I continue to find the psychology of these characters completely fascinating.
THEY'RE SO PERFECT.
ME TOO. And I think that Elijah's guilt relates not only to his complicity in putting the curse on Klaus, but also to his failure (as the eldest) to protect Klaus from Mikael. "The first time our father laid a hand on you, I should have struck him dead."
And Elijah's been sitting on that guilt for centuries. It undermines his sense of himself as powerful and righteous, that Mikael could make him do something he knew was so wrong, but there also is just that atavistic protective impulse that lost out at such crucial moments.
I kind of have loved that Elijah's confession in the pilot episode has not done a thing to improve Klaus' behavior toward him or anyone else, though? Hearing someone finally say out loud that it all should have gone down differently would re-open those wounds and make him more sore about the whole thing in the short term. I do think it helped Elijah, but not so much Klaus yet.
Absolutely. Rebekah did what any child would have done to survive, but Klaus could (and does) perceive her behaviour as taking the abuser's side against him.
Totally. I mean, she was, though understandably and almost certainly unconsciously. I can't remember if I heard a line that actually supports this or if this is just head canon, but I got the feeling that the stolen knife he told Genevieve about was the one Rebekah was playing with way back in the Ordinary People flashbacks? Which puts such a poignant spin on whatever she said about "Father scares us all." Like, that's really the fiction that a lot of families tell, that ~everyone gets treated the same, even though people make choices knowing on some level that they'll receive different treatment (if Rebekah actually believed that she was running the risk of being punished like Klaus, she never would've taken it). That little effort to convince both herself and Klaus that unfairness wasn't happening, and then Klaus not putting two and two together when he got called to the carpet for it...ouch.
most parents only have a couple decades of child-rearing to fuck up their kids, while Mikael continued to stalk and try to murder Klaus for 900 years. No wonder he hasn't had a chance to outgrow any of his old patterns. In Klaus's mind, he is still being hunted.
It's really interesting to me how the TVD-type pacing is playing into the long, epic saga of the Original family. In show-time it's been what, maybe a year? since Klaus put Mikael down, and probably about a year and a half since breaking the Sun and Moon curse. And that's not really a realistic amount of time to adjust to the removal of that threat even in context of a normal human life, but after a thousand years?
THEY'RE SO PERFECT.
ME TOO. And I think that Elijah's guilt relates not only to his complicity in putting the curse on Klaus, but also to his failure (as the eldest) to protect Klaus from Mikael. "The first time our father laid a hand on you, I should have struck him dead."
And Elijah's been sitting on that guilt for centuries. It undermines his sense of himself as powerful and righteous, that Mikael could make him do something he knew was so wrong, but there also is just that atavistic protective impulse that lost out at such crucial moments.
I kind of have loved that Elijah's confession in the pilot episode has not done a thing to improve Klaus' behavior toward him or anyone else, though? Hearing someone finally say out loud that it all should have gone down differently would re-open those wounds and make him more sore about the whole thing in the short term. I do think it helped Elijah, but not so much Klaus yet.
Absolutely. Rebekah did what any child would have done to survive, but Klaus could (and does) perceive her behaviour as taking the abuser's side against him.
Totally. I mean, she was, though understandably and almost certainly unconsciously. I can't remember if I heard a line that actually supports this or if this is just head canon, but I got the feeling that the stolen knife he told Genevieve about was the one Rebekah was playing with way back in the Ordinary People flashbacks? Which puts such a poignant spin on whatever she said about "Father scares us all." Like, that's really the fiction that a lot of families tell, that ~everyone gets treated the same, even though people make choices knowing on some level that they'll receive different treatment (if Rebekah actually believed that she was running the risk of being punished like Klaus, she never would've taken it). That little effort to convince both herself and Klaus that unfairness wasn't happening, and then Klaus not putting two and two together when he got called to the carpet for it...ouch.
most parents only have a couple decades of child-rearing to fuck up their kids, while Mikael continued to stalk and try to murder Klaus for 900 years. No wonder he hasn't had a chance to outgrow any of his old patterns. In Klaus's mind, he is still being hunted.
It's really interesting to me how the TVD-type pacing is playing into the long, epic saga of the Original family. In show-time it's been what, maybe a year? since Klaus put Mikael down, and probably about a year and a half since breaking the Sun and Moon curse. And that's not really a realistic amount of time to adjust to the removal of that threat even in context of a normal human life, but after a thousand years?
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