Alcide Herveaux

Fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries

Alcide Herveaux is a fictional character in The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by author Charlaine Harris. He is introduced in the third novel, Club Dead. In the television series, he was portrayed by the actor Joe Manganiello.

Alcide is a "were" (or full-blooded werewolf) who owns a construction company in Jackson, Mississippi, with his father. He is depicted as a tall man with green eyes, olive skin, and thick, tousled black hair.[1]

Fictional character

Alcide Herveaux

The Southern Vampire Mysteries
True Blood character

True Blood actor Joe Manganiello in 2012

First appearance| Novel:
Club Dead
Television:
"It Hurts Me Too"
Last appearance| Television:
"It Hurts Me Too"
"Fire in the Hole"
Created by| Charlaine Harris
Adapted by| Alan Ball (True Blood)
Portrayed by| Joe Manganiello
Blake Michael (younger)
Thunder (wolf)
In-universe information
Species| Werewolf
Gender| Male
Occupation| "Herveaux Contracting" Manager
Family| Jackson Herveaux (father)
Grace Herveaux (mother)
Janice Herveaux (sister)
Debbie Pelt (ex-fiancee)
Nationality| American

## Fictional history[edit]

### The Southern Vampire Mysteries[edit]

The author introduces this character in the third novel, Club Dead, when Eric sends Alcide to help Sookie find Bill Compton who has been kidnapped by his "maker" Lorena. Alcide and Sookie seem to have a chemistry from the beginning, but he is emotionally tied to his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Debbie Pelt (who shifts into a lynx). Sookie "liked him very much."[2]

In the fourth book, Dead to the World, it is revealed that his ex, Debbie, had participated in vampire Bill Compton’s torture. Alcide then abjures (banishes) her from the Shreveport pack. At the end of this book, Sookie kills Debbie in self-defense. Alcide notes Debbie's scent at Sookie's house and realizes that Sookie killed her, which would always stand between Alcide and Sookie as a potential couple.

In the fifth novel, Dead as a Doornail, Alcide involves Sookie in the battle for pack leader between his father and Patrick Furnan. Alcide wants Sookie to use her telepathic abilities because many believe that Patrick Furnan will cheat. Even though Patrick is found guilty of cheating, he still wins, kills Alcide's father and becomes leader of the Long Tooth pack. Alcide thinks that Sookie failed him, and in his rage and anger of the loss of his father, he blames Sookie.[3]

Alcide later begins to date Maria-Star Cooper, but in From Dead to Worse she is brutally killed. Sookie is also attacked twice by unknown weres and there are other murders and disappearances. The Long Tooth pack becomes severely divided, blaming each other for these attacks, and a war seems inevitable. Sookie acts as a mediator between these two groups and it turns out that these murders and disappearance were caused by another pack led by Priscilla Hebert, sister to Patrick Furnan's right-hand man. A battle erupts, ending with the deaths of Patrick Furnan and most of Priscilla's pack. Alcide becomes the leader of the Long Tooth pack.

In the tenth book, Dead in the Family, Alcide arranges for the pack to have their monthly hunt on Sookie's property. Several days after the weres find some unusual tracks, a dead werewolf is discovered. Alcide's girlfriend Annabelle confesses to infidelity with the murdered were. Alcide calls upon Sookie to take a shaman potion to find the traitor(s) in the pack.

### True Blood[edit]

Actor Joe Manganiello portrays Alcide in HBO's True Blood series.[4] Alcide is somewhat in love with Sookie but knows the relationship can never be due to Sookie killing Debbie in self-defense although they do kiss in an episode. At the end of season 6, it is shown that Sookie and Alcide are officially together, however, he dies protecting her in season 7.[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Harris, Charlaine. Club Dead.
2. ^ Harris, Charlaine. Dead as a Doornail. p. 65.
3. ^ Harris, Charlaine. Dead as a Doornail. p. 282.
4. ^ "'True Blood' casts Sookie's would-be werewolf lover, Alcide". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
5. ^ [1]. The Hollywood Reporter.[dead link]

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Charlaine Harris's The Southern Vampire Mysteries

Novels|

* Dead Until Dark
* Living Dead in Dallas
* Club Dead
* Dead to the World
* Dead as a Doornail
* Definitely Dead
* All Together Dead
* From Dead to Worse
* Dead and Gone
* Dead in the Family
* Dead Reckoning
* Deadlocked
* Dead Ever After

Short story collections|

* A Touch of Dead
* The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories

Characters|

* Sookie Stackhouse
* Bill Compton
* Eric Northman
* Sam Merlotte
* Pam Ravenscroft
* Jason Stackhouse
* Alcide Herveaux
* Niall Brigant
* Tara Thornton
* Dahlia Lynley-Chivers

Adaptation|

* True Blood

Category

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True Blood

Seasons|

* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7

Episodes|

* "Strange Love"
* "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
* "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
* "Authority Always Wins"
* "Whatever I Am, You Made Me"
* "Hopeless"
* "Somebody That I Used to Know"
* "Sunset"
* "Save Yourself"

Characters|

* Sookie Stackhouse
* Bill Compton
* Eric Northman
* Alcide Herveaux
* Sam Merlotte
* Jason Stackhouse
* Tara Thornton
* Pamela Swynford De Beaufort
* Jessica Hamby

See also|

* The Southern Vampire Mysteries
* "Bad Things"
* Alan Ball
* Charlaine Harris

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