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• Friend to Nathaniel, Anita, Stephen.
• Pomme de Sang to Jean-Claude.
• Member of Thronnos Rokke Clan.
• Animal-to-call of Anita Blake.
  

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Character Factoids

• He was fairly newly turned were, when we met him in tLuC.
• He was almost killed by Anita on their first meeting. He was saved by the intervention of Rafael, (tLuC).
• He was kidnapped by a group that provided lycanthropes for Hunters in a controlled setting. (tLuC)
• He has good control of his beast for a young were. (tLuC)
• He works as a stripper at Guilty Pleasures (??, CS, ID ,BN).
• He is the willing blood source to Jean-Claude. And calls himself Jean-Claude's pet. (BB)
• He accompanied Jean-Claude to Branson. (BB)
• He is a morning person, looking rested and cheerful, even if he has had little sleep. (BB)
• He likes to eat, and tells Anita that he is always hungry. (BB)
• He does not consider himself an alpha, but neither is he a submissive. (BB)
• He made a dominance challenge to Anita which he lost. He cheerfully admitted that she was dominant to him. (BB)
• He tells Anita that he is much more afraid of Jean-Claude than he is of Anita. Yes, she can kill him, but it would be quick. He was not so sure it would be the same from Jean-Claude. (BB)
• He likes to wear leather. (BB)

• He was badly injured in the battle with Seraphina and had to be hospitalized. (BB)
• Anita thinks that he has a fascination with danger, pain and simply being a pain-in-the-ass. He reminds her a little of Gabriel in that way. (tKD)
• He quit college. Telling Anita that it doesn't seem to be that important anymore. (tKD)
• He enjoyed feeding on Richard's power through drinking his blood. (tKD)
• Richard has disciplined him severely several times. (tKD, ID)
  
• He is scared of Edward and admits it to Anita. (tKD)
• He likes to flirt. It sometimes gets him in trouble. (tKD)
• He gave into his fear and viciously attacked the Zombies that Anita raised under the Circus. Anita threatened to kill him if he didn't stop. (tKD)
  
• Jason is a Gemini. He declares that he is finally legal - age 21 in BM.
• He was part of the group that went to Tennessee with Anita to help Richard. (BM)
• Other weres consider him bisexual, probably because of his association with Jean-Claude; (BM) but he considers himself heterosexual; he doesn't discount the possibility that he wouldn't consider sex with the right guy. (CS)

• Raina turned him during sex. She almost killed him when she did it. She was his pack sponsor. He had to stay with her until his probation period was over. (BM). This experience was partly responsible for him joining Jean-Claude's entourage. (BM)
• He has nightmares about his experiences in Branson. (BM)
• He has strong loyalties to Richard.(NiC)
• He is referred to as Jean-Claude's pomme de sang in NiC. This gives him rights. One of which is the right to have sex with Anita. (NiC)
• He fed Gretchen when she was released from her coffin even though he was very afraid. (NiC)
• Anita does not consider him more than a friend, though they have had sex to feed the ardeur on several occasions (NiC, CS, BN).
• After they have sex for the first time in CS, Jason is pleased to note that he now shows up on Anita's radar.
• Even though Jean-Claude assured him that she was not of the rotting vampire line, Musette terrifies him. (CS)
  

• He has ALWAYS flirted with Anita. (tLuC-ST)
• He can say things to Anita that she will not take/accept from others. She will also admit things to him that she will not to the others.(BB, CS, ID, BN, ST)
  
• He has a fear and dislike of rotting vampires and zombies. (BB, tKD, BM, BO)
  
• He was given to Yvette, a rotting vampire, briefly in BO; she loved his fear of her. (BO)
• He can be used as a channel for Richard when Anita and Jean-Claude need his power. (NiC)
• He attended Larry and Tammy's wedding. (ID)
• He gave Nathaniel advise on how to approach Anita. (ID)
  
• He has a mini fridge in his bedroom. It acts as a beside table. (ID)
  
• He takes Anita's beast when it tries to rise in ID.
• He uses teasing and laughter as a shield (ID)
  
• He considers Nathaniel to be his best friend. (DM)
• He can acts as Jean-Claude's eyes. (DM)

• He became Anita's second animal to call after Mommy Dearest messed with the ardeur (BN)
• He broke up with Perdy because of her intense jealousy and because she gave him an ultimatum about Jean-Claude.(BN)
• He grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains in Asheville, North Carolina. (BN)
• It has been more than three years since he had last seen his family. (BN)
  
• He is the youngest of three children, and the only boy. (BN)
• His father's name is Franklin - Frank. He is a big man, over six feet tall, with black hair. He went to college on a football scholarship.(BN)
• His mother's name is Iris. He gets his height, hair and eye color from her. (BN)
  
• He has two sisters, Roberta (Robbi) and Julia. They both are taller than he is and have black hair. (BN)
  
• Jason calls his father a bully. He was always too rough, too harsh for a kid Jason's age and size. He was careful not to be obvious, though, making it appear to be accidents. He notes that his father is very big on appearances. (BN)
• In the beginning of BN, we learn that his father has been diagnosed with cancer and is dying. They are estranged. (BN)
• We also learn that both his father and eldest sister believe that Jason is gay. (BN)
• His family knows that he lives with Jean-Claude. (BN)

• He went to a small private high school.(BN)
• He had a gay best friend in high school. (BN)
• Jason didn't want to play sports. His dad was always pushing him to do so.(BN)
• He danced all through school. He stayed in dance from elementary through to senior year. He can act and he can sing, though he prefers to dance.(BN)
• His stage name is Ripley. We learn that he is a Sigourny Weaver fan. He thought that she was 'hot'.(BN)
• He has 2 distant cousins, Keith and Kelsey Summerland, who look very much like Jason. This resemblance is traced to a common ancestor: Jebediah Summerland, a founding father of Asheville. It has always been a problem for him.(BN)
  
• He went to college for a business degree, because that was what his parents would pay for, not what he wanted. Stripping was a way to both continue dancing AND to bug his parents. (BN)
• Jason started therapy in his teens because the school counselor encouraged it. Therapy taught him that his dad was abusing him. He wanted to hurt Jason. (BN)

• Considers Nathaniel his best friend in the whole world. When it looked like he might be father to Anita's presumed baby, it was Nathaniel who Jason could not think of facing, even above the Ulfric Richard. (BN)
• While Jason is recovering and unconscious in a hospital bed, his father, Frank, tells Anita that he believes that Jason is actually the son of Governor Summerland, though this has not been confirmed. Jason's parents were separated for awhile around the time of his conception. He confesses that this has affected how he has treated Jason for most of his son's life. (BN)
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