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Character Name: Kol Mikaelson
Series: The Vampire Diaries
Timeline: 4x12, "A View To A Kill", post-death.
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Character History:

Mystic Falls, 10th century
Kol is the second youngest son of Esther and Mikael, preceded by three elder brothers, Finn, Elijah, and Niklaus, and followed by younger sister Rebekah and baby brother Henrik. In the 10th century, Esther and Mikael migrated from Norway with Finn and Elijah to the New World and settled in a village that would eventually come to be known as Mystic Falls. This is where the rest of the Mikaelson line would be born.

The family had their own dynamics among themselves, Finn was often found with Esther, Elijah tried to be the peacemaker between his siblings, Klaus and Rebekah were always close, but Kol has always had a very big case of the dreaded Middle Child Syndrome. Seemingly being viewed by his siblings as more of an annoyance than anything often pushed him to act out rather wildly. All very much vying for the attention he felt he was so often denied.

Esther was a very powerful witch and it was possible for any of her children to have her gift as well, but as it were, Kol was the only one to show any signs of being able to practice magic. He took a big liking to it and was rather skilled at a young age.

Mikael was not the best father to any of his children, always strict and borderlining cruel, pushing them to work harder, to do better. None saw the wrath or abuse by Mikael's hand worse than Niklaus, though it was never really understood why he clashed so much with his son. Not even by Mikael himself.

The family suffered a great loss when Henrik was attacked and killed by werewolves, with whom they'd lived among peacefully, when out one night with Niklaus, watching them turn. Esther and Mikael's panic after this led them to making the choice to ensure their children could never be hurt again. Esther performed a powerful immortality spell by having them drink wine laced with the blood of a doppelganger, a village girl named Tatia who happened to be a distant descendant of the first ever created immortal and she drew on the power of ancient symbols; the sun for life, and the white oak tree for immortality. Mikael killed them with the blood still in their system and when they woke, they were in transition forced by their father to feed on human blood to complete the transition, And that is the story of how the first, Original vampires came into creation.

The new powers that were gained by the siblings under the spell all had their countenances, nature's way of protecting the balance; the sun that had given them life burned them, the white oak would become a key to killing an Original, the vervain that grew beneath the tree repelled their mind tricks and burned them to the touch. Esther sought to help counter the sun, spelling them all rings made with lapis lazuli to protect them and allow them to walk during the daylight hours. Eventually, in efforts to make sure it could never be used against them, they burned the tree from which their immortality was given.

As a result of this new immortal life, Kol lost his connection to magic. This was a harsh blow for him to suffer, and the loss of something that had once given him such a thrill and joy played its part in the vicious vampire he would become. The violence became the only way he could find that thrill again.

The bloodlust that came with this new life was nearly insatiable and when Niklaus made his first kill, he triggered his werewolf gene, revealing the truth about his parentage-- Mikael was not his father and Esther had an affair with another man, the chief of the village's werewolf pack. Things among the family only grew worse in the wake of this information and Esther placed a binding spell on Nikalus to suppress his werewolf side. This would ultimately lead to her death by Klaus' hand, though he framed Mikael for it and the siblings all fled the village in the aftermath.

France, 1002
While on the run from Mikael, the siblings decided to take the place of a handful of their victims and go to the castle their caravan had been heading to. Unfortunately, they were overheard by a servant, Lucien, who they debated killing so their secret didn't get out, until he insisted he would help them sneak in and help them in their ruse to fool the others.

The siblings acted their way through the French court with Lucien's help, meeting the Count and his children, Tristan and Aurora, their first night there. They settled into a rather lavish lifestyle here. Niklaus even started courting Aurora, whom Rebekah became close friends with.

Eventually, Kol's wild antics and unruly feeding practices, as well as the turning of Lucien, Aurora, and Tristan, alerted Mikael to their location, forcing them to flee. However, in an effort to keep Mikael off their trail, Elijah compels Tristan, Lucien, and Aurora to believe they are himself, Klaus, and Rebekah to be decoys in Mikael's hunt for them.

Italy, 1114
After the debacle in France, Kol parted ways with his siblings in effort to keep himself safe from Mikael's wrath-- if they were split it, it would be harder for him to get them all in one go, after all. He traveled Europe for years, his unyielding violence, reckless turning of others into vampires, and bloodbaths left in his wake making news to his siblings' ears.

Eventually, he meets back up with the others in Italy to attend a party being thrown by a suitor of his sisters, Alexander.

The family had discovered that he was part of the Brotherhood of the Five, a group of hunters who pride themselves in defeating the monsters that plague villages, killing vampires in public displays. He claims their efforts will eventually mean the eradication of all vampires from the world.

Rebekah was meant to seduce him to find out all that Alexander knew of their kind, but instead, she ended up falling in love with him. This was rather unfortunate because he had discovered her secret.

During the party thrown by Alexander with other members of the Brotherhood of the Five, he lured Rebekah away from the party, seducing her only to drive the dagger through her heart while the others neutralized the other Mikaelsons. Little did the Brotherhood know that this would not work on Niklaus, because of his hybrid status. He slaughtered the lot of them and revived his siblings, except for Finn.

This has made the siblings realize that, despite their previous assumptions, they are not as untouchable and all-powerful as they once thought.

Africa, Arabia, Haiti, 13th-17th centuries
Kol spends a rather large amount of time over the next few centuries traveling on his own, away from the family. He made friends and traveled with different witch coves, studying and learning the ins and outs of any brand of magic he could get his hands on. He couldn't practice it anymore, but he still had a deep love and fascination with it so he found ways to surround himself with it anyway.

In the 14th century in Africa, he learned medicinal herb remedies from a shaman in Uganda, while in Arabia he discovered the practice of Kemiya. This is an art that is a cross between magic and science and allows a witch to imbue objects with supernatural properties or even change the elemental foundation of it. He also spent time in Haiti in the 17th century.

During all of his travels one thing came up among the covens all too frequently for him to ignore; the story of the first immortal, Silas, who was said to be a harbinger of an apocalypse. Given his own paranoia and survival instinct, it shouldn't be much of a shock that when he met a cult that worshiped Silas and sought to bring him back, he slaughtered them all. He couldn't risk the chance that the stories he'd heard were true.

Spain, 1702
Kol revels in the rush and thrill he gets as a vampire, always searching for something that gives him the same rush he used to get from magic. It is his decadence and rash violence in Spain that leads Mikael straight to them, burning cities in his wake to reach his children. Kol's siblings eventually caught up to him, begging him to leave with them, but he was careless and insisted he would be fine because really it's only Nik their father is after.

His resistance isn't something Klaus feels they have time for and at his insistence, Elijah helps to restrain Kol while Klaus subdues him with the dagger. His panicked struggles against the betrayal by his brothers does him no good. Before he falls into the near-death-like state the daggers cause, he vows to Klaus that one day he will not be so easily subdued, a threat that hangs in the air.

Klaus, never to be truly separated from his family, takes the neutralized bodies of brothers Kol and Finn, who has not been awakened during all of this time, with him to the New World.

New Orleans, 1821-1901
During the early parts of their stay in the New World, Klaus and Elijah took their time to build the city that would become New Orleans into something of a home for themselves. The first real home any of the Mikaelsons had since they started running from Mikael all those centuries ago. They pay off the Governor of the city to turn a blind eye to their tendencies and help conceal their true natures to the masses.

It's during this that Klaus eventually finds himself upon a boy with no name, a slave who also happens to be the son of the governor. Klaus forces the man to release the boy and he gives that boy a name: Marcellus. Klaus raises him as his own son.

Some time in 1821, Klaus revived Kol in a fit of jealousy for the time that Marcellus was spending with Elijah. He declared he needed some fun and that's right up Kol's alley. It would seem that the long nap did little to deter Kol from his desperation and bloodlust, still keen to sink himself further into the depravity of his nature. In apology for daggering him, Klaus goes on the hunt with Kol and the pair slaughter a building full of people, much to Elijah's disappointment.

It was all fun and games until Kol ended up putting Marcel's life in danger. He compelled actors to recite Shakespearean plays, using real weapons and watching real deaths in these acts. He had even fed Marcel his blood, knowing Nik's own insistence in wanting to turn the boy eventually. This was all an act of rage and jealousy, seeing how much more Klaus cared for Marcel than himself set him off. Always in the shadows and on the sidelines, never in the spotlight, Kol often found himself feeling shafted and slighted in his own family and this had tipped the scales at the time.

Deeming him too dangerous, Klaus daggered him again.

Of course, this didn't last forever and eventually he was undaggered again to live with his family in New Orleans. Tensions among the siblings were still high and Kol tended to surround himself with the witches of the French Quarter. Unfortunately, there was a rather large divide in the covens: the ones that followed Klaus and those that followed Kol. Kol's witches were taught the art of Kemiya to create Dark Objects, which Kol intended to use to scare Klaus' witches into submission with and he hoped that eventually, his own witches would be able to forge a dagger neutralize Klaus. However, they failed to turn the dagger to gold and this caused issues between Kol and his followers and his impatience and desperation led to a murder spree, only further dividing him from the witches he sought to keep under his thumb.

Kol uses help from his remaining witch followers to procure a very powerful artifact, a paragon diamond, which should allow them to channel enough magic to complete the dagger he so desperately wants. However, his attempts come up short because even when he gets the diamond, he's confronted by Klaus, who takes the diamond and hides is from his brother, dashing his hopes and dreams like the terrible big brother he is.

It's around Christmas in 1914 at a party that he chats with a woman that he was probably only going to use in attempts to charge onward with his plans for the gold dagger for Klaus. Little did he know she was Freya, the long-forgotten eldest Mikaelson child. While everyone else is distracted with the party, he slips out to go in search of the diamond. Kol divulges his plans to Rebekah, which ultimately was his downfall, because she wouldn't dare double-cross Nik. She tells him and Klaus catches Kol and daggers him in the middle of the party, making an example out of him in front of everyone.

Mystic Falls, Denver, 2000s
The Vampire Diaries, season 3
Another century or so passes before Kol is actually undaggered again and a lot happens in his absence. One of the most important things being Klaus discovers the key to unlocking the curse placed on his werewolf side-- the blood and sacrifice of one Elena Gilbert, the newest in the line of Petrova doppelgangers. In managing this, Klaus intends to create an army of those like him, hybrids who are forced to do his bidding because of the sire bond that forms when they are created.

While he was out, Mikael showed up in town when news of his children's presence there was alerted to him by Damon Salvatore (an ever-annoying brat of a vampire who is friends with Elena and the older brother to the teens' boyfriend, Stefan-- who also happens to be an old friend of Klaus and Rebekah's. oh the tangled webs vampires weave) and Katherine Pierce (remember Katerina Petrova? The last last Petrova doppelganger back in the 1490s? Yeah, she changed her name, moved to America, turned the Salvatore brothers and has been on the run from Klaus for over 500 years, she has plenty of reasons to want Klaus dead). Elena even convinced Rebekah, who has faced centuries of abuse and suffering at her brother's hand, to get on the 'let's kill Klaus' train after divulging that she had discovered Klaus to be the one who killed their mother, Esther. Klaus fled when he heard Mikael was in town, but the group lure him back with the lie that his father is dead-- it works, but their plan backfires when instead of Klaus being killed by the White Oak Stake, he gains the upperhand and kills his father instead.

The discovery of Klaus' lie about their mother's fate lands Nik in a lot of hot water with his own siblings and in the light of his worst fear coming to life, they all declare they're leaving him. Only to suddenly find themselves face-to-face with the mother lost so many years ago, all with claims of forgiveness for Klaus, and well-wishes for them to all be a true family again.

Secretly, Esther wishes her children all dead, considering them all monsters made at her hand, abominations that shouldn't exist at all and she's intent on righting that wrong. She concocts a plan to kill all of her children with her eldest son, Finn, who offered himself as the sacrifice, having always hated what they had become, and Elena Gilbert, linking their lives together with Elena's blood, the bloodline of the original spell cast on her children to turn them into vampires all those centuries ago.

Esther succeeds in linking them together, but she doesn't quite get the chance to rid the world of all of them like she wishes. Kol is daggered in a bar by someone bent on taking down the Originals. However, with their lives all linked, the rest of the siblings go down as well, except Klaus, who the daggers don't work on because of his hybrid status. It's also discovered, after Finn is killed with the White Oak Stake, that every vampire in an Originals line dies with them. Having no certainty in knowing which Original the Salvatores' line derives from, Elena and her friends can't end any of their lives.

After discovering that the witch ancestors' spirits, who had been helping Ester with her ritual, have abandoned their mother because one of their own was turned into a vampire, Kol flees Mystic Falls. On Klaus' orders, he goes to Denver to track down Elena's little brother, Jeremy. Klaus eventually tracks down Elena's friend, Bonnie, who is part of a very prominent witch line and forces her to undo the spell linking their lives together by using Jeremy as bait. He phones Kol to prove that his brother is with the younger Gilbert and only waiting for the word to kill him if Bonnie doesn't cooperate.

Elena and Damon make their way to Denver to pick Jeremy up and a fight between Kol and Damon ensues, starting with the Original hitting Damon with a baseball bat that split upon impact against the vampire and ending with Damon stabbing Kol with a piece of the wood. Kol is stunned long enough to give Elena and Damon time to get away with Jeremy. Kol calls Klaus to tell him what happened and the elder Mikaelson explains the trick about the entire sire line dying with an Original.

Kol sets off to find a vampire named Mary Porter, who used to be a bit of a fanatic for the Original family and the Salvatores knew of her connection with them. Kol fixed any attempts at their getting information they wanted from her by catching up with her first and killing her. He lies in wait for them to find her only to taunt them about which of his siblings had turned her before another fight ensues that ends in Kol beating Damon for breaking his neck and humiliating him at the ball and declaring them even once he felt Damon had taken enough of a beating.

The Vampire Diaries, season 4
Kol helps Rebekah in the hunt for the cure to vampirism, kidnapping Professor Atticus Shane. Realizing he's resistant to compulsion, the pair torture him for information and discover that the cure is buried with a man called Silas, who has to be raised in order to get the cure at all. Kol is unnerved by the mention of him and nearly drowns Shane until Rebekah stops him, insisting he's useless to them dead. Kol explains that he learned of Silas' existence in his travels with witches and he was bad news. Silas was the first immortal to ever be created and he would be too powerful, even for their family, to defeat. To prove his point, Kol reveals he'd stolen the White Oak Stake from her without her knowledge and he disappears with it.

Kol continues his plans to stop anyone from finding the cure, slaughtering a bar full of vampires Nik had turned for the sake of Jeremy, who's been discovered to the a Hunter of The Five, to complete his Hunter's Mark, which acts as a map leading directly to the cure. He catches up with Damon and Jeremy, urging his former friend to stop trying to complete the Mark. Jeremy refuses, because Elena's recently transitioned and he wants to find it for his sister's sake. Kol claims he'd kill him, but he'd rather not be cursed for the next century, having known Klaus to suffer under the same curse for killing a member of the Five in the past. He'll just settle for tearing his arms off instead. When he lunges for Jeremy, Damon intercepts and the two vampires fight while the younger Gilbert gets away. Kol gains the upperhand and takes Damon captive, torturing him and even compelling him to kill Jeremy-- a loophole to his whole problem and his promise to Nik to leave Jeremy alone.

Shortly after, Rebekah finds and attacks her brother for compelling Damon, she's still bent on finding and getting the cure for herself. She pulls a White Oak Dagger on him and Kol tells her she's no better than Nik and that it's actions like this that made Elijah leave. Rebekah doesn't back down, so Kol retaliates by drawing the White Oak Stake on her, but Rebekah is saved when Nik intervenes and shoves his brother away. Kol flees with the daggers in hand, leaving his siblings wary of whatever his next move may be.

Kol is still determined to prevent Silas' rising and attacks Bonnie at the school, but with her newfound power of Expression--which she's learned in lessons with Atticus Shane--she detains him and fled to talk to Elena, who's since decided that since an Original's entire line dies with them, Jeremy should kill Kol to complete his mark. She lures him to her house under the guise of negotiating a truce. Kol arrives and tells her all about the stories he's heard of Silas, how he'll bring hell on Earth with him if he's risen. Before leaving, he agrees to at least consider the truce.

As Jeremy returns home, Kol follows him, kicking the door in and declaring he's decided against the truce. A chase and a fight breaks out between the sibling pair and the Original. The house sustains plenty of damage, as do Elena--who Kol impales to a wall (it's fine, she's a vampire now)--and Jeremy. Downstairs in the kitchen, Kol debates which arm the Mark was on and decides he'd be safer if he just chops off both of them. Distracted with this, he doesn't notice Elena has made her way back downstairs, she stabs him in the hand with a knife, using every ounce of string she can to keep him pinned to the counter long enough for Jeremy to spray him with the nozzle at the sink with vervain-laced water.

While he's distracted by the burn from the vervain, Elena grabs the White Oak Stake in his pocket, tossing it to Jeremy, who uses it to stab Kol, killing him a fiery blaze and completing his Hunter's Mark as planned.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Abilities
• Immortality: Does not physically age and is immune to all human illness, toxins, poisons, and diseases.

• Super Strength/Durability: Can exert strength far beyond that of a human and even more than an average vampire for being among the first of the species; can take unnatural amounts of trauma with ease.

• Super Speed/Agility/Senses/Reflexes: Abilities all beyond that of human ability and in certain case beyond human perception; can run miles in minutes, all basic senses and reflexes are all heightened to a high degree.

• Healing Factor: Injuries do not sustain long and heal faster for an Original than even an average vampire; even the effects of wood, vervain, and werewolf bites (all of which can be incredibly painful or lethal to average vampires) heal much more quickly; Highly powerful dark magic can make this process slower, while human blood can speed the process along even quicker; vampire blood will heal non-lethal injuries in humans (but if they die with the blood in their system, they will awaken in Transition)

• Enhanced Emotions: Emotions are heightened for vampires, causing them to feel what they feel much more deeply than humans (anger is rage, sadness is depression, etc...)

• Mind Compulsion: With direct eye contact, an Original can rewrite memories, influence thoughts, behavior, emotions, and actions of humans and lesser vampires.

• Dream Manipulation/Illusions: In a similiar vein to compulsion, dreams and the subconscious can be manipulated or produced; tricking the mind into seeing/feeling things that aren't there/happening.

• Tactile Telepathy: Can present their memories or search another's through touch.

• True Face: AKA the "vampire face" beneath the human-like facade; veins around the eyes become obvious and prominent and razor-sharp fangs extend; a vampire can will this any time, but it can appear against their will during intense emotions or at the scent of blood.

Skills
• General adaptability: As someone who's lived through over 10 centuries and witnessed the building of several civilizations, the evolution of humanity and technology alike, Kol is easily adaptable to new times (thanks for making him miss nearly an entire century, there, Nik), situations, locations and technologies.

• Fighting Skills: Trained in hand-to-hand combat as well as swordsmanship and archery skills.

• Magic Knowledge: Due to his travels with witches through the centuries, Kol has collected a rather wide knowledge base of various styles of magic in his world, and he even instructed a few of them in the art of making Dark Objects, magic-infused talismans and artifacts that even as a vampire, so he could still use magic, even though he could no longer access his own.

• Magic Prodigy: According to Kol himself, he is the only one of his siblings to tap into his magic ability and he was quite the prodigy with it as well; it's likely the anger he had at the loss of this ability played into the violent streak he has as a vampire.


Weaknesses
• Animal Blood: While it will suffice in a pinch, animal blood doesn't afford vampires the same nutrients as human blood; vampires that consume animal blood are shown to be weaker than those who consume human blood.

• Broken Neck: This will incapacitate him for a few hours (it's basically the equivalent of being knocked out, but not lethal at all).

• Desiccation: Being completely drained of blood or stopping the heart will cause a vampire, even an Original, to desicate, causing them to appear dead and lose the ability to move and can only function again once they've fed on human blood; this effect can be achieved from a spell.

• Invitation: All vampires require an invitation to enter a house owned by a human. The invitation must come from the owner of the house or someone who lives there; once invited, it cannot be revoked.

• Magic: Vampires, including Originals, can be wounded/damaged/incapacitated by powerful magic wielded by strong witches.

• Physical Trauma: Minor things (cuts, bruises) are healed in seconds, moderate traumas (like broken bones or organ damage) will slow them down for a short while; blows that would be fatal to humans or other vampires may incapacitate an Original for a few hours.

• Poison: Typical poisons would be ineffective due to the increased healing factor possessed by an Original; it could be possible that a poison could be developed that may incapacitate an Original, like when Davina used a spell to make her blood toxic to Klaus.

• Sunlight: All vampires are weak to the sun, but where average vampires could be killed by it, it will only burn an Original; all of the Mikaelsons possess rings with spelled lapis lazuli to prevent this.

• Vervain: Burns to the touch, but the effects are healed quickly by an Original; prevents vampires, including Originals, from compelling any human with it in their system or on their person.

• Werewolf Bite: Lethal to lesser vampires, a werewolf bite will essentially cause flu-like symptoms in an Original, weakening them and causes hallucinations. This lasts a few hours before the toxin is worked out of their system.

• Wood: A wooden stake through the heart will dessicate and neutralize an Original, but they will awake in a few hours; anywhere else the effects are only

• White Oak Ash Daggers: Silver daggers dipped in the ash from the tree first used to create vampires will dessicate and neutralize an Original until such time that it is removed. Klaus used these daggers multiple times through the centuries to control his siblings.

• White Oak Stake: The only weapon that can truly kill an Original, bore from the tree that was used during the spell that turned them into vampires in the first place.

Samples:

Third-Person Sample: Kol wakes up on the forest floor, confused and disoriented for a moment before he can push himself to his feet. He has never been to The Other Side, nor has he thought much about it since he and his siblings have always been nigh unkillable, but this? This is certainly not what he expected. By all accounts, he should have still been where he'd died, in that cabin with the Gilberts. His lip curls in a sneer at the thought.

One he gets his bearings, he makes a superspeed-dash toward the treeline and only stops when he finds the mansion in the distance. He comes to a halt in the gardens and, again, realizes nothing about wherever he is now is familiar. That isn't such a great feeling, because there are really very few places in the world that wouldn't be some kind of familiar to him after so many years and so much travel under his belt.

He sees no reason not to wander inside, though, and roams the halls in search of something-- a familiar person, answers, a fight, whatever comes first, he really isn't picky at this point. But Kol is nothing if impatient, and eventually he just stops and stands in the middle of a hallway and shouts, "Oi! Someone wanna help me?" If there's anyone around, surely it'll catch their attention and he can get some answers.

First-Person Sample: [The video is a bit shaky for a moment, but it straightens out and it's quickly obvious the brunette on the video is filming himself with the device in hand as he walks. The camera shakes lightly with his steps and the familiar, sprawling lawn outside the mansion is in plain view behind him.]

Oi, what fresh hell is this? I certainly didn't imagine The Other Side would have a bloody mansion or a hedge maze.