Yay! Apparently I didn’t prevent people from liking her by having her first onscreen action be murder!
That’s mostly because the Volturi are so terrifying in your story. Vampires and half-vampires who eat people without any sadistic enjoyment of their victims death and pain, I can tolerate when the Volturi exists. When they don’t and some other evil organization hasn’t taken their place, I still see vampires who feed like that to be an issue of suggestion and coercion. I’d try to have intelligent debates with them on why they shouldn’t kill humans, or at least try to stick to criminals, and offer to help them do that if they’re willing. The natural order of things on Earth is that all things die or are destroyed and recreated in some other form, after all. Without extensive research on the effects to society and the ecosystem of Earth if a large part of humanity were to be turned immortal (in age), I certainly wouldn’t recommend trying it.
Anyway, Allirea hasn’t shown any sadistic tendencies yet, except perhaps for what she might to do a defenceless Demitri, but that’s all deserved. She’s been taught to kill humans and to think herself as part of a higher race, it’s not something she chose to do really. If she decides to stick with that belief after considerable evidence to the contrary I still won’t say she’s evil, unless she starts finding it enjoyable to terrorize people she now knows she may not have a right to do whatever she wishes with. Besides, I love all her quirks!
Aro and the Volturi however know all about morals but don’t care a squat about anything that doesn’t benefit them. I can imagine the Volturi of canon doing all this, but since it’s a love story at heart SM didn’t really write much about them and their deeds. If Alicorn’s story is an accurate portrayal of how the Volturi act under pressure, then I fear the happily-ever-after of canon was simply a prelude to slaughter of naive characters. Demitri would likely check when the rebellion broke up, and then they would storm in and kill the Cullen’s, Bella being their main target.
I fear the happily-ever-after of canon was simply a prelude to slaughter of naive characters.
Yeah, this was more or less how I felt about it too. The Volturi were temporarily outmaneuvered and might have to wait a bit before getting what they want.
That’s mostly because the Volturi are so terrifying in your story. Vampires and half-vampires who eat people without any sadistic enjoyment of their victims death and pain, I can tolerate when the Volturi exists. When they don’t and some other evil organization hasn’t taken their place, I still see vampires who feed like that to be an issue of suggestion and coercion. I’d try to have intelligent debates with them on why they shouldn’t kill humans, or at least try to stick to criminals, and offer to help them do that if they’re willing. The natural order of things on Earth is that all things die or are destroyed and recreated in some other form, after all. Without extensive research on the effects to society and the ecosystem of Earth if a large part of humanity were to be turned immortal (in age), I certainly wouldn’t recommend trying it.
Anyway, Allirea hasn’t shown any sadistic tendencies yet, except perhaps for what she might to do a defenceless Demitri, but that’s all deserved. She’s been taught to kill humans and to think herself as part of a higher race, it’s not something she chose to do really. If she decides to stick with that belief after considerable evidence to the contrary I still won’t say she’s evil, unless she starts finding it enjoyable to terrorize people she now knows she may not have a right to do whatever she wishes with. Besides, I love all her quirks!
Aro and the Volturi however know all about morals but don’t care a squat about anything that doesn’t benefit them. I can imagine the Volturi of canon doing all this, but since it’s a love story at heart SM didn’t really write much about them and their deeds. If Alicorn’s story is an accurate portrayal of how the Volturi act under pressure, then I fear the happily-ever-after of canon was simply a prelude to slaughter of naive characters. Demitri would likely check when the rebellion broke up, and then they would storm in and kill the Cullen’s, Bella being their main target.
Yeah, this was more or less how I felt about it too. The Volturi were temporarily outmaneuvered and might have to wait a bit before getting what they want.
What? Canon has a ‘happily-ever-after’ in which the Volturi are not completely to the last man, woman and fiend? Crazy!