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But I assure you, father. They have no idea what they're up against.
Finn to a neutralized Mikael in Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire

The relationship between the Original vampires, Mikael and Finn Mikaelson.

As Original vampires, they ironically both shared a hatred of their species. However, unlike Mikael, who violently lashed out and hunted his own kind, Finn grew suicidal and distant as a vampire. Both Mikael and Finn were killed by white oak stakes before being resurrected around the same time by different means.

Early History[]

Middle Ages[]

Finn was Mikael's oldest son and most obedient child. When Finn was a small boy, Mikael was a loving father for him and his older sister Freya. However when Freya was five years old, Dahlia came to take Mikael's beloved daughter. This was part of the deal the two sisters had made when Esther asked Dahlia to make her fertile by using magic. Finn was traumatized by his aunt and by the loss of his sister. He became very close with his mother, knowing of her sacrifice, something Mikael didn't even know about.

When Mikael returned from battle, Esther told him that Freya had died from the plague. Because of that Mikael became hard and strict parent. Finn, along with Elijah and Kol, however were never subject to as cruel of punishments as Klaus was by Mikael. After the death of Henrik at the hands of the werewolves, Mikael forced their children to drink the blood of a local village girl, Tatia, to begin their transformation into vampires. Mikael then murdered Finn, along with his other siblings, and then forced them to feed on human blood when they were revived, turning them into the world's first vampires.

Soon after, it was discovered that Klaus wasn't Mikael's child and was part werewolf. Soon after his werewolf side was forced into dormancy by his parents, Klaus murdered Esther, and then told Finn and their other siblings that Mikael was responsible for their mother's death. Finn very loved and respected his mother, so when he heard about it he probably hated his father and together with his siblings ran and kept hidden from Mikael for only one century, because in 1114 he was daggered by the Five in Italy. After Klaus annihilated the Five, he undaggered all of his half-siblings except Finn, because he was tired of Finn's judgmental attitude. Klaus kept Finn in the coffin for almost 900 years, effectively cutting off any future meetings with his father.

Throughout The Originals Series[]

Season Two[]

In The Map of Moments, Mikael made an alliance with Esther who then had Mikael free Finn from Klaus' captivity.

In Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire, while Esther was missing, Finn and Mikael plotted to destroy the vampires of New Orleans. When Mikael stated his intent to help Finn, Finn assured his father that he could use a man of his strength. Finn then used a sacrificial spell similar to those used by Papa Tunde, to neutralize his father and draw his power into his own magic, which allowed him to trap vampires and werewolves in the compound and force them to turn against each other. Later, after learning that Esther had transitioned into a vampire, Finn did the same spell on her and put her next to Mikael, channeling both his parents' power as his own. He stood over them, explaining how their family had never recovered after sacrificing Freya, claiming that his younger siblings were monsters and he'd destroy them all.

In They All Asked For You, having had his link to more power severed by his siblings, Finn intended to re-channel his father's strength to fuel his magic but Freya asked him to let her see him instead. Finn tried to explain to Freya how much Mikael had changed from when she last knew him, saying he'd become a monster despite years of Finn hoping he'd return to his normal self but the loss of Freya had changed him for the worse. Finn brought Freya to where he was keeping their parents as a power source and again tried to convince her to not speak to Mikael. However, he eventually let her speak to their father alone, taking their mother's neutralized body away.

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