Lucien LaCroix
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General Lucien LaCroix is a Roman General of Pompey, cruel and practical. He is brought
across by
his daughter, who thinks it's from him she gets her vicious streak, as the volcano erupts to destroy Pompey. LaCroix
never explains why he brings across Janette or Nick, but he does tell Janette, after Nick has run away, that he doesn't
want "another one." He wants THAT one! On occasion he brings across someone in response to Nick's upset, though
usually without telling Nick. He speaks as Nick's father, though Nick says he's LaCroix's slave. It's a constant
battle for dominance by LaCroix, who is hurt by Nick trying to throw off LaCroix's gift of immortality. Nick often
seems like a sulky adolescent rebelling against his father. He broadcasts as The Nightcrawler and seems to
be doing monologues for Nick, who listens to him as he drives.
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Janettee Ducharme |
Janettee Ducharme was a noble Parisian woman who was given into prostitution by her husband because he needed a wife
who could bear him children. She seems at the bottom of her life, though still with a spark to fight unsuccessfully for her
pregnant friend. LaCroix has been following her for some time and invites her to join him in a life where no man
will ever touch her without her permission. He knows what works. She allows him to bring her over and her first
victim is the pimp that killed her friend. She loves Nick, even after leaving him, and sympathizes with his quest
for mortality. She and LaCroix and Nick form a family over the centuries. For now she runs The Raven, a Toronto
nightclub.
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Nick Knight |
Nicholas de Brabant was a French knight who was tricked by his lord into going on the crusades. In 1228 he
meets Janette, who seduces him and then introduces him to LaCroix who invites him into Eternal Night. Almost immediately
he feels uncomfortable with his decision, and his guilt grows over the centuries. When he finally kills an innocent because
LaCroix set him up, he makes up his mind to never kill again and, usually, sticks to it. He loved Janette for over 90
years until she leaves him. And even after that, he and Janette and LaCroix frequently travel as a family.
Janette and Nick still have a hot relationship, though Nick loves a succession of women, the
last being Natalie.
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Aristotle |
Aristotle handles the details of the vampire community's need to take on new identities. He's the one
Nick goes to when he needs help getting a new life for a friend.
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Divia |
Divia is LaCroix's daughter. She was brought across by a healer when she was ill. When the volcano threatens Pompey,
she brings across her father. She's back in the 3rd season with a bit of an Electra complex for Daddy dearest.
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Dr. Natalie Lambert |
Dr. Natalie Lambert is the medical examiner who met Nick when he rose from the dead in her morgue. She
nags Nick to make progress in his goal of becoming human, and tries to help him.
She knows about Janette, but no friendship develops.
She loves Nick, and he her, but they take a long time getting around to admitting it. When they finally do,
their love is thwarted by LaCroix, who has extracted a promise from Nick that he will let LaCroix take the love of his
life from him, as Nick took LaCroix's love, Nick's sister Fleur. Natalie can't think the vampire
life is all that bad since she corners Nick into bringing her dying brother across, a real disaster. When desperate,
she asks in two episodes for Nick to bring her across.
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Don Schanke |
Schanke is Nick's partner. He's a good homocide detective and does eventually figure out that Nick is a vampire,
though he's able to be led by LaCroix into deciding he was being illogical.
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Fleur |
Fleur de Brabant is Nick's sister. Before he goes off for good with the vampires, he insists on traveling home to see
his mother and sister. While there, LaCroix and Fleur fall in love over their love of astronomy and questioning
natures. LaCroix wants to bring her across, but Nick convinces him that what he loves is Fleur's innocence, the
very quality that would be lost if he brought her over. His reasons are actually more selfish. Now that he
has become a vampire, the only hope for the continuation of their family is if Fleur marries and has children.
As LaCroix tells Nick, it's always about Nick.
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Joe Stonetree |
Captain Joe Stonetree is Nick and Schanke's boss in the first season.
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Capt. Amanda Cohen |
Captain Amanda Cohen is Nick and Schanke's boss in the second season.
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Copyright © 2003, Mary S. Van Deusen