#TRUE BLOOD BILL COMPTON SERIES#

Bill makes it obvious that he still carries a torch for Sookie and continues to try to be involved in her life.īill's 'sister,' who looks like his former human wife, was turned by Lorena Ball in an attempt to placate Bill after he was caught staring fondly at Judith. She owns a casino called 'Siete Velos' and is the maker of a vampire called Mickey.įollowing his broken relationship with Sookie, Bill briefly dated a real estate agent named Selah Pumfrey. Salome is mentioned in the book Dead as a Doornail. While Bill is with Lorena, it is revealed by Eric and Pam that he had contacted them and told them he was leaving Sookie and he wanted to make financial arrangements for her care. According to Bill, Lorena ordered him to leave Sookie and threatened to kill her. Before leaving, he tells Sookie that if he has not returned or been heard from in eight weeks, she should go to Eric and place herself under his protection. In this novel, Bill tells Sookie that he had gone to Jackson because Lorena had called him, and he was obeying her summons. They were lovers since Bill became a vampire and they had an intense relationship. In the third book, Club Dead, Lorena is introduced as Bill's maker and sire.

Bill continues to appear in the novels, but his relationship with Sookie is not romantic in nature, and by the events of Dead Reckoning he has become a trusted friend. Their relationship ends, and is dealt a further and final blow in Definitely Dead when Eric discovers and immediately discloses to Sookie that Bill came to Bon Temps on a mission to secure her telepathic abilities for use by Louisiana's vampire Queen. Sookie and Bill's relationship falls apart when Bill is called back to his maker, Lorena, who entraps him in Mississippi to gain control of a project on which Bill is working for Sophie-Anne. Sookie has to endure a fair amount of dislike from the Bon Temps locals. They subsequently embark on Sookie's first serious romantic relationship. Bill later saves Sookie by giving her his blood when the Rattrays seek revenge. After briefly meeting Sookie at her place of work, Merlotte's bar, Sookie saves Bill from being 'drained' by the Rattrays, a husband and wife who sell vampire blood for profit. In the first book, Dead Until Dark, Bill has returned to his ancestral home in Bon Temps, which is separated from the Stackhouse home by the Bon Temps cemetery. While most older vampires have good memories, Bill's ability to recall precise details, faces and conversations is reputed to be exceptional, even among other long-lived supernaturals. The database itself has been controversial because of potential security issues and is only available for purchase to other vampires. Vampires from other areas of the world, such as Peru, have also provided information for this database. It was revealed that Bill works for Queen Sophie-Anne and she has sent him to Bon Temps to investigate Sookie Stackhouse's telepathic abilities.īill is also the creator of a valuable database in which all the vampires in North America are listed along with their significant information. He decides to apply for that area's investigator position, and he gets it.

Work and position within vampire hierarchy Īt the end of the first novel, Dead Until Dark, Bill is concerned about the power of Area Five sheriff Eric over him and Sookie. Prior to becoming a vampire, Bill was a tax accountant, where he was noted for being an exceptional worker. In Living Dead in Dallas Bill's middle name is given as Thomas, rather than Erasmus.

The Bellefleurs - who do not know he is the source of the income - initially warm to him before coming to dislike him, but he is still able to assist Portia Bellefleur during her murder investigation in Living Dead in Dallas. Later in the book series, Bill discovers that he is related to the Bellefleur family in Bon Temps and secretly provides them with funds to aid in the repair of their ancestral home. In 1865, he was made a vampire by Lorena, with whom he had a long and stormy relationship. He was a married farmer with three children, although he states that he had five living children with his wife in Dead Until Dark. He lived in Bon Temps, Louisiana, and fought for the South during the Civil War. In the book series, Bill was born on April 9, 1840.

In the fifth season of the television adaptation, Bill plays the role of the main antagonist. He is a vampire and is introduced in the first novel in the series, Dead Until Dark, and has appeared in all of the novels since.

#TRUE BLOOD BILL COMPTON SERIES#

William Thomas ' Bill' Compton is a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries series by author Charlaine Harris. Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton in True Blood, the television adaptation of The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

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