Hoyt Fortenberry
Father (deceased)
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- "I got these from the gift store downstairs. They're blood scented. To me they just smell like soup."
- ―Hoyt to Jessica[src]
Hoyt Fortenberry is a resident of Bon Temps who works for the road crew along with Lafayette Reynolds. He was in a relationship with the young vampire Jessica Hamby and lives alone now.
Before Season 1
Hoyt was the shortest kid in elementary school, where his best friend Jason Stackhouse fought for him since the other kids would have liked to kill him. In eighth grade, he grew 10 inches, but had neither muscles nor balance. Hoyt had to walk on crutches for 6 months and Jason again helped him. Hoyt's father died when he was 10. His mother Maxine Fortenberry claimed his father was killed by a burglar, but 18 years after his death, she revealed (while under Maryann Forrester's spell) he committed suicide and made up the story with the burglar to get money from the life insurance. Hoyt feels obligated to care for his mother until her lie got busted.
Season 1
Hoyt Fortenberry is only a small character in the first season appearing (like his mother) in only a few episodes. He works on a road crew with Jason, Lafayette and Rene.
Hoyt is the best friend of Jason Stackhouse although is shown to be much kinder and more sensitive than Jason. After Dawn Green's death Jason's sister, Sookie hears Hoyt thinking how he will miss her beautiful voice, while all the other men are thinking about her sexual attributes.
Hoyt lives with his mother who is over-protective to his dismay. He regularly gets angry at her for treating him like a child even threatening to move out on one occasion.
Season 2
Jessica, Hoyt, and Maxine.
In Season 2, Hoyt gets his first girlfriend, a newbie vampire called Jessica who is Bill Compton's ward. They meet in Merlotte's one night and go back to Bill and Jessica's house. Bill returns home and, believing Jessica was going to feed on Hoyt, becomes angry. Bill throws Hoyt out of his house telling Hoyt it wasn't Jessica he was worried about.
Hoyt reassures Jessica he doesn't believe Bill. ("Scratches") Hoyt is upset when his mother voices objections to the relationship. When Hoyt's mother Maxine cuts off his cellphone service, Hoyt becomes angry and goes all the way to Dallas to apologize to Jessica and explain why he hasn't phoned. Jessica is touched at the thought and they both proceed to lose their virginities to each other. ("Hard-Hearted Hannah") ("Release Me")
When Hoyt and Jessica return to Bon Temps, Maxine is furious at Hoyt for going away, but he has had enough of his overbearing mother and tells her so. He points out that she is small-minded and prejudiced toward vampires. Hoyt tells Maxine in no uncertain terms that he will leave home if she doesn't accept Jessica. Desperate not to lose him, Maxine reluctantly agrees.
They all meet up in Merlotte's bar. Hoyt is angry with Maxine for being late but Jessica defends her. However when Maxine makes nasty comments and reduces Jessica to tears, Hoyt tells Maxine that he is moving out. ("I Will Rise Up")Maxine, under Maryann's spell, calls Hoyt and Jessica a lot of names. Jessica can take no more and attacks Maxine.
Furious, Hoyt pulls her off and breaks up with Jessica on the spot taking Maxine home. ("New World in My View") At home, Hoyt struggles to control Maxine who is still under Maryann's influence. Furious at not being allowed to join Maryann's party, Maxine admits to Hoyt the truth: His father wasn't shot by burglars--he died from shooting himself. When Maxine comes out of the spell, Hoyt asks her if it's true and Maxine admits that it is.
Devastated, Hoyt leaves and moves in with Jason. ("Frenzy") ("Beyond Here Lies Nothin'")
Season 3
Hoyt punching Tommy (click for animation)
Jessica drinks from Hoyt (click for animation)
Jessica admits she loves Hoyt (click for animation)
Hoyt finds the headless body of a man while digging a ditch. He doesn't know that this is the same man that his ex-girlfriend, Jessica, killed. ("It Hurts Me Too")
Hoyt begins to date Summer (click for animation)
Hoyt tries to win Jessica back by bringing flowers and Tru Blood but Jessica rejects him. He is extremely upset by this and is even more upset when he sees her with another guy. She is unaware that Hoyt was watching. He does not realize that the guy Jessica was talking to was a friend from her church and she was glamouring him to forget her. ("9 Crimes")
Hoyt goes on a date with a girl named Summer and Jessica is upset upon seeing him with her. ("I Got a Right to Sing the Blues") Summer pays a visit to Jason and Hoyt's place a few days after the date because Hoyt never called her back. She brought him her grandma's special recipe biscuits and declares her feelings for Hoyt, who seems unimpressed with her but she clueless to it. ("Hitting the Ground")
Hoyt shows up at Merlotte's with Summer and the couple are waited on by a visibly upset Jessica. Hoyt tells Jessica he still has feelings for her and doesn't like Summer, Jessica becomes emotional about the situation, and Tommy only sees the end of the conversation which adds to his hatred of Hoyt. ("Everything Is Broken")
Hoyt comes to Merlotte's and tells Jessica he's broken up with Summer. Hoyt loves her and says that if she tells him she isn't in love with him he'll leave her alone. She says nothing and he walks outside. Tommy walks up to him and Hoyt quickly punches him in the face. Tommy turns into the pit bull and attacks Hoyt. Jessica rushes outside and hurls dog-Tommy into the woods. She sees Hoyt has a nasty bite on his arm and forces him to drink her blood. ("I Smell a Rat")
Jessica and Hoyt are back together. They tell each other how badly they missed one another. When things start getting heavy Jessica tells him about killing the trucker. She explains she's not going to stop drinking human blood and Hoyt immediately offers his own neck. Jessica goes right for it and Hoyt seems to like the experience. ("Fresh Blood")
Hoyt goes to work and finds his mom waiting with Summer and a high school guidance counselor Mr. Rakestraw for what appears to be an intervention. Summer and Maxine read messages about Hoyt losing his way with Jessica. Maxine threatens to bar Hoyt from coming back to her house -- useless, since he already left -- and he responds that he loves Jessica and everybody needs to accept that fact. He wishes Summer well and leaves. Hoyt brings a blindfolded Jessica to his new place. He wants to marry her. She says she loves him. "I don't know what I'd do without you," she says. We see Maxine Fortenberry examining firearms at a gun shop.("Evil is Going On")
Season 4
Hoyt and Jessica are currently living together. Hoyt comes home from work and gets angry at Jessica for not cooking him dinner. After an explosive argument, they eventually make up. Later, Hoyt brings Jessica to Fangtasia for a date night. Unknowing that his fiancee is eying a fangbanger. ("She's Not There")
Later, as they are leaving, they are harassed by a group of anti-Vampire protesters. Hoyt attempts to make them see reason by explaining to them that he loves Jessica because of who she is, and derides them for having so much hate in their hearts yet claiming to be good Christians, saying a good Christian has the ability to love. This leads to a fight between Hoyt and several of the protesters, during which he is bruised and bloodied. After they return home, Jessica attempts to heal him with her blood, but Hoyt refuses, as he is afraid of becoming addicted to V, and unintentionally offends her, leading her to leave in a fury. ("You Smell Like Dinner")
She returns many hours later, to find Hoyt watching TV and holding a very old and creepy porcelain doll. He angrily expresses how worried he was about her, believing it to be a dangerous time for Vampires, citing how his own mother had tried to shoot her. When she tells him they need to talk, he changes the subject to talk about the doll, which he is clearly disturbed by, and which he had just found in their bed. They realize that the doll has been mysteriously reappearing despite their attempts to get rid of it, as Hoyt had previously thrown it in the town dump and Jessica had thrown it in the lake. Hoyt concludes that someone is messing with them. Jessica then confesses that she had just been feeding off of a fangbanger at Fangtasia. This greatly upsets and hurts the already touchy Hoyt, even though Jessica reveals she didn't sleep with the fangbanger. She attempts to rationalize her behavior by saying that Hoyt looks at other women, which enrages Hoyt, as he says that "other women don't even exist for [him]". Jessica then begins to glamour him, but he realizes it and attempts to leave. However, Jessica is too quick for him, and is able to glamour him into forgiving her and forgetting what she had done. ("If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'?")
Later, they are out driving and come upon a desperately injured Jason lying in the road. Jessica immediately feeds Jason her blood as Hoyt watches. ("I'm Alive and on Fire")
The same night, Hoyt and Jessica are watching over Jason when Hoyt decides to stay with him. Later Jason has a sexual dream about Jessica and Hoyt is in it accusing Jason of stealing his girlfriend ("Me and the Devil")
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Jessica has a dream about breaking up with Hoyt while killing him in the process. She envisions that Hoyt is heartbroken. In reality however, Jessica breaks up with Hoyt but he turns angry, ending it himself. He yells at her and kicks her out of their house.("Spellbound")