it must be vampire season...
Yes, well. There was encouragement. And this is Vae with another vampire.
Chaps, this is Jean-Claude, from the Anita Blake series of books by Laurell K Hamilton. He's 400 years old, give or take a decade, and originally French. Vampire, yes. All sorts of mind tricks, yes.
Brief run down of general vamp canon from the Anita-verse - they're resurrected corpses, so very actually dead. Cold unless they've recently fed, and need blood to survive. Sunlight burns and kills them, the majority of vamps "die" at sunrise and remain inanimate until sunset. Garlic is bad, yes. Holy water is bad. Holy items are bad if the wearer has belief in them. Driving a stake into them = death, but that handily applies to humans as well. Silver's not a great thing, either. On the flip side, the invitation thing isn't necessary, they're preternaturally fast, have the power of hypnosis through eye contact and sometimes through voice, and are, of course, very strong. They can form psychic bonds with chosen humans and lycanthropes and all involved gain greater power from this.
Jean-Claude is a master vampire, which gives him all those things in abundance, as well as a rather interesting bunch of powers related to sex, and associated needs - he's in effect an incubus and needs to feed off sexual energy as well as blood.
Oh, and yes. He definitely knows Jason.
Anyone threading with him is very, very welcome to contact me to decide on how those powers are going to apply/affect things!