“I want the relationship that’s healthiest for Bella” why. This is a book about vampires and werewolves and codependency and secrecy that kills you. If Bella were meant to be a normal happy healthy human girl she wouldn’t be in the story in the first place. This is fiction, she isn’t real, characters in stories don’t need to be healthy or live in reality. She deserves to suck blood and live forever if she wants idk
For whatever reason, I like to think Elizabeth Masen would have been an incredibly toxic mother-in-law.
You know those posts where the mother laments the loss of her son to her DIL? Saying things like "I was his first love".
That would be Elizabeth.
Peter didn’t come back in in time, Volturi came for Maria. Jasper never met Alice.
Volturi!Jasper AU
Criticism that Twilight vampires are overpowered is obviously valid but I feel like people tend to downplay the drawbacks
yes it’s convenient that they’re pretty, hard to kill, and aren’t affected by the common anti-vampire measures (don’t need an invitation to a house, don’t burn in the sun, dgaf about crosses and silver, etc.)
but. BUT. I think the exaggerated blood thirst makes up for quite a bit of it. Part of becoming the ~ultimate predator~ is being at the mercy of instincts. their minds are not their own. I think the difficulty of self-control is emphasized in Twilight more than any other vampire media I’ve consumed. IMO the overpowered nature of their bodies makes the idea of a frenzy all the more terrifying— the stakes are crazy high
AND their blood thirst comes with some serious physical pain. I can’t think of any other vampire media off the top of my head that goes beyond “ohhh so tempting I’m sooooo thirsty I have the Urge” to “yeah it feels like I have a white-hot poker shoved down my throat :)” like. The decision to integrate to society basically comes at the cost of holding their necks to a hot stove. No wonder there are only a dozen total vampires in the world that bother
