Why sparkling vampires

Any woman would desire for her flawless skin and beauty. She might have the strength and durability of a vampire, but having the power of beauty is something a narcissist would love to have. As some of you may know, the Cullens are paired up determined by Carlisle. Did you know that after he turned Rosalie into a vampire, she was originally supposed to be a mate for Edward? The reason for that is kind of creepy. He had dimples, dark hair, and an innocent look that brought her back to the time her best friend gave birth to her son.

Saving his life is one thing, but for that being the sole reason to transform him is unbelievably crazy. As we all know, vampires need to drink blood in order to survive, despite their immortality. The Cullens are no exception, but instead of humans, they resort to animals like deer, mountain lions, and so much more. That does leave us some questions that annoy us, such as how does that make the Cullens vegetarians if they are drinking blood from animals?

It logically does not make sense at all. The term for vegetarian might be the fact that the Cullens are refraining from humans, but it still does not sound right for them to be called vegetarians.

Charlie Swan, also known as the police officer in Forks and father to the special snowflake Bella. In some ways, he is probably one of the more bearable characters since he is actually sane, but he has some major flaws, especially as a father.

While he has been estranged from his daughter due to divorcing his wife, the least he could do is try to make sure Bella does not get herself into ridiculous danger. When it comes to a scene in Eclipse where Edward and Jacob were snarling at each other after the latter kissed Bella, Charlie comes in to save the day. When Jacob explained what happened, not once did he scold Jacob for making a move on Bella without her consent.

All he did was stared in wonder like he wanted him to kiss his daughter. Not only do we get the craziest scene where Bella and Edward make a mess if you know what we mean here , but also encounter one of the worse uses of CGI ever. Once Bella goes into labor with her demonic baby nearly taking her life, she finally got it out to show off Renesmee.

Does that sound ridiculously lazy or what? The CGI looks absolutely awful, and it must have been weird for Nikki Reed, the actress who plays Rosalie, to hold nothing as if she is holding the baby. Whoever made the choice of making the baby CGI should never work in the movie industry ever again. To make Bella even more of a bigger Mary-Sue is that many characters that were barely in the series would risk their own lives to protect her.

In Eclipse, the wolf pack that accompanied Jacob decided to join in to protect her. The only one to be blamed is Bella since she was the one responsible for having Victoria coming after her since her beloved companion James passed away in the first book and movie.

No one likes to hear the news of someone passing away, and for Edward, he took it hard when he just so happened to misinterpret Jacob when he told him Charlie was arranging a funeral. Little did Edward know that it was not for Bella, but for Harry Clearwater who suffered from a cardiac arrest when Victoria arrived.

It would have saved the amount of time wasted in going to Italy to expose himself in front of the humans since the Volturi lives there. Regarding Edward going to Italy to sack off his life by exposing himself to the humans, the real vampire to blame is Alice. She can see the future and be able to alter it by warning those who are involved in the vision. She had a vision of Bella jumping off a cliff, but she survived thanks to Jacob. Due to that, Alice went to Forks to see if she was still alive, and she was right.

When she told Bella that Edward was going to reveal himself to the humans, why did she go to Bella to tell her instead of telling Carlisle? That way, he would know what to do and convince him that Bella is still alive. As mentioned before, New Moon really wanted to add more drama to appeal to the fangirls. If we were to pick out which is the worst from The Twilight Saga , then it would have to be New Moon without a doubt. Not only do we see Bella at her worst, trying to put herself in danger just so she can see Edward, but there were so many dumb decisions made by other characters too.

Once again, we have Charlie being mentioned on this list. What did he do this time? Well, he was a terrible father in this book and movie. That is completely inexcusable and irresponsible as a parent. Bella might have been eighteen, but how could he just do what he usually does without prioritizing his own daughter first?

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They do not possess fangs. However, a vampire's teeth are flawless, unbreakable, and razor sharp at the edges. They are also incredibly strong, able to bite through almost any solid substance, including vampire skin. Their teeth are also venomous, affected by the vampire venom that flows in their mouths.

According to Alice Cullen , a vampire's greatest weapon is their teeth, though they are more armed than necessary. Vampires carry 25 pairs of chromosomes, 2 chromosomes more than humans. Carlisle reveals this in Breaking Dawn while telling Jacob about their supernatural genetic relations.

While vampires have 25 pairs of chromosomes, the Quileute shape-shifters carry Vampire hybrids are theorized to have 24 pairs themselves.

A vampire's physical and mental abilities far exceed those of a human being. These traits vary between different vampires depending on what they were more capable of as humans.

Certain vampires also develop one extra supernatural power manifested from their strongest trait as a human. Vampire Victoria running so fast she becomes blurry. One of the most amazing among their abilities is their speed. They are able to run in excess of a hundred miles per hour, substantially faster than the human eye can see. When vampires run, they become "all but invisible". The Quileute wolves are noted to be one of the few things that can keep up with them.

This suggests that vampires are meant to move to a new location every so often. We see the speed of all the Cullens again during the baseball game. Emmett is described as "a blur around the bases", and Edward can move so quickly that he is able to intercept a ball that has been hit "like a meteor.

They can lay down and sit up within the same fraction of a second, almost without having to even think about going through the motions. After being turned into a vampire, Bella describes her movements as being instantaneous. Edward exerting his strength to save Bella. Another enhanced trait is their unstoppable physical strength. A vampire is said to be thousands of times stronger than any human, able to lift objects several hundreds of times their own weight.

They can crush granite boulders, subdue any prey, throw cars, crush metal, and uproot trees with their bare hands. Edward feared his strength when first meeting Bella, and explained that there was barely a difference between caressing her head and knocking it off. A good example of their strength is seen when Bella decides to arm wrestle Emmett after becoming a vampire. She describes the power in his one arm to be about the same as a cement truck moving down a sharp decline at over 60 miles per hour.

She beats him, however, because she is a newborn at the time. Newborn vampires are always stronger than older ones, since their strength derives from the lingering human blood left in their body from their human life. A vampire's strength also enables them to leap incredible distances. Edward was able to leap over a 50 yard wide river with ease during Bella's first hunt, while Bella was able to leap over twice his distance, while still only using a small amount of her force.

Diet does not have a massive impact on strength, since it always depends on the individual vampire. Although, a diet of human blood makes a vampire stronger than animal blood, albeit only fractionally. Vampires who feed on animal blood vegetarian vampires find that "big game"—predators like bears or wildcats - not only smell more appealing to them, but also make them stronger than the "weaker" blood of herd animals such as deer or cattle.

Strength, of course, is not always physical. If a vampire possessed great mental strength and willpower as a human, he will find it easier to control his wild, animalistic instincts. Even so, if a vampire has not fed for a long time, he will be less likely to think clearly and more likely to give in to his thirst, attacking the first living thing he detects and draining it of blood within seconds, all without a single thought human or animal.

A vampire's senses are also greatly enhanced, which enables them to see, hear, smell, feel, and taste things imperceptible to humans. Sight: While running, a vampire can see and sense everything that is around them, allowing them to keep tabs of their surroundings and avoid hitting anything unnecessarily. A vampire's vision is incomparable. Everything is much sharper, and more defined as a vampire, and their vision is unhindered by darkness.

As a vampire, colors are much more vibrant. Humans are considered blind or mud-eyed in comparison. Bella described looking back at her human life as like looking through a thick, dark veil because of her new incredible vision.

Their sense of sight exceeds by far that of a hawk: They can see objects in microscopic detail, and can see into the invisible spectrum of light.

Bella describes her sight as being better than an eagle's. Vampires find wearing glasses or contact lenses to be uncomfortable or irritating because they see the smallest imperfections such as very small scratches and optical aberrations imperceptible to humans. Vampires also have much better depth perception than humans. Smell: When a vampire hunts, he uses his sense of smell to find prey and hearing to track its movements.

Vampires can smell objects several miles away in a good breeze. Smell is most intense to vampires, because one can smell the blood of his prey.

By not breathing, they feel uncomfortable due to the lack of smell, though they can survive without it. As they grow older and more disciplined, vampires can learn to smell differences between the scents of various humans' blood, as well as scents of other things like fabrics - the unique scent of denim.

The range of their senses can be increased though only fractionally through concentration. Vampires mostly rely on smell to find their prey and take in the environment, which is partly why they find the lack of breathing uncomfortable. Hearing: Vampires can hear the most muted sounds. When Bella completed her transformation into a vampire, she listened to the sound of rap music until it slowly faded away.

She then realized that it was coming from a car with its window rolled down on a freeway, miles away from where she was. When she went on her first hunt, Bella could hear the fluttering wings and heartbeats of small birds flying through the forest.

She could also hear the scurrying noises of animals that were beneath the ground, as well as an army of ants on the ground.

They also have an instinctive reaction to danger, usually from ill-willed vampires. They can hear sounds coming from several miles away, and even with their eyes closed, they can be sure that there are multiple people in a room thanks to their varied breathing patterns. They can hear the sound of a heartbeat, a pulse thudding in a vein, and words spoken too quietly or too fast for humans to detect. Touch: Despite being indestructible and hard-skinned, vampires can feel the things they touch, no matter the softness; such as fur, the coolness of wind, etc.

They can feel the slightest changes of temperature around them, though they are not bothered by it. They can feel the heat radiating from a human several meters away.

When their skins meet sunlight, they can also feel its warmth. Physical pain is implied when their bodies are being ripped apart by something with similar supernatural strength. Taste: Vampires have a similarly enhanced sense of taste allowing them to taste flavors with much more depth and precision. They can taste the differences of particles in their atmosphere. They can also detect minute differences between similar flavors.

Even as a newborn, vampires are able to taste if the human they are feeding on has recently ingested drugs or alcohol. Sixth sense: Vampires also have a keen sense to danger, usually from something strong enough to harm them. Sometimes, they may even detect danger before they know it consciously. Another impressive feature about vampires is their virtual indestructibility. During the transformation process, a vampire's cells become extremely hard, durable, and refractive, rendering their bodies nearly impenetrable.

Vampires are noted to be exponentially more durable than "soft" humans. The strength of a vampire's skin is described as harder than granite, and even diamond-hard.

Their bodies are so hard that they are unable to be harmed by human weapons, and the only creatures capable of killing them are werewolves and other vampires. Their teeth are also noted to be one of the few things strong enough to be able to cut through their skin, as are werewolf teeth. Because of this indestructibility, it is virtually impossible for a vampire to kill himself.

As a newborn, Carlisle attempted this in many ways including jumping from atmospheric heights, drowning himself, and starving himself, after all of which he was unharmed. Vampires are capable of regenerating from various injuries and harm even wounds that are normally fatal to humans.

Hair cannot be healed. Also if a limb is torn off they must reattach it and the torn limb will heal. If a vampire is torn to pieces and the pieces are not burned in the fire, the vampire can reconstruct themselves as if no damage occurred, with no sign of harm.

Vampires can also use their saliva which is also venom to accelerate the healing of their injuries. They apply venom to the wound, causing them to heal quicker. A vampire's body movements are uncannily flexible. Their agility is more advanced than humans, which allows them to rapidly respond to change by adapting to its initial stable configuration; They can make numerous gymnastic, or martial arts implements with little effort using a combination of strength, balance, reflexes and speed.

They can even swing, flip, bend and twist themselves without failure due to their enhanced sense of balance and flexibility. Using their physical senses as allies, they can find motions at human speed too slow for them to miss. In battle, vampires can swiftly dodge an attack without having to think how to move their bodies first.

In general, only something that moves at vampire-speed can render a vampire unnoticed to the motion. Part of this enhancement is based on the enhanced activity of their brains, which allows them to think and move much faster than humans.

A vampire can instantly remember and recall everything that they have ever experienced, encountered or learned since their transformation, something they can perform for all their existence. When a vampire catches his prey, he bites into its neck and injects his venom into its bloodstream while feeding.

This serves as a way to immobilize his prey while also initiating the conversion from human to vampire, allowing the predator to feed on his prey without it trying to resist, even though it would not have done any good.

While the venom is transformative to humans, it is deadly to animals and shape-shifters. Children of the Moon , however, are completely immune to its effects. If a vampire loses a body part, they can use venom to reattach the lost limb, though it is unable to reattach hair. Most vampires find their key personality characteristics intensified by the vampire transformation in the same way their physical abilities are strengthened, but relatively few have abilities that can be classified as supernatural.

More common would be a human with a love of learning becoming a vampire with an insatiable scholarly curiosity, or a human with a deep value for human life becoming a vampire with the strength to avoid human blood. But a few vampires do develop additional abilities that go beyond the natural. These extra abilities are due to psychic gifts in the original human that are intensified in the resulting vampire. For example, a human who was very sensitive to other people's moods might develop the vampire ability to read thoughts or influence emotions.

A human who had some limited precognition might develop into a vampire with a strong ability to see the future. A human with a good instinct for hunting might become a powerful vampire tracker. If a human already possessed a certain supernatural gift, this talent will be amplified many times after he is transformed into a vampire. The proportion of supernaturally talented vampires to "normal" vampires is greater than the proportion of psychically gifted humans to "normal" humans.

This is due to the same factor of temperament that results in more beautiful humans being selected to become vampires. Vampires are also drawn to gifted humans when they look to create companions. Some vampires actively seek out the gifted in the hope of utilizing that extra ability in their coven.

According to Eleazar , most vampire gifts are manifested in the mind, though there are certain exceptions. Benjamin was the best case—his power over the elements of nature is completely physical. No gift ever works in the exact same way in two vampires, because no person human or vampire is ever exactly the same.

Though there are a range of vampire lifestyles, the most common is nomadic. The majority of vampires move frequently, never settling permanently in one place. This pattern is partly an attempt to hide from the notice of humans. If too many humans disappear from one area, suspicion might be aroused and the Volturi might take notice. Also, if a vampire interacts regularly with humans, eventually the humans will notice that the vampire isn't aging. Another aspect is boredom; vampire lives are so long that many keep up a continuous search for novelty.

A few covens are exceptions to this rule, and maintain semi-permanent or permanent homes. Doing this requires a great deal of subterfuge—if the coven wants to avoid suspicion and keep the Volturi from becoming involved—and most vampires don't care for the hassle.

Vampires usually travel alone or in pairs; so much so that James's coven , which included Victoria , James and Laurent , was considered large. Exception to this rule are the Volturi , the Olympic coven and the Denali coven , the largest covens of them all. Individual characteristics : When a human becomes a vampire, all of his natural behavior, needs and characteristics are frozen within him forever, though they are also heightened at the same time.

From the moment a vampire is made, his interests, dislikes and personality are permanently petrified. For instance, if a human with a loving character becomes a vampire, his or her passion is magnified, allowing him or her to love others even more intensely. Another example is if the human was ambitious and cunning, those characteristics become magnified as a vampire, thus making him a ruthless killer. The only aspect that does change is the vampire's outlook on the world. Basic instincts : Aside from their original personalities, they also have ferocious instincts and a compelling drive for consuming blood.

The moment they give in to their thirst, all of their human characteristics disappear and they could risk hurting one another by competing for prey.