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Rebekah Mikaelson | The Vampire Diaries/The Originals | 2/3

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CANON PERSONALITY:

Rebekah, at first glance, seems like a spoiled brat. And to a certain degree, she is. She's used to getting her way. Over the centuries with Klaus, he's given into her whims often (as long as they didn't interfere with what he wanted, of course), encouraging this behavior. This also comes from the fact that she was young when she was turned, barely an adult. Considering that she can pass as a high school student it’s not hard to imagine she was in her late teens or so when she was turned. It also would explain some of her erratic, childlike behavior She's petulant, impulsive, and often throws temper tantrums. She herself mentions that as a human she had already been extremely stubborn. As a vampire, that trait was amplified.

She's cheeky. She likes playing with people, getting on their nerves. Most of the time, she seems to treat like a game. Delights in torturing people, in compelling them to do what she wants. To do things just because she can. One such example is how she tries to get between Caroline and Tyler. She doesn't really have a reason to do this other than needing to watch Tyler because he's one of Klaus' hybrids, but she decides early on that she wants to take anything she can from Caroline. Why? Because she's better than her. And because it's fun. She wants to see the other girl suffer.

She enjoys being a vampire, much like her brother Klaus does. Revels in it even. When she talks about the first time she drank blood, she describes it at euphoric. She loves the feel of the power, the control she has over someone's life or death. Or their actions. There's little she can't do as a vampire, and she enjoys every moment of it. She never chose this life for herself, it's not something she wanted, but now that it's been handed to her she's going to take advantage of it. It's not going to go away, so might as well enjoy it as much as she can.

On the other hand, for as much of a petulant child as she can be sometimes, she is extremely loyal to those she cares about most. This is seen the most with her brother, Klaus. She promised him that after their mother turned her back on him, she never would. It would be her, him, and Elijah. Together as one, always and forever.

Which is why when Klaus and Elijah divide, she takes Klaus' side. She said she would never turn her back on him, and she meant it. Sure, sometimes they fought, and sometimes she got pissed off at him, but she always came back to him. Eventually she always found her way to his side again. There was no one she was closer to than Klaus. It was true when they were humans, and even more true when they become vampires. It seems as if she could forgive him for anything, even staking her and keeping her dead for ninety years. As she once pointed out, she doesn't have a lot of options. He was her brother, and it beat spending an eternity alone. The line of course is drawn when she finds out that he was the one to really murder their mother. Some things were unforgivable. Some things had to be punished, no matter what. But it still breaks her apart to betray Klaus, to try to help bring upon his demise. It is not until he disowns her, clearly choosing his hybrids over her that she finally can begin to break away from Klaus, but whether that lasts long term or not remains to be seen.

But that love, that loyalty, it blinds her. It consumes her. She doesn't do anything half assedly. Anything she feels she feels with great intensity. Love, anger, betrayal. Everything is an intense experience for her, whether she'd like it or not. She doesn't know how to take things slowly. She just throws herself into things with almost reckless abandon. Even when she was human this was true – as seen in the flashbacks where she tried to murder her father for how he would abuse her brother. When Elijah describes her behavior when she sees something she views as an injustice he calls it “terrifying” – and it is.

This especially applies to her anger. She states that she's inherited her father's temper and there definitely seems to be some truth to that. When angry, she almost loses control of herself, often acting out of spite or jealousy in order to make other people suffer as much as she has. If she's angry, there's a good chance that nobody around here is all too happy either. She tends to make sure of it. And if she feels she or her family has been wronged, she will let nothing stop her from evening the score. When Alaric kills her brother, Niklaus, she knows she cannot let any more of her family dies, so she kills Elena so Alaric will die. An eye for an eye.

Rebekah is also known for her astute perception skills. She tends to see her right through people's lies and ulterior motives. This is first seen when she talks to Stefan about Mikeal and she points out that he is obviously not on their side. Klaus mentions that she has an ability to detect lies but whether this is an actual supernatural ability or just a natural talent of hers heightened by her state as a vampire is left open to interpretation. Either way, she's good at reading people, and not easily tricked. When Damon tries to flirt with her and distract her, she plays along, and then shows she isn't falling for it by skewering him with a marshmallow roasting stick. Though her deep rooted desired to be loved and accepted can cloud her judgment sometimes, as seen by some of her later interactions with Damon.

Though she has chosen her life with Klaus, her life on the run, sometimes she's shown to long for something more. The normal life that she had been denied ever since she got turned into a vampire. Not to mention the resentment that has begun to grow over centuries as Klaus became more twisted and abusive towards her.

This is seen particularly in the flashbacks during the 1920s, when she enters a whirlwind romance with Stefan. She entertains the idea of leaving her brother, of finally just living for once instead of always, always running, and he neutralizes her for it. When she's brought back, Stefan is no longer interested in her, so she seems to try to move on from that. But that desire to be more than she is, to have something close to a normal life, that remains. Which is why she joins the cheerleading team, and goes to school functions like the bonfire. So she could enjoy the sort of young adult years that were robbed from her because the life that was forced upon her. These are also seen in the flashbacks with Marcel – where we see she was so in love she was willing to bring her father into town and betray her brother for the chance of freedom and love.

Despite her age, she is in many ways still just a young girl. And that's greatly due to the fact that she was never really able to grow up. This fact is sometimes manipulated, like when Elena stabs her while she gets ready for the homecoming dance, or when Matt gives her rides home in order to distract her. It was most taken advantage of however back when she was in love with the hunter Alexander who promised her a cure that could make her human. She longed to get married and have children with him, but it wasn’t meant to be, he daggered her and her whole family instead.

She’s been described as “the girl who loves too easily”, “just a girl who loves blindly and recklessly even if it consumes her” and a “hopeless fool”. All of these apply to her in some form or another; she is desperate for love and affection. All she wants really is to be loved; it’s that simple. And because of that, she falls for guy after guy, usually ending up hurt or back with her brother again. She never learns, not really. But she’d rather that then the alternative. She’d rather love too much than not at all. All she’s ever really wanted is to love and live life on her own terms – a choice she’s never really had until now – her brother Klaus has finally released her and it’ll be interesting to see how that changes her here.

POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A
ABILITIES: As a vampire, she has all the normal abilities like super strength, speed, accelerated senses, mind compulsion and a healing factor. Some of those abilities like the speed and healing are even greater than regular vampires due to her being an original. An Original can also compel other vampires, something a regular vampire cannot.

On top of that, normal weaknesses such as vervain don't harm originals nearly as much due to how rapid their healing is. Original vampires can also sense when people are taking or wearing vervain.

Rebekah herself is said to have an heightened lie detection ability and can often read the intentions of the people around her.

Originals are weak to the sun, but Rebekah has a ring that keeps her safe from that. A white oak stake from the tree that was used in the creation spell is the only thing that can kill an original permanently. However, a knife dipped in the ash of a white oak tree can temporarily kill them, leaving them paralyzed until the knife was removed.

Also, like all vampires, they cannot enter the homes of humans without being invited in.

INVENTORY;
1 long brown coat
1 brown tank top
1 pair of jeans
1 pair of boots
1 pair of gold hoop earrings
1 daylight ring
1 pair of underwear + bra
1 pair of socks
1 set of keys
1 wallet of fake ids and the like

ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? not much really