Dermot Brigant is Sookie Stackhouse's great uncle, Niall Brigant's son, and Fintan's fraternal twin brother in "The Southern Vampire Mysteries". He appears in the novels Dead and Gone, Dead in the Family and Dead Reckoning and said to look like he could be Jason's twin, and it is hard to tell them apart. He ends up saving Sookie from being killed by Colman at the end of Dead in the Family.