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Character Basics:

Character Name: Elijah
Journal: trapsfortroubadours
Age: 1000 is close enough
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Canon Point: 4x12 as far as current events are concerned even though Elijah's been... idk sunning himself in Barcelona for all we know.
Debt:

Precanon: I tweaked the formula used by the other originals to compensate for Elijah being less inclined to kill all willy-nilly like his siblings (aka more feedings not resulting in death) and more likely to use compulsion as a cleaner means so his precanon debt is set at 487,000 to account for assault, murder, compulsion, etc.
Class A:
1 year - slapped Trevor's head off.
1 year - forcing Slater to stake himself.
3 years - kills three vampires out to gather Elena for Klaus
4 years - kills the four werewolves torturing Damon
1 year - betraying Elena & co. for Klaus to get his siblings back
1 year - ripping the heart out of a hybrid after waking up from his season-long nap
1 year - betray Klaus to whoop him with his siblings
Class B:
6 months - breaking the windows of a cafe to attack Rose, Slater, and Damon.
6 months - lying to Jenna (and others) about being in Mystic Falls for "research"
6 months - stabs Damon in the throat with a pencil (but is a gentleman about it and shares his handkerchief)
6 months - attempted to rip Klaus' heart out
6 months - punching Klaus in the face after Damon pulled the dagger from his chest
6 months - choking Rebekah after she tried to eat Elena
6 months - stuff Elena in a hole in the ground with Rebekah to get shit done
Class C:

216 years, 8 months - Becoming extremely literal, technical, or otherwise manipulating words/word choice when making a deal.

GRAND TOTAL: 487,232 years, 4 months

Canon Character Section:

History: All dis history.

Personality:

From the outside, it is readily apparent that Elijah is a serious man. For example, his facial expression is often hard to read or slight at best, he is usually quite to the point in a conversation, and he is a ruthless killer when it suits his purposes, showing absolutely no remorse or regret. However, this doesn't mean that Elijah is completely out of touch with emotions. He, instead, chooses not to let his emotions take so much control over his actions that he loses the ability to plan or think ahead - which is something he does quite well. For example, when Elijah is angry, he doesn't lose his temper in an explosive manner. Instead, it's a cold rage that's just brewing beneath the surface that he redirects into energy and motivation to seek revenge/justice such as when he kidnapped Elena to motivate the Salvatores into stopping Esther. Losing control would, more or less, be an antithesis of behavior to someone like Elijah who controls his emotions as well as his words when dealing with other people. Likewise, Elijah's emotions are not all entirely negative and cold and he doesn't lack a softer, more compassionate side. He has been shown to have a sense of humor - even if it's a bit on the dry, dark side of the spectrum - and he has been shown to care for others. He has a respect for particular individuals as well as human life in general (and his family/siblings, but more on that later) best exemplified by the extra lengths he went to in order to preserve Katerina's life both out of compassion and caring for her and the aforementioned regard towards human life. He also struck up a deal with Elena to protect those she loved while waiting for Klaus to arrive rather than making his sole focus Elena. Part of this was, of course, to encourage compliance, but Elijah does not revel in nor desire to engage in what he would deem unnecessary bloodshed.

As to why Elijah tries to keep a very calm and cool exterior while not letting emotions cloud his judgment too much, it's because he very much has an emphasis on loyalty/duty and honor - which means making deals and ultimately means maintaining a perfect p-p-p-poker face (mum mum mum mah). Elijah places such a high emphasis on loyalty and keeping promises that the expectations extend both to others and himself. Best case for others is the way in which he chooses to handle Trevor and Rose after they offer him Elena to make up for their transgression of allowing Katerina to turn and flee. Elijah spares Rose because he admires the loyalty she showed towards her friend (having no real prior/specific ties to Klaus), but he punishes Trevor with death because he directly betrayed Klaus and Elijah with no real excuse in his opinion. In regards to the importance of loyalty and honor that Elijah places on himself, that's most evident when it comes to betraying Elena & co. during the sacrifice. He was already torn because of his inherent loyalties to Klaus as a sibling no matter what the circumstance (again, more on that at eleven), but he had to make a decision between his duty towards his remaining siblings and his duty towards his promise to Elena. These sort of expectations to behave honorably and not to use underhanded/dirty tactics is also seen again when Elijah leaves a note for Elena apologizing for the earlier mentioned kidnapping. At the time, he felt justified because she had lied to him. But after a verbal smackdown courtesy his mother, it really sank in to Elijah that he had been manipulative and had been willing to sacrifice Elena's life instead of finding some other way to avoid bloodshed. He basically was not behaving any better than his other siblings in terms of treating human life like nothing more than tokens in a power play when it's convenient causing all sorts of existential drama, cognitive dissonance, etc. And when it's convenient, it's usually in relation to his family.

So this makes a very convenient segue into talking about that.

...Finally.

Family trumps and overrules everything in Elijah's life/framework. Elijah will hold to every single promise and word he gives until his family is in danger. Then everything is thrown out the window and he is ruthless in exacting what he views as justice though it's sometimes just revenge dressed up in a really pretty gown. Family is the source of who and what he is, it gives him purpose, and it's, of course, made up of the people he's known and loved the longest/most in his entire existence. Although canon does not give explicit examples, it's very easy to infer that each and every single one of the Mikaelson children feared and respected their father (except Klaus, but his daddy issues are not the point). Being the eldest surviving son, there are implicit (and likely explicit) duties of eventually being passed his father's mantle as the patriarch of the family. Elijah, more or less, already became the patriarch of the family even before they were turned into vampires when it came to looking after his siblings (and his mother at times) anyway because Mikael is the definition of an emotionally unavailable and abusive parent. Elijah's siblings have come to rely upon Elijah for his help and emotional comfort as seen through his relationship with Klaus - trying to help him break the curse to free his werewolf side - and his relationship with Rebekah - having more heart-to-heart conversations with her than anybody else. There are generally no lengths in which Elijah is not willing to go for his siblings either because he is essentially their only or one of the very few sources of unconditional love for a bulk and majority of their lives both as humans and vampires.

As mentioned earlier, Elijah was clearly torn about killing Klaus when he had the opportunity for more than just reasons of finding and freeing his other siblings. The fact of the matter is, while there was a point in which Elijah would have done anything for Klaus and that point has passed, he doesn't hate his brother or wish him that sort of extreme ill. When Elijah believes that Klaus has died, there are tears in his eyes and his hug for Rebekah was just as much to comfort himself as it was meant to comfort her in their loss. Elijah is merely disappointed with the way Klaus chooses to do things like dagger his siblings, shed a lot of unnecessary and innocent blood, be entirely selfish, saying that if Elijah doesn't return with Katerina he's gonna pay the price with his life, etc. He would much rather see Klaus dealt with in a far less permanent manner and taught to behave in a much more honorable manner. He has that wish for all his siblings.

Powers/Abilties: Elijah's got the standard vampire skill set, but most of them are better than a standard vampire because he's an original. Arguably Elijah is the strongest vampire still around as he is currently the oldest known and he seems to have different thresholds than his siblings. (ex. Rebekah is constantly getting choked by the Salvatores, but when Damon tried to choke Elijah, he just shrugged that shit off.) Also entirely possible it's just due to inconsistent writing!

Anyway, Elijah's got the standard abilities of super strength & speed, heightened senses, mind compulsion, and accelerated healing. One difference from Elijah and non-original vampires in particular is his ability to compel other vampires. Regular vampires cannot do this.

Originals are also special snowflakes because they can detect when other vampires and humans are using vervain. They also tend to have a speedier recovery time when vervain is used on them.

Sunlight will burn the hell out of an original, but Elijah's got a daylight ring to keep that from being an issue. Elijah also needs an invitation to enter a private residence with a living, human occupant. The only way to kill Elijah and his fellow originals is with a stake created from the white oak tree that had been used to make them into vampires. The best most can do is neutralize them with a dagger dipped in the ash of the white oak tree.

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