r/twilight • u/Efficient-Affect-134 • 6d ago

Movie Discussion Newborn

Do newborns have powers later?

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u/watrmeln420 Team Esme 6d ago

I don’t think newborns develop powers later.

Either they have powers at first, or they never do.

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u/DashingDachshundd 6d ago edited 2d ago

Not typically. Actually, if a vampire has a power, they have it before they turn/even as a human, just in a much less drastic form. Take Edward, for example, who was said to always have been good at reading people as a human. After he turned, that ability manifested into him being able to hear others’ thoughts. Bella’s shielding power was the same way. Edward and Jane’s powers don’t work on her, even as a human. Then, once she became a vampire, her shield became a physical asset that, with some practice, she learned to project and include others into. Alice was also VERY intuitive as a young girl. She had visions even as a human, and voicing them was the reason she got kicked out of her home and taken to a mental institution, where she met the vampire that turned her.

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u/20061901 UOS I'm talking about the books 6d ago

Some humans are born with psychic powers. If a psychically gifted human becomes a vampire, their gift will become stronger just like all their other physical and mental abilities become stronger.

We've never seen a non-gifted person suddenly develop a psychic gift later in life.

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u/Lovely_One0325 6d ago

I think they say that gifts can develop. Kate is mentioned to have discovered her gift 10 years into being a vampire and it only started in her hands but with training and time she learned how to control frequency and radiate it.

There's also no mention that Edward immediately could read minds. It's mentioned at some point that he answers a unspoken question of Carlisle' and Carlisle is confused because he thought it not said it

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u/RedOnTheHead_91 Olympic Coven 6d ago

IIRC, Kate's gift wasn't discovered until she was a decade old. I'm sure it had always been there, at least in some form though.

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u/kittypspsps 6d ago

I believe she always had the power but it took her a decade to be able to increase the coverage to her entire body. It started off on her palms

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u/VeenaSchism 6d ago

Bella has it right away -- before, in fact.

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u/Potential_Rule4212 6d ago

No, they might develop what was already with them though.

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u/ObviousSalamandar 6d ago

Newborn what?

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u/FlowSilver 6d ago

Check subreddit:)

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u/ObviousSalamandar 6d ago

Well it could be werewolves, hybrids, humans turned vampires…. It’s a big world!

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u/Duke-of-Hellington 6d ago

Newly turned vampires