Sparkling Skin: Predator point of view?

Interesting idea. I can understand someone being ok with the sparkles on this basis.

It still doesn't work for me personally though. The Twilight vampiros are so overly powered. Just super strength alone would be enough to catch human prey, on topo, início of that they have the speed, beauty and an assortment of additional powers such as mind reading. The addition of sparkles is so pointless. You could take away a ton of their powers and hunting humans would be just as simple. There is something so unnecessary about the vast amount of powers they have.

Also, there's the fact that I don't think there's a time in history it would have worked. These days our reaction to sparkles has mostly been mockery so I see very few people being attracted to it (not to mention the amount of mundane explanations one could come up with for it these days, meaning it wouldn't even have the allure of being mysterious) and in the past people were mais fearful of mythological creatures, and would probably be mais likely to fear something visibly inhuman, so it seems like simply being attractive would be mais helpful than the addition of sparkles in any era.
Finally, we have to assume their powers are to help them hunt. If not, simply being attractive would be enough and they'd need no other powers. As predators they need the ability to sneak up on things (not just humans, other predators that may be a threat such as the werewolves) and sparkles makes that impossible in dia time. They would be unable to sneak up on or hide from any enemy, because of their beacon-like skin, a deadly hindrance for a predator. That's why real predators evolve the exact opposite of sparkles, camouflage, because it's a survival necessity. So to me sparkles not only add nothing helpful, they actually hold vampiros back.

That's just me though, not putting down your theory, or anyone who is ok with/a fã of the sparkles :)

I see what you mean. But Asvini pretty much said everything I was going to say. I may also add that the vampiros in Twilight hide the fact that they sparkle from humans. So really, what was the point of them sparkling?

Hmmm let me think for a minute...
Ok so vampiros that sparkle... I don't think that this helps a predator very much. You see vampiros are attractive in their own way, they have extreme beauty, intriguing personallity, dark nature and not to mention superspeed and superstrength and only the first 3 are enough to draw a young girl in order to feed from her. There isn't that much dark in a vampire that sparkles-sorry if I offended anyone- Meyer made her vampiros not being able to resist human blood and when they taste it they can't stop drinking until they have drained the victim dry. But vampiros tend to satisfy their victims before killing them and not doing that including glittering kinda freaks out. And also if they want to hunt during the dia glittering prevents them because they don't want to be exposed... but if it its like that then why do they glitter? Sparkling is mais of a burden rather than a weapon.

I always thought-no, wait, it always has been that vampiros attracted their prey through hypnosis. NO GLITTER NEEDED!

The Salvatores are real vampires!

The only thing that would lure in is an idiot. No offence to anyone or anything.

I would like to think this is mais complex than that. Could it be that the author was thinking about how vampiros are immortal? Perhaps something in their cells has crystallized and that is what preserves them or whatever is in their tissues that stops decay is reflective. Sunlight causes damage to molecules, perhaps it is built in very effective suntan lotion. vampiros are meant to have demons inside them and Lucifer comes from the latin for light, perhaps it is their demonic side sparkling. Lots of fun possibilities that go beyond being pretty and glittery. I did think the scene in the film was rubbish, seriously sparkly required.

Personally, I don't think people would be attracted to the sparkles, simply because although sparkles are pretty, and enchanting, and attractive, on a living creature, particularly on a creature that is supposed to look at least vaguely human, would be rather distressing and confusing, and people are probably mais than likely to either attack it or run away, both of which are in vain against a vampire. So, after that ridiculously long sentence (sorry, it's a habit of mine), I agree that the sparkling is completely unnecessary- particularly as vampiros are notoriously hunters of the NIGHT, and so their sparkles in the daylight would not necessarily be seen por their prey.

I don't think they sparkle to attract prey - I think it's an effect of the transformation. In the Illustrated Guide, it says this:

'In direct sunlight, the disparity between humans and vampiros becomes mais obvious. The cellular membrane of the vampire is not as soft or permeable as in a human cell; it has crystalline properties that cause the surface of vampire skin to react prismatically, giving the vampire a glitter-like shimmer in sunlight.'

So the effect of the venom in the transformation upon the human cells is the reason for the sparkling.

Also, I think they make the sparkling mais noticeable in the movies. After leitura the meadow scene, I visualized the sparkling as mais of a soft glimmer.