Elijah

Elijah is an Original and is part of the Original Family. He is the third oldest of the siblings. Elijah is in a relationship with Cordelia.

Powers & Abilities
He has all of the powers and some weaknesses of a vampire. Due to being an Original he is stronger than most normal Vampires and is Immortal.
 * Super Strength: An Original Vampires strength far greaters that of a normal Vampire and is more powerful than most Werewolfs and Slayers.


 * Super Speed: An abillity that comes with every vampire, he can move very quickly, much faster than a human or animal can. No human or animal can outrun or run away from him.
 * Senses: He has hightend senses such as smell, he can smell things that a human couldn't. He can see in the dark. He can also feel if someone is behind him or near him. His hearing is impeccable and can hear things from far away.
 * Rapid Healing: Vampires can heal exceptionally fast. It is possible that this accelerated healing also grants the vampire a very high pain threshold. It takes them up to 10 seconds to heal they cant heal when fighting they have to concentrate and after they have they look completely healthy. The healing can be accelerated if a vampire tries to heal while drinking blood.
 * Supernatural Fighting Skills: When a Vampire is turned they instantly gain the powers of fighting skills that don't need to learn it's natural for a Vampire. They can do flips, tricks and do a fighting style that no human can achieve. The fighting ability is mainly caused by there strength and speed.
 * Invincibility: Originals are nearly indestructible.
 * Durability: They can be hit with bricks, hit by something strong, thrown through something and still get back up and fight. Originals do not run out of breath but can become exhausted in a fight but that is because they are using muscle many times. They dont realy need to breath much only to calm their muscles.

Weaknesses
Despite their superiority to Vampires, Originals do have weaknesses and limitations.
 * Ivy: When ingested, ivy makes a vampire severely weak and feverish. Whether consumed directly (eg. through food or alcohol), or indirectly (eg. by feeding on a human who has ingested ivy), the effects are the same. Ivy may also burn vampires when exposed on the skin.


 * Wooden Stake: A wooden stake through an Originals heart will kill them, but they would heal later and wake.
 * Sunlight : Sunlight will burn an Original but will not kill them.
 * Fire: An Original if set on fire, will burn but heal.
 * Decapataion: If an Original is decapitated it will cause instant death.
 * Heart Extraction: If a Originals heart is extracted they will deteriorate quickly, but will grow a new one and heal.
 * Magic: Magic can hurt a vampire, like the power Brain Pulse. It can hurt anything with a supernatural healing ability, it causes multiple brain aneurysms.
 * Religious Artifacts : Crosses, Holy Water and Crusifixes can hurt a vampire. If a vampire comes in contact with any of these it can burn them severley.
 * U-V Bullets: U-V bullets contain blue U-V rays that are lethal to Originals. It is unknown if they would kill an Original Vampire.
 * White Oak Stake: The only thing that is known to permanantly kill an Original. If they are stake with the White Oak stake they will deteriorate and set on fire.