A very happy holidays to everyone and especially to my lovely secret santa, @cudan2 !!! This is my take on some of your adorable headcanons and I hope you love it <3333
On this date, Bella picks up the forged documents from J. Jenks (who is relieved to hear that she isn’t planning to steal Renesmee away from Edward and run off into the sunset with Jacob…and maybe I have a weird sense of humor, but given the love-triangle-debacle that was Eclipse I found Bella’s surprise at his worry to be amusing.) Anyway! Bella heads back to the Cullen’s house and secretly rummages through Alice’s closet for (a hugeamount of) cash, finds a black leather backpack small enough for Renesmee to wear, and tries to force a vision onto Alice with a clue of where she’s going to send Jacob and Renesmee. She hides the cash, IDs, the note to go to Rio, and letters for Renesmee, Jacob, Charlie, and Renee in the backpack where Jacob will find them after the battle.
Anon please? Did you see that someone who got got to read Forever Dawn did an AMA on Reddit? She also has a tiktok called “Twilight_revamped” where she discusses some of the things that happen in the Forever Dawn draft. You should check it out, I would love to hear your thoughts!
I had heard vaguely about the tiktoks but was skeptical; having more background info on the AMA reassures me a bit.
I don’t know a ton about how the copyright office works but from the little I remember from library school this tracks. tl;dr a copy of Forever Dawn was submitted to the Library of Congress for copyright purposes (literally just printed off the computer and put in a binder. Not a “book”). You can go and read it but you have to plan way in advance and pay like $200 in fees for them to search and retrieve it for you. That’s generally how archives work.
Find it REALLY interesting that in this version, Bella wanted to be a mom and has “baby fever” because (spoilers for a book that wasn’t and will never be published, I guess?) Renee and Phil had a baby boy, and Bella was a doting sister, and Edward’s all emo that Bella will never be able to be a mom. When they find out she’s pregnant, Edward instantly understands Bella will want to keep it instead of him assuming she’s horrified and wants it gone in BD.
Apparently the wolves know about the pregnancy but don’t super care.
There’s also something about the Volturi making Bella fight Victoria that at first I was like “… sure, Jan,” but then it goes on to say that Bella’s at the end of her newborn year so she knows she’ll lose, so instead she leads Victoria to the wolves who are hiding in the woods and THEY kill her which tracks with what SM said on her FAQ that the wolves kill Victoria at the confrontation and she’s the only death.
Also apparently Nessie is actually more of a baby?! Omg that already makes it way better.
Edward picked the name “Carlie,” which lmao yeah he would name his kid after Carlisle (and Charlie too but c'mon).
Jacob still imprints but only visits occasionally, doesn’t basically live with them, and Nessie “adores ‘her doggy.’” Which, YIKES SM he’s a human person! But it does point to Nessie not being a super genius. In BD, she says instead how she loves “wolf people, like my Jacob.” Which … okay I hate both of those actually.
Apparently FD does blatantly say that “imprinting is how werewolves find their mates,” though so that removes all doubt about whether or not it will be romantic in the future. Blech.
Something I didn’t notice before, and that I’m enjoying about Midnight Sun, is that Bella really does bring out an appreciation for humanity in Edward. At the beginning of the story, he tunes everybody out and assumes that all of their thoughts and discussions are trivial and petty, but the second Bella comes into his life and he begins to pay more attention, this all changes. Sure, he doesn’t like everything Mike and Jessica think, but his jealously towards Mike, as well as the new perspective he gains from Jessica’s curiosity, bring him into the teenage experience again. Then, he begins to read Angela and Ben, and he realizes that they’re good people with kind hearts, people who deserve love and happy endings. He even becomes a part of their story and wraps Emmett into a little teenage drama(which they both admit was fun). It’s so cute, because while Edward is fighting with “the monster” inside of him, he doesn’t realize that Bella is making him more and more human everyday :’)
dr and mrs thottie show up at your house unannounced with collars unbuttoned and foreheads out asking to take ur son with super powers out the ass to the united states of all places to defend the life of their human-vampire hybrid grandchild nicknamed after the loch ness monster. what do you do?
