![]() After he bit James, the vampire took off, laughing, and offered a rematch in a decade or two.Īs a vampire, James adjusted to his new life very easily. ![]() This prompted the vampire to turn him and give him the same advantage. He also said that he would have been able to track it if he had the same advantage. He claimed the Frenchman had an undisclosed advantage, perhaps witchcraft or demonic help. James cried foul as he witnessed his speed and lack of evidence of traditional hunting methods on the deer's body. The Frenchman found it in a matter of minutes. During the contest, James released a marked deer into the wild and tracked it. ![]() James was unimpressed by the dandified appearance of his competitor, and he agreed without hesitation, even when the Frenchman-seemingly in jest-upped the stakes to life or death. One night in Montreal, he met a mysterious French vampire who found James' confidence amusing and offered to best him in any test, his only condition being that the competition had to be at night. He didn't care about his face, all he cared about was winning. He gained a measure of fame during his late teens and early twenties as the best tracker on the frontier, as well as sometimes being called the ugliest. He used his substantial skills to survive on his own in the wilderness. The Iroquois killed his parents before his eleventh birthday. James was raised to track and trap by his father at a young age. She had come to America as an indentured servant and later ran away from her master. His father was a French trapper and his mother was from England. However, his “vegetarianism” never gelled with their human hunting and neither party ever convinced the other of their worldview (pro- or anti-humankind), so Carlisle and the Volturi parted amicably, at least until the events of the Twilight saga, and in particular Breaking Dawn.James was born towards the end of the American Revolution. Carlisle was fascinated by the worldly charms of the Volturi, who in turn found him good company. Upon arriving in Italy in the 1700s, Carlisle soon saw that this country’s vampires lived very differently, and as surprising as it may seem given his later heroic characterization, for a time he was involved with the eventual villains of the Twilight saga, the Volturi. Eventually drinking the blood of a deer made Carlisle realize he could survive on the vampiric equivalent of vegetarianism, allowing him to avoid any further bloodshed.Ĭarlisle eventually fled from England, where witch hunters such as his father had driven vampires into hiding and living a depressing half-existence in the safety of sewers (amongst the Twilight saga’s unfortunate implications, like its misuse of Quileute mythology, is the implication that some of the innocent people tortured and killed by witch hunters were, in fact, vampires). However, in a subversion of vampire cliches, Carlisle did find a workaround that allowed him to avoid killing humans without starving for his endless, immortal existence, one which he passed on to his vampire clan. Like many classic vampires, from Dracula himself to the stars of Interview with A Vampire, Carlisle was tortured by his inability to die and soon found himself unbearably lonely, attempting suicide numerous times to no avail but never giving in to his thirst for sustenance. He almost starved in the process, but the young man hoped that he would perish as he was unable to bear the monster he’d become. However, in a display of self-control that bordered on superheroic, Carlisle's unique approach among the Twilight saga's many vampires was to resist the allure of feeding on human blood throughout his transformation into a bloodsucker. Like any newborn vampire in the Twilight saga, Carlisle awoke from his ordeal with an insatiable thirst for human blood, the only thing that could sustain him.
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