Will Hope Mikaelson be the exception to every supernatural law on ‘Legacies’?
The only official tribrid on record, Hope Mikaelson has only ever had access to her witch bloodline. Now that she’s triggered her werewolf curse, what does that mean for the supernatural balance?
We learned a long time ago on The Vampire Diaries that when it comes to supernatural beings, you cannot be more than one type at a time. For example, when Rebekah Mikaelson was turned into an Original vampire, she lost her connection to the magical abilities of the Mikaelson witch bloodline. Simple rule to remember, right?
Sadly, wrong. Soon after learning all about that succinct supernatural law, along comes Klaus and his hybrid curse to muddy the waters for us. Now, since he was born a werewolf, but turned into a vampire by magic, it seemed plausible that he somehow found a loophole in the laws of the supernatural world.
His hybrids lose their werewolf title and curse when they are turned by him, so they don’t truly live in both worlds, satisfying the previously mentioned law. They are a totally new breed of supernatural beings that just so happen to have similar abilities to werewolves and vampires.
Enter Hope Mikaelson and her twisted, crazy lineage that somehow gives her a toe into three different sects of the supernatural world. She is a born Crescent wolf, has the Mikaelson magical abilities in her blood, and was the product of some hybrid on werewolf sex, which sort of gives her a place in the vampire world, too.
If we set aside her vampire lineage for the time being, since the only way to become a vampire is to die (therefore nullifying any of her other supernatural identities), we still have her werewolf and witch lineages to try and justify.
Prior to the events of the last few Originals episodes, I was under the impression that because her werewolf side was still dormant, her magical Mikaelson blood was the only active bloodline.
However, in The Originals penultimate episode, “The Tale of Two Wolves,” Hope Mikaelson transforms for the first time after triggering her werewolf curse by accident in the previous episode. I found myself wondering if she would suddenly realize that her magical abilities were no longer in her reach. I was certainly quite confused when she returned from her first werewolf run and immediately used magic against her father before he could sacrifice himself to save her.
Is she only able to exist in both the witch and werewolf worlds because she was born into both? That’s the obvious answer, but as we’ve never had a witch who had another supernatural bloodline in her lineage, this is all new territory.
More than just how she manages to occupy two different supernatural identities, does this mean that Hope is going to find herself the exception to the rule more times than not throughout Legacies? Or will her lineage stop being such a huge deal once we get into the drama of high school and Mystic Falls? Only future episodes of Legacies will tell us the answers to these, so, alas, we wait. We are just north of two months away from the premiere of the latest chapter in the TVDU, and I, for one, can’t wait to see what’s next.
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