Is She Even Italian?

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

So you’d think that we’d lose any air of mystery in Midnight Sun since we’re in the vampire’s head, right? WRONG. We’re in the vampire’s head and there’s no question as to what Bella is, but ☝️ Edward is in a position that’s unique even to vampires: thanks to his telepathy, he’s out of practice in figuring out who someone is. The mundane concept of getting to know someone you just met has been made 5,000x more complicated by Edward’s nature.

Furthermore, Edward pays much more attention to the changes he goes through than Bella ever does when she’s the narrator. Bella is who she is, which includes being a human teenager. Change is to be expected. The fantastical circumstances of the story push her traits to the extreme, but she doesn’t really surprise/question herself too much. But Edward? Bella rocks his world so hard he now has to figure out Bella’s character AND deal with some serious shifts in his outlook after almost a century of being stagnant.

…like that is not the cover story of every gay couple in the 1910s???

I saw this comment on a YouTube Short today and YES EXACTLY

First of all, I’m sorry but if I had a dream that I wanted as badly as Bella wanted hers, had it so close, and had it ripped away so suddenly (being told it’s my fault) I too would have fallen into a severe depression. That sucks. Having this otherworldly experience, having the reasonable belief you could live a fantasy for eternity, only to be unceremoniously dumped back into the real world? That sucks!!!!!! Didn’t Doctor Who do a whole thing about post-adventure depression in companions?

Also, much more importantly: depression doesn’t need to be justified. It’s not always reasonable. Sometimes depression just happens for reasons that make little to no sense.

Can we also think about how Bella had zero support system?

She couldn’t go to a therapist, or her parents, or the high school kids at Forks because she would never be able to be honest about the supernatural world.

In addition to that, Bella went through some very traumatic stuff in a matter of months (upended her life to live with her estranged father, almost got hit by a van, almost got sexually assaulted in Port Angeles, was told by her love interest he was this close to killing her and everyone around her in that Biology class, got hunted by some vampire nomad and had to break her father’s heart to keep him safe, almost got killed by her would be brother in law because of a paper cut).

This is my childhood right here🥹🎃🖤