Pretty sure it is cannon that Edward is stuck at the mental and emotional age of 17. He's also not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Bit unfair to expect this guy to cure cancer just because Carlisle snacked on his neck during the Spanish flu.
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Say you become immortal at 20, will your frontal lobe develop?
Didn't Interview With The Vampire answer this question? I mean if we take it as part of the vampire canon then the brain does develop further as that little girl was mentally a full ass grown woman trapped in a child's body
So, New neural connections.
Anne Rice's vampires were different from others. Their skin and hair would become magically perfect, I don't even think Claudia had curly hair as a mortal, the "spirit" that inhabited all vampires wanted them to be goddamn beautiful. Also the male vampires had perpetual erections, but their rapturous pleasure of all the other senses made sex impossible to feel, no desire beyond also wanting beautiful things. Anne Rice was a bit weird. And I'm not even getting into the Sleeping Beauty series, I can't really describe that without getting into CSAM.
Why would an immortal care about curing cancer?
Because being immortal doesn't need to equate to being a narcissistic asshole?
If we think about it, I'd bet there would be a correlation though... Being immortal has to disconnect you from the rest of society.
Dark triad traits have got to be off the charts on Immortal beings.
Could work the opposite way where an immortal would be extremely motivated not to keep having their loved ones die on them.
Or alternatively you get a World of Darkness situation with the mummys wherein they basically go mildly batshit due to being high on life itself.
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Because an immortal is likely to have formed connections with mortals that died of cancer. Als, if their friends live longer, they need to start from scratch less often. Another way to archive that is to befriend a family for generations.
To an immortal, it probably wouldn't make much of a difference. Either they die from cancer or they survive but then die anyways a few decades later. Plus, vampires have ways of extending someone's life without any medical science anyways.
Though some lores for Dracula had him very deep and advanced in science as well as magic, so it's possible he did have a cure for cancer but just didn't care to share it because humans are just livestock to him.
Well cancer isn't really a disease in the sense that other illnesses are so it might be worth figuring out incase there's a chance you could end up as a giant suffering blob of immortal tumour.
Be a good way to secure enough money to never have people questioning why you're never seen in daylight and have been around for so long without looking like you've aged.
Except... Aren't the vampires in those books/movies able to be in the sun? That's when you see them sparkle, isn't it?
I mean immortal and immoral are close but not exactly identical
would an immortal be exempt from having cancer?
biologically speaking cancer itself is immortal. I suppose that would mean if an immortal person had cancer, their tumors would be numerous and grotesque.
But treating cancer might be more straightforward, taking out more than you need to and just let the healing take care of putting correct tissue back.
but maybe the trauma of removing it causes more cancer to manifest? it's not unusual for traumatic injuries to cause cancer to start.
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maybe he tried and gave up and moved on to... um... other things.
I cannot imagine wanting to spend time with children after being around for hundreds of years!
People adults aren't anymore mature, they just have more money
Maturity comes from life experience and plenty of people mature very quickly in periods of adversity, while their peers linger in childhood or adolescence because there's no stressors propelling them onward.
I should note that "maturity" isn't some kind of universal good, either. A person regularly subjected to physical violence will learn coping mechanisms to avoid or endure that abuse. They'll come out with these reflexes and responses that other adults can read as "mature". But I wouldn't say they're better for it.
Similarly, people who endure poverty have to learn mature habits as a method of survival far sooner than their wealthier peers - how to provide food and shelter for yourself, how to navigate social bureaucracies, how to operate motor vehicles safely. But the techniques they adopt - lying, stealing, driving without any formal training - aren't condusive to a safe neighborhood or a functional social network.
Ya, but your life experiences change you and the way you think. If you're software developer it becomes really difficult to watch any show with "hacking" in it. Firefighters and other first responders find it really difficult to watch anything that involves "rescue". There's a YouTuber with over 5 million subs who got his start on YouTube by being a firefighter who made fun of firefighting shows.
Now magnify that be a couple hundred years. Your experiences, the things you would have lived through, the basic changes in technology, the world and just the way people live... Your way of thinking would be so radically different from someone who's only experiences have been in school, parents, and modern life that it would be insanity try to pretend to be one.
I have enough trouble finding common ground and stuff to talk about with those old friends of mine that decided to never have kids or buy a house. I can't even conceive of how I would go about "blending" in with high schoolers for the rest of eternity.
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But he doesn't want to cure cancer, he wants to hit on underage girls.
And smell them
Not just a minor but person who might have a mental disorder/illness. In case you never read Twilight, the vampires have unique abilities, Edward’s being telepathy. When he meets Bella, he is unable to detect any thoughts from her. The entire book Bella is literally described as having no subconscious thoughts.
Really? She has such an intellectual-seeming blank slackjaw in the movies
The books/movies make quite clear that Bella has a special power which makes her immune to Edward’s telepathy. It was a huge plot point of the second book.
To imply that she was like somehow cognitively disabled is both wrong and really weird…
But it is very funny.
The movies make her out to be a total dumbass vs the books. I mean imo its mostly dumb overall but just saying the movies made her seem worse.
Also the actress literally only has 1 expression. 😐
But Edward wouldn't have known that when they first interacted.
He did think she smelled bad. That was hilarious
"She's dumb as shit and she stinks to high heaven... I'm in love."
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I remember I did actually talk to a teenage girl about that (it was many, many years ago) and she still insisted 'but it's hot though'.
It depends... If the age difference is hundreds of years, then it's magical. If it's 30 years, then it's just weird.
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