The Originals: 5 Reasons Why Klaus and Cami Should Have A Couple (& 5 Why They Shouldn’t) – Screen Rant

Klaus and Caroline's relationship from The Vampire Diaries is probably the most popular ship among the TVD universe fan base. But Caroline Forbes is not the only blonde love interest in the hybrid's life. Throughout The Originals, the first TVD spinoff, Klaus hit it off with a psychmajor bartender named Camille O'Connell.

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As the show progressed, their complicated and messy relationship became romantic but never quite panned out. Considering the problems they faced, perhaps it was for the best. Here are five reasons why Klaus and Cami should have been together, and five why they should not.

From their earliest interactions, Cami had an affinity for the original vampire's dark side. As they stood side by side watching a street artist paint a mural, she analyzed it so accurately that she might as well havediagnosed Klaus himself. He recognized that immediatelyand it scared him a little.

While Klaus's violence is inexcusable, Cami still felt sympathy for the pain that changed him into the monster he became. He always pushed her away, but she gave him respite in saying no one deserved that kind of pain.

Once he took a shining to Cami's overzealous psychological analysis, Klaus looked to her as someone to talk to. But he expected her to take his side in all things and fix his failings. The problem was he didn't accept responsibility for his flaws, so when Cami failed to tell him what he wanted to hear, he always lashed out.

He wanted Cami to give him a simple fix to his familial problems without ever holding himself accountable for his actions. It was an unfair expectation to hold for a loved one.

Whether they were up or down in their friendship, Klaus always came to Cami's rescue when she needed him. When Aurora kidnapped her, Klaus went after themad vampire despite their long and passionate history.

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As Cami spiraled with her uncle Kieran's slow death from Genevieve's curse,Klaus offered consolation with the words, "Don't give up. Let go." More than that, it was the first time Klaus acknowledged his hand in causing someone else's pain and taking responsibility for his actions. He never did that for anyone else before Cami.

Rather than talk to her like a normal person, Klaus compelled Cami to listen to his story so she could write down his memoirs. Every time she left his apartment she immediately forgot everything. He used Cami as his personal therapist and didn't give her a choice in the creation of their relationship.

That kind of manipulation and control is not a healthy and solid foundation to build a romance on. Cami came to have affection for Klaus eventually, but it was attached to an initial forced relationship.

As volatile as Klaus could be, he was equally capable of warmth and love. Like Caroline, Cami brought out a softer side to the usually violent hybrid. His desire to protect her from harm and keep her a force of good in a dark world forced him to learn to be gentler.

Cami was one of few people who could quell Klaus's temper when he went on a rampage. When Davina aided Mikael against her will, Klaus was ready to kill the young witch, but Cami convinced him not to hurt her.

Klaus didn't always listen to Cami's counsel. Sometimes his rage got the better of him and he became vindictive, purposefully hurting people she cared about. When Detective Will Kinney came into town and began investigating the supernatural goings-on, he compelled the detective to give up.

He could have left it at that, but as a jab at Cami's affection for the detective, Klaus compelled him to forever feel like a failure for never solving the mysteries of the vampiric French Quarter. It almost led to Kinney's death by suicide.

Klaus's biggest issue always stemmed from a lack of trust. He thought everyone wanted to betray him until he made conditions so bad that they did. When Dahlia came into town to take Hope, it seemed that Klaus had teamed up with her to make that happen.

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But Cami trusted Klaus in his plan to double-cross Dahlia. Despite the cruel and violent acts Klaus was capable of, Cami trusted him to have his daughter's best interest at heart. Her faith in Klaus paid off as he succeeded in tricking his aunt.

Klaus constantly went back and forth between being Cami's friend and pushing her away. At the end of season one, when everyone thought Klaus and Hayley's baby died, Cami rushed to be by Klaus's side. But he told her while he appreciated her presence, he needed her to leave and that they couldn't be friends.

He admitted that she had him pegged right from the start and that his demons would destroy everything beautiful in his life, including her. Klaus always thought by rejecting her he was protecting her.

Klaus played the victim time and time again, but Cami never allowed it. Even under compulsion as she transcribed his life's story she told him he spoke in circles. She called him out on his vicious, toxic cycle stating, "You are the architect of your own unhappiness."

She recognized that Klaus's insistence that the world was out to get him was a fantasy built in his head as a defense mechanism. It gave him permission to kill before anyone killed him. No one but Cami could say that without being killed.

Cami represented purity and goodness that attracted Klaus to her. He saw himself so filled with darkness that he thought Cami's light was the only way to extinguish it. But when Cami turned into a vampire her feelings for Klaus and the world in general changed.

She wanted to engage in the same violence as the other vampires but Klaus tried to stop her. He wanted her to remain good to be his saving grace. Cami only wanted to fight back after all that had been done to her.

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Meagan Cahuasqui is a Latinx writer, poet, traveler, and reader. She holds a B.A. in creative writing from UCF and an M.B.A. in marketing from NSU. When shes not engaged in the aforementioned activities, she can be found yelling and crying at her TV over fictional people that break her heart.

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