Newborn

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A newborn is a vampire that has been recently turned.

[edit] Personality

They are often blood-thirsty, violent and uncontrollable. A newborn's emotions are hard to control and they anger easily. Bella Cullen was an exception to this rule, as she had time to think about her decision and therefore did not have the first brutal year that most vampires encounter. Or it may have been the fact that like her human mother Renee said, Bella was born 35 years old and has always had self control. Nevertheless, she amazingly controlled her thirst for human blood. Carlisle too showed amazing self control and passed with ease through his newborn year.

[edit] Physical Description

Newborns appear much like normal vampires with exception of the eyes. A newborn eyes appear as a blood-red colour due to the human blood still in the vampire's system. If the vampire feeds on animal blood during their first year, the red will fade to amber and then gold. But if the vampire feeds on human blood, the eyes will darken to be almost a burgundey colour. Newborns are also incredibly strong, much more stronger than a regular vampire.

[edit] History

A vampire named Benito originally invented the idea of creating a newborn army. With a large group of vampires fighting together, they were hard to stop. This triggered the vampire wars of the south and had caused devastation within the vampire population as a result. A newborn army also appeared in Eclipse when Victoria created one in Seattle, with the intent of destroying Bella Swan and the Cullens. The newborns caused carnage in Seattle, with many, many people dying at their hands. In Eclipse, Jasper mentions about a Mexican vampire named Maria created an army along with Jasper. When the newborns grew with little use Jasper was to dispose of them. In one experience Jasper let Peter and Charlotte, two newborns he had befriended at the time, run off. They came back to Jasper and told them about the better life in the North and he left along with them.