Labonair Family

The **Labonair Family** is a family featured in *Season One* of *The Originals* and a royal bloodline of werewolves that has been referred to as having existed since the beginning of the werewolf species. The family once lived in The French Quarter of New Orleans, and it has links to both the Original Family and the North East Atlantic Pack through Vera Mikaelson.

The family line is distinguished by a birthmark of a crescent moon that appears on the right shoulder of those who share in its bloodline.

## History

The Labonair Family are one of the two great families of the Crescent Wolf Clan which, according to Jackson, came to be at the beginning of the werewolf species. The two families were considered royalty among the werewolves due to this birthright, it has also led the Labonairs to have many enemies, even among the werewolves. In the 1980s to the 1990s, their clan took control of New Orleans. However, dissent had begun to grow between the Labonairs and the other bloodlines in their clan, leading to internal strife among the werewolves. It was this strife that made the werewolves vulnerable to the New Orleans vampires, to whom control of the Quarter eventually fell. In order to unite the Crescent Clan against their enemies, the Labonairs had arranged to have one of their daughters, Andréa marry Jackson Kenner, a werewolf from the other royal bloodline in their pack when they came of age. However, the vampires attacked them before their plans could come to fruition, and nearly all of the Labonairs were killed in the struggle, including Andréa and her twin sister Andrea's parents, by someone they knew. All of the surviving members of the Crescent Wolf clan were cursed by a witch named Brynne Deveraux, who was being possessed by Céleste Dubois and who was acting on the vampire leader Marcel's orders. The cursed wolves were forced to live in their werewolf form at all times, with the exception of the hours that the full moon was in the sky, during which time they were returned to their human forms. Unbeknownst to many, the vampire Marcel found babies Aubree and Andréa shortly after her parents had been murdered and took her to Father Kieran to find them an adoptive family, as he has a rule against hurting children. Andréa and Aubree were adopted by a new family shortly afterward and was renamed, Hayley Marshall and Andrea Marshall.

Many years later, after her first transformation and her adoptive parents' rejection, Hayley spent the majority of her formative years as a drifter who was intent to find her birth family, her twin sister Andrea followed her blindly. During their journey, Andrea met the Original hybrid Niklaus Mikaelson and stared a realationship with him. As a result of this brief fling, she became pregnant with their daughter, revealing that the Original hybrid can still reproduce due to being turned by magic, and introducing a new species to the world; because of their mixed supernatural identities, their child has vampire, werewolf, and witch heritage. Shortly after they hooked up, Hayley made her way to New Orleans, after Klaus saw her Labonair birthmark and told her it belonged to a werewolf bloodline in the region. When Hayley was kidnapped and brought to the Bayou by Tyler Lockwood, who wanted to confirm a suspicion about the magical properties of her baby's blood. There, she ran into a fellow werewolf named Eve, who gave her some information on her family background, including giving her a Bible that had the names of every Labonair who had been born over several generations. In *The Casket Girls*, Sophie Deveraux made a deal with Andrea to undo the curse on her family if she helped her complete The Harvest. Later, Hayley discovered that Sabine/Celeste had possessed the Deveraux witch who put the curse on her clan and decided to kidnap her so she and Eve could force her to break the curse, which she ultimately did.

Eventually, Andrea gave birth to her daughter, Vera Mikaelson in St. Anne's Church, where she was being held prisoner by the French Quarter Coven, who sought to sacrifice Andrea and Vera for more power and to satisfy Esther's decree.
Shortly after childbirth, Andrea was killed by Monique Deveraux, but since much of Vera's blood was still in her system, she awakened hours later in transition to become a hybrid. Andrea and the Mikaelson brothers managed to find and save Vera from the coven, in the process killing two of the Harvest Girls and Genevieve. However, due the revelation that Esther was the leader of the witches and the witch ancestors, as well as the growing threat of the Guerrera Family in the wake of their coup that gained the werewolves control over the Quarter, Hayley and Klaus faked Hope's death and sent her away to live with her aunt Rebekah for her own safety.