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Revision as of 19:18, 22 July 2009
This is a listing of significant characters in Charlaine Harris's The Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse novels only. HBO created a television series called True Blood based on these series. Though the characters in True Blood are based on characters from Harris' books, the characters of True Blood portray significant differences.
Main Characters
Sookie Stackhouse
Telepathic human waitress and main character of The Southern Vampire Mysteries. She falls in love with vampire Bill and with other supernatural beings throughout the series. In the eighth book, From Dead to Worse, Sookie discovers she has fairy blood. Anna Paquin potrays Sookie Stackhouse in HBO's televesion series True Blood.
Bill Compton
A vampire and a Civil War veteran. He was turned a vampire against his will by Lorena. Bill is the investigator for one of the vampiric district under Eric's supervision. He becomes Sookie's first romantic interest. Stephen Moyer portrays vampire Bill Compton in HBO's television series True Blood.
Eric Northman
Vampire Sheriff of Area Five (one of the vampire districts of Louisiana). He is a powerful vampire over 1000 years old. He is smart, witty and has a good sense of humor. He becomes romantically involved with Sookie. Alexander Skarsgård portrays Eric Northman in HBO's television series True Blood.
Sam Merlotte
A shapeshifter and owner of Merlotte's, a small bar in Bon Temps, LA. Sam has expressed his interest in Sookie and has kissed her on more than one occasion, but the two have never dated. Sam is always concerned for Sookie's safety. Sam Trammell portrays Sam Merlotte in HBO's television series True Blood.
Vampire Characters
Andre
Andre is queen Sophie-Anne's second in command and her his maker.
Bubba
Bubba is Elvis Presley in vampire form. A morgue attendant who was a vampire and a big fan discovered the King slightly alive. The misguided vampire decides to make the overdosed Elvis undead, but the resulting creature, answering only to “Bubba,” is somehow brain damaged by the process. The other vampires treat him as a dimwitted errand boy, and try to keep him out of the public and clear of any household pets as he likes to drink the animals' blood. Bubba is always cheerful, goodwill radiating from his fearsome smile. In the third novel, Club Dead, Sookie says that “though every now and then, he exhibited a streak of shrewdness” he follows directions quite literally.[1]
Chow
Chow is a member of Louisiana's Area Five vampire district. He is an Asian vampire with a small built and long black hair. He is no more than five foot seven and every inch of his visible skin (except for this face) is covered with intricate yazuka tattoos. He acts as a bartender in Fangtasia for some nights, and sits around some other nights to let patrons approach him. He is first introduced in Living Dead in Dallas as a replacement of Fangtasia’s former bartender, Long Shadow. Chow is killed in the fourth book, Dead to the World, when fighting against the coven of withces.
Godric (aka Godfrey)
Godric is a vampire and a "renouncer" (a vampire who has allied himself with human radicals and has planned to commit suicide by meeting the sun). He is a blond vampire who looks sixteen years old, and has tattoos from Roman times.[2] Allan Hyde, a nineteen year old Danish actor portrays Godric in HBO's television series True Blood.
Felipe de Castro
He is the vampire king of Nevada. The Nevada vampires take over Sophie-Anne's Louisiana and Arkansas territories in the eighth book, From Dead to Worse.
Lorena
Lorena is a vampire and Bill's maker. She is first introduced in the third book, Club Dead. She summoned Bill to Mississipi and captured him in order to steal his secret project for the queen of Louisiana. Even though she is killed by Sookie when trying to rescue Bill, she is mentioned in subsequent novels. She is portrayed as being blond and having brown eyes and a smaller build than Sookie's. She was Bill's lover a long time ago.[3] Later in books, Sookie learns that Bill was going to leave Sookie because Lorena had ordered him to do so. Mariana Klaveno portrays Lorena in HBO's televesion series True Blood.
Pam
A vampire and Eric's second in command and 'child' (Eric turned her vampire). She is described as a young suburban housewife, middle-class woman, but mostly as "Alice in Wonderland with fangs." She is sarcastic and a has a special sense of humor. She likes to read Dear Abby. Kristin Bauer portrays vampire Pam in HBO's televesion series True Blood.
Peter Threadgill
Peter was the vampire king of Arkansas.
Russell Edgington
Russell is the vampire king of Mississippi. A small vampire with red hair and thick southern accent. He is first introduced in third novel, Club Dead, at the vampire bar Josephine’s (known as Club Dead by the Weres). Described as the perfect southern gentleman, Russell prefers men. In the seventh novel, All Together Dead he marries the King of Indiana, Bartlette Crowe, and it appears to be a love match (marriages between vampire kings and queens are usually political unions and not a union of love).
Sophie-Anne Leclerq
Sophie-Anne is the vampire queen of Louisiana; a beautiful, pale as milk, with reddish brown hair, large and tilted brown eyes leader who is smart and strategic within the vampire hierarchy. She sends Bill to Bon Temps to investigate Sookie's abilities.
Stan Davis
Stan Davis is vampire sheriff of Dallas. He is first introduced in the second novel, Living Dead in Dallas, when he requests the services of Sookie to help him find his missing nest brother, Farrell. It is mentioned in later books that he becomes the King of Texas. Telepath Barry (the bellboy) Horowitz works for him after discovering, in the second novel, that another telepath lives in Dallas. Ed Quinn portrays Stan Davis in HBO's television series True Blood.
Human Characters
Adele Hale Stackhouse
She is Sookie and Jason's grandmother who is killed in the first novel, Dead Until Dark. Later in the book series, Sookie learns that Sookie's grandfather is not her biological grandfather. In the eighth book, From Dead to Worse, Sookie meets her great grandfather, Niall Brigant, a fairy prince who tells her that his son, Fintan, is her father's biological father.
Andy Bellefleur
Andy is a detective in Bon Temps. In the second novel, Living Dead in Dallas, Bill discovers that he is related to the Bellefleur.[4]
Arlene Fowler
She is Sookie's friend and fellow barmaid at Merlotte's. She has been married four times and has two children, Coby and Lisa. Sookie often babysits for them. She is introduced in the first novel, Dead Until Dark, and she often disapproves of Sookie's relationships with vampires, especially with Bill. Sookie thinks Arlene is occasionally tactless and reminds herself "to reevaluate why Arlene is her friend".[5] Later in the novels, their friendship grows apart. Arlene is easily influenced by members of The Fellowship of the Sun and turns against Sookie.
Barry (Bellboy) Horowitz
Barry is a bellboy in the Silent Shores Hotel in Dallas. Like Sookie, Barry is a telepath and they can communicate silently. He is first introduced in Living Dead in Dallas as an insecure young man who is afraid of vampires. Sookie meets him again in the vampire summit that occurs in the seventh novel, All Together Dead. In this novel, Sookie finds Barry more confident and is currently working for the King of Texas, Stan Davis. Barry enjoys money and buys himself designer clothes. Barry admits to fantasizing being together with Sookie, but he realizes that it is impossible when they meet again at the summit. He is the first to discover the plot to bomb the hotel where the summit is held. After the devastating explosion he and Sookie help the firemen search for survivors in the rubble of the hotel. At the end of this novel, they leave each other on rocky terms due to their differences on moral and ethical beliefs, and decide to go their separate ways.
Jason Stackhouse
Jason is Sookie's older brother. He is known as a ladies man and is often associated with a lot of women of Bon Temps and other neighboring cities. He is selfish and often involves Sookie in his troubles. In the fourth novel, Dead to the World, he is kidnapped and bitten by a were-panther, and becomes a "bitten not born" were-panther himself. As a new member of the shifter community, he is suspected of shooting his fellow shifters, but the suspicions were dropped after Sookie was shot. He marries Crystal, a full blooded werepanther, due to her pregnancy, but he is sincere when he says his vows. Ryan Kwanten potrays Jason Stackhouse in HBO's television series True Blood.
Hoyt Fortenberry
He is Jason's childhood friend, though their relationship grow apart throughout the book series as Jason and Hoyt do not have a lot of things in common.
Lafayette Reynolds
He is the cook of Merlotte’s. In Living Dead in Dallas, Sookie describes him as “flamboyantly gay, make-up-and-long-fingernails gay.” But he is a cheerful, entertainingly mischievous, clever and a good cook. In the second book, Living Dead in Dallas, he is found dead in Andy Bellefleur's car.[6]
Steve and Sarah Newlin
Steven Newlin is the director and reverend of The Fellowship of the Sun (FotS), an anti-vampire church. Sarah is his wife. They are first introduced in the novels in the second book, Living Dead in Dallas. Steve is described as being tall and lanky with hazy blue eyes and dark brown hair. The FotS and Steve are directly linked to Farrell's (Stan Davis's nest brother) disappearance. In Dallas, Sookie is tricked and captured in the basement of the FotS church when meeting Steve and Sarah for the first time. Sookie meets Steve again in Club Dead where he is with a FotS fanatic who was going to stake one of the vampire of Mississippi. Sookie intervenes and Steve gets to run away. Shifters, Weres and other vampires pounce Steve and instantly kill him.
Tara Thornton
She is first introduced in the second novel, Living Dead in Dallas as Sookie's childhood friend. She particpates in Bon Temps' secret sex party where Lafayette was killed. Rutina Wesley portrays Tara Thornton in in HBO's television series True Blood.
Shapeshifters and Weres
Alcide Herveaux
Alcide is a full blooded werewolf who owns a surveying company with his father. Sookie first meets Alcide when Bill Compton is kidnapped by his "maker" Lorena in Club Dead. Although Sookie and Alcide seem to have a mutual romantic interest, their relationship does not consolidate. In the eighth novel, From Dead to Worse, Alcide becomes the leader of his pack.
Calvin Norris
Calvin is a full blooded werepanther and leader of the werepanther community in Hotshot, a close knit community ten miles from Bon Temps. Hotshot is werepanther community that takes care of their own justice. He is first introduced in the fourth novel, Dead to the World, and he is portrayed as a man in his late forties, with trimmed beard salted with gray, short hair and green golden eyes. He is a small man, around five foot seven with agile build and muscular arms.[7] Calvin is Crystal’s uncle. When he first meets Sookie, she senses that Calvin and Crystal’s relationship was more than the authority of an uncle. The author explains that generations of inbreeding in the Hotshot community have weakened their shifting traits. Calvin explains to Sookie that though Crystal is a full blooded panther, she can only change at the moon and is not even “full-powered.”[8] In order to preserve the shifter traits, and to bring in new genes, Calvin offers Sookie protection and tells her he will be “her man” [9] He is a respected man who works as a crew leader in Norcross, a lumber processing company.
Colonel James Flood
Colonel Flood is a full blooded werewolf and packmaster of the Shreveport pack. He is a retired Air Force colonel, formerly stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana. He is first introduced in the fourth novel, Dead to the World and is depicted as having thick white hair and cut very short with a mustache that must have been trimmed with a ruler because it was so exact.[10] Colonel Flood dies in the fifth book, Dead as a Doornail.
Crystal Norris
Crystal is a full blooded werepanther and niece of Calvin Norris. She is first introduced in the fourth novel, Dead to the World (novel) and is depicted as being "short, thin, dark twenty-one-year-old."[11] Crystal appears in subsequent novels and eventually marries Jason because she is pregnant though she miscarries the baby. Shifters tend to have low birthrate and Crystal has already had a miscarriage before. She has an affair with another human from Bon Temps and Jason finds out. Their relationship deteriorates after that; Crystal moves back to Hotshot. She is killed in the ninth book, Dead and Gone.
Tray Dawson
Tray is a very large Werewolf, who lives apart from the Longtooth Pack, and is the owner of a motorcycle shop. Because of his strength Tray is often used as a body guard. In the ninth book, Sookie hires him for protection, but while guarding Sookie, Tray is poisoned with bad vampire blood, later in that novel Tray dies. Tray was dating Sookie's room mate Amelia.
Debbie Pelt
Debbie is a werelynx from Jackson, MS. She is depicted as a "tall young woman with gleaming short black hair, athletic build, and a long narrow face.”[12] She is first introduced in the third novel, Club Dead, and Sookie describes her hair as being “straight and cut in asymmetrical clumps, tiny locks of different lenghts.”[13] She left Alcide and got quickly engaged to a wereowl. In this novel, she pushes Sookie into a car trunk where Bill was resting after being tortured by Lorena. She is a mean-spirited and vindictive character and it is discovered in the fourth book, Dead to the World, that Debbie had participated in Bill’s torture when Lorena had captured him in Jackson. Alcide then abjures her from the Shreveport pack. At the end of this book, Debbie shoots Sookie, but Eric takes the bullet instead. Sookie kills her and Eric discards her body somewhere in the woods. Sookie finds out that Debbie’s family is looking for her.
Luna Garza
Luna is the second shapeshifter, after Sam, that Sookie meets in Living Dead in Dallas. She shapeshifts into a bat. Luna is a Hispanic woman with dark eyes and hair. She was working undercover at The Fellowship of the Sun (FotS) and she helps Sookie escape from the FotS center. Through Luna, Sookie learns that there are many other ‘supes’ (supernatural beings) in this world.
Maria-Star Cooper
Maria-Star is a full blooded werewolf and packmember of the Shreveport pack. She is first introduced in the fourth book, Dead to the World (novel). Sookie meets Maria-Star when she gets injured in the attack against the witch coven. Sookie takes Maria-Star to the hospital. This character appears in subsequent novels, and becomes Alcide’s girlfriend. Unfortunately, she is brutally murdered in the eighth book, From Dead to Worse.
Quinn
Quinn is a full blooded weretiger who first appears in the fifth book Dead as a Doornail. He soon becomes Sookie's romantic interest, but their relationship does not last long. Quinn is indebted to the Las Vegas vampires because of their aid in covering up his lunatic mother's antics after her escape from a mental health institute.
Fairies
Claude
Claude is Claudine`s brother and one of Niall Brigant`s, the fairy prince, grandson. He also owns a stripping place in Shrevport but even if the ladies like him, he prefers men instead.
Claudine
Claudine is Sookie’s fairy godmother and twin sister of Claude. She is also Niall Brigant's granddaughter. She is first introduced in the fourth novel, Dead to the World (novel). She is depicted as a gorgeous woman, at least six feet, with dark hair and big almond shaped dark eyes. Her skin is as pale as milk, and her legs were "as long as a stepladder"[14] She has a beautiful smile and her skin looks glossy and thin. Sookie says Claudine's skin reminds her of the skin of a plum. In this fourth book, Sookie learns that Claudine is a fairy and that she is in Shreveport due to the various supernatural activities. Later in the books, Sookie learns that Claudine is actually Sookie’s fairy godmother who is working her way up to be an angel. Claudine has saved Sookie from danger on multiple occasions. She is eventually killed in the ninth book, Dead and Gone (novel).
Niall Brigant
Niall is Sookie's fairy prince great-grandfather. He is first introduced in the novels in the eighth book, From Dead to Worse.
Witches and Wiccans
Amelia Broadway
Holly Clearly
Holly is a human barmaid of Merlotte’s and a Wiccan. She is first introduced in the second novel, Living Dead in Dallas, and is a minor character throughout the books though her character is further developed in the fourth book, Dead to the World. Holly had married right out of high school and gotten divorce within five years. Holly is a Wiccan, not a witch. She practices a little witchcraft, but she is more interested in the Wiccan life.[15] She has a five year old son, Cody. None of the humans in Bon Temps knows that she follows the Wiccan religion. Later in the books Holly starts dating Hoyt Fortenberry.
Octavia Fant
Other
Mr. Cataliades
Dr. Ludwig
Dwarf doctor for the supernatural beings. Her face is full of her nose, and her skin is olive. She has golden brown and incredibly thick and wavy coarse hair. She heals Sookie in Living Dead in Dallas after she is attacked by a maenad. Marcia de Rousse portrays Dr. Ludwig in True Blood
Diantha
Maenad (aka Callisto)
Callisto is a maenad who is introduced at the beginning of Living Dead in Dallas. Sookie meets Callisto in the woods, who is accompanied by a feral razorback. She wants tribute from Eric and in order to convey this message Callisto hurts Sookie and poisons her blood. The maenad appears for the last time at the secret sex party. The drunkenness and the lust of the party participants attract her. She kills Mike Spencer, the Hardaways and leaves a mess behind. It is implied that Sam and Callisto were together, but she decides to leave Bon Temps to look for more tributes. Michelle Forbes portrays Maryann Forrester (the maenad) in True Blood.
Jake Purifoy
References
- ^ Harris, Charlaine (2003). Club Dead. ACE. p. 233. ISBN 0-441-01051-2.
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