Elijah Mikaelson

He has more lot of nieces and nephews but no kids of his own yet.

Elijah Mikaelson

Elijah was the third child and second son of Mikael and Esther. He was the younger brother of Freya and Finn, and the older brother of Kol, Rebekah and Henrik and the older half-brother of Klaus and adoptive brother to Sophia. He is also the uncle of Freya and Mathias' unborn son, Klaus and Hayley's daughter, Hope, and Freya and Keelin's son, Nik. He is also the adoptive uncle and godfather of Danielle.

Elijah is the eldest Original alive. He is the most powerful being, second only to his half-brother, Niklaus.

Before moving to New Orleans, he was in a romantic relationship with Katerina Petrova. He left her in order to find his brother's redemption and bring his family back together. When arriving in New Orleans, he meets Hayley Marshall and learns that she is pregnant with his brother's child so he takes on the role as her protector. After once again being daggered by Klaus and hidden by Marcel Gerard for three months, Sophia and Rebekah went on a mission to find him only to find out the truth to Klaus' actions. He was later freed due to Klaus' actions into saving Marcel. While trying to keep his family together, the plan failed due to Rebekah's secrets and betrayals to the family and later on, Neoma's resurrection resulting in Danielle's death caused a further wedge in the family. However, due to Rebekah's actions, he still defended her and tried to get through to Sophia as she was falling to the darkness. the Original Family, the vampires of the French Quarter and the Crescent Wolf Clan all worked together in the war against Neoma to which they won. Elijah was later reunited with his adoptive niece after she was brought back to life by her mother. Later, Elijah became Co-King and Danielle became the first Queen of New Orleans.

Elijah also had a connection to Serena Julia Vivian's family. It was revealed that Serena's family had been a part of a cult that worships Reapers and due to being close friends to Serena's parents, they put her in Elijah's care in order to protect her as she was chosen to be the sacrifice for the next Grim Reaper. Elijah became her legal guardian and after some time, he compelled her to forget about him and the truth to what happened to her parents that day the last time she saw them, then he put Serena up for adoption. After learning of her family's history, he respected her decision to become the new Grim Reaper.

Months later, after being reunited with the resurrected Mikael, Esther and Finn, Elijah worked together with his family to put a stop to their plans. Elijah also show much concern for Sophia whom learned she was the two-thousand year old witch, Cecilia and was continually regaining memories of her past.

Elijah has is very close to his younger siblings: Klaus, Sophia and Rebekah but he has a very strong bond with his niece/goddaughter, Danielle. He works with her with their high positions in the French Quarter in order to keep a peaceful system between the supernatural creatures.

Elijah is a member of the Mikaelson Family and other unnamed families.

Early Life

 * Human Life
 * 1002
 * 1114 A.D.
 * 1200-1500s
 * 1700s
 * 1800s
 * 1900s

Falls, Virginia. Elijah's parents fled from Europe, with his older brother, Finn, and a few others after the supposed death of his older sister, Freya, from the plague while Esther was pregnant with Elijah. His mother lied to him, his father and the rest of the Mikaelson family. His older sister was actually taken by his aunt. Elijah was the first of their children to be born in the New World, followed by three brothers, Klaus, Kol and Henrik, and a sister, Rebekah.

The loss of his first born had hardened Mikael and he proved to be a very strict father, who was feared by all his children. Elijah had a close relationship with his mother, who once mentioned to him that, when she was pregnant with him, she would have Freya sing to him. This was one of the few times Esther ever spoke of her lost daughter. In addition, Elijah was very close to his siblings, with the exception of Finn, who had never recovered from losing Freya and never taken to his new siblings as a result. Elijah was closest to Niklaus and Rebekah, and his younger brother would often carve figurines and statuettes for his brother and sister.

However, while Mikael was hard on all his children, he was hardest on Niklaus, whom he saw as weak. Once, when Elijah took his younger brother hunting and complimented him on the improvement of his aim (despite the fact that Niklaus had missed his target), Mikael arrived and started beating Niklaus to 'strengthen' him, threatening Elijah with violence if he tried to intervene. He carried guilt for the rest of his life for not stopping their father's beatings against his brother. Once, Mikael beat Niklaus to near death in a rage and only stopped when both Elijah and Rebekah tried to stop him. That night, Rebekah tried to kill Mikael as he slept to end his abuse of Niklaus but Elijah stopped her and considered killing his father himself. Ultimately, he didn't.

They lived among the werewolves for about twenty years and during the full moon, the humans would simply hide in the underground caves while the werewolves turned. During Elijah's early life, Elijah and Niklaus both fell in love with a woman named Tatia who lived in their village. All the villagers wanted to be her suitors including Klaus and Elijah, both of them during their time with her, argued with each other and fought each other because they both wanted her for themselves. Tatia chose Elijah to be her next husband when the time came.

One morning after a full moon, Klaus came out of the woods, holding his dead little brother Henrik in his arms. Elijah came running to join his mother as she grieved Henrik's death.

To ensure that the rest of her family would survive, Esther used a spell to make her children immortal. Mikael gave his children wine laced with Tatia's blood. Then he stabbed Elijah and his siblings through their hearts and made them drink human blood. After becoming a vampire, Elijah, along with his family, made sure that the White Oak Tree, their one true weakness, would be destroyed. However, nature retaliated against them and, for every strength, there was a weakness, none stronger than the desire for what had  made them immortal: human blood. They had become the very first vampires.

Shortly after becoming a vampire, one night when Niklaus made his first human kill, it triggered his werewolf side. Klaus went on a rampage in wolf form. When he awoke the following morning he was tended to by Elijah unbeknownst to them Tatia had followed them to see what happened. Seeing all the carnage created by Klaus she ran from them in fear and was pursued by Elijah. She had tripped and fell while trying to flee and cut her hand. The blood made Elijah lose control and attack her. She tried to defend herself but was no match and was killed. Elijah brought her corpse to a shocked Esther hoping that she could save her. Esther used the rest of her blood as part of the spell used to bind Klaus' werewolf side, which resulted in Klaus' werewolf gene being dormant. Mikael also made Elijah help him in tying up Klaus so that his mother could do the spell. Elijah suppressed the memory of how Tatia actually died believing he had compelled not killed her in the woods and that Esther killed her when performing the hybrid curse.

Then one night, his mother was killed by "Mikael". After burying their mother, Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah promised that they would never turn their backs on each other and that they would stick together as one, always and forever.

Weaknesses
Elijah has the typical weaknesses of an Original Vampire. Following the destruction of the White Oak Stake, it is presumed by all original vampires, that they cannot be killed, however, this seems to be untrue, following the prophecy, as the Beast can kill him.

Niklaus Mikaelson

 * "We have fought together for centuries, and once again, to break your enemy, you broke your family."
 * —Elijah to Klaus

Klaus is Elijah's maternal younger half-brother and his closest brother. When they were humans, they both had fun together by battles with swords, much to their father's disapproval. However their relationship became estranged when they both fell in love with the same woman Tatia. After their mother died, Elijah and Klaus made a pact with Rebekah that they would stick together as one, always and forever. In the year 1114, they came across a vampire hunter named Alexander and the Brotherhood of the Five. Alexander and his brothers neutralized  four original vampires, but were released (except Finn) by Klaus. In 1492, they met a woman named Katerina Petrova, the first doppelgänger of Tatia. Klaus planned to sacrifice her, while Elijah started to have feelings for her. After Katerina's escape, the relationship between Elijah and Klaus was broken for a while. During 2010, Elijah was helping Elena Gilbert and the Salvatore brothers to kill Klaus, while Klaus was preparing to break his curse. After the curse was broken, Elijah met with his half-brother and was about to kill him when Klaus revealed their family was safe and only he knew where they were. Klaus daggered Elijah once they arrived at Alaric's apartment, but eventually Elijah was un-daggered by Damon Salvatore. Later, Elijah had undaggered all of their remaining siblings, but when they were about to leave Klaus for good, their mother appeared. Elijah tried to figure out his mother's motives and once he did, Elijah, Klaus and Kol confronted their mother and their brother, Finn. Elijah left Mystic Falls, while Klaus attempted to locate their lost brother Finn. Later, Elijah came back to bargain with Elena for Klaus' body. After Klaus "died", Elijah left again. Once Elijah had possession of the cure, he met with his half-brother again. He later handed his half-brother the White Oak Stake, asking him to spare Katerina, but Klaus refused. Elijah has began to repair his relationship with his younger half-brother and believes he will find Klaus' redemption through his daughter Hope, Elijah's niece.

Unfortunately, Elijah's relationship with Klaus takes a turn for the worst, though it was not a very healthy one to begin with due to actions made constantly by Klaus, when Elijah chose to believe Tyler's lies over Klaus, that he is (supposedly) aware that his child's blood can make hybrids, and he plans to use his child's blood once she is born to make an army of hybrids, to take over New Orleans. He falsely accused Klaus of only caring about his unborn child, so he can use her to sire more hybrids, unfortunately, he finds out the hard way that he was wrong, and unintentionally damages his relationship with Klaus. Though Elijah was well within reason to believe so. Elijah repairs his relationship with Klaus when he apologizes to him for accusing him of only caring about his unborn child so he can used her to sire more hybrids, despite the fact that their relationship is now repaired, Elijah is barely on speaking terms with Klaus.

Unfortunately, their relationship becomes worse than ever, when Elijah daggered Klaus and allowed Hayley to try and take Hope away from him, in retaliation Klaus kills his girlfriend Gia, and daggered him with Papa Tunde's Blade, their relationship becomes estranged/broken after this, as they both want nothing to do with each other any more.

They reconcile by the end

Rebekah Mikaelson

 * "I only came to New Orleans to make sure you were safe. You are. I thought that I might be able to convince you to come with me, but here you are, rushing into whatever Klaus and Marcel and the witches have cooked up. And I finally get it. You'll never leave this city. You'll never leave Klaus."
 * —Rebekah to Elijah

Rebekah is Elijah's younger sister. His relationship with her has been very dysfunctional. Elijah is in the habit of being very critical towards Rebekah due to her actions. After she requests him to give her the cure for the vampirism, Elijah agrees, provided that she go a whole day without her vampire abilities. However, they were tricked by Silas with Klaus' help. After finding out that Klaus is going to be a father, Elijah asks her to follow Klaus and him to New Orleans. She refuses to follow Elijah and help him. Elijah is without a doubt the brother Rebekah respects most out of all her brothers. After 3 months of not hearing anything from Elijah she returns to New Orleans to find Elijah and make sure he's alright. Once she finds him, Elijah tells his sister to protect the wolf carrying Klaus' child, and once he gets home to the Mikaelson mansion he gets a warm welcome from Rebekah. But soon after she tells him that she is leaving town and would ask to come with her, she knows that Elijah would never leave town or Klaus. Unlike Rebekah, Elijah believes that his brother can be redeemed. Elijah also is shown to be very protective of Rebekah, not letting anyone physically harm her. When she is about to be stabbed with Papa Tunde's Blade, he stabs Klaus with it to save Rebekah. He also would not allow Klaus to stake her with the White Oak Stake or harm her in any way.

Hayley Marshall-Kenner

 * "We've all done bad things. It's just, most people die before the list gets embarrassing. But, don't for a second compare yourself to Klaus."
 * —Hayley to Elijah

The relationship between Elijah and Hayley began once Elijah was made aware of Hayley's pregnancy with his brother's child. Elijah shows Hayley his family history, to explain how it is possible that she's carrying a Hybrid child. Elijah makes a promise to Hayley that he'll always protect her. A few days later Hayley is reading the journals of Elijah and learns more about him and how he feels about his siblings. When Klaus asks what it is about his brother that inspires admiration, Hayley responds that Elijah was kind to her. Once Elijah and Hayley are reunited, she slaps him and tells him not to make promises he can't keep. The day after when the witches are trying to kill her baby, Elijah tries to do everything he can to undo it and kills the witches who were responsible. One Hayley disappeared, Elijah and Klaus tough Marcel had kidnapped her, they then confronted about it. Elijah finally found Hayley and she tells him about her hybrid baby and what it can do. Elijah confront his brother about what Hayley had told him. It is clear they feel an attraction towards each other, however due to other factors, do not act upon them. After many attempts for them to have their first kiss, when Hayley was about to die because Mikael's threat, Elijah was very afraid of losing her and he decided to opened to her about what he felt, after hearing Elijah's words, Hayley decides to take the first step and kiss him.

After Hayley and Klaus had to give up to protect her, Elijah and Hayley become estranged. Hayley is upset and angry about Hope leaving and takes some of her angry out on him. Hayley kills Francesca as a reaction for almost killing her baby. Elijah tries to comfort her and but Hayley starts screaming at him saying that every since she turned into a hybrid she felt extremely different. In the next couple of episodes Elijah tries to help Hayley through her transformation and how she grieves with losing her child. Elijah has a dream about a brunette girl running away from him. Elijah has blood all over himself and he looks like he wants to feed. When the brunette girl turns around you see that it's Hayley who is trying to run away from him. Elijah then feeds on Hayley, who is obviously not a hybrid. In the episodes after this Hayley worries about Elijah and his mental state. Hayley and Elijah finally sleep together after Hayley tells Elijah that she's is going to marry Jackson in order to keep the wolves from turning and having to use the moon rings provided by the witches. Hayley says that she doesn't love Jackson but can't be involved with Elijah and be married to him. Elijah tells Hayley to marry Jackson but then pulls her close and starts to kiss her.

Their is a lot of sexual tension with Elijah and Hayley since it's the day after they had sex. the day of Hayley and Jackson's wedding day. Elijah wants to tell Hayley that he loves her but Hayley tells him not to, considering that it's her wedding and all.

Danielle Mikaelson
Elijah's adoptive niece and goddaughter.

Sophia Mikaelson
Elijah's adoptive sister. Elijah sees Sophia as a loyal and good person like him. She's one of the main people he can always count on and work together with in a difficult situation. They both share the importance and value of family. Elijah has mentioned that Sophia is his favorite sister. When Sophia finds out that Elijah had accused Klaus of planning to use the baby's blood to make more hybrids, she shut him out. After Danielle's death, Sophia begins to go down a dark path which worries Elijah because of what it will do to her. It was also revealed that Sophia was adopted by Esther. Elijah did not care if they did not share the same blood because she was still his sister, regardless of what anyone saids.

Hope Mikaelson

 * "It was more than a fantasy - it was our hope. It was our family's last hope, and now she's gone."
 * —Elijah about losing Hope

Hope is Elijah's niece, and he loves her very much. Even before Hope was ready to be birthed, he was the first person to accept the baby. he is the one that wanted the baby to be alive and tried to convince Klaus to accept the child. He has sworn to protect her and love her. They have a strong relationship and he wants nothing more then to let her be safe. That is why he agreed to send her away to live with Rebekah until New Orleans is safe for her to return. But years went by, it is unknown how Hope feels about her uncle now, Considering he was the one that let Haley die, despite the memory loss. But he recovered his memory and their relationship is good now probabl.

Katerina Petrova

 * "I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I'd like to think that you feel something for me, too. I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Just like I'm trusting you. You don't owe me anything. I'm gonna let you decide where we go from here."
 * —Katherine to Elijah

In 1492, Elijah met a woman named Katerina Petrova who was the first doppelgänger of Tatia. Elijah and Katerina got to know each other before he introduced her to his younger brother Niklaus. Klaus wanted her to be sacrificed, but Elijah had started to have feelings for her. When Katerina escaped, Elijah felt betrayed by her and started hunting her down, but was mislead the other way thanks to a vampire named Trevor. 500 years later, Elijah finds her stuck inside the vampire tomb and compelled her to stay. Almost a year later, Katerina contacts Elijah and asks him to help her find the cure. During their search for the cure,  their friendship grows to be very strong and eventually they fall deeply in love, therefore beginning a sexual relationship. After Elijah discovered that Katerina killed Jeremy Gilbert, he got mad at her lies. Elijah says that he doesn't know who she really is. Katerina then met with him again and handed him the cure, telling him she loves him and she wanted him to trust her, as she is trusting him. During the episode "The Originals", Katherine asks him to be with her, instead of heading to New Orleans for a life with Klaus. He doesn't say anything except goodbye, and leaves, after kissing her on the forehead. It is unclear whether their relationship will have a future. Even though he was a hallucination Katherine was happy to see him and had shown to have missed him. He presumably does not yet know that Katherine's dead.

Name

 * Elijah from the Hebrew אֱלִיָּהוּ (eliyyahu) meaning "YAWEH is my God". It's the name of a Prophet who was carried to the heavens in a chariot of fire. It was a popular name during the middle ages.
 * Mikaelson is Scandinavian and means "Son of Mikael".

Trivia

 * Nearly all of his girlfriends were killed or nearly killed by Klaus.
 * Klaus tried to kill Katerina.
 * Klaus indirectly caused Céleste's death.
 * Klaus killed Gia.
 * Elijah is the only member besides Mikael and Kol of the Mikaelson Family that has pushed Klaus' buttons without fearing the consequences.
 * The only thing Elijah truly fears is his father Mikael, from his fear of his father growing up, a trait all of his siblings possessed. Despite other creatures being created to kill the Originals such as Alaric, Lucien, and Marcel, Mikael remains the only person to truly terrify Elijah.
 * Elijah was the oldest remaining Original since the death of Mikael and his older brother Finn, and the oldest immortal being in the world since the deaths of Silas and Amara. Although his human age is never stated, it appears that he was turned when he was in his mid to late twenties.
 * With Freya still alive and not dead as it was believed, Elijah is now the second oldest being in the world and the oldest immortal.


 * He is the second vampire shown compelling Elena and the first Original vampire to be neutralized by Elena.
 * Elijah is the first Original vampire to be seen compelling other vampires (Slater and Katherine).


 * Elijah, Rebekah and Klaus are the only people known to have met Tatia and her two Doppelgängers as humans.


 * Despite the fact that most people call Katherine with the Anglo version of her name, Klaus, Elijah, Rose, Trevor and Nadia are the only ones who refer to or call her by her original name Katerina.
 * Elijah is the first Original to be invited into the Gilbert House, followed by Kol and Klaus.
 * Like Klaus, Elijah didn't want Rebekah to take the cure.
 * Elijah believes Klaus and Hayley's child is the key to reuniting his family.