Dear Klaus

Dear Klaus

“Horses are the opposite of humans. They are loyal, trustworthy, and loving. My father hunted me for a thousand years. The closest he could get to me was killing my favorite horse.”

The essence of humanity is trust, loyalty, understanding. These constitute the being of a human’s core. But to the contrary, we experience the very opposite in this world. Disdain, betrayal, and dishonesty are the pillars that lodge the relationships these days.

Klaus, the eternal hybrid, the original vampire, is the sheer symbol of evilness and cruelty. The man who slaughtered thousands of people experienced the plight of life at a very early age.

Befall the nights when you slaughtered the people, I loathed you. But when I saw you saving Caroline and changing yourself for your child, I saw a part of you that was human, hidden within the layers of hostility and the hardened exterior. Someone lonely, whose soul wants to be loved.

The way you were ready to sacrifice your life for your daughter Hope made us all fall in love with you.

You are the shadow of the darkest desires that a human holds, to be immortal, to be supremely powerful. But your soul is just as human as others. The hammered wheelings of life had turned them into a penumbra of misery and cruelty.

Dear Klaus, I think the villains of any story turn evil because their past severed their fragile hearts with stones of inhumanity. I am not saying you are perfect, but at last, I can never hate you completely. Because I feel certain parts of you are just as human as any other. And anyone capable of loving someone is capable of being saved.

In the end, all it wants to say is

“You weren’t the villain of my story.”

-Hridya Swarup Sharma