Hope Mikaelson

Hope Mikaelson
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Information
Gender	• Female
Species	• Tribrid (Witch, Werewolf, Vampire)
Age	• 17
Hair color	• Auburn
Occupation	• Student of the Salvatore Boarding School
First appearance	• This is the Part Where You Run
Portrayed by	• Danielle Rose Russell
Family Members
• Niklaus Mikaelson † (Father) • Hayley Marshall † (Mother)

“	I come from a long line of villains in your stories, and the daughter of a werewolf and a vampire. The granddaughter of an evil witch. They call me the tribrid. I'm the the only one of my kind. I'm born from evil, fighting every day to be good.	”
	— Hope Mikaelson

Hope Andrea Mikaelson is the main protagonist of Legacies. She is a student of the Salvatore Boarding School . She is the first naturally born hybrid. She is the daughter of Niklaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall.

Hope is a member of the Mikaelson Family and Labonair Family.

Early History

Niklaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall slept together and conceived a child. The witch Sophie Deveraux revealed that Hayley was, in fact, pregnant with Klaus' child. She 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 demands that Klaus help her or she will kill the baby and its mother.

Klaus initially had no interest with having anything to do with the child, even telling to the witches that they made a mistake if they thought they could get to him by using Hayley and their child as leverage. But after words of consideration from Elijah Mikaelson, and an exchange from Camille O'Connell, he later changed his mind. When Elijah asked him about Hayley and their unborn child, Klaus replied to him that "every king needs an heir."

Personality

As a teenager, Hope is shown to be stubborn and brave as she was willing to put herself through extreme pain and possible death in order to get her mother back. Both Klaus and Caroline describe Hope as being smart, possibly too smart for her own good, like her father. It has been shown that Hope has gained one of her father's traits of doing whatever she can to protect her family. Elizabeth is always offering to help to save those she cares about and considers family, including Marcel. However, once Hope magically absorbs the Hollow’s soul, it nearly drives her insane because she constantly starts to hear whispers of voices in her head. The only way she can end the madness going on inside her head is by committing acts of violence. Instead of taking her anger and frustrations out on innocents, she takes it out on those she deems not innocent (provided with her father's assistance). However, her desire to quell the voices by using violence and magic causes her to kill someone who is innocent, although she intended not to.

Hope has thus far been unable to forge meaningful connections 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.

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.

Hope suffers from PTSD from what she describes as "inner darkness". She believes this to be a side effect of her childhood possession by the villainous Hollow, but these episodes are just as likely to have been caused by the severe and repeated physiological traumas she's experienced.

Hope also pushes her peers away with the liberal use of sarcasm and acerbic wit. Her dark sense of humor is a defiance mechanism she uses to keep others at arm's length and to protect herself from ever feeling too hopeful or upbeat about a world that has taught her not to be.

As the child of Klaus Mikaelson, a man who many call "evil", Hope will have to battle her fear of becoming her father, while holding fast to her love for him and the values he's instilled in her: bravery, conviction, perseverance, and loyalty.

Despite the traumas of her past, Hope is a powerful young student with great potential. However, due to her fierce independence and unparalleled supernatural abilities, she has a tendency to take on every challenge herself. But she will have to learn that not every problem can be solved alone - she must eventually be able to work with and rely on other people for their help.

Hope has also expressed the belief that her existence is some sort of "cosmic mistake." Surrendering to this mindset would mean buckling under the burden of her family legacy, and could lead Hope down a dark and uncharted path. As the tribrid, Hope has the power to challenge the world, but she must first accept that she has not only the potential but the willingness to become the hero she was born to be.

Physical Appearance

Hope has auburn hair and light blue eyes like her father. Caroline Forbes described her as beautiful.

As a Labonair, she has the Crescent birthmark on her right shoulder, just like her mother and distant relatives.

Powers and Abilities

Hope has improved control over her magic as a teenager; however, such control is lost during bursts of anger. Conversely, she's headstrong and strong-willed as she cast a boundary spell to entrap her father inside the Abattoir. Hope has also shown skill in creating her own spells, such that she created a spell combined with a cloaking spell that she performed on Hayley, as she was the one to kidnap her and lure Klaus back to New Orleans. She claimed that it was the "perfect" cloaking spell and that it would keep her safe; despite this claim, she was kidnapped again.

While she was the Hollow's vessel, containing both her spirit and Dark Magic, Hope's magic was amplified by that of the Hollow, as she whispered to Hope in her attempt to corrupt her. During this time, her telekinesis and pain infliction seemed to be amplified as purging her pain, by using her magic, seemed to be the only course of treatment.

Hope is also part werewolf, having inherited the werewolf gene from both of her parents. Prior to triggering her curse, she displayed some increased agility and grace, above that of a normal human. Since she has triggered her werewolf gene, she has gained all of the powers of lycanthropy, with the additional abilities of those having been born of the Crescent Wolf pack, such as Transformation Control. The first transformation, however, is a rite of passage and cannot be controlled, according to Klaus. This would classify her werewolf nature as an Evolved Werewolf. Furthermore, despite that the werewolf curse was originally cast upon Native American witches preventing them and their descendants from using magic, Hope's lycanthropy does not negate her ability to practice magic.

Although Hope is not a full vampire-hybrid, she possesses a few vampiric traits, specifically her blood. Her blood was able to heal her mother while in the womb. She was also able to heal herself after she accidentally cut herself on a piece of glass. Her blood can be used to sire new vampires and even hybrids, an ability only possessed by one other supernatural being; the Original Hybrid, her father. If Hope were to die, she would become a vampire which should negate her ability to practice magic and would likely make her a vampire-werewolf hybrid like her father.

Weaknesses

As the world's first hybrid of all three supernatural species, the full extent, and limits of Hope's weaknesses are currently unknown.

Relationships

• Hope, Lizzie and Josie (Classmates)

Appearances

Legacies

Season One

• This is the Part Where You Run

Name

• Hope is a feminine first name of English origin referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope.
• If Hope was to truly follow Norse traditions, her surname should technically be Niklausdotter (daughter of Niklaus) as oppose to Mikaelson (son of Mikael).