Edward Cullen
He's 17, but he's been 17 for the last 90-odd years. Turned into a vampire by the humane Carlisle while dying during the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918, Edward hunts animals rather than humans for food and lives peaceably with his adoptive family. He's also able to read people's minds. Despite his attraction to Bella - based initially on the fact that she alone appears immune to his mind-reading ability - Edward finds her blood almost impossible to resist, making it difficult for him to be around her and causing him to push her away on a regular basis. He has - in the best vampire tradition - a tendency to brood, muse on the existence (or not) of his immortal soul and generally hate himself.
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