i was gonna save this post as a draft for when my fic is closer to done but fuck it!

leah is a mix of a young q’orianka kilcher and a young julia jones in black cloud (2004). she’s baby! shes 5’10 and plays basketball btw. in her spare time she likes going to the beach and piercing her own ears at home

because I can’t picture chaske spencer looking a day under 27 I’ve decided to cast eddie spears as sam — specifically eddie spears in black cloud (2004), but younger 💖 he can sing and likes watching tv w his mom

seth is like ELEVEN in the beginning of the fic so ofc, he’s baby. still played by booboo stewart ✨ seth enjoys playing uno, reading books, and neglecting his math homework to play uno and read books

sue is a bad bitch and gave birth to bad bitch jr. (leah) so obviously I had to cast irene bedard 💕 she enjoys santana, fleetwood mac, and the occasional margarita

i loved graham greene as harry so he can stay. he throws DOWN on some fish fry 😤

now onto leah’s homegirls!

rachel and rebecca are both played by a young tanaya beatty but they have very distinct styles and vibes.

this is rebecca. she likes dancing and surfer boys, and she thinks nelly invented music when he released “hot in herre.” she’s also fully convinced that sean paul wrote “get busy” about her. (keep in mind this fic begins in 2002 lmao)

this is rachel. she’s good at math and loves a comfy flannel. surprisingly, she’s good at rolling blunts.

kawennáhere devery jacobs plays emily (imagine her w darker hair and choppy bangs). she’s good at baking and arts and crafts. she also has a track record of dating shitty boys (pre-imprinting 😐)

amber midthunder plays kim. kimmie enjoys astrology, playing basketball with leah, and pining after jared lmao

now for everyone else...

krys hyatt (aka the og embry from the first twilight movie) plays jacob. y’all already know what he’s up to.

the rest of the wolf pack boys are portrayed by the same actors as of new moon, but much younger and they don’t cut their hair. quil wears glasses. I also have a couple OCs but I haven’t decided who plays them yet. everyone else (billy, old quil, charlie, bella, etc.) is the same as their movie portrayals.

jacob: ah! like therapy?

bella: no, like a guy! like a boyfriend!!

jacob:

renesmee: pffsdjdjpfpfpkfkfdjllplldll

seth: wow really? that sounds so fun :O

renesmee: ploppfdoldlssjsh

seth: whatttt that’s so cool

renesmee: plpldjdjdjpldhsjsksudej **waves arms**

The question I keep coming back to is: what even was the POINT of the human kids?! From like, a writer's standpoint.

Because originally the story went from Twilight to Forever/Breaking Dawn like right away. They didn't matter. They weren't relevant to the plot at all.

They were basically set dressing; they existed to populate a high school that SM had pretty much no interest in actually writing about. You could take any of them out and it would not affect the trajectory of Bella's story at all. If she had showed up in Forks and was snubbed by everyone and sat by herself at lunch every day until she started sitting with the Cullens, the story would . . . not be any different, really. They only existed to fuss over Bella, to want to be her friend, to invite her to school dances, to make her the center of attention (which she didn't even want??).

The only thing they actually mattered for was Jessica giving her the Cullen gossip in the first book. That's pretty much it. None of the rest of it mattered. Mike's crush didn't matter. Tyler thinking he was taking her to prom didn't matter. Angela's friendship didn't matter (does Bella think of Angela even once after the wedding?). I guess the movie night with Jess in Port Angeles sort of mattered but Jess herself didn't matter--Bella could have been in Port Angeles with anyone (or by herself) for any reason and that could still have played out.

It's just so unsatisfying. We see these characters for three books/movies and then there's just . . . no closure for them, because they never mattered at all.

Which is why I think it would have been way better if Mike had been the "Riley" in Eclipse. Imagine the angst. Imagine how much more fraught it would have been to watch Edward and Seth kill this vampire who used to be her sweet, clueless friend Mike but who had been warped by Victoria. And then Mike would have MATTERED TO THE STORY. The time spent in high school with him would have been relevant! We'd feel bad about what happened to him! Riley?! We didn't even MEET Riley in the books until his death scene. We weren't invested at him at all. Only the Guide/the Bree Tanner book changed that. But in Eclipse? Why should we care what happens to this guy? But if it had been Mike who went missing, Mike who leads the newborns. . .

Maybe the hikers Bella almost kills in BD are Jessica and Angela. Maybe that would have resulted in some self-reflection for Bella and maybe I would buy her instant control if she had been so horrified by the realization she was about to kill two of her friends until Edward distracted her that THAT is what inspires her to resist. It just doesn't make sense to me that someone who is all "whee vampirism is great!" would have an easy time resisting vampire urges. The most successful vegetarians are Carlisle and Rosalie, who hated what they are and resisted it on every level. Carlisle tried to starve himself, he wasn't skipping around the woods thrilled with his new powers. Likewise Rosalie resented what she was and clung to her human memories, name, identity. If Bella had this experience of almost (okay, if I'm being honest I would prefer her actually killing someone, but we're sticking to canon-compliance here for a moment) killing two of her high school friends, that might have been the wake-up call she needed to take vampirism as at best a mixed blessing and not "a fairy tale!"

I just don't understand why she invented all these high school friends and then never DID anything with them. Why make up a new character (Riley) when Mike or Eric or Ben or Tyler were right there? Why make up Bree when it could have been Jess or Angela or even Lauren or any one of the human kids' little sisters?

Oooh and let's not forget her pregnancy when she was in a room with 7 vampires who somehow didn't see that she was cold and he had to say "somebody get her a blanket"

No matter how many gifts Edward got for Bella, no matter how much he studied her this just shows that when there's a vibe there's a vibe.

@phil-dwyer-stan-account says rosalie is a taurus and seth is an ENFP and they aren’t my favorites but I do relate to them both in different ways!!