But he doesn't want to cure cancer, he wants to hit on underage girls.
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Not just a minor but person who might have a mental disorder/illness. In case you never read Twilight, the vampires have unique abilities, Edward’s being telepathy. When he meets Bella, he is unable to detect any thoughts from her. The entire book Bella is literally described as having no subconscious thoughts.
The books/movies make quite clear that Bella has a special power which makes her immune to Edward’s telepathy. It was a huge plot point of the second book.
To imply that she was like somehow cognitively disabled is both wrong and really weird…
But Edward wouldn't have known that when they first interacted.
He did think she smelled bad. That was hilarious
"She's dumb as shit and she stinks to high heaven... I'm in love."
Putting the special in that special ability
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I've not read the books or seen the movies or anything, so I don't have a clue what Edward is like.
The 'minor' issue is one thing (eek) but if I had the power of telepathy, I can only assume I'd be pretty fascinated by someone I couldn't read.
Human interaction is kinda built on the supposition that you can choose what you share with others and keep private things private, and getting to know people is the process of getting comfortable in sharing more about ourselves. We feel happy around our friends because we feel we have a sense of them and know them, and that's an earned process.
If you always knew what anyone was thinking, it would make life very bland.
So she described as an air head? Did author imply that she is stupid?
Sounds like anendophasia
It is not considered a disorder
If we were to make a computer to "read our minds" it would pick up on our internal dialog which people with anendophasia do not have.
People with anendophasia are not dumb. They just think different.
Like imagine a person that was born deaf. They can't have a verbal dialog in their heads. They could imagine sign language, images, or words. But just because they were born deaf doesn't mean their IQ is low. They just think different.
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I don’t recall any suggestion of their intelligence. Just that whenever Edward attempted to “read” her mind, he could never glean a single thought. It was a blank void.
spoiler alert
Within the Twilight world, some humans have special abilities which are highlighted and enhanced if they become vampires. He couldn't read Bella's thoughts, but that's because after she becomes a vampire they figure out she has a "shield" power which makes her immune to vampires with powers to effect the mind.
She had thoughts, he was just blocked from reading them.
This is the most interested in Twilight I have ever been!
It's like 5% actually interesting fantasy world building and 95% shitty romance.
I actually enjoyed that 5% but not enough to read or watch the other 95% again.
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If he's a bad student he might not even know what cancer is.
Yeah maybe he's stuck mentally to be some teenager with some sort of learning disorder and really needs that hundred+ years to grasp things
I cannot imagine wanting to spend time with children after being around for hundreds of years!
Batman origin story is a little odd
And Red Hood's origin story is a little Todd.
Why would an immortal care about curing cancer?
Because being immortal doesn't need to equate to being a narcissistic asshole?
If we think about it, I'd bet there would be a correlation though... Being immortal has to disconnect you from the rest of society.
Dark triad traits have got to be off the charts on Immortal beings.
Could work the opposite way where an immortal would be extremely motivated not to keep having their loved ones die on them.
Or alternatively you get a World of Darkness situation with the mummys wherein they basically go mildly batshit due to being high on life itself.
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Well cancer isn't really a disease in the sense that other illnesses are so it might be worth figuring out incase there's a chance you could end up as a giant suffering blob of immortal tumour.
Because an immortal is likely to have formed connections with mortals that died of cancer. Als, if their friends live longer, they need to start from scratch less often. Another way to archive that is to befriend a family for generations.
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Be a good way to secure enough money to never have people questioning why you're never seen in daylight and have been around for so long without looking like you've aged.
Except... Aren't the vampires in those books/movies able to be in the sun? That's when you see them sparkle, isn't it?
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I remember I did actually talk to a teenage girl about that (it was many, many years ago) and she still insisted 'but it's hot though'.
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Say you become immortal at 20, will your frontal lobe develop?
Didn't Interview With The Vampire answer this question? I mean if we take it as part of the vampire canon then the brain does develop further as that little girl was mentally a full ass grown woman trapped in a child's body
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It has been years now since I saw the first half of the first movie, but I think I remember that his dad is an actual doctor.
So isn't he the one that should have focused on that?
(not that I believe an immortal being would be any better than the researchers we have now)
I can't remember specifics, but I feel like he was... And his "children" that look school age just go to school for a few years in each location they live so they can better blend in. Although honestly he may only have been a doctor so he could steal blood easily, now that I'm thinking about it. I read and watched them all in their heyday, didn't leave much of a mark on me clearly.
No. They drink animal (deer i think) blood. It makes them weaker and gives them golden eyes, instead oft the red eyes. Its a whole plot point in one of the later books.
That's right - I only rembered that they were "vegans" and couldn't remember how.
It was a major plot point that none of the ones in Edward's "family" drank human blood. You could tell if a given vampire did or didn't based on their eye color. Human blood made them red.
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Pretty sure it is cannon that Edward is stuck at the mental and emotional age of 17. He's also not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. But unfair to expect this guy to cure cancer just because Carlisle snacked on his neck during the Spanish flu.
I mean, maybe if the feed stocks started to run a little low...
And smell them
Drake is that you?
Vampire can live long life but they are decisivly a very mortal creature of fiction.
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