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[Have a particularly charming British accent address you all as he's settling himself in. It's not that he's particularly not wanting to show his face. After all it's enough that people can easily find him here, even if he may or may not have already lied about his identity.]

So as I understand it, and pardon the questions since I'm sure you all go through this periodically it seems, but this city and its gods are under attack, and they've called upon us to save it and their people and our own worlds from becoming colorless drabs.

Now that's all fine and well, who doesn't love a good epic, but my only question is why do they remove our own abilities? I know for a fact with the lot that have been taken from my own, plus toss in a few good witches, and this whole affair would be over by Christmas, back to our own worlds where we have pressing matters. [Like taking over New Orleans.]

I'm not saying I'm any type of hero. In fact I'm finding myself at a loss of what to do here. So aside from the gripes about losing my power as an Original vampire and all it took to gain becoming a hybrid again, [You know, poor Aunt Jenna] I have little knowledge on what to do here.

So I ask both about the purpose of these powers these gods have bestowed as well as the power structure of this place. I'm sure there must be someone monopolizing on the power or rather powerless here.

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[It's a little strange how people to not know these terms, and it's leaving him second guessing announcing himself. However it also has allowed him to peacock, and Klaus loves to peacock. Besides his once weaknesses back home are moot here.]

A hybrid is a vampire who happens to also be a werewolf. Only the circumstances of creating both are a little difficult to create. I seem to be the only one, for now anyway. [Because Tyler doesn't count, but hey, he's got a kid on the way.]

It seems that our plans align the same. [But you know, still interested in how power works here. Just in case.]

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[ Hey, Peter's never met a vampire in his life but he's familiar enough with the basic lore and is honestly not at all surprised they exist. Especially here. But the whole hybrid thing pings his curiosity. The answer he ends up getting? He has to say, and this isn't a very common phenomenon when it comes to Peter, but he's pretty impressed. ]

A vampire-werewolf. That actually exists. Wow. You must be pissed you've lost all of that here.

Which, to answer your question, is because apparently having our original abilities would kill us. Different universes, different energies. Something like that. Yet they somehow find it in themselves to replace said useful abilities with benignly awful ones. The logic in this decision making process is astounding.

You've entirely no idea just what it took to get those abilities in the first place, and the exact anger that comes with having them taken from me.

[He doesn't trust these gods, these stories, nor does he have sympathy for this place's plight. He's mostly just an overgrown child, mad that someone took his toys.]

From the overly helpful and useless comments others have made, it has to do with limited power. However the easy answer to that is grant few people the ability of strong powers, this way cutting out less people taken here, and there. You will be stronger than your opponents. Numbers isn't everything in strategy. There is always power.

Something this place seems to lack. Or at least what I gather, the intelligence behind it.

While I can't exactly speak for the blood-sucking part of your skill set. I can say that being born as a wolf and having half of my entire being rather rudely torn away from me was a bit of a buzzkill. So I sympathize in that respect. [ Overgrown man-children represent. ]

Logic! Can we maybe weed out the mind numbing idiots and grade school children flooding this place? Cut them off, preserve more power, give the legitimately useful people more power or better yet, their original powers, problem solved. I've tried to make this argument before about 95% of the population seemed to disagree that this excellent idea was worth any merit.

Seeing as the gods here are apparently incapable of predicting, seeing, or stopping an oncoming flood, I'm really not all that surprised.

A werewolf? Interesting. [Never mind that he nearly wiped them out of the Bayou. That was only for the gain of having the vampires on his side. Here, with his number of enemies increasing, it would be good to at least have someone of the same mindset on his side. Kol, his brother, helps, but Kol has always had his own vendetta, and here Klaus isn't sure what is to come of that.]

I had a curse put on me for a thousand years to temper my wolf, and it was only recently broken. I can understand having it ripped away.

[Pity party for two.]

Most seem to be sheep, willing to be lead to the slaughter. I've heard restoring ones powers could kill the person, but what good is mere children in war time? Or those who have never stratagized, used magic, or dare I say it? Killed before. 

Surviving is a messy business.

[ And Peter's 100% oblivious to the whole werewolf/vampire feud that exists and frankly, probably wouldn't even care at this point. How convenient. ] A thousand years. Gotta say, you've got me beat there.

[ Poor poor them. ]

Let's not forget the plethora of people, children and adults alike, with the moral code of a boy scout. I can list a few people off the top of my head who have killed but getting them to do it again would be like pulling teeth. So, these gods have a collection of reluctant warriors and kids who probably still wet the bed. I have high hopes for this oncoming war.

Honestly? Trying to regain our abilities and potentially killing ourselves would probably be more productive at this point.

Vampirism. Point of the Original witch turning us into vampires is that we were eternal. She got her wish. At least in my case.

[RIP Kol and Finn.]

I have already gotten a morality speech once here. About how we're all equals and I should reevaluate how I do things. Most likely when push comes to shove, some here are of the do gooder, hero variety and will muscle up the strength to do what is needed, etc etc. 

I'm honestly quite tired of that story. The world never works like that. Why should it here? If there is a power imbalance, someone will monopolize on it. Whether it be the gods here, trying to remain on top, or those giants I have heard of. My money is on us not having all the information. And I'm not likely to trust the source. 

Isn't there a medical condition of trusting your captor? Stockholm syndrome?

[Klaus, you are really one to talk, judging how people exist here. Still the more he hears, the less he likes. It agitates him like a caged wolf. He's never been one for repression either, so it's not likely to end pretty.]

And here I thought pissed off druids were a pain in the ass.

Don't even get me on morality speeches. I've gotten about thirty at this point. First one on my arrival which resulted in some total stranger kung-fuing me on the basis that we had a disagreement. Swell guys, these heroic types.

Stockholm syndrome. Now there's an interesting thought. But I think you're giving stupid people too much credit. No, I think it just dwindles down to ignorance and stupidity. Saving the world for these types is like giving candy to a fat kid. They just need to hear that they're being depended on, they're the world's only hope, blahblahblah and bam. You've got them hooked.

[ Peter hasn't liked it from the get-go, but every explanation and bullshit reason he's been given so far has just made him... further loath it. ]

I mean, I actually tried to reason with one of the gods the other day during the flood. He insulted me a couple of times and then was off. So these are our almighty leaders.

Personally I'm voting for Team Giants. Let them take over this craphole. Though apparently I could potentially get cursed for saying something like that. So we're also being run under an oppressive dictatorship.

[He finds himself utterly amused and liking this guy more and more.]

It's alright. I'm expecting a few more speeches before this post is out-- I sort of lied about who I was to the lover of someone I tried to-- shall we say monopolize on...?

Anyway it's a whole affair now, I'm sure.

[Does he care? Nope.]

Great. So what I'm learning is this place isn't even worth the effort. I'd rather go back to New Orleans. [To his kingdom, thank you.]

[ Please. If you ever got transported back home. Move to Beacon Hills, Klaus. You will make Peter's existence 20x more tolerable. ]

And I'd rather go back to my hellhole of a hometown in California which I'm sure is considerably less interesting than New Orleans.

And that's saying something.

You'd love New Orleans. Although werewolves were chased out. I'm fixing that though. A close... friend of mine is a werewolf, under my protection.

[Read: baby mama drama.]

So then. Does the whole, vampire versus werewolf thing have any actual legitimacy? I'm curious. We've got werewolves, were-snakes, druids, hunters, and oversized magical tree stumps but surprisingly no vampires.

In most circles. Vampires tend to be more powerful, but a werewolf's bite can kill a vampire who isn't an Original. And then there's me.

More powerful.

[ Power. More. That sounds nice. ]

So the hybrid thing. How does that work. You get the double-bite or something?

[ Peter's actually pretty interested in this crap. When it comes to the supernatural and things that can make him more and/or less powerful, he's up for listening. ]

Until recently only I could turn a hybrid. Needless to say, life is a bit complicated back home. I needed another source of magic to turn hybrids which was abruptly depleted thanks to my sister's lack of thinking things through.

[Always blame Rebekah.]

I didn't think it possible, but it seems hybrids can be made again. However it will take time, and that is the least of my focus right now. 

But yes, hybrids are nearly indestructible. It can be done of course, but it's taking a werewolf and adding the abilities of a vampire while taking away the pain of the full moon.

Wait.

[ Record scratch. ]

Pain of the full moon?

[ HOLD on. ]

Is this some New Orleans werewolf thing? You guys do the... only shifting on the full moon thing or what?

It isn't just in New Orleans. And I can assure you it is painful, having gone through it only once. Though as a hybrid, I'm free of that.

Every werewolf I've ever met has been able to shift at will. A full moon and various other lunar phases can alter the effects but in general the whole... only on the full moon thing was always a myth as far as I knew.

Sounds like your werewolves kind of suck. Just saying.

Being a hybrid made them stronger. It certainly wasn't an easy life as a werewolf for them. I wouldn't know. I was an Original first.

I would imagine. A monthly pain in the ass sounds more like... well. Anyway.

There even happens to be blood and cramping. [Did you mean to end the joke there? Klaus doesn't know when to say when.]

Werewolves go into the wilderness when they change. It's been this way since I was a child. Though I never met my father, my biological father. My mother never told me who he was, and I never gave her the chance. But there was a pack not far from our village. We'd go to watch them change back in the mornings after a full moon. Times were simpler then. No Teen Mom on MTV or Facebook.

[ That earns a short bark of a laugh like. Probably the first time Peter's laughed in who the fuck knows how long. At that great shining gem of humor right there. ]

I imagine watching a werewolf change with your family was just as enthralling of a bonding experience as Teen Mom in the long run.

But yes, the woods are where we run to on instinct, but in Beacon Hills we have the glaringly apparent problem of hunters. A whole family of them. They patrol them pretty regularly. Anyway, I took to going out on the town as an alternative when I was Alpha. People didn't seem to appreciate that either. Oh well.

I learned early on that you can never appease everyone.

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