Mike Newton and Twilight
I'm not super into Twilight now and I didn't find it interesting as a kid but I watched the first one with my mom when I was like 11 and I remember inexplicably liking Mike Newton the best. This isn't important I just remembered being utterly Bored and Disgusted with stupid goth crybaby Ed and Mike was the only funny character so I thought Bella, who also uninterested me, should get with him.
That's just me being 11 but now I'm thinking how funny Twilight would be if all the normal stuff happened, Bella finding out Edward's a vampire and all that jazz, but then, right in the middle, she and Mike of all people get together.
They've been bonding in the background the whole time, Bella likes that he has a body temp above 28 degrees Fahrenheit, she goes to the arcade or something with him one time and actually enjoys herself and realizes hey! maybe staring wistfully into the middle distance isn't the best hobby, and then Edward is just kinda Stuck. Watching from a distance, waxing poetic as MIKE, who's is completely clueless, hangs out with Bella who never brings up the vampire thing. Just doesn't bring it up. The rest of the plot doesn't happen. Mike gets bitten and now its Twilight again except instead of Edward being the brooding pretty boy we know and tolerate its Mike. Just Mike. Hanging out.
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what if bella liked mike? and edward and jacob. torn between 3 choices
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I don't know if Mike's going to make it, anon.
Mike is at once Edward's picture of the everyman and someone he holds in contempt for daring to exist and be a teenage normal boy. Edward has violent fantasies about smashing Mike's head in, drops Mike's name as who Bella could have been dating in New Moon, and then throws Bella's garter at his face at the wedding as a silent "I get to fuck her and you don't" victory dance.
Edward's really, weirdly, hung up on Mike Newton, and that was when Bella was blatantly uninterested in the guy and never showed any hint of ever being interested in him.
If Bella's into him...
I don't imagine Edward handling this well. Mike will either find himself suddenly dating Jessica per Alice and Edward's behind the scene psychic scheming or, uh, bad things will happen.
(As it is, Bella would have to be a very different person to be interested in Mike so it's a bit moot point.)
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What if Forks' high school organizes an educational trip to the Hårga, to celebrate midsommar, for it's students (including Bella and her human friends)? 👀 Who gets to be the May Queen?
(Anon is referring to the movie Midsommar, in which a friend group of American students are invited by their Swedish friend to his hometown. They discover that their friend is the member of a cult, and the cult practices human sacrifice, copulation rituals, and ritualistic suicide, to name a few.)
Well, the thing about the Americans in Midsommar is that they're recruited by their friend to be human sacrifice. There are British tourists there as well, recruited by a different Swede: the cult wants as many sacrifices as possible, but you have to be recruited by somebody.
The recruiters in Midsommar used the "You should come to my home village and eat the jordgubbar and enjoy our Swedish traditions!" excuse, and while it's not inconceivable that they could have planted a teacher in an American school who would then take his students to Sweden, there is the matter of getting away with it. I imagine when the authorities realized there were tourists who had gone missing, the cult would claim the Brits and Americans never arrived in the first place.
It's a different ballpark to disappear students from an excursion. Besides, they only need four people, the six in the movie was a luxury.
It would have to be a high school student, inviting his friends over to his home country over the Summer.
Olof the Swedish exchange student arrives in Forks, and draws all the interest in the school towards him like a moth. Mike proves approachable, and he has an outgoing girlfriend in Jessica, and after a few months Olof airs the idea of a trip to Sweden. They'd be staying there for free so it's really only the journey they'd have to pay.
"Awesome!" Jessica says when hearing she can go see Europe, Mike who is thinking of beautiful Swedish women agrees.
Lauren, Angela, Ben, and Eric end up invited as well, and depending on when in the timeline this is Bella might also get an invite: however, I can't imagine Bella saying yes to a trip with these people she doesn't actually like that much when she could either be with the Cullens or, if this is happening during New Moon, hang out with Jacob.
Olof doesn't push it, he's got more than enough people for the sacrifice.
Off they go to the lovely Swedish village.
Mike, Ben, and Eric are all made sacrifices: they are men, they are there for the copulation ritual. The village will have no further interest in them, and the only question is what becomes of Lauren, Angela, and Jessica.
Lauren we don't really see enough of for me to say, but Angela I think is doomed. Not only would whatever happened to Ben freak her out, but Angela far and away comes across to me as someone who looks out for number one first.
Which means the moment she sees the ättestupa, she's leaving. This does not go well for her.
Jessica, meanwhile... I think her loyalty to her friends would doom her. Even if she were to catch Mike at a copulation ritual the way Dani does in Midsommar, I think Jessica would be thinking drugs or coercion or "oh god what the fuck is this place", she'd be more afraid of the cult than ever.
Like Angela (and where the fuck is Angela?!) Jessica decides she needs to leave, she tries to calmly explain as much to the villagers. If she is the last one standing, this means they save her for the May Queen to decide. If not, then someone else gets the spot.
Lauren, meanwhile, as someone we know from the modelling talent scout misadventure to be gullible and prone to taking people at face value, might just survive to the dance.
Which, if she is the last woman dancing, means she is made May Queen.
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