long nonsensical twilight ramblings, enjoy.
Okay !! Let me preface this by saying that I haven’t watched or read Twilight Series in years !! BUT ... i was thinking about vampire Bella ...
I will always think that Super-Self-Control-Bella is a cop out.
Jasper and Emmett were literally betting how many humans she would kill in her newborn years. So she shouldn’t have ever been as cool, calm, and collected as she was. ANd I get that for story building purposes she couldn’t be a blood thirsty monster because her daughter had a heartbeat and the planning for the volturi had to happen ,,,, but it still sucked.
Like, hear me out, Bella should have killed that mountain climber straight up. And then after she realized what she did, the guilt from that action is what could have kept her in check. She had a monstrous moment, and after that moment realized she didn’t want to be a monster, so she kept her blood lust under better control.
BUt THAT also brings me to Vampire BElla’s special power.
Having her be a shield was just too obvious. Having her mind be silent was fine, they could have just gone with the “you think on a different wave length” thing, and be done with it.
But, Think about how the vampires inquire their powers. Intuitive human Edward can now read minds. Human Jane who wanted the world to feel what it felt like to burn alive can now project pain with a single look.
Now think about Human Bella’s skill. She drew people in. This ordinary, plain girl brought people in like a moth to a flame. Jessica said her first day that she was the “shiny new toy,” but Jessica herself was drawn in by Bella, and the novelty didn’t really go away. For seemingly no reason other than being the new girl, she caught the attention of her human classmates, and she kept it.
She also caught the attention of the Cullen’s. As rocky as the start was, it ended with them all willing to die to protect her. With Emmett and Alice and Esme and Carlisle all loving her as family. With Edward, who never showed interest in anyone, wanting to spend forever with her. With war-hardened Jasper telling her she was worth it..Think about how broken the family was when they left.. Of all the schools, and all the humans, what was so special about Bella Swan? She drew them in, captured their attention, and kept it.
The wolf pack was also willing to die for her, despite the fact that she wasn't a part of their people, both pre-resume and post-resume. The pack were her friends, some before they shifted and some after, but they still let her be apart of the pack despite not imprinting with any of them. Other than her knowledge on vampires what did she bring to the pack, other than herself.
Bella was able to make herself an entire supernatural army to fight against newborns, when the safest option for them, the option with the least amount of bloodshed, would have been to just hand Bella over to Victoria and let the volturi take care of the newborns.
SO I didn’t really think this through and I have no idea where this is going and it probably doesn’t even make sense, but 100% Bella’s special vampire power should have been allure ,,, or even the ability to switch alliances and make people fight for her ( which for have made for an interesting final fight )