Rebekah Mikaelson

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## Biographical Information

### Turned

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

### Occupation

* Noblewoman  (1002-1700's) (Formerly)
* Nurse  (1919) (Formerly)
* High School Student  (Graduated)
* Guardian of Jack, Hope, and Artemis Mikaelson  (Formerly; with Katherine and Nadia)
* Prisoner  (Formerly)

### Titles

* Lady Rebekah de Guise  (alternate identity in the 11th century, as a noble)
* Bekah  (by Klaus, Athena, Marcel, Alex, Ariana, and Henrik, Kol)
* Buffy the Vampire, Evil Blood Slut, She Devil  (all by Caroline)
* Barbie Klaus, Sexy Bex, Original Sister, Blonde Bombshell, She Devil, Blondie-Bex, Lushy Pants  (by Damon)
* Blonde Original Chick  (by Vicki)
* Original Bitch  (by Sage)
* Sweetheart, Doll  (by Gloria)
* Bex  (by herself, Kol, and Alex)
* Fierce Rebekah  (by Klaus)
* Auntie Bex  (by herself when referring to her nephew and niece)
* Eva Sinclair  (mistaken by Tremé Coven)

### Species

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

## Family Information

### Family Members

* Unnamed Paternal Grandfather †
* Mikael †  (Father)
* Esther Mikaelson †  (Mother)
* Dahlia †  (Maternal Aunt)
* Freya Mikaelson  (Older Sister)
* Finn Mikaelson  (Older Brother)
* Elijah Mikaelson  (Older Brother)
* Athena Mikaelson  (Sister-In-Law, via Finn)
* Niklaus Mikaelson  (Maternal Older Brother)
* Kol Mikaelson  (Older Brother)
* Henrik Mikaelson  (Younger Brother)
* Mathias and Freya's Unborn Son †  (Nephew)
* Katerina Petrova  (Sister-In-Law)
* Marcel Gerard  (Husband)
* Keelin Mikaelson  (Sister-In-Law, via Freya)
* Alex Gilbert  (Sister-In-Law, via Klaus)
* Davina Claire  (Sister-In-Law, via Henrik)
* Ariana Gilbert  (Sister-In-Law, via Kol)
* Jack Mikaelson  (Nephew)
* Hope Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Artemis Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Jax Salvatore  (Step-Nephew)
* Nina Salvatore  (Step-Niece)
* Lily Salvatore  (Step-Niece)
* Adella Mikaelson  (Adoptive Niece)
* Vivian Mikaelson (Niece)
* Vanessa Mikaelson (Niece)
* Victoria Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Miranda Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Jenna Mikaelson  (Niece)
* Vince Mikaelson  (Nephew)
* Mason Mikaelson  (Son)
* Nik Mikaelson  (Nephew)
* Kendra Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Daniella Mikaelson (Great-Niece)

## Supernatural Information

### Significant Spells

* Message spell (Possessing Eva; with Cassie)
* Over-Powering Spell (Possessing Eva; with Kol on Finn)
* Hex Transference Spell (Possessing Eva; with Kol)
* Rite of Consecration (Possessing Eva; on Kaleb's body (Kol's spirit); with Davina)
* Tracing Spell (Possessing Eva; with Freya)
* Decoy Spell (Possessing Eva; with Freya)
* Rite of Nines Unlinking Spell (Possessing Eva)
* Boundary Spell (Possessing Eva; on her original body)

### Significant Sires

* Aurora de Martel † (1002)
* Lenore † (2012)
* Wyatt Halliwell (2030)

### Significant Kills

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

### Cause of Death

* Stabbed through the heart  (as an untapped witch)

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'6½"  (Feet)
* 1.69  (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played By

* Claire Holt
* Callie McClincy  (Young/Child)
* Maisie Richardson-Sellers  (Possessing Eva Sinclair)

### Episode Count

* 37 (TVD)
* 55 (TO) (including two archive footage appearances)
* 4 (Legacies)
* 96 (totaled)

### First Seen

* *The End of the Affair* (TVD)
* *Always and Forever* (TO)
* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn* (Legacies)

### Last Seen

* *500 Years of Solitude* (TVD)
* *When The Saints Go Marching In* (TO)
* *TBA* (Legacies)

**Rebekah Mikaelson Gerard** *(**Elder Futhark:** ᚱᛖᛒᛖᚲᚨᚺ ᛗᛁᚲᚨᛖᛚᛋᛟᚾ)* is the former female protagonist of *The Originals*. She was a major recurring and guest character in the third, fourth, and fifth seasons of *The Vampire Diaries*. She is the sole female Original vampire.

Rebekah is the second daughter of Mikael and Esther. She is the younger sister of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, and the elder sister of Henrik and the younger half-sister of Klaus. She is the aunt of Freya and Mathias' unborn son, Klaus and Alex's children, Jack, Hope, Miranda, Jenna, and Nik. Finn and Athena's daughter, Artemis. Freya and Keelin's son, Vince, Elijah and Katherine's daughter Victoria, Kol and Ariana's twins Vivian and Vanessa. She is the step-aunt to Jax, Nina, and Lily. She is also the adoptive aunt to Adella. Rebekah is the wife of Marcel and mother of Mason and Kendra Mikaelson.

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 in punishment for her perceived betrayal. Once she was undaggered in 2010, she had several brief flings with both Stefan and Damon Salvatore before finding herself in a romantic relationship with a human, Matt Donovan. 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.

In the middle of the first season of *The Originals*, she was finally given her freedom by her brother Klaus and left the city to fulfill her desires at a normal life. However, she returned briefly in the season's finale to become her niece Hope's guardian after Klaus and Alex faked her death for her own safety. After her mother and brothers Finn and Kol were resurrected, Esther began tracking Rebekah's movements, forcing her to rejoin her family in New Orleans to plan how to best protect Hope from the new threats she faced.

In *The Map of Moments* 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. However, because of a trick played on her by Kol in retaliation for Rebekah slighting him in 1914, Rebekah's 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 and freed them both with her magic. In *I Love You, Goodbye*, when her brother Kol died, she made a promise that she wouldn't leave her new witch body until she finds a way to bring him back. She later confirmed this decision again in *Exquisite Corpse* after 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 that Rebekah did not want for them.

After Vincent assisted her in severing her host body's connection to the eight teenage witches, Klaus compelled Marcel to kill her if she attempted to leave the compound in an effort to keep them from interfering with his plans. Unwilling to force Marcel to kill her by attempting to leave, Rebekah figured out that Klaus wanted Eva's body to be killed in order for her spirit to return to true body, and, not wanting Marcel to go through the pain of killing her himself, Rebekah fatally stabbed herself/Eva through the throat. Rebekah commits suicide in her mortal body in order to keep a compelled Marcel from ending her life because of Klaus' orders. As she expected, the death of her host body caused her spirit to return to her original body. However, after Dahlia was defeated, Rebekah's sister Freya healed Eva's body so that Rebekah could return to it and continue her work in bringing Kol back from the dead.

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.

After quite a bit of fighting, Aya finally incapacitated her by stabbing her in the heart with a cursed stake that had been created by the Moroccan Witch and that acted similar to a white oak ash dagger, allowing her to put Rebekah's body back in her coffin and fly her back to her home. Unfortunately for Aya and Rebekah, Rebekah's body was intercepted by vampires under Aurora de Martel's control, and once Rebekah was in their possession, they dropped her body in the Gulf of Mexico and wrote her location on two pieces of paper before they were killed by Aurora. One piece of paper had the latitude, and the other had the longitude, so that Tristan and Aurora would each have half of the location, preventing them from being killed by the Mikaelsons without risking losing Rebekah forever.

Rebekah spent a month at the bottom of the ocean, completely aware of every sensation, until Elijah finally had a boat crew dredge her up. However, upon awakening, Rebekah realized she had a skull-shaped weal on her arm that, along with the intense bloodlust she was feeling, indicated that she had been cursed by the stake. After several hours, Rebekah became so rabid and violent that she attacked Alex and the rest of her family, forcing Freya to enchant a knife that would allow her to remove the cursed patch of skin. Unfortunately, Rebekah realized upon driving to the airport that her curse and the skull-shaped weal had returned, which led Rebekah to beg Elijah to dagger her and to both keep her incapacitated keep her condition a secret until after they were sure the prophecy had been broken, after which point Elijah could have Freya come up with a cure and awaken her. Though Elijah initially refused, he eventually gave in and neutralized her before hiding her body in a safe place in the meantime.

By the end of third season, she was saved from the effects of an insanity hex when Freya bound her life, as well as that of their siblings to Klaus; she and the others, except Klaus who was daggered with Papa Tunde's Blade, would spend the next five years in a Chambre de Chasse while Athena, Katherine, Arielle, Hayley, Alex, and Jeremy searched for a cure for Marcel's venom.

In the fourth season, Rebekah was revived by Freya to help deal with Marcel, who had nearly destroyed their family, though after being reunited with her family, she and Kol headed to Europe. They both returned to New Orleans after Elijah's death in order to deal with the Hollow. In doing so, she now contains one fourth of the Hollow's spirit. She left for New York City shortly thereafter, where Marcel joined her.

In the fifth season, the Mikaelsons' are forced to reunite in New Orleans due to a new threat. With the Hollow in Hope, Jax, Nina, and Lily, Klaus decides he was going to sacrifice himself but Freya and the kids put the Hollow into Aurora and then killed her, which also killed the Hollow so that they could do a spell to bring Alex back to life. Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah take a walk into the French Quarter. Klaus told Rebekah if she wants kids as a vampire she could with a spell that Freya had placed on her. But, if she wishes to be human, Klaus arranges for her to receive the Cure in Mystic Falls whenever she wants.

**Rebekah** is a member of the **Mikaelson Family** and an **unnamed witch family****.** She also has ties to the **Gilbert Family**, **Lescheres Family**, **Petrova Family**, **Salvatore Family**, and **Labonair Family**.

## Physical Appearance

Rebekah is a beautiful and very attractive woman and has natural light blonde hair, light blue eyes, full lips, and pale light skin with a small dusting of freckles across her cheeks and nose. She is a tall and slim Caucasian female. She's over 1000-years old, but physically is an 18 year old teenage girl. 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. Her eyes also seem a lot redder than normal vampires.

In terms of fashion sense, Rebekah is often seen wearing stylish and mature clothing with trendy coats and fashionable jewelry, such as long necklaces and pendants or dangle earrings. She is mostly seen wearing the colors of white, black, brown or gray. She often wears low-heeled boots and shoes with dark jeans or leggings. As a human and 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.

Rebekah has long, icy blonde-hair, which is usually naturally wavy; however, she can occasionally be seen with straight or curled hair or pulled back in a casual style, rarely wearing any hair accessories. In early centuries, Rebekah had long, waist length hair with braids and flowers; however her hair changes with the times.

During special occasions, such as dances and balls, Rebekah wears very elegant dresses, for example, at the Mikaelson's Ball she wore a beautiful green one-shoulder dress. However, she mainly wears slacks and jeans and has an overall very formal sense of style. Rebekah's makeup usage is minimal, subtle daily; but she tends to wear more for special occasions.

## Powers and Abilities

### Original Vampire

Rebekah possesses all of the standard powers of an Original Vampire. Rebekah is currently the second strongest female vampire alive (first being her sister-in-law, Athena) and one of the strongest vampires in the world, perhaps with the exception of her older brother, Kol. Due to her Original Vampire status, the powers Rebekah possesses are stronger than those of a non-Original 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, Theo, and Stefan Salvatore, both of whom are almost two centuries old and very skilled fighters, Marcel Gerard and Katherine Pierce to name a few.

Rebekah is shown to be a skilled operator of mind compulsion. Throughout the series, she has been shown to compel people to do her bidding. A testament to her skills with this ability is when she compelled Tyler Lockwood to turn without the full moon after becoming a hybrid. Although being inferior to her brother Klaus, Rebekah has been shown on many occasions to stand up to him without fear, however, she has been easily subdued by Klaus on many occasions. Due to her advanced age, Rebekah has a higher threshold for werewolf venom than any other non-Original vampire. She was seen able to kill many fully transformed werewolves on a full moon, before being finally subdued herself. This shows her physical strength as Rose-Marie, despite being over five hundred and sixty years old, failed to defeat even one werewolf.

Rebekah has subdued almost every non-Original vampire she has encountered. The only times she has been defeated was when they had the element of surprise, but she was quick to turn the outcome of the battle around. It has been shown that Rebekah possesses an adequate skill in hand-to-hand combat, being able to kill many members of the The Strix and hold her own against the very skilled fighter Aya — despite having not fed for six months.

In *Savior*, It was shown that Rebekah is an extremely strong vampire. Rebekah was able to subdue Elijah, an equally powerful vampire, easily by snapping his neck. When infected with the cursed stake, it took Elijah, Athena, and Klaus — extremely skilled and powerful Original Vampires — to restrain a rabid Rebekah, showing the power she possesses.

### Witch

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 first perform a spell with Cassie in order to send her brothers a message. The spell immediately started working, however, before it could take effect, they were both interrupted. She also 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. This weakened him significantly. She later attempted a locator spell with Freya, in order to locate their aunt Dahlia, however, she interrupted the spell upon learning of Freya's connection to Dahlia. Rebekah and Davina performed various spells in their attempt to create a decoy of Hope, eventually creating a golem. 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 Sinclair, Rebekah had the typical weaknesses of a witch.

## Appearances

### The Vampire Diaries

* *The End of the Affair*
* *Disturbing Behavior*
* *The Reckoning*
* *Smells Like Teen Spirit*
* *Ordinary People*
* *Homecoming*
* *The New Deal* (Neutralized)
* *Bringing Out The Dead*
* *Dangerous Liaisons*
* *All My Children*
* *1912*
* *Break On Through*
* *The Murder of One*
* *Heart of Darkness* (Possessed by Esther at the end)
* *Do Not Go Gentle* (Possessed by Esther)
* *Before Sunset*
* *The Departed*
* *Growing Pains*
* *The Rager*
* *The Five*
* *The Killer* (Mentioned)
* *We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes* (Mentioned)
* *O Come, All Ye Faithful* (Neutralized)
* *After School Special*
* *Catch Me If You Can*
* *A View to a Kill*
* *Into the Wild*
* *Down the Rabbit Hole*
* *Stand By Me*
* *Bring It On*
* *Because the Night*
* *American Gothic*
* *Pictures of You*
* *The Originals*
* *She's Come Undone*
* *The Walking Dead*
* *Graduation*

* *I Know What You Did Last Summer*
* *500 Years of Solitude*
* *No Exit* (Mentioned)
* *Gone Girl* (Mentioned)
* *While You Were Sleeping* (Mentioned)
* *Moonlight on the Bayou* (Indirectly mentioned)
* *I Would for You* (Mentioned)

**Season Eight**

* *We're Planning a June Wedding* (Indirectly Mentioned)

### The Originals

* *Always and Forever*
* *House of the Rising Son*
* *Tangled Up In Blue*
* *Girl in New Orleans*
* *Sinners and Saints*
* *Fruit of the Poisoned Tree*
* *Bloodletting*
* *The River in Reverse*
* *Reigning Pain in New Orleans*
* *The Casket Girls*
* *Après Moi, Le Déluge*
* *Dance Back from the Grave*
* *Crescent City*
* *Long Way Back From Hell*
* *Le Grand Guignol*
* *Farewell to Storyville*
* *Moon Over Bourbon Street* (Mentioned)
* *From a Cradle to a Grave*
* *Rebirth*
* *Every Mother's Son* (Flashback as a child)
* *The Brothers That Care Forgot*
* *The Map of Moments* (Also possesses Eva Sinclair at the end)
* *Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire* (Body/Possessing Eva Sinclair)
* *Sanctuary* (Archive Footage/Possessing Eva Sinclair)
* *The Devil is Damned* (Possessing Eva Sinclair)
* *I Love You, Goodbye* (Possessing Eva Sinclair)
* *They All Asked For You* (Possessing Eva Sinclair)
* *Save My Soul* (Possessing Eva Sinclair)
* *Exquisite Corpse* (Manifestation as a child/Possessing Eva Sinclair's body)
* *Night Has A Thousand Eyes* (Possessing Eva Sinclair's body)
* *When the Levee Breaks* (Possessing Eva Sinclair's body)
* *City Beneath The Sea* (Possessing Eva Sinclair's body)
* *Fire with Fire* (Possessing Eva Sinclair's body)
* *Ashes to Ashes* (Also possessing Eva Sinclair's body at the beginning and end)

* *For the Next Millennium* (Flashback)
* *A Walk on the Wild Side* (Mentioned)
* *The Axeman's Letter* (Flashback)
* *Beautiful Mistake* (Also possessing Eva Sinclair's body at the beginning)
* *Out of the Easy* (Mentioned)
* *The Other Girl in New Orleans* (Mentioned)
* *Savior*
* *A Ghost Along the Mississippi* (Mentioned)
* *Wild at Heart* (Archive Footage)
* *Heart Shaped Box* (Mentioned)
* *A Streetcar Named Desire* (Mentioned)
* *An Old Friend Calls* (Mentioned)
* *Behind the Black Horizon* (Archive Footage)
* *No More Heartbreaks* (Mentioned)
* *Where Nothing Stays Buried* (Mentioned)
* *The Bloody Crown*
* *Gather Up the Killers* (Mentioned)
* *No Quarter*
* *Haunter of Ruins*
* *Phantomesque*
* *A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken*
* *Voodoo Child*
* *The Feast of All Sinners*

* *Miracle Babies* (Mentioned)
* *From Fiancée To Wife*
* *Mikaelson Baby...I Think Not*
* *Heartbreak Hurts*
* *Different But The Same*
* *Where You Left Your Heart*
* *One Wrong Turn On Bourbon* (Mentioned)
* *Ne Me Quitte Pas* (Mentioned)
* *Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea* (Mentioned)
* *Don't It Just Break Your Heart* (Mentioned)
* *The Kindness of Strangers*
* *We Have Not Long To Love* (Mentioned)
* *Til the Day I Die*
* *When The Saints Go Marching In*

### Legacies

* *Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn*
* *Mombie Dearest* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *There's a Mummy on Main Street*
* *The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *There's Always a Loophole* (Photo/Indirectly Mentioned)
* *That's Nothing I Had to Remember*
* *This Christmas Was Surprisingly Violent*

* *We All Knew This Day Was Coming*  (Mentioned)
* *I Thought You'd Be Happier To See Me*
* *You Will Remember Me*  (Mentioned)
* *Everything That Can Be Lost May Also Be Found*

## Name

* **Rebekah** is a feminine name of Hebrew origin (רבקה). The name means "*to tie*". \*It's a biblical name, of the wife of Isaac and mother of Esau and Jacob. Alternate version of it is *Rebecca*.
* **Mikaelson** is of Scandinavian origin and means "Son of Mikael".
	+ If Rebekah was to truly follow Norse traditions, her surname should technically be **Mikaelsdotter** (daughter of Mikael) as oppose to Mikaelson (son of Mikael).
* **Gerard** comes from English and French origins, as Gérard was introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is composed of the Germanic elements gar, ger "spear", "lance" + hard "hardy", "brave", "strong".

## Trivia

* As the only female Original Vampire - and with Amara being cured and killed - she is the second oldest and most powerful female vampire on the planet.
	+ After the death of Qetsiyah, Amara, Dahlia, Esther, Sybil, and Seline, she is the third oldest known female on the planet after her sister, Freya and sister-in-law, Athena.
* As of *500 Years of Solitude*, she is the most-recurring character on The Vampire Diaries with 37 appearances.
	+ Rebekah is the only non-main character who appeared in 35 episodes during two seasons.
	+ She appeared in 18 episodes in Season Four, more episodes than Bonnie, Matt, Tyler and Jeremy who are main characters.
* She is the fourth Original vampire overall to appear in either series, with Elijah being the first, Athena being the second, and Klaus the third.
* Rebekah was the third Original to have been seen neutralized by Klaus with a white oak ash dagger, the first being Elijah, and the second being Athena.