Victoria

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Victoria was a nomadic vampire who was a member of James's coven. She was the mate of James and began a vendetta against Bella Swan in revenge for his death. To this end, she spear headed several plots to end Bella's life; including creating a newborn army in Seattle, with the express purpose of killing her and destroying the Olympic Coven. However, at the conclusion of the newborn crisis in Seattle, Victoria's life of violence and malice was ended by Edward Cullen.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early Life 1.2 Twilight 1.3 New Moon 1.4 Eclipse 2 Personality and Traits 2.1 Physical Description 2.2 Powers and Abilities 2.3 Personality 3 Etymology 4 Relationships 4.1 James 4.2 Riley 5 Behind the scenes 6 Appearances 7 Trivia 8 References 9 External links 10 See also

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early Life

It is unknown which vampire transformed Victoria. However, sometime after she became a vampire, Victoria became the mate of the tracker James and was a member of his small coven, along with Laurent.

[edit] Twilight

After coming across the Olympic Coven, Victoria assisted James, her lover and coven leader, in tracking their familiar Bella Swan. When he failed to kill the human, and he himself was killed, Victoria declared revenge on Edward Cullen, and as such, secretly began to plan to kill Bella Swan. Since Edward killed James, She thought it would be fair if it was mate for mate.

[edit] New Moon

Victoria later returned to Forks in the hopes of destroying Bella to get back at Edward for murdering James. However, she failed to attack Bella due to the vigilant protection of Jacob Black and the other Quileute shifters. Bella saw what she believed was fire on the water after she went cliff diving, but this was actually Victoria and her hair, she having been forced to retreat into the ocean by the Quileutes.

[edit] Eclipse

After this, Victoria created an army of newborn vampires in nearby Seattle, where she killed over thirty people of all ages, races, and size to build her army. Eventually, while her army was fighting with the Cullens and werewolves, she and Riley, another vampire she created and seduced into helping her, came across Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, and Seth Clearwater (a shape-shifter). She then fought Edward while Riley battled Seth. Seth killed Riley, and Victoria tried to escape. However, Edward caught her and proceeded to kill her. Subseuently, Victoria and Riley's remains were burned and her newborn army defeated.

[edit] Personality and Traits

[edit] Physical Description

Victoria was described as feline or cat-like with long, swirling red hair that was usually described as looking like wild fire. She possessed a terrible beauty and had a soft, high soprano of a voice that contrasted with her fierce appearance.

[edit] Powers and Abilities

Victoria, like all vampires, possessed inhuman beauty, speed, strength, endurance, and agility. Victoria's special ability was evasion, which is how she managed to escape being captured by the Quileute werewolves in New Moon. How this ability carried over from her human life is unknown. Edward Cullen identified/classified her ability as self-preservation. Self-preservation-the instinctive need to do what is necessary to survive danger.

[edit] Personality

Victoria is shown to have a mysterious but elegant personality. She could best be described as calculating however she was frequently bloodthirsty, whether it was when she was dying to kill Bella for her delicious blood on the baseball field in Twilight or when she was stalking Bella for revenge in New Moon and Eclipse. She is also marked as one of the most persistent and ruthless characters in the series. Like most archetypal vampires and femme fatales, she is seductively charming and rather vain.

[edit] Etymology

Victoria means 'victory' in Latin. Ironically, Victoria is defeated along with her newborn army in their attempt to get revenge on Edward Cullen.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] James

Victoria was hopelessly in love with James when they met the Cullens. She searched for Bella in the South, trying desperately to help James' hunt in any way. When she learned of James' death, she spent months plotting her slow torture and murder of Bella Swan.

When Victoria made her last attempt to slaughter Bella, Edward taunted her by saying James only kept her around because of her ability to escape. Whether this is true or not is unknown.

[edit] Riley

Riley was a newborn whom Victoria told she loved. In reality, she did not have feelings for him and was still in love with James. Victoria simply told Riley she loved him so that he would listen to her more. (He was deeply in love with her, though.)

[edit] Behind the scenes

• In preparation for her role in the Twilight film, [[Rachelle Lefevre]] (the actress portraying Victoria) watched lion attacks on Youtube and acted like a cat for a day to get used to acting "feline." As in the novel, Victoria was depicted as fierce and beautiful but whereas in the book she did not have many lines at all and didn't appear to stalk Bella and Edward, in the movie she has a few lines and at the end during Bella's prom she looks like she's already planning a way to get revenge for her mate James.

[edit] Appearances

• Twilight (First appearance)
• Twilight (film)
• New Moon
• Eclipse

[edit] Trivia

• Victoria's first book appearance was in Twilight , but the first time she spoke was in Eclipse
• Bella says she was expecting Victoria's voice to be more feline-like, but her voice was almost like a little girls'

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Stephenie Meyer's official website
• The Twilight Series' official website
• The Twilight Lexicon

[edit] See also

• Rachelle Lefèvre