Jordan Parrish

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****Jordan Parrish** Parrish** is a supporting character in Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, and Season 6 of *Teen Wolf*. He made his first appearance in the second half of the third season as a newly-hired Sheriff's deputy at the Beacon County Sheriff's Station, where he worked under the leadership of Sheriff Noah Stilinski. After several weeks of working at the department, Parrish admitted to Stilinski that he moved to Beacon Hills because he felt drawn there, which was the first indication that he wasn't as ordinary as he seemed. During this time, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Sheriff, acting as Stilinski's second-in-command. He is good friends with Lydia and Amanvir.

This suspicion that Parrish was something more was confirmed in Season 4, when his name appeared on the Deadpool hit-list at the beginning of 2012, confirming that he was indeed a supernatural creature, though he had no idea what kind he was. His partner, Deputy Haigh, attempted to kill Parrish to get his his $5 million bounty by dousing him in gasoline and setting him on fire. However, Parrish miraculously walked away from the fire with no injuries, though he was covered in soot and had all of his clothing burned off in the process.

Parrish quickly joined Scott and Adella McCall and their pack, and in Season 5A's *Status Asthmaticus*, it was eventually discovered by Lydia Martin during her research that Parrish was, in fact, a Hellhound, a spectral dog that is said to ride with the Wild Hunt of Germanic folklore and is known for being a guardian of supernatural places. However, since Lydia was driven into catatonia by Theo Raeken's attack shortly after this discovery, Parrish did not officially learn his supernatural identity until Season 5B's *The Sword and the Spirit*, when Gerard Argent confirmed it by attempting to set him on fire, which triggered him to reveal his Hellhound fangs for the first time.

In *A Credible Threat*, it was revealed that the Hellhound is actually an amortal being who is beyond life and death and who can possess vessels when it is needed on Earth. The Hellhound, who is known as Cerberus and many other names, possessed Parrish when he was blown up in an explosion while serving in Afghanistan, which happened to occur at the exact moment that Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, and Allison Argent drowned themselves in the surrogate sacrifice ritual in *Alpha Pact*. Though the Hellhound claimed Parrish was dead, it was implied by Lydia (who, as a Banshee, knows when a person is dead or dying and who the person is through premonitions) that he had not truly died, and that it could be possible for the Hellhound and Parrish to work together to fight the Beast of Gevaudan.

As Lydia predicted, Parrish and Cerberus ultimately merged themselves together, working as one unit instead of Cerberus taking control when Jordan was asleep and not allowing Parrish the conscious use of their powers. It was with the help of Parrish and his newly-gained Hellhound abilities that the McCall Pack was able to finally defeat and kill the Beast once and for all.

In Season 6, Parrish continued to help the members of the McCall Pack in fighting against the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt, who had arrived to Beacon Hills in order to capture its citizens and make them into more of their kind. Unfortunately for Parrish, his connection to the Hunt as a Hellhound caused him to be controlled by them, nearly freeing one of the Ghost Riders from a trap. His situation became even worse when Garrett Douglas, an Alpha Löwenmensch who had gained a portion of the Ghost Riders' powers by eating one of their pineal glands, took complete control over Parrish for some time, using him to open rifts between the living world and the Phantom Train Station. However, after Stiles escaped the Wild Hunt's control, he used liquid nitrogen to return Parrish to his true self and freed him from the Hunt's control. In the second half of the final season, Parrish played a large role in helping the pack and the rest of the supernatural community fight against the ancient shapeshifter known as the Anuk-ite and the Hunter army created due to the fear the creature induced of the supernatural community in Beacon Hills and across the globe.

**Parrish** is an ally of the **McCall Pack** and appears to have both an emotional and supernatural connection (as well as possibly a romantic connection) to Malia Hale, who, as a Werecayote, is a harbinger of death just like him.