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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Ok, soo I know this could never happen in canon for myriad reasons (singers not being that common, the Volturi existing, Edward only being into Bella due to some perfect storm of conditions...)

But let's say Edward meets a human, falls in love, desires to keep that human a non-vampire, and gets his way so eventually that human dies of old age. How many times could Edward repeat this process before he goes mad? What would Bella think meeting an Edward who's had 1? 2? deceased human flames.

0.

See, he tried this once with Bella, and his plan was to kill himself when she died. So, presumably, upon the death of this human, Edward would show up in Volterra and do what he did in New Moon.

Now, if he did survive and just got more depressed, Bella would find him to be very tragic and that much more romantic as he keeps having these doomed loves of which she is the latest and the greatest. Perhaps she's their reincarnation! Because it's couched in this tragic romance, and they're all safely dead, they're not really a threat to Bella and I don't imagine would register as romantic rivals. Especially not when Edward's all in with her. Tanya and Rosalie are far more pressing, far more real threats.

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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

If blood miraculously stopped being nutritious worldwide and all vampires were doomed to starve, how much damage are they doing to the world in desperation before they finally die off? And what are the Cullens / Volturi doing?

Is it still delicious?

I'll go ahead and assume yes because you didn't specify.

Most of the Vampire World

No one realizes they're starving. Blood tastes the same but everyone's eyes keep darkening and their control is getting worse as they're beginning to starve.

At first, and this will be everyone, all the vampires are going to increase eating in the hopes that this will just fix the problem. And this is going to go on a while as panic sets in and they're continuing to starve.

At first, people probably think it's a personal/coven health problem, some kind of plague and disease, and only later do they get talking and realize that no this is everyone.

I think there's going to be a lot of vampires who never realize that eating blood isn't helping/will never help again/they're just killing people for no reason and they're all going to die anyway.

... I actually think that will pretty much be every vampire as it's a really weird thing to conclude and they're not given much time to conclude it in.

The Volturi, as it is, will be so busy trying to contain this while also trying not to starve themselves that they won't have time to think anything of it. I imagine they believe that someone has done to this to them on purpose and they'll soon be under attack.

As it is, I imagine the Romanians/other interested parties will quickly strike as the Volturi is weakened and there's going to be a lot of vampire warfare.

Those Animal Eaters

Well.

These guys have even more of a problem (or less of one).

First, if the Volturi conclude, post Breaking Dawn, that this is enemy action then the Cullens (and Denali as well I imagine) are probably getting a visit and probably getting murdered in the chaos to get a) information on what gifted vampire friend they've made and b) potentially deal with the problem.

But let's say these guys are left alone.

Well, they have the same problem of slowly starving and realizing the animals aren't cutting it and something's seriously wrong. Depending when this is, I imagine Edward blames Aro, as he's forcing them off the diet and to lose face.

I imagine the Cullens go to the wilderness, much to the despair of all members, and probably after one of them has accidentally eaten someone out of starvation (which didn't help things somehow and oh boy this isn't good). Carlisle brings up that this may be a consequence of the animal diet and that their bodies are now failing to process any blood correctly.

Their bodies are shutting down and they are probably going to die horrific and painful deaths. Anyone who wants an honorable suicide, now is the time.

The Denali... I'll believe in them today and say they also retreat to the wilderness. They switched to the diet because they despaired at eating their lovers and to do so involuntarily now would be horrifying to them. They'll be very sad but they'd rather starve in the woods, as Tanya once did, than eat them all again accidentally.

They all have a miserable time until they die.

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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

What if you gave Edward from Twilight the Auryn and a responsibility to reimagine Fantastica, because I feel like the end results would be hilarious. And also do you think any of his family is coming to rescue him when he's lost all concept of who he is?

I mean, that's the thing though, Bastian's father in the real world was becoming increasingly worried his son was missing for several hours but a) didn't know his son was in a book b) probably couldn't enter the book if he tried.

Going to Fantasia is a solitary journey that's just you and your imagination, I was never given the impression that you could go after anyone or that someone could travel with you. The only people that can help you are yourself and the friends you make along the way during the journey (e.g. Atreyu).

As for Edward, we'll have to back up a bit. We know the Neverending Story changes per whoever is reading it, as it's intended to draw you in and sus out who can add to the world and save them from a lack of existence.

In Bastian's case, it was the tale of a boy he would always have wanted to be, Atreyu, who is kind, brave, a heroic warrior, who undergoes many trials as expected in a fantasy novel. It's the kind of story that Bastian not only loves to read and escape in, but wants to be himself (hence, when he goes to Fantasia himself, he immediately starts transforming himself into someone much closer to Atreyu: handsome and skinny, brave, heroic, a warrior, wise and charming).

What I'm getting at is that this has to be a book that engrosses Edward so that by the time he meets the Childlike Empress, he's invested.

I imagine it's the story of fantasy Bella Swan. (We'll place Edward before he actually meets Bella Swan).

The Neverending Story for Edward opens up on a beautiful young woman in a poor provincial town who believes she's very unordinary, plain, and isn't like the other girls. She's kind to others to a fault, sacrificing her own needs and wants for the sake of others, and is overlooked by everyone.

One day, her father falls ill and so she goes on a journey to seek the Childlike Empress who is the only person left who may be able to save him. When she reaches the Ivory Tower, Bella is devastated to hear that the Childlike Empress is ill herself and seeing no one. She is told that there is a person that Bella must find who can save both the Childlike Empress and then her father. Bella goes on a perilous journey to find said person, nearly losing hope several times along the way and growing as a person as she faces dangers she never imagined.

In despair, Bella returns to meet the Childlike Empress in defeat, noting she found no such person, "oh but you have" the Childlike Empress says and then Edward gets the truly surreal experience of being talked to by a book.

Like Bastian, it won't shut up until he gives the Childlike Empress a new name, which he eventually does, at which point he finds himself in Fantasia.

There, similar to Bastian, some of his first efforts are to change himself. He becomes human again, gallant, handsome, wise, a prince in every aspect, everything that is worthy of Bella in the novel (losing bits and pieces of himself along the way of course). To his dismay and anger, Bella doesn't love him, seeing that he's losing himself constantly and that what's left of him is a caricature of a man. Edward, too, forgets why he ever thought he loved Bella or the idea of this woman, and gets high on a power trip.

"I will declare myself emperor!" Edward says and... I imagine Bella does try to stop him but I'm not sure raising an army as Atreyu did is in her wheelhouse.

Edward might just kill her to obtain his goal at which point he damns himself and becomes one of Fantasia's many emperors.

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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

If you had to rename the twilight series today, and weren't allowed to use time of day symbolism, what would you call each book?

If you think this is a worthy ask, I'm also curious what vinelle would name them without seeing your response or consulting you! Do you both come up with similar titles or wildly different ones? Kinda like one of those twin studies but for fandom meta dopplegangers.

Oh, sweet Jesus, you don't understand, I'm so bad at titles.

I also would never write these books, so I'm not really the one to ask. But if I did--you want to give an idea of what they're about and draw in consumer interest.

The original titles were great in that in that "oh, Twilight, wow, that sounds so intriguing" turns out the book has nothing to do with twilight or a twilight age but that's okay.

Off the top of my head:

A Strange Encounter

The Aftermath

Recapturing Youth

The End and After

Alright @therealvinelle, you're up.

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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Studio Ghibli has adapted a few famous books (Earthsea, Howl's Moving Castle, The Borrowers), but they change bits to enhance the whimsy and carry a specific emotional throughline... and Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä show the studio has a broad tonal range...

So, what if they did an adaptation of the Twilight series as a single film? Like, what scene as written has the biggest Ghibli vibes, what gets cut down to make the film more coherent, and how do they change the aesthetics of the supernatural to be more... Ghibli?

On Ghibli and Adaptations

"change bits"

That's a bold statement.

I haven't read Earthsea, but both Howl's Moving Castle and The Borrowers are extremely loose adaptations of their source material.

Howl's Moving Castle, as an example, completely changes the main character personalities (Sophie and Howl are very toned down/more palatable), drops an entire subplot involving Sophie's sisters, adds in an entire war/a major theme of environmentalism, ages down one of the characters significantly, and basically only shares the castle with the original book.

(I say this loving the film and actually preferring it to the book, but it needs to be said)

Borrowers... has Brorrowers, and that's about as far as that goes as well.

Twilight as Adapted by Ghibli

Depends on which Ghibli director we're going for, obviously, but we'll just stick with Miyazaki as I'm most familiar with his work.

We're looking at a film that has the name Twilight but has characters with the same names and that's about it.

There's a lot more meadow and nature scenes, Edward probably actually lives in the woods, environmentalism becomes a major theme of the film as vampires like Edward bemoan what humans have done to the world and how soon this beautiful landscape will be gone.

The vampires themselves are likely far more inhuman, they have the features of people, but move completely differently and look markedly different from humans. I imagine they act very different as well, more like spirits, which means Edward sure as hell isn't going to high school.

There's a climactic adventurous confrontation as something happens with Bella. She gets kidnapped by the Volturi, ends up trapped in the vampire part of the forest, and very likely conflict between humans and vampires.

The wolves likely play a more neutural third party to all of this and it's clear that no one's really "the bad guy" in this. Instead, all parties have their own reasons for doing things that make them all, in their own way, short sighted in a way only Bella can see as an outsider.

Meyer is probably mildly flummoxed/upset as it's existence as it's cool her work is an anime film but it's very clearly not her story. At all. And it's not her Bella and Edward (we're talking about a woman who felt strongly enough to give us Midnight Sun because the fans were getting Edward wrong).

But a Scene?

They probably keep the meadow but--

That would honestly be it.

I'm not joking, it'd be completely different.

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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Dumbledore dies of old age (and hard living) after book 2. How likely is anyone to figure out horcruxes?

Well, at this point, he's told Snape his theory. So, in theory, Snape knows and is very uncomfortable about it.

Otherwise, no one.

Horcruxes are noted as fairly obscure magic to begin with, it seems obvious because we get a canon reveal about them, but otherwise no one was thinking of them/knew that much about them.

Plus, it's been over ten years, any sane person thinks Tom Riddle is dead dead dead. If he wasn't dead, why would he take ten years to return? Only Albus Dumbledore thinks that death couldn't possibly stop Voldemort.

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[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

So ya know how ABO stuff exists? Really makes you think.

Or at least, scrolling past it made me think: lets's switch up twilights own weird biologically enforced rules of romance! What if Vampires were the ones who imprinted and Werewolves had Mates and Singers?

(Could be a good moment for Torgrim to make some vampires imprint and throw someoone under the Werewolf-Singer bus, or a good time for a rant about how this does/doesn't breaks the plot entirely. Wherever you take this I'm here for it.)

... This is a write your own fic ask.

Remember that this is a blog where I don't think vampire mates exists, I think singers are just a "I want to devour you" phenomenon with no sexual or romantic meaning behind it, and imprinting is... yes.

You'll be much happier figuring this out on your own.

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