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[[File:Edward-376194_429619737081258_1836140990_n.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Edward Cullen]]: a telepath.]]
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[[File:Edward-376194_429619737081258_1836140990_n.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Edward Cullen]]: a mind reader.]]
 
{{quote|He can read the thoughts of anyone in close proximity to him, with the exception of Bella Cullen.|Entry on Edward's gift|The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide}}
 
{{quote|He can read the thoughts of anyone in close proximity to him, with the exception of Bella Cullen.|Entry on Edward's gift|The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide}}
   
'''Telepathy''' is [[Edward Cullen]]'s [[Special abilities|ability]] to read the minds of another individual. [[Aro]] and the [[Shape-shifter|Quileute shape-shifters]] also show this ability, though in different manners.
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'''Telepathy''' is [[Edward Cullen]]'s [[Special abilities|ability]] to read the minds of other individuals. [[Aro]] has a [[Tactile telepathy|tactile version]] of this power, and the [[Shape-shifter|Quileute wolves]] have a form of shared telepathy. In ''[[Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined|Life and Death]]'', this power belongs to [[Edythe Cullen]], Edward's female counterpart.
   
 
==Description==
 
==Description==
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[[File:Edward-mindreading-1011.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Edward's mind reading.]]
[[Edward Cullen|Edward]]'s gift allows him to hear the thoughts of others in close proximity with him and see the images in their minds. Like hearing and vision, this gift behaves pretty much like a sense, and Edward can't exert much conscious control over it.
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[[Edward Cullen|Edward]]'s gift allows him to hear the thoughts of others in close proximity with him and see the images in their minds. Like hearing and vision, this gift behaves pretty much like a sense, and Edward can't exert much conscious control over it. When not paying attention to anyone's thoughts, the 'voices' tone down until they sound like whispers in a room. When he focuses on a particular individual, that person's mind clears up to him while the rest get tuned out.
   
A strong bond between Edward and other individuals allows him to read their minds from a greater distance when he concentrates on them, though it only works within a few miles' range. Like [[Alice Cullen|Alice]] and some other gifted vampires, Edward's ability seems to work best with other vampires. He has also commented that picking up a [[shape-shifter]]'s mind is easier when the shape-shifter is in human form.
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A strong bond between Edward and other individuals allows him to read their minds from a greater distance when he concentrates on them, though it only works within a few miles' range. Like [[Alice Cullen|Alice]] and some other gifted vampires, Edward's ability seems to work best with other vampires. He can pick up a [[shape-shifter]]'s mind more easily when that shape-shifter is in human form than in animal form, though it is still possible.
   
 
He frequently uses it to keep tabs of what other people are experiencing at the moment, and has therefore an advantage in a fight, as he can anticipate his opponent's moves, as shown in the practice fight with [[Jasper Hale|Jasper]]. Thanks to this power and his own battle experiences, he is on par with Jasper, who is known as the best fighter in the family. He can also use it to experience Alice's visions when she is in close proximity with him.
[[File:BDNew.jpeg|thumb|250px|left|Edward hears his baby's thoughts.]]
 
He can use it to keep tabs of what other people are experiencing at the moment, and has therefore an advantage in a fight, as he can anticipate his opponent's moves, as shown in the practice fight with [[Jasper Hale|Jasper]]. Thanks to this power, he is on par with Jasper, who is known as the best fighter in the family. He can also use it to experience Alice's visions when she is in close proximity with him.
 
   
 
==Limitations==
 
==Limitations==
Edward's telepathic ability is limited to hearing or seeing only the current thoughts of the people around him, except for [[Bella Swan]] and anyone she [[Mental shield|shields]], whose thoughts he does not perceive. Also, his power is raw, which makes it impossible for him to stop hearing the thoughts of those around him, although he states he can drown out extra voices by concentrating on environmental details or one specific mind. Edward found most of the kids in [[Forks High School]] unimaginative, and, in some cases, vulgar. He also had the displeasure of reading [[Jacob Black|Jacob]]'s mind, due to his thoughts and "little fantasies" about Bella.
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Edward's mind reading ability is limited to hearing or seeing only the thoughts running through the people around him, except for [[Bella Swan]] and anyone she [[Mental shield|shields]], whose thoughts he does not perceive. Also, his power is raw, which makes it impossible for him to stop reading the minds around him, although he states he can drown out extra voices by concentrating on environmental details or one specific mind. He also states once that while he can hear their thoughts, he cannot feel the emotions emanating from them.
   
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Edward found most of the kids in [[Forks High School]] unimaginative, and, in some cases, vulgar. He also had the displeasure of reading [[Jacob Black|Jacob]]'s mind, due to his thoughts and "little fantasies" about Bella.
==Origin==
 
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As a human, he was capable of reading people, which is why he manifests this power as a vampire.
 
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==History==
 
===Origin===
 
Edward had been keen at reading people from his human life, which is why he manifests the talent to read people's thoughts as a vampire.
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===Post-transformation===
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[[File:Red-eye-Edward.jpg|thumb|250px|Edward looking for a target.]]
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After becoming a vampire, he quickly realized his power to read minds. In between 1926 and 1931, he lived apart from Carlisle and Esme and fed on human blood: he used his mind reading skill to locate the worst humans in society, thinking that as long as he was serving justice, the cause would be justifiable. His first victim being Esme's first, abusive, husband: [[Charles Evenson]].
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In 1933, after rejoining Carlisle and Esme, and Rosalie joined their family, Edward found Rosalie's shallow mind repulsive and showed no attraction toward her beauty like other men had.
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===''Twilight''===
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[[File:Bella-edward-shield.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Edward tells Bella of his power to read minds.]]
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{{quote|Let's say, hypothetically of course, that... someone... could know what people are thinking, read minds, you know - with a few exceptions... How does it work? What are the limitations? How would... that someone... find someone else at exactly the right time? How would he know she was in trouble?|Bella's theory on Edward's mind reading power.|Twilight}}
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At the beginning of ''[[Twilight]]'', Edward encounters [[Bella Swan]], whose thoughts he could not read for reasons he didn't know at that time. As he continues to attempt read her mind, he finds himself attracted to her and eventually falls in love with her.
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[[File:Edward_reading_james's_mind.png|thumb|250px|Edward reading [[James]]'s mind.]]
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While in Port Angeles, Edward uses his mind reading to watch a group of drunken evildoers approach Bella while tracking down their location to save her. Using this ability, he also discovers that [[James]] was a tracker―a vampire with a strong sense of locating his prey.
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====''Midnight Sun''====
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Edward's experience with his mind reading is much more described in ''[[Midnight Sun]]'', which shows his connection to those around him, his experiences with [[Alice Cullen]]'s visions, and his frustration of his inability to read Bella's mind. While using this ability, he can both hear people's thoughts and see the images in them. He also uses those thoughts to indirectly watch over Bella.
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When the Cullens meet the rogue coven, Victoria's thoughts are purely contemplation of escape, James bloodlust, and Laurent curiosity. James, somehow sensing their gifts, manages to stay out of Edward's hearing range when they were hunting him in Canada.
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===''New Moon''===
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[[File:ImagesCAQ5HF3X.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Edward notices Jasper's bloodlust before everyone else.]]
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After leaving Bella in Forks, Edward spends some time hunting a vampire named [[Victoria]] by using his mind-reading to track her down. However, her [[enhanced self-preservation|ability of evasion]] warned her prematurely, and allows her to escape and lose his trail in the southern parts of America.
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While attempting to persuade the Volturi to kill him, [[Aro]] finds his power useful and offers to let him join their cause. Their refusal to destroy him prompts Edward to reveal his vampiric nature to the locals of Volterra.
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While intercepting the minds that Edward has read, Aro learns everything in his surrounding.
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===''Eclipse''===
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[[File:Edward-listens.jpg|thumb|250px|Edward listening in on the fight.]]
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Edward translates the [[Uley pack]]'s thoughts to Carlisle and the rest of his family while picking up their combined minds. During the [[Newborn army battle|battle against the newborn army]], Edward is absent from the battle, but participates the whole action through the mind of pack member, [[Seth Clearwater]], and offers advice and battle strategy to the other wolves, who can also hear him through Seth.
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He later attempts to make [[Riley Biers]] realize that Victoria is feeding him with lies about her devotion, but his attempt fails.
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====''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner''====
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At the end of ''The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner'', Edward reads [[Bree Tanner]]'s mind and learns everything she had experienced, even her awareness of [[Jane]]'s agreement with Victoria. He also intercepts her dying wish to be nice to her friend, [[Fred]], if they were ever to cross paths.
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===''Breaking Dawn''===
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[[File:Edward_reading_mind.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Edward reads Renesmee's mind.]]
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{{quote|I heard you. How? How did you do that?|Edward to Bella|Breaking Dawn}}
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Edward hears inappropriate thoughts from [[Mike Newton]] about Bella and discovers Jacob's appearance using mind reading to pick up his mind. Near the end of Bella's pregnancy, he picks up Renesmee's mind for the first time and discovers her intelligence and the love that she has for her family. He also tells Jacob that his pack member Seth has one of the purest, sincerest and kindest minds he had ever read.
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Edward had hoped that Bella's conversion into a vampire would grant him access to her mind. However, even after her transformation, her brain is completely closed off from his mind reading. Their daughter, however, shows immunity to her blockage when she 'communicates' with Bella through her psychic power.
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[[File:Edward_y_bella_4.jpg|thumb|250px|Edward reads Bella's thoughts for the first time.]]
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During their confrontation with the Volturi, Edward is forced to give Aro every information he had gathered from the people he had been around since their last encounter. He also provides security watch for his family during the entire trial. He is also the only to participate their thoughts for strategy, but is unable to thwart them. In ''[[Breaking Dawn - Part 2]]'', Edward uses his mind reading to watch the potential battle predicted by Alice and then a vision of his daughter living happily with Jacob and their family in the future.
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At the end of ''Breaking Dawn'', Bella temporarily removes her [[mental shield|psychic shield]] and allows Edward access to her thoughts for the first time; he sees memories of everything that had happened between them since they met and learns how she felt back then. Though he is happy to finally be able to read her mind, he is rather unsatisfied by it; he wishes to be able to hear her mind forever.
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===Edythe Cullen===
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====''Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined''====
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In ''[[Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined]]'', [[Edythe Cullen]] uses her mind reading to keep tabs on Beau's whereabouts and keep him safety. She later uses it to keep track of [[Joss]]'s mind. At the end of the novel, Edythe acts as the main communicator between the Cullens and the [[Uley pack]] during a confrontation. [[Beau Swan]], whose mind is protected by a psychic shield, is the only exception to her gift.
   
 
==Similar abilities==
 
==Similar abilities==
*[[File:Arol.png|left|thumb|100px|[[Aro]]]][[Aro]]'s [[Tactile telepathy|ability]] is the same general class of Edward's, though much more powerful. With physical contact, he can read every thought, emotion and memory stored in the possessor's mind.<br clear=left/>
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*[[File:Arol.png|left|thumb|100px|[[Aro]]]][[Aro]]'s [[Tactile telepathy|ability]] is the same general class of Edward's, though much more powerful but limited in the need of physical contact. He can read every thought, emotion, and memory the other person ever had in the past, while Edward can only read the thoughts as they passed but can read every mind in range. Aro wishes to claim Edward to his coven, hoping to use him as an amplifier; if he only ever needed to hold Edward's hand, Aro wouldn't need to risk himself to read the thoughts of others.<br clear=left/>
   
*[[File:Renesmeeuntaggedpic.jpg|left|thumb|100px|[[Renesmee Cullen]]]][[Renesmee Cullen]]'s [[Tactile thought projection|ability]] is opposite to Edward's. By touching someone, she can project her thoughts into his or her head to communicate with them. Like her mother's, Renesmee's talent is very powerful; not even Bella can block her out.<br clear=left/>
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*[[File:Renesmeeuntaggedpic.jpg|left|thumb|100px|[[Renesmee Cullen]]]][[Renesmee Cullen]]'s [[Tactile thought projection|ability]] is opposite to Edward's. By touching someone, she can project her thoughts into his or her head to communicate with them. Unlike Bella's ability to keep everyone out, Renesmee can keep herself in with her secondary ability to thwart their mental defenses.<br clear=left/>
   
 
*[[File:The_fight_wolfs_vs_newborns.jpg|left|thumb|150px|The [[Black pack|Black]] and [[Uley pack]]s.]]In the [[Black pack|Black]] and [[Uley pack|Uley]] packs, all members' minds are connected to each other when they are in wolf forms, allowing them to read each other's thoughts. This enables a degree of teamwork unimaginable otherwise and essential in collaborative activities requiring high coordination, like hunting or battle, or when the pack is spread over vast areas. No privacy exists in the team. When a pack member shifts his allegiance to another Alpha, his mental connection with the previous pack breaks, to reform with the new one. It is interesting to note that Alphas in telepathic connections can control the thoughts they share.<br clear=left/>
 
*[[File:The_fight_wolfs_vs_newborns.jpg|left|thumb|150px|The [[Black pack|Black]] and [[Uley pack]]s.]]In the [[Black pack|Black]] and [[Uley pack|Uley]] packs, all members' minds are connected to each other when they are in wolf forms, allowing them to read each other's thoughts. This enables a degree of teamwork unimaginable otherwise and essential in collaborative activities requiring high coordination, like hunting or battle, or when the pack is spread over vast areas. No privacy exists in the team. When a pack member shifts his allegiance to another Alpha, his mental connection with the previous pack breaks, to reform with the new one. It is interesting to note that Alphas in telepathic connections can control the thoughts they share.<br clear=left/>

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Edward Cullen: a mind reader.

"He can read the thoughts of anyone in close proximity to him, with the exception of Bella Cullen."
―Entry on Edward's gift[src]

Telepathy is Edward Cullen's ability to read the minds of other individuals. Aro has a tactile version of this power, and the Quileute wolves have a form of shared telepathy. In Life and Death, this power belongs to Edythe Cullen, Edward's female counterpart.

Description

Edward-mindreading-1011

Edward's mind reading.

Edward's gift allows him to hear the thoughts of others in close proximity with him and see the images in their minds. Like hearing and vision, this gift behaves pretty much like a sense, and Edward can't exert much conscious control over it. When not paying attention to anyone's thoughts, the 'voices' tone down until they sound like whispers in a room. When he focuses on a particular individual, that person's mind clears up to him while the rest get tuned out.

A strong bond between Edward and other individuals allows him to read their minds from a greater distance when he concentrates on them, though it only works within a few miles' range. Like Alice and some other gifted vampires, Edward's ability seems to work best with other vampires. He can pick up a shape-shifter's mind more easily when that shape-shifter is in human form than in animal form, though it is still possible.

He frequently uses it to keep tabs of what other people are experiencing at the moment, and has therefore an advantage in a fight, as he can anticipate his opponent's moves, as shown in the practice fight with Jasper. Thanks to this power and his own battle experiences, he is on par with Jasper, who is known as the best fighter in the family. He can also use it to experience Alice's visions when she is in close proximity with him.

Limitations

Edward's mind reading ability is limited to hearing or seeing only the thoughts running through the people around him, except for Bella Swan and anyone she shields, whose thoughts he does not perceive. Also, his power is raw, which makes it impossible for him to stop reading the minds around him, although he states he can drown out extra voices by concentrating on environmental details or one specific mind. He also states once that while he can hear their thoughts, he cannot feel the emotions emanating from them.

Edward found most of the kids in Forks High School unimaginative, and, in some cases, vulgar. He also had the displeasure of reading Jacob's mind, due to his thoughts and "little fantasies" about Bella.

History

Origin

Edward had been keen at reading people from his human life, which is why he manifests the talent to read people's thoughts as a vampire.

Post-transformation

Red-eye-Edward

Edward looking for a target.

After becoming a vampire, he quickly realized his power to read minds. In between 1926 and 1931, he lived apart from Carlisle and Esme and fed on human blood: he used his mind reading skill to locate the worst humans in society, thinking that as long as he was serving justice, the cause would be justifiable. His first victim being Esme's first, abusive, husband: Charles Evenson.

In 1933, after rejoining Carlisle and Esme, and Rosalie joined their family, Edward found Rosalie's shallow mind repulsive and showed no attraction toward her beauty like other men had.

Twilight

Bella-edward-shield

Edward tells Bella of his power to read minds.

"Let's say, hypothetically of course, that... someone... could know what people are thinking, read minds, you know - with a few exceptions... How does it work? What are the limitations? How would... that someone... find someone else at exactly the right time? How would he know she was in trouble?"
―Bella's theory on Edward's mind reading power.[src]

At the beginning of Twilight, Edward encounters Bella Swan, whose thoughts he could not read for reasons he didn't know at that time. As he continues to attempt read her mind, he finds himself attracted to her and eventually falls in love with her.

Edward reading james's mind

Edward reading James's mind.

While in Port Angeles, Edward uses his mind reading to watch a group of drunken evildoers approach Bella while tracking down their location to save her. Using this ability, he also discovers that James was a tracker―a vampire with a strong sense of locating his prey.

Midnight Sun

Edward's experience with his mind reading is much more described in Midnight Sun, which shows his connection to those around him, his experiences with Alice Cullen's visions, and his frustration of his inability to read Bella's mind. While using this ability, he can both hear people's thoughts and see the images in them. He also uses those thoughts to indirectly watch over Bella.

When the Cullens meet the rogue coven, Victoria's thoughts are purely contemplation of escape, James bloodlust, and Laurent curiosity. James, somehow sensing their gifts, manages to stay out of Edward's hearing range when they were hunting him in Canada.

New Moon

ImagesCAQ5HF3X

Edward notices Jasper's bloodlust before everyone else.

After leaving Bella in Forks, Edward spends some time hunting a vampire named Victoria by using his mind-reading to track her down. However, her ability of evasion warned her prematurely, and allows her to escape and lose his trail in the southern parts of America.

While attempting to persuade the Volturi to kill him, Aro finds his power useful and offers to let him join their cause. Their refusal to destroy him prompts Edward to reveal his vampiric nature to the locals of Volterra.

While intercepting the minds that Edward has read, Aro learns everything in his surrounding.

Eclipse

Edward-listens

Edward listening in on the fight.

Edward translates the Uley pack's thoughts to Carlisle and the rest of his family while picking up their combined minds. During the battle against the newborn army, Edward is absent from the battle, but participates the whole action through the mind of pack member, Seth Clearwater, and offers advice and battle strategy to the other wolves, who can also hear him through Seth.

He later attempts to make Riley Biers realize that Victoria is feeding him with lies about her devotion, but his attempt fails.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

At the end of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Edward reads Bree Tanner's mind and learns everything she had experienced, even her awareness of Jane's agreement with Victoria. He also intercepts her dying wish to be nice to her friend, Fred, if they were ever to cross paths.

Breaking Dawn

Edward reading mind

Edward reads Renesmee's mind.

"I heard you. How? How did you do that?"
―Edward to Bella[src]

Edward hears inappropriate thoughts from Mike Newton about Bella and discovers Jacob's appearance using mind reading to pick up his mind. Near the end of Bella's pregnancy, he picks up Renesmee's mind for the first time and discovers her intelligence and the love that she has for her family. He also tells Jacob that his pack member Seth has one of the purest, sincerest and kindest minds he had ever read.

Edward had hoped that Bella's conversion into a vampire would grant him access to her mind. However, even after her transformation, her brain is completely closed off from his mind reading. Their daughter, however, shows immunity to her blockage when she 'communicates' with Bella through her psychic power.

Edward y bella 4

Edward reads Bella's thoughts for the first time.

During their confrontation with the Volturi, Edward is forced to give Aro every information he had gathered from the people he had been around since their last encounter. He also provides security watch for his family during the entire trial. He is also the only to participate their thoughts for strategy, but is unable to thwart them. In Breaking Dawn - Part 2, Edward uses his mind reading to watch the potential battle predicted by Alice and then a vision of his daughter living happily with Jacob and their family in the future.

At the end of Breaking Dawn, Bella temporarily removes her psychic shield and allows Edward access to her thoughts for the first time; he sees memories of everything that had happened between them since they met and learns how she felt back then. Though he is happy to finally be able to read her mind, he is rather unsatisfied by it; he wishes to be able to hear her mind forever.

Edythe Cullen

Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined

In Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, Edythe Cullen uses her mind reading to keep tabs on Beau's whereabouts and keep him safety. She later uses it to keep track of Joss's mind. At the end of the novel, Edythe acts as the main communicator between the Cullens and the Uley pack during a confrontation. Beau Swan, whose mind is protected by a psychic shield, is the only exception to her gift.

Similar abilities

  • Arol

    Aro

    Aro's ability is the same general class of Edward's, though much more powerful but limited in the need of physical contact. He can read every thought, emotion, and memory the other person ever had in the past, while Edward can only read the thoughts as they passed but can read every mind in range. Aro wishes to claim Edward to his coven, hoping to use him as an amplifier; if he only ever needed to hold Edward's hand, Aro wouldn't need to risk himself to read the thoughts of others.
  • Renesmeeuntaggedpic

    Renesmee Cullen

    Renesmee Cullen's ability is opposite to Edward's. By touching someone, she can project her thoughts into his or her head to communicate with them. Unlike Bella's ability to keep everyone out, Renesmee can keep herself in with her secondary ability to thwart their mental defenses.
  • The fight wolfs vs newborns

    The Black and Uley packs.

    In the Black and Uley packs, all members' minds are connected to each other when they are in wolf forms, allowing them to read each other's thoughts. This enables a degree of teamwork unimaginable otherwise and essential in collaborative activities requiring high coordination, like hunting or battle, or when the pack is spread over vast areas. No privacy exists in the team. When a pack member shifts his allegiance to another Alpha, his mental connection with the previous pack breaks, to reform with the new one. It is interesting to note that Alphas in telepathic connections can control the thoughts they share.