Hi I have some THOUGHTS about the dream sequence battle from BD2 because it’s been bothering me literally since the movie was released.
In the book, there was no battle. They had a courtroom-like debate. They spent literally pages upon pages just ... discussing the philosophy and potential problems of creating a hybrid like Renesmee, and if that’s a big enough threat to the vampire secrecy, and if any laws were actually broken, or if the laws should be changed, as Renesmee was an outlier.
Then Alice brings another Hybrid with proof that he will stop aging after reaching physical maturity and act similarly to a normal vampire, meaning there is no danger. Eventually the Volturi just... fuck off basically.
But that would make for a SUPER boring movie, and as a kid it was SUPER boring to read. They hype up this whole “we will battle to protect our rights, and our families” and then just chat for a bit and go home. There’s no suspense. So the directors had to add this battle.
Still with me? Okay. Alice gave Aro the vision of battle by holding his hand. Aro’s power means he can read your entire mind, all your memories, by touching you. Alice sees the future. Looking at LITERALLY all of the canon, Alice cannot see the wolves. Or Renesmee. They give her painful headaches, and the future around them and anyone who interacts with them just “disappears”. It’s why she panics when Bella runs off to see her werewolf friend, her future disappears as if she died. It’s why she didn’t see Bella get pulled out of the water after jumping off a cliff. The one who pulled her out was Jacob - A WOLF.
She also can’t really see around Renesmee, which is why Bella’s pregnancy was so hard for Alice. It was like a “hole” in her vision, Bella’s future was so tied up in Renesmee that it obscured Alice’s sight.
So why is it she was able to see, in great detail, a battle where the wolves are interacting with every single person? BECAUSE THE VISION WAS FAKED.
Alice lives with a mind reader. She also is mischievous and likes to keep secrets from him. She has lots of practice deliberately thinking “around” things instead of “about” them. I think while she was gone, Alice devised a way to fool even the most powerful mind reader, and present him with this vision of “this is what will happen if you choose to fight us”. He would be inclined to trust her vision, maybe even overlook anything odd or inconsistent, being that he lusts over Alice’s power and wishes her to be his immortal crystal ball slave.
Now, she could have easily shown him Benjamin destroying them all. But I think there’s a reason she wouldn’t have - Aro likes to “collect” powerful people. If she showed that there was this OP flamethrower able to wipe out entire covens, Aro would hunt Benjamin and his family to the ends of the earth. We already know Ben is on the more low-key side, doesn’t want to be shown off or used or abuse his own powers. The Volturi have been known to falsify crimes in order to wipe out a coven and manipulate the remaining gifted members to join or die, adding them to his arsenal. It would put a target on him and then they really would have to fight.
So she would show something reasonable, not too OP, and an outcome in which Aro loses in a realistic manner. That kinda flatters his ego (Example being Bella pulls off his head with all her newborn strength but still needs Edward’s help). Both sides have great losses. So it’s enough to convince Aro to wait, bide his time. His losses would outweigh the gains, example Benjamin or Alice or Edward.
But it’s an elaborate fake and that’s the only answer I will accept because it completely disregards canon that’s been built up over the past four books!!!!
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