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A spin-off of The Vampire Diaries made for CW. A family of power-hungry thousand year old vampires look to take back the city that they built and dominate all those who have done them wrong.

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A spin-off of The Vampire Diaries on CW.

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Camope edit (watch if you finished legacies)

THE REUNION I NEEDED

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2025/01/31
14:52 UTC

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New character game! Who best represents humility?

Should I count just upvotes or also the number of comments? Let me know what you think!

My vote would actually be for Jackson. I don’t particularly like him much but he was rarely if ever arrogant and always winning to learn and be better.

29 Comments
2025/01/31
02:54 UTC

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freya and dahlia link

sorry but Linked freya is as powerful as s3-5 freya, i mean the link maintain them both alive for centurys and it was dahlia who draw power from freya (stated) not the other way around, freya didn't even know that dahlia was doing that.

  • freya s3-s5 have some raw power feats that are better that s2 freya
8 Comments
2025/01/31
01:42 UTC

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I'M SORRY BUT

Am I the only one who loves Hayley?! And also totally believes she loves Elijah and vice versa? Feel like I'm being naive reading the fandom

Fandom not random edit

33 Comments
2025/01/30
23:26 UTC

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This subs dying huh?😭

47 Comments
2025/01/30
22:49 UTC

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Vampires and temperatures

Does vampires are affected by the weather or do they even feel it ?

I remember in TVD a scene where Rebekah and Matt are outside at night, Matt says that it's freezing and give his coat to Rebekah. She started to say " I'm a vampire. We don't... " but then don't finish and accept the gesture of kindness. I guess she obviously wanted to say " I'm a vampire. We don't feel the cold. " or something like that.

Now I can't remember if there is another vampire in all 3 shows making a remark about cold weather... But I remember many vampires who actually said they could feel the heat. Most of those who have daylight speak of the warmth of the sun.

So... Can vampires actually feel temperature ? Can they feel it but somehow it don't bother them ? Or they don't feel anything at all ? Or maybe they are not affected by the cold because " they are dead " but can still feel heat ? It's kinda weird.

The think is, the way they dress can't even be an indicator. I mean, even if they don't feel the cold, it would drawn so much attention to go out with your short and tank top when everyone is freezing outside, so obviously they would dress like peoples are supposed to.

4 Comments
2025/01/30
22:33 UTC

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How strong are TVDU vampires?

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2025/01/30
15:42 UTC

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Most and least favorite couple?

Most favorite would be klaus and camille for me. I hate that they didnt get more time as a real couple. Or kol and davina.. mostly because davina is one of my favorite characters and i liked how kol was with her.

My least favorite would be freya and keelin. Every time theyre on screen i dont want to look at it. Hate how their relationship started. Freya literally kept her in a barn. Keelin was too good for her, but i find keelin annoying for being with freya lol.

34 Comments
2025/01/30
04:27 UTC

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What historical building in France are Klaus and Caroline in? 5x01

Does anyone know what building this is ?

4 Comments
2025/01/29
18:45 UTC

68

Mikaels favourite daughter

2 Comments
2025/01/29
08:19 UTC

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Who else remembers this ?

3 Comments
2025/01/29
01:09 UTC

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Freya Vs Bonnie stupidity

It hurts me that i scroll on tiktok and there are literal human beings who say Bonnie defeats Freya💔. People say she beats S2 Freya too. are we really the smartest species?💔😭🤦🏽‍♂️

100 Comments
2025/01/28
15:18 UTC

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The thousand years

I honestly can’t fathom that the originals were able to spend a thousand years together,running fighting together etc

Having to travel so far before modern tech

I feel like I would have lost my mind

I feel like they should’ve talked about it more

15 Comments
2025/01/28
15:14 UTC

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The finale

I know they probably killed off Klaus because the actor didn't want to be in the spinoff but I swear they could've just had him body swap or something (as seen in TVD). Let Elijah die off by taking the Hallow, then he could be with Hayley. Bam! Easy and it would actually make more sense!

I hated that finale so much

4 Comments
2025/01/28
03:17 UTC

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I wish that Hope had interactions with Mikel

Honestly I want to know how Mikel would react to Hope. Not baby Hope but maybe 7 year old Hope or 15 year old Hope. I think that Mikel would’ve met 7 year old Hope and melted! Her light would shine through him like Freya’s did when she was young. I also think that if he met 15 year old Hope he would appreciate her strength which is the only thing he values. She is extremely strong as a witch and when she triggers her werewolf side she is the strongest in the world officially. Not to mention her strong will and sarcastic additude. I think that he would like Hope or at least respect her a bit more but on the other hand he could’ve just seen another Klaus. I’m curious to hear your opinions 🤷‍♀️

16 Comments
2025/01/28
01:25 UTC

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ON S2, The original family acting is horrible

So like Finn, in the body of a new guy who acts nothing like Finn Same goes for the mother - the teenage girl did way better in my opinion than Lenora. Vincent and Lenora are just being themselves and don’t feel like Finn or Esther at all. They couldn’t even do their accents which really ruined it for me . They are great actors but not for this role. Klaus often repeats the same cadence it’s getting tiring and boring and I can’t unhear it . It’s weird that he always has the same inflections feels unnatural. Haleys accent is stupid but other than that her acting is great Elijah’s overdoing it, he’s always fixing his sleeves and flicking his head and pointing at stuff, in vampire diaries he was more toned down and great. Rebekka and the girl whose body she is in, honestly the girl sounded just like rebekka at some points thought that was great. Also Amazon primes stupid ui had me skip to s3 and s4 ep 1s and 5 minutes I realised I was on the wrong season, but from what I gathered the story doesn’t even move forward. Is it worth continuing this show ? Does the acting improve ? I like the story so far I’m on s2 episode 15

11 Comments
2025/01/27
15:09 UTC

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Where to watch

Hello i have just finished tvd and im looking to watch the originals and I’ve looked everywhere to watch it but i dont know where so pls recommend me some platforms and can someone pls check if osn plus has the originals ?

4 Comments
2025/01/27
15:05 UTC

50

Who would you Kiss,Marry and Kill in TO?

Kiss: Elijah 😘

Marry: Klaus 💍

Kill: Roman 🔪

39 Comments
2025/01/27
14:37 UTC

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The idea that Klaus sacrificing himself for Hope redeems him is honestly ridiculous.

From his very first appearance in TVD he’s shown as an incredibly malicious, murderous maniac, which from what we see afterwards throughout TO is pretty accurate.

A lot of the discussions on the bad things that he’s done are related to his family, about him daggering his siblings, about him constantly killing Rebekah’s love interests in an attempt to make her emotionally dependent on him, etc. and while these are all true things that already paint him in a horrible light, it’s his actions outside his family that truly make him irredeemable.

One of the my favorite scenes of TO is when Klaus gets put on trial by Marcel and a bunch of the people that he’s sired throughout the centuries are there to serve as jury, and even though they only tell the story of a couple of them, they are extremely horrific and cruel in a way that Klaus seems to be uniquely capable of in this universe. And again, that was only two or three of them, there were probably about a hundred people in the compound watching him be convicted and they all definitely had stories equally horrifying.

That scene is clearly just a fraction of the misery that Klaus has caused throughout the years, because of course he didn’t turn everyone who’s life he ruined, hundreds of thousands of people were murdered by him throughout his millennia in the world, a number given by him at one point, meaning that he’s ruined and traumatized millions of people, something that he’s completely responsible for.

With all of this it’s honestly hilarious how the show tries to portray him as a good man at heart at many points, when he clearly isn’t. He may have been at some point, when he was younger and not a vampire, but that young werewolf died a thousand years before the show starts, all we see at the start is the world’s oldest monster. And no sacrifice, even if it was out of pure, unconditional love towards his daughter, can redeem him of all the pain and suffering he’s caused.

47 Comments
2025/01/27
09:19 UTC

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The Originals 🙌

Credits to rightful owner

3 Comments
2025/01/27
05:24 UTC

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Aya was right

I'm currently going through a depressing day and listening to one of my favorite songs when I'm melancholy which is from the scene in which Elijah is talking to Aya after Davina severed Klaus bloodline and because I'm deep and heartbreak I remember the line very clearly "when you're in love with another man who left you despite your devotion what choice would you have but to break free"

As a teenager even though I was in the middle of a relationship at the age of 18 I felt very angry with her but now that I'm thinking of it again she was right Elijah should have stayed and fought for the strix he loved her and he left her like that to follow his brother who did nothing but torment him with no efforts to change as a person I love Klaus he is one of the best characters written in the entire universe but let's not act like he didn't treat his family likes s*** before Hope from Aya's point of view Elijah betrayed her for nothing she was left to watch everything that both her and Elijah built to be burned into ashes by Mikael one of my favorite things about the third season is that both Aya and Aurora had very valid complaints about them I mean the 2 of them suffered because of mikhaelsons family drama

I think they had every right to want to kill them just like we can agree that Klaus had every right to kill Lucian and it's why I love the third season so much because everything that happens in the season is completely understandable Vincent was more than right when he roasted Freya for sacrificing Davina "you're just as much of a blood sucker as the rest of them" I love them but let's not act like what they've done in their a thousand years of life wasn't extremely amoral.

I mean wouldn't you want to kill Elijah if your life was literally tied to his existence

17 Comments
2025/01/27
03:53 UTC

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jackson the clown

just rewatching the originals out of boredom, currently on season 2 where dahlia wants hope for herself. when jackson kept bugging for hayley and hope to run away and keep running, did he really think this was the solution fr? if klaus and his siblings couldn't even take down dahlia, why in the world did jackson think he, a mere wolf, could? with what? his little bow and arrow? pls jackson was one of the most despicable characters in the show. good riddance to him!

30 Comments
2025/01/27
00:41 UTC

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Klaus is largely responsible for why the originals are so dysfunctional. And Elijah too!

I think Klaus is the main culprit of why the family is so dysfunctional and are always having to defend themselves from external threats. And Elijah is very much complicit. A reason for why Klaus dominates his siblings isn't because of his strength at all. It is solely from the fact that he can dagger his siblings and they can't dagger him back. He basically deals out punishment with impunity. And Elijah seems to go along with this nonsense even tho he is the only one that can somewhat stand up to klaus.

It is not talked about how cruel and how much of a betrayal it is to dagger your own sibling and deprive them of their freedom. I know they are immortal but that shouldn't matter. Finn has every right to be angry with his sibling. 900 years!!! Wtf!! That's your brother! Klaus preaches about how much he loves his family and yet inflict so much emotional and physical pain on them. And he doesn't even think it is that big a deal.

An even bigger issue is the "always and forever" vow. In theory in seems very good. But the originals take it literally. They for some reason force themselves to physically stay together. I have 3 siblings and I love them very much but we are all adults now and it would be very weird and chaotic if we all stayed together in same house. Now imagine doing that for a thousand years. They should have all gone their separate ways and maybe meetup every fews years to catch up. Elijah and Klaus are the main culprits here. They are the only ones that buy into this vow the most. Klaus because he doesn't want to be alone and Elijah because of elder sibling syndrome. I guess you could say Mikael is the reason they were together but first of all Mikael was only after Klaus and even after Mikael died they still wanted to stay together. You guys are immortal. Enjoy your life, explore the world.

Honestly i almost want to rant about Klaus cruelty towards his sibling but people seem to really like him for some reason even tho he has a lot of unlikeable traits and very few redeeming qualities. He is as monstrous as people say he is.

16 Comments
2025/01/26
18:13 UTC

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Elder Scrolls Online

Why did they change the map in the rift now it’s hard to find the vampire and werewolf shrine!

2 Comments
2025/01/26
15:13 UTC

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What siblings do you wish had more interactions

Finn and Rebekah

Finn and Klaus

Elijah and Kol

Finn and Freya

66 Comments
2025/01/26
12:00 UTC

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Silas vs Hope

Silas - Immortal Prime
Hope - Tribrid

15 Comments
2025/01/26
09:18 UTC

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