Ansel and Niklaus Mikaelson's Family Bloodline

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## Family Heritage

### Species

* Werewolf
* Tribrid
* Original Hybrid
* Original Tribrid

### Notable Family Members

* Ansel's Unnamed Parents †
* Ansel †
* Ansel's Unknown Children †
* Niklaus Mikaelson †
* Cary
* Hope Mikaelson
* Scorpius Malfoy
* EJ Malfoy
* Andrea Malfoy
* Lizzie Malfoy
* Salem Malfoy

## Relationships

### Related Families

* Dahlia and Esther's Family Bloodline
* Mikaelson Family
* Labonair Family
* Malfoy Family
* Black Family

## Affiliation

### House(s)

* Gryffindor
* Slytherin
* Ravenclaw
* Hufflepuff

### Loyalty

* North East Atlantic Pack
* Crescent Wolf Pack

**Ansel and Niklaus Mikaelson's Family** is an unknown ancient bloodline of very powerful werewolves that goes back at least a thousand years. They are all members of the North East Atlantic Pack, that is native to America and is said to have existed since the genesis of the werewolf species.

This bloodline's known werewolves have all been powerful and noteworthy. The family's known oldest ancestor is Ansel, and known most powerful descendants are Niklaus Mikaelson, his tribrid daughter Hope Mikaelson, and his grandchildren Scorpius, EJ, Andrea, Lizzie, and Salem Malfoy. This family has had a bad relationship/rivalry with the Crescent Wolf Pack, a pack in the Southeastern United States, since the beginning of their existence.

## History

The full history of their bloodline remains a mystery. However, at some point, a werewolf named Ansel ascended to the role of Alpha of the North East Atlantic Pack, where he became beloved by his people and feared by other werewolf packs. It was around this time that Ansel caught the eye of the powerful witch Esther Gryffindor, who had moved to the neighboring village years with her husband Mikael and their two sons Finn and Elijah after the "death" of their eldest daughter Freya Mikaelson. Mikael had become distant from Esther after the loss of Freya, which eventually led to Esther beginning an affair with Ansel, who she grew to love deeply, especially after Mikael quickly became violent and abusive to both her and her children. During this time, Esther and Ansel conceived a child together, Klaus, and though Ansel knew it was his son, Esther forbade him from admitting the truth or having a relationship with his young son Klaus, instead passing him off as Mikael's own child.

Knowing Klaus was born with the werewolf gene - which, if triggered, would reveal her infidelity - Esther made a magical amulet for Klaus to wear in order to secretly make him physically weaker, ensuring that he wouldn't be strong enough to take a human life and activate his lycanthropy. Unfortunately, Esther and Mikael's youngest son, Henrik, was killed near the turn of the 11th century on a Full Moon after he and Klaus sneaked out to watch the men in Ansel's pack turn into wolves. Unable to bear the thought of losing another child, Mikael and Esther made the decision to turn Mikael and the rest of the Mikaelson children into what became known as the Original Vampires as a form of protection, as their new supernatural abilities were superior to that of the werewolves.

However, this transformation also came with an unintended consequence - an insatiable hunger for human blood. After Klaus accidentally made his first human kill while feeding shortly after he was turned into a vampire, he triggered his werewolf curse, revealing his true nature to his family and becoming the world's first werewolf-vampire hybrid. The revelation of Esther's infidelity coupled with the realization that Ansel's pack had also been responsible for Henrik's death, Mikael went into an unstoppable rage due to the heightened emotions that came with being a vampire. He went on a rampage and slaughtered over half of the werewolves in the village, including Ansel himself. However, it has been insinuated that at least one of Klaus' paternal half-siblings survived Mikael's massacre and continued Ansel and Klaus' bloodline, as Klaus continues to have distant werewolf relatives living in the present day.