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Hope Mikaelson

Hope Andrea Mikaelson

I intend to fight for always and forever, even if it destroys me.

Played By: Alexandria & Victoria Collins (baby in The Originals Season 1), Charlie & Blake (baby in The Originals Season 2), Summer Fontana (child in The Originals & Legacies), Danielle Rose Russell (teenager in The Originals & Legacies) & Rebecca Breeds (Aurora de Martel's body in Legacies)

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The daughter of the Original Hybrid Klaus Mikaelson and werewolf Hayley Marshall, Hope is descended from some of the most powerful witch, vampire and werewolf bloodlines, known at the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted as the Tribrid.

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Tropes Applying to her in The Originals:

• Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Almost as soon as she's born, her mother Hayley is killed by Monique. Subverted in that Hayley woke up in transition, due to dying while Hope's blood was still inside her.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: During season 5, when she takes impulsive actions trying to reunite with her father who is forced to keep his distance from her to prevent the Hollow's spirit from ever coming after her again.
• Creepy Child: She has a rather focused, unsettling stare when she's using her witch powers.
• Daddy's Girl: Even before being born, she's the only thing Klaus loves unconditionally.
• Dhampyr: She is half vampire and currently half mortal. She's also a witch as well as an untriggered werewolf, meaning until she grows up and makes her first kill, she will be a witch with healing abilities slightly inferior to that of a vampire.
• Enfant Terrible: According to the witches, even before Esther becomes the leader of the ancestor witch spirits.
• Happily Adopted: By her Aunt Rebekah when New Orleans wasn't safe for her.
• Healing Factor: Is one of her hybrid powers.
• Hybrid Power: Hope has demonstrated magic abilities from her witch side and healing abilities from her vampire side, though the latter power is slower than a full vampire's healing factor.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: The reason she was sent away by her family, as it's too dangerous to keep her in New Orleans.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: The fact that something like her could even exist kicks off the plot of the show and drives much of the conflict seen in season one. People either want to kill/use her or protect her at all costs.
• Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie: Is part werewolf, part vampire and part witch.
• Offing the Offspring: In the season finale, it's revealed that her grandmother Esther had taken control of the ancestor witches, and it was her decree that Hope should be sacrificed and her grandmother, great-aunt and uncle all want to harm/kill her for their own purposes.
• Power Incontinence: Dahlia claims that Hope runs the risk of this, if she isn't allowed to take her and her powers run wild.
• Sins of Our Fathers: As Klaus notes, Hope has 'inherited' all his enemies by virtue of being his daughter.

Tropes Applying to her in Legacies

• Action Girl: Hope is always involved with the action whether it's going head-to-head with supernatural villains or monsters threatening the school or coming to the aid of lost, new students for the school.
• The Aloner: After Klaus and Hayley's deaths, she has become a recluse at the Salvatore School, not making any effort to befriend others or connect with her peers. Hope contributes this to the fact that people close to her end up getting hurt. Over Season 1, she starts to grow out of this befriending Landon, Josie and Rafael.
• Animorphism: Unlike most werewolves, she has a wolf form that she can shift into whenever she chooses, without being tied to the full moon, due to being part of the Crescent werewolf pack.
• Berserk Button:
  • Never deceive her and break her trust, she will come after you with a vengeance. Landon found this out hard after he faked being compelled by MG to forget what he'd seen at the school and fled from them just after she opened up to him about her disastrous past.
  • Most likely as a result as her first love interest being a vampire, Roman, who helped abduct her and Hayley which lead to her mom's death.
• Birds of a Feather: with Lizzie. Lampshaded by Landon in the third season episode, "Do All Malivore Monsters Provide This Level of Emotional Insight?":
  Landon: I'm just saying the reason you two are mad at each other is because you're more alike than you think.
  Hope: Take that back immediately.
  Landon: You're both smart, powerful witches who'd do just about anything for who or what you love.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Hope tends to think what she considers right and wrong is the best option and has no qualms attacking her friends if they try to stop her, not understanding why what she's doing could be wrong. Alaric's memories reveal this is a trait she inherited from her father, as even as a child she had a rather warped perspective on what is right and wrong, and Alaric was trying to be a Morality Chain for her. It also revealed that he initially refused to even open the Salvatore School if Hope was going to attend after he had Emma get her a psych evaluation, the results noting that she is too much like her father and too dangerous as a result.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: She often tries to be the hero in any situation the school gets itself into, despite the others being able to handle themselves. This results in a quite a few Heroic Sacrifices throughout the series.
• Daddy's Girl: Formerly. Her father adored her, and she loved him dearly, despite the awful things he's done, and is shown to still be mourning him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was possessed by the sinister Dark spirit known as the Hollow when she was a little girl (see Doom Magnet for further details). And that's before both of her parents, Klaus and Hayley, having given their lives to save hers, to her massive grief and (in the case of Hayley) guilt.
• Deadpan Snarker: Hope is liberal with her sarcasm and witty remarks.
• Doom Magnet: Having had multiple attempts on her life and having been attempted to be sacrificed by radical, over-zealous New Orleans witches even when her mother was still carrying her, targeted by her paternal grandmother Esther and her power sought after by her great aunt Dahlia, having been possessed by the Dark spirit, the Hollow when she was seven. Hope even considers herself a cosmic mistake aware of the circumstances concerning her existence. The repetitive losses and grief she's experienced, as well as her Mikaelson family's history are supposedly why she keeps people at arm's length.
• Emo Teen: Hope is known for harboring feelings of contempt so intense after she feels betrayed, she contemplates killing someone (i.e., Landon) and having emotional breakdowns given her lot in life, including her Mikaelson family's dysfunctional, tragic and violent past. She compares herself to Lizzie over it, acknowledging probably in the first time ever in any of the series, that this might be a matter of mental health.
  Hope: "With a father and a grandfather like mine, I'm probably not immune to those issues myself."
• Fatal Flaw: She's very emotionally repressed, preferring to keep herself at arm's length so that the people she cares about doesn't get hurt. Because of this massive emotional repressive, she finds herself breaking down at a moment's notice.
• Fiery Redhead: Has the red/auburn-hair and a fiery personality being headstrong and independent, fiercely protective and can become very Hot-Blooded when she's in a mood.
• Friendly Rivalry: With Lizzie after the first season episode "There's a Mummy on Main Street".
  • By season three their dynamic would be better described as best friends.
  Lizzie: Epic former frenemy reunion is gonna have to wait.
• Healing Factor: As the daughter of a vampire-werewolf hybrid, Hope has vampire blood produced and running through her body, allowing her to heal herself when she's injured.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the Season 1 finale, Hope allows herself to be absorbed by Malivore (erasing her from the world's collective memory), to stop it from fully regaining its humanoid form.
• Hot Witch: Hope is a physically attractive young woman and a powerful, skilled witch.
• Hybrid Power: Specifically, she is the first and only Tri-brid, a hybrid of all three primarily known supernatural species (vampire, werewolf, and witch).
• Ice Queen: She can be a bit cold to outsiders at first.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: She's an extremely powerful witch and also very skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
• Like Parent, Unlike Child: There is an undeniable irony in Klaus being the established villain of the story and Hope being the heroine every time something bad happens. Subverted later on. Alaric's memories reveal that Hope always had some of her father in her, and he had been trying to act as a Morality Chain to help her. After becoming the Tribrid and though turning off her humanity, she gladly admits to everyone, namely Alaric and Rebekah, that she is her father's daughter.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Landon is this for her. She loves him immensely, and whenever it looks like Landon's life is in danger, she won't hesitate to do anything if it means saving him. After becoming the Tribrid, she was initially able to maintain control of herself, up until it became clear that the only way to kill Malivore was to kill Landon. Landon was ready to make the sacrifice, but once Hope killed him, she admits her humanity was turned off, and she proceeded to turn into the spitting image of her father.
• Love Interest: Hope is this for Landon Kirby. They enter a relationship in episode 8.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: 5’3” and badass. Can easily handle creatures much bigger than her.
• Power Incontinence: As a first-born witch of her generation of the Mikaelson family line, Hope possesses immense magical power as a witch, like her Aunt Freya and her great-aunt Dahlia. She unfortunately runs into problems controlling it, usually in emotional moments.
• The Power of Blood: Like her father Klaus', Hope's blood can be used to turn a werewolf into a vampire-werewolf hybrid or cure a vampire from a werewolf's bite.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: She was told that she needed to become the Tribrid so she could finally kill Malivore but kept refraining from doing so due to not wanting to lose her humanity. After Malivore fully possessed Landon and began his takeover of Mystic Falls however, she made peace with becoming the Tribrid, but in doing so and killing Landon, she turned her humanity off and became a monster, putting Alaric into a near fatal coma, ruining Ryan's life so he'd have no choice but to help find the Triad while trying to force him to be "Clarke" again, feeding on random civilians, and making it perfectly clear she has no compunctions killing her former friends if they don't leave her alone.
• Ret-Gone
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Apparently. After Hope, Landon, and Alaric find Landon's biological mother, Seylah who allows herself to be erased from the world's memory by diving into the dimension Malivore in order to protect Landon, it is later revealed that Hope somehow retained her memories of Landon's mother even after everyone else's memories of her were erased.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: In Season 1 episode, "Let's Just Finish the Dance" during the Miss Mystic Falls pageant.
• She Who Fights Monsters: Hope has a bad habit of going to the same extremes as her enemies when she sets her mind to something, not even hesitating to attack her friends if they try to stop her, especially if Landon's life is involved.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Presents as an Ice Queen (with reason), but she does truly care about her friends deep-down.
• We Really Do Care:
  Hope: It just seemed like you all were better off without me.
  Lizzie: What is wrong with you? Do you really have that much of a martyr complex that you couldn't just oh, I don't know ask one of us how we were doing?
  Hope: Look, I know that it seems kind of...
  Lizzie: Dumb? Selfish? Controlling?
  Hope: Painful.
  Lizzie: No one's been better off without you.
• When She Smiles: Hope rarely lets her guard down, but when she does her smile is genuinely a sight to see.
• Wonder Child: Hope was fathered by the original vampire-werewolf hybrid, Klaus Mikaelson, despite his undead nature. As the first and only hybrid of vampire-werewolf-witch, Hope's existence is a loophole and a pure miracle.

Hope With No Humanity.

My humanity flipped the second that sword went through Landon. But I got to say, it really seems to be working for me.

After being forced to kill the self-proclaimed love of her life, Hope's humanity switch flipped by itself to spare her the overwhelming emotions that would have followed.

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• Decapitation Presentation: On the episode "You Will Remember Me", she goes looking for the werewolf den, where she gets them to open the door by putting Agatha's decapitated and burned head in front on the peephole.
• Diagonal Cut: How Lizzie and her kill Magnus the Magnificent.
• Emotionless Girl: During most of season 4 when she turns her humanity off immediately after turning into the Tribid.
  Hope: Like, I was so sick of being controlled by my emotions. It's like, love, lose, grieve, repeat. I am finally free.
• Evil Feels Good: After becoming the Tribrid and turning off her humanity, she began indulging herself in hedonistic pleasure before learning the Triad was after her, in which she then decided to have some fun by hunting them down and killing them.
• Off with His Head!: Twice on episode eight of the fourth season: to the Triad Witch and Greg
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As noted by Professor Vardemus:
  Professor Vardemus: Speaking of transitions... ...I didn't realize becoming the Tribrid would make you cruel.
  Hope: Oh, my humanity is off, so... like I said, I'd move faster if I were you.
• Transhuman Treachery: Played with. After becoming the Tribrid and turning off her humanity, she began decrying humans as being weak and pathetic, while fully embracing the idea she was an "Apex Predator". Ryan however calls her out on this, pointing out that she could have easily compelled him into helping her, but she instead went out of her way to try and ruin his life so he'd go back to being "Clarke", because some part of her knows what she's doing is wrong, and was hoping that if she could make Ryan see being human was weak, then she wouldn't have any more doubt.

Landon Kirby

Landon Kirby

Growing up in the foster system, every time I got sent someplace new, I'd hope that this would be the right place. You know, like, uh, "click your heels three times," "no place like home" kind of stuff. Just somewhere I actually belonged. But it never was. You know, and you can only hold out hope for so long, and be hurt by so many people, before it starts to seem impossible to trust someone new.

Played by: Aria Shahghasemi

A charming, intelligent but bullied youth having grown up in the foster system, Landon has a mysterious past, even to himself and is an old acquaintance of Hope.

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• Action Girlfriend: Hope, who kicks ass on the regular.
• Action Survivor: Despite being supernatural, Landon zero offensive abilities for powers including speed or strength, thus is often forced to run, rely on his friends to fight, or use his wits. The good news is that as a Phoenix, he has Resurrective Immortality so even if he dies, he'll come back. Although since its unknown how many times he can do it, he often errs on the side of caution.
• Amnesiac Lover: Landon (and the whole world) forgets who Hope is after she jumps into the dimension Malivore in order to stop it from fully regaining its humanoid form.
• Butt-Monkey: Landon is practically Born Unlucky with the crap he goes through in the course of the series starting with growing up in the foster care system. After spending a lifetime wanting to be special, he learns that his "father" is a Humanoid Abomination that created him to create a supernatural bloodline of his own.
  • He has a beautiful girlfriend in Hope Mikaelson but is constantly remind that as the Tri-brid she's The Hero and more powerful than him by a large margin. He spends most of the first season not knowing what supernatural he is and then after learning he's a "phoenix" its constantly pointed out his only real known power is Resurrective Immortality. Then when he finally starts to figure out other potential powers, he loses them and left a vanilla human which puts notable strain on his relationship with Hope.
• Consummate Liar: Landon developed a lying habit as a form of self-defense in abusive foster care. However, despite constantly mentioning his past, the character has ironically lied only a few times on screen without being mind-controlled. He later mentions how Hope has taught him the value of truth.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was a foster child, and his childhood wasn't always the happiest.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He and Rafael were in the foster system together, have been through thick and thin, always having each other's backs. They consider each other brothers.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Crafted by his father, Malivore, from the genetic material he has been absorbing for years and born to a human mother, Landon's supernatural status is somewhat currently an enigma. Partially human, at least partially phoenix (whether his phoenix part comes from a phoenix his father has once absorbed or if it's a result of an amalgam of several other species remains to be seen) and possibly something more.
• The Immune: He is revealed to be unaffected by vampire compulsion and mind-controlling slugs.
• Love Interest: Landon is a romantic interest for Hope. They start a relationship in episode 8.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Learns that Agent Ryan Clarke is his half-brother.
• Missing Mom
• Mysterious Past: Much of his past at the beginning of the show is a mystery, even to him.
• Nice Guy: Landon is a really friendly, charming and kind-hearted person.
• Geek: Landon is revealed to be a passionate fan of several sci-fi franchises like for example, Star Wars.
• Mystical Pregnancy: Landon was immaculately conceived when his mother, Seylah, was trapped in a hell-like dimension, Malivore. Malivore is later revealed to be actually Landon's father.
• The Phoenix: After Landon dies, his body spontaneously catches fire and he is subsequently resurrected from the resulting ashes, leading Alaric to conclude that his supernatural species is a phoenix. However, the later revelation of his bloodline brings his status as pure phoenix into question.
• Token Human: Originally thought to be this but later revealed to be supernatural.
  • He loses his phoenix abilities and becomes this between Seasons 2 & 3, as Lizzie is unable to siphon any magic from him in Season 3, indicating that he is now just a normal human and no longer supernatural.
• Wonder Child: Born to his father, Malivore, in his quest for a perfect heir to continue his legacy, Landon is the first success after countless failures.
• Mystery Magnet: Due to his connection to Malivore, Landon seems to be constantly in the center of mysteries.

Lizzie Saltzman

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Saltzman

But if I hypothetically did, I would gather that the true test of a hero isn't being strong when it's easy. It's being strong when it's hard.

Played by: Tierney Mumford (The Vampire Diaries), Allison Gobuzzi (The Originals), Jenny Boyd (Legacies), Danielle Rose Russell (disguised as Hope Mikaelson in Legacies) & Kaylee Bryant (disguised as Josie Saltzman in Legacies)

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The twin of Josie and daughter of the Alaric, Lizzie is a Siphoner and one of the only members of the Gemini Coven alive. Lizzie, unlike her more timid twin is brash to the point that it alienates all but her closest friends.

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• Always Someone Better: Lizzie feels this way about Hope, because of how much attention Alaric gives Hope and relies on her, adding to her animosity towards Hope.
• Ambiguously Bi: Has only been explicitly attracted to men, however the fact Josie was worried about Lizzie going after Hope if she knew Josie liked her and the mention that “every time” Josie has liked someone Lizzie goes for them, implies she is attracted to more than one gender.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: to Hope in the episode "I Can't Be the One to Stop You":
  Lizzie: I hate this. I hate how many good memories I have of you. I hate that i have to be the one to do this, because no one else will. But most of all… I hate you. for being my friend, and for being apart of my weird messed up family and for making me love you, Hope Mikaelson. Because no matter how far you go, no matter how evil you become, apparently I can’t be the one to stop you.
• Divine Date: Jen, who is a literal god, seemed interesting in Lizzie, given the fact that she asked her on date to coffee and edible.
• Back from the Dead: Episode 9 of Season 4 has Lizzie revive moments after Hope snapped her neck, awakening in transition.
  Lizzie: But now, all I am... is hungry.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: The entire plot of the episode "There's a World Where Your Dreams Came True". Lizzie and Josie arrive home which surprises her father, who remarks that they weren't meant to arrive home until later. Lizzie is upset at her dad for not seeing the updated itinerary, that stated that her mother had got them direct flights. Hope tells Lizzie that everyone was under a lot of stress dealing with the previous threat. Lizzie leaves the room upset at her father and Hope, where a jinni makes herself visible, and reveals that her name is Ablah. Lizzie has no time to react when Ablah tells her that her wish has been granted, which jumpstarts the episode:
  • Her first wish, that she made while leaving the room and out of anger, is that Hope had never started at the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, allowing Alaric to focus more on his daughters; however, because of this wish, the school is struggling financially. This reality comes to an end when Hope is found and urged to think about enrolling in the school.
  • Her second wish is that her parents never found the boarding school. She is then transported to a universe where she is in public school, and things are not perfect for the rest of Lizzie's family while she is the school pariah. She exposes her magic after getting into a fight with Josie and is taken to the Mikaelson Boarding School that was founded by Klaus for his daughter, Hope.
  • Her third wish is for Hope to have never existed, inadvertently wishing for an apocalyptic reality where supernaturals are hunted, the reason being that, because Hope was never born, in this reality Klaus has no humanity. Lizzie then finds out that she accidentally killed Josie after they learned about the Merge.
  • Lizzie realizes that she can fix the whole situation by wishing that Ablah never met the monster that sent her to Malivore. Ablah reveals that this will return her to her reality, however she will not remember any of it.
• Birds of a Feather: with Hope. Lampshaded by Landon in two ocassions in the third season episode, "Do All Malivore Monsters Provide This Level of Emotional Insight?":
  Landon: I'm just saying the reason you two are mad at each other is because you're more alike than you think.
  Hope: Take that back immediately.
  Landon: You're both smart, powerful witches who'd do just about anything for who or what you love.
• Break the Haughty: Most of her Character Development revolves around her trying to become less self-centered and more appreciative of the people around her. Season 2 and 3 even have her go to facilities to assist in her mental health struggles.
• Broken Bird: When a genie shows up as the latest monster, she says that she specifically targeted Lizzie to be her "master" because she's the most broken person at the school, and thus the easiest one for the genie to manipulate into handing over the MacGuffin that the monsters are after.
  Lizzie to Alaric: Do you think I am broken?
• Brutal Honesty: Lizzie doesn't have much of a filter.
• Came Back Wrong: After she was turned into a heretic, it was discovered that Lizzie is sired to Hope.
• Catchphrase: Hope. Andrea. Mikaelson. As acknowledged in this video, Hope's full name is certainly something that Lizzie has used numerous times throughout the show.
• Children Are Innocent: In The Vampire Diaries episode "Gods and Monsters", Caroline, her surrogate mom says Lizzie and Josie shouldn't be involved in this world because they're only three.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Lizzie is very possessive with her relatives and friends, being jealous of Hope due to her bond with Alaric and later with Josie. She shows jealousy too when she sees MG's flirt with Dana, and later with Alyssa.
• Closet Geek: Where to start? She has been shown to be a fan of mutiple things usually viewed as "nerdy", such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars. Lampshaded by MG:
  Lizzie: Are you sure that you're up for this? It isn't exactly what the Green Flashlight would do.
  MG: First of all, it's Green Lantern, and you know it. Just like you know way too many hobbit insults to not be a secret Tolkien fan.
  • Also, while in season 1 she does seems to be a bit clueless about comics, by season 3 she can be seen reading Crisis on Infinite Earths.
• Diagonal Cut: How Hope and her kill Magnus the Magnificent.
• Drama Queen: She tends to overreact when things do not go as planned.
• Fangirl: As previously mentioned, of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. She tends to reference and make jokes about the previous media a lot.
  Hope: The exhaust port of the Death Star.
  Lizzie: EXACTLY!
  [Everyone turns to look at her]
  Lizzie: Sorry.
• Friendly Rivalry: With Hope after the first season episode "There's a Mummy on Main Street".
  • By season three their dynamic would be better described as best friends.
  Lizzie: Epic former frenemy reunion is gonna have to wait.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Josie. She starts out as "The Beautiful Sister" of the two, but it grows more complicated as the series progresses.
• Good Counterpart: To Aurora in a way. In the fourth season episode "Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost" when dealing with Aurora, she says to Hope that perhaps the reason why she feels so much hatred towards Aurora is because of how much she relates to her, mentioning that she herself relates to Aurora. Later on, when Hope reveals that Lizzie had been pretending to be Tristan, Lizzie apologizes to Aurora, to which she simply tells her not to be, that it's not Lizzie's fault that her mind is broken, which clearly resonates with Lizzie's sentiment about her own mind.
  Lizzie: I just... couldn't let you die without apologizing.
  Aurora: For what?
  Lizzie: Calling you crazy. Being dismissive. Judging your symptoms and not their cause. Treating you the same way everyone treated me whenever I'd have an episode.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Lizzie has a jealous and possessive nature. It's not helped with her Gemini Coven lineage.
• Hidden Depths: As stated in Closet Geek, she's actually quite a huge fan of things that are considered fairly "nerdy".
• Hot Witch: She is certainly beautiful, and is a witch who belongs to the Gemini Coven.
  MG: Are you kidding me? You are the hottest thing I've ever seen.
• Hybrid Power: Becomes a Heretic in the mid-season finale of Season 4, being able to use vampiric abilities along with her magic when she's out of transition.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: When talking with Hope in the fourth season episode "You Have to Pick One This Time", she expresses that the reason why she always craps on her and Landon, as well as any relationship Josie has, is because of they seem to have something she's never had and she wants. Love.
  Lizzie: Because you guys... have something that I never really had... but I'm pretty sure that I want. Love.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: She gives off a very high opinion of herself but it's clear she's a lot more insecure than she wants others to know.
• It's All About Me: Oddly enough, Lizzie has shown capable of great selflessness, even if those close to her would not necessarily agree to or appreciate her methods as they usually involve some sort of self-sacrifice on Lizzie's part, which she can surprisingly take in stride.
  Lizzie: This is such an honor. It's so nice to know that you all love me as much as I thought you did.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sometimes concealed with a Jerkass Façade. Season 3 shows her being willing to go back to her "mean girl pulpit" in order to persuade everyone to forgive and forget all the awful things that Josie did in the previous season.
  Jo: You have such a big heart. It's okay to let other people see it.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: In the fourth season episode, "I Can't Be the One to Stop You".
  Lizzie: No. No, I am not going to fight you. And I'm not gonna run. Because this is stupid. You're not actually gonna kill me. We all know that. You haven't killed anyone that you care about. You're just being a bully. So drop the act. Okay, there are some lines that even you won't cr- Hope snaps her neck
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • She and Josie are kept in the dark by Alaric and Caroline that on their 22nd birthday they must undergo the Gemini Coven twin Merge where one twin will kill the other.
  • In one of the altered realities created by the genie, Lizzie does find out about the Merge from that timeline's alternate version of Alaric. However, the magical loophole that Lizzie ultimately uses to undo the genie's wishes involves a Reset Button that erases her memory of the altered timelines, including her learning of the Merge.
• Misplaced Retribution: One could argue that her initial hatred towards Hope is this. While it certainly is unfair that her father ignores her and her sister to spend time with Hope, this is clearly not Hope's fault.
• Missing Mom: Her biological mother Josette Laughlin is deceased and Caroline, her birth mother, is always away during the series on "recruitment trips". These recruitment trips are actually her trying to find a solution for the Merge.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: She tends to disapprove Josie's relationships like with Penelope in Season 1, with Landon in Season 2 and even a possible romance with Hope after discovered this latter had a crush on Josie at 14. Maybe because she's somewhat territorial with her sister (don't want share her attention) and/or she thinks Josie deserves better anyway.
  Hope: Well, I had a crush on Josie for a week when we were 14.
  Lizzie: Read my lips: the two of you are never happening.
• Psychic Block Defense: She can be affected by mind control, but does have a higher than normal resistance to it. When she, Josie and Hope get brainwashed into joining a witch cult, Lizzie ultimately snaps out of the brainwashing on her own (and subsequently snaps Josie and Hope out of it so the three of them can stop the cult's leader).
  • When bonding with Aurora about their shared mental health issues, she says that she used to think of her brain as a weakness but now thinks that perhaps all those issues she's struggled with are what allowed her to break her sire bond with Hope.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Between the sisters, Lizzie is the Red Oni to Josie's Blue.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Based on the way she describes the kind of love she wants. Although maybe it doesn't need to be a man.
• Smarter Than You Look: She's actually quite capable of strategizing and manipulating events to make her goals succeed. She also has an extensive knowledge of magic that can rival Josie and Hope, being able to easily cast simple and complex spells.
• Staking the Loved One: After Alaric falls into a coma, she decides to try and kill Hope herself, despite having a near-impossible shot of doing so.
• Statuesque Stunner: Certainly beautiful and stands tall at 5’9” (175cm).
• Talking Down the Suicidal: What her interactions with both Josie and Hope comes off in the second season episode, "Since When Do You Speak Japanese?."
  Josie: Lizzie, it's okay, okay? We're gonna fix you.
  Lizzie: There's no fixing me, Jo. I am just shattered. The pieces are too small to put back together. Tell dad that I love him. But you have to end this.
  Josie: What?
  Lizzie: With that sword.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Over the series, Lizzie has become kinder to her companions, viewing them as close friends. She is also more considerate of her sister's feelings and motivations, putting Josie first more often than not.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In The Vampire Diaries, they are shown using pyrokinesis with the word 'incendia' at the young age of four.

Milton "MG" Greasley

Milton "MG" Greasley

Played by: Quincy Fouse

A genuine nice guy MG is one the school's friendliest students. Prior to being turned he suffered from ADHD and abandonment issues due to his troubled relationship with his father. A condition only amplified by his vampire state. Best friends with Josie and harboring a secret crush on Lizzie.

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• Afro Asskicker: Does occasionally kick some ass.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Prior to becoming a vampire, MG was diagnosed with ADHD.
• Beware the Nice Ones: In "Death Keeps Knocking on my Door", it is revealed after his first taste of human blood that MG has the psychological markers for being a Ripper.
• Black and Nerdy: Loves comic books and other stereotypically nerdy things.
• The Corruptible: MG can be very impressionable, often becoming the mark for other less scrupulous students when Penelope flirts with and leads him on in her mission to spite Josie and Lizzie. He later becomes swayed by Kaleb to feed on humans which backfires horribly.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Has feelings for Lizzie and often tries to woo her, but she seems to ignore it.
• Expy
• Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire
• Functional Addict
• Lovable Jock
• Nice Guy
• Parental Abandonment
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Good-natured, fun-loving and conscientious, MG is the Blue to Kaleb's Red.
• Vegetarian Vampire

Kaleb Hawkins

Kaleb Hawkins

Being a vampire it... it ain't everything I say it is. It ain't about power or blood or being better than other people. I guess I just say that stuff to make myself feel okay with the fact that people like you and me, we got a big struggle ahead of us. A hard life. But we can be in it together.

Played by: Chris Lee

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• Big Brother Instinct: To MG as well as his own sister Kym. In Season 2, he succeeds in determining Sebastian's true nature an personality through a simple verbal ruse, prompting Kaleb to stay his hand at reviving the much older vampire.
• Character Development: Started out as an arrogant young vampire who saw him and his kind as superior. His bond with MG has since changed this. Has a good singing voice, enough to appease the Charon, the Ferryman of the Dead and surprisingly competent even for a vampire.
• Face–Monster Turn: When Hope refuses to look for other options aside from becoming the Tribrid and the others all give her their support, Kaleb worries what will happen to all the people still under Malivore's control, namely Cleo. So he tries going after Malivore himself and gets made into one of his thralls, then knocks out MG and kidnaps Hope. Alaric manages to reach out to him eventually.
• Fake Guest Star: He's in more episodes than some of the mains.
• Family of Choice: Promises to be MG's brother and protect him upon finding out he was basically kicked out of his family for being a vampire. Later on, it is shown Kaleb brought MG to his family BBQ where they can be seen having fun like any normal teenagers.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Though by Session 2 he has dropped the hidden part.
• Jerkass: Kaleb is arrogant, boisterous and considers his human peers inferior to him, and known for feeding on humans, a practice that is forbidden at the school. Fortunately, he has since outgrown this.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Kaleb eventually confronts Alaric about not allowing the school's vampires to drink human blood and not teaching the witches to use offensive spells, stating that they need those things in order to be at full strength for fighting off the increasingly stronger monsters that periodically attack the school. Alaric reluctantly admits that he's right.
• Lack of Empathy: He starts off as this shamelessly feeding off of humans, talking all confident and tough all about how superior vampires are to humans. He gets better.
• Love Makes You Evil: Kaleb's love for Cleo and fear that Hope's becoming the Tribrid and killing Malivore will kill Cleo too causes him to go after Malivore himself, and only ends up getting him made into Malivore's thrall.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He reacts like this when his pushing of MG to drink human blood reveals that MG has the potential markings of a Ripper.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: When Kaleb's sister Kym and MG show signs of liking one another, Kaleb is quick to put a stop to that. Partly it's to keep his human sister from the supernatural world, and partly it's to protect MG from his sister.
• Pet the Dog: Has a soft spot for MG over everyone else in the School.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: By the 10th episode of session 2.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Took one after MG killed Landon and virtually unrecognizable from who he was by the time of session 2.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Kaleb lures MG to embrace his philosophy of vampirism and feed directly from humans. It backfires when MG cannot stop feeding and almost kills someone, and Dorian explains that MG has the potential to be a Ripper vampire. He has since stopped being this.
• Undying Loyalty: To MG and later to the rest of the cast.

Cleo Sowande

Cleo Sowande

In my belief, magic is neither good or bad. Its alignment, positive or negative, is set off by the user's intention.

Played by: Omono Okojie, Trinity Adebayo (Young Cleo)

• Art Initiates Life: She created Malivore's monster by sculpting them and then bringing them to life.
  Cleo: And I did not summon the Ferryman, either. I made him. I made him as I have made so many monsters from the mud of Malivore.
• Cope by Creating: Cleo spent many years alone and was forced to create monsters from Malivore's mud so he could consume them and satiate his hunger.
  Cleo: I spent many years alone. I longed for my family, but my only choice was to make friends. Monsters, some would call them.
• Friend to All Living Things: When she finds Hope cleaning and axe, she believes that she's been torturing the leprechaun, to which Hope informs her that it's not what it looks and tells her to relax. Later on, she's clearly upset when she has to kill the leprechaun in order to save Alaric.
  Cleo: I suppose everyone around here thinks killing monsters is normal. But to me, every creature— supernatural, human or otherwise— deserves to be treated with respect.
• History with Celebrity: She dated and fell in love with none other than Leonardo da Vinci. Her powers inspired his creativity and it was the ultimate demonstration of their love and trust, which gave rise to his greatest creations.
• The Maker: She is the creator of many of the Malivore monsters seen throughout the show.
• The Muse: She's a literal muse, a witch who is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, and has a special magical power of inspiration.
• Older Than They Look: She was born in the 15th century, yet looks no older than 18.
• The Power of Creation: One of her many powers is her ability to create beings through sculpting them, such as many the Ferryman, the leprechaun or Golem-Landon.
• Really 700 Years Old: She was born in the 15th century.

Former members of The Super Squad

Penelope Park

Penelope Park

Played by: Lulu Antariksa

Josie's ex-girlfriend and rival Alpha Bitch to her sister Lizzie, she actively takes pleasure in messing with the latter, who in turn regards her as "evil."

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• Irony: The reason she decides to transfer schools is that she finally accepts that Josie will always put Lizzie first. Her leaving and Lizzie knowing beforehand but not telling Josie cause the latter to stop being an Extreme Doormat like Penelope wanted all along.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Her entire motivation for how she acts is because she desperately wants Josie to be happy and stop sacrificing everything for her ungrateful sister.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her reasons for acting the way she does are motivated by real and selfless love.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Her persona to the rest of the school, which gets her far in the social realm.
• Put on the Bus: Penelope leaves the school at the end of season 1, transferring to a witches-only school in Belgium.

Rafael Waithe

Rafael Waithe

I’m just saying it’s one thing to be cool with being alone and it’s another to want to be the lonely girl on purpose.

Played by: Peyton Alex Smith

Childhood friend to Landon who grew up with him in the foster system. Rafael acts like an older brother to Landon. Rafael was on his way to an athletic scholarship when during an argument with his girlfriend he crashed their car and triggered his werewolf curse when she died. Confident and charismatic he has clashed with Hope in regards to Landon.

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• Back from the Dead
• Big Brother Instinct: Rafael considers Landon his brother, is extremely loyal to and protective of Landon and will do anything to keep him safe. Even challenge the local Alpha of the school's pack of werewolves if it puts him in a position to let Landon stay at the school.
• Chick Magnet: He catches the eye of both Josie and Lizzie when he first appears at the school. It's hinted Hope harbors an attraction to him also.
• The Chosen One: It is revealed in the Season 3 premiere that he is a direct descendant of King Arthur and thus the rightful modern day wielder of Excalibur.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Like Landon, Rafael had an abusive upbringing in the foster system. One of his foster dads used to take out his belt and use it on him.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It's part of the standard werewolf package.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Landon.
• Heroic Lineage: He is a direct descendent of King Arthur, and as per the Lady of the Lake inheritor of the sword Excalibur.
• It's All My Fault
• Put on a Bus
• Ship Tease: He and Hope. It comes out he does have feelings for her, which he lets know but he doesn't act on them because of his loyalty to Landon who is Hope's boyfriend.
• Super-Reflexes:
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: When he's transforming into his wolf form.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome
• True Companions
• Undying Loyalty: To Landon. He challenges and is willing to become an alpha, just to protect Landon. Not to mention that despite having feelings for Hope, he never acts on them because he knows Landon loves her.
• You Are in Command Now

Josie Saltzman

Josette "Josie" Saltzman

I'm getting back to me. I am who I am.

Played by: Lily Rose Mumford (The Vampire Diaries), Bella Samman (The Originals) & Kaylee Bryant (Legacies)

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The twin of Lizzie and daughter of Alaric, Josie is a Siphoner and one of the last surviving members of the powerful Gemini Coven. Josie is sweet but suffers from self-esteem issues due to constant self-comparison with her sister.

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• Action Girl: Not emphasized as Hope but she's a supernatural-fighting witch as well.
• The Atoner: In Season 3, as she is now treated like an outcast by the rest of the students outside of the main cast and is trying to make amends for all the trouble that her evil side caused during Season 2.
• Badass Bookworm: She's studious and bookish in comparison with other students but Josie is considered as a powerful witch.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Josie is kind and calm usually but if someone upset her, the person can end magically damaged.
• Brainy Brunette: She's a smart and bookish student.
• Evil Me Scares Me:
  • When Josie's use of black magic in Season 2 causes her subconscious to be split into good and evil sides, the evil side easily overpowers the good side and takes over control of their shared physical body largely because the good side is too terrified of the evil side to put up much of a fight.
  • This changes abruptly after Hope gets inside Josie's subconscious and informs the good side of the evil side's (nearly successful) attempt to kill Lizzie in the previous episode. The good side quickly gets over her fear and absolutely wipes the floor with the evil side during their subsequent confrontation.
• Evil Makeover: Josie's dark side favors black hair rather than her naturally brown hair and wears tighter, darker clothes instead of her usual trendy and more colorful wardrobe.
• Extreme Doormat: Towards Lizzie.
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Lizzie. She starts out as "The Smart Sister" but it grows more complicated as the series progresses.
• Good Is Not Soft: Josie is generally known to be compassionate and have an adorable disposition, but she has a dark side and very little patience for her enemies.
• Green-Eyed Monster: It seems her dark side and use of black magic often turn her in this trope. She lampshaded this in 2x09.
• Hot Witch
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • She and Lizzie are currently kept in the dark by their father that as twins they are destined to undergo the Gemini Coven's Merge ceremony when they turn 22 where one twin eventually kills the other.
  • She and Lizzie both finally learn of the Merge during the season 1 penultimate episode "I'll Tell You a Story".
• Missing Mom
• Nice Girl: She's kind and gentle with everyone at the school generally.

• Perpetual Frowner: Landon says he loves her "upside-down mouth," and Lizzie describes it as "resting concerned pouty face."
• Playing with Fire: Josie has a thing for fire spells.
• Put on a Bus: In the episode "I Can't Be the One to Stop You" Josie says she has to leave the school and all the usual trouble that happens in it to be able to help bring Hope back. Confirmed to be Kaylee's exit.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Between the twin sisters, Josie is the Blue Oni to Lizzie's Red.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Being emotionally conflicted (generally) , Josie had this with a Will They or Won't They? streak with Penelope, Rafael and somewhat Hope. Ironically with Penelope and Rafael , despite the mutual attraction she had with both, her codependency with Lizzie restrains her to make a move.
• When She Smiles: Her smile is a thing of true beauty and lights up the screen every time it appears.

Jedidiah "Jed" Tien

Jedidiah "Jed" Tien

Played by: Ben Levin

The former Alpha of the Salvatore Boarding School werewolf Pack, he initially was a bully but later revealed hidden depths and a heart of gold.

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• Abusive Parent
• The Big Damn Kiss: Also a "Shut Up" Kiss. After flirting and some near confessions Jed kisses Ben in true Hollywood Kiss fashion to the swell of romantic music, the slowing of the camera and Ben tenderly reciprocating.
• Brought Down to Normal: In the series finale, Jed discovers that his death and resurrection in the penultimate episode reset his werewolf curse. This means as long as he doesn't trigger the curse again, he's a normal human.
• Coming-Out Story: In the latter half of season 4, Jed falls for Ben, a new male character. This leads to a Coming Of Age Queer Romance.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Jed grew up in a deeply cutthroat community that included Children Forced to Kill.
• Distracted by the Sexy: played for humor a number of times in season 4.
• Divine Date: Jed's love interest in season 4 is a literal demigod.
• Friends with Benefits: With Alyssa through seasons 2 and 3, even when she is in a relationship with MG.
• Happily Ever After: Jed and Ben end the series romantically involved and leave the school to be together.
• Hidden Depths: Multiple times in the show, Jed has moments of wisdom and maturity unexpected from him, as he is often giving helpful advice and valuable insight to his friends. He calls this out himself, stating "people don't think I'm smart" in 4x10. This is further explored in episode 13, where a troubled past is revealed.
• Hot-Blooded: Like most werewolves, Jed has a bit of a temper.
• Jerkass Realization: In season 4, Jed reflects that he was a bully just like his father and didn't want to be that way anymore.
• Mean Boss: Jed is at first a poor Alpha to the werewolves and something of a Big Jerk on Campus, but ends up a Reformed Bully.
• Meaningful Name: Jedidiah means 'Beloved of God' and he ends up the soulmate and lover of a demigod.
• No Full Name Given: Until 3x15, Jed's last name is unknown.
• Preserve Your Gays: Although he is killed in the penultimate episode of season four, he is later resurrected by Landon.]]
• Puppy Love: In a flashback, the show introduces Trey, whom Jed admits to having been his childhood crush but it's unknown if it was ever requited.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Not only does Jed have feelings for Ben, but admits to having had affections for another boy as a child.
• Redemption Quest: Jed goes out of his way to make it up to the Super Squad and become someone they can trust.
• Self-Made Orphan: via Patricide.
• Take a Third Option: When forced by his father to Duel to the Death against Trey, Jed chooses to neither kill Trey or die himself, but takes his father's life instead.
• Twofer Token Minority: Jed is East Asian and bisexual. In a fantasy context, he is a threefer being a werewolf also.
• Willing Channeler: Jed allows himself to be possessed by a banshee so the Squad can talk to her.
• Wonderful Werewolf: As the series progresses, Jed becomes this.

Ethan Machado

Ethan Machado

Played by: Leo Howard

Ethan Machado is a former recurring character in the second season of Legacies, making his debut in the second episode. He was a human who attended Mystic Falls High School and brother of Maya, and was later turned into a half-Pukwudgie hybrid.

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• Heroic Sacrifice: Ethan gives his life to help defeat Ken in the fourth season.