On this blog we side eye uncle Luca
I hate to do this.
But Renata’s backstory from the wiki:
Renata was born around 1240s in Malta. She was born into a vampire-friendly family that has produced several vampires over the centuries, one of whom included a nomad named Makenna. She was changed into a vampire by her great-uncle, Luca on her 20th birthday.
and now Makenna’s backstory:
A tradition began in (Luca’s) family, where every other century one child would be chosen to join Luca as a protector of the family; Makenna was one of the chosen ones. She looked forward to her fate until she met Charles in Barcelona. Luca told her that she could give up her heritage if she wanted to, but she never did.
A few years later, Charles joined their family as a vampire. Makenna changed him personally, knowing Luca would never change someone outside of the family.
At first I thought “oh, a family with a vampire patron, that’s nice!”
Then I was walking along one day and thought, why is this guy turning the women, why was Renata turned at 20 specifically, why didn’t he want to turn Charles, and why is Renata’s gift “an unnoticeable field that makes the attacker forget her or his intentions and motivations and go the other way”?
Then there is the fact that Renata seems very protective of Aro, the one who got her out of this situation.
If someone has an explanation for this, for why Renata’s gift seems an awful lot like a custom anti-rape device, that doesn’t involve Luca picking niece-brides, please, I’m desperate to hear it.