Thank you!

I think the one thing Bill has been wanting and searching for is his humanity, to feel as he felt before he was turned. For the first time since he was turned, he was able to feel that when he met Sookie. She is the first person to see just the good in him and make him feel human again. It’s also the reason he will fight so hard and do anything, to lose her is to lose his humanity once again(as we’ve already seen) After finally getting what you’ve been searching for your whole vamp existence, and then to possibly losing it, it becomes a fight for the person he loves and to hold on to the person he wants to be. To Bill humanity is a life he longs for.

With Eric, he has spent his existence hiding his humanity and pushing away any side of that which shows up. He was taught there is only survival from Godric, and to survive in the vampire world then you need to dominate your feelings because it can only lead to vulnerability which can lead to your demise. So to Eric, humanity within himself can mean death and goes against everything he was taught. Yes I know Godric’s message at the end but that was Godric after 2000 years, before that when Eric was with him, his views were different. To him Sookie represents everything he was taught to stay away from, it brings up feelings of being human, and to show these feelings only makes him vulnerable and in order to survive he has to put those feelings aside because he knows what can happen if you are not being rational. So now it comes down to how long can he hold on to the person he has been for 1000 years, what he was taught by Godric, or will his feelings for Sookie eventually dominate and go against everything he has been.