History TearJerker / TheOriginals

* Dahlia's backstory, which explains both her need for family and for power no matter what. [[spoiler: Both her and her sister where captured by a Viking raiding party that slaughtered their Village and enslaved them. Both sisters swore to be there for each other no matter what. Dahlia was abused by their captors and forced to do dark magic for them. While Esther got to roam free and pick flowers. But that wasn't what broke Dahlia. On the day Dahlia was planning to escape with her sister , Esther revealed that she was planning to marry one of their captors. Not only that she was abandoning their magic the thing that Dahlia used to keep them both alive. Esther left her lonely sister alone in a hut without family , in pain and yearning for power to make sure it never happened again.]]

* Dahlia backstory explains both her need for family, and for power no matter what. [[spoiler: Both her and her sister where captured by a Viking raiding party that slaughtered their Village and enslaved them. Both sisters swore to be there for each other no matter what. Dahlia was abused by their captors and forced to do dark magic for them. While Esther got to roam free and pick flowers. But that wasn't what broke Dahlia. On the day Dahlia was planning to escape with her sister , Esther revealed that she was planning to marry one of their captors. Not only that she was abandoning their magic the thing that Dahlia used to keep them both alive. Esther left her lonely sister alone in a hut without family , in pain and yearning for power to make sure it never happened again.]]

** [[spoiler: Seeing Freya horrific past , goes to show that none of the Mikaelson children grew up untouched by pain and tragedy. Each and everyone are scarred by their past. Klaus , the target of his fathers wrath . Elijah the brother always overcompensating for his own faults. Kol , the youngest stripped of his magic the one thing he had that was uniquely his. Rebekah the girl who only wanted to be loved and Freya the girl given away to a mad abusive aunt so that her other siblings be spared. Even Finn the keeper of his mothers secrets, traumatised by his sister abduction and least respected of the Mikaelson siblings. All of them have traumatic pasts.]]
* [[spoiler: Mikael's second death, he allows it to happen too, likely because he knows its 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]]

* After a year struggling, wrecked with guilt at her intervention preventing the original Harvest and the cost of her sisters life. Sophie Ann has completed the Harvest and can finally resurrect her niece via the reaping.
--->'''Sophie Ann''': "We call upon the Elders to resurrect your chosen ones."

--->'''Sophie Ann''':"[[{{PleaseIWillDoAnything}} Please...? I beg.]]"

** [[spoiler: Marcel, after rescuing the baby, takes her in the hopes he can use her blood to heal his men. Unknown to him, Davina has resurrected Mikael...who feeds only on vampire blood. He goes back to the compound to find every single vampire dead. Basically after everything he did to protect his Vampire family , he ended up losing all of them. Both his leiutenants Deigo and Thierry who he treated as brothers. Including every single New Orleans Vampire has been killed . Leaving Marcel the only New Orleans Vampire left in the City.]]

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** [[spoiler: She didn't do it to punish him and he knew it, she did it to save his life, Klaus wanted to kill him and Elijah didn't know how to exorcise Finn from Vinncent.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Freya was the one who got rid of Finn by sealing his soul inside her pendant. Sure, he had it coming, but to have that done to him - for the only sibling he truly loved to put him in yet ''another'' box - must have hurt. Hopefully he's either suspended and unaware of his current predicament.
** She didn't do it to punish him and he knew it, she did it to save his life, Klaus wanted to kill him and Elijah didn't know how to exorcise Finn from Vinncent.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Freya was the one who got rid of Finn by sealing his soul inside her pendant. Sure, he had it coming, but to have that done to him - for the only sibling he truly loved to put him in yet ''another'' box - must have hurt. Hopefully he's either suspended and unaware of his current predicament.]]

* [[spoiler: In a way, Finn telling Cami that the reason Esther chose her to be Rebekah's SoulJar is that she's physically healthy...and alone. It's a stark reminder that outside of Klaus, Marcel and Davina, Cami doesn't really have any family or friends to turn to. No-one would notice if Rebekah takes over her body and she acts differently, because she doesn't ''have'' anyone who would even tell the difference.]]

* Thanks to Esther , Elijah darkest secret is exposed. [[spoiler: That a thousand years ago Esther did not murder Taita the love of his life. That in fact, a stressed and newly turned Elijah. Lost control during a confrontation with a wounded Taita. Chased her down , and savagely drank her dry. Distraught he turned to his mother who erased and reshaped his memory with his permission.]] Hiding his sin behind both a physical and symbolic [[{{TitleDrop}} Red Door .]] Hence why Elijah is repressed and values self control. Also revealing his [[{{LoveMartyr}} tendency to value other peoples joy and happiness over his own.]] Self punishment for an act he has repressed for centuries.

* Klaus learns that [[spoiler: the starling necklace his mother gave him - one of the few happy memories he still has of his childhood - was enchanted to suppress his werewolf gene. Esther only gave him the necklace because she was afraid it would activate the curse and expose her infidelity. Klaus' heartbreaking rant to her when she realises this is such that she can't even look him in the eye, despite her justifications for it.]]

* Despites mentoring Marcel as a child, and loving him as a favoured younger brother. Elijah is forced to give Marcel the cold shoulder breaking his heart. So that Marcel would return under Klaus wing, and that [[{{MoralityPet}} Klaus could retain his link to his humanity.]]

* Young Marcel is traumatised by almost being turned by Kol while witnessing a macabre play.. Then Elijah pushes him away, because of Klaus' jealousy towards their bond. Marcel is bitter about his cold rejection years later, but he doesn't know the truth. That for Klaus sake Elijah pushed away the boy he loved like a brother, so that [[{{MoralityPet}} Marcel can help Klaus retain his humanity...]]