Wolves & Hybrids · Era VII, The Legacies
Hope Becomes the Tribrid
Hope's vampire nature stays dormant until she dies with vampire blood in her system. When she finally activates it she is the first fully-realised tribrid — and because a tribrid's vampire half comes with a humanity switch, briefly the most dangerous thing that has ever existed. Malivore is destroyed. So, nearly, is everyone else.
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- The switch is flipped off for a long stretch, and the show finally cashes in a thousand years of Mikaelson temper in one person.
- Klaus's daughter turning off her humanity to survive grief is the most on-theme thing the franchise ever does.
- Her transition requires her to die with vampire blood in her system, and she resists it for two full seasons.
- With her humanity off she is stronger than any Original ever was and the school has no mechanism to stop her.
- Turning it back on costs her more than the fight did, which is the same beat TVD ran with Stefan, done with the volume up.