Player Name: Hannah
Player Journal: lionheart
Player Age: 22, check that shiiiiit.

Character Name: Klaus no last name required. Fandom uses Smith but I refuse to, ok.
Canon: The Vampire Diaries.
Medium: TV series.

Character Age: 1000+. Looks, uh. Late 20'sish, I guess.
Canon Point: End of 3x09 (the most recent episode as of this app.)

Why did you choose this character?:

I have a particular weakness for villains who are evil for virtue of being totally pathetic, not inherently evil. Klaus, to say the very least, has family issues. The mother of all family issues, really, and those issues have been settling in his brain and screwing him over for over a thousand years. He was a person, originally, and through powers really outside of his control he was totally warped into the lovely, polite monster he is now. That isn’t to say Klaus isn’t evil, but he’s so pathetic that it’s almost hard not to feel bad for him. Klaus is kind of a culmination of the main theme of TVD, which is that family is the most important bond.

Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting:

Oh. Man. Not well, that’s for sure. Normally Klaus would probably be fine with… alternate dimensions considering witches have a very long streak of ruining all of his plans (or at least being very judgemental and bargain-y through the whole process of him using them as tools), but Klaus has in his canon just gone through one of the biggest betrayals of his life which has put his family, staked bodies and all, in a compromising position. See, the thing is, Klaus protects his family. Sure, he protects them by shoving them in coffins for a couple of centuries, but he protects them. In 3x09, Stefan decided kidnapping his coffined family and hiding them was a good idea. Klaus will be pissed no matter where he is, and being in a place where his family is not is going to be. Bad. For everyone around him, really. Klaus will be trying to get out and get back to where he should be, but his methods of escape usually end in blood and tears. Literally.

History: "I could have compelled her, but a real ripper enjoys the hunt."

Personality:

Klaus’ life seems to be steeped in how deeply he falls into his obsessions. Raised by an arrogant, controlling stepfather who hated him, Klaus developed an extremely strong relationship with his siblings and his mother. He was coerced into vampirism with the rest of his family once one of his brothers was killed by a neighboring pack of werewolves; at the time, vampirism was not the plague-like disease it appears as later. Its origin began as a spell that would allow their family to live forever. Like most witch-based warnings, it comes with a price; immortality just happens to be paid out in blood. Thus, vampirism. The son of a human and werewolf coupling, the moment Klaus made his first human kill as a vampire, his dormant werewolf bloodline was awakened. Esther, his mother, eventually placed a curse on him that would force his werewolf side dormant again.

The curse became his first obsession, practically controlling the entire millennium he has been living. Klaus has been working to break the curse, freeing his werewolf side, since it was placed on him. Here and there he has been using various people to aid him in that. Mostly without their wanting to.

Klaus becomes the definition of what he believes vampires should be. He becomes the oldest, the most powerful, the most feared. He is a cold, calculating killer who has an innate distrust of human emotion, which he finds to be both distracting and a weakness. Big surprise that Klaus is one of the most emotional vampires in the series. When Klaus is first introduced, he is basically placed in the nefarious villain archetype. He is more than willing to use anyone he comes across to get him closer to his goal – a goal which ends up with him having to sacrifice and kill three different people of three different species. Is that a concern? Nah. They’re just tools in the bigger picture. Klaus uses other people’s bodies (Alaric) to spy on his potential victims, forces others to do his building using a type of mind-control called compulsion, and blackmails the rest with murders which he usually commits anyway.

A vampire. Right. So of course he wants to get rid of that curse for power’s sake, right?

Not… really. The reason he’s so fucking obsessed with breaking the curse sealing his werewolf side? Because he’s lonely. He is the only hybrid – vampire and werewolf combined – in the world. He wants people like him. As said by Klaus’ sister Rebekah, the one thing Klaus cannot tolerate is those who disappoint him, especially when those people are family. Klaus is ruled by the love he has for his family – a love that leads to him trapping them for centuries when they disappoint him (a fate Rebekah suffered when she decided to choose one Stefan Salvatore over Klaus. Bad idea in retrospect.) Because Klaus is a little self-destructive in the way he ends the people who are on his side, his big plan is to forcibly create people who are like him so he will have someone on his side. It’s just sort of an added bonus that the hybrids he later creates are reborn with a “sire” bond, which essentially gives them an innate desire to do whatever Klaus wants, whether this includes following his orders or protecting him.

According to what is shown in the series, Klaus has only made one remarkably important connection with someone who was not his family. Stefan Salvatore, of course. While he initially dislikes what he sees as a baby vampire, Stefan’s pure delight in torturing and eating humans appeals to his inner predator. While Rebekah falls in love with Stefan, Klaus finds himself similarly enamored. Being as incredibly vampiric as Stefan is, Klaus is also one of few vampires who becomes close enough to him to find out Stefan’s strong sense of humanity in the form of a wall of names he keeps, chronicling every victim he has murdered as a vampire. The timeline is a little wonky, but presumably this friendship (occurring during the 1920’s) lasts quite a bit of time before it is inevitably broken up by a force that is hunting Klaus down. It says everything that Klaus finds Stefan worth enough of his time to compel him to forget ever having met him or Rebekah in order to protect him – as well as himself, of course.

Essentially, Klaus is the most intense parts of both a vampire and a human. He is controlled by emotion, but attempts to quell it with his vampiric side (which has a instinct to squelch emotion in order to operate guilt-free.) He is a monster who hunts and tortures his food like a cat, finding sincere enjoyment and pleasure in the chase itself. He trusts absolutely, but very rarely. When that trust is broken, it is almost reversed; the betrayal runs deep in him, and he turns absolutely vicious against anyone who wrongs him. The only few who are spared the full extent of his wrath are his family – and even then, they get to spend a few hundred years completely comatose.

POWERS:

God, this list is long. Okay.

- Super strength/speed
- Heightened senses (sight/smell/predatory things like that ok)
- Accelerated healing (aka instantaneous regeneration)
- Compulsion (mind control, basically. Klaus is an Original vampire, which means he is the only kind of vampire who has the ability to compel other vampires.)
- Immortality (no diseases, etc.)

Those are his normal vampire powers. For being a werewolf-vampire hybrid, he gets:

- Werewolf bite (a bite which is fatal to vampires, one of like... three ways to actually kill a vampire)
- His blood is the only thing capable of healing said werewolf bite
- Transformation (can change into a wolf; because he is a hybrid, he is capable of controlling when this transformation happens unlike a regular werewolf, which is forced to turn during full moons)
- Daytime walking (normal vampires need a magic ring to not burn up in the son. Hybrids don't need the ring.)
- Somewhat confirmed by canon, but werewolves seem to be capable of telling when humans lie or not.

WEAKNESSES:

Hybrids get the combination of werewolf and vampire weaknesses, which are mostly:

- Vervain and wolfsbane. Both herbs that have acidic/poisonous qualities to supernatural creatures.
- A specific stake created from the ash of specific white oak tree. The stakes have been destroyed, so that... is moot.
- Invitations (vampires need invitations from the owner of a residence in order to come inside. This rule extends to hybrids as well. The owner has to be human.)

First Person Sample: A Dear_Mun post here.

Third Person Sample:

Infuriating. Hardly the word adequate to describe the black, black rage that swells in his achingly dead heart, and really, that has nothing to do with it. What really gets to him, what really eats at his core, is that when he closes the phone, crushes it with sparks and snapping plastic slicing open his hand, when he starts running through every horrible bone-snapping and blood-letting torture he can think of, Stefan is always at the forefront of every spark of pain.

Creativity was always Stefan’s strong point. Klaus had time, a bloody long wealth of time where he killed and drank and ran waters red. All that deep, Biblical nonsense. He was the monsters, the snapping heads, the shadows. It took his time during the Jazz Age, a few drinks in a little nook of a bar, to realize that creativity was distinctly what he lacked. There was a fascination in him with a vampire who carried a weapon – a human-made, bladed little thing, hardly large enough to kill but just sharp enough to cut – who felt like teeth and speed and eyes that bled control weren’t enough. Stefan knew how to enjoy himself. Of course Klaus had seen that fun-sucking humanity at his core, but he knew how to bury it, to ignore it. He unveiled that list of names in a way that was both prideful and ashamed. A real dualistic vampire, to be certain. A sort of bridge between the breed Klaus was born of and the vampires that skulked the darkened alleys, picking at humans like birds at carrion.

He drops the remains of his phone, so caught up in irritation and anger and hate that a funny little thought occurs to him. Rebekah. He needs to call her again, and here he is without a phone. Rebekah, sweets, we have a little problem. You remember your pet, our little Stefan? Well, he’s gone and taken the family. Incredible, isn’t it?

Stefan is bold. Klaus is generous enough to give him that. But bold and stupidity dance the same line, and now these two have tangled and fallen together.

Trust always seems to be his downfall. He should have known better. He did. He saw Stefan’s every twitch, every poorly-scripted lie, and he ignored the screaming signs that made him out to be a liar.

Because, at the end of the day, Stefan was his friend. Companion. Comrade. Whether he remembered or he relished what memories had been forced back upon them, they had once had that connection. A singular miracle in his life, as far as long-standing relationships went. When Stefan came back to him, blubbering for forgiveness and throwing loyalty at Klaus’ feet while his heart hammered for the fragile frame of his doppelganger, even then. Even then, Klaus had somehow had the smallest thread of trust for his ripper.

Well, he certainly wouldn’t make that mistake again. Where to start was the real question at present. Stefan had Elena, and Elena had so many loved ones; each strike against her would be a little shard of wood in Stefan’s heart.

Klaus would find his family. It would not be the last thing he ever did. Originals did not live by ultimatums.