Bloodlines & Houses · Era II, The Mikaelsons
Henrik’s Death
The youngest Mikaelson. Klaus sneaked him out to watch the wolves change and one of them tore him apart. Esther, refusing to bury another child, went looking for a spell that would make the rest of them impossible to kill. Everything in eleven seasons of television descends from one boy's curiosity and one brother's bad judgement.
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- Klaus has carried the blame for a thousand years and it informs every cruelty he commits.
- Rebekah and Klaus are the two who never stop talking about him. Rebekah remembers him; Klaus carries the guilt as his defining wound.
- Esther's grief is the reason the immortality spell exists at all, which makes Henrik the single most consequential dead child in television.