Handon

Handon is the het ship between Hope Mikaelson and Landon Kirby from the Legacies fandom.

Canon
Hope and Landon first met briefly in The Originals when Landon approaches her to ask for a date. She declines initially, but later when attending the Town Square party of her own accord with her uncle Elijah, he finds her there and she agrees to a dance. After this, they do not meet for another two years.

Their next meeting comes when Hope, along with Alaric and MG, arrive at a church to rescue the newly-triggered Rafael from his foster parents and a priest from an exorcism. They bring him to the Salvatore Boarding School's werewolf transition space before he turns fully into a wolf. They're happy to see one another again, and after it's found that Landon is resistant to vampire compulsion he is brought to the school's transition space as well. There, Landon and Hope eventually share a kiss.

The relationship becomes tumultuous when Landon steals from the school, and feeling betrayed by him Hope spends much of their following interactions ignoring him. It isn't until Hope is assigned to test Landon for any supernatural lineage that would explain his resistance to compulsion, and she uses this opportunity to use a truth-orb on him in order to know if he truly is sorry for stealing from her home or not. He offers her a sincere apology and remorse for what he did, and because of this, Hope gives him and a relationship between them a second chance. Continuing even when Landon has made to leave the school given it is deemed unsafe for a human to stay there, the pair part ways with a romantic kiss at a bus stop, with Hope gifting him an enchanted bracelet he can use to call for help.

In Maybe I Should Start from the End, Landon first refers to Hope as his girlfriend yet jokes she would kill him if she knew he'd said that.

Hope and Landon have had a number of on/off occurrences in their relationship throughout all four seasons of the show, due to being plagued by a being called Malivore. The creature directly causing them to split twice against their will and ending with Hope having no choice but to kill a willing Landon to destroy the creature. The trauma of having to kill Landon caused Hope to turn off her humanity, so she wouldn't have to feel the grief of not only having lost him for good but also having had to do the deed herself.

Fanon
Handon is the most popular canon het ship in the Legacies fandom, and the fourth most popular ship overall after Hosie, Posie and Hizzie. There are over 663 works under Landon Kirby/Hope Mikaelson on AO3, a further 300+ under Landon Kirby & Hope Mikaelson, and on FanFiction.net there are almost 300. Handon has a highly active fanbase on Twitter, with multiple accounts dedicated to the sharing and creation of content including but not limited to GIF sets, Fancams, quotes and more, with a similarly active fanbase found on Tumblr. There have also been numerous parallels noted by fans between Handon and earlier ships from The Vampire Diaries.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Landon/Hope tag on FanFiction.net
 * Landon/Hope tag on FanFiction.net

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TWITTER

WIKIS
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Trivia

 * Hope and Landon are the only characters to first meet on The Originals before beginning a relationship on Legacies.
 * Danielle Rose Russell has been a longtime supporter of the ship, having stated "I really love the Hope and Landon dynamic".
 * Handon was voted as the "TV Couple You’d Most Like to See Get Back Together" in Tell Tale TV's 2021 the Battle of Ships.