Bill Compton
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William Thomas Compton (born 1835, made vampire 1865), most commonly known as Bill, is a vampire living in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Since the Great Revelation, Bill has decided to "mainstream" and coexist peacefully with humans.
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[edit] History
[edit] Human life (1835-65)
Bill lived in the town of Bon Temps with a wife and two children when the Civil War began. In 1862, he went off to serve as 1st Lieutenant in the 28th Louisiana Infantry. After the war, Bill took a shortcut on his way home, and got lost. Weak and without food, he found a cabin in which a vampire posing as a widow gave him aid. When she began to make sexual advances toward Bill, he refused her and upheld his morals as a married man. Intrigued, the vampire decided to turn him into a vampire, instead of solely feeding on him and killing him. ("Sparks Fly Out")
[edit] After death (1865-present)
[edit] 1865
Bill was made vampire by Lorena, the supposed widow who aided him. Unable to return to his previous life with his wife and children, he did not return to Bon Temps. ("Sparks Fly Out")
[edit] 1926
Lorena and Bill were lovers. Posing as French tourists in Chicago, they tricked and viciously fed on a well-off couple, the lady of which had a valuable necklace. Mid-feeding, Bill took the necklace and gave it to Lorena. ("Hard-Hearted Hannah")
[edit] 1935
Bill and Lorena lived in Los Angeles, California. Grown tired of his murderous lifestyle, Bill begged Lorena for her to release him. When she refused, Bill admitted to never loving her, even retorting that she has been and always will be a sad and lonely creature. When Lorena's anger flared up, Bill threatened to stake himself. In tears, Lorena finally relented, and let Bill go. ("Release Me")
[edit] Late 1930s
Bill had a sexual encounter with the vampire Diane. ("Mine")
[edit] Season 1
Bill moved back to the Compton house in Bon Temps following the death of the last living Compton, Jesse Compton. Going out to Merlotte's one night, Bill met Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress there, and was enthralled at first sight. He was even more intrigued when Sookie saved him from being drained by Mack and Denise Rattray. ("Strange Love") Bill was able to return the favor the next night, when the Rattrays returned for revenge. Sookie was badly hurt, and to heal her, Bill gave her his blood to drink. Sookie invited him to come over to her home the next night. After meeting Sookie's gran, who was very interested in him, Bill agreed to speak in front of the Descendants of the Glorious Dead later in the week about his experiences in the Civil War. ("The First Taste") A day or two before this meeting, he took Sookie to Fangtasia in order to find out information about the killings in Bon Temps. On the way back, they were pulled over by an overzealous cop who Bill glamoured to leave them alone. ("Escape from Dragon House") Shocked by the world to which she was being exposed, Sookie made it clear that she didn't want to see Bill again. ("Sparks Fly Out")
Despite their rough night, Bill upheld his promise to Sookie's gran and spoke in front of her club at the church while Sookie attended with Sam Merlotte. Bill made quite an impression on those with ancestors in the Civil War and was presented with a photograph of his family from the 1860s by Mayor Norris. That evening, Sheriff Dearborne and Detective Bellefleur stopped by Bill's house to question him about the killings in town. It was later that both Bill and Sam came upon Sookie who had just found her gran dead in her kitchen. ("Sparks Fly Out") ("Cold Ground")
After Adele Stackhouse's funeral, Sookie, sick of the horrible things people were thinking about her, needed to be close Bill. They had sex for the first time and Sookie let him bite her. ("Cold Ground") As their relationship began to develop, former nest mates of Bill's; Malcolm, Liam and Diane showed up at Merlotte's to get Bill's attention by scaring the locals. After Bill came and left with them in order to draw them away from Merlotte's, Sookie called and left him phone messages to warn him about some of the locals. As she feared, the vampire nest was burned down the next day with four coffins full of blood and remains. ("Burning House of Love") Fortunately, Bill had received her messages and spent the day buried in the Bon Temps graveyard. He came over to Sookie's the next night, where he helped Sookie babysit Arlene's kids. ("Fourth Man in the Fire")
Bill - ordered by his Sheriff, Eric Northman - brought Sookie back to Fangtasia. Her telepathic talents were needed to sniff out whoever had stolen $60,000 from the business. When Sookie uncovered that the vampire Longshadow was the thief, he leapt to attack her. ("Fourth Man in the Fire")
Bill immediately reacted and staked him through the heart, protecting Sookie. Despite his noble intentions, Eric called Bill away to a tribunal hearing for the murder. During his time away Bill asked Sam to watch over Sookie. ("Plaisir D'Amour") At the tribunal hearing, Bill presented his case to the Magister, head of the tribunal. The Magister, feeling creative, decreed Bill's punishment to be to create a new vampire in place of the one he had murdered. Bill was presented with a young, teen, human girl named Jessica. After significant reluctance, he drained her blood, replacing it with his own, and turned her to a vampire. ("I Don't Wanna Know") When she awoke in the ground, Bill tried to teach Jessica the ropes of mainstreaming, only to find that her new found freedom made her extremely difficult to control. He took her to Eric, requesting that her time learning be spent at Fangtasia. ("To Love Is to Bury")
With Bill having been absent from Bon Temps for some time, Sookie and Sam had spent a lot of time together. Sookie did not expect Bill to return, as he did not come to her aid when she was fleeing the killer during Arlene and René's engagement party. ("I Don't Wanna Know") Bill's arrival was just in time for Sookie and Sam's first kiss. At the sight of this, he ran at Sam looking for a fight. Sookie finally broke it up by telling off both of them and rescinding Bill's invitation to her house. ("To Love Is to Bury") Despite their fight, Bill felt Sookie's fear the next day as she was being chased down by the killer, Drew Marshall (a.k.a. René Lenier). He came out to save her, but in the sunlight he slowly burned to a crisp. With Sam's help, Sookie killed René and quickly tried to bury Bill to get him out of the light. Sookie assumed the worst, but that night Bill arrived at her door, healed and having fed. With their relationship rekindled, things went smoothly for the next two weeks until Eric came to unload Jessica - now a nuisance to him - back on Bill. ("You'll Be the Death of Me")
[edit] Season 2
With Jessica now living under his roof, Bill laid down the rules in his house. He made clear there was to be no feeding, and provided her with different Tru Blood mixes to find one she preferred. Bill could now not avoid introducing Jessica to Sookie, who immediately got mad at Bill for having failed to mention Jessica in the past two weeks. Her anger was fueled when she discovered that Bill was responsible for the death of her old Uncle Bartlett, who had molested her as a child. After Bill recited a touching monologue ending in, "I love you," Sookie returned the phrase and they had make up sex. ("Nothing but the Blood") While Bill was out the next night shopping for Jessica, Sookie secretly took Jessica to "just drive by" her old house. When Jessica impulsively ran inside and things started to go awry, Bill stormed in just in time and glamoured the traumatized family's memories away. ("Keep This Party Going") ("Scratches")
Angry at Sookie for undermining his authority, Bill got mad enough that she stormed out of the car about 20 miles from Bon Temps. When she didn't return and Bill heard her scream, he ran to Sookie's aid to find her with deep back scratches. His attempt to heal her with his blood did not work, and so Bill took Sookie to Fangtasia where Eric called on Dr. Ludwig to save her. After Sookie healed made a deal with Eric to travel to Texas, Bill insisted on escorting her. Arriving home, Bill found Jessica on top of a moaning Hoyt. He threw her off in fear that she was feeding and proceeded to kick Hoyt out. ("Scratches") ("Shake and Fingerpop")
[edit] Powers & abilities
Bill has the common powers of a vampire. Superhuman strength, speed, and healing. Because of his age, he is stronger and faster than younger vampires, though he is weaker than his superiors such as Eric. His weaknesses include a stake to the heart, silver, and fire. Though sunlight will slowly kill a vampire of his age, Bill showed a remarkable amount of resistance when he sensed Sookie in trouble during the day. He was close to saving her, but the sun proved too much and Bill passed out to the brink of death from his severe burns. Bill can also glamour people to do his bidding, answer any questions he may have, or even make them forget about any recent events that occurred.
