Jackson Jekyll

Jackson Jekyll is a character from the Monster High franchise.

Jackson is part human and part fire elemental, as his father is one. Due to his mother's Jekyll/Hyde lineage, he has a monstrous alter ego named of Holt Hyde. Jackson longed to be a monster until he discovered his alter-ego whom he now wars with. Believing himself to be fully human most of his life, he has grown up among monsters in a world where the two groups mutually dislike each other, causing him to be cautious and shy but not easily intimidated. As well as careful and kind, Jackson is a dedicated scientist and one of the best students at Monster High.

In the AWA fics, Jackson is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
In the web series, Jackson has black hair with blond ends, blue eyes and a pierced left eyebrow. He has a yin and yang symbol between his shoulders. Because of his shy personality, his body language is nervous and he tends to hunch his shoulders.

In the book series Monster High by Lisi Harrison, Jackson has a mop of brown hair and crackling hazel eyes.

He usually wears black framed glasses which are also thick-framed and thick-rimmed in both web series and books.

Personality
Jackson's alter ego is Holt Hyde, known as D.J. Hyde in the Monster High books. His transformation is triggered by heat and sweat in the books and by music in the movies and webisodes.

Jackson is a friendly guy who enjoys playing casketball, though he has a geeky fashion sense and is sometimes picked on by other students. He appears to be the only human student at Monster High, making him confused by his apparent normalcy in a school full of monsters.

In the diaries he once asked Draculaura to bite him, as he was afraid they couldn't really be friends when school started. Draculaura was able to talk him out of it, but she could tell he was still depressed.

In the Monster High book series, he is not afraid or uncomfortable about being around monsters and is able to interact with them quite easily. Draculaura noted in her diary that he was unfazed when he met her father, who normally creeps out both human and monsters.

In the cartoon, he seems much more wary around monsters, most likely due to being bullied at school for being a "normie." He even went as far as to say that he "didn't belong." and that no one would want him at Cleo's party in the webisode "Hyde and Shriek."

While the Monster High students are unaware of Jackson's/Holt's dual nature, older monsters can sense his duality. This is evident in Draculaura's "Basic" diary when she overhears a conversation between her father and Jackson, where Jackson makes a light joke about stakes. Her father later cryptically tells her that Jackson is more than he appears.

Abilities
He has no monster abilities, being a normie, as humans don't have any abilities that monsters have, but he does have a special ability:

Special Abilities

 * Transformation: Jackson can transform into Holt Hyde, but not at will (not unlike his grandfather). This only occurs when in the books, he sweats, and in the web series and TV specials, when he hears loud music playing.

Skillset

 * Sports: In the books, he is good at basketball, and in the web series, casketball. Though Manny Taur does not recognize he is good at it due to Holt.
 * Video games: He is skilled in playing video games.

Trivia

 * Jackson's birthday is May 30th, he is a Gemini, (the twin constellation). Which may be a coincidence, but is more likely that it was done on purpose, because of the Jackson/Holt thing.


 * Based on information that is revealed in Jackson's diary and overall his character in general, it could be debatable on weither or not he has depression. Jackson also shows signs of some social issues.


 * His prototype box seen at the Toy Fair 2012 didn't have his name on the diary and had a different catch phrase which was "To scare is human..."
 * His birthday is May 30.