A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge of New Orleans, in order to re-take his city, as he originally built New Orleans. Klaus departed from the city after being chased down by his father Mikael, while it was being constructed and Marcel took charge. As Klaus has returned after many years, his ego has provoked him to become the king of the city. "Every King needs an heir" says Klaus, accepting the unborn child. The child is a first to be born to a hybrid and a werewolf.
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Most of the of the main characters, mainly Klaus, frequently display abusive behaviours and exhibit toxic co-dependency towards each other, and are often overly ruthless towards their enemies as a direct result of their childhood trauma. It's a major theme of the show that none of them can fully escape it. However they still succeed at giving Hope a much better childhood than they had. So, ultimately it ends with a note of optimism that the Mikaelson legacy will be less toxic with Hope, but the trope is played straight throughout the series, with much of Klaus' behaviour clearly stemming from a fear of being victimized again - a 'they can't hurt me if I hurt them first' mentality.
Throughout season 1 a woman is repeatedly forced to forget things she has learnt through magical means and has to leave notes for herself to remember them, only to have this knowledge taken away again.
You don't see anything onscreen, but in a flashback it is mentioned that a character's horse has been killed and its head displayed on a pike in the town square
additional information on the age gap - due to most characters not having clear ages and the actors aging while their characters don't, the age gap looks worse than it is, but it's actually around 1-3 years, 4 at most. While we don't have a canon age for Kol, we can extrapolate from knowing the approximate ages of Freya, Finn and Elijah, that he was likely 18-20 when he was turned. Davina is 17/18 during season 2. Of course he's still hiding his identity at the beginning of their relationship, but the way the earlier comment is phrased makes it sound like the body he's possessing is significantly younger than his own when they're both late teens/early 20's. (Of course he's still over 1000 (minus probably a few hundred years spent daggered) but it's stated that vampires cannot mature past the age they were turned.)
Probably not technically quite cannibalism as humans and vampires are different species, but Klaus is shown taking a bite of a human's heart he rips out.
Technically they are not "alive" since they are vampires. But as a form of punishment they are stabbed in the heart and buried or put in a coffin until they decide to pull the dagger out and then they are fine
Commonly and extensively. Characters are often starved, bled out, physically and mentally tortured and forced to endure various punishments throughout the show.
There is a plot line in season 2 revolving around characters being trapped in an abandoned sanatorium, coupled with hallucinations and various horror elements.
well, two main characters kill themselves to save someone. (technically each other, but still) and i remember someone jumping out of a window, she did wake up as a vampire though
No actual incest, but lots of pseudo-incestuous weirdness. One of the main relationships is between two characters who are kinda aunt/nephew by adoption. They obviously don't view each other that way, and she presumably had no part in raising him, but it still might bother some people that he's dating his adopted father's sister/her brother's adopted son.
There's a lot of overlap with various family members dating the same people - one of the main relationships is between a man and a woman who is the mother of his niece, which begins while she is pregnant. Two characters briefly date early in the show before she becomes involved with his adopted father instead.
It's briefly mentioned that a character once took his sister as his date to a party before he knew she was his sister.
In season 3 a villainous brother/sister have an uncomfortably close/obsessive relationship.
No overt incest, but the unhealthy and abusive dynamic between a protagonist brother/sister, especially in season 1, could be enough to trigger some survivors - he behaves possessively towards her, murdering her lovers because 'they're not good enough for her' and appears jealous of her relationships with any other men.