#anti edythe/bella

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Sooo what happens if this edythe meets bella as in canon (she somehow miraculously stuck with the cullens until then)? What does alice say to get her not to eat her? Assuming she still wants bella to be her best friend. On you whether edythe's attracted to women or not (thinking I've walked right into the bella gets eaten trap)

Previous post on what if Edward was Edythe.

Caveat also that I haven't read Life and Death, I am dimly aware that supposedly Edythe is a very toned-down Edward (considering I spend my days arguing that Edward is not a toned-down Edward with you people, I'm not sure how much I believe that). Regardless, what I'm getting at is we're assuming that Edythe here is Edward in a female socialization wig. And apparently still attracted to the same team but deeply in the closet.

Alright, we good with the backdrop here? Great.

What Does Alice Say?

She tells Edythe that Bella Swan is her very platonic soulmate. They're going to be best friends, closer than sisters, two halves of the same coin. In a, ah, very non-sexual manner.

Well, much like Edward, Edythe buys this hook, line, and sinker. Edythe rushes over to Bella's room in denial and lo and behold, she sees perfect friendship in Bella Swan.

Yes, friendship in how not-plain Bella is and how not-delicious she smells and how much Edythe admires the kind of woman that Bella is (no makeup, no interest in a boyfriend, very kind, very studious, etc.)

Edythe proceeds to be Edward except that neither she nor Bella realize they're dating and instead think this is just what best friends do.

The trouble is that Edythe won't think to marry Bella. There's no marriage to slow Bella down from turning. Edythe can try to bargain turning Bella herself over her head if, say, Bella goes to college as a human and lives a human life and...

But time is limited, and Edythe will quickly realize this.

As a result, I imagine Bella will one day be eaten, though she could be turned and Edythe would spend the rest of their time together thinking she's ruined Bella and destroyed her soul.

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[cto10121]

Twilight Clown Takes—Part 6

In which Instagram vies with YouTube on which platform has the most clownery. Featuring even more Bella hate dumb, the ~~~Mormon influences in Twilight, and a lot of hate for Jacob/Renesmee, including a fundamental misunderstanding of imprinting. We feast tonight, on nom nom

Bella Hate Dumb

Tell me you don’t know Twilight is a romance without telling me you don’t know Twilight is a romance.

Of course Bella’s life is going to revolve around her romance with Edward because Twilight is a romance! Her ambitions (which aren’t really many—just the vaguest idea of being a teacher or a librarian) aren’t important—hell, you could say the same thing about Edward! His entire existence constantly revolves around Bella and he constantly ditches his own family for her—even going off to commit suicide because of her.

And yet Edward, for all of his many whinging antis, is never accused of being a weak character. Creep or abusive, yes, but not weak. Wonder why? (The answer is misogyny).

In every one of the examples Clown OP mentioned, the humans either have 1) supernatural or learned martial skills or 2) the monsters they are fighting against have weaknesses that humans can easily exploit.

In the Twilight universe, vampires are literally the humans’ predators with no exploitable weaknesses. Vampires are not harmed by garlic, stakes, crucifixes, or the sun, nor do they have need to stick to hunting at night. No human can outrun or hold their own against a vampire. A young and healthy Carlisle couldn’t even handle a weakened vampire. The only creatures that can hold their own against vampires are werewolves, either the Children of the Night or the Quileute shapeshifters.

Bella is neither of them, and until very recently only learned vampires are real. Very few humans know for sure of their existance. So no, you can’t use the “it’s not an excuse!!1!!1” excuse to justify your misogyny, Clown OP. You can bitch about how the vampires are overpowered all you like (I’ll even agree!), but Bella is not weak for not being able to fight against them. She literally cannot.

Bella literally relates her life to classic literature in every book (Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, and Merchant of Venice), bitched about the thin selection of books at the Forks library, and nearly got raped looking for a good bookstore in Port Angeles (#relatable). She is a book girl, all right, and last time I checked, that is a hobby.

Also, Meyer hates Leah so much that she made her leave Sam behind and be free to become Jacob’s second-in-command and made Jacob learn to trust and respect her.

Because Bella’s insecurity is totally not a thing she overcomes and conquers by the end of the series and it’s not framed critically by the narrative. Because Twilight doesn’t totally show Bella’s parentification and how her parents just made her their parent. All these things just do not exist because to Clown OP only the first book and the dumb film series exist.

I literally read Life and Death not too long ago and there was essentially NO difference between Beau and Bella save in very minor details and (actually realistic) 2000s socialization. Beau’s “protectiveness” is largely emotional and ineffectual—it never actually serves a role in the story and Edythe dismisses it out of hand. He is not an active protagonist at all, or at least about as active as Bella is; he is still victimized in the latter half of the book and he even has to undergo a full vampire transformation.

Mormonism!!1!!1

Oh, God, where do I start?

“Humans who became divine—” And who lust for human blood to sustain them. There is already a creature who must drink blood to survive, so use it. Hell, Meyer didn’t even make up the whole “vampires are so beautiful/seductive/seemingly angelic” trope; that is your most basic vampire lore since Dracula.

“Bella’s aversion to drinking, smoking, coffee/tea—” Because a 17-year-old in the 2000s would totally smoke. Bella doesn’t go to parties, as she is de facto the parent of her family, so no, she wouldn’t drink and as the daughter of a police chief she would not have been raised to drink. As for coffee and tea, these are simply not mentioned—a far cry from being an aversion. Hell, no drink other than water and maybe milk is mentioned in the series. Does Bella even mention liquids???? She only seems to describe meals. As it is, Bella does ingest caffeine—she drinks Coke. Also, kind reminder that Bella has no religion.

“Rosalie/Leah feel incomplete not having babies—” Rosalie is a ‘30s girl who wanted to be a trad wife, which includes having children. Leah is worried that not having her period would make her unable to have children—not that she necessarily desires them, but it is weird and disconcerting not to have that option anymore. Moreover, Leah was getting ready to marry Sam, so she may have expected a life together with children. But it makes sense for their characters to be alike in this way, since they are mirror characters.

Meanwhile trad wife Esme is perfectly fine with adopting and caring for others and Alice doesn’t even mention that side of humanity at all. The Denali coven includes a trio of single sisters who loved having sex with human men so much that they decided to go vegetarian—they obviously are not obsessed with babies.

Jacob/Renesmee Hate Dumb

Apart from definitively resolving the love triangle, (thank God) Jacob’s imprinting on Renesmee stopped the Quileutes from attacking the Cullens after Bella gets bitten and changed—they have a law that prohibits harming a fellow werewolf’s imprintee. Moreover, it provides a much more firm alliance between the Cullens and Quileutes, thus resolving their rivalry/hate. But Clown OP doesn’t care about actual plot and theme resolutions, just the “ick” factor of the imprinting.

Meyer technically could have made the Cullens be forced to move after Bella’s becoming a vampire and have Renesmee and Jacob meet later. But I have a feeling that she didn’t expect to write more Twilight so she set up Jacob/Renesmee right away to dispel the love triangle once and for all. Given that Meyer got the idea of imprinting from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, that may have been her rationale.

That said, Jacob imprinting on Renesmee was a key plot point in Forever Dawn, the original sequel to Twilight, which did not have the love triangle—Jacob was just a platonic friend to Bella. Again, for plot and thematic resolutions, and perhaps for future set-ups.

Friendly reminder that movie canon is not canon and will never be because, ha, fuck the movies.

But! This does give me a chance to talk about imprinting in the books vs. the movies. Not only does Jacob never say anything of this sort to Edward in the books, but he doesn’t even have a reaction when he learns Renesmee will be fully grown in seven years. Edward confirms he doesn’t care and his feelings towards Renesmee are strictly platonic.

I read the official Twilight guide’s entry on imprinting—written very neutrally and very careful not to say anything about romance—and it basically confirms this:

If the human is young, the werewolf becomes the perfect platonic playmate and protector. As the human ages and changes, the werewolf instinctively switches roles to fulfill the human’s needs.

This implies that if the human doesn’t want to make the wolf a romantic partner, then the romance will simply not happen.

So what this shows me is that imprinting is not inherently a romantic phenomenon. The fact that Sam/Emily, Jared/Kim found each other in early adulthood and developed a romantic bond was because of the needs of Emily and Kim than Sam and Jared’s. Soulmates, after all, can be platonic.

So if Jacob/Renesmee ever become a thing, it would be because Renesmee herself would want it. Jacob would be incapable even to wish for anything more. In that sense, imprinting is the exact opposite of grooming: It is literally giving all the power to the imprintee.

The movies, quite frankly, fuck all this up. From portraying Jacob’s imprinting as a vision of Renesmee growing up (🤮 and not in the books) to his “joke” to Edward (stupid and 🤮 and not in the books) to Alice suddenly being able to have a vision Jacob and Renesmee together on the beach (in the books she cannot see werewolves or hybrids; this canon was broken by the movies for the fight scene with Meyer’s permission). So no, that is not how imprinting works.

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[threebooksoneplot]

Episode 1: “We Like Mike” (Show Notes)

Content warnings: 

Skinhead discussion: 38:13—41:38 (racism, xenophobia, nazism, anti-semitism, brief discussion of 2012 mass shooting 40:00—40:18)

Discussion of Edward wanting to murder his class: 54:10—end

[00:03:56] Damn Shannon I don’t recall burning YOUR crops poisoning your well razing your house to the ground and salting the earth

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[00:06:20] Read Lexie’s fic here!

[00:07:28] Lexie’s social media handles: AO3, fanfiction.net, tumblr

[00:08:06] Ashley Greene’s NFT. (Ashley Greene is the actor who played Alice in the Twilight movies, for anyone not in the know. Also note that we recorded this episode in April, shortly before the great NFT crash)

[00:11:16] Transcript of Shannon’s Life and Death summary:

Beaufort Swan “Beau” moves from Phoenix, Arizona to a small town called Forks, Washington to live with his father, Charlie, after his mother, Renee, gets remarried. He is decidedly not fucking happy about it and is loathe to be in Forks despite taking it upon himself to lie to absolutely anybody who asks him about it (ever the martyr.) While there, he struggles with the inadequate experience of what we know is called “being a goddamn teenager.” He crosses paths with a mysterious and not-cognito family, and when he quote-unquote “meets” his new Biology partner, he suddenly has more questions about Edythe and her strange but sudden hatred of him.

[00:13:30] The top Kristen Stewart’s Bella is wearing in the very first scene of Twilight:

[00:15:09] Wikipedia’s basic breakdown of economic info on the real-world Forks, WA

[00:18:59] Bella on her reading list in Twilight: 

It was fairly basic: Bronte, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Faulkner.

[00:20:36] The “canonical” heights for Jasper and Emmett, respectively: 6’3”/190.5 cm and 6’5”/195.6 cm

[00:30:10] Scroll to the bottom of this old blog post to see Stephenie Meyer’s original fancasts for Twilight characters (She had Jackson Rathbone as an Edward possibility?? oh my god)

[00:30:41] Some old, pre-movie era edits of Emily Browning as Bella:

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[00:31:02] Shannon is metaphorically on crack here. Gerard Way was actually who the fans wanted to play Edward, though Stephenie Meyer is an MCR fan and says their music inspired her when writing Jacob’s character (source.)

[00:31:21] Henry Cavill in gold contacts, looking about as unlike Edward Cullen as a white dude can look:

[00:34:18] Anyone else notice that Shannon says “Rosalie” super weird? She also says “pillow” weird. Ask her to say it sometime.

[00:39:36] The SPLC’s timeline on skinheads (cw: racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, injury, murder)

[00:42:27] A blog post on the Tiffany Problem

[00:48:44] Advice for Edward:

[00:52:13] Fanlore’s definition of “fanon”

[00:54:24] Fanlore’s article on AUs

[00:54:34] The filmmakers even shot this as a deleted scene! And you are not prepared for the sheer brilliance of this 2009 Youtube DVD rip set to an A+ song choice (sound ON and pay particular attention to the background actors)

[00:56:19] In this most iconic scene from the first Twilight movie, Bella walks into the forest with Edward (without being asked) to confront him about his vampirism

[00:56:28] Renesmee, for anyone not in the know.

[00:58:27] Alice walking into the Bio classroom after Edward’s finished snacking

[00:58:47] G references the Trolley Problem from philosophy/ethics

...and that’s all we’ve got for Episode 1 show notes! We hope you enjoyed this Happy Birthday Edward edition of 3B1P!

#show notes #episode 1 #twilight #twilight renaissance #midnight sun #life and death #the twilight saga #twilight revival #podcast #twilight podcast

[panlight]

I was thinking about your idea of making life and death only change just be about Edward and Bella changing sex and the rest be the same and, while I would see it work well it would also change the relationships between Edythe and her siblings. Take Rosalie for example, Edward says a reason why Carlisle changed her was in hope for edward to find someone like esme in her, which could also be a reason for Rosalie's inital dislike for them, does that change to a more platonic kind of thing now?

What about the Denali? Do they still try to hop on Edythe when they see her, thus confirming at least Tanya as Bi? Emmett would definetly be less boisterous in the first years too considering how he just got adopted in a rich family of 3 women + a former anglican preacher in 1935. I’m not saying this couldn’t work, is just quite a different change to what I’d expect Meyer was willing to do.It would definitely take some adjustments to various backstories to be sure.  I think Carlisle still would have ‘saved’ Rosalie, because a) he’s riding high on two successful changes (Edythe and Esme) and b) he probably thought it was God’s Will, finding this dying girl in the street–”God wants me to save her.” Everything else is just rationalizations, IMO, whether it be “maybe she and Edward will fall in love” or “maybe she and Edythe will become sisters.” Emmett joining a female-dominated coven would be pretty fun, too, actually, and a bi- or pansexual Tanya playfully pursuing Edythe has a lot of potential, but SM wouldn’t have gone there.  Maybe the pressure was on Edythe to join them in their pursuit of casual human lovers, which she would find as uncomfortable as Edward found Tanya’s advances.But I think just swapping E and B and leaving the rest the same would have brought SM’s main argument–that Twilight isn’t anti-feminist because Bella’s “helplessness” comes from being human, not female–into sharper focus. 

[fyrapartnersearch]

Twilight but Gay and also Dark (or Twilight inspired OCS)

Name:Fennel, you can call me Fenn! Used to go by Adra Age: Early 20’s Email: [email protected]. I only roleplay through email. Timezone: I live in almost the smack middle of the USA, so it’s CST I think! I reply at least once a day generally, but sometimes I get caught up in life and can’t reply for a few days to a week or so. :P

Hello!

This ad again, ROUND TWO! I made the same one back in 2018, but everything fizzled out rather quickly due to a lot of extremely personal stuff, and I put roleplaying on hold until I was in a better place and deleted my old LJ account. So here I am again! New and improved and itching to get into the swing of things once more!

If I seem familiar (I used to go by Adra) and we had something lined up, shoot me another message if you’re interested in picking things up again. Or if you emailed me and I never managed to respond, give it a try once more.

Once again, disclaimer: Twilight like, objectively sucks. Let’s be honest. And yet here I still am! I adore it in all its awful, awful glory. Maybe its because I loved it so when I was twelve, who knows. I’m very critical of Twilight and the stuff Meyer wrote into its lore, so you can expect heavy editing on that front. Basics of what I’m looking into: no anti-Native racism, it’s gay, everyone’s older, there’s freaky eerie supernatural mysteries going on in the rainy town of Forks, Washington! We’re giving this thing a complete overhaul, baby. Stick along for the ride if you want!

SUPER long ad, sorry! Just wanna clear out my main ideas first.

In regards to werewolves, we completely nix all of the anti-Native racism she wrote into the lore. Keep in mind that this is essentially a total plot overhaul since so much of it is tied to the original story. The original members of the Pack can still be characters, but they’re just regular humans and allies. ZERO messing with the Quiluete tribe and Native cultures in general. No imprinting. I wanna function more from a standpoint of “real” werewolves mentioned in the series with a couple tweaks: just regular people who turn into werewolves via being bitten and transform under the full moon, but beyond that DEFINITELY not having an entire pack of werewolves be Native or have them all be POC in general with the racist connotations to be made there. Werewolves in general are pretty rare, we stick with the Volturi having hunted them nearly to the point of extinction. This is a plot point later on.

In regards to the Cullens, I’m not into Jasper, sorry. Meyer can try to get me to care about a Confederate soldier all she wants, but that’s not gonna happen. He’s not part of the Cullen coven. Another note: the Cullens aren’t the Cullens! Not all of them, at least. They don’t use being a family as a cover story which is both just really inconvenient in general as a cover and I’m with Jessica on this: it’s weird that they’re all together even if they aren’t related when they’re pretending to be adopted siblings. We also nix vampirism making you white (which, WHAT?? Stephenie. Stephenie.) There are vampires of color! I’m also open to mixing up the Cullens and the other (white) characters in general so they don’t all have to be white, too. Basically just a total overhaul of the racist worldbuilding she put into the series. We’re here to have some fun!

With all that out of the way, you know how Meyer gave Twilight a twist in Life and Death by flipping characters around? We mix and match with that. We go with Beau/Edward or Bella/Edythe instead of Bella/Edward or Beau/Edythe. Or: Beau/Jacob or Bella/Julie, but no love triangles. Here’s what I’ve been thinking for the story, it’s a far cry of what we were shown in the series, so bear with me! I really love the setting of Twilight and wanna run with that. This’ll be more intensive than the original, so hopefully you’re open to that too. I want Beau/Bella and Edward/Edythe to have more of a personality.

All the characters are older, I’m thinking the main characters are mid-20’s or so instead of late teens. For ease I’ll use Beau and Edward as an example but Bella/Edythe can work in place. Beau is an aspiring journalist and returns to Forks to either A) follow a string of mysterious and gruesome murders - hoping both that this will be the big break he’s has been waiting for, and that the town will be more receptive to a press figure if said figure is the kid of long since retired police chief, or B) take care of Charlie, who suffered an injury that caused him to retire from his job and Beau’s nosiness gets him involved with the Forks newspaper joint. Maybe both. Shacks up with Charlie, works on the story, follows some creepy and unnerving leads. Works with the Forks newspaper (possibly with Angela and Eric?), all of the murders are caused by James/Victoria/Laurent.*

Carlisle and Esme are a married couple. Edward is their nephew they took in. Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice are all townspeople but aren’t under the cover story of being a Cullen. We follow some loose storybeats from the OG story, with Beau being immune to Edward’s mind reading powers AND Alice’s future sight (it never made sense to me why Alice could see Bella’s future when Bella had a shield thing going on?), finds Beau’s blood particularly enticing, etc. The Cullens are definitely mysterious and we dig into vampires being like, actually kinda freaky. Beau feels like something’s going on with them but isn’t sure what. Maybe the Cullens ARE involved in some of the stuff and we twist a little bit away from the vampire-vegetarian stuff? Or just keep it the same and they’re similarly involved because the hunting activity has made stuff difficult for them.

Beau crosses a lotta paths with Edward given the nature of his job and Edward/the Cullens all end up somehow or another coming up as he digs into the story. Branches out into either Beau/Jacob, with the Cullens ACTUALLY being involved in some of the murders/disappearances and he and Jake team up to get to the bottom of things. Maybe become a vampire-hunting duo. OR Beau/Edward, where the Cullens are closely involved in the disappearances but aren’t actual killers and he and the coven work together to try and get these wayward vamps out of town. Kill James, Victoria becomes the next villain for a later conflict.

*Laurent becomes a good guy/ally! Doesn’t try to kill Beau/Bella, he sticks to being a cool and interesting dude. Chills with the Cullens sometimes. I feel like he’d be fun lol.

I was thinking there’d be some werewolfism eventually, like maybe Jessica is an actual werewolf (maybe Jake/Jules gets bit too?) and there’s some whole other stuff, but that’s all shelved for a continues story like how Twilight moves into New Moon and the other stuff! Basically a fun rewrite of Twilight where we get into supernatural mysteries and all. :D We can write a whole new storyline.

OR since it’s so heavily divorced from the main series, we just use OCs. Lol.

Anyway, I write in third person in either present or past tense. Don’t have a measurement for my length, I can go from like…four paragraphs to novella. I don’t like writing less than three though. Partners have to be 18+! I won’t write basic immoral stuff (non/dubcon, pedo, incest), general weird fetishes (feet, toilet, etc), mpreg, A/B/O, stuff like that.

I think that about covers everything. Let me know if you’d like to get into this entire Twilight revamp! Pun intended.

#multiple paragraph #long term #email #submission

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

ignoring if Edward and Edythe would both even make it this far, would fight each other over Bella etc: if Bella meets them both does she fall for both of them? Does she tell herself she only loves Edward and it's totally normal to stare at Edythe longingly?

She falls for Edward.

Bella may be bisexual, but she's also oblivious and attractive women intimidate the shit out of her. Bella has no idea that smelling your best friends and embracing them for a very long time is not a platonic thing people do. And Bella, while she checks Rosalie out, also never gets over the fact that Rosalie is beautiful.

Bella finds Edward one of the most attractive Cullens at a glance (though Rosalie originally ranks higher/is equal for Bella), Edythe is going to be the same. That means Bella's got not just hot Rosalie to contend with but hot Edythe, who is single.

She'd view Edythe as a threat. Doesn't matter if the pair are twins/brother and sister, Bella's not going to view this rationally and even being compared to Edward's beautiful, intelligent, sophisticated, artistic sister is going to make her feel like a pile of dirt.

This choosing one over the other probably gets Bella eaten by a slighted Edythe.

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[threebooksoneplot]

Episode 9: "Happy Anniversary, Alice and Jasper!" (Show Notes)

listen along here

content warnings:

discussions of sexual assault: 01:12:57—1:14:13, 1:19:20—1:22:25

discussions of anti-native racism, genocide mention: 1:03:08—01:04:36

discussion of involuntary institutionalization: 01:04:37—01:05:48

[00:01:05] Some info on the Fanauthor Workshop and its official tumblr

[00:05:54] The essay on RPF as a tool for surviving hockey fandom

[00:08:43] Two articles, actually: "The NHL's Greatest Bromance Has Officially Ended" and "The Ballad of Richie and Carts"

[00:09:50] Hot Topic's rereleased Twilight shirts

[00:13:59] Shannon’s Life and Death summary:

Edythe puts the pedal to the metal in today’s audition for the fast and furious franchise and Beau simply can not keep his hands to himself! She’s a vampire, folks! Questions are being asked and answers are something that neither of them want to give. And the more annoyed Edythe gets the more Beau is like ‘oh yeah, sign me up for a lifetime of this abuse, please.’ I’d say “take a drink every time Edythe and Beau were objectively more likable, enjoyable, and interesting to read,” but then I’d die because baby, it’s just a straight up FACT. But no matter what, rest assured that while being hangry is for men and being Upset is for women, saying “holy crow” is for mean loner kids from Arizona apparently.

[00:15:55] If you noticed G's mic went out and back in, no you didn't (listen I had to move rooms like three times during this recording due to loud construction)

[00:17:14] Once again, the iconic movie scene, which takes place in the forest rather than Edward's car

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[00:32:14] The ravioli scene, as depicted in the movie:

pictured: Edward and Bella at like 5:30 PM

[01:24:21] This energy

[01:30:06] Once again, our beloved "since I'm going to Hell" scene

[01:31:36] You can find Kitebird on Tumblr and AO3!!

#show notes #episode 9 #twilight podcast #twilight #twilight renaissance #twilight revival #midnight sun #life and death #podcast #twilight saga

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

I would have sworn you already answered that, but I didn't find something about it so: do you think that Bella/Edythe would work? Would they be a healthier couple than Bella/Edward? Would they admit they're dating or would Edythe also pretend they're the closest of friends like Edward would with Beauford?

Who is Edythe Anyway?

I've been told Edythe is less Edward than Edward was but having not read "Life and Death" I really can't make that assumption/can't go off of characters I don't know.

So, like Beauford, we'll make a character Edith, who is Edward in a wig.

Edith is very tall, has bronze/red hair, probably still on the leaner/willowy side of things, and she has all of Edward's Edwardness. I'd get into specifically what that is, but that's five posts at least that have yet to be written on just what the fuck is up with Edward.

So, I think I'll leave exactly what that means up to your imagination.

Do I Think Bella/Edith Would Work?

Yes and no.

Depends what you mean by 'work' and for how long we're setting that time limit.

The first half of Twilight could certainly happen. Edith smells the smell and her world is never the same. At first, she's enraged that this stupid, plain, human is ruining her life but then becomes fascinated. Bella looking the ideal feminine part is just an added bonus.

Edith takes much the same actions as in canon. She stays away, but not really, starts sneaking into Bella's room at night to protect her from spiders, saves her in Port Angeles, and makes her fascination well known.

As in canon, Bella is very flattered that this beautiful, amazing, person is interested in her.

Now, I believe Bella is bisexual but Bella also has the self awareness of a rock. Bella both has no idea she's gay or that Edith is gay for her. This works out because if Edith is Edward, she has the same hangups with her own sexuality and won't be admitting she's gay either.

So they go down the very close 'platonic' friend route, Edith says they're like sisters!

Bella could survive this all the way through most of canon. The trouble comes in Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Bella asks the family to vote on her being turned, Bella wins, she will be turned (Edith goes to smash a TV). In this world, Edith has no leverage for marriage, and nothing really to delay Bella's transformation.

Bella will turn after graduation, in which case either Edith eats her before it can happen, mercy kills her afterwards, or their relationship is completely destroyed.

So I give them a solid year and a half of a 'working' relationship.

Would They Be a Healthier Couple?

No.

The problem with Bella/Edward was not that Edward was a man, it was that he was Patrick Bateman. I see no reason that Bella/Edith will not have exactly the same problems.

Might manifest differently due to Edith having been raised a woman but you're still going to see the gaslighting, the manipulation, the complete disregard of boundaries, the violence, the bloodlust, all those little things that make Edward a great thriller villain.

None of that changed just because Edward is now Edith.

Would They At Least Acknowledge They're Dating?

No, covered above.

Bella has the gaydar and self-awareness of a rock. She doesn't realize she herself is bisexual let alone realize anyone else around her could possibly be gay. Also never having friends or siblings before, Edith saying, "you're like a sister to me", would just make her shrug and go, "Okay!"

As for Edith, she would never, ever, admit what's actually going on anymore than Edward ever would.

#twilight #twilight meta #twilight headcanon #twilight renaissance #edith cullen #edythe cullen #bella swan #anti edith cullen #bella/edythe #anti bella/edythe #bella/edith #anti bella/edith #meta #headcanon #opinion #twilight shipping #shipping