While The Twilight Saga focuses mainly on the plight of Bella Swan and her future in-laws the Cullens, as well as the conflict between them, the Quileute shapeshifters, and the Volturi, there is plenty of drama to go around between the peripheral characters-- so much that one even had an entire novella written about her. Bree Tanner, star of the Twilight spinoff novel The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner, is one of the series' most tragic characters. She reminds us how brutal the Volturi really are as well as the consequences for those vampires who are ignorant of the culture's rules. She's also an example of what can happen to a young vampire without a support system, giving us insight why so many vampires aren't like the Cullen family, and also how naive Bella really can be.