#tuas

(spoilers for all of season one)

okay so we all know how klaus can only use his powers when he's sober, right?? like, we've established that.

and yet. and yet.

ben.

how do we explain ben? he's there all the freaking time. klaus's sobriety has ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT on whether he can see ben or not. so how do we explain this?

my theory: he can't. he can't see ben. my theory is literally that he can't actually see ben.

i mean, think about it! ben was still a kid when he died, wasn't he? so why does his ghost look the same age as klaus?? and how come there's no gore?? didn't they heavily imply that ben's death was a horrible one? so shouldn't he look like a bloody, gorey mess??

the only thing i can think of to explain these problems (1. he can see ben all of the time, even when he's high as a kite, 2. ben's ghost appears to have aged with klaus, and 3. ben's ghost doesn't look to be physically harmed in anyway, despite seemingly dying a horrible death) is that he hasn't been seeing ben at all: rather, it's been a hallucination this whole time.

to further prove this theory, i remember reading that in the comics ben only ever appears in flashbacks. so, rather than changing that and putting in all these plot holes, wouldn't it make more sense that klaus just hallucinated ben because he missed him and mourned him and he knew he alone could see ghosts, so if he started seeing a person who no one else could see, and no one including himself could touch, why would he ever question it? it must be a ghost, right? or so he would think.

finally, the main issue with this theory: the final episodes, where ben appears to pull diego out of harm's way and rip apart a bunch of assassins. how do i explain this? well, knowing that klaus is capable of telekinesis in the comics, my guess is that it was really klaus who moved diego and tore apart those assassins, using his telekinesis, which he can't yet fully control. my theory is that he unknowingly awakened it and when he is in desperate need he is able to get it to work, but his mind rationalizes it to him that it's ben doing these things, not him—because, how could it be him? his only powers are to communicate with the dead! (as far as he knows.)