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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
*Jonno is probably named after Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's [[Dracula (novel)|novel]].
 
*Jonno is probably named after Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's [[Dracula (novel)|novel]].
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*He has the same surname as Abraham Van Helsing, a doctor and Vampire Hunter.
 
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Revision as of 09:53, 12 February 2014

Jonathan Van Helsing
Jonno
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Family: Eric Van Helsing (father) †

Mina Van Helsing (mother)

Skin color: Brown
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Brown
Aliases: Jonno
Status: Alive
Portrayed by: Terry Haywood

Jonathan "Jonno" Van Helsing is the son of Eric Van Helsing and reluctant heir to the traditional vampire-slaying vocation of the Van Helsings.

Personality

Jonno, compared to his father, is much more sensible, though he does tend to ignore the obvious clues that the Draculas are vampires. Jonno often ends up embarrassed by his father's antics. At the end of the first series Jonno finally comes to realise that vampires exist. From that moment on he becomes somewhat fanatical, though he was still horrified by his father's attempt to trick Vlad into killing his father.

In series 3 Jonno mainly wants to avenge his father's death, and he and his mother Mina pretend that they are still under the mindwipe. At the end of the series, with the threat of Sethius looming large, Jonno agrees to help Vlad. In series 4 he becomes is a loyal friend and ally, always backing Vlad up.

Relationships

Series 1 & 2

Throughout series one, Jonathan is often exasperated by his father's tendency to see vampires everywhere. He himself is of normal intelligence, but fails to spot that Vlad, Ingrid (on whom he has a huge crush, but by whom he is completely ignored) and Count Dracula are vampires until the final episode of the first series. He is frequently hypnotised by Ingrid in the first series, for example into performing ballet in his father's classroom. During the first series he fails to believe vampires exists until episode 14 when he starts to doubt what he believes. His father continuously ignores his needs because of his obsession with vampire-slaying. Jonathan occasionally tries to tell his father that his vampire-hunter obsession is the reason Jonathan's mother left him for an estate agent. In series two, when Jonathan (after the hunt ball) is convinced of the existence of vampires, he develops a hatred for Vlad and all the members of the Dracula family. His moralities are tested in episode 3 when Vlad tries to smash the blood mirror, which Van Helsing had told him about in the first place. If he had succeeded, the Count would have become human, but at 600 years of age, this would have meant death. Jonathan seems to believe in a "fair fight". He is very hostile towards the whole vampiric family. In the first episode he attacks Vlad in school, something his father hasn't done (or has had the sense not to). In the meeting with the headteacher which follows, Jonathan boldly proclaims his belief in Vlad being a vampire, and his hatred of vampirism. In the final episode of series two, Vlad causes him to forget the existence of vampires again.

Series 3

In Series 3, he returns to the Series along with his mother; he is the head of the SHQ (Slayers Head Quarters) along with his mother. His father was killed by vampires when his mind wipe made him lose conciousness when he saw evidence of them (like Renfield at the start of the series). It is unknown how Johnathan and his mother managed to lose their mind wipes and stay slayers.

Series 4

At the start of this series Jonno and Vlad begin to become friends as they have created a truce between slayers and vampires. Malik then tries to break this by biting Jonno however Ingrid pushes him and makes him miss his jugalur. Later in season four, Johnathan and Vlad are at one of the Slayers Guild HQs with the other slayers who are about to stake Erin when Vlad changes his mind about allowing it to happen and mind wipes all the slayers in the world. Johnathan isn't though because you can't mindwipe someone you care about.

Trivia

  • Jonno is probably named after Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's novel.
  • He has the same surname as Abraham Van Helsing, a doctor and Vampire Hunter.