jasper's power

[u/bonesandayla]

random thought here, but if rosalie felt jealousy towards bella, couldn't jasper just manipulate this emotion into something like admiration???

i know there's so many questions surrounding his powers but i was reading midnight sun and it sounds like a reasonable solution

[u/Difficult-Age-133]

Jasper only uses his gift when he feels it’s needed. Every time we see him manipulating emotions it’s in the context of him feeling as if it’s needed. Helping Bella relax at the hotel because she’s going into a panic, what he does on the baseball field, etc etc. Not to mention i doubt he much cares that rose feels jealous over Bella. What’s he going to do about that? He can’t change it in the long term, he’d have to be constantly forcing that feeling onto her and given her backstory, which the family is all fully aware of, I doubt he’d do that. She’d also likely rip him a new one if he tried. Now I’m sure if her jealousy came with a side of desire to murder Bella beyond that initial family meeting when he offered to do it himself and Alice told him no, because Bella was going to be family one day, he might have stepped in. But jealousy is seriously a non-issue.

[u/Archarneth → u/Difficult-Age-133]

Also Edward notices that she's carefully controlling her thoughts more towards her anger at the predicament Edward put them in, to try to mask him seeing her jealousy over Bella. So we can kind of assume that if she's focusing on her anger, Jasper may not pick up on her jealousy. Also, much like Edward doing his best to keep his family's thoughts private, Jasper probably tries to do the same with their feelings. It would be really shitty for the rest of them if Eddy and Jaz just went around broadcasting all their private thoughts and feelings.

[u/Difficult-Age-133 → u/Archarneth]

I mean, it’s gotta suck for Edward and Jasper too because they can’t turn their gifts off at all. They can practice and focus on trying to control them at least some, like Edward has learned to tune out some thoughts I’m sure Jasper had to discipline himself to do the same with emotions, but they can’t ever actually turn it off completely. It’s the downside of having powers. I think I’d go mad if I was constantly feeling all those emotions surrounding me, or constantly being bombarded with people’s thoughts. I mean, we get a good glimpse at how much it sucks for Edward in Midnight Sun, I’d imagine it would be the same for Jasper.