Talk:Imprinting/@comment-71.179.129.218-20141012234317/@comment-24927180-20141018025517

It's not really known if they could.

It's assumed that they couldn't because vampires have venom in them that could kill/harm shifters, but with Jacob imprinting on Renesmee it's impossible to say.

Even though Renesmee is venomless, it still doesn't make sense for a shifter to imprint on a half-vampire, venomless or not. She's still half-vampire, and there was nothing to ever say that females wouldn't be venomless, so at the end of the day, it's set up that a shifter could imprint on a full vampire, but it was not intended to be that way.

Meyer just doesn't know how to cover in plot holes.