Hope Mikaelson

**Hope Jane Mikaelson** is a main character in *Legacies*, she was a former majorly recurring character in *The Originals* before being promoted to a main character in the fifth season. She was a major recurring character in season eight of *The Vampire Diaries*. Hope is the tribrid daughter Niklaus Mikaelson and Adelya Gilbert. She is the granddaughter of Esther Mikaelson, Ansel, John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming and the adopted granddaughter of Miranda Sommers-Gilbert and Grayson Gilbert, as well as the step-granddaughter of Mikael. She is also the niece of Freya, Finn, Elijah, Kol, Rebekah, Henrik, Elena, and Jeremy Gilbert, and the grand-niece of Dahlia. She is also the distant Cary. She is also the adopted younger sister of Marcel Gerard via her father. Due his marriage to Adelya, Stefan Salvatore was her step-father for half a day before he sacrifice to save the town of Mystic Falls.

She was named Hope by her father, who took inspiration from his half-brother Elijah's words about his newborn child being their family's hope. She takes the surname of her father's side.

Hope was conceived in *The Vampire Diaries* season four episode *Bring It On.* She was then born in *The Originals* season one episode *From a Cradle to a Grave*. She inherited her vampire and witch gene from both of her parents and her werewolf gene from her father who her father is a Original Hybrid and the son of the Original Witch, and her mother who has the traveler gene and also a witch from her ancestors. Through her father's Vampire lineage, Hope is vampire royalty.

In *From a Cradle to a Grave*, Hope was sent away to be raised by Rebekah, in order to protect her from her father's enemies: the Guerrera Wolves, Esther, and Dahlia. Her death was faked to protect her. However, in season two's *The Brothers That Care Forgot*, Esther had found Rebekah whilst she is with Hope at the park, this is signified by the presence of starlings. At the end of the second season, Hope is living with Adelya and Niklaus and with her younger half-sister in the Compound, and by the end of the third season, she is living with Adelya on the road with her siblings. By the fourth season, she lives with Adelya and her siblings in the Mikaelson Family at the Abattoir.

After having The Hollow's spirit separated into four members of her family, she and her siblings left with Adelya leave for Mystic Falls. She becomes a student at the boarding school and as time goes by, she becomes determined to see her father again, despite the consequences that could ensue.

**Hope** is a member of the **Mikaelson Family**, the **Gilbert Family**, the **Petrova Family**, the **Salvatore Family**, and an **family of werewolves**. Hope is by birthright a member of an unnamed **witch family**, and the only child fathered by the Original Hybrid.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries

### Season Four

In *Bring It On*, Niklaus Mikaelson and Adelya Gilbert slept together and conceived a child.

In *The Originals*, the witch Sophie Deveraux revealed that Adelya was, in fact, pregnant with Klaus' child. Klaus refused to believe it until he used his enhanced hearing to hear the child's heartbeat. Sophie revealed that the baby is one of Nature's "loopholes". She later revealed that it was because of Klaus' werewolf side that Hope was conceived. Sophie then demanded that Klaus help her or she would kill the baby and its mother.

Klaus initially had no interest in having anything to do with the child, even telling the witches they made a mistake if they thought they could use Adelya and their child as leverage to manipulate him. He dismissed the child's existence and acted as though he didn't care if it lived or died. After some words of consideration from Elijah Mikaelson, and an-exchange from Camille O'Connell, he later changed his mind about the child. When Elijah asked him about Adelya and their unborn child, Klaus replied to him that *"every king needs an heir."*