oso gonplei nou ste odon

Like. The set-up is simple enough. New girl at school gets sat next to mysterious handsome loner guy in class. You think they’re gonna flirt? WRONG

You’ve heard of enemies to lovers? Now get ready for “no one has ever wanted to kill anyone as badly as I want to kill you right now, and it’s not even personal” to lovers

and Bella doesn’t even know for WEEKS that she barely survived their first meeting! she just thought she maybe smelled bad? :(

Anyway, Jacob stayed and would have fought because he felt so strongly about Bella that he realized she deserved happiness and she was happy, and she should be, but he avoided her after the Cullen left because he desired to also move on (as Bella did in NM)... and he lived and he was happy enough. He dated, he pursued hobbies, he enjoyed life enough... but not quite enough, something was missing and he felt he should wait. So he waited. Until that call that brought back memories, and with them, the realization that he had overcome those feelings for that girl he met when he was just a kid, because a small part of him, really small, feared that she was the reason he couldn't feel whole. She wasn't.

The problem isn’t that Jacob was angry, or that he wanted to kill Renesmee. A good chunk of Bella’s loved ones had been trying to convince Bella to Abort That Thang from the start. And I think we have all been angry at something, even wanted to destroy something despite reason (I’m not saying abortion would have been unreasonable; this is referring to killing the baby after it’s born. Refer to OP for reasons why doing so would have drawbacks). I think it’s actually quite reasonable that he was angry about that baby. The pregnancy happened so fast, too. Of course there’s emotional whiplash. Even Edward had admitted not too long ago that he’d have trouble looking at the thing if Bella completely died in childbirth.

My big Issue is that smeyer was on track with this conflict! Jacob didn’t agree with Bella’s choice, but he took extreme measures to protect her anyway. Why gloss right over this juicy conflict just to pull the rug out by having Jacob imprint on the baby? Once he does, his motivations for breaking from the pack and defending the Cullens become saccharine: save the baby that he’s suddenly magically devoted to (oh and also, the complicated feelings he had about defending Bella before the birth are retconned in favor of a magical connection too!).

Having Bella’s best friend tell Rosalie “I’ll fight for her and her choices, but I’m begging you to not bring that thing near me because I might fly off the handle and do something catastrophic” would have been so much heavier than “I AM HERE TO KILL THE CHILD— lol jk I love it forever now”. Have him continue to be wary of what the child is and can become (and wouldn’t he know something about innocence being corrupted by genetics? Would it not be natural to project anger at the loss of control of his own body onto this mysterious new hybrid baby?). Have him continue to resent all the physical stress it put on its best friend, despite knowing the thing is a baby and never asked to be born. Have Jacob go through the very painful process of maturing by realizing that Bella being safe again doesn’t mean all the fear and anger magically goes away.

Hell, prior to BD he’d been living feral as a wolf for however long. Let that have some lasting impact. Steer into the horror of becoming someone you hardly recognize. Have him lose trust in himself and his choices, instead of having a “perfect” ending chosen for him by some gross magic copout

@themeadowscene yes 100%

Bella: Edward, stop growling at Laurent. You’re making it weird

Edward: I’m making—?! He almost killed you!