Talk:Jasper Hale/@comment-7600752-20130921020743

I've done some reading on Jasper. I couldn't understand how ONE teeny drop of blood could have affected him so drastically in the gift scene in NEW MOON. I just thought...Wow this dude is REALLY weak....one measely drop of blood? Really?

Then I read something that finally made it all make sense. Jasper's power causes him to be able to manipulate emotions. He can make you FEEL a certain way.

However, the power also works in reverse....if Jasper is around people who are depressed...he becomes depressed. Killing humans had really gotten to him because he felt what they felt when he killed them...so he became depressed...then Alice meets him and takes him to the Cullens where he learns to be a vegetarian...hence his mood has lifted dramatically since he doesn't kill humans any more.

BUT during Bella's birthday celebration she cuts her finger. ALL the Cullens were tempted by it...but were able to resist. But for a moment ALL the Cullens felt blood lust when Bella cut her finger. The reason why Jasper reacted like he did was because he had to deal with his own blood lust times six. Jasper felt the blood lust coming from ALL the Cullen vampires at that moment....and was totally consumed by it. Now it makes sense to me. The reason that Jasper attacked wasn't that he was weak....it was because he was having to deal with EVERYONES blood lust, includling his own....all at once.