I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.
(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)
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Something I really wish we had In the Vampire Diaries. Or even shown in The Originals. Was just a real fight between Elijah and Klaus when Klaus was still human.
Because as even with Klaus as a Hybrid Elijah still holds his own amazingly well.
And no one can convince me Elijah against Pure Vampire, Klaus, Elijah wouldn't win in an actual fight.
I mean, it would show the contrast with the brothers. It would show the way Elijah holds back against his family, and, at times, others. It would show the sneaky/deceptiveness of Klaus when he has the ability to Dagger his family so often.
Honestly same with other Family members. Because I think Vampire wise he and Kol would be relatively Even I think Kols should be faster but thats personal headcanon.
But yeah, just specifically Elijah and Klaus. Because having them have a flash back to the ninties when Klaus told Elijah he killed their siblings and Elijah genuinely lashing out at him when it kicks it that Klaus is (he thinks) telling the truth. And Elijah walking from a fight when he finds himself comparing himself to his father. Or Just straight up driving a stake through Klaus's chest to temporarily kill him giving them a very loud crashing end before Elijah comes to Mystic falls to kill him.