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[not]Edward: Do you enjoy this? Do you enjoy causing me pain?

Miss “I wish someone had been there to vote no for me” who was changed to stop her from dying should have felt some type of way for not giving Emmett what she herself wanted. And it could have been great characterization!

On the one hand she’s mad at Carlisle for what he did but at the same time when put in the same position she knows she did the exact same thing. And she’d be so upset with herself that she allowed emotion to get to her in that moment when she prides herself on being rational.

Maybe she even pushes to keep Bella human to in a way repay the debt of making Emmett a vampire. It’s just crazy that it’s part of the plot that she saved Emmett and asked Carlisle to change him while also saying she wished she had died rather than be turned into a vampire and the two just never meaningfully connect in canon? Edward should have looked at Rosalie and Emmett and seen himself and Bella, seen Emmett blissfully fine with everything while Rosalie is never able to fully let go of the guilt both that she turned him but also that part of her thinks she should have let the man she loves die

I feel like it’s just sort of hand waved with “eh Emmett likes being a vampire so it all worked out” but I say Rosalie should have had some deep and lasting conflict over this. Should have told Edward that she understands the impulse to change someone you have feelings for but that you will then spend eternity knowing that every life they take and every moment of hurt they have is because you did this to them

- Part 2

“Is it wrong to like a token of me that you show everyone?”

“This isn’t the token I’d like to carry around.” His hands were moving the blankets from around her until one settled under her knees, the other at the small of her back. He slowly lifted her as Bella tried to argue.

the cullens through time: rosalie