Character Name

Jean-Claude

Also Known As

Master of the City of St. Louis, Sourdre de Sang

First Seen in

Guilty Pleasures

Character Description

Midnight blue eyes, almost black, perfect as the midnight sky; stands close to 6 ft, roughly 5'11"; long softly curling black hair; pale skin of alabaster with a lean bare chest with a burn scar of a cross. His voice is soft and seductive. He has long fingered hands. (GP)

Character Casting Picture

European model Mattais has been selected to portray Jean-Claude.

For additional pictures and other recommendations see the Casting Area page.

Character Occupation

Master of the City; Runs JC Corp. (Owns many businesses in the Blood District including -- Guilty Pleasures, Danse Macabre, Circus of the Damned, Laughing Corpse, etc.); is also a main sponsor/patron for an all-vampire ballet troupe.(TH) He is the vampire 'spokeperson', the pretty face for the Council. (tKD)

Character Race

Jean Claude is a Master Vampire; he becomes a Sourdre de Sang, a founder of a vampire line in CS. At first, he proclaimed his age to Anita to be 205 (GP, pg 13), but she has come to suspect (and prove) that he is better than 400 years old (OB). However, in DM, he mentions that he has not dreamed in almost 600 years, and Augustine mentions knowing him for that period of time as well, so his true age remains a mystery, even to Anita. (pgs 236 & 398, paperback DM)

Character Status

Undead (Well...living dead)

Character Associations and Ties

• In GP, he becomes Master of the City of St. Louis.
• A vampire of Belle Morte's line.
• The master of a triumvirate: metaphysical bonds to Anita Blake and Richard Zeeman (a rare event, the first known formation of such to Jean-Claude in a long time)
• Currently dating Anita Blake, his human servant;
• Personal connection to Asher from a relationship long ago while they were in the care of Belle Morte;
• The wolf is his animal to call, thus close ties to the werewolves and the Thronnos Rokke Clan;
• He has one Pomme de Sang : Jason Schuyler
• He has a treaty agreement with Rafael, the King of the Rodere, the wererats.
• He has several vampires in his Kiss that he made: Robert (died in tKD), Gretchen, Meng Die, Faust.

Also seen in

All the books, except for Micah and Obsidian Butterfly where he is only mentioned

Character Factoids

• When he lets his hair dry naturally, it has a lot of curl to it. (tKD, DM)
• He has quite a reaction to his first kiss with Anita. Was it just hunger or was he drawn to her even then?
• He first marked Anita to save first her life, then his own. Both marks were given without her permission and Anita is very vocal in her dislike of that. (GP through CotD)
• He does not like to be referred to/called 'master'. (tLaC, tKD)
• In GP he promises to protect Anita.
• He was born on a dirt floor in France and became the whipping boy for an aristocrat's son. He has a series of whip-mark scars on his back still. (BB)
• He was a libertine before he was turned. (?ID?)
• Lissette was his maker, the one that turned him and he was brought over for lust; his first true master was Julian, a cruel master who enjoyed tormenting him. He came into Belle Morte's care after being dead for five years. (ID)
• While in Belle Morte's care, he became close to and fell in love with Asher. Asher took a human servant, a young woman named Julianna, who he then helped form a menage a trois with (first mentioned in BO, page 62)
• His pet name for Anita has always been "ma petite" and although it annoys her, she has come to love it, thus when he calls her "Anita", she knows she is in trouble.
• He is an incubus; he feeds on lust. He is a carrier of the ardeur, a hunger that is as compelling and relentless as the need to drink blood. It is a rare power of Belle Morte's line, and he appears to have passed it on to Anita. (NiC)
• His nickname for Asher is "mon chardonneret", meaning "my goldfinch" (BM) Anita calls him this from her shared memories.
• He has the ability to feed off of sexual energy, thanks to Belle Morte. This is said to be his main reason behind opening Guilty Pleasures, so that he can feed the lust of the ardeur* without actually touching the customers ( he feeds off of the energy they create) (NiC)
• After becoming the Master of the City, he vowed to create no more vampires; he doesn't believe that he should be able to chose who lives and who dies (ID)

Character Quotes

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