Something About You

Translation:I would like you to write a parallel between Olicity and Klamille, I thinkthere are some similarities, because I have been reading comments about howboth Felicity and Camille are bad for the main characters of each show, becausethey humanize them. Do you agree with that? How? Why are they bad for theshows? Hugs darling.

Ihaven’t been as invested in Arrow as I used to be, hence why I don’t reallywrite about it anymore. I suppose there are in fact similarities between thetwo female characters: they are the male lead’s main love interests; they helpthe men they love find their inner light; and they both get a great deal ofhate. You asked if I agree with the fact that both Camille and Felicity are badfor their shows: well, no, I don’t. I think that couldn’t be further from thetruth. But then again, my opinion has to do with my understanding of the showand the characters themselves, particularly Klaus Mikaelson and Oliver Queen.

Commonground can also be found between those two, because they are both on a herojourney and they both started off thinking they didn’t deserve love and afraidto see the goodness in them. The women they love have played a huge role inletting them know they were worth it, in showing them the light within by believingin them even in the worst of times, in guiding them towards it when theycouldn’t see it themselves. I can’t see how that could ever be bad for thecharacters or the show when the endgame is for both of them to finally embracethat light and become heroes by doing so.

I’llbe honest with you about the hate. When it comes to Felicity Smoak, 99% of it isn’t even relatedto the character but to a ship that was dead before it even began and was neverthe actual endgame of the show. People hate Felicity because Oliver Queen iswith her and not their fave. The same goes to Camille O’Connell: people hateher because Klaus’s love for her poses a threat to their headcanon fantasy thatis probably never going to happen. However, I refuse to try and analyze thathate or even justify it. It’s wrong, and it’s stupid, and I won’t even dignifythat sort of behavior by making it rational. Ship all you want, just don’t hatecharacters/actors because you can’t have it your way.

There’s something I’ve been meaning to address for a long time regarding Klaus Mikaelson and this post is me finally getting around to do it. For a while now I’ve seen quite some people complain about the “new Klaus”. Apparently, they don’t like that he is now allowing himself to feel something and to express those emotions through, and this will not come out as a tremendous shock, tears. They don’t like soft, sentimental and emotional Klaus Mikaelson. They would rather have the ruthless, manipulative and emotionally shut-down character he was back when he was the actual villain on TVD.

Now, I don’t usually like to comment on other people’s opinions. I’m all in favor of free speech and staying in your lane. However, I am completely appalled every single time I run across this sort of complaints, and I felt the need to explain to you just why it bothers me so much.

I have written a meta on Lucien a while ago where I draw a parallel between him and the Mikaelson family, not just Klaus, if you would like to take a look. Specifically about Lucien and Klaus’s dynamic, I wrote this:

“The problem with people who have a traumatic past and see themselves as monsters is that with time they learn to erect walls around them which turn them into cold, ruthless killers to hide how close to the breaking point they are. In that aspect, Klaus and Lucien are very similar. However, Klaus has always had people who love him and fight for him by his side, showing him it’s okay to be kind, to not give into the temptation of darkness, to be flawed and human. When the compulsion broke, Lucien was lost, vulnerable, and all alone. It was easier to embrace the darkness than to fight it because the wounds ran too deep, and I think that was, maybe more than when he was turned into a vampire, the moment he truly became a monster. He had to make a choice; either he became one, or he would have to live in utter agony for the rest of his days. He had no one to tell him it would get better, that they would help him get through it. So he chose the former.“

I do believe that Klaus Mikaelson could have become Lucien Castle if he didn’t have his family and his loved ones to ground him and make him human, and therefore I can agree that Lucien somehow mirrors Klaus’s storyline, only as an evil counterpart.

Anon 2: What are your favorite family moments on the show?

I fell in love with this show because of the Mikaelsons, so any family moment makes my heart beat a little faster. I love them, I love their bond and I love the dynamic of the family as a whole. There are a million scenes between the core trio, Klaus/Elijah/Rebekah, that I have absolutely loved and still go back to watch them throughout the three seasons. Don’t get me wrong, I love Kol or Freya just as much, but these three are my weak spot. Nevertheless, since you didn’t ask for a Klelijah, Klebekah or Relijah moment, I’ll tell you one of my favorite moments that gathers almost all members of the family: the Christmas party in 3x09.

There was a lot about this that made me tremendously happy, but what I loved most of all was that for a moment, they forgot about their demons, their enemies and the threats on their family and just enjoyed each other’s company. All of them, including Hayley and Camille, because they too are part of the Mikaelsons. It was just about love and unity and it might have just seemed like a sweet, tender moment, but it was so much more than that. It was a glimpse at why this show even exists in the first place. This is all that matters: these characters, these relationships, this love amongst all of them.

I really enjoyed how for a second the show focused on the core trio, because it started with the three of them. They love each other more than anything and yet they rarely have the time to be together, not fighting or turning against each other, just spending time together, because they love each other. Simple as that.

Furthermore, Rebekah Mikaelson was back and I think everyone knows by now how much I love my precious badass fragile queen. It’s nice for once to have her give relationship advice to Klaus as if they were a perfectly normal brother and sister, because after everything they have been through, there is nothing they want more than to see each other happy.

It was also Freya’s first Christmas with the family, which is absolutely sweet but also plays a huge part in her storyline. She finally feels like she belongs with these people.

Finally, it’s incredibly important that Hayley was there, as family. She had been fighting Jackson over the Mikaelsons for a while, but in this moment they both finally embraced that she will always be one of them. She loves them and they love her, and they all protect each other. They are family.

If you’re talking about the way she appears on the trailer, I would be more inclined to believe it’s Klaus hallucinating on his own and without the influence of the Ghouls (someone pointed out I should correct the “sirens” reference here, and since I have no idea what or who these villains are I’ll take their word for it), because after all he has been imprisoned and tortured for five years; he’s bound to get a little craz(ier)y. In the future, however, I can totally see that happening. His love for Cami is his strength but also his weak spot, and his enemies could very well, as others have done before, manipulate that affection to weaken him.

Coming back as in being resurrected? I highly doubt it. I wish I was as hopeful as some other lovely people in the fandom who do believe that’s a possibility, but I don’t think they would go to all the trouble of backing their lame decision of killing her if they were thinking of reversing it entirely in the first place. I’m confident she will make occasional appearances in hallucinations, dreams or even flashbacks, but it just seems really unlikely that they’ll actually bring her back from the dead. Don’t get me wrong, I would be over the moon if they did, I just don’t think they would.

Anon 2: When did you think Cami knew she was in love with Klaus?

It is hard to pinpoint the exact moment when someone falls in love with another person. Love is built on many little moments until one day, without even noticing how it happened, you realize that that person has changed your life and you can’t imagine yourself without them. It’s a journey with no start or finish.

I do, however, believe that you can’t love someone without knowing them. And because of that, I would have to say that the moment I believe Camille O’Connell really started to love Klaus in the full sense of the word was when he let her in and showed her a fraction of his past back in episode 1x09.

You see, until then Klaus hid his true colors under charm and a cute accent, but she always knew there was more to him than that. It’s why she never gave up on him despite knowing all of the awful things he had done and was still doing. She believed there had to be something, some humanity left in him, but he wouldn’t let her in, and Cami could not love a person who didn’t even allow her to know them. So when Klaus showed her what had been done to him, he was meeting her halfway. It didn’t matter if it was just a small part of his past, it was something; it was proof that he was letting his guard down and letting her in. And in that moment, Camille O’Connell saw the Klaus Mikaelson she knew to be under that monster façade: someone with a good and pure heart who loved too deeply and had suffered too much. She could never be scared of him, because despite him only seeing a monster, she saw him as the most human he had ever been around her. Weak, vulnerable, and broken, but still beautiful. Still worth it.

I don’t know if she realized then and there that she loved him, but she did fall in love with that man. The man only few people knew, the man behind the monster, the man who was so similar to her. Who fought an inner battle between darkness and light, who was desperately holding to any humanity left despite everything he had been through. And the man who was worth fighting for.

As to when Camille actually realized she had feelings for Klaus, I’m not sure, but I am tempted to say it was when he allowed her to say goodbye to her uncle and later saved her from him, in 1x19.

I think it’s beautiful how after five years, Camille O’Connell is still the one who keeps Klaus going even as he suffers through endless days of constant torment. That is the definition of true, undying love and it’s a rare and exquisite thing.

Cami has been Klaus’s refuge ever since they met. She was the one talking him out of stupid decisions, calming him down and making him think it through and choose to do better. She was the light at the end of the tunnel which made him want to walk towards it in the first place. She was one of his few links to humanity, his balance and the reason why he fought to embrace the goodness in him. And when she left him, he made a promise. He promised he wouldn’t let go, he promised he would do right by her and Hope just like she asked him to, he promised her to be the light when darkness surrounded him.

I don’t mean to disappoint you but I’ve learnt not to trust in anything the writers say except what they actually write and happens on screen. People often post on social media without worrying too much about the meaning someone might infer from that post, but more often than that, writers and the overall crew and cast of a television show post stuff on social media to attract more viewers, because more viewers equals more money. That’s just the way things work. Is MN posting that exact quote on the same day as the promo comes out a coincidence? Hell not. Does it mean anything about the actual direction they will be following on the show? It can go either way, but probably not. Call it fan-bait, fan-service or whatever you want to call it, but that’s what they are doing. I personally don’t like those terms because they let out the wrong idea that pleasing fans is not what you’re supposed to do. It’s exactly what you’re supposed to do, because more fans equals more viewers and, like I said, more viewers equals more money. However, what MN is doing is not quite that. He is trying to lure back a great portion of his audience, whom he lost by killing off Cami, by feeding us a 3 second hallucination to make us want to watch the episode only for us to realize later on that it was just a one time thing and Cami is still dead. Am I falling for it? Hell yeah, but I’m not so blind as to not know exactly what I’m falling for.

Some days ago, when answering this ask, I talked about how Klaus and Camille’s love is a soulmate connection that goes beyond time and space and how you only find a love like that once in a lifetime. That is what I believe in because that is what I watched develop between them over the course of three years, not because I believe a single word MN posts on Twitter. Do I have hope that Camille O’Connell is the one and only love of Klaus Mikaelson’s life? Yes, I do, and I firmly believe that’s the story they are telling, but not because of social media hints.