The OriginalsSeason 2 Episode 1
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October 6
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Camille O’Connell Appreciation Week: day 3
favouriteromanticrelationship:
↪ +Klaus Mikaelson“… and you.. You are beautiful”
Camille O'Connell Appreciation Week 2014day 5: being a bad ass:
(leaving herself notes and clues because being brainy is bad ass too)”Look what I found. Real me. Not your compelled therapist.”
Camille O’Connell Appreciation Week: Day 5 - Favorite Badass Moment
∟You would have done the same thing to me, Finn.
Camille Appreciation Week 14 Day 4- Favorite Camille Outfit
From 1x03, 1x17, and 1x18
1x03- Because that’s when I first realized how smokin’ Cami is. Baby got back! Loved her showing off those curves.
1x17 That outfit just looks casual and comfy
1x18- That dress is so cute it showed off those lovely legs of hers.
Camille O’Connell Appreciation Week: Day 4- Favourite outfit.
My fave is this outfit from 2x04 Live and Let Die.
Camille O'Connell Appreciation Week 2014day 3: favorite relationship: “The good I see in you versus the horrible things I know you’ve done and I realized that if I hurt you, I’d be filled with a terrible regret.”
Camille Appreciation Week 14- Day 3 Favorite Cami Relationship: Cami and Father Kieran
This relationship is overlooked. I think the writers did a good job establishing Cami and Kieran, to say that they were just going to kill him off later in the season.
Even still this was a good relationship because it ties in directly to one of the themes of The Originals: family. Kieran is the person Cami was vulnerable with and shared her emotions before Klaus came along. He’s the first person she tells when she thought around Klaus’ compulsion or felt like something was off with her behavior. They have a good relationship and she trusts him fully which is why she’s so angry when she found out that he knew everything the whole time. Of course Kieran just tried to protect Cami the best way he could, by trying to keep her ignorant and trying to send her away. All the while you could tell how much he hated lying to her, and he knew how much she wanted answers but he put her safety first.
So then Cami finds out and she had a right to be mad, this puts a strain on their relationship. Then he gets hexed and she’s immediately worried; even though he begs her to leave him alone she swears she won’t leave him, and she doesn’t (so much for Cami not being loyal *insert eyeroll*).
I think she had already forgiven Kieran before he got hexed but was still a little hurt. She reveals her worries about the hex to Klaus, she doesn’t want Kieran to die, it’s even more frightening for her because it’s the same way Sean died. Once again she’d have family killed in the same manner and would be powerless to stop it, the only difference is this time she’d witness it firsthand. She didn’t want to keep fighting with him and Klaus tells her what she already knows: her uncle’s a good man and was trying to protect her.
Cami puts Kieran’s sanity in the hands of someone she trusts: Klaus, and decides it’s better to side with him than take the witches’ offer, but Klaus’ compulsion doesn’t work.
Over the next few months Cami tries every non-supernatural thing to get rid of the hex. She tries pills, meditation, etc. She even puts down her pride and goes to Genevieve to ask her to remove the hex, even telling the witch she knows she has no reason to help her. That doesn’t work so she resorts to letting Josh compel a doctor to come help Kieran. When the doctor begged her not to do shock therapy she did it herself with no hesitation.
Cami continued to try to do everything she knew to help her uncle. She asked for help but no one helped her and told her it was futile. Did she boohoo, breakdown, and decide to give up? NO she fought for him until the end. She would have kept going at it alone if Marcel hadn’t asked Klaus to go help her. She stayed by his side through his mental deterioration, and didn’t stop even when he attacked her.
Cami would never have stopped, she refused to believe that it would end like that for her uncle, even when Klaus tried to gently tell her that it was close to the end for him. Once she accepts that she makes the jarring decision for Klaus to turn him, only because she doesn’t want his last moments to be of agony and craziness.
Now I want to point out how closed up Cami is emotionally. She puts on a tough skin and doesn’t like to open up to people about herself. She spent months in NO and Klaus is the first person she opened up to about Sean. She even seems shocked she told him since later she says “That’s right I told you what happened. I never tell anyonebut I told you.” Like I said earlier: Kieran was the only other person she talked to about Sean. Cami never shows how she feels when it’s something close to her heart.
Yet now in this episode we see her tearing up, breaking down because she knows she’s about to lose another family member in a short amount of time. Her worst fear realized and we see the realization coming down on her. We see some cracks in her walls, Cami’s frightened and she doesn’t want to be alone so she asks Klaus to stay.
When Kieran wakes up in transition him and his niece have one last heart to heart, saying goodbye. This time when Kieran asks her to turn around and not come back, she listens but still stays in the church. When he emerges from the attic you see the hope in her eyes as she’s filled with hope asking him if he changed his mind. She quickly sees the hex has returned and tries to outrun him but in vain. Klaus shows up and saves her life, snapping Kieran’s neck. He silently asks her if she wants him to kill him and dejected Cami nods her approval.
After that she just lays her head on the ground. Cami has nothing left, she’s broken emotionally, physically battered, and just tired from fighting for Kieran all of those months. She’s probably depressed because she feels it was all in vain, in the end she couldn’t help the person she loved most and lost them. We see her weeping with Marcel comforting her at the end of the episode.
In 1x20 the calm demeanor is back but Cami expresses irritation at people celebrating when her uncle just passed. She also looks somber as she’s marching in his burial procession.
What’s important about their relationship is that they both had each other’s back. In season 1 a midst all of the family drama, betrayals, going behind each other’s back, trying to bring each other down: we have a family relationship that has two people who have lost a loved one, and have forgiven each other moving past any transgressions. They just wanted what’s best for each other and protected each other. It’s sad and tragic the way Father K’s story had to end, he deserved so much better.
Now: kind of OT, but to everyone who keeps saying “Why is Cami in NO? She has no reason to stay! Why doesn’t she leave?!” I call BS.
She has just as much reason (if not more) to stay as everyone else in NO: family. (Or do different rules apply because Cami’s a human? *insert second eyeroll*)
She discovered that her family has been leaders of the supernatural community for a long time. It’s brought home even more when she figured out Kieran was going to train Sean to be a part of the human faction. Now in addition to wanting to stay because of Davina, Klaus, Josh, Marcel, etc. she wants to try to uphold the O’Connell legacy. She wants to follow in her Uncle’s footsteps and make him proud. She’s already lamented over trying to fight it and feeling guilty because had she embraced it sooner Hope would still be alive.
Really, her family ties parallel Hayley’s: both have come from a line of people who have history in NO and they want to uphold the family legacy.
Following in his footsteps, Cami will feel closer to Kieran and it’s a way to keep his memory alive, by fighting for what he stood for and inheriting his position as human faction leader.