Though it hurts a lot right now, Narducci explains that killing off Aiden made the most sense for the story they're trying to tell.
"We knew off the bat that we wanted to tell a beautiful Romeo and Juliet story between Josh, a vampire, and Aiden, a werewolf," Narducci says. "Our goal was to create a complicated, layered person who was put in many dilemmas in regards to his loyalty to his pack, outside sources putting pressures on him, the difficulty of being a werewolf loyal to the crescents and dating a vampire, but also his belief that maybe he should be alpha. Him being an ambitious person and questioning the leadership of his own friend led him to be vulnerable to Klaus and his own Faustian machinations."
He continues, "Once we had that story in motion, we felt like we really put this guy in a dilemma and simultaneously, that story was going forward and we had another story which was Dahlia comes to town. Her goal should be to divide the Mikealsons and to ruin the vow of 'always and forever' so they would be easier to take down. If Dahlia is smart, then she could use someone's death the way that she says she's going to use Aiden's death as the kindling to light a fire that divides the Mikealsons."
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