Hi! How are you? I hope it's been good, I got a question for how you headcanon Bella's mental shield acting, is it more close to canon/books in a way that it's defensive or do you make it more offensive in your au.
Also, since it's canon that two vampires can have the same ability but it manifests itself completely different... How would you see another mental shield acting opposed to Bella's mental shield.
(BLESS YOU FOR GIVING ME THE EXCUSE
Bella's shield in my au is a little more...mobile?
Specifically, she actually begins experiencing things as a reaction to her shield while human, signifigantly after her 'clinical death' at the end of Moirai. (I figured if Alice can, why not Bella?) and later on when she starts to experience 'The Trauma's' in Clotho. I have an amazing scene written for Clotho that I haven't posted because I can't write the shit around it, SOMEDAY. While human, this FUCKS with Bella, like, constant nosebleeds, lightbulbs popping, seizures, migraines, body aches, weakness, her human brain just can't handle it, and eventually, it leads to an aneurism. Edward turns her during/after that.
AFTER vampirism, I write it much more like telekenesis, I call them 'bubbles' because I imagine her being able to wrap her shield around things and lift them. (Weight limits do apply) She actually does still experience 'headaches' if she pushes herself too hard, and it can drain her of energy in the way that she needs to feed way more often than a normal vampire if she's been pushing herself. As she gets, well, emptier, her powers get weaker. They have not experimented with what human blood would do to her powers, but she and Carlisle are being very fucking creepy about it and will absolutely experiment at SOME point.
I like the idea of her crushing an enemy vamp to powder in one of her bubbles.
She has successfully lifted emmett with her brain. He lost his goddamn mind.
For your second question, thats fascinating. I think there are a lot of really cool options! Esp. a shield in response to Bellas. I like the idea of it being a little more offense, but what if a vamp had not only a brain shield but an identity shield? a vampire where if you stare too long your brain starts to make things nonsensical, like derealization. It's very protective because no one actually knows what they look like, some ppl don't even think they're real. But they CAN turn it off. If Bella can't percieve it, how can she bubble it? idk, I love this stuff. Feel free to Dm me if you wanna chat about it.)
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what makes me actually boil with rage is the way it’s framed as though jacob & the cullens have an even rivalry and like, he hates them just as much as they hate him, but like… jacob is a lower class kid who lives on the rez, the cullens live in a plantation home on private property. jacob calling alice a leech is an insult, but alice calling him a mongrel calls into power and privilege, ya know. like am i supposed to honestly think jake making blonde jokes to rosalie (which is certainly sexist and uncalled for) is on the same level as her serving him food in a dog dish? him seeing the cullens as bloodsuckers and murderers is just like, incorrect and unfair, but them seeing him as uncivilized and over-aggressive has implications deeply rooted in the oppression of his people
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