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| “ | There is no monster like me. | „ |
| ~ Hope to Malivore after transitioning into a tribrid |
| “ | I hate public speaking and being watched, so this is hard for me. But I just wanted to take a moment to say how much you all mean to me. I'm a better person because of your friendship, your love and your belief in me. And it's been the honor of my life to fight by your side. So, let's raise a glass. To the families that we make and to the people that our families help us become. We're gonna win. | „ |
| ~ Hope's speech to the Salvatore School Group |
| “ | When we're young, we're taught the distinction between a hero and a villain. Good and evil. A savior and a lost cause. But what if the only real difference is just who's telling the story? My name is Hope Mikaelson. I come from a long line of the villains in the tales you've heard about vampires, werewolves, witches, and everything in-between. The school behind these gates protects the secrets of people like me. And tonight, under the light of the full moon, we will be opening our doors to someone new. | „ |
| ~ Hope narrating in This is the Part Where You Run. |
| “ | When we're young, we're taught the distinction between a hero and a villain... good and evil. A savior and a lost cause. But I've learned the only real difference is just who's telling the story. My name is Hope Mikaelson. I come from a long line of villains. At least, I used to think so, but I don't anymore. The school behind these gates once protected the secrets of people like me. Now, we'll use those secrets to protect others. Because we're heroes. And today we'll be opening our doors to the next class of supernatural beings to teach them to be heroes, too. | „ |
| ~ Hope narrating in Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay? |
Hope Andrea Mikaelson (b. 2/5/2012) is one of the main protagonists of The Originals and the main protagonist of Legacies. She is one of the main antagonists in season 4 of Legacies, due to her humanity being off for majority of the season and antagonizing most of the protagonists in the season.
Hope is a pure blood tribrid (witch, werewolf and vampire) and the only daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall.
She is also the former girlfriend of Roman Sienna, the current girlfriend of Landon Kirby, the close friend of the Saltzman twins Josie and Lizzie, Milton Greasley, Rafael Waithe, Kaleb Hawkins, Jed Tien, Wade Rivers, and Cleo Sowande, and a student at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted.
In The Originals, Hope is portrayed by the twins Alexandria/Victoria Collins, and later by the twins Blake/Charlie, as well as unknown toddlers. In Season 4, she is portrayed by Summer Fontana as a child. In Season 5 of TO and Legacies, she is played by Danielle Rose Russell.
Physical Appearance[]
| “ | Rebekah: She looks like her mother. Maybe there's a God after all. Klaus: She has a hint of the Devil in her eyes — that's all me. |
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| ~ Klaus and Rebekah about Hope in From a Cradle to a Grave |
As a baby, Rebekah mentioned that Hope looked like her mother. On the other hand, Klaus blissfully implied that Hope inherited his eyes. As a baby, she had dirty-blonde hair and round dark-blue eyes. As a child, she had long auburn hair and light blue eyes. Her cheeks had little freckles scattered across them. She was seen in light-colored sleeveless dresses, that normally had flowers or other prints on them. Hope also had dimples in her cheeks.
As a teenager, Hope is the shortest among her friends and peers, standing at 5'3" tall. She frequently wears a pair of heeled boots to accentuate her height or outfits. She has wavy auburn hair that is seen in many styles. She has bright light-colored blue eyes and full lips. She wears relaxed yet edgy clothing that compliments her curvy figure. She is always seen wearing her mother's stone necklace, a Mikaelson family crest necklace, and earrings. Caroline Elizabeth Forbes described her as beautiful. As a Labonair, Hope has a Crescent birthmark on her right shoulder, similar to that of her mother and distant relatives, Eve, Lana, and the Hollow.
After turning off her humanity and leaving the Salvatore School, Hope's wardrobe and fashion choices begin to expand. She wears primarily black or deep reds in the form of jumpers, boots, or jackets. She also experiments with her hair, wearing it in a top knot, a high ponytail, or crinkles for the first time. She also begins to wear more rings, hooped earrings, and less necklaces, having given her Mikaelson necklace to Rebekah. Hope also wears heavier makeup around her eyes and switches to a light red lipstick. She has more confidence and cockiness in her stance.
Upon turning her humanity back on, Hope's wardrobe and fashion choices continue to expand. She also wears various necklaces before resuming to wear her Mikaelson necklace that is sent back by her family in "Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay?".
In her werewolf form, Hope possesses white fur and has the typical glowing yellow eyes that come with Lycanthropy. In her vampire form, Hope maintains her golden yellow eyes, but with an addition of vivid red at the inner corner on her irises and gains black veins that cascade from her lower eyelids to just above her cheekbones.
Personality[]
With Humanity[]
| “ | I'm not scared. I'm a Mikaelson witch. | „ |
| ~ Hope. |
Hope was born a fighter, having inherited Hayley's toughness and Klaus' tenacity, something both her parents pointed out when Hope was a baby. She was a very calm and happy baby, with Freya mentioning how Hope inherited her paternal family's resilience. She is also seemingly very intelligent, as she was able to use her magic to turn Camille's car on and off, saving her from immediate danger, all despite being a baby. As a young child, Hope was a kind and gentle girl. She had a sweet and innocent persona. She enjoyed helping innocent creatures and once used her magic to heal a butterfly's broken wing. She once expressed to her father that she was lonely, never having any other kids her own age to play with.
As a teenager, Hope was stubborn and brave as she was willing to put herself through extreme pain and possible death to get her mother back. Both Klaus and Caroline described Hope as smart, possibly too smart for her own good, like her father. Hope did whatever she could to protect her family and always offered to help save those she cared about or considered family, including Marcel. However, when she magically absorbed the Hollow's soul, the constant whispering nearly drove Hope insane. The only way she could end the madness was by committing acts of violence. With her father's assistance, she took her anger and frustration out on those she deemed guilty. Her desire to quell the voices by using violence and magic caused her to accidentally kill an innocent human, which triggered her werewolf curse. She struggled to come to terms with his death and referred to it as something that has stayed with her.
Hope struggles to forge meaningful connections with other people and make friends with the other students at the Salvatore School, not only because of her one-of-a-kind supernatural classification, but also because she's already endured a lifetime of grief and heartbreak. To her peers, she seems closed off. She is forgiving to MG when she thought he killed her boyfriend, Landon. Due to her often-disastrous past, she has resigned herself to isolation, considering it the path that will provide the least heartbreak in her life. She sees loneliness as less of a burden to bear than her formative experiences of loving so deeply and losing so terribly. However, she has begun to open up more to people, tediously forming friendships and entering a romantic relationship. She is slowly becoming more optimistic that she will be happy.
Hope often puts her safety and life in danger to save others, making her a true hero. She is incredibly loyal to her friends, despite initial difficulties working with a team. She is independent and believes she can complete any task by herself, though she slowly becomes more willing to work with others. She made the impossible choice to become a tribrid as a way of saving thousands of people that she would never meet. She feared that becoming the tribrid would not only keep her locked in her trauma forever but that she wouldn't be capable of bearing the loss or guilt over killing Landon. The way she lived her life earned her the option of finding peace when she died. However, she chose to return to save everyone. Her choice became difficult when Malivore allowed Landon to resurface and communicate with Hope. With Landon's consent, she killed him to end Malivore's reign of terror. The act caused her to instantly flip her humanity switch.
Members of the Mikaelson family reunited to lay Klaus to rest and appeal to Hope's humanity. She admits to feeling abandoned by them, citing their lack of involvement in her life. She expresses a desire to be close to her father by having his ashes near her. The admission allows her flickering humanity to break through, materializing in her mind as two separate entities. Hope gains the upper hand against her darker half, confessing that she needs to be worth the sacrifices her family made, and would not be if she keeps letting her darker half burn the world. She accepts that her intelligence, paired with the deep love and loyalty she has for her loved ones, is what makes her Klaus' daughter. After wise words from Landon on her fate being the one who lives, and learning a valuable lesson in Limbo, Hope returns with a new perspective. She realizes a need to be a team player and accept that she can't always be the martyr or hero. She also repairs her friendships and embraces her newfound status.
After defeating Ken and finding closure with Landon, Hope sees a message from her father who has finally found Peace. He wants her to live her life and understand that despite the inevitable hard times ahead, she is a Mikaelson and will survive. With the knowledge that Klaus is okay, Hope finally lays him to rest and takes her father's advice as she prepares for the next chapter of her immortal life.
Without Humanity[]
After being forced to kill the self-proclaimed love of her life, Hope's humanity switch flipped by itself to spare her the overwhelming emotions that would have followed. Hope admits that she feels free after turning it all off, as though she can finally be who she wants and go where she wants. Her life has been a cycle of love, lose, grieve, and repeat, but that's all gone now. She also has lost her desire to be around those who previously cared for her. She brutally attacks Alaric to send a message to her friends not to come after her. She states that she is her father's daughter, accepting that fact for the first time.
Her careless and reckless attitude continues, as she seeks to have fun and experiment with her new vampire nature. Her newfound freedom allows her to dance with a bar patron, drink alcohol, and enjoy feeding in public. She tortures a Triad Industries henchman using throwing darts, a callous display of apathy. Hope's dedication to her family is also gone, as she doesn't want Rebekah's help or any of the other Mikaelsons to come for her. She turns away from them as she refuses to make the same mistakes her father did - caring about family or love. While cutting Rebekah out of her life, Hope exhibits a flicker of emotion when she admits that her father died because of her. However, she's finally free to live her life the way she chooses, a fact that seems to propel her choices. She blatantly puts the life of the now-human Ryan Clarke in danger for her amusement. Ryan believes she blew up his relationship, job, and life so he wouldn't have anywhere else to turn but her, as she doesn't want to be alone. He rejects her proposition and reminds her not to give up on her chosen family.
The only emotions Hope expresses are boredom and rage. She retains her sarcastic attitude but doesn't care about the consequences of her words or the impact they might have. This trait is exhibited most in her brutal displays of honesty. She quickly tires of MG's attempts to turn her humanity on but endures the school's efforts because of their pact. She grows bored when Cleo reads Landon's final letter, even lashing out at her and Finch. Hope fights Ethan, who she called her friend once, when he and Finch attempt to attack her. Hope expresses a desire to kill them for their indiscretion. Hope remains incapable of harming those she truly cared for when her humanity was on. A multitude of her choices demonstrates a sense of loyalty and some depth of care for her former friends.
The longer Hope's humanity is off, the more ruthless she becomes. She defeats a werewolf alpha with decapitation to inherit control over his pack, who are loyal to Triad Industries. She uses her alpha status to force them to give up the Triad vampire, despite a hex killing them when they do. When Hope's arrogance gets the better of her, Aurora switches their bodies. Hope is forced to work with Lizzie, who gives an emotional speech while trying to kill her. Hope pretends her humanity returns to trick Lizzie into helping her find and defeat Aurora. She successfully manipulates Lizzie into giving up information about the Red Oak stake and then crosses the proverbial line by snapping her neck to prove a point. After siring Lizzie, Hope realizes that she's made rash choices because she doesn't care about what happens to herself or anything and needs Lizzie to be her humanity compass. She uses the sire bond to force Lizzie to be her partner in crime.
When Lizzie betrays her, Hope grapples with her humanity as emotions such as betrayal and gratitude constantly threaten to surface. When being forced to revisit her worst memory, transitioning into a tribrid and killing Landon, her humanity materializes as the Hope from that night. She refers to the humanity switch as a coping mechanism. As her humanity flickers, Hope's family rallies together to spark her humanity, using Klaus' overdue funeral as the event. Hope tries to push them away, insulting and threatening them whenever possible. She insults Freya for helping her complete her transition. She callously dismisses the chance to scatter her father's ashes, pointing out the trash can as a good resting place. They remind her of their love and how much they sacrificed for her, especially her father. Hope admits that she wants to keep her father's ashes close. The acceptance allows her humanity to appear, outsmart her, and ultimately stake her in a symbolic display of decimation.
Powers and Abilities[]
Hope Mikaelson is the only known witch-werewolf-vampire tribrid and the full extent and limits of Hope's powers are currently unknown. According to Dahlia, Hope's werewolf temper and vampire blood would possibly taint her witch side. Furthermore, as a firstborn of her bloodline, Hope will inherit great, but unstable power. As of See You On The Other Side, Hope completed her transition into a fully activated tribrid, giving her access to all of her abilities.
- Werewolf Nature: Being part werewolf, Hope's body contains the werewolf gene that provides her with standard werewolf attributes and provides her with enhanced senses, such as hearing, sight, and smell, as well as heightened aggression. Hope even demonstrated that she can tell when someone is lying to them by listening to their heartbeat. In The Tale of Two Wolves, Klaus states, in response to Caroline's question, that Crescent wolves and by extension, Hope, cannot control their first transformation despite being able to control their shifts with Transformation Control as evolved werewolves. However, in This is the Part Where You Run, Hope explains to Landon that her ability to control her transformation stems from her tribrid status, as with other werewolf-vampire hybrids. Currently, whether it's the former or latter which grants her transformation control or additional abilities, remains unknown. After becoming a transitioned tribrid, Hope can transform from human to wolf form while magically maintaining her clothing.
- Lycanthrope Enhancement: Hope is capable of using her werewolf features to further supplement her powers. Hope can grow werewolf claws and fangs even when she is still in her human form. Hope can display both sets of vampire and werewolf fangs. Her eyes also change into those of her werewolf form, presumably granting her better eyesight. Due to her werewolf heritage, Hope's strength and speed are heightened further during a full moon and at its peak in her werewolf form.
- Enhanced Werewolf Venom: Due to her werewolf heritage, Hope has venom which is fatal to non-Original vampires and Hope herself is immune to normal werewolf venom and advanced werewolf venom. Hope's venom seems to take effect much faster than a normal werewolf venom and a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid venom, speeds comparable to advanced werewolf venom.
- Immunity to Silver: Due to her werewolf heritage, magic bonded to silver doesn't affect Hope. Weapons made of silver might wound her, but the wound heals at super-normal rates than regular wounds.
- Procreation: Freya explained to Hope that she is only able to procreate due to being the daughter of the Original hybrid, and being the tribrid — a born vampire, werewolf and witch — Nature's loophole. This has since been made impossible.
- Vampire Nature: Being part vampire and prior to transitioning, Hope's body naturally produced vampire blood, constantly running through her system, tainted with dark magic. As a fully transitioned tribrid, she seemingly possesses all the abilities of an Original vampire, such as compulsion. In I Thought You'd Be Happier To See Me, Hope compelled a vampire bartender who was sent by Triad Industries to spy on her, and later, compelled a much older vampire in Follow the Sound of My Voice.
- Super Strength: Hope is much stronger than many other supernatural beings and humans. She is able to decapitate other species with a single chop and shatter windows and doors with small objects. She is even slightly physically superior to the Original vampires and the Original Hybrid, even more so when enraged, using her lycanthrope enhancements, or when she is in her werewolf form. Both Rebekah and Kol have displayed the ability to fight Hope on almost equal terms, though not enough to defeat her. Marcel has been able to fight Hope to a stalemate and has even defeated her once, while Rebekah and Kol have been easily subdued. Hope's strength is enough that she could kill twenty non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids single-handed and was able to fight and kill forty-four non-Original vampires on her own with only some difficulty as well as kill fifteen Evolved werewolves with little difficulty. Hope has also been able to put up more of a fight against beings who have overpowered most supernatural creatures in strength, such as holding Ken to a standstill over the God spear, whereas Elizabeth (an Original Vampire Heretic) was easily overpowered.
- Super Speed: Hope's intensified quickness, agility, reflexes, and endurance makes her much faster than immortals, Original vampires, non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids, supernatural hunters and humans, she is slightly faster than her father, the Original Hybrid, as she once said, "I'm faster than your average hybrid", even more so when she is using her lycanthrope enhancements or when she is in her werewolf form; due to her werewolf heritage. She is able to stop other supernatural species in their tracks and run miles in mere minutes. Her reflexes are similarly heightened, as she once caught Jed's arm before the latter could stab her with a small stake; she later saved both herself and Jed from an explosion intentionally triggered by Jed to kill both them and Alaric.
- Super Agility: Hope possesses much more superhuman stamina, flexibility, reflexes, agility and dexterity than any immortals, Original vampires, non-Original vampires, werewolves, evolved werewolves, non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids, and humans, even slightly more than The Original Hybrid. She can move, jump very high, flip, climb and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
- Super Senses: Hope has a more enhanced sense of hearing, sight and smell that far exceeds those of other supernatural beings.
- Super Durability: Hope can take far more trauma than other supernatural beings without much discomfort or injury. However, like with her father and extended family, she has never been dismembered, implying that her durability may be close to invincibility though she can still be hurt. Wood, White Oak Wood, Silver White Oak Ash Daggers, Golden White Oak Ash Daggers, and Red Oak Ash Silver Daggers do not weaken her, making her virtually indestructible.
- Enhanced Healing Factor: Hope can heal from injuries with a speed comparable to non-Original vampires. Her blood also retains the vampire ability to heal others as Hope was able to heal her mother while in the womb. She seems to heal much more quickly when exposed to vervain, wolfsbane, or wood than the individual species. Vervain or wolfsbane laced liquid has also been shown to weaken her, though she recovers from the effects much more quickly, after she turned into a fully activated tribrid. Human blood has also been known to make the healing process faster.
- Immortality: With the last Red Oak Stake destroyed and with the delivery of the God spear to Josie in Belgium, no physical weapon on earth can kill Hope. Not even the bite of an Upgraded Original vampire can kill Hope. Despite the extent of her immortality, Hope still needs to feed blood, otherwise she will desiccate and become immobile just like any other immortal or vampire-based species.
- Day Walking: Due to her werewolf and witch heritage, Hope is immune to the lethal effects that UV rays and sunlight have on vampires thus allowing her to walk in daylight without the use of a daylight ring.
- Emotional Control: Due to her vampire heritage, Hope is able to exert certain control over her own emotions and can turn off her humanity. Hope had turned off her humanity after she had killed Landon, however, she described it as not her choice but rather an instinctual reaction to Landon's death.
- Enhanced Emotions: Because of her vampire and werewolf traits, Hope experiences emotions more powerful than humans and other supernatural beings. Particularly due to her werewolf heritage, she experiences emotions such as anger, rage, aggression and violence more deeply and more prone to violence and rage than the other Original vampires. However, emotions such as love, joy, and happiness are intensified for her as well, allowing her to live her life more intensely. This ability allows her to feel emotions at her peak regardless of her age.
- Advanced Mind Compulsion: Hope can compel the minds of most sentient creatures; humans, monsters, werewolves, witches, Original vampires, non-Original vampires, and non-Original hybrids. She can even compel supernatural hunters that are members of the Five, although it takes a great deal of focus to do it right. Unlike her father, Hope can compel werewolves, evolved werewolves, or any of the other Original vampires. Her ability to compel werewolves was even confirmed by Kol Mikaelson.
- Siring: Hope's blood has the ability to turn werewolves into werewolf-vampire hybrids as long as they drink her blood before dying and after, completing the transition, such as with Henry Benoit. She can also sire vampire-witch hybrids without the need for them to drink her blood after such as with Lizzie Saltzman, having completed her transition by feeding on Rupert Vardemus.
- Enhanced Sire Bond: Non-Original vampires, non-Original witch-vampire heretics, and non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrids turned by Hope have a deep sense of gratitude and commitment to her, causing them to obey her every command.
- Telepathy: Hope has the ability, albeit a weak variant, to enter the minds of others as long as she is stronger than them. Normally, this ability works in a tactile fashion and requires physical contact to work successfully. Hope has also been able to share her memories with others.
- Dream Manipulation: Hope can control dreams and subconsciousness. She can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares, or lucid dreaming. Other effects of this ability are the distortion of reality and trapped in the dreams, Hope's ability to manipulate other people's dreams tends to be more powerful.
- Illusions: Hope has the power to trick the minds of others into seeing or feeling things that aren't actually happening, Hope's illusion-based powers tend to be more convincing.
- Witch Nature: Being part witch, Hope can channel vast amounts of mystical energy. According to Dahlia, as a firstborn of her bloodline, Hope has the potential for great, but destructive magic. As a fully activated tribrid, she can still practice magic and cast spells.
- Channeling: Hope has the power to invoke extra forms of energy by focusing on external forces.
- Potion Brewing: Hope has the power to brew and concoct potions, remedies and elixirs that have supernatural properties.
- Spell Casting: Hope has the power to change and control events through the use of incantations and more.
- Divination: Hope has the power to divine future, past, and present events based on extrasensory perception.
- Tribrid Blood: The original Triad, a witch, a werewolf, and a vampire, created Malivore in the past and they were the only ones that could destroy him. Since Malivore was created to be immortal and Nature would never allow it, Hope Mikaelson was created in response to be a loophole. Though not fully realized, her blood is capable of destroying Malivore, at least his portals, and golems created from his mud. This, however, has only been demonstrated on the golem of Landon. As a fully realized tribrid, Hope's blood is lethal to Malivore and resulted in his destruction.
- Malivore Mud Bullets Cure: Unique to Hope, as her status of being one of Nature's loopholes and a tribrid, her blood is also a curative to Malivore mud bullets, weaponized by Triad scientists. Though Lizzie could not siphon Josie's wound, Hope's blood was a curative. Her blood is also lethal to Malivore himself and what caused his ultimate destruction while possessing Landon.
- Werewolf Bite Cure: Hope's blood is the only cure for a normal werewolf or a non-Original werewolf-vampire hybrid venom, this ability seems to be unique only to Hope. However, unlike her father, after she becomes a fully activated tribrid, Hope's blood becomes the only cure for a bite from the Upgraded Original vampire.
Weakness[]
- Disbelief: The act of denying or disbelieving in one's potential could cause Hope to inadvertently suppress her magical power.
- Distraction: Denying Hope from concentrating or giving full attention to her spells, may render them ineffective.
- Emotions: Hope's magic is subject to the influence of her emotional state and may fluctuate according to it when untrained. According to Sheila Bennett, strong emotions such as worry and anger can fuel a witch's power while emotions such as fear may prevent a witch from properly accessing their powers.
- Herbs: Ingestion of certain herbs can cause a witch to lose consciousness and prevent them from using magic for an undetermined amount of time. The Lobelia flower prevents concentration and the practice of magic and can be used to weaken a witch as one would weaken a vampire with vervain. Being part werewolf and vampire, she may also acquire the adverse effects of wolfsbane and vervain as well.
- Huntress' Blood: Consumption of a supernatural huntress' blood will cause a witch to lose their ability to use magic. Prolong exposure poisons them, leading them to get sick. When scabs appear on their body, it eventually leads to death. According to Alex and Rayna Cruz, Rayna's blood can't be reversed for anything and all the attempts to make a cure were unsuccessful. It is unknown what effect Rayna's blood would have on Hope.
- Magic: Hope is still susceptible to the powers of witchcraft. This is inclusive of mystical and dark objects. A siphoner can siphon the magic from a witch where prolonged exposure may lead to death, albeit perhaps prior to transitioning into a fully activated tribrid.
- Overexertion: The excessive use of magic could lead to disorientation, nose bleeds, unconsciousness, and if taken to the extreme, death. As a fully activated tribrid, death seems temporary.
- Broken Neck: Breaking Hope's neck will result in her temporary death, though she will revive a short time later.
- Decapitation: Decapitation will result in instant but temporary death for the tribrid, however dismemberment or decapitation of the tribrid is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
- Heart Extraction: Removing the tribrid's heart will result in instant but temporary death.
- Invitation: Due to her vampire heritage, Hope, as a fully activated tribrid, is unable to enter a home without an invitation.
- Desiccation: Being completely drained of blood or the heart-stopping will cause a tribrid to desiccate due to their vampire side, losing most of their strength and any ability to move. This process can be replicated artificially by magic.
- Wood: A wooden stake through the heart will desiccate Hope and temporarily "kill" her. However, wood from a Red Oak tree can permanently destroy Hope as Nature created a balance near the site of the tribrid's birth through the sapling that she, Lizzie and Josie created. In the Therapy Box simulation, Cleo tested her theory and Hope was stabbed and immediately turned to ash. The validity of this, however, has not been tested outside of the simulation. The tree, however, was chopped down and rendered to ash.
- White Oak Ash Daggers: A collection of enchanted silver daggers dipped in the ash of the white oak tree will neutralize Hope when stabbed through the heart, causing her to desiccate. However, the effects are only temporary, and they will wear off in a short amount of time. It's unknown if Hope directly overcame the desiccation, and pulled the dagger out, or if the desiccation slowly receded, revived and then removed the dagger. Due to her werewolf-nature, magic bonded to silver likely doesn't affect her or, in this case, only temporarily weakens her.
- Unique Physiology: Being born with aspects of all three species, Hope's nature is somewhat at odds with each other. Dahlia deduces that without proper guidance, Hope's potential as a firstborn of her family's bloodline will prove destructive and unstable when mingled with vampire blood and werewolf aggression.
- God Spear: Smithed by Jen, it is a divine weapon forged with God magic and Red Oak ash. It is a lethal combo for Hope, provided it's stabbed into her heart. Since it's forged with God magic, it also renders her witchcraft useless. Injuries from this weapon causes the poisonousness effects of the Red Oak to make its way through her bloodstream, though given Jen's claim, it is unlikely to kill her outright. This poisonousness effect can be reversed by siphoning.
Relationships[]
Hayley Marshall-Kenner[]
Hayley is Hope's mother, and it is shown various times that Hayley strongly loves her daughter. When she first discovered she was pregnant, she attempted to abort the baby by ingesting wolfsbane, but when she couldn't resolve herself to do it, she was attacked, and she realized that she wasn't just protecting herself but the baby as well. She then learned that she would have a daughter. As time passed, Hayley grew concerned that because she never had a loving mother in her life, she would not know how to be a good mother to her daughter, but eventually, that faded and she grew to love the child deeply and like Klaus, is dedicated to protecting her at all costs. This is shown when Genevieve and the Harvest girls kidnapped Hope and tried to kill her. Hayley was there and fought for her daughter and got her back. She also demonstrated the aptitude to know where her daughter is, even if she is hidden by a spell. Hayley made a promise to herself and Hope that she (Hope) would grow up safe and loved (unlike herself). She kept this promise by choosing to send Hope away with Rebekah to keep her safe from those that would wish her harm in New Orleans. After a few months apart they were reunited. Hope is now living with her parents and family in The Abattoir.
Niklaus Mikaelson[]
Klaus is Hope's father, and even though at first, he refused the child in Always and Forever, he soon accepted her and was determined to not be like his stepfather to his child. He even told Hayley that the cycle of the pain will end with their baby. After that, he did everything he could to make sure she was kept safe and was shown to be happy when he learned the baby would be a girl. He wants to protect her at all costs and hopes to be in her life someday when it is safe for her. He is not giving up on being in his daughter's life quite yet. He is also dedicated to being a better father to her than his stepfather was to him. His love for his daughter brings out the best in Klaus, best seen in his reconciliation with both Rebekah and Marcel. With the child being born, Klaus is becoming the man he used to be. After some time apart from his daughter, she returned home. However, he remains paranoid as he worries about her safety.
Hope and Klaus' bond remain strong during the rest of the series until they were separated due to Klaus sacrificing himself to save his family. But Hope's memory of him was kept alive because of her mother telling Hope about her father such as his loyalty to his family, his love for her and his interests that she now shares with him. They were reunited after five years and, despite some initial nervousness on both sides, they shared a lovely day, it is showing just how alike they are. Klaus shared stories from his long life, Hope showed him her magic when she healed a butterfly and they painted together.
Apart from some of the bad things he's done Hope knows what Klaus is and isn't afraid of him. She knows how strong he is, and because of that, she believes he can keep bad things away. Once he promised that nothing was going to harm her Hope hugged him. Despite their time apart, Hope calls Klaus, "Dad", showing that their bond is still strong.
Because of her mother telling her about her father, Hope deems Klaus her "fairy tale prince".
Rebekah Mikaelson[]
Rebekah is one of Hope's aunts. Rebekah left town before Hope's birth but soon returned when Klaus asked her to protect his daughter. Klaus told Rebekah that despite their differences, there was nobody else he would trust more with the life of his daughter. Rebekah left New Orleans with Hope and became her guardian; she often told Hope stories of her birth and how her parents sent her away to be safe. Rebekah and Hope returned to New Orleans after Esther found them.
Elijah Mikaelson[]
Elijah is Hope's uncle and has sworn to protect her. He accepted her before everyone else did, even her parents. After Hope's birth, Hayley and Klaus decided to give Hope away to make the city safer for her to grow up in, and while Elijah was against it at first, he later agreed to it. When he saw Hope again (after their separation), in The Brothers That Care Forgot, he said to Rebekah that he can't imagine the joy spending every day with her and commented on how big she had gotten. As Rebekah went to change Hope's diaper, she saw that Elijah had killed a dozen people because he thought Hope was in danger. In Ashes to Ashes, Elijah gave a promise to Hayley that he will stay with Hope, protect her and help raise her, as Hayley doesn't want Klaus to be the only one Hope knows.
Landon Kirby[]
Hope first met Landon in 2026, and frequented where he used to work in Mystic Falls, Mystic Diaries. They grew to be friends and it was clear they shared a connection more than that of friends. However, Landon moved away from Mystic Falls, and they lost contact for two years. They reconnected when Landon's foster brother turned into a werewolf and Landon decided to be there with him, against Hope's advice, leading to Landon learning about the supernatural. To keep him from danger, Alaric decided to have him compelled and sent away; however, Landon betrayed Hope and the school by stealing a supernatural knife after the compulsion failed. Hope planned on confronting him about his betrayal, even armed with a death spell, but Alaric later rebuked her for this. Landon genuinely explained that the supernatural knife caused him to lie to Hope, but she didn't believe him. Despite what Landon had done, he was provided shelter at the Boarding School and putting their differences aside, he was willing to help Hope and school to investigate the missing reports of two Mystic Falls high school students. She attempts to save their friendship by starting a genuine conversation, but he cuts her off by explaining that he wished she had his back and that she just blamed him for everything that happened despite it not being his fault. Their back-and-forth prodding comes to head, when Hope, asked by Alaric, has to conduct a series of magical tests on Landon to determine whether he's supernatural. The tests, however, prove negative. She eventually forgives him for hurting her, but later, when seeing Landon off, he says he's not surprised she voted 'no' to keep him at the school. However, they resolve their issues when Hope gives him a magical compass and sends him to New Orleans in the hopes to locate his birth family and they share a heartfelt kiss. After Landon activates the magical compass, indicating that he was in trouble, Hope tracks Landon to Kansas and his birth mother, Seylah Chelon. With Landon safe from immediate harm, they reconnect, though before things get too physical, they're interrupted by Alaric. They eventually make their way back to the Boarding School where Hope asks Landon to be her boyfriend, to which he says yes. After this, Hope initiates another kiss. She was later surprised to discover he is a phoenix.
Alaric Saltzman[]
For the past two years and after Klaus' death, Alaric has acted like another father figure to Hope, which Lizzie and Josie are quite jealous of. He often gives her advice, and she takes it. Alaric also tries to mentor and convince Hope to step out of her comfort zone, as a father figure normally tried to do with their children. Alaric is also Hope's headmaster at her boarding school and also her coach in learning how to fight, physically of course. Hope sometimes jokes with Alaric saying that she'll need a new fighting mentor being Alaric is growing older. However, they remain close as much as a non-biological fatherly-daughterly coupling can be.
Josie Saltzman[]
Hope met Josie when she moved to Mystic Falls and for a decade their relationship was distant and cold, mostly because Hope used to distance herself from Josie. For the time being, Josie harbored a secret crush on Hope, with Lizzie describing her as "obsessed". However, after Hope's parents died, they became closer and eventually became friends, such that Hope even covers for and protects Josie. Sometimes their friendship seems to make Lizzie jealous, because of Lizzie's dislike for Hope. They, however, do care for one another. When facing the croatoan, Hope admits to Lizzie that when she was fourteen, she had a week-long crush on Josie. Their friendship became complicated after Hope was absorbed by Malivore and all memories of her were erased. This allowed Landon to become involved with Josie and the two developed a romantic relationship, culminating in their first kiss which was witnessed by Hope. When the memories of Hope returned to those closest to her, it complicated Landon's feelings towards both girls. Josie and Hope grew distant from one another, with Josie viewing Hope in a negative light for not telling everyone she was back from Malivore. Despite Hope's insistence that she never meant to hurt Josie, they remained distant. When Landon chose Hope instead of Josie, their dynamic grew awkward. They were able to gradually regain their friendship after Hope helped Josie with the Mora Miserium. Josie later helped decorate Hope's new dorm room, so she felt more at home and less like an outsider. The girls continue to have a strong friendship and mutual connection, with Josie ensuring Hope didn't feel alone before her transition into a tribrid.
Lizzie Saltzman[]
Hope met Lizzie when they were children, as both attended the Salvatore Boarding School. Hope sought to be friends with Lizzie and her sister Josie, but their relationship became tumultuous with neither liking the other for various reasons. When the Malivore monsters arrived, they were forced to put their issues aside to work together, something they both struggled to do. Lizzie was jealous of Hope over the attention she received from Alaric, Lizzie's father. She viewed Hope as the bane of her existence, hoping to one day be rid of her. Despite their many differences, they slowly grew closer, especially after Hope returned from Malivore, as only Lizzie remembered who she was. They battled many monsters together, facing triumphs and defeats as a team. Lizzie, Hope, and Josie became best friends who viewed one another in high regard. Lizzie didn't want Hope to endure the transition to a tribrid, hoping they could find another way to defeat Malivore. When Hope accepted her destiny and decided to transition, the trio cast a spell to plant a tree that would symbolize Hope's new life, ensuring she didn't feel alone in her last human moments.
After Hope defeated Malivore, she turned off her humanity and brutally attacked Alaric to ensure the other students would leave her alone. Lizzie became obsessed with killing Hope, crafting stakes from the red oak tree and training to kill her. When it came time to kill Hope, Lizzie couldn't bring herself to do it. She had too many good memories with Hope, viewed her as a member of her family, and even admitted to hating Hope for making her love her. The two worked together to stop Aurora, though Hope betrayed Lizzie by killing her, unaware that Lizzie had consumed Hope's blood from the school's first aid kit. Lizzie completed her transition into a vampire-witch hybrid, only to learn she couldn't hurt her sire due to a sire bond. Now unable to let anyone else hurt her, Lizzie was also forced to obey a humanity-less Hope's every whim. They worked together in a mutually beneficial relationship, as Lizzie asked Hope not to take away the sire bond after their goals were completed. She wasn't ready to face the world alone. Hope soon became tired of Lizzie's righteous ways and used the sire bond to force her to kill Aurora. Lizzie, desperately not wanting to do it, broke the sire bond, betrayed Hope by snapping her neck, then freed Aurora. The betrayal forced Hope to feel a flicker of emotion that made her question her humanity, especially Lizzie's comparison of Hope to a monster. After she returned to the school and turned her humanity back on, Hope admitted that she owed Lizzie a massive apology for what she did to her, but it had to wait until after they handled the Gods. Lizzie agreed but first helped Hope to get rid of her dark side for good as she coached Hope through a spell. Then, working together as a newfound team, Hope, Lizzie, and the rest of the super squad faced-off against Ken. After a bloody battle, they won and returned to the school. The girls laid a fallen Aurora to rest, holding hands as they said goodbye to their latest foe turned friend. With a number of changes at the school, Hope and Lizzie began a new semester, to guide the next class of supernatural students to be heroes.
Other Relationships[]
- Klaus, Hayley and Hope (Parents and Daughter/Former Allies)
- Hope and Jackson (Stepdaughter and Stepfather/Former Allies)
- Kol and Hope (Uncle and Niece/Allies)
- Freya and Hope (Aunt and Niece/Close Bond/Allies)
- Finn and Hope (Uncle and Niece/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Camille (Former Guardian and Ward/Former Allies)
- Hope and Marcel (Adoptive Sister and Brother/Close Friends/Allies)
- Hope and Davina (Aunt and Niece/Friends/Allies)
- Dahlia and Hope (Great-Aunt and Great-Niece/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Henry (Friends/Former Classmates/Former Allies)
- Hope and Roman (Former Friends/Former Classmates/Ex-Boyfriend)
- Hope and Rafael (Good Friends/Former Fellow Council Leaders/Former Classmates/Former Frenemies/Allies)
- Hope and Penelope (Classmates/Former Allies)
- Hope and MG (Friends/Classmates/Allies/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Kaleb (Friends/Classmates/Allies/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Jed (Friends/Former Classmates/Allies/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Cleo (Friends/Classmates/Allies/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Ethan (Friends/Former Classmates/Allies/Former Enemies)
- Hope and Finch (Friends/Classmates/Allies)
- Hope and Ben (Allies)
- Hope and Aurora (Former Enemies)
- Hope and Ken (Enemies)
Name[]
- Hope is a feminine first name of English origin, referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope.
- Andrea comes from the Greek word andrós, which means "manly". For a girl's name, some people extrapolate that the meaning is "courageous" or "womanly".
- Mikaelson is of Scandinavian origin, and it means "Son of Mikael".
Tropes[]
- Daddy's Girl - Hope seems to light up whenever her father is around. It's clear how much Hope adores her father and it's clear how much Klaus loves her. Klaus was besotted with her even before she was born.
- Hybrid Power - Hope has demonstrated magic abilities from her witch side and healing abilities from her vampire side though latter power is slower than a full vampire's healing factor.
- Protective Mom - Hope has a mother that adores her and it's clear that Hope feels the same. Whenever Hope sees her mother, she's always laughing.
- Birth/Death Juxtaposition - Almost as soon as she's born, her mother Hayley is killed by Monique. Subverted in that Hayley woke up in transition, due to dying while Hope's blood was still inside her.
- Sins of Our Fathers - As Klaus notes, Hope has 'inherited' all of his enemies by being his daughter.
Additional Information[]
- In Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Freya states that Hope is now 15 years old. Despite this, there has only been a seven-year time jump from May 2019. This makes the current timeline May 2026, which would make Hope 14; this is a timeline error. Despite there only being a two-year time jump to 2028, as of This is the Part Where You Run, which would make Hope 16, the timeline error is continued, making her 17 years old. As of I'll Never Give Up Hope, Hope celebrated her 18th birthday while trapped in Malivore.
- In Hold on Tight, Hope celebrates her and Landon's one-year romantic anniversary, though the math was complicated. The duo ended the day by sleeping together for the first time.
Quotes[]
| “ | Welcome home. | „ |
| ~ Hope to the incoming students and also her final line in Just Don't Be a Stranger, Okay? |
| “ | I'm a tribrid. The only one of my kind. No one can represent my interests but me. | „ |
| ~ Hope to Alaric. |
| “ | I love you, Landon. I always will. | „ |
| ~ Hope declaring her love for Landon in See You On The Other Side. |
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Trivia[]
- Sophie described Hope as "one of Nature's loopholes" in The Originals.
- Elijah believes Hope is the key in reuniting his family and he has sworn to protect Hope no matter what.
- Hope was able to heal Hayley from her injuries sustained in Girl in New Orleans.
- Sabine also had a vision that Hope will be the death of all witches. This could possibly be false as it was used to precipitate the death of the last living elder Agnes.
- During Hayley's pregnancy, Hope had various nicknames.
- Hayley often referred to her baby as "Magical Miracle Baby" but also called her "My Little Girl" and "Baby Girl" in a letter to her.
- In Fruit of the Poisoned Tree, her aunt nicknames her "The Demon Spawn" and called her "My Little Niece". And she called her Mikaelson Miraculous Baby in Sinners and Saints. After Hope's birth, Rebekah calls her "Princess" in a bedtime story.
- Sophie and Tyler both referred to her as "The Hybrid Baby" and Celeste called her "The Wolf".
- Klaus called her "Littlest Wolf" in From a Cradle to a Grave, as a reference to the nickname that he gave to Hayley; "Little Wolf".
- In Bloodletting, it was shown that Hope's hybrid blood can turn other werewolves into hybrids, causing them to be sired to Hayley. However, once Hope is born, it is likely that the sire bond will shift to her.
- Klaus mentioned in Reigning Pain in New Orleans, that Hope is the only thing that matters to him.
- According to Eve, many werewolves have heard about Klaus and Hayley's unborn child, Hope, and have come to New Orleans to see this miracle pregnancy for themselves.
- As mentioned in Après Moi, Le Déluge, the descendants of Esther would be allotted her power due to the consecration of her remains. Thus, it is possible that Hope will be able to channel the power of Esther.
- As the only living descendant of Esther, Hope is capable of owning property, something which vampires (including even Original vampires) themselves can't do. This was confirmed in Après Moi, Le Déluge, where this fact was used to consecrate Esther's remains at the plantation (the deed to which is held by Hayley), thus enabling the Harvest Ritual to be completed by Sophie (who channeled Esther's power to become a witch elder).
- Hope has a connection to four supernatural groups: French Quarter Coven, Crescent Wolf Pack, Northeast Atlantic Pack and Original Vampires.
- The reason Klaus was able to procreate sexually where other undead beings cannot be that he is not a vampire, but a hybrid. Tyler stated that the ability to pass the werewolf gene trumped Klaus' vampire side.
- Hope is also the first being born with vampire blood.
- In Moon Over Bourbon Street, Elijah expresses his wish that his niece would inherit her "everything" from her mother.
- In The Big Uneasy, it is revealed that the ancestors want Hope to die. In From a Cradle to a Grave, Genevieve revealed that Hope's death was ordered by Esther. However, in Wheel Inside the Wheel, Esther explains her will to Finn as she fears Dahlia, her sister.
- In The Big Uneasy, Klaus states that his pack, and thus Hope's pack, is from the Northeast Atlantic.
- In A Closer Walk With Thee, Hayley decided to move back in with Klaus and Elijah for the safety of her daughter.
- In A Closer Walk With Thee, Klaus had a dream of his daughter.
- Klaus built a nursery for his daughter in Hayley's room in the Abattoir and he showed it to Hayley in A Closer Walk With Thee. In Rebirth, still mourning his daughter Hayley forbids to Elijah to disassemble Hope's cradle before torn apart the nursery herself, but in Wheel Inside the Wheel, it seems that they built the nursery again.
- The nursery included a teddy bear, a stuffed wolf, and a painting of New Orleans by full moon.
- In A Closer Walk With Thee, Klaus says to Hayley that both her and their daughter are fighters.
- It the second reference to the fact that Hope is a fighter, the first was by Hayley in Girl in New Orleans.
- In From a Cradle to a Grave, there's a flashback in which Hayley lets Klaus feel the baby kick.
- Due to the unique nature of her conception, Hope is a Nexus Vorti, a miracle event that the witches can draw upon for great power.
- In From a Cradle to a Grave, in a brief flashback Hayley was seen writing a letter to her daughter. She tried out some names like Zoë, Caitlin and Angela.
- Klaus names her Hope because she's the hope of his new family. As such, her name could not be more appropriate, since her arrival brought upon two reconciliations: the first being between Klaus and Marcel, and the second between Klaus and Rebekah.
- In From a Cradle to a Grave, Hayley and Klaus agree to send Hope away to keep her protected and Klaus gives Hope to Rebekah.
- As she shares the same blood as her father Klaus, her blood could presumably cure a werewolf bite.
- This is proved to be true in The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do, when she gave her blood to MG to cure him from a werewolf bite.
- Like her mother she was born in New Orleans, but she was conceived in her father's birthplace, Mystic Falls.
- She shares some traits with her aunt, Freya:
- Both of their births were against nature (Esther was infertile and being a vampire Klaus normally cannot have children).
- They are both the first-born of their generation, and they are both girls.
- Hope was given to her aunt Rebekah by her parents to keep her safe, and Freya was taken away by her aunt Dahlia.
- Both were separated from their parents under the pretense of death, while only a select few knew what really happened to them; only Esther, Finn, and Dahlia knew that Freya didn't die of the plague, and only Hayley, Klaus, Elijah, Ansel, and Rebekah knew that Hope didn't die shortly after her birth.
- It seems that the first born of Esther's bloodline are all girls - her great-aunt Dahlia, her aunt Freya and herself are the firstborns of their own generation.
- However, that wouldn't been the case if Freya's son had survived.
- In those generations, there have been at least two females in each generation: Dahlia, Esther, Freya and Rebekah. In the 3rd generation, there is only one female, Hope.
- Freya stated that the use of magic acts as a beacon for Dahlia, even if the witch is only just showing signs of witchcraft. As Hope used magic to stop and restart Camille's car, it is possible that Dahlia already knows about Hope's existence.
- As of I Love You, Goodbye, the vampire and werewolf community are aware of her existence.
- Hope seems to be fond of her stepfather Jackson Kenner as he can calm her when she's upset.
- Rebekah was the first to refer to Hope as a "tribrid" instead of a "hybrid".
- Between Ashes to Ashes and You Hung the Moon, she grew up without her mother around.
- Hope shares a few similarities with Nadia Petrova:
- Both of their mothers gave birth to them in difficult situations.
- Both were born on-screen (though Hope was in present day and Nadia was in a flashback).
- They were both unwanted at first, Hope by her parents and Nadia by her grandfather and then by her mother 500 years later.
- They were both born from a witch heritage.
- They were taken from their mothers shortly after birth, Hope by the witches and Nadia by her grandfather. They were later reunited with them after a considerable amount of time apart (6 months and 500 years, respectively).
- Hope is one of only four known characters to have attended both the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted and Mystic Falls High School: the others being Landon Kirby, Josie Saltzman and Milton Greasley.
External links[]
- Hope Mikaelson on the Vampire Diaries Wiki.
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