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My soft spot is Eric Northam and I wouldn't probably be here if it weren't for him and Sookie Stackhouse in Charlaine Harris's book series.


Oh, if only he looked at me this way... Knee-melting begins again.;-)


After I had watched Twilight I asked myself what the buzz was all about. This movie was so boooring that it's almost unbelievable. And the performance of the actors quite schockingly bad. Give me Eric, Sookie or Bill anytime instead of overhyped Edward and Bella. [I don't remember from where I've got this picture so please don't get angry with me if it's from eg. your website/blog. I can put your name or remove it altogether, though I really like this pic.]


I've noticed Eric in TB, but I've become an Eric-fascinated fan after reading Charlaine Harris's books. I love his interaction with Sookie and Pam, his authority, charisma, zeast of life and sense of humour despite all this baggage of 1000 years on his back. He's not flawless, but an interesting character to learn about more and more.


There are plenty fanfic stories about Eric and Sookie on the net. Some are even uploaded on True Blood Wiki, some are published on FanFiction.net. My favourite fanfiction story based on the characters of Eric and Sookie is entitled "Know Thyself" and is written by Konfetti. It's a very stylish and romantic story, which in my opinion distinguishes favourably from other fanfiction stories. There is a real connection with the characters of Charley Harris's novels, the register and the vocabulary are aptly chosen for both Sookie and Eric, a Southern barmaid and a 1000-year vampire. There is also tenderness and eroticism, but there's no horniness. All in all, the story is very engaging, addictive even, because I'm very keen to know what will happen next. It tells about feelings, relationship turmoils. I look forward to its every new chapter. I heartily recommend it.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4791743/1/Know_Thyself





Rikkaytikayy has made a fantastic video about Eric and Sookie based on the song "Post Blue" by Placebo and TB fragments. I think it's my favourite fan video about Eric and Sookie. Well, I simply want more screen time of Eric in TB Season 2.:)

Post Blue lyrics
It’s in the water baby, it’s in the pills that bring you down
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your bag of golden brown
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your frequency
It’s in the water baby, it’s between you and me

It’s in the water baby, it’s in the pills that pick you up
It’s in the water baby, it’s in the special way we fuck
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your family tree
It’s in the water baby, it’s between you and me

Bite the hand that feeds
Tap the vein that bleeds
Down on my bended knees
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you

It’s in the water baby, it’s in the pills that bring you down
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your bag of golden brown
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your frequency
It’s in the water baby, it’s between you and me

Bite the hand that feeds
Tap the vein that bleeds
Down on my bended knees
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
I break the back of love for you
[lyrics from http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Post-Blue-lyrics-Placebo/BE5580BF323D5553482571010021225B]





TruBldFan has made a very dramatic video about Eric and Sookie. It's a remainder that in the book it was Eric who saved her from Longshadow, not Bill like it was shown in TB. The video is based on the song "Vide Cor Meum" by Hans Zimmer from the movie Hannibal.


Vide Cor Meum lyrics
Chorus: E pensando di lei
Mi sopragiunse uno soave sonno

Ego dominus tuus
Vide cor tuum
E d'esto core ardendo
Cor tuum
(Chorus: Lei paventosa)
Umilmente pascea.
Appreso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.

La letizia si convertia
In amarissimo pianto

Io sono in pace
Cor meum
Io sono in pace
Vide cor meum

ENGLISH
Chorus: And thinking of her
Sweet sleep overcame me

I am your master
See your heart
And of this burning heart
Your heart
(Chorus: She trembling)
Obediently eats.
Weeping, I saw him then depart from me.

Joy is converted
To bitterest tears

I am in peace
My heart
I am in peace
See my heart
[lyrics from http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/hans_zimmer/vide_cor_meum-lyrics-1155922.html]





I love the collage of pictures of Eric and Sookie made by trevor250990. I wasn't very fond of Justin Timberlake's song "Damn Girl" that was attached to this video, but I later changed my mind. The video and pictures are really amazing.:)

Damn Girl lyrics
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn

Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn

Listen to me

I've been around the world
Seen a million hunnies
Really special girls
Gave all my time and money
But, there something 'bout ya
Something that's kinda funny

It's what you do to me
awwwww
Don't need no Maybelline
'Cause you're a beauty queen
Don't need no L'oreal
'Cause bitch you're bad as hell
If I'm Casanova
Then you're a supernova

Girl it's what you do to me
It's got me saying
Damn girl...... you're so fine
The way you let me
put it down, girl
Blows my mind
I guess I gotta put
it down tonight
I gotta put it down

Ohh , Ohh Ohh

Damn
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn

Give me something

Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn

I said there something
bout the way you do
the things you do
when you do the things you do
its got me Ohh Ohh Ohh
I said there something
bout the way you do
the things you do
when you do the things you do
its got me Ohh Ohh Ohh

I said
Don't need no Maybelline
'Cause you a beauty queen
Don't need no L'oreal
'Cause bitch you're bad as hell
If I'm Casanova
Then you're a supernova

Girl it's what you do to me
It's got me saying
Damn girl...... you're so fine
The way you let me
put it down, girl
Just blows my mind
I guess I gotta put
it down tonight
I gotta put it down
Ohh Ohh Ohh

woo wa wa woo woo woo
Baby, give me some of your tasty
Cinnamon give me your feminine
gelatin
'Cause got a cinnaman going crazy
Hey ba ba baba baby
You the one I've been
feening for
When I'm dreaming I'm
dreaming of you
When you're gone I've
been screaming for ya
So why don't you be my
chick and stuff
Take you out to dinner
and catch a flick and stuff
we can spend time I'll
never get enough
Girl you're so fine make a
dark brother blush
Got me looking like a
black grape and stuff
First time saying you
had me gonna crush
And if you ever give it to me
Give it to me rough
You got me
saying...(You got me
saying)
Got me saying

You got me saying
Damn girl...... you're so fine
The way you let me
put it down, girl
Blows my mind
I guess I gotta put
it down tonight
I gotta put it down
Ohh Ohh Ohh

I'm saying
Damn girl...... you're
so fine (fine)
The way you let me put
it down, girl (the way
you put it down)
Blows my mind (baby)
I guess I gotta put
it down tonight
I gotta put it down
Ohh Ohh Ohh

I said there something
'bout the way you do
the things you do
When you do the things you do
It's got me Ohh Ohh Ohh
I said there something
'bout the way you do
the things you do
When you do the things you do
It's got me Ohh Ohh Ohh

Sing it with me ..go

Something 'bout the
way you do the things
you do
When you do the things you do
It's got me Ohh Ohh Ohh
Sing it for me.. go
Something 'bout the
way you do the things
you do
When you do the things you do
It's got me Ohh Ohh Ohh

Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn

Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn Girl
Damn
[lyrics from http://www.mp3lyrics.org/j/justin-timberlake/damn/]




My favourite couple Eric Northam, over a 1000-year old Viking, and Sookie Stackhouse, a mind-reading barmaid from a little Southern town.


My playlist of Eric/Sookie videos on youtube [I haven't made any of this videos, just collected some that I like on this playlist].
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=36BFCE4C40E15F7A


There's little Eric's screen time in True Blood Season 1, but Eric's fans know these few minutes very well.:)
All his scenes in TBS1 were collected by bijoulemon and uploaded on yt. Enjoy them and hope there'll more in Season 2.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EB0BB174BFBD0A3F



My favourite moments from Charlotte Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Sookie/Eric interactions:)
"Hi, I'm Sookie Stackhouse," I said politely.
"Aren't you sweet," Eric observed, and I hoped he was thinking of my character.
"Not especially," I said.
Eric stared at me in surprise for a moment. Then he laughed, and the female did, too.
"Sookie, this is Pam and I am Eric," the blond vampire said.


S: "I read a policeman's mind," I muttered. I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.
E: "That's interesting." "I had a psychic once. It was incredible."
S: "Did the psychic think so?" My voice was tarter than I'd meant it to be.
Eric laughed. "For a while," he answered ambiguously.


S: "By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.
E: "I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."
S: I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.
E: "Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."
S: "That's more like it."

E: "I'll help you into the tub if you like, Sookie."
S: "Oh, I don't think so."
E: "I'll bet you are a treat, naked."
S: "You know it. I'm just as tasty as a big éclair." "Though at the moment I feel more like boudain."

S: "Do you think from now on, you could just let me stay at home, and leave me and Bill alone?"
E: "No. You are too useful." "Besides, I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you."
S: "Like a fungus?"
E: "You look especially luscious in that knit dress with nothing underneath." "If you left Bill and came to me of your own free will, he would accept that."
S: "But I'm not going to do any such thing."


E: "I am here."
S: "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique.
E: "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm.
S: "Eric, my big bullshitter."
E: "You want something, my darling?"
S: "I'm not your darling, and you know it, for one thing. For another—Bill said you were coming over here tomorrow night?"
E: "Yes, to tromp up in the woods looking for the maenad. She finds our offerings of vintage wine and a young bull inadequate."

S: "The reason I called you is that I need you to go to a party with me tomorrow night."
E: "Bill is no longer your bedmate? The differences you developed in Dallas are permanent?"
S: "What I should have said is, 'I need a bodyguard for tomorrow night.' Bill's in Dallas." "See, there's a long explanation, but the situation is that I need to go to a party tomorrow night that's really just a . . . well, it's a . . . kind of orgy thing? And I need someone with me in case . . . just in case."
E: "That's fascinating." "And since I'm going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?"
S: "You can look almost human."
E: "This is a human orgy? One that excludes vampires?"
S: "It's a human orgy that doesn't know a vampire is coming."
E: "So, the more human I look the less frightening I'll be?"
S: "Yes, I need to read their thoughts. Pick their brains. And if I get them thinking about a certain thing, and pick their brains, then we can get out of there."
E: "So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?"
S: "Yes." "And . . . do you think you could pretend to be gay?"
E: There was a long silence. "What time do I need to be there?" Eric asked softly.


E: "But are you blond all the way down?"
S: "Don't you wish you knew?"
E: "Yes."
S: "Well, you'll just have to wonder."
E: "I am.""Blond everywhere."
S: "I could tell as much from your chest hair."
E: "You sillywomen, shaving your body hair."

E: "And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?"
S: "I'm not that clever, Eric."
E: "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile


E: "You trust me?"
S: "Yes."
E: "That's . . . crazy, Sookie."
S: "I don't think so." Where that surety had come from, I didn't know, but it was there.

S: "Eric, what are you doing here?"
E: "Snuggling."
S: "You son of a bitch! I thought you were Bill! I thought he was back!"
E: "Sookie, you need a shower."
S: "What?"
E: "Your hair is dirty, and your breath could knock down a horse."
S: "Not that I care what you think," I said flatly.
E: "Go get cleaned up."
S: "Why?"
E: "Because we have to talk, and I'm pretty sure you don't want to have a long conversation in bed. Not that I have any objection to being in bed with you"-he pressed himself against me to prove how little he objected-"but I'd enjoy it more if I were with the hygienic Sookie I've come to know."


E:"Here's what I'm going to do," Eric said finally. He looked at me from across the table, his blue eyes as hard, as marbles and just as warm. No more Mr. Nice Vampire. "I can't tell if you're lying or not, which is remarkable. For your sake, I hope you are telling the truth. I could torture you until you told me the truth, or until I was sure you had been telling me the truth from the beginning."
S: Oh, brother. I took a deep breath, blew it out, and tried to think of an appropriate prayer. God, don't let me scream too loud seemed kind of weak and negative. Besides, there was no one to hear me besides the vampires, no matter how loudly I shrieked. When the time came, I might as well let it rip.
E: "But that might damage you too badly for the other part of my plan. And really, it doesn't make that much difference if you know what Bill has been doing behind our backs or not."
S: Behind their backs? Oh, shit. And now I knew whom to blame for my very deep predicament. My own dear love, Bill Compton.
S: "I'm not too happy about the torture option." I was in so much trouble, I couldn't even begin to add it up, and I was so overloaded with stress that I felt like my head was floating somewhere above my body. "And I miss Bill."


E: "I don't enjoy seeing you scared of me, I have always been very fond of you."
S: He'd always wanted to have sex with me.
E: "Plus, I want to fuck you." He grinned, but at this moment it didn't do a thing to me. "When we kiss ... it's very exciting." We had kissed in the line of duty, so to speak, and not as recreation. But it had been exciting. How not? He was gorgeous, and he'd had several hundred years to work on his smooching technique.
Eric got closer and closer. I wasn't sure if he was going to bite me or kiss me. His fangs had run out. He was angry, or homy, or hungry, or all three. New vampires tended to lisp while they talked until they got used to their fangs; you couldn't even tell, with Eric. He'd had centuries of perfecting that technique, too.
S: "Somehow, that torture plan didn't make me feel very sexy," I told him

S: "Are you gonna torture me, or not? Are my friend, or my enemy? Are you gonna find Bill, or let him rot?"
E: "Sookie, you are too much." "I'm not going to torture you. For one thing, I would hate to ruin that beautiful skin; one day, I will see all of it."
S: I just hoped it was still on my body when that happened.
E: "You won't always be so afraid of me," he said, as if he were absolutely certain of the future. "And you won't always be as devoted to Bill as you are now."

S: I didn't get to see what Josh looked like, because Eric was carrying me upstairs then.
S: "Rhett and Scarlet," I said.
E: "I don't understand," Eric told me.
S: "You haven't seen Gone with the Wind?" I was horrified. But then, why should a vampire Viking have seen that staple of the Southern mystique? But he'd read The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, which I had worked my way through in high school. "You'll have to watch it on video. Why am I acting so stupid? Why am I not scared?"

E: "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away."
S: It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place.

S: "Thank you, Eric."
E: "For what?"
S: "For standing by me in the club. For coming here with me. For not leaving me alone with all these people."
E: "How grateful are you?" he whispered, his mouth hovering over mine. His eyes were very alert now, and his gaze was boring into mine.
S: "That kind of ruins it, when you say something like that," I said, trying to keep my voice gentle. "You shouldn't want me to have sex with you just because I owe you."
E: "I don't really care why you have sex with me, as long as you do it," he said, equally gently.


E: " We’re expanding our Fangtasia product line.”
S: “Oh?”
E: “Yes. What would you think of a nude calendar? ‘Fangtasia’s Vampire Hunks’ is what Pam thinks it should be called.”
S: “Are you gonna be in it?”
E: “Oh, of course. Mr. January.”
S: “Well, put me down for three. I’ll give one to Arlene and one to Tara. And I’ll put one up on my own wall.”
E: “If you promise to keep it open to my picture, I’ll give you one for free.”
S: “You got a deal.”

E: “Do you love him?”
S: “Don’t know yet.”
E: “Did you love me?”
S: "Did I love you?” “Maybe. Sort of. But I knew all along that whoever was with me, it wasn’t the real you. And I knew sooner or later you’d remember who you were and what you were.”
E: “You don’t seem to have yes or no answers about men"
S: “You don’t exactly seem to know how you feel about me, either."
E: “You’re a mystery,”



About Eric:)
B: "The vampire over there is handsome; he has scanned you twice,"
S: "You're teasing me," I said uncertainly after a moment.
The vampire [Bill] had indicated was handsome, in fact, radiant; blond and blue-eyed, tall and broad shouldered. He was wearing boots, jeans, and a vest. Period. Kind of like the guys on the cover of romance books. He scared me to death.
B: "His name is Eric."
S: "How old is he?"
B: "Very. He's the oldest thing in this bar."


B: "Eric is much better looking than I am," Bill said. "He is more powerful, and I understand sex with him is unforget­table. He is so old he only needs to take a sip to maintain his strength. He almost never kills any more. So, as vampires go, he's a good guy. You could still go with him. He is still looking at you. He would try his glamor on you if you were not with me."


B: "Eric is intrigued by you now. He can tell you have mental powers that most humans don't have, or ignore if they know they possess them. He anticipates your blood is rich and sweet." "And you're beautiful. You're even more beautiful now"


B: "Eric's always been something of a rogue, and the older he gets the more willful he gets"

S: I thought it was pretty amusing that Eric, the dread master vampire, was afraid of weeping women. I sniggered through the residual sobs.

P: "What did you say to Eric? He is shaking his head back and forth with his eyes shut."

S: Eric looked quite nice in the suit and glasses. The glasses made him seem somehow less threatening

S: "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink," I said, and Eric laughed out loud. That was why I liked him, I thought rosily; he "got" me

S: Wow, Eric's blood was awesome. That was a word I'd never used before, but it was accurate. I'd never realized what a difference there would be between taking Bill's blood and taking Eric'

E: "I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.

S: Eric sure had some big blank moral blind spots, but I didn't think he'd do that to me. After all, he hadn't reached his stated goal of having me, which was the nicest way I could put it to myself

S: I had no idea what Eric was thinking about, a wonderful feeling. He might be debating pulling over to the shoulder and breaking my neck, or he might be wondering what tonight's take at Fangtasia would add up to. I wanted him to talk to me. I wished he would tell me about his life before he became a vampire, but that's a real touchy subject with lots of vamps, and I wasn't about to bring it up tonight of all nights

S:. [Alcide] had never viewed Eric with any sense of humor, as I did. I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could say a vampire had joie de vivre, Eric had it in spades.


P: “Sookie, I don’t know what strange game you and Eric have going, but it’s not good for us.”
S: “I have nothing going! Nothing!”
P “You may not, but he does. He has not been the same since the time you two spent together.”
S: “I don’t know what I can do about that,” I said weakly.
P: “I don’t either, but I hope he can resolve his feelings for you. He doesn’t enjoy having conflicts. He doesn’t enjoy feeling attached. He is not the carefree vampire he used to be.”
S: “Pam, I’ve been as straight with him as I can be. I think maybe he’s worried about something else. You’re exaggerating my importance in Eric’s scheme of things. If he has any kind of undying love for me, then he’s sure not telling me about it. And I never see him

P: “I’m Eric’s second-in-command. You do know who Eric Northman is?”
A: “Sure.” “He’s the blond hunk of burning love who lives in Shreveport, right?”



Bill/Eric interactions:)
E:"Bill, are you quite attached to your friend?"
It took a second for the meaning to sink in. Eric the Hunk was asking if I could be borrowed.
B: "She is mine."

E: "She called me and asked me to help."
B: "Then, all right. But you remember our agreement."
E: "How can I forget?"



Bill/Sookie interactions:)
S: "Is there anything magic about three times?"
He laughed, that low, nimbly, rusty laugh.
B: "No. But the more vampire blood you drink, the more desirable you be­come to our kind, and actually, more desirable to anyone."
S: "With all this telling me how lovely I am, are you saying that Eric, like, lusts for me?"
B: "Yes."
S: "What's to stop him from taking me? You say he's stronger than you."
B: "Courtesy and custom, first of all."
I didn't snort, but I came close.
B: "Don't discount that. We're all observant of custom, we vampires. We have to live together for centuries."

S: I would have loved to faint, to pass right out. But I didn't. I just sagged over Bill's shoulder and hurt. "Go to hell," I mumbled.
B: "What, my darling?"
S: "Go tohell! "

S: "You didn't even wait to see if I was okay," I said. Once a vampire, always a vampire. Tigers can't change their stripes. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. I heard every warning anyone had ever fed me, in the warm drawl of home.

B: "Did you really suck a bullet from Eric's shoulder?"
S: "Yeah, he said I had to get it out before his flesh closed over it."
B: "Did he tell you he had a pocketknife in his pocket?"
S: "No. Did he? Why would he do that?"
B: "Guess."
S: "So I would suck on his shoulder? You can't mean that."
Bill just maintained the skeptical look.
S: "Oh, Bill. I fell for it. Wait a minute—he got shot! That bullet could have hit me, but instead it hit him. He was guarding me."
B: "How?"
S: "Well, by lying on top of me . . ."
B: "I rest my case."


B: "You smell like Eric."
S: "Yeah, uh-huh, and I can't even tell what you smell like! For all I know you've been with six women! Hardly fair, is it?"
Bill gaped at me, stunned. Behind me, Eric started laughing.

B: "If anything happens to me, you should go to Eric."
S: "You've said that before," I told him. "If anything happens to you, I don't have to go to anyone. I'm my own person. I get to make up my mind what I want to do. You've got to make sure nothing happens to you."


About Sookie:)
T: "Portia ain't as tough as everyone thinks she is." "You, on the other hand, are a sweet little éclair on the outside and a pitbull on the inside."

E: "You might make a decent vampire, Sookie." "All right. Done. If anything happens to you, she'll never fuck Bill again."

Sam: Weren’t you happier before?”
Sookie: “You mean before I knew any vampires; before I knew about the rest of the world that lies outside the boundaries?”
Sam nodded.
Sookie: “In some ways. It was nice to have a clear path before me,” I said. “I do get really sick of the politics and the battles. But my life wasn’t any prize, Sam. Every day was a struggle just to act like I was a regular human, like I didn’t know all the things I know about other humans. The cheating and infidelity, the little acts of dishonesty, the unkindness. The really severe judgments people pass on each other. Their lack of charity. When you know all that, it’s hard to keep going sometimes. Knowing about the supernatural world puts all that in a different perspective. I don’t know why. People aren’t any better or worse than the supernaturals, but they’re not all there is, either.”
Sam: “I guess I understand,” Sam said, though he sounded a little doubtful.
Sookie: “Plus,” I said very quietly, “it’s nice to be valued for the very thing that makes regular people think I’m just a crazy girl.”
Sam: “Definitely understand that.” “But there’s a price.”
Sookie: “Oh, no doubt about it.”
Sam: “You willing to pay?”
Sookie: “So far.”