While she's only in one of the series' books, Renesmee Cullen is one of the most controversial figures within the Twilight universe. Not only is she the human-vampire hybrid daughter of Edward and Bella Cullen, conceived prior to Bella's transformation into a vampire, but she's the very cause of Edward agreeing to change his wife in the first place. Unwilling to "doom" Bella's soul like his own, Edward refused to give Bella the ability to remain ageless with him until his own kid threatened her life from the womb.
With an eerie precocious conscious even prior to delivery, Renesmee is nearly as creepy as Rosemary's baby or Michael Langdon from American Horror Story. The difference is that she's not a nefarious creature, despite what those who feel threatened by her believe. Renesmee proves herself to be kind and thoughtful, even if she remains unsettling. She redefines what it means to be an old soul, growing too rapidly for her parents to even enjoy her toddler years. Despite these rapid changes, she was played by the young actress Mackenzie Foy throughout each phase of her life.
Renesmee should never have been born, as the vampire ruling class banned human-vampire hybrid babies as being abominations. It's just one of the many ways in which she stands out among Twilight's other characters. Imprinted upon at birth by her mother's best friend, Renesmee Cullen had the odds stacked against her from conception. She still pulled through to the end of the series.
Here are 20 Crazy Things Only True Twilight Fans Know About Renesmee Cullen.
20. Her Nickname Is Nessie
When Bella discovered that her friend Jacob Black had bestowed the nautical name "Nessie" on her daughter, she was furious. Honestly, given everything else happening in the book, a monster moniker seems like it should be the least of the new mom's worries. After all, Bella was the one who chose to name her daughter an invented combination of her own mother's name along with Edward's-- Renee and Esme.
Nessie actually sounds a lot less weird than "Renesmee," especially if the kid ever makes any friends and has to actually introduce herself. It's a good time to learn how to pick your battles, Bella. Worry about keeping your daughter safe from the Volturi.
19. She's A Mortal Hybrid
One of the strangest things about Renesmee Cullen is that she's a human-vampire hybrid, something that sets her apart from the rest of her family. This is due to her conception, which occurred while Bella was still human. She's an unheard of creature, and even when Alice finds another person similar to Renesmee in of heredity and growth, she is still quite unique. She has supernatural abilities, for example, while the hybrid Nahuel does not.
Being a hybrid actually saved her life, since the penalty for transforming a child, who will never age and reveal the vampire world to humans much more obviously than a teen or adult vampire, is the most severe, life-ending consequence a vampire may experience.
18. She Was Originally A Creepy Animatronic
Renesmee is such a unique baby that the Twilight filmmakers originally cast an animatronic for her part. It's too bad that they wasted the money on the creepy creature, however, because after filming it they realized it was way too disturbing to use in the film. Its huge eyes, solemn face and general creepiness earned it the nickname "Chuckesmee," an homage to the evil doll, Chucky, that it sort of resembled.
When Rosalie held the creature in the film, it looked much more unnatural and unsettling than intended. Nixing the weird animatronic was one of the best decisions made in the production of the films. Renesmee has enough weirdness in her life without having to look like a nightmarish toy on top of it all.
17. She Can Communicate Via Touch
Renesmee has some keen supernatural powers, just like her parents. She can communicate without words, via touch, which she prefers when she's young since it's easier than expressing herself with words. Luckily she is also an extremely fast learner and seems to be highly intelligent, so this doesn't impede her speaking abilities in any way.
Several vampires in the Twilight franchise are known to have their own sort of "superpower"; an ability that reflects an aspect of they're personalities when they were alive. Edward is telepathic and Bella can shield others from psychic interference, so Renesmee's touch telepathy seems to be related.
16. She Was Delivered By Her Dad's Teeth
Plenty of new dads have had the honor (or the horror, depending on their point of view) of delivering their own children, but how many can say that they've performed an emergency C-section to remove their baby? Given that he had to jump-start due to Bella entering violent labor from a supernaturally strong, thrashing vampiric baby, Edward Cullen is surely one-of-a-kind.
Patients who undergo a crash C-section in an emergency are often given anesthesia to knock them out, particularly if there's high blood pressure and trauma occurring, but Bella was not only awake in horrible pain, demanding Edward to deliver their baby, but she also got to witness her husband use his vampire teeth to help deliver Renesmee.
15. She's Immune From Alice's Powers
It's incredibly frustrating for a vampire with supernatural abilities to meet someone who is immune to their powers. Bella's immunity to Edward's telepathic skills were a major complaint of the brooding vampire when they first fell in love, especially since it was his first time encountering a person whose mind he couldn't read. Alice can still predict Bella's future, however, which is why it was such a bummer for her when she discovered that Renesmee was immune to her powers of prediction.
Since Alice can't "see" hybrid futures, Bella's pregnancy removed her from Alice's vision, making her sister-in-law panic and call to confirm that she was still alive during Edward and Bella's honeymoon.
14. She's Imprinted With Jacob Black
Imprinting, or connecting with one's soulmate at first sight, is something unique to Jacob Black's Quileute shape-shifting family. He describes it not as love at first sight, but as becoming whatever that person needs, "whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend." Between two consenting adults it might seem quite romantic, but the way it happens with baby Resnemee and the young adult Jacob is weird. Plus, Jacob was just in love with Bella-- or at least thought he was. Was he just sensing the parts of Renesmee that Bella shares?
The protector and best friend elements were added to soften the nature of the relationship between Jacob and Renesmee, but his destiny to be her lover remains canon. We even get to see a vision of their future together as mates.
13. Jacob Black Also Almost Offed Her
You know it's true romance when your soulmate attack. That's the message we've received over and over from Twilight, including at the moment of Renesmee's birth. Jacob loved Renesmee's mother Bella and when he believed that giving birth to Renesmee had ended her life, he wanted to destroy Renesmee. Her life was saved when he imprinted as he looked into her eyes.
As alarming as it is that Jacob, believing that Renesmee's birth had resulted in the loss of Bella's life, decided to off the newborn baby right then and there out of revenge, it's really just a Twilight tradition.
12. Her Existence Nearly Got Her Family Extinguished
It's frustrating to witness how powerless the Cullens, a coven of humane vampires, are when it comes to the Volturi and their bloodthirsty ways. The Volturi's outdated laws and standards clearly need to be changed.
The Volturi nearly took out the entire coven because of Renesmee's birth, believing her to be a made vampire rather than a natural-born human-vampire hybrid. The Cullens were able to assemble many other vampire friends, some with cool abilities, to help provide testimony to her non-threatening nature and they made it through the encounter alive, but many fans wish they could have just taken out the Volturi in the process.
11. She Sleeps And Her Heart Beats
As a hybrid vampire, Renesmee has several features that the rest of her kind aren't able to enjoy. She has a rapidly beating heart, which might assuage her father's guilty conscious and obsession with being an evil creature who is damned to hell. Her veins and heart pump her own blood, giving her a much more human-like appearance than her family. Her skin, which isn't as hard as her parents', also doesn't sparkle like diamonds in the sunlight, but merely gives off an ethereal glow instead.
Renesmee is also able to sleep, which her parents might be envious of. While she does prefer human blood, she is able to survive on both animal blood and human food.
