In the novel, I only mentioned a few of the many legends I read through. The unique feature about that legend was that the incubus could father children. Hmmm , I said, and I filed that kernel of an idea away for later.
When I decided to write the first sequel to Twilight Forever Dawn , I knew it was going to revolve around a hybrid baby from the outset. Everything I wrote was pointed in that direction. I focused my answers on the female half of the equation—female vampires cannot have children because their bodies no longer change in any aspect.
There were many statements on this subject purported to have come from me, but I never made those comments because, obviously, I knew where this was going. None of this story is possible. Within the context of the fantasy, however, this is how it works:. Vampires are physically similar enough to their human origins to pass as humans under some circumstances like cloudy days. There are many basic differences. They appear to have skin like ours, albeit very fair skin.
The skin serves the same general purpose of protecting the body. However, the cells that make up their skin are not pliant like our cells, they are hard and reflective like crystal. A fluid similar to the venom in their mouths works as a lubricant between the cells, which makes movement possible note: this fluid is very flammable.
A fluid similar to the same venom lubricates their eyes so that their eyes can move easily in their sockets. The lubricant-venom in the eyes and skin is not able to infect a human the way saliva-venom can. Though there is no venom replacement that works precisely like blood, many of the functions of blood are carried on in some form.
Also, the nervous system runs in a slightly different but heightened way. Some involuntary reactions, like breathing, continue in that specific example because vampires use the scents in the air much more than we do, rather than out of a need for oxygen. The normal reactions of arousal are still present in vampires, made possible by venom-related fluids that cause tissues to react similarly as they do to an influx of blood. Like with vampire skin—which looks similar to human skin and has the same basic function—fluids closely related to seminal fluids still exist in male vampires, which carry genetic information and are capable of bonding with a human ovum.
She overcame the major obstacles in her path and fought her way to the place she wanted to be. Stories need conflict, and the conflicts that are Bella-centric are resolved. It makes me sad, of course, but I was expecting it.
The negative was more than I was braced for, but that was because the book sold a lot more copies than I expected. It was bigger than I thought it would be on both the positive and the negative sides. Because no book is a good book for everyone. Conversely, there are books that I adore that no one else seems to care about. The surprise to me is that so many people do like my books. I wrote them for a very specific audience of one, and so there was no guarantee that any other person on the planet besides me would enjoy them.
With Breaking Dawn , the expectation was so huge and so intense that I knew the negative reaction was going to be especially bad this time. No book—or album, or movie, or tv show, or any other kind of entertainment—can answer to that level of expectation. Oh, it might do it for some people, it might be exactly what they were looking for. If I could go back in time, knowing everything I know right now, and write the whole series again, I would write exactly the same story.
The writing would be better, though—practice makes perfect. This is the story I wanted to write, and I love Breaking Dawn. Also, that it might be impossible to film. What does that mean? The book is just so long! But maybe a screenwriter can see a way to do it and still cover the crucial plot points. You can do almost anything with CGI these days—realistic dragons and dinosaurs and endless amounts of nonexistent creatures that blend right in with the real elements.
When I hear or read theories about Bella being an anti-feminist character, those theories are usually predicated on her choices. In the beginning, she chooses romantic love over everything else.
Eventually, she chooses to marry at an early age and then chooses to keep an unexpected and dangerous baby. She is a character in a story, nothing more or less.
Renesmee got married to Jacob and made Lucina her maid of honor. Bella was dying from giving birth to Renesmee because her body could not take the trauma of the baby being ripped from her body.
This is why Edward stood by ready to inject Bella's heart with his own venom and why immediately bit her in as many places as he could, to keep her from dying.
Renesmee: The half human-half vampire daughter of Bella and Edward, who can live on blood or human food, can transmit her thoughts to others by touching their skin. Edward Cullen Edward, to the Denalis about Renesmee. Edward Cullen is Renesmee's father. During their honeymoon, Edward and Bella unknowingly conceived Renesmee. It looked way more unnatural than the CGI baby , which is saying something. After they saw how bad the animatronic looked, they decided on real babies and toddlers and chose to use CGI to put a modified version of Mackenzie Foy's face on all of them.
Though Bella has only been pregnant for two weeks , the baby rapidly grows. Jacob rushes over to the Cullens' house. After she "sees" the Volturi army approaching, she disappears with Jasper , leaving everyone to believe that they deserted the Cullens to save their own lives. Carlisle Cullen earned his wealth through compound interest and several shrewd long-term investments with significant help from Alice, whose precognitive abilities allowed the family to predict changes in the stock market and invest accordingly.
Amun was the coven's leader and was one of the only two survivors of the Volturi's assault during the war between their covens, the other one being Kebi, his mate.
Amun is also considered the oldest vampire in the Twilight universe, as he was turned before the Romanian coven — the oldest coven there is — rose to power.
Bella was turned into a vampire after giving birth to her, as her body could barely handle the experience. Not long after her birth, a vampire from the Denali Coven, Irina, saw her and thought she was an immortal child, after which she alerted the Volturi as immortal children are not allowed to exist.
Alice's early history is vague, as she remembers nothing about her human life and woke up alone as a vampire. Alice was transformed by an old vampire who worked at the asylum to protect her from James , a tracker vampire who was hunting her. There has been speculation that Renesmee and Jacob may reproduce, but there is not enough information to confirm this.
Even at full maturity, hybrids are able to digest normal food, an additional sign of an active metabolism. Like male vampires, Nahuel produces sperm, though eventual children have not been mentioned.
Vampire hybrids grow at an unprecedented rate during their early lives, reaching full physical maturity at about seven years of age, with an apparent biological age of their late teens.
At this point their development will then cease altogether, reaching the same unchangeable state of full vampires—Nahuel has lived about a hundred fifty years with still a young body. His oldest sister, Serena , is known to have lived for over two centuries.
They are supernaturally much stronger and faster than humans, with sharper senses, but are not as strong, fast, or sharp as a pure vampire Bella described Nahuel as "not quite as fast nor fluid in his run as the vampires with him".
They have perfect memory recall and develop mentally at a rate far faster than their chronological and biological age, speaking in complete sentences and walking just days after birth. So far, no known hybrid females have been shown to be venomous, though Nahuel, the only male hybrid, has; it is unknown if this is generalizable.
Despite both male and female hybrids showing the supernatural healing capacities of vampires, in such a case as an injury like dismemberment, only male hybrids may perhaps 'repair' themselves as completely as vampires. Since the known females apparently lack the venom necessary for the process, it may be supposed that their healing is not as extensive as males, and they would not survive such an injury. There is, however, a recurring idea about hybrids and the venom they produce.
Female hybrids, such as Renesmee and Nahuel's three sisters, may have received prominent traits from their human mother, hence their lack of venom.
Nahuel seems to have received most traits from his vampire father, which would make him venomous. It would appear that a venomous hybrid has the same venom-based fluids throughout their body as a full vampire. Non-venomous hybrids may have them to a lesser degree as they have the sweet-smelling scent of vampires. Nahuel, a venomous hybrid, may display the same scent that full vampires have, without even a hint of human blood his recently turned aunt Huilen was not tempted by the scent of his blood.
According to The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide , hybrids can develop supernatural capabilities like certain full vampires, though not all do. Renesmee is the only hybrid known to show supernatural gifts, which she had inherited from both her parents, and altered to work differently. It is unknown if other hybrids also show special talents, or if they are inherited or uniquely their own.
Hybrids only appear in Breaking Dawn. Bella became pregnant on her and Edward 's honeymoon. The pregnancy progressed very rapidly; Bella and Edward had only made love for the first time 17 days before her conception and her period was only 5 days late, yet there was a small but noticeable bump around her hip.
Bella decided to keep the child, as the hybrids do have a lovable presence for the mothers. She asked Rosalie for help when Edward made it known that he wished to abort it out of fear for Bella's safety. Rosalie, who always wanted a child, agreed and stood guard over Bella during the pregnancy, preventing the abortion. However, Bella's health was rapidly deteriorating due the strength of the hybrid, which she believed was a boy and tentatively named "EJ" standing for Edward Jacob. The pregnancy also deprived Bella of her appetite, stopping her from eating normal food.
From a snide idea that Jacob was thinking, Edward realized that the appetite of the baby may be closer to vampires than to humans. Carlisle and Rosalie agreed that Bella should try drinking human blood to improve her and the child's condition. The blood did improve the health of the fetus, and Bella's health improved as a result of that.
By now, the child was involuntarily breaking her bones and bruising her body. Newborn Renesmee.
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