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so I’m rereading bella’s transformation, and she mentions having had venom and morphine in her veins before (from when james bit her) and I was thinking it would be very interesting to consider if that venom had actually made a difference to her in the intervening years. like, sure the process was halted pretty quickly, but it’s not like a computer program that has to download and then it’ll install. the venom starts its work right away, and that work is not undone even if it is quickly halted. so maybe after twilight bella is slightly stronger, slightly better at hearing, smelling. it’s slight and she attributes it to “bouncing back” well from her injuries. it’s why, in breaking dawn, when pregnant bella has to drink blood, that it smells and tastes good to her, despite the fact that a couple of books ago blood made her faint. it’s the reason she and edward were able to have a baby at all, despite the supposed chromosomal discrepancy between humans and vampires. you could consider her a carrier, perhaps. it gave her this edge, these hints of vampire traits while still stuck with frail human body systems.

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Honestly this could explain why she physically sees projections of Edward whenever she’d do something reckless in New Moon. Then after her transformation, this skill is heightened and her power is to project force fields and memories or thoughts.

Honestly I’m not a bio expert, but there must have to be some level of genetic compatibility of vampire venom with human blood in order for transformation to happen at all, so there is already some previous compatibility that exists.

Which means that theoretically, any human female should be able to have children with a male vampire (what with their wack body chemistry allowing them to be able to produce semen after being dead), but she should not be able to survive the ordeal or be able to carry the child to term. One of the reasons why Bella was able to do the above was presumably because of the lingering venom in her system.

I’m not sure if I remember correctly, but it has been mentioned that the bite on her skin shimmers in the sun - that was the primary site of injection of the venom, so it would make sense. Also (again, not sure if I remember correctly), but didn’t the wolves say she smelled a little funny? That could also be because of the lingering venom in her system. 

This also explains her growing pallor and the many jokes about her being half a vampire, because in a sense, wasn’t she genetically partially one?

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And it could possibly be why in later books (Eclipse) she doesn’t get woozy from her own blood?? Like when she cut her finger to spread it on the tree before the battle? (I could be misremembering)

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ok but this could also explain why Bella didn’t go through all the crazy mood swings and newborn behaviour when she first turned because her body had already been exposed to vampire venom witch might have heightened her repsosne to an influx, and then what with her having had Renesme that must have had an effect on her biology, because all that exposure to vampire dna might have helped her build up a tolerance 

OH ok i really like that. so maybe the transition only appears to take a few days, but that’s only the violent, accelerated process of mainly physical changes, and further changes in the brain take longer, which is why newborns are so crazy. like bella wakes and describes having a “lot of extra space” in her mind and being able to have multiple trains of thought at once, thirst always being one of them. but the cullens warn her, while she’s still human, that the only thing she’ll be able to think about - for years even - is blood? and i think it’s because traces of james’ venom, though they weren’t enough to change her, still lingered and forced the minute changes in brain chemistry that normally happen after one becomes a vampire. so she had already expressed her newborn chaoticness and singlemindedness in new moon while she was human and learned to handle it.

Just to add, James’ bite not only shimmered but was always a few degrees colder than other parts of Bella’s skin and this really makes me believe the closest parts to the bite were transformed a bit.

that makes me think, maybe bella punching jacob would have gone different if she’d hit him with the hand james bit? her hand is vampire, you could maybe say