currently)

## Family Information

### Martial Status

* Married to Katherine (Since December 23rd, 2018)

### Parents

* Esther Hagen
* Ansel Halle (Step-Father)
* Mikael Mikaelson +
* Unknown Parents-in-law +

### Sibling(s)

* Freya Mikaelson (Older-Sister)
* Mathias Griffin-Malraux (Nephew)
* Finn Mikaelson (Older-Brother)
* Luna Halle (Younger-Step-Sister)
* King Niklaus Mikaelson (Younger-Half-Brother)
* Marcel Gerard (Adoptive-Half-Nephew)
* Hayley Marshall (Adoptive-Half-Niece-in-law)
* Michelle Gerard (Adoptive-Great-Half-Niece)
* Hayley Freya Mikaelson (Half-Niece; Miscarried) +
* Hope Mikaelson (Half-Niece)
* Princess Neveah Stuart-Mikaelson (Half-Niece)
* Prince Aiden Mikaelson (Half-Nephew)
* Neveah Mikaelson (Younger-Half-Sister)
* Kol Stuart (Half-Nephew)
* Katie Mikaelson (Younger-Half-Sister)
* Kol Mikaelson (Younger-Brother)
* Sheila Mikaelson (Niece)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Younger-Sister)
* Aurora Salvatore (Adoptive-Niece)
* Henrik Salvatore (Nephew)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Younger-Brother) +
* Kate Pierce (Sister-in-law)

### Maternal Family

* Dahlia Hagen (Aunt) +
* Joseph Hagen (Uncle-in-law) +
* Lily Hagen (Older-Cousin) +

### Children

* Princess Kate Pierce-Mikaelson (Daughter)

### Affiliation

* The Hagen Family (Birth)
* TMF (Birth)
* THF (Step-Father)
* The Amount Family (Step-Father)
* The Petrova Family (Marriage)
* The Dimitrova Family (Marriage)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant sires

* Tristan de Martel † (1002)
* Aya Al-Rashid †
* Many Members of The Strix †

### Significant kills

* Tatia +
* Many People over the Centuries +

## Appearance Information

### First Seen

* Saying Goodbye Hurts (TQ; Mentioned thru text)
* The Past hurts Doesn't it? (TQ; first bodily seen)

### Last Seen

* Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay? (TQ)

**Elijah Benjamin Mikaelson (*Elder Futhark: ᛖᛚᛇᚨᚺ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ*)** he is the second out of four main male characters on the **The Queen** he is first mentioned in the first episode Saying Goodbye Hurts through text and first bodily seen in The Past Hurts Doesn't it?.

Elijah is the husband of Katherine Pierce he is the third born and second son of Mikael and Esther Halle the step-son of of Ansel Halle the son-in-law of unknown parents the nephew of Dahlia Hagen the nephew-in-law of Joseph Hagen whom took the surname after marrying his aunt the younger-cousin of Lily Hagen the younger-brother of Freya and Finn Mikaelson the older-brother of Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik Mikaelson the older-step-brother of Luna Halle. the half-older-brother of Niklaus, Neveah, and Katie Mikaelson the brother-in-law of Keelin, Sage, Bonnie, Kate, and Stefan the half-brother-in-law of Dianna, and Matthew the uncle of Mathias, Sheila, and Henrik Salvatore He is also the uncle of Freya and Mathias' unborn son the half-uncle of Hayley, Hope, Neveah, Aiden, and Kol Stuart the adoptive-half-uncle of Marcel Gerard the adoptive-half-uncle-in-law of Hayley Marshall the adoptive-great-half-uncle of Michelle Gerard the adoptive-step-uncle of Aurora Salvatore via Rebekah's marriage to Stefan becoming Aurora's adoptive-step-mother since Stefan adopted her.

Throughout his long life, Elijah had several romantic relationships. In the early 11th century, Elijah and Klaus 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 defense 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 Klaus. In the 21st century (2011), Elijah rekindled his relationship with Katerina Petrova aka Katherine Pierce whom he later married in 2018 due to her not being ready for marriage in 2014.

he is apart of The Hagen Family, and The Mikaelson Family by birth he is also apart of The Halle Family, The Halle Coven, and The Amount Family by his mother's marriage also The Petrova Family due to his marriage to Katherine formerly known as Katerina.

## Name

* **Elijah** from the Hebrew *אֱלִיָּהוּ* (eliyyahu) meaning "YAWEH is my God". It's the name of a Prophet who was carried to the heavens in a chariot of fire. It was a popular name during the middle ages.
* **Mikaelson** is Scandinavian and means "Son of Mikael".

## Early History

### Mystic Falls, The Middle Ages, 10th Century

Elijah Mikaelson is the third-born of Mikael and Esther's children, born in an area of the New World that would come to be known as Mystic Falls, Virginia. Elijah's parents fled from Europe, with his older brother, Finn, and a few others after the supposed death of his older sister, Freya, from the plague while Esther was pregnant with Elijah. His mother lied to him, his father and the rest of the Mikaelson family. His older sister was actually taken by his aunt. Elijah was the first of their children to be born in the New World, followed by three brothers, Niklaus, Kol, and Henrik and 3 sisters Neveah, Katie, and Rebekah.

The loss of his first born had hardened Mikael and he proved to be a very strict father, who was feared by all his children. Elijah had a close relationship with his mother, who once mentioned to him that, when she was pregnant with him, she would have Freya sing to him. This was one of the few times Esther ever spoke of her lost daughter. In addition, Elijah was very close to his siblings, with the exception of Finn, who had never recovered from losing Freya and never taken to his new siblings as a result. Elijah was closest to Niklaus and Rebekah, and his younger brother would often carve figurines and statuettes for his brother and sister.

However, while Mikael was hard on all his children, he was hardest on Niklaus, whom he saw as weak. Once, when Elijah took his younger brother hunting and complimented him on the improvement of his aim (despite the fact that Niklaus had missed his target), Mikael arrived and started beating Niklaus to 'strengthen' him, threatening Elijah with violence if he tried to intervene. He carried guilt for the rest of his life for not stopping their father's beatings against his brother. Once, Mikael beat Niklaus to near death in a rage and only stopped when both Elijah and Rebekah tried to stop him. That night, Rebekah tried to kill Mikael as he slept to end his abuse of Niklaus but Elijah stopped her and considered killing his father himself. Ultimately, he didn't.

They lived among the werewolves for about twenty years and during the full moon, the humans would simply hide in the underground caves while the werewolves turned. During Elijah's early life, Elijah and Niklaus both fell in love with a woman named Tatia who lived in their village. All the villagers wanted to be her suitors including Klaus and Elijah, both of them during their time with her, argued with each other and fought each other because they both wanted her for themselves. Tatia chose Elijah to be her next husband when the time came.

One morning after a full moon, Klaus came out of the woods, holding his dead little brother Henrik in his arms. Elijah came running to join his mother as she grieved Henrik's death.

To ensure that the rest of her family and her son's lover would survive, Esther used a spell to make her children and DIanna immortal. Mikael gave his children and Dianna wine laced with Tatia's blood. Then he stabbed Elijah and his siblings along with Dianna through their hearts and made them drink human blood. After becoming a vampire, Elijah, along with his family and Dianna, made sure that the White Oak Tree, their one true weakness, would be destroyed. However, nature retaliated against them and, for every strength, there was a weakness, none stronger than the desire for what had made them immortal: human blood. They had become the very first vampires.

Shortly after becoming a vampire, one night when Klaus, Neveah, and Katie killed their first human it triggered their werewolf side. Klaus, Neveah, and Katie went on a rampage in wolf form. When they awoke the following morning they was tended to by Elijah unbeknownst to them Tatia had followed them to see what happened. Seeing all the carnage created by Klaus, Neveah, and Katie she ran from them in fear and was pursued by Elijah. She had tripped and fell while trying to flee and cut her hand. The blood made Elijah lose control and attack her. She tried to defend herself but was no match and was killed. Elijah brought her corpse to a shocked Esther hoping that she could save her. Esther used the rest of her blood as part of the spell used to bind Klaus, Neveah, and Katie's werewolf side, which resulted in their werewolf gene being dormant.

Mikael also made Elijah help him in tying up Klaus, Neveah. and Katie's so that his mother could do the spell. Elijah suppressed the memory of how Tatia actually died believing he had compelled not killed her in the woods and that Esther killed her when performing the hybrid curse. Then one night, his mother was killed by "Mikael". After burying their mother, Elijah, Klaus, Rebekah, Katie, and Dianna whom was not apart of the Mikaelsons was a friend whom also got turned into one.

* 1002

### Southern France

Elijah ran from Mikael with his siblings and Dianna, fleeing to Europe where they fed along the countryside. However, Elijah stressed regulation and rules, taking up the duties of the eldest due to Finn's pessimistic view of their immortal lives. Before they had learned compulsion to help cover their tracks, Elijah made sure that they always disposed of the bodies they fed on and killed whoever knew the truth about them. He also made sure that they stood together and didn't separate, reminding his siblings and Dianna (she didn't want to separate anyways) of their vows.

One day, they killed noblemen in a caravan and Rebekah proposed that they steal their fine clothing and take up their identities so they could live in a nearby castle. Elijah reminded her that they were in a foreign land with customs far different than they knew. When they discovered a survivor in the attack, a servant of the castle named Lucien, Elijah urged his siblings to kill him before he could make their presence known, possibly bringing Mikael to them. However, when Niklaus called for a vote, only Elijah and Kol voted kill him, with Kol only doing it to appease his own bloodlust rather than necessity like Elijah. With Niklaus' vote, they let Lucien live on the condition that he'd help them pose as nobles and bring them to the castle.

Lucien taught them manners so they wouldn't be caught when presented to Count de Martel. When they met the count, Elijah managed to convince the noble of their legitimacy and they pulled off their ruse, being welcomed into his court. Later that year, Elijah,his siblings, and Dianna had managed to comfortably integrate themselves into noble society. They participated in activities of the count's court, including ax throwing competitions, and their secret remained unnoticed. However, after Lucien was taken to the dungeons for supposedly having an affair with the count's daughter, Aurora, Elijah and Klaus intended to rescue him from his punishment. However, Tristan was the one punishing Lucien, torturing him, and reminded Elijah and Klaus that as the count's son, he had a right to give punishment in whatever way he wished. When they persisted, he revealed that he knew what they were, as a survivor of one of Kol's feedings had told him about what they really were.

He threatened to expose them as monsters to the entire land. Not wanting to risk the news spreading to Mikael, Elijah and Klaus stepped down and watched while Tristan scarred Lucien. After Klaus had discovered that his blood healed Lucien before Lucien was killed by a guard, Elijah comforted his brother when they prepared to burn his body. However, Lucien awoke from death, eventually transitioning into a vampire. One night, Finn told his siblings that word had spread among the villagers of their presence. They decided it was time to run from the castle, in fear that Mikael would be coming. While they prepared to depart, Aurora, who had been turned into a vampire and had had a romance with Klaus, begged Elijah to let her come with them. Elijah refused, saying that she wasn't their blood. Aurora, furious, told him that she knew things that even Elijah and the other siblings didn't know about Klaus.

When Elijah demanded the truth, he learned compulsion, which forced her to tell him what she knew. Aurora told him that Klaus had killed Esther and put the blame on Mikael, lying to all of his siblings. Elijah was enraged by the truth and compelled Aurora to see Klaus for the monster that he was, which soon after led to her rejecting Klaus when he tried to take her with them. Elijah never told Klaus about his involvement in the end of the affair, as he had suppressed the memory behind the *"red door"* in his mind, as he tried to tell Klaus the truth by stating how when Esther broke Elijah's "red door," the memory came back. Some time later, Elijah turned Tristan into the first sired vampire of his line and then compelled him, Lucien Castle, and Aurora to think that they were Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah so they can act as a decoy to lure their father away from them. After that, Elijah and his four siblings left France. A while after that the Mikaelsons along with Dianna settled in Tuscany, Italy.

* 1114 A.D.

### Italy

Elijah was in Italy along with his siblings Rebekah and Klaus and Dianna, where he worried that Klaus and Kol's violent behavior was spreading word of the Original vampires and drawing too much attention. They came across a vampire hunter named Alexander who was part of a group called the Brotherhood of the Five, where he publicly executed vampires in presentations on how to kill the "demons". Their sister, however, had fallen in love with Alexander so Elijah and Klaus took advantage of the affair as an opportunity to get closer to the hunter and find out his secrets. One day, the siblings and DIanna were invited to a party at Alexander's home where they were ambushed and neutralized for the first time by White Oak Ash Daggers. Klaus, Neveah, and Katie was unaffected by the dagger thanks to their werewolf lineage and Klaus undaggered Elijah and the rest of his siblings except Finn.

### 1200s

Elijah founded the ancient vampire society, The Strix together with his lover Aya, after he turned her. They founded The Strix in hopes of bringing like-minded individuals together to create a new, better world. However, not long after, his father found him, started destroying the society he had built, and Elijah was forced to flee with siblings and Dianna. Elijah had to abandon The Strix to save his family and Dianna from Mikael but asked Aya to come with him. She refused, staying behind while Elijah fled and Mikael slaughtered The Strix members. By the time Elijah returned, it was too late; Tristan de Martel together with Aya took control over the organization. Aya never forgave Elijah for abandoning the group and The Strix were slowly corrupted by Tristan into a more savage, ego-maniacal force than Elijah had ever intended it to be.

### 1359

According to Elijah's Journal, he had begun noticing Rebekah and Klaus losing their humanity. However, Elijah hoped as their older brother he could lead them down the right path to reclaiming their humanity and carry on the family legacy. But he believed if he fails, their family legacy would fall in ruins.

### England, 1492

In England, Elijah and Klaus were noblemen in the late 15th century along with Dianna In the year 1492 Elijah met Katerina Petrova, who was the Doppelgänger of Tatia and moments later, showed her to his younger brother Niklaus. Katerina was the key to breaking Klaus, Neveah, and Katie's Hybrid Curse through sacrifice. While Elijah was helping Klaus achieve his goal, he started to fall in love with Katerina. And one day Elijah saw Katerina bored, he took her outside to have fun and then they sat at a bench and talked about love. Elijah confessed to her that he didn't believe in love, but Katerina didn't believe him, saying that without love, they wouldn't have a reason to live at all. after that Dianna had left the family due to being in love with his half-brother and his obsession with the doppelgänger and thirst for power Klaus then came and interrupted, taking Katerina with him and away from Elijah. Elijah then tried to persuade Klaus to spare her life, but Klaus told him not to bother and that the ritual would go on as planned. On the night of the full moon, Katerina took the moonstone and fled with the help of Trevor. Klaus assumed Elijah helped her because of their discussion the night before about sparing her life. Elijah promised him that he would find her and Klaus responded with a promise of his own; if he did not find Katerina, he would be killed. Elijah attempted to track down Katerina, but failed.

### Copenhagen, Denmark, 1500

Elijah lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, along with Klaus and Rebekah.

## Physical Appearance

Elijah is a handsome man who stands about 5'11" in height, and has a thin but muscular body. He has short brown hair which appeared to have darkened slightly in the fourth season, with hazel brown eyes. His facial features are angular - high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and a straight nose. Despite being centuries old, he appears to be 23 or 24 years old. He is older than his half brother Niklaus, 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.

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