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Character Name: Freya Mikaelson
Series: The Originals
Timeline: 314: A Streetcar Named Desire, when she’s trying to break into the representational magic spell by channeling Lucien, but before she succeeds.
Canon Resource Link: The Originals - Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3 | Freya Mikaelson - She was only present in Seasons 2 & 3 but I’m just trying to be thorough.

Character History:

Once upon a time, there were two sisters by the names of Dahlia and Esther. They grew up more than a thousand years ago in the land of Vikings, and while Dahlia was an incredibly powerful witch, Esther was mostly mediocre. Regardless, they weren’t actually all that appreciated by the Vikings (because men are jerks) and persecuted for their witchcraft, but Dahlia was convinced that they would be okay, so long as they had each other. Esther just wanted to fall in love, get married and have a family. She didn’t really mean to abandon her sister, but when she met Mikael and fell in love with him, that’s sort of what happened anyway. Dahlia vehemently disapproved of this match (probably because Mikael was a tool), but Esther wanted what Esther wanted so she ran off and married him anyway.

Cut to a few years later, Esther is having trouble conceiving any children. Desperate and afraid that Mikael will leave her if she can’t produce an heir, she returns to her sister and begs her to use her magic to help her, promising to give her whatever she wants. This deal becomes the first of Esther’s Big Mistakes^TM as a parent, and Dahlia accepts with the following terms: she wants Esther’s firstborn child, and the firstborn of every generation thereafter. Esther agrees. And thus begins the story of Freya.

Cut to a few years later, Esther has given birth to two children (Freya and Finn) and is pregnant with her third (Elijah). Freya has had a happy childhood thus far as the apple of her father’s eye and the best friend of her little brother, climbing trees and plotting mischief together, when Aunt Dahlia swings in and decides to ruin everything, as she do. Esther protests the abduction of her oldest child and swears her revenge but ultimately … does nothing and lets Dahlia take her, because a deal’s a deal. Her sister is a way more powerful witch than she is and she couldn’t stop her, even if she wanted to. Esther then lies to her husband about the whereabouts of his daughter and makes him think she’s dead, so no one comes to try and rescue Freya either.

With a beginning like that, it becomes very clear why Freya has some mommy issues.

(This is not the end of Esther’s Big Mistakes^TM either – she dives into witchcraft after this, lets “the spirits” lead her to America, has an affair with a werewolf, has lots of kids, loses another kid to werewolves and then proceeds to create vampires, because a thousand year-old monsters is exactly what this world needed. You’re welcome. That being said, this isn’t quite part of Freya’s story yet, so moving on.)

Turns out the first born of Esther and Dahlia’s line comes into some crazy unstable but super powerful magic as they get older, which is why Dahlia wanted her and every other firstborn of their family line. And now I know what you’re thinking – probably because she wants to make sure the child is trained properly and won’t be a danger to herself or others, right?

You’re adorable.

No, because this is part of the same verse as The Vampire Diaries where everything is pain and suffering and no one is ever happy, Freya was basically sold into magical slavery. Dahlia was obsessed with power and believed that if she couldn’t have a family who loved her, she would steal every scrap of power she could to become the most feared witch on the planet. (Sound familiar?) At a young age, she linked herself with Freya so that she could channel the girl’s power along with her own, which gave them both a huge amount of power and influence. She did train Freya in witchcraft, but it was almost exclusively to suit her own ends and while she did come to love Freya like a daughter, Freya pretty much always resented her for taking her away from her family and forcing her into this unnatural bond between them. She tried to fight so hard for her independence, but she is also all too aware of the unstable nature of her magic, and even with the connection to Dahlia tempering her abilities, she still was able to do things like make a flock of birds drop down dead from the sky without intending to, through a surge of negative emotions alone.

Eventually Dahlia caught word that her sister had done the unthinkable and changed her children into the first (and most importantly undead) vampires, and naturally, she did not take her connection to power being cut off all that well. As a result, she said that Freya would be her baby maker, and that she would produce an heir so that Dahlia could continue on her crazy power grabbing train. Freya, obviously, was not cool with being designated a walking incubator and vowed never to fall in love so that Dahlia could never have the satisfaction of getting what she wanted. Also jealous of the immortality and longevity that Esther had somehow gifted her children, Dahlia devised an immortality spell of her own, though she did not have enough power to truly give them the longevity to actually be immortal. Instead, what they wound up doing was sleeping for a hundred years, and then waking up for one, which is a really, really shitty way to live, but better than living a natural life and dying when you’re supposed to, right?

No?

Well, someone didn’t tell Dahlia that. Oops.

So as Freya starts skipping through the centuries, somewhere in the 1400s, she does the unthinkable and falls in love, which then leads to her getting knocked up by said love and dreading the fact that Dahlia will turn her child into the slave she made of Freya. She and Mathias (her lover) tried to run from Dahlia but she tracked them down eventually and put a death hex on Mathias, killing him instantly. Crushed and trapped, desperate to do anything to save her child from her own fate, she defiantly takes poison to kill both herself and her child. And it works … on the baby. A few hours later, Freya awakens like she had only been sleeping, the effects of the binding rituals her aunt cast on her not allowing her to die. It’s from that point on that she swears she will find a way to destroy Dahlia, for turning her into the monster that would hurt her own child out of desperation.

Centuries continue to pass that she continues to sleep through, learning to adjust to the sudden changes in the world very quickly as a result, but eventually she finds her way to New Orleans in 1914, where her family of Original vampires are hosting a holiday party. When she learns that her brother Kol has an appetite for witches and is working on a magical project, so she charms her way in with her witchy woo to help him. Using him to spend time with her family without outing herself as family, she attended the Mikaelson Christmas party and watched as her brother … got daggered by her other brother.

Much family. Such love.

At the end of that year, when she returns to her century long sleep in a coffin in the attic of the Dowager Fauline Cottage, a magical witch asylum where she knew she would be safe and Dahlia couldn’t get to her. As she started to awaken from her sleep, she caught the tail end of an SOS spell from her sister and tried to reach back to her, moving the tiles to spell out her name in response to Rebekah’s question of “Who the hell are you?”

Freya, Rebekah. She would be Freya.

As the spell lifted, she integrated herself among the other witches and took some time to acquaint herself with her sisters. Freya made it clear that she is not a fan of bullies by using her considerable magic to take on the “Kindred,” witches who were a fan of black magic and put them in their place. Eventually, she uses it to break through the wards on the cottage and set her and her sister free. Freya takes to Rebekah immediately and tells her to warn her brothers that Freya will be coming to see them very soon.

She reunites with Finn first, her beloved brother, and the only one who actually has memories of her. Finn tells her about Hope and at first she sends Finn to try kill her, to prevent Dahlia from returning and to save her from the fate Freya has known her whole life, but Elijah kills Finn in the process. Freya manages to bring her brother back to life, and tells him that Dahlia will definitely be coming, as she would have sense Hope’s magic, which the baby used to save Cami from the gas explosion at the house. When Finn returns to the cemetery to find their parents’ bodies and use them to regain the power he had, Freya asks him to give her a moment alone with her father, which Finn grants her. She revives Mikael with her blood, and while he attacks her at first, eventually she manages to make him see that she is who she says he is and they have the most heartbreaking reunion because she is literally the only one of his children who still loves him.

Seriously, the only one.

She sways him to her side and away from terrorizing her other siblings and the local werewolves by convincing him to help get revenge against the woman who took her from him and sends him to get the supplies she needs to stop Dahlia. When she returns to the cemetery, she finds that Finn’s vessel, Vincent Griffith, has been mortally wounded after getting into a fight with their brothers. Freya heals Vincent before removing Finn from his body and placing him in her talisman to keep him with her and safe from harm. She then moves on to confront her brothers, and it does not go well. But they’re Mikaelsons. No one is surprised.

When her siblings are ready to be more civilized, she’s invited to a dinner party where they try to determine her place in things. It starts out civilly enough and she seems to be winning Rebekah and Elijah over because they obviously have great taste, but Klaus, being Klaus, is incredibly paranoid and obstinate about things and doesn’t believe a word of his sister’s story. So he snaps her neck and stashes her in an attic like a reasonable person.

She awakens a few hours later, and in the meantime, Rebekah has lost control of the witch body she was possessing. Freya had offered her help earlier, before Klaus had snapped her neck, and she still wants to help after the fact but Klaus still doesn’t trust her, so he takes her to see their mother instead so that they can get a spell to help their sister. They do get the spell, but it’s also a situation doesn’t exactly end well, as Freya has a lot of anger towards her mother and the situation she left her in. After using her brothers as anchors and saving her sister, and because she’s had enough of Esther’s bullshit, she uses her magic to kill her mother by turning her into a flock of dead starlings. She’s that hardcore.

Once her mother is dead, Freya goes into attack mode hardcore for getting rid of Dahlia. However, she’s also quickly rejected by Hayley and Rebekah when they learn that Dahlia has been drawing on Freya’s power the entire time. Klaus steals the spell ingredients she was going to use to take out Dahlia and he and Mikael jump the gun on her plan. When she finally comes face to face with Dahlia again after all this time, Dahlia immediately rips into her and her efforts to reconnect with her family which only makes her angrier and more reckless. When Dahlia threatens to kill her family to give her nothing to run to, she tries to warn them, not wanting her family to be hurt. She confronts Dahlia again, but Dahlia pretty much wipes the floor with her and Elijah, as well as Klaus and Mikael, along with destroying the weapon that Freya was building to stop her. As a result, Freya is quick to tear into her brother for getting ahead of the game, and told him now they needed more Viking ashes in order to complete the spell. So Klaus does what Klaus does and kills the nearest Viking he has available – Mikael. Freya is crushed, and Elijah has to hold her back to keep her from stopping it.

Freya mourns him, and while her siblings try to justify it to her, that doesn’t stop her from being any less angry about it. She forces both Elijah and Rebekah to choose between her and Klaus, and to the shock of everyone, they choose her. Klaus’ increasingly paranoid and erratic behavior probably didn’t help since he was making Freya and her thousand year vendetta look like a reasonable person. However, her siblings don’t completely trust her because her suggestion as soon as Klaus is daggered is to use Hope as bait to draw in Dahlia. They compromise in using a golem made with Hope’s blood, but Elijah isn’t even sold on that plan because instead of injecting the blood in the golem, he injects it in Freya instead. Still, she doesn’t flinch and goes through with playing bait, luring both Dahlia and Klaus in because while they were starting to work together at this point. While they’re waiting for Dahlia, Rebekah asks Freya why she came to hem for help, and Freya admits that she’s been searching for her family her whole life and never wanted to be without them in the first place. The plan failed, however – Dahlia saw he ambush coming, and with Klaus’ help, took both Freya and Hope while Hayley was cursed with the same curse Marcel had placed on her family a hundred years earlier.

When Freya awakes, Klaus has daggered himself and Dahlia after convincing her to link them together. She calls Rebekah and Elijah to come help her and she reveals that Freya’s blood wasn’t going to work to seal the spell they needed to stop Dahlia – she didn’t break Dahlia’s heart, Esther did. As a result, they hijack a spell Davina was using to resurrect their brother, Kol, and used it to resurrect Esther instead. She also tries to end Dahlia in her weakened state by staking Klaus with the white oak stake, but Dahlia destroys he stake before she can use it. She then takes Freya and is about to kill her when her siblings arrive with Esther. Inspired by her children and their desire to protect their family, she neutralizes Dahlia’s magic with her cursed shackles and allows Freya to cast the spell that kills them both. Finally free of her aunt, Freya is welcomed into her family, and Freya heals Rebekah’s human body so that she can pass between them and help find a way to save their brother Kol.

She takes over being the maternal figure for Hope while Hayley is cursed, as well as trying to heal the rift between Elijah and Klaus. It goes about as well as can be expected because for once, Elijah is well and truly pissed at Klaus. She tries to balance out her life with fun at clubs, but she is the default babysitter for Hope when things go awry and another family member isn’t available, this time because they can’t seem to find Hayley. Later, she is asked to try and do a locator spell to find Hayley, but it didn’t work. She is, however, able to confirm a prophecy that says the remaining Original vampires will fall before the end of the year – one by friend, one by foe, and one by family.

Good times, as per usual.

She then continues to spend some time as a glorified magic solution and babysitter when they need to break into a party being thrown by the Strix, an elite society of vampires created by her brother, Elijah, to confront the witch who made the prophecy. So Freya dresses up in her Halloween best with Klaus and his first vampire, Lucien, and they go and crash the uptight Elijah party with style. Freya is able to sneak away to find the other witch, but the witch ain’t so willing to share, or leave for that matter, so their rescue mission went awry. Freya is able to defend herself however, but the witch quickly dies after having been poisoned by Aurora, Klaus’ ex-girlfriend.

When it becomes clear that the Strix are going after Rebekah next, Freya and Elijah do everything in their power to try and save her (and there’s some rather adorable scenes of Freya astral projecting to have drinks with her sister) but there isn’t much they can do from this distance. Freya gets bested by one of the Strix witches and Rebekah is both forced back into her original vampire body and then daggered by the Strix while Freya is forced to do nothing but watch. They then take the body and throw her into the ocean where her siblings can’t get to her – or so they are told. After that, it pretty much means war as far as Freya is concerned, and she wants her baby sister back.

Elijah tries to host a dinner party to try and diplomacy their way out of this particular situation and find out where Rebekah is but Klaus being Klaus and Freya being Freya ruin that pretty quickly. Freya and Hayley torture Aurora to try and find out Rebekah’s location, and they manage to extract from her that while she and her brother Tristan have divided the latitude and longitude between then. As a result, they take Tristan hostage to get the other half of the information where Freya does a lovely job of trying to torture the information out of him, but Tristan proves himself to be immune to her methods. The Strix eventually come for their leader and Freya is stabbed in the process, but she is healed by Marcel’s blood.

She meets with a witch who cursed an object called the Serratura to try and find out how it works, when she learns that Rebekah has been recovered. It turns out that Rebekah was daggered with an object that was cursed to turn a vampire stabbed with it into a ripper. Freya tried to find a way to break the curse, even at great personal risk to herself – it nearly killed her in the process, were it not for the help of Finn and Elijah – but she managed to find a solution, even if it was only a temporary one. She doesn’t know this but the curse returned, and Elijah was forced to dagger Rebekah as a result.

It isn’t the only blow Aurora and Tristan struck to their family that night. Tristan and some of the Strix kidnapped and tortured Hayley and Jackson, before murdering Jackson and sending his heart to the Mikaelson clan, which Freya happened to be the one to find. Aurora also managed to compel Cami to kill herself after drinking Aurora’s blood and put herself in transition. While Klaus wanted to wage war against the de Martels, he also was trying to convince Cami to become a vampire as well, even though it was against her wishes. Freya let Cami out of her magical prison, saying that she wanted to die with dignity once, and she wishes someone had given her that opportunity at the time. However, she also wanted a favor from Cami. Since Cami was neither living nor dead, she was the only person that could pass through the barrier created by the now activated Serratura. Vincent and Freya used their magic to disguise Cami as Tristan’s sister Aurora in order to lure Tristan to them, and when he stepped into the shipping container to make sure they were safe, Cami used the Serratura to trap him there, before escaping. Tristan was then dropped to the bottom of the ocean and Elijah attempted to reclaim the Strix for himself, though the real Aurora managed to escape Freya’s boundary spell.

Freya then spends two episodes being a glorified babysitter, but is brought back into the story when Aurora manages to get a hold of some white oak that she planned to use to murder Freya’s brothers. Freya had been searching for Aurora for days, when Aurora suddenly revealed herself to Freya, before kidnapping her and dragging her out into the bayou to use her as bait for Klaus and Elijah. Freya tried to fight back, even in her drugged state, but she doesn’t do very well and is shot in the stomach in the process, before being buried alive for Klaus to try and play a guessing game to find. Fortunately for Klaus, Freya isn't above helping him win, and with Finn’s spirit to help her, she uses magic to draw some of her blood from her wound out of her coffin and onto the vervain flowers that had been planted above her coffin. Klaus comes to her rescue, and together the two of them rescue Elijah from Aurora and return to New Orleans, though Aurora manages to escape again.

After she’s made her recovery, an old friend of Klaus’, Stefan Salvatore, swings into town and brings trouble on his heels. Klaus asks Freya to try and help protect his “old friend” from Raina Cruz, a psychotic vampire hunter with a magical vampire seeking sword that is currently targeted on Stefan. She manages to create a paste to block the sword’s power (and possibly flirt a little with Stefan in the process), but while Stefan is there, Klaus and Elijah are kidnapped in order for the Strix witches, including Davina Claire, to try and break the sire lines and disconnect the Originals from the vampires they sired so that they can murder them without murdering every other vampire ever sired. Because that would be bad. Freya has a plan to help but she has to break into the magical prison where Elijah and Klaus’ minds are being held, and in order to do that, she needed to channel Lucien (ew) while Stefan and Hayley go to distract the Strix and buy them time. Freya had just started the spell and is getting ready to jump in when she winds up in Wonderland. Surprise!

Obviously she will be thrilled. Good luck.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Freya Mikaelson is a witch! And not just any ordinary witch either, she is the first born of Esther’s family line so she’s more like a supawitch. The massive amounts of power that she had as a result of being linked to Dahlia are gone, however, so she’s not as strong as she used to be but that doesn’t mean she couldn’t fuck your shit up if you got on her bad side. That being said, she has been showing to use all of the following abilities on the show, to be added as The Originals decides to make stuff up:

Your general Traditional Magic or “spirit magic” spellcasting skillset + almost a thousand years of knowledge and experience.

Telekinesis to the extent of being able to snap several vampire necks at once

Teleportation

Astral projection

Elemental magic

However, given her position as the first born of her family line, this power can be considered unstable and unreliable, and even with her thousand years of experience, can fail on occasion.

Third-Person Sample:

She should have known what he was going to do before he did it. They listed off the ingredients of their spell, and she should have made the connection before it happened, protected him while she still could, said that there needed to be another way. Yet she underestimates Klaus the way he underestimates her, even though they are cut from the same cloth.

Sacrificed by a mother who did not know how to love. Torn from a father who could have been the only love they'd ever known. Left with hollow shells of parents who believed themselves to be their betters, to know what was best for them without ever asking them. The only difference being while Mikael was open about his hatred for Niklaus, Dahlia believed the things she forced Freya to do, the twisted ways she manipulated and contained her were all out of love.

(She's not entirely sure which is worse. Then again, she never knew the sharp sword of Mikael's hatred the way the rest of her siblings did.)

None of that seems to matter now.

She's left alone with the ashes of her father after the rest of her siblings have gone, mourning him in a way that none of them ever did. It's a pain that rips through her like a blade, her last hope for something happy in this world where she doesn't belong gone like a puff of smoke. All that she has left now is her mission, her vengeance, the satisfaction of seeing Dahlia's blood on her hands, even it drags Freya down with her. She lays the last of her humanity down on the site where her father died because she now has nothing left to lose.

Once the tears are done and the pain has stopped, she gathers Mikael carefully, respectfully into a bag to carry him, keeping him close to her as she does Finn, all too aware now that they are playing a game where all the cards are on the table and everything is expendable. She is all too aware of the similarities between herself and her half-brother (she has been counting on them since the moment she arrived, anger for anger, vengeance for vengeance, hate for hate), but she miscounted his thousand years of experience to see the playing board with the kind of detachment needed for a war like this one. Klaus looks at the world and sees chess pieces to be moved, all capable of making sacrifices to protect their king, all understanding what needs to be done in order to achieve what he wants.

Defeating Dahlia and protecting his daughter.

And that's fine. Freya may not have her brother's guile and cunning, his experience with war, but she now has nothing left to lose. All she has now is Dahlia's destruction and enough hate and anger that she can easily play the same game. And she will end Dahlia, once and for all.

By whatever means necessary.

First-Person Sample:

[This isn’t the first time Freya is woken up to find her world changed, but she had thought she had put this part of her life behind her. She’s also super annoyed because she’s supposed to be saving her dumb family right now, but apparently she can’t ever have what she wants. Story of Freya’s life.

This is not where she’s supposed to be but she’s too paranoid to place that on the network right away. She buys her time, explores, gets to know things, and after finding her way to a bar for a big girl drink, while she’s sitting there, swirling the straw in her hand, she opens the device and decides to test the waters. She speaks calmly and clearly, but doesn’t show her face quite yet.]

So. To break from the regular questions of where am I and what am I doing here, I’d prefer to keep things interesting. If you all don’t mind indulging the curiosity of someone who so rarely finds themselves in a place that is quite so … eclectic, I think I’d like to know more about where you all are from.

Granted, there are many variables that make up different worlds, so let’s not let ourselves get carried away. Beginning with one topic would probably suffice, so I’ve chosen the one that I know best.

[You can almost hear the smirk as she speaks.]

Let’s talk magic.