twilight is art

The hill I will die on is that "Renesmee" is wildly out of character for Bella Swan to have come up with. This just screams "author choice" and not "character choice." Bella Swan was not that creative or whimsical. She was 'born 35 and getting more middle aged every year.' Her favorite color was brown. She read the same books over and over. And given her attitude toward her fellow high school students, she absolutely would have been one of those people who looked down on teen/young moms giving their kids weird/trendy names. Search your feelings; you know this to be true.

And the whole "she's the most unique being in the world she needs a unique name" doesn't even work because a boy was going to be "E.J." There is nothing supernatural or whimsical or otherworldly about E. J. Cullen.

"Edward Jacob" and/or "Edward Jr," on the other hand are COMPETELY in character for Bella to pick. Almost to the point of parody. I mean if BD didn't exist and someone asked me over at KUWTC what Bella would name a son, I would have had her answer "Edward Jacob," it's so obviously what she would choose. I'm not saying it's a GOOD choice or that it's not super insensitive to both people she's 'honoring' with the name, but it's 100% in character. I believe the Bella I had been reading about for 3 and a half books would name her son that; I don't believe that Bella would name her daughter 'Renesmee' though. Apparently combining family names into a new name is not uncommon in Mormon culture (and Stephenie herself is StephEnie and not StephAnie because her dad's name is Stephen), but Bella the character is not Mormon, so it doesn't make sense as a *character* choice.

Given that she was going to name a son Edward Jacob/Junior, I still think "Elizabeth" after Edward's mother and literary heroines like Elizabeth Bennet would be perfectly in character. Beyond that, Elizabeth is a timeless name that is not going to stand out. It fits in nicely with Edward and Alice. Half the Cullens already have E names anyway so it stays on trend (Edward, Esme, Emmett, Elizabeth). And "Isabella" and "Elizabeth" come from the same root, so if the boy is named after Edward and Edward's father, then a girl is named after Bella and Edward's mother. It's consistent. It's "mature." It's boring. It's in character.

I also think "Rose" would be a nice nod to Rosalie's help during the pregnancy (even though Bella and Rose were both kind of using each other there). "Elizabeth Rose" is pretty. It's old fashioned. It sounds like it could come out of an Austen novel. And there are so many nicknames with Elizabeth (Liz, Lizzy, Eliza, Betsy, Ella, Beth) that you could still get some "You gave her WHAT nickname?" freakout.

"BESSIE?! YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER A COW?!"

"LIZARD?! YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHER AFTER A REPTILE?!"

what’s more unsettling - a wolf crying “a tear the size of a baseball” or edward calling jacob “son” ??

Jasper: Die.