Why Klaus From The Originals Is a Great Character
Why The Originals Is Worth Rewatching Just For the Great, Sexy Evil That Is Klaus Mikaelson
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The Original family certainly is dysfunctional. Rebekah luring Mikael to New Orleans to kill Klaus? Not her finest moment. Kol body-jumping Rebekah's spirit into the body of an insane witch? Not cool. Elijah conspiring with Elena and her friends to kill Klaus? Yikes. Finn putting a deadly curse on Kol? Not very brotherly. Klaus daggering his siblings out of paranoia and short-temperament countless times? That's just plain cruel. The list goes on and on. But, despite the awful things they did to one another, family is everything to them. Their bond is their greatest strength. They stick together, always and forever.
And time after time, Klaus protects and saves his family — no matter the methods, which he makes no apologies or justification for. At one point, he even sacrifices himself for his siblings by putting his fear of being alone aside. For five years he was imprisoned, some of which he was stuck in a deep agony-filled slumber with Papa Tunde's Blade, in order to keep his family alive while Hayley found a way to cure his siblings.