Fatherly? Nope.īy now, though, Marcel is also a vampire-and he’s even more powerful than Klaus. Klaus is one of the thousand-year-old Original vampires who sired all those who came after him he rescued Marcel from slavery some 200 years ago, and then raised Marcel as his own-but never treated him as such. But Hey, So Does 2016 ArrowĪt the core of all this political intrigue is the relationship between antihero Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan) and his adoptive son, Marcel Girard (Charles Michael Davis).