Mikael Mikaelson

Mikael Mikaelson

## Mikael Kyle Mikaelson

* The Monster Who Monsters are Afraid of, The Worst of All Monsters, Old Man (All by Klaus)
* Papa Original (By Damon Salvatore and Sebastian Roché)

## Family information

### Family Members

* Esther Williams (Wife)
* Freya Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Keelin Malraux (Daughter-in-law)\*
* **Mikael Mikaelson** (Grand-son)
* Finn Mikaelson (Son)
* Stefanie Green (Daughter-in-law)
* Elijah Mikaelson (Son)
* Katherine Pierce (Daughter-in-law)
* Niklaus Mikaelson (Step-son)
* Kiara Salvatore (Step-daughter-in-law)
* Ariana Mikaelson (Step-grand-daughter)
* Aria Mikaelson (Step-grand-daughter)
* Aryia Mikaelson (Step-daughter)
* Barrett Johnson (Step-son-in-law)
* Ansel Mikaelson (Step-grand-son)
* Kol Mikaelson (Son)
* Bonnie Bennett (Daughter-in-law)
* Sheila Mikaelson (Grand-daughter)
* Rebekah Mikaelson (Daughter)
* Stefan Salvatore (Son-in-law)
* Henry Mikaelson (Grand-son)
* Henrik Mikaelson (Son) +

## Physical appearance

### Height

* 5'11" (Feet)
* 1.80 (Meters)

## Appearance

### Played by

* Sebastian Roché
* Isaiah Stratton (Young)

### First seen

* The End of the Affair (Flashback) (TVD)

### Last seen

* Homecoming (TVD)

Mikael also appeared as a recurring character in the third season of *The Vampire Diaries*. He was an Original Vampire and a powerful vampire hunter. Mikael is the father of the Originals, and the father of the vampire race as a whole. Mikael is the reason vampires came to exist, it was his idea to turn his children and himself into immortals with superpowers superior to werewolves, where they could then sire more of their kind as ordinary vampires. As the father of the Original Vampires, he was the oldest and one of the most powerful vampires in the TVD universe.

Mikael was the husband of Esther. He was the father of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik and step-father of Klaus and Aryia. He was the grandfather of Freya and Mathias' unborn son, Henry, Mikael, and Sheila step-grandfather of Aria, Ariana, and Ansel . Mikael was also the brother-in-law of Dahlia.

Mikael was considered the strongest vampire in existence, due to his superior strength as a human over his children. He had an antagonistic relationship with his step-son, Klaus, as he was the son of a werewolf named Ansel. In the 1990s, Mikael was desiccated and entombed by Abby Bennett Wilson when he came to town in search of the baby doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert. However, in *The Reckoning*, he was revived by Katerina Petrova and Jeremy Gilbert. He then sought out Damon and Stefan Salvatore and formed a plan with them to kill Klaus. However, in *Homecoming*, Mikael was killed by Klaus due to Stefan's interference.

Mikael was a Viking warrior born in a village in the Kingdom of Norway. During a raid on a village, he met a witch named Esther, and the two fell in love. They married and were wealthy landowners. They tried to start a family but to no avail, as Esther believed she was cursed and went to her sister for help. Unknown to Mikael, Esther's sister Dahlia put a spell on her so she could have children but there would be sacrifices. They then started a family with the birth of their children Freya and Finn. He was a loving and caring father for both of his children, but his favorite was his beloved daughter. Mikael named his Viking sword Rathul, after the early morning sun. Its hilt was golden, like the color of Freya's hair. He had said it would remind him of her while he was in battle, and that she would be by his side no matter how far afield he traveled. Some time later, Esther was pregnant with their son Elijah. Years had passed, and the night before Mikael left for war, he christened his sword with goat's blood. When Freya awoke, he was no longer there as he had gone out to war.

A plague hit Europe, and Esther claimed it killed Freya while Mikael was in battle; in reality, Freya was taken as the payment of a magical bargain Esther made with her sister Dahlia, to cure her of her infertility. Desperate to escape their homeland, Esther turned to her witch friend and mentor, Ayana, who told her of a land beyond the seas where the natives were all healthy and blessed with the gifts of speed and strength. At this point, Mikael became a more strict father, becoming more cruel in teaching his children to survive, so he would not lose anymore children like he thought he lost Freya. Mikael, Esther, Ayana and other (possibly Viking) settlers left Norway for the New World (later known as North America), settling in the area now known as Mystic Falls in the present day. owever, the New World wasn't as peaceful as the couple had expected, especially during the full moon, as their neighbors were werewolves. They lived in peace with their neighbors at first, hiding in caves during the wolves' transformations, during which time Mikael and Esther had more children: Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah and Henrik.

Once, as kids, Elijah took Niklaus into the woods to teach him how to hunt. Elijah encouraged his brother, stating that his aim was improving when he misses a shot at a doe. However, Mikael soon arrived and scolded Elijah for encouraging his brother, snatching the bow from Niklaus and stating that he wasn't man enough to hold a weapon. Niklaus tried to apologize, but Mikael saw him as a weakling and starts severely beating him, using the justification that his punishments would make Niklaus stronger.

One day, Mikael caught Aryia and Klaus carving chess pieces with his hunting knife, and Mikael whipped and beat them half to death. Klaus and Aryia were beaten so badly his siblings actually feared they would die. Elijah entered the room and tried to stop his father, but he pushed Elijah away and continued to punish Klaus until Rebekah eventually ran in with his sword and pointed it at him. Mikael became furious and grabbed his sword from her before leaving the room. Then, one night, Rebekah, who had enough of Mikael's abuse toward them, took a knife with the intention of killing her father while he slept, but Elijah ultimately stopped her; however, he later admitted that he wished he had done the deed himself, wishing he could go back to that moment.

One day, while Elijah and Klaus were sparring, Mikael watched them. Mikael was enraged that Klaus was showing off and being foolish when the Vikings were fighting for their survival. Once they were done, he came to Elijah for his sword and then attacked Klaus and humiliated him in front of the village. He then wondered aloud how Klaus was able to remain alive due to his impulsive and foolish behavior. At some point, Niklaus challenged Mikael to a duel, which Mikael initially won. However, when Mikael cut Klaus' starling necklace (which was meant to weaken him to prevent him from triggering his werewolf curse), Klaus became so enraged that he attacked Mikael, Mikael was so furious that Klaus had gained the upper hand, that he impaled Klaus' shoulder with his sword and pinned him to a tree in his blind rage.

Curious about the werewolves' transformations, Klaus and Henrik went to spy on them one night during a full moon. Unfortunately, their presence was ultimately discovered by the werewolves, who were unable to control themselves and ended up mauling Henrik to death. Overwhelmed by the loss of another child, Mikael and Esther were desperate to cast a spell that would protect the family from more deaths. After Ayana refused to help them, citing the fact that the Spirits and Nature itself would not stand for such an imbalance, Mikael begged his wife Esther to do something using her powers as a witch. Esther obeyed Mikael's wishes and performed a variation of the Immortality Spell created by Qetsiyah, which involved calling upon the sun for life and the eternal white oak tree for immortality, and also added traits like super strength, super speed, fangs, and heightened senses that would all be superior to werewolf powers, so his family could fight back against the beasts that mauled his youngest son to death.

He then offered his children wine laced with the doppelgänger Tatia's enchanted blood (as revealed in *Bringing Out The Dead*) and killed them soon after by driving his sword through their hearts. The Spirits of Nature, in order to try to maintain the balance, turned nature against them; the sun became their enemy, the flowers that grew at the base of the white oak tree, vervain, caused them pain upon contact and prevented compulsion, and the white oak tree that granted them immortality became the one thing on earth that could take it away by killing them permanently. Mikael and his family later burned down the white oak tree to prevent it ever being used against them, but not before Mikael had secretly carved a stake as insurance in case one was needed for future use.

But, they soon learned with all this power came a terrible hunger, and none felt it more then Niklaus and Kol as shown in their life as vampires, with each having brought Mikael to their hiding places over the centuries, forcing the siblings to flee multiple times. Once Klaus and Aryia had killed a human, Mikael and the rest of the family found out that they werre actually a werewolf, born of an affair Esther had with a werewolf villager named Ansel. Upon seeing Klaus' first transformation as a true hybrid, Mikael stated, *"their a beast. An abomination!"*  Mikael realized that his wife was unfaithful to him and that Niklaus and Aryia wasn't his son and daughter, and in his anger, he convinced Esther to cast a spell to keep Klaus' werewolf side dormant. While Esther prepared the spell, Mikael tied Klaus up in chains, demanding that Elijah help him when he stood nearby and looked guilty. Despite Klaus and Aryia's pleas for Elijah to help him, he ended up listening to his father and helping Mikael chain Klaus and Aryia to a post. Mikael later went out into the village to hunt down and kill Ansel, Klaus and Aryia father, as well as his entire family, not realizing that he was igniting an inter-species war that rages on even in the present day.

Klaus was furious with his mother for making their werewolf side dormant and seemed to murder her in revenge, putting the blame on Mikael. Klaus convinced his siblings that Mikael had murdered their mother, probably out of anger for her infidelity, and they all ran from their father, fleeing back to the Old World. Mikael knew the truth of Esther's murder and his hate for Klaus only grew more intense, vowing to kill him for destroying his family.