Jason Stackhouse

Jason Stackhouse
True Blood character
Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse
First appearance	Novel: Dead Until Dark Television: "Strange Love" (episode 1.01)
Created by	Charlaine Harris
Portrayed by	Ryan Kwanten
Information
Nickname(s)	Jay, Stackhouse, Jason Fuckin' Stackhouse, Girlfriend Fucker
Species	Human (fairy ancestry) Werepanther (books only)
Gender	Male
Occupation	Police officer (TV series)
Family	Sookie Stackhouse (younger sister) Adele Hale Stackhouse (grandmother) Niall Brigant (great-grandfather) Fintan Brigant (grandfather)
Spouse(s)	Novels: Crystal Norris Stackhouse (wife; deceased) Michele Schulbert (wife)
Children	Unnamed child (with Crystal; miscarriage) Unnamed child (with Crystal; deceased) Marie Stackhouse (with Michele) Corbett Stackhouse(with Michele)
Relatives	Dermot Brigant (great-uncle) Claudine (deceased), Claudette,(deceased) and Claude Crane (both half cousins once removed) Hadley (cousin) Hunter Savoy (cousin once removed)
Nationality	American

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.

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.