I probably prefer the spin-off "The Originals" to the series "Vampire Diaries", apparently for the main character Niklaus. As I once stick to the point that nothing is too black or white, it is quite reasonable for me to adore this villain in the drama.
Born out of wedlock, Klaus was the consequence of an adulterous relationship between his mother and an unknown werewolf father. His stepfather Mikael wanted to kill Klaus because he saw Klaus as a "sort of abomination". Spending years after years to run away from Mikael, Klaus led a dark and bloody life as if a lonesome wolf was slipping in the wood, a beast that the mere thought of it made anybody shiver. Pained by the betrayal and abandonment from the ones he treasured, Klaus started to put up a wall to protect himself from needing someone and covered his loneliness by the cruelest actions that you could possibly imagine. He tortured and killed numerous people in a wink for just a minor basis or simply for entertainment with no remorse later on. Everybody abhorred him, even his siblings refused to trust him over someone else. I almost remember every single word he made for Elijah and Rebekah:
"I bowed down to you, brother, to make up for daggering you for the greater good of our plan to reclaim our home. I looked the other way, sister, while you repeat the same cycle with Marcel, falling again for a man you shouldn't be with while he controls the empire that we built, that he took. Now I make no excuse for past sins, but in the one moment when you two could have chosen to stand by me, to believe in me, to believe that my intentions for my own child were pure, you turned against me to side with my enemies. I wanted our home back, and now I have it. So I'm going to live there and the two of you can stay here together and rot."
Yup, he didn't make it easy to love him but I figured out countless reasons to adore this man. He is so real that nobody ever dares to live like him.
Have you ever wanted to give someone a slap? Have you ever come up with a thought of punishing someone? Has the monster of rage inside you ever grown so strong that you would like to kill someone? I assume the answer is "yes", though those thoughts merely flashed in mind within a minute for the morality inly would prevent you from making them come true. We all are human-beings and do have dirty ideas now and then, but none of us dare to work it out of mind. We learn affected manners to treat the ones who only deserve the worst things from us. We must smile and be nice despite our hatred. We learn to hold our burning rage and play our roles in a drama named "life".
Whereas Klaus didn't need to act the same way. He never hesitated to punish enemies by the most brutal thoughts coming through the mind. His sentiment was quite obvious: love and hatred. As he loved, he dedicated his life to the girl and surely made her become the luckiest and happiest one on the planet with his passionate and romantic heart. And to the ones betrayed and hurt him by all means would get the worst revenge. Dare to think and dare to make it work! Once his determine was set, nothing could possibly stop him. That's the sort of an ideal mean I'm seeking lolz~ Sadly, he is only on the screen of my laptop.
Virtually all viewers would reckon Klaus hungered for power which hurried him to trigger wholesale slaughters. What has to be said on the more personal level is that his sole purpose was bringing back his friends, loyal ones, and above all, his family, house, lands that had been taken away by his adopted son Marcel. Because he miserably felt intensely jealous of Marcel whose life was his burning desire all the time, his motives were reasonable. Sadly, he was not aware that a king would be more forlorn and tough in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Well, nobody seems to understand him, or in fact they never want to do. People accused him of millions of the worst and most ignoble sins that he barely minded regretting. His bad reputation was accurate, though I'm obstinate in my belief there are two sides to every personality and I think nobody is completely too good or too bad in fact.
While vicious battlefields between Klaus and Marcel, clashes between vampires and werewolves successfully appeal to a mass of audiences, I have a tendency to focus on Klaus' internal life and found it pretty interesting :') The more I've got about his true identity, the more I'm fond of him =))
With all my admiration,
Hal
