Jason Stackhouse
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Jason Stackhouse is a fictional character
from The Southern Vampire Mysteries
book series by author Charlaine Harris
. Introduced in the first novel, Dead Until Dark
, Jason is Sookie Stackhouse
's older brother and road crew supervisor for Bon Temps.
Jason is known as a ladies' man and is associated sexually with many women in Bon Temps and other neighboring communities. He is selfish and often involves Sookie in his troubles. Sookie says, "What they didn't get was that (reckless and wild as my brother was) Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse."
In the first book, Jason is suspected of killing a series of girls in Bon Temps. Videotapes of his sexual encounters with each girl were damning evidence against him. Jason is eventually found innocent. In later books he is implicated in other crimes, and despite his innocence these accusations continue to erode his reputation.
In Dead to the World
, Jason disappears. This occurs shortly after he begins dating Crystal Norris from Hotshot, a community of werepanthers near Bon Temps. Finally, Sookie discovers that he was kidnapped by a jealous rival, who bit him repeatedly to turn him into a werepanther.
Jason is shown to greatly enjoy hunting with the panthers; but they don't fully accept him because he was bitten, not born.
Jason has been friends with Hoyt Fortenberry since they were children. Since Jason became a werepanther, their relationship has been strained; and it appears to end when Jason marries Crystal.
Jason then befriends werepanther Mel Hart, with unfortunate results. Crystal ultimately dies when she is crucified outside of Merlotts, and Jason again becomes a suspect, but eventually his innocence is proven.
Like Sookie, Jason has fairy ancestry. Other characters assume it is the source of his sexual attractiveness and conquests.
, an HBO series based on the books, this character is played by actor Ryan Kwanten
.
In the series, Jason is introduced as Sookie's brother and a well-known ladies man in Bon Temps. Things start turning upside down for him when several women that he has been involved with are murdered, including his loving Grandmother, Adele Hale "Gran" Stackhouse.
The first victim is Maudette Pickens, a local married woman who periodically engages Jason in casual sex. It is discovered during one of these encounters, that Maudette had been paid one thousand dollars for a sexual relationship with a vampire. Maudette isn't ashamed of the fact, but Jason is skeptical about it. She also reveals that she videotaped the encounter. With this as a motive, Jason starts to have rough sex with Maudette with his hands around her neck. He later realizes she becomes unresponsive and assumes that he accidentally killed her. Frightened and scared, Jason packs up his things and runs out of the house.
Later Maudette is found dead in her home. The whole town assumes it's a vampire since it was known that Maudette enjoyed sexual encounters with vampires. However, Jason gets picked up by Detective Andy Bellefleur at his job and is interrogated. There it is discovered that Maudette videotaped her encounter with Jason, but was clearly alive after the sex, calling him an idiot and turning off the video camera. Jason then pleads his innocence, stating that he isn't smart enough to commit a murder. Still suspicious, the detectives let him go.
Jason then moves on to his ex-girlfriend Dawn Green (Lynn Collins
). It is implied that the relationship ended due to Jason's philandering behaviour. Wanting to give him another chance Dawn gets involved with Jason once again. During sex, Jason finds vampire bite marks on her chest to which she accounts to hanging around to a period of which she frequented vampire nightclubs and encountered numerous vampires. Jason loses his erection and Dawn ridicules him, yells at him, kicks him out and ultimately fires a number of rounds at him. Dawn's neighbors overhear the commotion. The next morning, Dawn does not show up for work at Merlotte's and Sookie goes to her place, only to discover Dawn's dead body on the bed.
Jason later meets and falls in love with Amy (Lizzy Caplan
), a psychopathic hippie V-juice addict who also is murdered under suspicious circumstances. Although Jason is a major suspect for all four murders (three of which are women with whom he has had sexual relations with and the other is his grandmother), it is finally revealed during the first season finale that all four murders are committed by Drew Marshall (also known as Rene Lenier). At this point, Jason's name is cleared although his reputation has suffered serious damage.
At the beginning of the second season, Jason joins the Fellowship of the Sun church, believing that God
is guiding him to his destiny. Jason is inducted in the FotS's leadership program. Being favoured by the reverend Newlin and his wife, Sarah, he eventually moves in with them and starts a romantic relationship with the reverend's neglected wife, Sarah Newlin. Mistakenly led to believe that Steve, the reverend, has discovered her affair, Sarah attempts to shoot Jason. Jason barely escapes. At the close of the season, Jason shoots a knife-wielding Eggs Benedict Talley mistakenly believing that Eggs is threatening Andy. Eggs had been tormented by the terrible deeds the maenad Maryanne Foster had forced him to commit under her possession and had attempted to surrender himself to Andy by handing over the murder weapon (the knife).
In the third season, Jason and Andy work out a plan to pin the murder of Eggs on Andy. However, instead of coming down hard on Andy for murdering Eggs, the town praises Andy's heroics. This eventually gets to Andy's head and Jason, tired of letting Andy take all the credit, blackmails Andy into letting him join the police force. Throughout the season, Jason also pursues a mysterious, Crystal Norris, who is hesitant on being with Jason due to her loyalty to her abusive father and boyfriend. Crystal later reveals that she and her family are from Hotshot, a town filled with werepanthers
. The situation intensifies through the season as Jason tries to convince Crystal to abandon her town and her family for a life with him. In the end, Jason and Crystal tip off the Hotshot residents about a drug raid, but not before Crystal's half-brother and fiance Felton Norris, who is a V-addict, kills their father and kidnaps Crystal at gunpoint. Jason, helpless in the situation, promises to abide by Crystal's final request: he must take care of the other Hotshot residence in her absence. Later, in an act reminiscent of killing Eggs, Jason kills Franklin Mott, a sadistic vampire who had kidnapped and tortured Tara earlier in the season. Broken, Jason finally confesses his crimes, in particular the shooting of Eggs, to Sookie and Tara.
In the year since Sookie's disappearance, Jason has become a police officer partnering up with Andy Bellefleur. He, along with many other friends, had assumed Sookie had died and are shocked when Sookie reappears. Assuming she died, Jason had sold Sookie's house to an unknown company, later determined to be actually owned by Eric Northman
.
True to his word, Jason continues to supply the Hotshot residents with food and supplies as he promised Crystal. On one of his visits, a resident traps him in an old freezer. He awakens later tied to a bed and is greeted by Crystal and Felton. They reveal that their intentions are to change him into a werepanther so that they can use him to breed more werepanthers with Crystal as Felton is infertile. After numerous women rape him, Jason, defeated and exhausted, refuses to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. He convinces her to free him, and Jason quickly escapes on foot. Felton doggedly pursues him as a werepanther, but Jason eventually kills him with a sharpened stick. Crystal is relieved to have Felton off her back, and wishes for Jason to return to Hotshot to resume his role as a "ghost daddy." Jason vehemently refuses the offer and runs off, only to collapse later on the roadside. He is then found by Hoyt Fortenberry and Jessica Hamby
, who promptly revives him with her blood. As he is nursed back to health, he begins fantasizing about Jessica and, oddly, Hoyt.
Thinking he will turn into a werepanther through the upcoming full moon, Jason ties himself to his bedpost to protect others. Sookie finds him and learns about the situation - she assures him that she will make the best of the situation and will not shoot Jason. When night falls, Jason flees into the woods to protect Sookie, who subsequently chases him. Jessica, who is working at Merlotte's, senses Jason in fear (since she had fed Jason her blood) and quickly finds Jason to protect him. They eventually discover that he does not turn. Jason, relieved, bonds with Jessica. They eventually part ways, though not without some obvious sexual tension between them.
Jason is visited by Hoyt, who is clearly distressed by his relationship problems with Jessica. The next day, he looks for Sookie to tell her the good news about his non-turning but she is concerned about Eric, who has been bound by silver chains to prevent him from walking out into the sun (due to a dangerous witch spell by a newly resurrected Antonia). Realizing Jessica is in danger, Jason sprints to the mansion to rescue her. He is stopped temporarily by a guard, who he has to kill, and promptly saves Jessica by throwing her back into the mansion. The spell is soon released and Jessica, indebted to Jason for saving her life, unwittingly plants a kiss on his cheek. She apologizes and Jason places her back in bed under chains to rest and prepare for another possible spell. As suggested by Bill, Jason will not report the guard he killed or the guard Jessica killed to the police. At night, Jessica visits Jason and tells him that she and Hoyt have broken up. Jason is angry that she would hurt his best friend and not only rejects her feelings for him but rescinds her invitation to his house.
The next day Jason gets a call from Hoyt - a possessed Lafayette has taken Arlene and Terry's baby and has threatened Hoyt with a gun. Jason responds to the call with Andy but cannot make much headway with Lafayette until Jesus comes and eventually puts the grieving mother spirit at peace. Later, Hoyt asks Jason to give Jessica a box of her belongings. Jason delivers the box - although he at first remains hesitant to get close to Jessica, they eventually make love in Jason's truck. Afterwards, Jason feels guilty knowing that it will ruin Hoyt if he finds out. He asks Jessica to glamour him to make him forget but she refuses and leaves angrily to feed on someone else.
Jason helps Sookie's cause to rescue Tara and other humans from Moon Goddess Emporium, which Bill plans to destroy in order to end the war with Antonia. He, Sookie, Jesus, and Lafayette approach the Emporium during daylight but Jesus discovers it is protected by a spell. Jesus proves his worth to Antonia by breaking through the barrier, and warns Sookie in his mind that Marnie has now turned sympathetic towards Antonia's cause. Soon the prisoners are broken free temporarily when the spell is lifted and Tara and Holly run out to the embracing arms of Sookie and Lafayette. Jason lags behind slightly and is caught on the outside of Antonia's newly cast spell, which causes everyone else to be cast inside the shop. When Pam, Jessica, Eric, and Bill come armed to defeat Marnie, they are unable to make any progress because of the barrier. Marnie asks Eric and Bill to sacrifice themselves for Sookie's release, and while they both agree, Pam does not and launches a rocket launcher at the barrier, causing a massive explosion and injuring Jason severely. Jessica feeds him her blood again. Eventually, Marnie casts a spell to draw the vampires towards the deadly barrier, but Jason holds them back long enough before the spell is broken (when Jesus draws Antonia out of Marnie). Marnie is then killed by Bill and the prisoners are released.
Jason tells Hoyt about his relationship with Jessica, and Hoyt does not take it well as he beats Jason up. Later that night, on Halloween, Jessica visits Jason and he invites her in. They make love and try to begin a relationship.
Fictional character
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from The Southern Vampire Mysteries
The Southern Vampire Mysteries
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris that were first published in 2001 and now serve as the source material for the HBO television series True Blood...
book series by author Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...
. Introduced in the first novel, Dead Until Dark
Dead Until Dark
Dead Until Dark is the first book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels.-Setting:Dead Until Dark, like the rest of the series to which it belongs, is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress from the small fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, which is...
, Jason is Sookie Stackhouse
Sookie Stackhouse
Sookie Stackhouse is the fictional protagonist and narrating voice of Charlaine Harris' The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the television adaptation, HBO's True Blood.-Biography:...
's older brother and road crew supervisor for Bon Temps.
Jason is known as a ladies' man and is associated sexually with many women in Bon Temps and other neighboring communities. He is selfish and often involves Sookie in his troubles. Sookie says, "What they didn't get was that (reckless and wild as my brother was) Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse."
In the first book, Jason is suspected of killing a series of girls in Bon Temps. Videotapes of his sexual encounters with each girl were damning evidence against him. Jason is eventually found innocent. In later books he is implicated in other crimes, and despite his innocence these accusations continue to erode his reputation.
In Dead to the World
Dead to the World (novel)
Dead to the World is the fourth book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, released in 2004. In Dead to the World, Sookie aids vampires Eric and Pam in their struggle against a coven of witches seeking to take over control of their area, and takes care of Eric after the...
, Jason disappears. This occurs shortly after he begins dating Crystal Norris from Hotshot, a community of werepanthers near Bon Temps. Finally, Sookie discovers that he was kidnapped by a jealous rival, who bit him repeatedly to turn him into a werepanther.
Jason is shown to greatly enjoy hunting with the panthers; but they don't fully accept him because he was bitten, not born.
Relationships
In the novels, Crystal gets pregnant with Jason's baby, but she miscarries. When she gets pregnant again, Jason happily marries her in a wedding in Hotshot. Sookie claims that Jason loves Crystal, but Crystal isn't sure that she loves Jason. The immature twosome quickly encounter marriage troubles, such as Crystal spending the household money on shopping instead of necessities. When Jason discovers that Crystal is having an affair, he tricks Calvin Norris and Sookie into catching her in the act. After that, Crystal moves back to Hotshot and Jason is shown to be dating other women.Jason has been friends with Hoyt Fortenberry since they were children. Since Jason became a werepanther, their relationship has been strained; and it appears to end when Jason marries Crystal.
Jason then befriends werepanther Mel Hart, with unfortunate results. Crystal ultimately dies when she is crucified outside of Merlotts, and Jason again becomes a suspect, but eventually his innocence is proven.
Like Sookie, Jason has fairy ancestry. Other characters assume it is the source of his sexual attractiveness and conquests.
Television portrayal
In True BloodTrue Blood
True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...
, an HBO series based on the books, this character is played by actor Ryan Kwanten
Ryan Kwanten
Ryan Christian Kwanten is an Australian actor. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 on the Australian soap-opera Home and Away...
.
In the series, Jason is introduced as Sookie's brother and a well-known ladies man in Bon Temps. Things start turning upside down for him when several women that he has been involved with are murdered, including his loving Grandmother, Adele Hale "Gran" Stackhouse.
The first victim is Maudette Pickens, a local married woman who periodically engages Jason in casual sex. It is discovered during one of these encounters, that Maudette had been paid one thousand dollars for a sexual relationship with a vampire. Maudette isn't ashamed of the fact, but Jason is skeptical about it. She also reveals that she videotaped the encounter. With this as a motive, Jason starts to have rough sex with Maudette with his hands around her neck. He later realizes she becomes unresponsive and assumes that he accidentally killed her. Frightened and scared, Jason packs up his things and runs out of the house.
Later Maudette is found dead in her home. The whole town assumes it's a vampire since it was known that Maudette enjoyed sexual encounters with vampires. However, Jason gets picked up by Detective Andy Bellefleur at his job and is interrogated. There it is discovered that Maudette videotaped her encounter with Jason, but was clearly alive after the sex, calling him an idiot and turning off the video camera. Jason then pleads his innocence, stating that he isn't smart enough to commit a murder. Still suspicious, the detectives let him go.
Jason then moves on to his ex-girlfriend Dawn Green (Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins
Viola Lynn Collins , better known as Lynn Collins, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Kayla Silverfox in the live-action film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.-Life and career:...
). It is implied that the relationship ended due to Jason's philandering behaviour. Wanting to give him another chance Dawn gets involved with Jason once again. During sex, Jason finds vampire bite marks on her chest to which she accounts to hanging around to a period of which she frequented vampire nightclubs and encountered numerous vampires. Jason loses his erection and Dawn ridicules him, yells at him, kicks him out and ultimately fires a number of rounds at him. Dawn's neighbors overhear the commotion. The next morning, Dawn does not show up for work at Merlotte's and Sookie goes to her place, only to discover Dawn's dead body on the bed.
Jason later meets and falls in love with Amy (Lizzy Caplan
Lizzy Caplan
Elizabeth Anne "Lizzy" Caplan is an American actress. In film, she is best known for her roles as Janis Ian in Mean Girls, Marlena Diamond in Cloverfield, and April in Hot Tub Time Machine...
), a psychopathic hippie V-juice addict who also is murdered under suspicious circumstances. Although Jason is a major suspect for all four murders (three of which are women with whom he has had sexual relations with and the other is his grandmother), it is finally revealed during the first season finale that all four murders are committed by Drew Marshall (also known as Rene Lenier). At this point, Jason's name is cleared although his reputation has suffered serious damage.
At the beginning of the second season, Jason joins the Fellowship of the Sun church, believing that God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
is guiding him to his destiny. Jason is inducted in the FotS's leadership program. Being favoured by the reverend Newlin and his wife, Sarah, he eventually moves in with them and starts a romantic relationship with the reverend's neglected wife, Sarah Newlin. Mistakenly led to believe that Steve, the reverend, has discovered her affair, Sarah attempts to shoot Jason. Jason barely escapes. At the close of the season, Jason shoots a knife-wielding Eggs Benedict Talley mistakenly believing that Eggs is threatening Andy. Eggs had been tormented by the terrible deeds the maenad Maryanne Foster had forced him to commit under her possession and had attempted to surrender himself to Andy by handing over the murder weapon (the knife).
In the third season, Jason and Andy work out a plan to pin the murder of Eggs on Andy. However, instead of coming down hard on Andy for murdering Eggs, the town praises Andy's heroics. This eventually gets to Andy's head and Jason, tired of letting Andy take all the credit, blackmails Andy into letting him join the police force. Throughout the season, Jason also pursues a mysterious, Crystal Norris, who is hesitant on being with Jason due to her loyalty to her abusive father and boyfriend. Crystal later reveals that she and her family are from Hotshot, a town filled with werepanthers
Werecat
A werecat is a therianthropic creature of folklore, horror, and occultism, described as being a shape-shifter similar to a Werewolf....
. The situation intensifies through the season as Jason tries to convince Crystal to abandon her town and her family for a life with him. In the end, Jason and Crystal tip off the Hotshot residents about a drug raid, but not before Crystal's half-brother and fiance Felton Norris, who is a V-addict, kills their father and kidnaps Crystal at gunpoint. Jason, helpless in the situation, promises to abide by Crystal's final request: he must take care of the other Hotshot residence in her absence. Later, in an act reminiscent of killing Eggs, Jason kills Franklin Mott, a sadistic vampire who had kidnapped and tortured Tara earlier in the season. Broken, Jason finally confesses his crimes, in particular the shooting of Eggs, to Sookie and Tara.
In the year since Sookie's disappearance, Jason has become a police officer partnering up with Andy Bellefleur. He, along with many other friends, had assumed Sookie had died and are shocked when Sookie reappears. Assuming she died, Jason had sold Sookie's house to an unknown company, later determined to be actually owned by Eric Northman
Eric Northman
Eric Northman is a fictional character in The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of eleven books written by New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. He is a vampire, slightly over one thousand years old, and is first introduced in the first novel, Dead Until Dark and appears in all...
.
True to his word, Jason continues to supply the Hotshot residents with food and supplies as he promised Crystal. On one of his visits, a resident traps him in an old freezer. He awakens later tied to a bed and is greeted by Crystal and Felton. They reveal that their intentions are to change him into a werepanther so that they can use him to breed more werepanthers with Crystal as Felton is infertile. After numerous women rape him, Jason, defeated and exhausted, refuses to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. He convinces her to free him, and Jason quickly escapes on foot. Felton doggedly pursues him as a werepanther, but Jason eventually kills him with a sharpened stick. Crystal is relieved to have Felton off her back, and wishes for Jason to return to Hotshot to resume his role as a "ghost daddy." Jason vehemently refuses the offer and runs off, only to collapse later on the roadside. He is then found by Hoyt Fortenberry and Jessica Hamby
Jessica Hamby
Jessica Hamby is a fictional character in the True Blood series. In the series, which chronicles the life of human waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her friends after vampires make themselves known to humans, Jessica is a newly turned vampire who must learn to deal with her vampiric abilities and...
, who promptly revives him with her blood. As he is nursed back to health, he begins fantasizing about Jessica and, oddly, Hoyt.
Thinking he will turn into a werepanther through the upcoming full moon, Jason ties himself to his bedpost to protect others. Sookie finds him and learns about the situation - she assures him that she will make the best of the situation and will not shoot Jason. When night falls, Jason flees into the woods to protect Sookie, who subsequently chases him. Jessica, who is working at Merlotte's, senses Jason in fear (since she had fed Jason her blood) and quickly finds Jason to protect him. They eventually discover that he does not turn. Jason, relieved, bonds with Jessica. They eventually part ways, though not without some obvious sexual tension between them.
Jason is visited by Hoyt, who is clearly distressed by his relationship problems with Jessica. The next day, he looks for Sookie to tell her the good news about his non-turning but she is concerned about Eric, who has been bound by silver chains to prevent him from walking out into the sun (due to a dangerous witch spell by a newly resurrected Antonia). Realizing Jessica is in danger, Jason sprints to the mansion to rescue her. He is stopped temporarily by a guard, who he has to kill, and promptly saves Jessica by throwing her back into the mansion. The spell is soon released and Jessica, indebted to Jason for saving her life, unwittingly plants a kiss on his cheek. She apologizes and Jason places her back in bed under chains to rest and prepare for another possible spell. As suggested by Bill, Jason will not report the guard he killed or the guard Jessica killed to the police. At night, Jessica visits Jason and tells him that she and Hoyt have broken up. Jason is angry that she would hurt his best friend and not only rejects her feelings for him but rescinds her invitation to his house.
The next day Jason gets a call from Hoyt - a possessed Lafayette has taken Arlene and Terry's baby and has threatened Hoyt with a gun. Jason responds to the call with Andy but cannot make much headway with Lafayette until Jesus comes and eventually puts the grieving mother spirit at peace. Later, Hoyt asks Jason to give Jessica a box of her belongings. Jason delivers the box - although he at first remains hesitant to get close to Jessica, they eventually make love in Jason's truck. Afterwards, Jason feels guilty knowing that it will ruin Hoyt if he finds out. He asks Jessica to glamour him to make him forget but she refuses and leaves angrily to feed on someone else.
Jason helps Sookie's cause to rescue Tara and other humans from Moon Goddess Emporium, which Bill plans to destroy in order to end the war with Antonia. He, Sookie, Jesus, and Lafayette approach the Emporium during daylight but Jesus discovers it is protected by a spell. Jesus proves his worth to Antonia by breaking through the barrier, and warns Sookie in his mind that Marnie has now turned sympathetic towards Antonia's cause. Soon the prisoners are broken free temporarily when the spell is lifted and Tara and Holly run out to the embracing arms of Sookie and Lafayette. Jason lags behind slightly and is caught on the outside of Antonia's newly cast spell, which causes everyone else to be cast inside the shop. When Pam, Jessica, Eric, and Bill come armed to defeat Marnie, they are unable to make any progress because of the barrier. Marnie asks Eric and Bill to sacrifice themselves for Sookie's release, and while they both agree, Pam does not and launches a rocket launcher at the barrier, causing a massive explosion and injuring Jason severely. Jessica feeds him her blood again. Eventually, Marnie casts a spell to draw the vampires towards the deadly barrier, but Jason holds them back long enough before the spell is broken (when Jesus draws Antonia out of Marnie). Marnie is then killed by Bill and the prisoners are released.
Jason tells Hoyt about his relationship with Jessica, and Hoyt does not take it well as he beats Jason up. Later that night, on Halloween, Jessica visits Jason and he invites her in. They make love and try to begin a relationship.