Hey there! One of my favorite things about legacies is the concept of limbo and peace. It’s not about suffering but rather you are paying off your karmic debt and then you can go right ahead, and while the most damaging pain you inflict in life can’t be measured not truly repaid, the gift of peace can’t be measured in the same way it may be even greater.

So we know Klaus and Elijah entered peace right about a few years before the dimension came under new management. So the same rules still applied then.

A fun theory and potential fanfic is that Klaus and Elijah eventually found the genie in Limbo. He drew up a contract much like he did with Landon and them. But with two wishes. Elijah, ever the worry wort, immediately wants to wish to go back to life. However, Klaus smells the trick and urges his brother to talk first. This leads to Klaus’s final betrayal of Elijah. After weighing options and what their instincts tell them, the two determine that wishing back to life won’t work out and the genie is tricking them. Elijah determines they cant use the wishes and they go to tell the genie as much. Klaus betrays Elijah one last time and makes a wish, he sends Elijah to peace.

See Klaus has realized how much of a worthy father he wanted to be, so he decides to pay his karmic debt before moving on. So Klaus goes around helping souls find peace for the years up till Hope killing Malivore.

By his end he has helped 1000 souls. Some of them were his victims, so he got varieties of ‘screw you’, ‘go to hell’, and what have you as these souls got their peace. Few forgave him. His final customer was Tyler’s mother who hadn’t moved on due to her own struggles in life and who avoided Tyler when he arrived much for the same reasons as Landon’s own mum. For her it’s because she feels guilty for letting Mr Lockwood bash Tyler around.

Klaus apologized for killing her and helped her through her issues. Through her he deals with his own mummy issues. I head cannon this because Klaus owes Tyler and I want Klaus to be much better. By the end, Tyler’s mom is very upset with Klaus and doesn’t forgive him even after hearing everything he himself has done and been through. However, she feels he has done enough. She convinces him to attempt peace with her.

The ferrywoman agrees with Sheryl’s assessment of Klaus and the Lockwood matriarch explains to Klaus that everything Klaus has done and gone through damned and punished him. From Mikael’s wrath, to the hunter’s curse, to the five years he suffered thanks to Marcel, and lastly to safeguarding the world from the Hollow by dying. Accumulated this more than cleans his slate.

Alongside Sheryl Klaus enters peace.