Sooo I’m back after a week vacay and I really needed to break from tumblr tbh, anyway, I watched 5x08 and these are my predictions for the rest of the season
- Elijah is not surviving this season. They’ve made it abundantly clear that Elijah will die. Probably for his family, but die nonetheless.
- Hayley will not return. The huge tributes to her this episode make it very very clear that Hayley’s death was a permanent one. Those with full funerals tend not to make it back onto the show (Cami, Jackson, Finn and now Hayley) Davina never had a full funeral, she had a choppy few frames alongside Cami’s, I think it was always intended for her to come back. Same goes with Kol, he never had a proper funeral because they intended his resurrection. I think the capacity we will see her in from now on will be more flashbacks and maybe a spirit conversation or two, but I dont think she’ll ever return to her corporeal form. The full funeral and an entire episode dedicated to Klaus’ pain over her death solidified it for me that she wont be coming back.
- Rebekah will end this as a human. There is too much reiteration of the fact that she cannot and will never be happy as a vampire. It’s always been her central theme and they really hammered it last episode. She’ll become human someway and leave to live off her human life.
- I’m pretty sure Marcel will also be human alongside her. I think his speech about using the city as a replacement for her means that he’ll finally learn to leave the city behind once and for all and be with Rebekah.
- Klaus wont be around for Hope in the future. There’s been a lot of lamenting on how Klaus has missed out, and how he wants to be there for Hope but he just can’t be. I think some circumstances will lead to Klaus being absent from Hope’s life permanently, but I think that in order to stop rehashing the same story over and over again with Hope and her parents - in that she’s always separated but knowing they’re out there - I think she’ll have closure in the ‘knowledge’ that she will never see her parents again as a stone cold fact, so she wont have to spend the rest of her life fighting and hoping to see them again. I think Klaus will either truly die (his sireline was cut off, so this is a possibility that wont mess up anything for Julie’s spinoff) or he’ll fake his death.
- I think the emphasis on Freya being there for Hope in a mum-like capacity this season is probably to add something to the mix when Keelin announces she’s pregnant. Potentially Freya freaking out that she can’t do it, and Keelin being like “you can” and using her mothering ways towards Hope as an example.