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Character Name: Edward Anthony Masen Cullen
Character Age 17. Or 104 depending on if you count all the years he was 17 as part of the total.
Canon Point: Just after driving Bella back from Port Angeles, when he learns that she knows what he is.
Canon Summary: I was going to paste the wiki link here but I'm pretty sure it draws more heavily from the movies! tldr tho: vampire boi can read minds, falls for human girl. Most people know at least the basics of Twilight these days.
Edward was born in 1901, in Chicago, in a world that is more or less ours, but there are vampires and other supernatural beings. That said, they stay in the shadows, so history marched forward as it did for us normal folks. Edward's father was a lawyer, and his mother was presumably a housewife (this being 1901) and they were apparently fairly successful and well off, judging by things like the variety of diamonds that his mother had.
Edward remembers very little of them.
Presumably his father spent more time at work than in the house, because his clearest memories are of his mother, of how she tried to raise him, of her fears for him when young Edward was full of fire and wanted to go fight in World War 1, despite being too young to enlist for it. He can remember her praying for the end of the "dreadful war", he can remember something of her mannerisms, and very little else.
In 1918, Spanish Influenza hit the city like a truck. Edward's father died in the first wave. His mother, and Edward himself, both lasted longer, but both also eventually became ill. They were taken to the same overcrowded overworked hospital which was overflowing with other people who were also sick. Edward was hit worse by the disease than his mother, but she refused to accept that he was almost certainly going to die and instead of resting and recovering herself instead found her way again and again to his bedside and attempted to nurse him back to health, ruining her own chances of recovery in doing so. When finally she lost the fight against the illness and lay dying, she begged the doctor attending her to save her son, to do what only he could do to save him.
And you could say that doctor was rather stuck by that wording.
Carlisle was a vampire who refused to believe that his transformation also necessitated a loss of his humanity, one who had a passion for taking care of the sick and injured, and who after a lot of struggle had found a way to live that he could live with. He was also desperately lonely, being the only one he knew of who chose to live as he did, to abstain from human blood and refuse to take human life. He could save Edward in a way that no one else could--and so Elizabeth Masen's words, and something in the face of the dying boy, convinced him to take the plunge and create the companion he had been considering for years and years, so he stole Edward's body from the hospital. He was dying, and his family was dead. There were too many patients and too few doctors already. Nobody noticed.
Carlisle knew the mechanics of how the transformation was carried out, but was unsure if a slower transformation such as the one he had endured was necessary to retain that spark of humanity he still had, which other vampires seemed to lack, so he recreated the horrific wounds that had led to his own transformation. About three days of intense pain later, Edward awoke and was Other.
His new life came with new senses and new appetites and a new ability, to hear the thoughts of those around him. It took time to adjust, and time to learn to abstain from human blood. After about a year to adjust to the newborn potency of the world, of learning to control himself and his senses, he joined Carlisle among humans again. The pair posed as brothers. At some point during all of this Edward occasionally acted as medical assistant to Carlisle, aiding him in his practice whenever blood was not present.
Perhaps a year after his transformation, when the two were out hunting, they ran into a friend of Carlisle's, and the first vampires that Edward had ever known who were something other than his maker. Siobhan and Maggie were more traditional vampires, who lived on a more traditional diet, and as she considered him, Siobhan felt pity that this newborn would never know the greatest pleasure that their kind could have, the hunt and taste of human blood. This stuck with Edward. He did not act for years, not until after Carlisle had repeated his experiment with Edward and saved the life of a gentle girl who he had known a handful of years ago, who had jumped off a cliff after her daughter had been killed by an abusive husband, and the band of two had grown to three. Carlisle and Esme fell in love, and eventually Edward decided to leave them to it, and split off for several years from the main group to try a more traditional vampire life.
Despite wanting to subside on human blood, Edward had not lost the desire to do so with a sense of morality, and so he used his unique gifts to target predators among humans. He found the murderers, the rapists, the pedophiles, and he turned their game around and hunted them. Still, despite knowing that the humans he took as prey were barely human at all (or perhaps because of it, since he sought out their minds and surrounded himself by their thoughts), Edward eventually fell into a depression. The human blood tasted better than animal blood, maybe, it was more satisfying physically, but the weight of the lives he took began to weigh on him, regardless of what kind of lives they were. So eventually he went back and recommitted to a human free diet. Carlisle and Esme welcomed him with open arms.
The three of them continued, and eventually became four after Carlisle changed another girl. Rosalie Hale was beautiful and rich, and everything in her life had gone exactly as she always wanted, until her fiance and his friends had raped her and left her for dead. Carlisle saved her the way he had saved Esme and Edward, hoping that Edward would find a companion in her as he had found in Esme. It did not work. Rosalie and Edward did not get along, and although Rosalie was grateful to still be alive she hated her new life. She had wanted to create a family, have children, grow old together with a husband, and all of that suddenly was gone. She sulked and dragged her feet after avenging herself by killing everyone who had been a part of her attempted murder, only changing when she found a young man who had been attacked by a bear and was bleeding out, and realized that she needed him. She carried him at a sprint to Carlisle, fearing that she lacked the self control to transform him herself, and begged Carlisle to save him. So the family of four became one of five, as Emmett joined. Rosalie and Edward talked, and ended up bonding as Carlisle worked. Emmett and Edward became the protectors of the family, and got along famously.
As "vegetarians", the nomadic lifestyle practiced by most vampires in the northern half of the world was unnecessary, and even with such a large clan, the Cullens were able to establish permanent residences, at least for a while. However, when they lived on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington for the first time, they ran into a small tribe of Native Americans who included several werewolves in their ranks. They forged a treaty rather than go to war, basically mutually agreeing that they would stay off each other's turf and wouldn't bother each other as long as no humans were killed, and the vampire presence was not revealed to any non tribesmen.
Some little time after moving on they were joined by two more vampires--Alice, a prescient who had known ever since she woke up after her transformation that she would be a part of this family and would love them, and Jasper, the man she had known she would love for just as long. Alice ran future possibilities until she found the best version of the future when they all met. Very quickly they fit right in.
And then, for a good chunk of time, nothing much happened! This huge weird family of vampires lived together, usually, though from time to time the couples among the "children" would break off and live separately, moving every few years to keep people from noticing that oh hey those weird super pale people down the street who never come out in the day also aren't aging. They eventually made their way to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington again, which had the definite benefit of being one of the most sunless places in the world, allowing the Cullens to come out during the day. So that they could stay there as long as possible, everyone played the youngest age they could reasonably pass themselves off as, which for most of them meant high school.
And it was there that it almost all went terribly wrong.
Partway into Edward's umpteenth junior year of High School Bella Swan, the daughter of Forks' police chief moved in with her father and transferred into the school. She caught Edward's eye because for some odd reason he couldn't hear her thoughts the way he could everyone elses. When he got close enough to smell her, the smell hit him like a truck.
There are some humans who smell better - much better - than the others, and Bella smelled so good that Edward only just barely got out of massacring everyone in the classroom they were in so that he could kill her by imagining all the ways he could kill her for the entire hour and holding his breath. After this he tried to reconfigure his schedule so that he could avoid her, THAT didn't work, so he ran away to Alaska. That didn't take either, it felt too much like cowardice - especially since, away from her scent, he began to doubt that it could really smell that good. So he came home to his family, continued to manage not to kill Bella, and began talking to her to try to figure out how her mind worked. She still fascinated him, although he knew that this wasn't the healthiest way to treat the one girl he'd love to rip the throat out of way more than anyone else. He kept trying to convince himself to leave, it kept not working, until one day, when the roads were frozen, something changed again - Bella was nearly crushed to death by an out of control car in the parking lot in front of school. And Edward stopped it, running from across the parking lot to knock her out of the way and then protecting her from the van that careened forward, trying to crush her, by stopping it with his bare hands, even lifting it up to pull her out of the way.
Jasper, who before joining the Cullens with Alice had been effectively a general in a vampire war, and Rosalie were furious.
What Edward had done to protect the girl who for reasons he did not entirely understand he could not let be harmed had created a threat of exposure, and the two of them wanted to kill her to make sure she stayed quiet. Edward objected to this, strongly, as did Carlisle, but things might still have gone poorly if Alice had not Seen that she would be friends with Bella, and that Edward would love her. This, however, was equally unacceptable to Edward. He would not condemn Bella to the shadows, and was sure that she would hate and resent him if he allowed his world to take her, that in the end she would be like Rosalie, and would want humanity again. He wanted her to have a normal, happy, human life. So he did his best to pretend to ignore her, and tried to be strong enough to leave her.
It did not work!
After six weeks of silently obsessing over her every breath while putting his all into trying to pretend like he was ignoring her, Edward finally cracked. He decided that he should leave again, to protect Bella from the half life, to protect himself from loving her, but as he was trying to leave the fact that she'd run into two life threatening incidents almost back to back began to haunt him, and eventually he told himself that he'd just go check that she was still alive and a wandering bear etc had not somehow come into her house to eat her as she slept.
Eventually, after a lot of arguments with himself over how this was totally unacceptable, he came up to her window to check that she was all right, and then he discovered that she talked in her sleep and all self control crumbled. Her silent mind had been driving him crazy with curiosity every since he had met her, and the idea of being able to catch even a glimpse of her thoughts unfiltered was just too much to resist. She said his name. She asked him not to go.
He was doomed.
The moments in her bedroom, watching her sleep, Changed Edward in a way that vampires very rarely change. He loved her now, the fragile human girl who seemed to have some kind of curse on her to draw danger close to her. He would not be able to leave her, not yet. Instead he started talking to her, trying to warn her away from him, trying to keep her close. Bella was fascinated, and only pulled towards him, and Edward was overjoyed but also terrified by that result.
Eventually, on a trip to go dress shopping in the nearby slightly larger town of Port Angeles, Bella separated from her friends and got herself lost, and Edward, who had been following her mostly out of paranoia that if he was not close enough a meteor would suddenly fall from the sky and crush her, did not notice until it was almost too late, until she had been seen by a serial rapist and murderer who was out wandering the streets and looking for a little fun.
He saw, and saved her, and wanted more than anything in the world to hunt down the men who had tried to hunt her and peel their skin from their flesh and their flesh from their bones, but he was trying to be a better person than that, he was trying not to be a recent murderer, Bella deserved better than a murderer, so instead he stayed with her in large part so that he would not hunt them down and kill them, would not find these men and torture them to death slowly.
Bella had dinner. They talked. A lot of truths were discussed, among them the fact that Bella had found out exactly what Edward was. He expected horror, he expected terror, he kept on confessing to wanting to murder people and there she sat quite calmly. Everything was a Lot. Still, he got her safely home, and she didn't even want to never see him again. But the men were still there, and he still wanted to kill them.
And then he got enrolled in a new school!!!!
Regains:
Personality: When he was born, Edward was meant to be given 1 chill and 1 melodrama. Due to unfortunate clerical error, instead he got 2 melodrama and 0 chill.
Edward can be A Lot.
He tends to hold himself solitary, and especially keeps his distance from all except those who he trusts. And, all considered, it's fairly difficult to earn that trust. He has a lot of secrets. It gives him a whole mysterious, brooding air - especially among those who do start to get closer to him. Part of this is because he thinks of himself as holding more truth than those around him, having a rounder view of what is going on, and usually he does. He can (usually) read minds, after all. Unfortunately this ability has also left him rather cynical. He constantly, constantly, sees the worst that humanity has to offer, the petty and the jealous and the cruel. Heck, for a time he sought those minds out, and yes it was so he could then eat them, but the whole 'always get the thoughts of those around me' thing has left him deeply cynical. Edward has pretty much seen it all, either for himself or in the minds of those around him, and he always expects to know what's needed heading into any situation.
This brings up sort of a weird dichotomy with him, however. On the whole, Edward seems to regard most of humanity as vain, petty, shallow and cruel: a faceless herd who all vie with each other to be the most outstandingly uninteresting. However, despite that, he also seems to regard humans as better than him. Edward does believe in God and creation, in heaven and angels and hell, but also very firmly believes that he, personally, is on the 'damned forever' side of that equation. He does not believe that he has a soul anymore, and therefore any human is in a better position because they still do. Despite this, he does not resent his own status as a vampire, instead he kind of just broods about it. He has super black and white morality, and is definitely trying to be good, but he does not honestly think it will ever make a difference. He has killed many, many times. By his very nature he lusts to kill again. He is the bad guy. And yet he still looks down on humans? It's like a dual superiority and inferiority complex.
He considers himself a monster, and knows that there are monstrous urges inside himself that he wrestles to control. He also likes being the hero, and moreover likes being right. He wants to win whatever game he plays.
He's good at hiding, good at blending, but only when he has to be - by personal philosophy, Edward swings hard towards showy and dramatic. His view on most anything seems to be 'go big or go home', and he can go a little over the top about pretty much anything. He can turn obsessive if he begins as interested, if he is depressed then it really takes less than it should to turn him suicidal. He is curious and does have a temper that sometimes it is difficult to control, perhaps especially because he holds himself as Other.
Edward is also a contradiction of having old fashioned values while also being perhaps a little sociopathic - when he wants something, he does what is necessary to get it, provided he wants it enough. Part of this is just being a vampire, however. They have to break laws habitually, and he is very good at talking himself into things that he knows he should not do.
He is a perfectionist and controlling and prone to overreaction, but tends to bottle that up most of the time, and instead is charming and manipulative, playing whoever he's speaking to however is needed to get exactly what he wants. He's extremely intelligent and quick-witted, and has firm notions on right and wrong, though those don't always follow the law.
Sample: He had decided, after sitting through his initial meeting with the administration, his face locked coldly into immobility, that this was probably the place that he deserved to be. A school to train murderers?
... well, perhaps not. He needed no training, after all. Blood was already on his hands. He had wanted to add more blood to the sum only hours before. That was justification if nothing else was, surely. And yet why here? Why only a school? And, as he learned more about it, he felt something inside himself freeze slowly over.
There were only children here, save the staff. Some of them would perhaps become murderers, but.... they were children. They were supposed to be innocent. He had been set among them and told that he would learn how to kill, and even as a part of him began to calculate, a larger part of him felt sick.
Wasn't it bad enough that he already fought such urges, was already surrounded by children almost daily, that despite everything he felt he still wanted to tear the throat out of the only girl who mattered anymore? Apparently not.
Edward had always expected that, should anything await him beyond the life he had known, it would be hell. But he had never expected it to be like this.
Title: The Lion
What are your preferences on your character being in a case? RNG is fine
Anything else? My characters is a vampire lol
However, that having been said, Sparklepires Are Different than your standard pop culture vampire.
First off is the one that they're most famous for: direct unfiltered sunlight does not harm them, instead they shine like diamonds. And, having said that, it is very important to me to also say that the movies got it wrong. It is much more noticeable and much less stupid than looking like they are covered in body glitter. Edward describes himself as looking like a man on fire when he stepped into the sunlight. He reflects prismatic rainbows away from himself. It is very bright and noticeable like CDs in the sun and has that same flash and gleam that would be impossible not to notice and impossible to ignore. In the sunlight he is very, very visibly inhuman.
This is because they're not just normal flesh anymore either. Twilight vampires are more like living gemstone than they are soft mortal flesh. This does mean they are deceptively heavy. It also means that traditionally they are pretty unstabbable - pretty indestructible in general, honestly. In canon, vampire teeth are one of the few things that are able to cut into vampire flesh, and traditionally they are killed by physically tearing them to pieces and then burning the remains. Obviously this is gonna be nerfed here, but maybe some echoes of it can remain.
On the subject of vampire teeth, sparklepires do not have neat little pointy fangs that can poke neat little mosquito bites into the necks of their victims. Instead they have a full row of razor sharp teeth, and they get to the blood the old fashioned way, they just bite a solid chunk potentially out of whatever they're getting blood from. A vampire attack would have more in common with a shark attack than with donating blood. And, like sharks were thought to do, when there is fresh blood in their mouths their instincts take over. It is very, very difficult to not simply drain a victim of all of their blood once they begin to feed, provided the wounds are not fatal already. This is also basically always the case. It does not really matter how much blood they drink, the Thirst is always there. In canon, when Edward started to give in and try to get closer to Bella - when he gave in and came back to Forks in the first place - he started basically forcefeeding himself, drinking so much blood that he felt almost swollen. He still wanted to kill Bella and drink her blood whenever he smelled her. No matter how full he was, he could have drained her dry, and that's pretty much how it goes. A vampire can also drink quite a lot of blood - on one such preparatory hunting trip, Edward killed "a small grouping of elk and a black bear". A vampire can fairly easily drink the blood of multiple people every day, and it will only make them stronger.
Technically vampires do not need to drink blood. They cannot starve to death. However, if they do not then their strength will decline and their self control will erode until they cannot stop themselves from killing the nearest source of blood and draining it. They can also only digest blood - Carlisle posits that the inside of a vampire is somewhat porous, but it's only a theory. There are no vampire corpses available to study. That said, they can physically eat food if needed, it's just that it does absolutely nothing for them, and they have nothing to do with it once they have, so after chewing and swallowing at some point they will need to choke it back up, or it will sit inside them and rot.
They are extremely fast and extremely strong, they process information very quickly and have very precise bodily control - Edward claims that he could stroke the surface of a soap bubble without breaking it, if he was focusing on it. And, as if they really needed more weapons for use against their prey, they are also venomous. Vampiric venom replaces all of the fluids in their body. If it gets into an open wound then it causes debilitating pain and, eventually, will transform the victim into another vampire, so long as their heart keeps beating long enough for the venom to reach it. For a vampire the venom has a kind of healing property - venom can seal a vampire's wounds, apparently no matter how extreme. This is why the pieces of a vampire are burned after they are torn apart.
They are very pale, and very pretty. They even smell good, appealing in every way.
They cannot sleep. They cannot cry. They have perfect memories and a lot of free time. They produce no body heat. And, like the stone they resemble, they are effectively the same person both physically and mentally as they were then they were changed. Even their hair won't grow; they are frozen in time.
As a final note: the color of his eyes changes based on his thirst. When he has freshly fed and full of blood his eyes are red if it was human blood or gold if it was some other animal, and the more blood he consumes the brighter his eyes are. The color darkens between feedings. A thirsty vampire has black eyes.
Human blood will make a vampire stronger and is altogether more satisfying to consume - it tastes better, it quenches the thirst better. Among animals, however, carnivores taste better than herbivores. Something like a deer is not at all appetizing next to a human person, something like a bear is a little better but still isn't as good as actual human blood. Any impurities in said blood, like drugs or alcohol, will impact the flavor, but a half dead junkie human will still taste better than any bear.
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Character Name: Edward Anthony Masen Cullen
Character Age 17. Or 104 depending on if you count all the years he was 17 as part of the total.
Canon Point: Just after driving Bella back from Port Angeles, when he learns that she knows what he is.
Canon Summary: I was going to paste the wiki link here but I'm pretty sure it draws more heavily from the movies! tldr tho: vampire boi can read minds, falls for human girl. Most people know at least the basics of Twilight these days.
Edward was born in 1901, in Chicago, in a world that is more or less ours, but there are vampires and other supernatural beings. That said, they stay in the shadows, so history marched forward as it did for us normal folks. Edward's father was a lawyer, and his mother was presumably a housewife (this being 1901) and they were apparently fairly successful and well off, judging by things like the variety of diamonds that his mother had.
Edward remembers very little of them.
Presumably his father spent more time at work than in the house, because his clearest memories are of his mother, of how she tried to raise him, of her fears for him when young Edward was full of fire and wanted to go fight in World War 1, despite being too young to enlist for it. He can remember her praying for the end of the "dreadful war", he can remember something of her mannerisms, and very little else.
In 1918, Spanish Influenza hit the city like a truck. Edward's father died in the first wave. His mother, and Edward himself, both lasted longer, but both also eventually became ill. They were taken to the same overcrowded overworked hospital which was overflowing with other people who were also sick. Edward was hit worse by the disease than his mother, but she refused to accept that he was almost certainly going to die and instead of resting and recovering herself instead found her way again and again to his bedside and attempted to nurse him back to health, ruining her own chances of recovery in doing so. When finally she lost the fight against the illness and lay dying, she begged the doctor attending her to save her son, to do what only he could do to save him.
And you could say that doctor was rather stuck by that wording.
Carlisle was a vampire who refused to believe that his transformation also necessitated a loss of his humanity, one who had a passion for taking care of the sick and injured, and who after a lot of struggle had found a way to live that he could live with. He was also desperately lonely, being the only one he knew of who chose to live as he did, to abstain from human blood and refuse to take human life. He could save Edward in a way that no one else could--and so Elizabeth Masen's words, and something in the face of the dying boy, convinced him to take the plunge and create the companion he had been considering for years and years, so he stole Edward's body from the hospital. He was dying, and his family was dead. There were too many patients and too few doctors already. Nobody noticed.
Carlisle knew the mechanics of how the transformation was carried out, but was unsure if a slower transformation such as the one he had endured was necessary to retain that spark of humanity he still had, which other vampires seemed to lack, so he recreated the horrific wounds that had led to his own transformation. About three days of intense pain later, Edward awoke and was Other.
His new life came with new senses and new appetites and a new ability, to hear the thoughts of those around him. It took time to adjust, and time to learn to abstain from human blood. After about a year to adjust to the newborn potency of the world, of learning to control himself and his senses, he joined Carlisle among humans again. The pair posed as brothers. At some point during all of this Edward occasionally acted as medical assistant to Carlisle, aiding him in his practice whenever blood was not present.
Perhaps a year after his transformation, when the two were out hunting, they ran into a friend of Carlisle's, and the first vampires that Edward had ever known who were something other than his maker. Siobhan and Maggie were more traditional vampires, who lived on a more traditional diet, and as she considered him, Siobhan felt pity that this newborn would never know the greatest pleasure that their kind could have, the hunt and taste of human blood. This stuck with Edward. He did not act for years, not until after Carlisle had repeated his experiment with Edward and saved the life of a gentle girl who he had known a handful of years ago, who had jumped off a cliff after her daughter had been killed by an abusive husband, and the band of two had grown to three. Carlisle and Esme fell in love, and eventually Edward decided to leave them to it, and split off for several years from the main group to try a more traditional vampire life.
Despite wanting to subside on human blood, Edward had not lost the desire to do so with a sense of morality, and so he used his unique gifts to target predators among humans. He found the murderers, the rapists, the pedophiles, and he turned their game around and hunted them. Still, despite knowing that the humans he took as prey were barely human at all (or perhaps because of it, since he sought out their minds and surrounded himself by their thoughts), Edward eventually fell into a depression. The human blood tasted better than animal blood, maybe, it was more satisfying physically, but the weight of the lives he took began to weigh on him, regardless of what kind of lives they were. So eventually he went back and recommitted to a human free diet. Carlisle and Esme welcomed him with open arms.
The three of them continued, and eventually became four after Carlisle changed another girl. Rosalie Hale was beautiful and rich, and everything in her life had gone exactly as she always wanted, until her fiance and his friends had raped her and left her for dead. Carlisle saved her the way he had saved Esme and Edward, hoping that Edward would find a companion in her as he had found in Esme. It did not work. Rosalie and Edward did not get along, and although Rosalie was grateful to still be alive she hated her new life. She had wanted to create a family, have children, grow old together with a husband, and all of that suddenly was gone. She sulked and dragged her feet after avenging herself by killing everyone who had been a part of her attempted murder, only changing when she found a young man who had been attacked by a bear and was bleeding out, and realized that she needed him. She carried him at a sprint to Carlisle, fearing that she lacked the self control to transform him herself, and begged Carlisle to save him. So the family of four became one of five, as Emmett joined. Rosalie and Edward talked, and ended up bonding as Carlisle worked. Emmett and Edward became the protectors of the family, and got along famously.
As "vegetarians", the nomadic lifestyle practiced by most vampires in the northern half of the world was unnecessary, and even with such a large clan, the Cullens were able to establish permanent residences, at least for a while. However, when they lived on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington for the first time, they ran into a small tribe of Native Americans who included several werewolves in their ranks. They forged a treaty rather than go to war, basically mutually agreeing that they would stay off each other's turf and wouldn't bother each other as long as no humans were killed, and the vampire presence was not revealed to any non tribesmen.
Some little time after moving on they were joined by two more vampires--Alice, a prescient who had known ever since she woke up after her transformation that she would be a part of this family and would love them, and Jasper, the man she had known she would love for just as long. Alice ran future possibilities until she found the best version of the future when they all met. Very quickly they fit right in.
And then, for a good chunk of time, nothing much happened! This huge weird family of vampires lived together, usually, though from time to time the couples among the "children" would break off and live separately, moving every few years to keep people from noticing that oh hey those weird super pale people down the street who never come out in the day also aren't aging. They eventually made their way to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington again, which had the definite benefit of being one of the most sunless places in the world, allowing the Cullens to come out during the day. So that they could stay there as long as possible, everyone played the youngest age they could reasonably pass themselves off as, which for most of them meant high school.
And it was there that it almost all went terribly wrong.
Partway into Edward's umpteenth junior year of High School Bella Swan, the daughter of Forks' police chief moved in with her father and transferred into the school. She caught Edward's eye because for some odd reason he couldn't hear her thoughts the way he could everyone elses. When he got close enough to smell her, the smell hit him like a truck.
There are some humans who smell better - much better - than the others, and Bella smelled so good that Edward only just barely got out of massacring everyone in the classroom they were in so that he could kill her by imagining all the ways he could kill her for the entire hour and holding his breath. After this he tried to reconfigure his schedule so that he could avoid her, THAT didn't work, so he ran away to Alaska. That didn't take either, it felt too much like cowardice - especially since, away from her scent, he began to doubt that it could really smell that good. So he came home to his family, continued to manage not to kill Bella, and began talking to her to try to figure out how her mind worked. She still fascinated him, although he knew that this wasn't the healthiest way to treat the one girl he'd love to rip the throat out of way more than anyone else. He kept trying to convince himself to leave, it kept not working, until one day, when the roads were frozen, something changed again - Bella was nearly crushed to death by an out of control car in the parking lot in front of school. And Edward stopped it, running from across the parking lot to knock her out of the way and then protecting her from the van that careened forward, trying to crush her, by stopping it with his bare hands, even lifting it up to pull her out of the way.
Jasper, who before joining the Cullens with Alice had been effectively a general in a vampire war, and Rosalie were furious.
What Edward had done to protect the girl who for reasons he did not entirely understand he could not let be harmed had created a threat of exposure, and the two of them wanted to kill her to make sure she stayed quiet. Edward objected to this, strongly, as did Carlisle, but things might still have gone poorly if Alice had not Seen that she would be friends with Bella, and that Edward would love her. This, however, was equally unacceptable to Edward. He would not condemn Bella to the shadows, and was sure that she would hate and resent him if he allowed his world to take her, that in the end she would be like Rosalie, and would want humanity again. He wanted her to have a normal, happy, human life. So he did his best to pretend to ignore her, and tried to be strong enough to leave her.
It did not work!
After six weeks of silently obsessing over her every breath while putting his all into trying to pretend like he was ignoring her, Edward finally cracked. He decided that he should leave again, to protect Bella from the half life, to protect himself from loving her, but as he was trying to leave the fact that she'd run into two life threatening incidents almost back to back began to haunt him, and eventually he told himself that he'd just go check that she was still alive and a wandering bear etc had not somehow come into her house to eat her as she slept.
Eventually, after a lot of arguments with himself over how this was totally unacceptable, he came up to her window to check that she was all right, and then he discovered that she talked in her sleep and all self control crumbled. Her silent mind had been driving him crazy with curiosity every since he had met her, and the idea of being able to catch even a glimpse of her thoughts unfiltered was just too much to resist. She said his name. She asked him not to go.
He was doomed.
The moments in her bedroom, watching her sleep, Changed Edward in a way that vampires very rarely change. He loved her now, the fragile human girl who seemed to have some kind of curse on her to draw danger close to her. He would not be able to leave her, not yet. Instead he started talking to her, trying to warn her away from him, trying to keep her close. Bella was fascinated, and only pulled towards him, and Edward was overjoyed but also terrified by that result.
Eventually, on a trip to go dress shopping in the nearby slightly larger town of Port Angeles, Bella separated from her friends and got herself lost, and Edward, who had been following her mostly out of paranoia that if he was not close enough a meteor would suddenly fall from the sky and crush her, did not notice until it was almost too late, until she had been seen by a serial rapist and murderer who was out wandering the streets and looking for a little fun.
He saw, and saved her, and wanted more than anything in the world to hunt down the men who had tried to hunt her and peel their skin from their flesh and their flesh from their bones, but he was trying to be a better person than that, he was trying not to be a recent murderer, Bella deserved better than a murderer, so instead he stayed with her in large part so that he would not hunt them down and kill them, would not find these men and torture them to death slowly.
Bella had dinner. They talked. A lot of truths were discussed, among them the fact that Bella had found out exactly what Edward was. He expected horror, he expected terror, he kept on confessing to wanting to murder people and there she sat quite calmly. Everything was a Lot. Still, he got her safely home, and she didn't even want to never see him again. But the men were still there, and he still wanted to kill them.
And then he got enrolled in a new school!!!!
Regains:
Personality: When he was born, Edward was meant to be given 1 chill and 1 melodrama. Due to unfortunate clerical error, instead he got 2 melodrama and 0 chill.
Edward can be A Lot.
He tends to hold himself solitary, and especially keeps his distance from all except those who he trusts. And, all considered, it's fairly difficult to earn that trust. He has a lot of secrets. It gives him a whole mysterious, brooding air - especially among those who do start to get closer to him. Part of this is because he thinks of himself as holding more truth than those around him, having a rounder view of what is going on, and usually he does. He can (usually) read minds, after all. Unfortunately this ability has also left him rather cynical. He constantly, constantly, sees the worst that humanity has to offer, the petty and the jealous and the cruel. Heck, for a time he sought those minds out, and yes it was so he could then eat them, but the whole 'always get the thoughts of those around me' thing has left him deeply cynical. Edward has pretty much seen it all, either for himself or in the minds of those around him, and he always expects to know what's needed heading into any situation.
This brings up sort of a weird dichotomy with him, however. On the whole, Edward seems to regard most of humanity as vain, petty, shallow and cruel: a faceless herd who all vie with each other to be the most outstandingly uninteresting. However, despite that, he also seems to regard humans as better than him. Edward does believe in God and creation, in heaven and angels and hell, but also very firmly believes that he, personally, is on the 'damned forever' side of that equation. He does not believe that he has a soul anymore, and therefore any human is in a better position because they still do. Despite this, he does not resent his own status as a vampire, instead he kind of just broods about it. He has super black and white morality, and is definitely trying to be good, but he does not honestly think it will ever make a difference. He has killed many, many times. By his very nature he lusts to kill again. He is the bad guy. And yet he still looks down on humans? It's like a dual superiority and inferiority complex.
He considers himself a monster, and knows that there are monstrous urges inside himself that he wrestles to control. He also likes being the hero, and moreover likes being right. He wants to win whatever game he plays.
He's good at hiding, good at blending, but only when he has to be - by personal philosophy, Edward swings hard towards showy and dramatic. His view on most anything seems to be 'go big or go home', and he can go a little over the top about pretty much anything. He can turn obsessive if he begins as interested, if he is depressed then it really takes less than it should to turn him suicidal. He is curious and does have a temper that sometimes it is difficult to control, perhaps especially because he holds himself as Other.
Edward is also a contradiction of having old fashioned values while also being perhaps a little sociopathic - when he wants something, he does what is necessary to get it, provided he wants it enough. Part of this is just being a vampire, however. They have to break laws habitually, and he is very good at talking himself into things that he knows he should not do.
He is a perfectionist and controlling and prone to overreaction, but tends to bottle that up most of the time, and instead is charming and manipulative, playing whoever he's speaking to however is needed to get exactly what he wants. He's extremely intelligent and quick-witted, and has firm notions on right and wrong, though those don't always follow the law.
Sample: He had decided, after sitting through his initial meeting with the administration, his face locked coldly into immobility, that this was probably the place that he deserved to be. A school to train murderers?
... well, perhaps not. He needed no training, after all. Blood was already on his hands. He had wanted to add more blood to the sum only hours before. That was justification if nothing else was, surely. And yet why here? Why only a school? And, as he learned more about it, he felt something inside himself freeze slowly over.
There were only children here, save the staff. Some of them would perhaps become murderers, but.... they were children. They were supposed to be innocent. He had been set among them and told that he would learn how to kill, and even as a part of him began to calculate, a larger part of him felt sick.
Wasn't it bad enough that he already fought such urges, was already surrounded by children almost daily, that despite everything he felt he still wanted to tear the throat out of the only girl who mattered anymore? Apparently not.
Edward had always expected that, should anything await him beyond the life he had known, it would be hell. But he had never expected it to be like this.
Title: The Lion
What are your preferences on your character being in a case? RNG is fine
Anything else? My characters is a vampire lol
However, that having been said, Sparklepires Are Different than your standard pop culture vampire.
First off is the one that they're most famous for: direct unfiltered sunlight does not harm them, instead they shine like diamonds. And, having said that, it is very important to me to also say that the movies got it wrong. It is much more noticeable and much less stupid than looking like they are covered in body glitter. Edward describes himself as looking like a man on fire when he stepped into the sunlight. He reflects prismatic rainbows away from himself. It is very bright and noticeable like CDs in the sun and has that same flash and gleam that would be impossible not to notice and impossible to ignore. In the sunlight he is very, very visibly inhuman.
This is because they're not just normal flesh anymore either. Twilight vampires are more like living gemstone than they are soft mortal flesh. This does mean they are deceptively heavy. It also means that traditionally they are pretty unstabbable - pretty indestructible in general, honestly. In canon, vampire teeth are one of the few things that are able to cut into vampire flesh, and traditionally they are killed by physically tearing them to pieces and then burning the remains. Obviously this is gonna be nerfed here, but maybe some echoes of it can remain.
On the subject of vampire teeth, sparklepires do not have neat little pointy fangs that can poke neat little mosquito bites into the necks of their victims. Instead they have a full row of razor sharp teeth, and they get to the blood the old fashioned way, they just bite a solid chunk potentially out of whatever they're getting blood from. A vampire attack would have more in common with a shark attack than with donating blood. And, like sharks were thought to do, when there is fresh blood in their mouths their instincts take over. It is very, very difficult to not simply drain a victim of all of their blood once they begin to feed, provided the wounds are not fatal already. This is also basically always the case. It does not really matter how much blood they drink, the Thirst is always there. In canon, when Edward started to give in and try to get closer to Bella - when he gave in and came back to Forks in the first place - he started basically forcefeeding himself, drinking so much blood that he felt almost swollen. He still wanted to kill Bella and drink her blood whenever he smelled her. No matter how full he was, he could have drained her dry, and that's pretty much how it goes. A vampire can also drink quite a lot of blood - on one such preparatory hunting trip, Edward killed "a small grouping of elk and a black bear". A vampire can fairly easily drink the blood of multiple people every day, and it will only make them stronger.
Technically vampires do not need to drink blood. They cannot starve to death. However, if they do not then their strength will decline and their self control will erode until they cannot stop themselves from killing the nearest source of blood and draining it. They can also only digest blood - Carlisle posits that the inside of a vampire is somewhat porous, but it's only a theory. There are no vampire corpses available to study. That said, they can physically eat food if needed, it's just that it does absolutely nothing for them, and they have nothing to do with it once they have, so after chewing and swallowing at some point they will need to choke it back up, or it will sit inside them and rot.
They are extremely fast and extremely strong, they process information very quickly and have very precise bodily control - Edward claims that he could stroke the surface of a soap bubble without breaking it, if he was focusing on it. And, as if they really needed more weapons for use against their prey, they are also venomous. Vampiric venom replaces all of the fluids in their body. If it gets into an open wound then it causes debilitating pain and, eventually, will transform the victim into another vampire, so long as their heart keeps beating long enough for the venom to reach it. For a vampire the venom has a kind of healing property - venom can seal a vampire's wounds, apparently no matter how extreme. This is why the pieces of a vampire are burned after they are torn apart.
They are very pale, and very pretty. They even smell good, appealing in every way.
They cannot sleep. They cannot cry. They have perfect memories and a lot of free time. They produce no body heat. And, like the stone they resemble, they are effectively the same person both physically and mentally as they were then they were changed. Even their hair won't grow; they are frozen in time.
As a final note: the color of his eyes changes based on his thirst. When he has freshly fed and full of blood his eyes are red if it was human blood or gold if it was some other animal, and the more blood he consumes the brighter his eyes are. The color darkens between feedings. A thirsty vampire has black eyes.
Human blood will make a vampire stronger and is altogether more satisfying to consume - it tastes better, it quenches the thirst better. Among animals, however, carnivores taste better than herbivores. Something like a deer is not at all appetizing next to a human person, something like a bear is a little better but still isn't as good as actual human blood. Any impurities in said blood, like drugs or alcohol, will impact the flavor, but a half dead junkie human will still taste better than any bear.
