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Warlow

Macklyn Warlow/Ben Flynn

"It smells so good in here!"

Played By: Robert Kazinsky

"The darkness in me, it battles with the light every second of my being."

The vampire who attacked and killed Corbett and Michelle Stackhouse. Later revealed to be a powerful faerie-vampire hybrid. He seeks to take possession of Sookie Stackhouse to turn her into a vampire as well. He killed Sookie's parents to prevent them from killing her for being a fairy.

Tropes

• Arranged Marriage: The contract he entered into with John Stackhouse that promises him the first female fae of his clan, i.e Sookie. As Warlow explains to Sookie's horrified parents, it's been done that way amongst faeries for millenia.
• The Atoner: He claims to hate that he's taken so many lives. Ultimately averted. He's The Atoner when it suits him.
• Big Bad: Double subverted. In the beginning it seems Warlow is going to be the main villain of season 5, but seemingly turns out to be just another love interest for Sookie. Double subverted in the final episode of season 6. With Truman Burrell dead and Sarah Newlin defeated, he steps up as a final antagonist by trying to turn Sookie against her will.
• Beard of Evil: One that drops down to his waist. He shaves it so he can pass himself off as Ben.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts like a remorseful, Anne Rice fellow with Sookie, but when she asks him to wait a little, he shows his true colours as a possessive lunatic.
• Cruel Mercy: He drains Niall of a substantial amount of blood, but doesn't drink it or drain him completely. Then he throws Niall into the dark dimension that Warlow himself had been imprisoned in.
• Day Walker: His fae side allows him to walk in daylight.
• Deal with the Devil: Him being the devil in his contract with John Stackhouse, which legally gives him ownership over John's first female fae heir. Which turns out to be Sookie.
• Entitled to Have You: Big Time. His entire reason for coming after Sookie is because of a contract from 300 years ago which states that the next living female fae will become his bride. And while he's willing to play nice with Sookie in the beginning, it becomes clear later on that he really doesn't care for her consent and pretty much sees Sookie as his damaged pet.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite massacring a village worth of faeries, he couldn't bring himself to hurt Niall, who was a little boy at the time.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Of course when he explains this to Niall, he mentions it was because he wanted to keep one survivor to continue their villages bloodline.
• Evil All Along: Warlow was introduced as a villain, but after being revealed as Ben, it was made to seem that he was much less villainous than his reputation suggested. Until the Season 6 finale, at least, when he shows his true colours as a possessive maniac.
• Fantastic Racism: Tells Sookie he considers normal humans to be beneath him.
• Hidden Villain: For a long time, his identity was a mystery and he was only seen in dark shots as a man with a ZZ Top beard and a hat. He's later revealed to be Ben.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Well, Mom that is. He despises Lilith for making him into a blood-drinking monster which resulted in him destroying his entire village. He also is less than enthused about her declaration that God commanded her to make him a vampire in order to save the vampire race, and thinks that she is insane.
• First And Last Of His Kind: The only faerie vampire in existence. He wants Sookie so he can turn her into a faerie vampire as well, so they only need to feed from each other to survive and never have to hurt another person again. This horrifies Sookie's parents so much that they try to kill her when she's a little girl so Warlow doesn't get his hands on her.
• Karmic Death: Staked by all the living members of the Stackhouse clan that he's been tormenting.
• Manipulative Bastard: Has shades of this. Regardless of Warlow's claims to Sookie that he was trying to protect her from her parents, the fact is that he intended to take her as a child and groom her into becoming his faerie bride. The only reason that doesn't happen is because Claudine intervenes and banishes him to another realm. When he comes back 20 years later, one of his first acts is to kill all of the faeries at Hot Wings so they won't interfere with his plans for Sookie. He also gets rid of Jason and Niall by glamourning Jason to stay away from Sookie and throwing Niall into the same dimension he was once banished to. All of this so he can have Sookie for himself.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's part faerie and part vampire.
• No-Sell: Once Sookie figures out who he really is, she invites him over for dinner, with the intention of weakening him by lacing his food with store-bought silver. He shows no signs of being affected by it whatsoever.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Vendetta towards Lilith aside, his reasoning for not killing Niall (so he can continue his lineage), killing Sookie's parents, and claims of being The Atoner when trying to woo Sookie; ultimately this rings hollow as his idea of marriage towards Sookie is them constantly feeding on eachother and having sex throughout eternity, all the while being aggressive and abusive towards her.
• Offing the Offspring: The reason he killed Sookie's parents: they (mostly her father) were going to kill her themselves, rather than let Warlow turn her into a vampire.
• Really 700 Years Old: He was turned by Lilith in the year 3,500 BC, which makes him the oldest vampire on the show.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: He was blasted into another dimension and has remained there for a very long time, until the death of the Faerie Elder.
• Self-Made Orphan: Kills his biological parents and almost everyone in his village except for Niall. Then, he ended up killing his maker Lilith by 'giving her to the sun'.
• Stalker with a Crush: To Sookie, who he's been stalking since she was born.
• Start of Darkness: Implied to have been a typical faerie until he was turned. The flashback to 3500BC shows him to have been decent, loving and deeply loved by the rest of his family, given their reaction to him showing up years after Lilith turned him.
• Tragic Monster: Was presumably a loving normal man in his community of faries before Lilith got to him, turning him into a bloodthirsty monster. He never wanted to become this and claims he wants to atone for his past mistakes and start anew with Sookie. Turns out he's just a posessive selfish lunatic towards Sookie and tries to force him into "marrying him".
• Would Not Hurt A Child: Despite slaughtering his entire village, he lets Niall, a little boy, live, stating that he needed someone to continue the bloodline.

Niall

Niall Brigant

"I'm your faerie fucking grandfather."

Played By: Rutger Hauer

A very powerful and ancient fae of royalty, and also the faery grandfather of Sookie Stackhouse and Jason Stackhouse. Flashbacks reveal he was born around 3500 B.C. in the same fae tribe as Warlow, and he was the only faery survivor left alive by Warlow when he returned and slaughtered the tribe following being made vampire by Lilith.

Tropes

• Cool Old Guy: He's old, he's snarky, he's stoic, and he's awesome.
• Creepy Good: Niall is a good man, but he's off-putting and more than a little strange.

• Evil Laugh: Gives off a magnificent one when revealing to Jason who he is.
• Fantastic Racism: Shows frustration that Sookie and Ben care about Jason so much, saying that as an ordinary human, he's not that important. He seems to get over this when Jason kills Warlow with him.
• Good is Not Nice: He can certainly come across as a Grumpy Old Man, but he's genuine in his intent.
• Mercy Kill: Delivers one for Claude, who was mortally wounded by Warlow.
• Put on a Bus: He's thrown into a dark dimension by Warlow, and he remains there for several episodes.
  • The Bus Came Back: Niall returns in the Season 6 finale to help dispatch Warlow.
• Revenge: Part of his reason for so doggedly pursuing Warlow.