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I read your 'Aurora's influence over klaus' post and I agree with you 100%. It always surprised me how little their dynamic was discussed when they had the most interesting one.(I feel like that's mainly because of shipping reasons). I agree he loved camille but I don't think that affected his love for aurora. Even after kidnapping Rebekah, trying to kill originals with white oak, killing cami etc.. when he literally literally had the opportunity to shoot her with white oak he hesitated(which Aurora used for her advantage). Cami was definitely worried(she says so to Vincent) and so was Elijah. I also agree that 'unloving' is not exactly a klaus thing. If he loves you, he'll love you forever in his own messed up way. Had Aurora chosen to side with his family over doing everything she did, I have no doubt that he would have taken her back.(Again this doesn't mean he'll magically forget cami. I think he would do everything he did for cami in canon even if he was with Aurora. But I think he always thought of her as 'too good/pure for him' so he would probably prefer if she stayed away from the chaos that happened)
This is the main reason why I believe that out of all his love interests, the one he loved the most was Aurora.
All of their interactions just scream he never got over her and was still in love: she killed Cami, dumped Rebekah to the ocean, and a lot of other bullshit, and yet he got jealous when he realized her and Lucien were "a thing". I don't know if I said this, but he also kissed her before knowing Elijah had compelled her, so he allowed her to kiss him without even actually knowing why, and the cutoff of the scene is so crazy because they kiss and when we see them again they're still lip-locked and full on making out lmao, they had been kissing for like ten minutes.
Klaus never admitted he was still in love with her out of respect for Cami and hatred towards himself, but it was quite obvious for me and he never actually denied he didn't love her.
I think it's easy to see he was still in love with her and stuff, and it's so clear it was the same for her. Klaus was willing to forgive her for the whole Rebekah thing, he said so himself, but once she took Cami hostage it was over for them and he was quite grumpy about it. But I do think that if she had brought Rebekah back after that whole mess and promised to not hurt Cami, he would have taken her back.
Perhaps it sounds weird, but it's more or less like the whole Klaus-Elijah-Gia situation: despite clearly having feelings for Gia, Elijah forgave Klaus for killing her because he loved his brother more. And in this situation, Cami is Gia, the actual Klaus is Elijah and Klaus is Aurora.
Like, it wasn't that he didn't want to kill her, I'm pretty sure he wanted to after having her hurt his family and Cami, but he just couldn't do it. Klaus had to lock her behind a wall while talking about the portrait of her he made. It's funny if we think about his line in 3x18 where he said he still had hopes for them, when it's obvious he wanted to emotionally manipulate her, but perhaps there was a tingle of truth in it. After all, they were immortal in that moment and immortality is a long time for someone to hold resentment forever.
But that wouldn't take away his feelings for Cami, it's obvious. I believe he thought the same, her being too pure for him and his world, and I'm pretty sure he regretted having a relationship with her in the end because she ended up dying, which is the reason why he stayed away from her after Hope's birth. Klaus loved Cami, that's obvious, and he wouldn't had stopped loving her if he ever got back with Aurora.
What an interesting dynamic we could have had with them *sigh*