Camille O'Connell

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## Biographical Information

### Turned

* By Aurora de Martel on December 25, 2013

### Occupation

* Bartender
* Student of Psychology (Graduated)
* Guardian of Jack, Hope, and Artemis Mikaelson (Briefly/Formerly)
* Psychologist

### Titles

* The Brave Bartender (by Klaus)
* Cheeky Little Minx (by Aurora)
* Love (by Klaus and Kol)
* Sweet Lady (by Vincent)

### Species

* Human (Originally)
* Vampire (Rebekah's Bloodline)
* Spirit  (Currently)

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Mayor O'Connell † (Paternal Ancestor)
* Unknown Parents
* Kieran O'Connell † (Paternal Uncle)
* Declan (Cousin)
* Sean O'Connell † (Twin Brother)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Kills

* A vampire in transition
* Herself (under compulsion)

### Cause of Death

* Throat slit (as a human)
* Advanced Werewolf Bite (as a vampire)

### Killed By

* Herself (as a human; under Aurora's compulsion)
* Lucien Castle (as a vampire)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'6" (Feet)
* 1.68 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Leah Pipes
* Rebecca Breeds (Disguised as Aurora via Glamour Spell)

### Episode Count

* 52 (TO/including one archive footage appearance)

### Last Seen

* *No More Heartbreaks* (Last Physical Appearance)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In* (Spirit)

**Camille "Cami" O'Connell** was a vampire and a main character on *The Originals*. She was a psychology student who moved to New Orleans to investigate the death of her twin brother, Sean O'Connell. Initially, Marcel was attracted to her apparent physical beauty and intelligence, and thus he and Klaus attempted to keep her sheltered from the major ongoing conflict between the vampires, witches and werewolves of the city. However, she eventually became aware of the surrounding supernatural world and uncovered the truth about Sean's death.

Over time, she became increasingly involved with the Mikaelson family, partly due to her uncle's role as *de facto* leader of the humans in New Orleans, and partly due to her growing friendship with Klaus. This friendship, combined with the fact that she was human, placed her in sights of the family's vengeful enemies, who started noticing the important role that she seemed to play in Klaus' life and therefore saw her as an asset against him. This entanglement culminated in Camille slitting her own throat under compulsion and subsequently turning into a vampire. Klaus' former lover, Aurora de Martel, orchestrated this deadly scheme to get back at him for leaving her and torturing her and her brother. Aurora also expressed jealousy towards Camille, seeing her as her own 'replacement' as someone important to Klaus.

After becoming a vampire, Camille's personality drastically changed: she became seemingly more confident, determined, and even reckless and careless. As she suspected herself to have a 'darker side' as a human, this sudden shift in personality and behavior associated to her new vampirism can be seen as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In *The Devil Comes Here and Sighs*, Camille was fatally bitten by Lucien Castle in retaliation for Klaus "stealing" Aurora's affections from him. Following several unsuccessful attempts to battle against the poisonous bite, it soon became apparent that there was no cure and after tearful goodbyes from her friends, Camille ultimately died with her last wish for Klaus.

**Camille** was a member of the **O'Connell Family**.

## Early History

Not much is known about her early history. She grew up with a twin brother, Sean, and appeared to have grown up in a different city before it, possibly to attend college. She then moved to New Orleans to be near her uncle, Kieran, and investigate the circumstances surrounding Sean's suspicious and tragic death. At some point, she enrolled in graduate school to get another psychology degree and began working as a bartender at Rousseau's.

In *The Other Girl in New Orleans*, Cami revealed to Aurora de Martel (along with Niklaus Mikaelson, who was eavesdropping on their conversation) that when she was a junior in undergraduate school, her roommate was beaten up by her boyfriend when she attempted to break up with him. Cami to begged her roommate to seek help from the police, the dean, or anyone else who would listen. However, her roommate was too scared to tell anyone else what happened. Later, Cami runs into the same man at a bar and sees him hitting on a freshman; she became so enraged that he would be getting away with his abusive behavior that she smashed a beer bottle into his face, tackled him, and knelt on his chest while she slammed his head repeatedly against the floor. Afterward, Cami was arrested and charged with assault and battery, and she described the experience as one of her deepest, darkest secrets due to the fact that she was ashamed about how much she enjoyed it.

## Personality

* Human
* Vampire

Camille did not possess any supernatural attributes, Camille exhibited an air of pluckiness about her by claiming to Marcel that she has a black belt in karate. She was not judgmental. Her brother's murder-suicide had left her with a need to understand the human psyche, to be able to make sense of the supposed chaos within insanity. She also wanted to understand dark impulses after she attacked her former roommate's abusive ex-boyfriend because she was angry that he would get away with his crimes.

She was a person who stands by her morals, as upon learning of her brother's murderer's demise, she felt enraged that someone had gotten killed. Likewise, she possessed a strong will, angrily telling Klaus that she will find a way to break through the compulsion's control over her.

Despite being smack in the middle of all the chaos and bloodshed in the French Quarter, Camille has displayed considerable determination to continue what her uncle worked so hard to protect. She stood tall as a human, despite living in a town chock full of supernatural creatures.

Camille was poised, intelligent and astute, able to decipher the psyches of even thousand-year-old vampires. She displayed a good sense of humor and a personable nature. She was courageous and spirited, displaying this bravery on numerous occasions, in particular against Mikael. Though she was forever in want of an analytical and logical standpoint, she was also compassionate and caring to change others.

After transitioning into a vampire, Camille became more impulsive and was struggling with her apparent, resurfaced dark side. Camille had little to no problem manipulating others by compelling. Camille maintained her caring demeanor, but she slipped in and out of her dark side due to her lack of control of her emotions. Camille then entered a transitioning phase on who she wanted to be both as a new person and as a new vampire.

After a while, Camille seemed to be getting more of her humanity be known. She still manipulated and seemed very childish which might have to do with her being a new vampire. She mentioned that all her actions have to do with the fact she didn't want to be in danger anymore and she wanted to be able to protect herself, which might mean that the human Camille wasn't fully gone.

Camille later started to get more of her human emotions back, and was finally, able to let go of her anger and resentment towards Aurora for turning her. She was even starting to attempt to return to her old life of helping people before she died.
## Physical Appearance

Camille was a young woman in her early to mid-twenties, standing at approximately 5'6", who has an attractive face possessing green-blue eyes, dark lashes and blonde hair. Her shoulder length hair was worn in a variety of different styles, although usually worn pulled back with a clip, exposing her strong jaw line. Camille seemed to be absent of heavy makeup and wore a minimal amount of jewelry, usually only a necklace or pendant. She wore a variety of different styles of clothing ranging from colorful knitwear, denim jackets and jeans, floral summer dresses, cardigans with sandals or boots and occasionally matches them with colored scarves. Camille also had a small tattoo on the inside of her left wrist; the significance is however, unknown and the tattoo is often hidden beneath her clothing.

## Powers and Abilities

Camille possessed all standard powers and abilities of a non-Original vampire. Camille has become very skilled in compulsion; she compelled numerous humans, while still being a new vampire. In *Heart Shaped Box*, she fought Hayley Marshall, and was briefly able to hold her own against the hybrid.

## Weaknesses

Camille had the typical weaknesses of a non-Original vampire.

## Appearances

### The Originals

* *Always and Forever*
* *House of the Rising Son*
* *Tangled Up In Blue*
* *Girl in New Orleans*
* *Fruit of the Poisoned Tree*
* *The River in Reverse*
* *Reigning Pain in New Orleans*
* *The Casket Girls*
* *Dance Back from the Grave*
* *Crescent City*
* *Le Grand Guignol*
* *Farewell to Storyville*
* *Moon Over Bourbon Street*
* *The Big Uneasy*
* *An Unblinking Death*
* *A Closer Walk With Thee*
* *The Battle of New Orleans*
* *From a Cradle to a Grave*

* *Rebirth*
* *Live and Let Die*
* *Red Door*
* *Wheel Inside the Wheel*
* *Chasing the Devil's Tail*
* *The Brothers That Care Forgot*
* *The Map of Moments*
* *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire*
* *Brotherhood of the Damned*
* *The Devil is Damned*
* *I Love You, Goodbye*
* *Save My Soul*
* *When the Levee Breaks*
* *City Beneath The Sea*
* *Fire with Fire*
* *Ashes to Ashes*

* *For the Next Millennium*
* *You Hung the Moon*
* *I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans*
* *The Axeman's Letter*
* *Beautiful Mistake*
* *Out of the Easy*
* *The Other Girl in New Orleans*
* *Savior*
* *A Ghost Along the Mississippi*
* *Wild at Heart*
* *Dead Angels*
* *Heart Shaped Box*
* *A Streetcar Named Desire* (Mentioned)
* *An Old Friend Calls*
* *Behind the Black Horizon*
* *The Devil Comes Here and Sighs*
* *No More Heartbreaks* (Death)
* *Where Nothing Stays Buried* (Corpse/Unseen/Covered)

* *Gather Up the Killers* (Archive footage/Picture/Mentioned)
* *Keepers of the House* (Mentioned)
* *High Water and a Devil's Daughter* (Picture)
* *Queen Death* (Mentioned)
* *A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken* (Mentioned)
* *One Wrong Turn On Bourbon* (Mentioned)
* *What, Will, I, Have, Left* (Mentioned)
* *The Kindness of Strangers* (Grave Memorial/Mentioned)
* *There in the Disappearing Light* (Mentioned)
* *Til the Day I Die* (Mentioned)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In* (Hallucination)

### Legacies

**Season Two**

* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember* (Photo)