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* Freya's complete and total fear for Keelin when she starts to fall for her in season four is heartbreaking. She grew up isolated, horribly abused by a woman who only wanted her for her power, a woman who murdered the only other person she's ever (romantically) loved. Combine it with the Mikaelson trademark recklessness and emotional instability, and the poor girl has no idea how to handle wanting someone but being terrified of losing them... especially in a family constantly under threat.
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[[spoiler: --->'''Hayley''': "My husband died because he loved me. And loving any of us is a death sentence, isn't it?"]]

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* Episode 10 of the third season brings a double gut-punch by [[spoiler: killing off Jackson and Camille, the only two unambiguously good characters in the show. Jackson has his heart ripped out in front of Hayley by the Stryx. Cami had been compelled by Aurora to kill herself, thus waking up in transition. By the end of the episode, she's become a vampire and her formerly golden-hearted personality has now been overshadowed by her vampiric instincts.]]
** The next episode makes their loss more apparent. [[spoiler: Camille takes to vampirism with so much gusto that even Klaus is horrified at her sociopathy. And Hayley is an absolute wreck and is being eaten alive by guilt over her inability to save Jackson. As she brokenly tells Elijah:]]
[[spoiler: --->'''Hayley''': "My husband died because he loved me. And loving any of us is a death sentence, isn't it?"]]
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* Davina being exiled from her fellow witches in season three. She marches along a line and as she passes, each with turns their back on her and each step brings her a flash of pain as her connection to the elders is taken away and she's broken into tears by the time her march is finished.
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* [[spoiler: The flashback to Aurora's cruel rejection of Klaus when he asks her to run away with him is bad enough. Then comes the reveal that Elijah had accidentally ''compelled'' her: first to reveal Klaus' matricide, and second to see him as a 'monster' and reject him. It's also heavily implied that Aurora's coldness towards Klaus pushed him into embracing his darkness and becoming the monster he is today.]]
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* [[spoiler: Lucien's horrific torture at the hands of Tristan, just because he was in love with Aurora.]]
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* [[spoiler: After three months of living with the Crescent Curse, Hayley gets a chance to storm into the Mikaelson estate and have a drag-down, no holds barred and highly emotional fight with Klaus, screaming at him and crying for everything he's done, all because she wanted a better life for her child. She only stops when Hope walks in, and breaks down crying when she realizes that she missed her daughter's first steps. Even Klaus looks briefly guilty for what he's put Hayley through.]]

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There was no indication that Mikael sacrifaced himself for his ashes. He actively fought and struggled against Klaus. He adored his daughter and didnt want to lose her, hence fighting against his fate. Mikael personality is a fighter not someone who just lays down and stops fighting.


* [[spoiler: Mikael's second death. He allows it to happen too, likely because he knows it's the only way to get the viking ash ingredient needed to create another knife capable of killing Dalhia. Klaus is crying and emotional before staking him, telling Mikael that he only wanted him to be a father to him and wanted to know why he hated him, Mikael himself seems to not know anymore, simply saying "I don't know, I just did". Mikael gives a Freya one last look and tells her he is sorry and that he loves her before Klaus stakes him. Freya's reaction is just heartbreaking too, reunited with the only parent she loved and he is killed only episodes later.]]

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* [[spoiler: Mikael's second death. He allows it is caught off guard by a sneak attack, not even given a chance to happen too, likely because he knows it's the only way to get the viking ash ingredient needed to create another knife capable of killing Dalhia.fight . Klaus is crying and emotional before staking him, telling Mikael that he only wanted him to be a father to him and wanted to know why he hated him, Mikael himself seems to not know anymore, simply saying "I don't know, I just did". Mikael gives a Freya one last look and tells her he is sorry and that he loves her before Klaus stakes him. Freya's reaction is just heartbreaking too, reunited with the only parent she loved and he is killed only episodes later.]]]]
** Even more brutal its the one true honest moment between Klaus and Mikael. Without pre-tense or ranting, and it Mikael confession that [[ShaggyDogStory there was no chance of Klaus winning Mikael approval or love.]] Simply put that he has always hated Klaus, just because. The look of emotional pain on both their faces is heartwrenching.

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* While the second season finale ends with [[spoiler: the current BigBad being killed]], there's still plenty of sadness to go around:
** [[spoiler: After a thousand years of trying to redeem his brother, Elijah reaches the end of his rope with Klaus, whose gambit to fool Dahlia meant that Gia was burned to death and Hayley becoming a victim of the Crescent Curse. He punches him in the face and tells him that he washes his hands off him. The only reason he's still in the manor is because Hayley begged him to raise Hope so that Klaus isn't the only father figure she knows.]]
** [[spoiler: Elijah's barely contained grief at losing Gia. He still loves Hayley, but he was clearly falling in love with her as well, and had to watch Klaus compel her to take off her daylight ring and burn to death.]]
** [[spoiler: Davina finally has a chance to bring Kol back, only to be tricked into resurrecting Esther. Her hate and grief towards Rebekah and Elijah is palpable.]]
** [[spoiler: Rebekah having to give up her witch body to further Klaus' gambit to stop Dahlia. She has to break her promise to bring Kol back, and has lost a chance to have a family of her own.]]
** [[spoiler: Heck, even ''Dahlia'' gets one when she's confronted with Esther. Her voice cracks when she sees her sister again after a thousand years with raw emotion.]]
*** [[spoiler: The sight of Esther and Dahlia's bodies locked in an embrace, Dahlia finally forgiving Esther for her betrayal before they die.]]

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