groovy-lady:
I really want to know more about the magic-using enchanters and the alternate “Garden of Eden” story because all of that sounds fascinating!!!
Alright, let me think I’ve got to go back, like, a decade, give it take a few years (let’s just say I’m a child of the twenty-first century and leave it at that) and my memories of middle school are kind of hazy anyway, but let’s see what I can remember.
I know the whole idea of “enchanters” specifically came from a) Aro’s use of the term “la tua cantante” and b) Bella’s offhand comment about Angela being a witch. (Yes, Angela is one of them, although I don’t remember if I had her knowing that or if her parents were holding off on telling her.)
I can’t actually remember what kind of powers I gave them, but most of their focus seems to be on staying in hiding, which includes disguising the smell of their extra-tempting blood and erasing memories to stay out of the collective vampire consciousness (including the vampires who actually used to be enchanters, of which there are quite a lot).
Being a “singer” is an indicator of enchanter ancestry, and so are vampiric psychic gifts! (Yes, the implication there is that every vampire with extra powers was either born an enchanter or, at least, has some in their family line they just don’t know about.)
As for the Eden story, I may be misremembering some of the details, but I think it went something like this:
In the beginning, there were seven people created– Adam, Eve, and their five children. Two of the children were ordinary humans, three were enchanters, and Adam and Eve were vampires. (Or maybe there were just the three enchanter kids and no humans? Maybe the humans came in later?)
Adam and Eve were given the freedom to drink from any of the animals in the garden, but the children were off limits. This was easy to agree to– Adam and Eve loved their children, why would they want to hurt them?
But then Eve was in the middle of a hunt, about to catch a snake, when one of the enchanter children accidentally got in her scent line, and, crazed with thirst, she pounced on him/her, killing the child instantly. As she drank, Adam, lured in by the tempting smell, arrived and joined her.
As punishment, Adam and Eve were turned human, and the enchanter child they’d killed was revived as a vampire. For the rest of time, they, their surviving children, and any children they had in the future would have to be on guard, always in danger of the vampire threat they themselves had unleashed on the world, etc, etc.
