Jean-Claude

His voice was silken whispers
in the small hours of night.
Damn, he was good.

(Guilty Pleasures, page 14, paragraph 3)

* His nickname for Anita is ma petite, much to her chagrin.

* He is a master vampire, and as such, has the ability to call an animal. His animal to call is the wolf, and as a result, he also can control werewolves to a certain degree.

* Jean-Claude also has the additional ability to feed off of sexual energy. He is from Belle Morte's line (Beautiful Death) of the Vampire Council. She created a 'race' of vampires that were stunningly beautiful and often used sex as a means of gaining power.

* Jean-Claude is also able to touch a person with his laughter. 

* He has a dark colored cross-shaped scar on his chest.

* Because he hid his powers when Nikolaos was the Master of the City, many vampires think that Jean-Claude is not powerful enough to hold the city. It also doesn't help that at first, Anita refuses to be acknowledged as his human servant.

* Jean-Claude was the one to introduce Richard to Anita, and is jealous when she starts to like him. But he wonders, "Do you lust after Richard because he's handsomer, or because he's human?"

* He is very calculating in his dealings with Anita, and it's never really certain whether he has Anita's best interest at heart, his own interest, or a combination of the two.

* Jean-Claude understands Anita much better than Richard ever does. He knows that for her, once she has had sex, it would a commitment for her.

* His taste in gifts is much better that Richard's. He gave her a glass sculpture of penguins on an ice floe for Christmas in LuC. He is always sending her a dozen white roses. After they had consummated their relationship, the white roses included a single blood red one.

* He is part of a triumverate, including both Anita and Richard. At Christmas time, they discovered their link to each other. Jean-Claude's power and Richard's power rushed through Anita, who acted as a focus. Jean-Claude's power is like a cool rushing wind.

* Jean-Claude has made several vampires, including Robert and Gretchen. One of his powers is the ability to drain the power of his own vampire so that they are a dried husk.

* In the past, Jean-Claude used to be in Seraphina's care, along with Kissa. Approximately two hundred years ago when he was still considered a catamite for the other master vampires to use.

* Anita hears Jean-Claude giggle for the first time after he drinks the blood of both her and Jason. Necromancer, with a chaser of werewolf. This was done in order to save his life after he was nearly killed by Janos.

* Before he was brought over, Jean-Claude was a whipping boy for an aristocrat's son. There are white scars on his back which attest to that fact and Anita sees them when he is bathing. He was born a French peasant.  He was chosen because he was fair of face.

* Bella Morte brought him over, he was brought over for lust and used by other vampires. A catamite.

* His hair is longer in BB than it was when Anita first met him and she comments on this. He evades the question by simply saying she prefers longer hair on her men.

* Jean-Claude admits that he loves Anita in BB, but she cannot respond.

* Up until KD, Jean-Claude had backed Marcus for Ulfric of the Thronnos Rokke clan. But he then withdrew his support and threw in for Richard instead.

* The Vampire Council has chosen Jean-Claude to represent them in public and ordered him to stop hiding behind an imaginary higher master.

* During the time that Jean-Claude was "competing" for Anita's affections against Richard, he was celibate.

* His living room in the Circus of the Damned is all black and white with silver. Hanging above the fireplace is a painting from the 1600s. It portrayed himself, Julianna and Asher.  They had traveled together for twenty years. Because of this painting, Anita had to rethink his age. Now she believes him to be at least 400 years old.

* He also owns  Danse Macabre, a new dance club, with Raina Wallis as a silent partner.

* Jean-Claude made Robert and had him for a companion for over a century. Jean-Claude truly grieved when he was killed by Dominic, Sabin and Cassandra.

* Jean-Claude and Richard mingled their power in Anita for the first time, and she used it to raise zombies from the dead, and three vampires: Willie, Liv, and Damian. Jean-Claude cautioned not to speak of it because the Vampire Council would kill Anita. She was able to control Willie more than Jean-Claude and told him never to threaten her again.

* Jean-Claude knew not to give Anita the first mark again when she was hurt, even though Richard encouraged him to do so. However, Richard accepted the first mark for himself so that their initial triumverate could be in contact when Richard and Anita went to the Lupanar.

* After the Lupanar, Jean-Claude was the one to comfort Anita and was the first to sleep with her. *.*

* Dominic chained Jean-Claude using a cross to keep him subdued with Richard. Still, he managed to give Anita two marks so that she could escape Raina and Gabriel. When she managed to free them, he protected her because Richard would kill them both with his death if he did not. Anita refused this option and demanded that he save them both. Jean-Claude had to give her the third mark in order for him to save Richard, who had had a sword thrust through his chest.

* Jean-Claude gave Anita a black satin nightie. The night she wore it, he was able to invade her dreams until the phone rang, waking her up.

* When Anita goes to Myerton, TN to "rescue" Richard, Jean-Claude makes her take werewolves, wereleopards and other vampires because he wants her safe and he cannot go there himself, thanks to Colin. He also informed all of them that if Anita is killed, he will have all of them killed.

* Because of the marks, Jean-Claude is able to give Anita memories of Asher and she ends up feeling more comfortable around him because of it.

* Jean-Claude has always loved Asher as well as Julianna, and had nicknamed him, "mon chardonneret," which means, my goldfinch.

* After Anita and Richard consummate their passions, Anita notices that the marks between them are stronger and Richard admits that Jean-Claude thought that this might happen between them, which of course, annoys Anita.

* When she is attacked by the snake lycanthropes, Gregory comes to her aid, but "inadvertently" uses his claws on her, There is the possibility she will be a true Nimir-Ra by the next full moon. But she appears dead and Jean-Claude is arrested for her murder and Richard takes Gregory because he killed their lupa.

* Jean-Claude admits that the reason he fell in love with Anita, from the first moment he saw her (or heard her interacting with the police, as the case may be) was not so much her voice as her words - he knew she would never die waiting for him to save her because she would save herself.

* Jean-Claude gives Anita a list of acceptable partners should she need one to appease the arduer. They include: Nathaniel, Jason, Asher, Richard and Micah, although he is not pleased with the last one. Damian is a possibility, but Jean-Claude doesn't elaborate.

* Although he has intimated otherwise earlier in the books, Jean-Claude was actually created by Lissette. His master, though, was Julian and he was with him for five years, unable to control the arduer and at Julian's whim. When Lissette finally brought him to Belle Morte, she taught him control.