Jessica Hamby

Jessica Hamby is a fictional character in the True Blood series, portrayed by Deborah Ann Woll.

In her human life, Jessica was raised in a strict, devout Christian family in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Jessica and her younger sister Eden were homeschooled and only allowed to go to bible study and clarinet lessons.

Shortly before her appearance in True Blood, she chooses to sneak out after her bible study to attend a friend's party.

The Magister decides that as a punishment for his deeds, Bill is sentenced to replenishing their numbers by converting Jessica.

Bill is reluctant but willingly goes along with the sentence as the Magister would torture her and make him watch, draining the struggling Jessica of all her blood and burying her underground with him for one night.

This process transforms Jessica into a vampire successfully, but she is under the reign of her "maker", Bill, to which she does not take kindly.

Eventually, she becomes such an obstacle to Bill that he leaves her to his vampire sheriff, Eric Northman (who she is attracted to), excited at the fact that she gets to feed off humans and spend time with him she agrees.

Jessica states that her family is sick and that she desires to kill her father, but Bill intervenes and saves Jessica's family from harm, later erasing their memories and realizing her human life is over.E-14 After this, Jessica gradually begins to understand how to be a good vampire and starts a relationship with a human from Bill's hometown, Hoyt Fortenberry.E-15 At the Carmilla Hotel, both admit they are still virgins and Hoyt covers the bed with rose petals before the two finally make love.

They break up briefly because of a conflict between Jessica and Hoyt's overbearing mother, Maxine, who is prejudiced against vampires, but eventually reconcile.

Jessica is confronted by a vampire named Franklin Mott, who pulls the trucker's severed head from a paper bag.

She later regrets it and glamours the last customer into giving Arlene a big tip- after Jessica successfully feeds on the woman, without harming her.

After Russell's appearance on TBBN, humans burn a cross on Bill and Jessica's front lawn.

Jason then brings one of the girls with him to have sex, but instead takes her to her home, while Jessica watches him leave, wordless.

Jessica develops a personality similar to Pam's such as dressing sexy, talking down to others and hitting on as many guys as she can, relishing at the fact that she is the Princess Of Louisiana and all the privileges that come with it.

Hoyt, who unknowingly became friends with members of the group, is brought in to kill Jessica for breaking his heart.

Jessica can only watch in horror as Bill telekinetically contorts the woman's body in unspeakable ways, then siphons her blood through the air from her mouth until she is nothing more than a withered husk, at which point he goes comatose again.

After some coaxing and pleading, Bill lets Jessica help him with his plans by having her abduct Hido Takahashi, a college professor who is rumored to have been the creator of Tru Blood, as well as Andy Bellefleur's faerie daughters.

Jessica attempts to entertain the four halfling daughters, but the girls quickly grow restless and bored.

Unbeknownst to her, Jason has been sleeping with Sarah Newlin, who arranges for Governor Burrell's LAVTF to capture Jessica and throw her in his vampire concentration camp, after she threatened to sexually assault her.

Upon arrival, Jessica unintentionally almost causes a riot by refusing her vial of Tru Blood during feeding time.

Later, she is sent to a room where she must have sex with another vampire, James, under Sarah's orders while Jason watches but he ultimately refuses and gets zapped with UV light and gets his fangs removed.

Jessica is thankful to James and they have consensual sex, during which she unintentionally spouts out Sarah's plan to exterminate the entire vampire race through poisoning the TruBlood.

Bill saves her and the other vampire prisoners at the last moment with his new ability to daywalk, and supplies them with faerie blood to keep them alive, at the cost of his own powers.

Over time, she learns to follow his commands, and he teaches her how to "glamour" (very effective vampire hypnosis techniques), best feeding practices, and broad combat skills.

As he disappears at the beginning of season 3, Jessica is very frightened and lost and displays great relief upon Bill's return.

Jessica meets Hoyt, a road crew worker, in the bar of Bill's hometown, Merlotte's.

Later on, Maxine comes under the influence of a maenad and loses her limitations, after which she starts dishing out her true opinion on Jessica.

Jessica contemplates leaving Hoyt, but when she does, he reacts angrily and cruelly reminds her of her shortcomings (such as her inability to have children) before kicking her out.

Struggling with the pain of the breakup, Hoyt eventually asks Jessica to "glamour" or hypnotize away all his memories of her and Jason before he moves to Alaska.