Rebekah Mikaelson

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## Biographical information

### Born

* 10th Century A.D (Mystic Falls, Age Unknown/1000+)

### Turned

* By Esther in Autumn 1001 (Through The Immortality Spell)

### Occupation

* Noblewoman (1002-1700s) (Formerly)
* Nurse (1919) (Formerly)
* High School Student (Graduated)
* Guardian of Hope Mikaelson (Formerly)
* Member of the Triple Crescents (Currently)
* Head of the Human Faction (Currently)

### Title(s)

* Lady Rebekah de Guise (alternate identity in the 11th century, as a noble)
* Bekah (Klaus, Stefan, Adrianna, and Kol)
* Buffy the Vampire, Evil Blood Slut, She Devil (all by Caroline)
* Barbie Klaus, Sexy Bex, Original Sister, Blonde Bombshell, She Devil, Blondie-Bex (all by Damon Salvatore)

### Species

* Witch (Untapped/Originally)
* Original Vampire (Currently)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Paternal Grandfather †
* Mikael † (Father)
* Esther † (Mother)
* Dahlia † (Maternal Aunt)
* Freya Mikaelson (Older Sister)
* Kai Parker (Brother-In-Law, via Freya Mikaelson)
* Finn Mikaelson † (Older Brother)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Older Brother)
* Katherine Pierce (Sister-In-Law, via Elijah Mikaelson)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Older Maternal Half-Brother)
* Caroline Forbes (Sister-In-Law, via Niklaus Mikaelson)
* Kol Mikaelson (Older Brother)
* Bonnie Bennett (Sister-In-Law, via Kol Mikaelson)
* Henrik Mikaelson † (Younger Brother)
* Giuseppe Salvatore † (Father-In-Law)
* Lillian Salvatore † (Mother-In-Law)
* Damon Salvatore (Brother-In-Law, via Stefan Salvatore)
* Stefan Salvatore (Husband)
* Hope Mikaelson (Niece)
* Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett (Niece)
* Aleksander Mikaelson-Bennett (Nephew)
* Thalia Mikaelson-Parker (Niece)

## Supernatural information

### Significant sires

* Aurora de Martel (1002)
* Lenore † (2012)

### Significant kills

* Genevieve (Indirectly, 1st time)
* Clara Summerlin (Indirectly)
* Unnamed Guard
* Unnamed Girl
* Elena Gilbert (2nd time, as a human)
* Alaric Saltzman (through Elena's death)
* Galen Vaughn (indirectly)
* 6 of Marcel's Nightwalker Vampires
* Unnamed Witch
* Unnamed Number of Bayou Werewolves
* Numerous members of the Strix
* The Hollow's followers

### Cause of death

* Stabbed through the heart (as an untapped witch)

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'6.5 (Feet)
* 1.69 (Meters)

### Eye color

* Blue

**Rebekah Mikaelson-Salvatore** (***Elder Futhark:** ᚱᛖᛒᛖᚲᚨᚺ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ*) is an Original Vampire. Rebekah is the second daughter of Mikael and Esther. She is the younger sister of Freya, Finn, Elijah, and Kol, the elder sister of Henrik, and the younger half-sister of Klaus. She is also the sister-in-law of Katherine, Kai, Bonnie, Damon, and Caroline. Rebekah is the aunt of Hope Mikaelson, Abigail Mikaelson-Bennett, Aleksander Mikaelson-Bennett, Alexia Salvatore and Thalia Mikaelson-Parker. She is married to Stefan Salvatore.

Throughout her millennium-long life, Rebekah's actions and personality have been heavily influenced by her relationship with Klaus and her desire to live a normal, human life. She has also been romantically involved with a few characters from the series. In the 12th century, she was in love with a Vampire hunter named Alexander who was a member of the Brotherhood of the Five. In the late 19th and early 20th century, she was in a relationship with Klaus' protégé Marcel Gerard while she and her family lived in New Orleans. After she fled New Orleans with Klaus to escape her father Mikael, she was briefly in a relationship with Stefan Salvatore in Chicago during the early 1920s, and because she chose Stefan over her half-brother, Klaus daggered her for ninety years as punishment for her perceived betrayal. Once she was undaggered in 2010, she had several brief flings with Stefan before finding herself in a romantic relationship with a human, Matt Donovan, though it was clear she still had feelings for Stefan. Shortly afterward, she followed her brothers Klaus and Elijah back to New Orleans, where they once again settled as a family, allowing her the opportunity to rekindle her relationship with Marcel.

She is finally given her freedom by her brother Klaus and left the city to fulfill her desires at a normal life. During her time away she reconnected with Stefan and they began a romantic relationship again. Rebekah briefly returned to New Orleans, with Stefan, to become her niece's guardian after Klaus and Adrianna faked her death for her own safety. After her mother and Finn were resurrected, Esther began tracking Rebekah and Stefan's movements, forcing them to rejoin her family in New Orleans to plan how to best protect Hope from the new threats she faced.

Rebekah came up with a plan to take down her mother, which involved pretending to take her offer to possess the body of a mortal and rejoin her mother and brothers Finn and Kol, the latter of which was brainwashed. However, it was a trap and her spirit was unknowingly placed in the body of a witch named Eva Sinclair, who was imprisoned in the Fauline Cottage asylum due to her crimes against the children of the New Orleans covens. She was then trapped in the asylum until her sister Freya awakened from her century-long slumber and freed them both with her magic. Eva temporarily regained control over her body and used it to attempt to complete the Rite of Nines using the children Eva had kidnapped and channeled both prior to her imprisonment and afterward; because Rebekah's spirit was the only thing keeping Eva's body alive, and because the eight teenage witches, including Davina Claire, were still linked to Eva's body, Rebekah's return to her true body would cause them to die as well, a fate Rebekah did not want for them.

After Vincent assisted her in severing her host body's connection to eight teenage witches, Rebekah stayed in Eva's body to potentially help get rid of Dahlia. Her and Marcel end up being stuck in the compound. The two end up talking, with Marcel telling her that he was still in love with her. Rebekah told him that she did not return his feelings and that she already had a boyfriend that was currently in Mystic Falls. Rebekah eventually stabbed herself/Eva through the throat and, as expected, the death of her host body caused her spirit to return to her original body. After Dahlia was defeated, Freya healed Eva's body so that Rebekah could return to it. Rebekah then went to Mystic Falls to help Stefan and the two left the town after.

After months had passed, Rebekah was confronted at her house in Morocco by Aya and dozens of her fellow members of The Strix, who, on Tristan de Martel's orders, killed Eva's body once again so that Rebekah would have to return to her own. The Strix, who intended to neutralize her and bring her back to Tristan in New Orleans, attacked her *en masse*, and though Rebekah would normally be at an advantage due to her age and status as an Original, she was weakened from not having fed during her six months in the coffin.

Later, Rebekah is incapacitated and the rest of the Mikaelsons, along with Adrianna and Stefan, try to find her and find a way to cure her. She is eventually found but they are forced to dagger her. When they undagger her, she decides to leave New Orleans with Stefan.

**Rebekah** is a member of the **Mikaelson Family** and an unnamed **Witch Family**. She is also a member of the **Salvatore Family** due to her marriage to Stefan Salvatore.

## Early History

* Human Life
* 1002
* 1114
* 1359
* 1492
* 1694
* 1702
* 1700s
* 1800s
* 1900s

Rebekah is the second daughter of Mikael and Esther, wealthy landowners from the Kingdom of Norway in the 10th century. Her mother gave birth to Freya, Finn, and Elijah in the Old World, but after Freya was sent away with Esther's sister Dahlia as payment for Esther's fertility spell (which was later covered up by Esther, who claimed Freya had died of the plague), Esther and Mikael were so devastated that they decided to follow the advice of Esther's witch mentor Ayana, who told her of a mystical land (the New World) where its natives were strong and healthy. They then settled in what is now Mystic Falls, Virginia, where Esther and Mikael had four more children; Niklaus (who was secretly fathered by a werewolf named Ansel), Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. Rebekah, like the rest of her siblings, was born a witch, but she did not tap into her powers prior to being turned into a vampire.

Niklaus once stayed awake with her during a stormy night and gave her a wooden carved knight, as the thunder and lightning scared her. He comforted her and stayed beside her all night, stating that he will always protect her.
Niklaus was once violently beaten by his father Mikael for allegedly stealing his blade, unaware of the fact that it was really Rebekah who had secretly taken it. Feeling guilty for the pain she had caused him, Rebekah treated him with extra kindness for weeks afterward to make up for it, though Klaus would not learn the truth about Rebekah's involvement until many centuries later.

In her teenage years, Rebekah once threatened Mikael with a sword when he wouldn't stop viciously beating Klaus with a whip. That night, she even tried to kill her father in his sleep for mistreating Niklaus, and would have gone through with it had Elijah not stopped her. Rebekah, like the rest of her siblings, seemed equally afraid of Mikael, though, as one of his favorite children, she never was a victim of his abuse.
While living in the New World, they lived in peace with the werewolves in their village for over two decades. However, during a Full Moon, Niklaus and Henrik snuck out to watch the men from their village transform into wolves. However, as the sun began to rise, Rebekah saw Niklaus carrying Henrik's lifeless body back into the village, and he tearfully confessed that one of the wolves had mauled Henrik to death.

Not wanting to go through the pain of losing another child ever again, their mother Esther decided to tap into Dark Magic to cast an adapted version of Qetsiyah's immortality spell, calling upon the sun for life and the ancient white oak tree for immortality. That night, unbeknownst to Rebekah and her siblings, they drank wine laced with the blood of Tatia at dinner and afterward, Mikael drove his sword through their hearts. After the children awakened, Mikael forced his children to feed on the blood of a local villager in order to complete their transition into vampires.
Though Rebekah described the feeling of becoming a vampire as being euphoric, she and her siblings quickly began to realize that their new gifts had its weaknesses as well: the flowers that grew at the base of the white oak tree, Vervain, burned them and prevented them from compelling their human neighbors; the sun burned their skin, making it impossible for them to walk in the daylight until their mother enchanted rings to protect them; and they were unable to enter the homes of their neighbors without an invitation. The worst of their side effects was their insatiable thirst for human blood, which persisted long after they had transitioned into vampires and eventually forced them to learn self-control.

After realizing that wood carved from the white oak tree would be fatal to them if stabbed into their hearts, they burned the tree to the ground for their own protection. Then, after the revelation of Esther's infidelity and Klaus' true parentage led to their mother's death, Rebekah, Niklaus, and Elijah swore to each other that they would never turn on each other and stick together as one, always and forever.

While fleeing from Mikael after the death of their mother, Rebekah ran with her siblings for a significant amount of time, feeding on people along the countryside but always being careful to hide the bodies. Unaware of where they were going, Kol brought up the idea that maybe they should split up so as to better avoid their father. Finn agreed with the idea, tired of the killing and running, taking no pleasure in their descent into vampirism. Elijah was quick to remind his siblings of their vow to remain together always and forever. When they discovered a caravan filled with fine clothing belonging to victims they had just killed, Rebekah suggested they steal the clothes and pose as the victims since they were heading to a nearby castle. When they found a servant of the castle who was escorting the cart to its destination, he told them he could help them in their potential ruse. They put it to a vote, whether they should let him live. Kol and Elijah wanted to kill him, while Finn and Rebekah wanted to spare him. Ultimately, Klaus had the deciding vote and he voted to spare the servant. The servant, Lucien Castle, presented them to the court after trying to help them blend in and present themselves as nobles. After almost being caught, their plan worked and they were welcomed into the count's court. Over time, the Mikaelsons were adjusted to the French court ways, and Rebekah quickly befriended the count's daughter, Aurora de Martel. Rebekah also knows that Aurora was in love with her brother, Niklaus. After an incident that turned Lucien into one of them (at the time, the term "Vampire" was not yet invented) by pure chance, he and Klaus started to feed and make a mess together, and one night, Aurora walked in and caught them. When Lucien went after her, Rebekah showed up and stopped him. Turning around, she showed Aurora her vampire face, causing her to scream in panic, and flee.

Rebekah, later, came to visit Aurora's chambers to explain, not knowing that Klaus had already written Aurora a letter himself explaining their family's weird condition. But after realizing what the Mikaelsons were, Aurora wanted to become one of them, and begged Klaus to turn her as he did Lucien, but he refused. And so, Rebekah walked in on Aurora and found her with her wrists bleeding, and she was unconscious. Rebekah who, from the incident with Lucien, knew that their blood can cure the living, fed Aurora her blood. Aurora, upon waking up, admitted she wanted to die because she was not permitted to be with Klaus. After remembering how Lucien turned, she dismissed Rebekah, wishing to be left alone. After Rebekah left her room, Aurora jumped to her death and became the first vampire from Rebekah's sireline.
Some time after that, the rumors from the castle had reached the village, and an upset Finn informed Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah that because of Kol's, Klaus', and Lucien's antics, and the "creatures" that Klaus and Rebekah sired, the villagers talk about demons that feed on human blood. The Mikaelsons realized that they have been discovered and that soon their father will be upon them. And so they fled from France. Some time later Elijah compelled Lucien, Aurora, and her older brother - Tristan de Martel, whom Elijah himself just sired - to believe that they were Klaus, Rebekah, and Elijah, so they can be a decoy to lure their father away. After fleeing France, the five Mikaelson siblings headed south to Italy, Tuscany, and lived there for a time.

Rebekah was residing in Italy with her brothers Klaus and Elijah in the 12th century when they met a supernatural Vampire Hunter named Alexander, a member of a group called the Brotherhood of the Five. Rebekah soon fell in love with him, which allowed Klaus and Elijah to get closer to him and question him about his brotherhood's mission. During this time, Alexander and Rebekah planned to get married. They even picked out a church and he shared a lot of information with her about his plans for hunting vampires before inviting Rebekah to travel with him, an offer she enthusiastically accepted. However, unbeknownst to her, Alexander had found out she was an Original vampire, and while she and all her siblings were his guests at a sleepover, Alexander and his brothers daggered the Mikaelson siblings with White Oak Ash Daggers. However, the brothers did not anticipate Klaus' werewolf heritage, and when he was revealed to be unaffected by the dagger, he viciously killed the entirety of the Five before undaggering all of his siblings except for Finn. Klaus was furious that Rebekah was so easily taken advantage of by Alexander and his brethren and viciously interrogated her to find out what she had told them about their family and what she had learned from him in return. This forced an upset Rebekah to confess that Alexander and his brothers' alleged "ultimate weapon" against vampires was a cure for immortality. Despite Alexander's betrayal, Rebekah still buried him along with his sword at the church where they had planned to marry before she left with her siblings to find a new home.
According to Elijah's journal, Rebekah was losing much of her humanity, and was described by Elijah to have become indifferent to brutality.

Rebekah lived as a noblewoman in England, along with her brothers Elijah and Klaus. While living there, she met Katerina Petrova, the second Petrova doppelgänger to exist after Tatia, who Klaus planned to sacrifice in order to break his hybrid curse. Rebekah ultimately developed a grudge against Katerina after her escape from their castle and subsequent transition into a vampire ruined Klaus' plan to break his curse and destroyed his relationship with Elijah.

Rebekah was accused of witchcraft in an unspecified village by an unknown woman. As revenge, Klaus turned the woman's husband and compelled him to drain her to death.

In 1702, Kol's violent antics in Spain drew too much attention, which ultimately led Mikael to discover their whereabouts and track them down to their village, which Mikael set ablaze and destroyed. While Klaus and Elijah searched for Kol, they left Rebekah to board their ship with the daggered Finn and wait for them there. Once Klaus, Elijah, and the daggered Kol made it onto the ship, they set sail for their return to the New World.

In the 1700s, having fled the Old World from Mikael, Rebekah, along with Klaus and Elijah, sailed across the world, eventually landing in the port of what soon became New Orleans. Upon arriving in the newly established city, several men boarded their ship while under the impression that it was an abandoned ship whose belongings were ripe for the taking. The men were quickly slaughtered by Rebekah and Klaus, who were famished after their long journey, but they were ordered by Elijah to leave one alive, whom they questioned and then compelled to carry their luggage off the ship. Another flashback of Rebekah from the 18th century shows her coming upon a carriage of girls who had just arrived in New Orleans from France in order to marry gentlemen there, not knowing that they would be sold to men who were neither gentle nor noble. Fortunately for the women, Rebekah saved the girls by killing the men who were about to attack their carriage and protected them as she helped them flee to safety with their "caskets" full of clothes and belongings. She promised them that she would not harm them and stated, "We girls need to stick together."

In 1820, Rebekah, Niklaus, and Elijah were living in New Orleans and paying gold to the governor for the existence of vampires to be kept a secret. Rebekah fell in love with the governor's son Emil and wanted to turn him into a vampire so they could be together forever. However, whilst asking for her brother's permission, Klaus snorted and told her if she wanted to turn every human she fell in love with, humans would cease to exist, before Klaus proclaimed that nobody was good enough for her and killed Emil by throwing him off the balcony. Some days later, the three Originals were attending Emil's funeral when they noticed a young slave boy throwing an apple at the slave master who was whipping him. Klaus began to talk to the boy, seeing him as a kindred spirit, and even named him Marcellus before inviting him to come live with them at their home. A surprised Elijah whispered to Rebekah, "*Perhaps there is hope for our brother after all.*" Marcel was soon taken into the family, quickly developing a crush on Rebekah at an early age because of all the time they spent fencing with each other. By 1835, Marcel was finally an adult who was capable of besting Rebekah at duel, and after some time, he attempted to make his move on Rebekah, only to be stopped by a jealous Klaus. Despite pleading with Klaus to let him be with Rebekah, Klaus still shot him down and forbid him from pursuing her. However this did not stop Marcel from trying again and making out with Rebekah. They were abruptly torn apart physically by Klaus who decided to punish them by daggering Rebekah.

In 1887, Klaus undaggered Rebekah revealing he had left her daggered for fifty-two years. When she had asked to see Marcel, Klaus sadistically revealed that he gave Marcel an ultimatum: he could either live a long human life with Rebekah and die of old age, or become a vampire and never be with Rebekah again. He chose the latter, even walking into the room as proof of his transition, which devastated Rebekah. A day or two later, Elijah helped Rebekah reintegrate herself in New Orleans' society by taking her to the opera house.

Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Rebekah all continued living in New Orleans as they had for several centuries. In 1914, Rebekah celebrated Christmas with her brothers and the rest of the town at a large party thrown at the Mikaelson compound. She found Kol desperately looking for something in the dressers in Klaus' room. He took a risk and confessed his plans to create a dagger that would actually work on Klaus, which stunned Rebekah at first before she decided to pretend to join forces with him. Later, she approached a witch who had accompanied Kol to the party and told her that she deserved better than to date Kol. However, unbeknownst to Rebekah, the girl she had spoken to was not a girlfriend of Kol's, but was actually their eldest sister Freya, who was so curious and excited to meet her true family that she couldn't help but sneak into the party. That night, Klaus gathered everyone at the party and made a toast to Rebekah, thanking her for her loyalty. This speech made Kol nervous, and he attempted to escape, but he was ultimately cornered by Klaus and Elijah and daggered in front of the entire party, leading the audience to realize that Rebekah had betrayed Kol by exposing his plans to Klaus.

In 1919, Rebekah worked as a nurse in New Orleans sanatorium during the period of influenza. Marcel soon returned from World War I. At first they were distant, but eventually grew closer. Together, they desperately started to search for freedom, to do as they wished without Klaus constantly controlling them. Rebekah befriended Genevieve, a fellow nurse and found out that she was a witch. She asked Genevieve to summon her father, Mikael, to New Orleans. Eventually, Klaus accepted and supported her relationship with Marcel, which made the pair very happy. When Genevieve learned that Rebekah had used her, she wanted to reveal her secret to Klaus. However, Rebekah quickly infected her and her friend Clara Summerlin with influenza, leaving them to die, so she and Marcel would be protected from Klaus' wrath.

Elijah mentioned that he and his siblings had many fun times in New Orleans and didn't want to leave, however in the year 1919 after Mikael arrived, leaving countless bodies in his wake, they had no choice but to flee and were driven away. However, Elijah broke apart from Klaus and Rebekah to stall Mikael so his siblings could get away.

### Chicago, 1920s

A few years after the New Orleans incident, Rebekah and Klaus found themselves in Chicago. After her introduction to Stefan Salvatore, Rebekah immediately fell in love with him. Not long after, Mikael arrived in the city searching for Klaus with the intention to kill him. Mikael and the police fired wooden bullets into the building. Rebekah, Stefan, and Klaus ducked to avoid the bullets and in the commotion, Rebekah lost her mother's necklace. Klaus met up with Stefan and compelled him to forget ever meeting him and Rebekah. Later, Rebekah and Klaus are packing and moving elsewhere. Klaus tells Rebekah to hurry up, but she says that she is not going anywhere without Stefan. Klaus tells her to let Stefan go, but Rebekah refuses, intent on staying with him. Klaus forces her to choose between him and Stefan, and as she opted for the latter, he neutralizes her with the White Oak Ash Dagger. Rebekah remained neutralized for 90 years and was stored in a coffin which was carried around with Klaus wherever he went. Klaus also had other coffins containing their other brothers, Finn and Kol.
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## Personality

* Human/Witch (1st time)
* Original Vampire
* Human/Witch (2nd time)

As a human, Rebekah is a caring, supportive, and overall sweet teenage girl. Like the rest of her siblings, she was scared of her father and often witnessed her brother being abused by Mikael, to a point that she even tried to kill him, unable to tolerate her father's abusive nature towards Niklaus anymore. She had desired the Cure so that she could become human again but she eventually gave up this dream when she restarted her relationship with Stefan Salvatore and decided that she would rather spend eternity with him.

"*We're vampires. Our emotions are heightened. I'm stubborn. Elijah moral, and Nik, Nik has no tolerance for those who disappoint him.*"
—Rebekah about her siblings

Initially, Rebekah's personality in the series is erratic, spiteful, and vindictive. As the series goes on, it becomes clear that deep down she is still the sweet and caring girl from her human days, as shown in her private moments with Stefan, Adrianna, and, on occasion, her siblings. After her mother's death, Rebekah grieves deeply, sometimes crying herself to sleep calling out her mother's name, as said by Esther. After spending centuries with Klaus, with whom she shares a close bond with, she has become dependent on him, although she is not fond of him making decisions for her.

Because of the heartbreak she has endured, Rebekah has built up an emotional wall and she comes across as being cruel, aggressive, brutal, and mean. Despite her aggressive and brutal nature, she is emotionally fragile. She very much wants to be like a normal teenager and longs to have the normal teenage life she missed out on. Rebekah is very punctual, as she showed up on time to clean up the dance that she organized, but didn't attend due to the incident with Esther, and reprimanded Caroline for showing up two minutes late. Rebekah fears being left alone and she doesn't believe it when people treat her kind as a friend or a lover.

She grew closer to Matt Donovan in the fourth book, and his influence seemed to rub off on her. She was not as spiteful and arrogant as she was before and was willing to assist his friends when she was needed. Later she gets even closer to Stefan and it seemed a lot of the times she decided to help his friends was because of her love for Stefan.

However, Rebekah can be just as bad as her half-brother Klaus. Although she is intelligent and calculating, Rebekah is extremely reckless and far more impulsive than Klaus. Rebekah tends to think and act more with her feelings, like when she summoned Mikael to New Orleans to "kill" Klaus because she could no longer take his cruelty and she wanted to be with Marcel.

Despite being over 1000 years old, she can still be childish and immature. Rebekah's temper is said to be worse than Klaus' and she has also stated that she inherited her temper from her father.

Rebekah was put inside Eva Sinclaire by her mother, instantly terrified and startled as she realizes she was trapped inside Dowager Fauline Cottage.

Rebekah has a hard time adjusting to her mortality as well as her new-found magic, as she once tried to bite someone on impulse, only to discover that the taste of blood is disgusting in her new body. She still retains her fighting skills, only she is now much weaker and slower. However, she is quick to adjust to her new body as well as to the fact that she is a witch.
## Physical Appearance

Rebekah is a beautiful woman with naturally light blonde hair, light blue eyes, full lips, and pale light skin with a small amount of freckles across her cheeks and nose. She is over 1000 years old, but looks to be 16 or 17. When Rebekah is in her vampiric form, her eyes will turn red with small veins protruding around the area of her eyes and her teeth will lengthen into fangs, possibly longer than that of regular vampires.

In terms of fashion sense, Rebekah often wears stylish and mature clothing with trendy coats and fashionable jewelry, such as long necklaces and pendants or dangle earrings. She mostly wears the colors of white, black, brown, or gray. She often wears low-heeled boots and shoes with dark jeans and leggings. As a human and during her early years as an Original vampire, she was very in-tuned with fashion and her style was very "in" to the times, for example in the 1920s, Rebekah wore the classic "flapper" dresses with long pearl necklaces and matching jewelry.

## Powers and Abilities

* Original Vampire
* Witch

Rebekah possesses all the standard powers of an Original Vampire. Rebekah is currently one of the strongest female vampires in the world and one of the strongest vampires in the world. She is weaker than her tribrid best friend Adrianna and her hybrid brother Klaus. She is also possibly evenly matched with Kol and Elijah. Due to her Original Vampire status, the powers Rebekah possesses are stronger than those of a non-Original vampire, surpassing in strength, even the most ancient ones, like Aurora de Martel, who was the first vampire she ever sired. She was easily capable of subduing both Damon and Stefan Salvatore, Marcel Gerard, and Katherine Pierce to name a few.

Rebekah is a very skilled operator of mind compulsion. A testament to her skills is when she compelled Tyler Lockwood to turn without the full moon after becoming a hybrid. Due to her advanced age, Rebekah has a higher threshold for werewolf venom than any other non-Original vampire. She was able to kill many fully transformed werewolves on a full moon, before being fully subdued herself. This shows her physical strength as Rose-Marie, despite being over five hundred and sixty years old, failed to defeat even one.

Rebekah has subdued almost every non-Original vampire she has encountered. She possesses an adequate skill in hand-to-hand combat, being able to kill many members of The Strix and hold her own against the very skilled fighter Aya, despite having not fed for six months. When infected with the cursed stake, it took both Klaus and Elijah, both extremely skilled and powerful Original Vampires, to restrain a rabid Rebekah.

Rebekah was an untapped witch prior to her transition into an Original vampire. When she was placed into a witch's body, she had the powers of one, such as when she performed a spell with Cassie in oder to send her brothers a message. She displayed an inability to control her magic, as seen when she accidentally caused a magical wind to blow away the locator spell she and Kol were preparing upon him calling her untrained. However, she later did manage (with Kol's help) to perform a spell which allowed her and Kol to channel the power of dozens of dark objects, the white oak stake, and Klaus himself in order to overload Finn's power source.

Rebekah stayed in her witch body until she was killed which caused her spirit to transfer back into her Original, vampiric body.
## Weaknesses

Rebekah has the typical weaknesses of an Original vampire. While in the body of Eva Sinclaire, Rebekah had the typical weaknesses of a witch.

## Relationships

### Niklaus Mikaelson

*Main Article: Klaus and Rebekah*

"*That is what big brothers do, sweetheart.*"
—Klaus to Rebekah

Klaus is Rebekah's older half-brother. Out of all his siblings, he is closest to her and he cares very deeply for her, although he seems to have a lot of difficulty showing her his affection. They are very loyal to each other and have stood by one another through thick and thin. After Klaus was "killed" by Alaric, Rebekah is heartbroken and causes Elena's, and therefore Alaric's, death as revenge. When she finds out he's alive in Book 4, she is very angry and hurt that he chose to save Caroline over her. Even though she claimed to hate him, they are both still bound by their love and his feeling of wanting to protect her from her own weaknesses. Klaus trusted her to take care of his daughter while he and Adrianna stayed in New Orleans to neutralize the threats to their baby. They are currently still very close to each other. Rebekah was a bridesmaid at Klaus' wedding to Caroline and Klaus was present at Rebekah's wedding to Stefan.

### Elijah Mikaelson

*Main Article: Elijah and Rebekah*

"*You are free*"
—Elijah to Rebekah

Elijah is Rebekah's older brother. Her relationship with him has been very dysfunctional because Elijah is very critical towards her due to her actions. After finding out that Klaus is going to be a father, Elijah asks her to follow Klaus and him to New Orleans but she refuses. After 3 months of not hearing from Elijah, Rebekah arrives in New Orleans to find out what happened to him. When she finds him, he tells her to protect the woman carrying Klaus' child, though Rebekah had already planned to do so since it was her best friend. Elijah is the brother that Rebekah respects the most and he is very protective of her, not letting anyone physically harm her. When she is about to be stabbed with Papa Tunde's Blade, he stabs Klaus with it to protect Rebekah. He also would not allow Klaus to stake her with the White Oak Stake or harm her in any way. Elijah was present at Rebekah's wedding to Stefan and Rebekah was a bridesmaid at Elijah's wedding to Katherine.

### Kol Mikaelson

*Main Article: Rebekah and Kol*

"*You've changed Bekah, settling for mortals is the first sign of weakness*"
—Kol to Rebekah

Kol is Rebekah's older brother and her partner in crime. They are close, and thus, share a very positive and stable family relationship. They are the younger Mikaelson siblings and love doing mischief together. Kol is the only member of the family, who, despite personal differences, takes Rebekah's side, as he protects her often from Klaus. Like Klaus, Kol also dislikes her lovers. Rebekah seems to be Kol's favorite sibling and he trusts her the most out of his other siblings. Rebekah is one of the people who knows Kol better than anyone else, the others being Bonnie and Adrianna, as she knows his favorite holidays, when he's lying, or when he's telling the truth. Rebekah was present at the birth of Kol's children and at his wedding to Bonnie. Kol was present at Rebekah's wedding to Stefan.

### Stefan Salvatore

*Main Article: Stefan and Rebekah*

"*I'm so sorry sweetheart, are we offending you?*"
—Stefan to Rebekah

Stefan Salvatore is Rebekah's best friend and husband. Rebekah first met Stefan in Chicago in the 1920s when he reached for a cocktail and she intercepted him. They flirted back and forth before they both gave in to the attraction and began a romantic relationship. Things moved rather quickly and the two quickly fell in love with each other. Unfortunately, Mikael caught up with Klaus and Rebekah and they had to flee Chicago. Rebekah wanted Stefan to come with them but Klaus denied her request and forced her to choose between him and Stefan. When Rebekah chose Stefan he daggered her and compelled Stefan to forget meeting them. They meet again in Book 3 after Klaus undaggered Rebekah and Klaus compelled Stefan to remember meeting them. When Rebekah and Stefan kiss, she senses that Stefan has been lying and betraying her and Klaus. As a result, they return to Mystic Falls to see that Elena was still alive. Rebekah is very clearly still in love with Stefan and jealous of his relationship with Elena.

While working together to find Silas and the cure, Stefan and Rebekah began a sexual relationship, though they stop when Rebekah began a romantic relationship with Matt Donovan. In her time away from New Orleans, Rebekah and Stefan reconnected and formed a romantic relationship. They returned to New Orleans together, briefly, to take Hope and become her new guardians while her parents dealt with the threats to their daughter. Stefan and Rebekah are currently married to each other.

### Adrianna Gilbert

*Main Article: Rebekah and Adrianna*

"*You're my best friend and that's never gonna change*"
—Adrianna to Rebekah

Adrianna is Rebekah's best friend and sister-in-law, due to Rebekah's marriage to Stefan. Rebekah first met Adrianna when she was undaggered in Book 3 by Klaus. Rebekah was very cold and rude to her because she looked like Tatia and Katherine and she thought she would be just like them. However, Kol defended Adrianna and convinced Rebekah that she wasn't the same as her doppelgänger ancestors. The three began partying together. After Kol was daggered, Rebekah and Adrianna became closer and began spending more time together. After they returned to Mystic Falls, Adrianna helped Rebekah enroll in high school and temporarily moved her into the Salvatore Boarding House, much to the annoyance of the Salvatore brothers. Rebekah soon grew tired of the emotionless Adrianna and makes a deal with Damon and Elena to get her humanity back. However, none of their attempts worked. After finding out that Klaus kept Rebekah daggered, Adrianna retaliated by attacking his hybrids. She then stole the coffins with his other siblings and undaggered Rebekah and Kol, who then undaggered Elijah. When Adrianna got her humanity back she remained very close with Rebekah. While Adrianna was pregnant with her first child, Rebekah helped protect her and the baby. Adrianna was the maid of honor at Rebekah's wedding and Rebekah was a bridesmaid at Adrianna's wedding.

### Other Relationships

* Rebekah and Hope (Aunt/Niece/Rebekah was Hope's Guardian)
* Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah (Siblings/Allies)
* Rebekah and Freya (Siblings/ Allies)
* Damon and Rebekah (Former Enemies/ Close Friends/Allies/Sister/Brother-In-Law)
* Caroline and Rebekah (Former Enemies/ Best friends/Sisters-In-Law)
* Katherine and Rebekah (Former Enemies/Close Friends/ Sisters-In-Law)
* Rebekah and Marcel (Ex-Boyfriend/Frenemies)
* Rebekah and Abigail (Aunt/Niece)
* Rebekah and Aleksander (Aunt/Nephew)
* Rebekah and Thalia (Aunt/Niece)

## Name

* **Rebekah** is a feminine name of Hebrew origin (רִבְקָה (*Rivkah*)). The name means "to tie firmly". The matriarch Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau in the Bible. The alternate version is *Rebecca*.
* Rebekah's surname should technically be **Mikaelsdottir** (daughter of Mikael) as opposed to Mikaelson (son of Mikael), if she was to truly follow Norse traditions.

## Trivia

* As the only original female Original Vampire - and with Amara being cured and killed - she is the oldest female vampire on the planet and one of the most powerful female vampires on the planet.
	+ Adrianna is the other female Original, though she was turned by her own spell in current times. This does make her the one of the most powerful female vampires on the planet.
	+ After the death of Qetsiyah, Amara, Dahlia, and Esther, she is the second oldest known female on the planet after her sister, Freya.
* In the 12th century, Rebekah spoke fluent Italian. She also spoke French in the 18th century.