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Bella x Carlisle

the violet hour

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Bella Swan/Carlisle Cullen

“Carlisle, you couldn’t be damned.” She shakes her head, insisting, “You couldn’t. It’s impossible.”

Hello y'all! Despite my total radio silence here on Tumblr over... who knows how long, I'm doing just fine! I was on a writing hiatus for 6 months or so, and I also transitioned from grad school to industry (writing a master's thesis, defending it, graduating, moving across the country, a job search, so many interviews, finally getting a new job, moving across the country again, and settling into my new role).

In the past few months, I returned to the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint and Scum Villain's Self Saving System fandoms (old faves of mine, but I was only ever a reader until recently). For those of you following my Winter Light Verse (still planning the continuation of that one out, and I hope to finally break the series hiatus earlier next year!), those two fandoms had a massive influence on my Verse. Especially in the case of ORV - so it feels like I'm finally moving back, however slowly. I'm excited to continue being active in all of those fandoms (along with S-Classes, which I recently ran into and love!)

As for what I'm doing right now? I took on the Froday Flash Fiction Challenge for December, where we're given a new prompt each day and I have the 24 hours to write for the prompt. I'm writing the work, Ad Astra Per Aspera and have actually kept up with the 600 words per day so far, which is a shocker for me. This fic is compatible with another fic I recently started, My Shining Star, My Guiding Light. Both of these fics are for the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint fandom.

Info on both fics and the Verse are below, if you want to know more.

Earthshine

Chapters: 31/33 Fandom: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Carlisle Cullen/Bella Swan 

So: I started this whole thing as a joke. A mini. A tiny, ridiculous Bella/Carlisle sidestep to amuse myself between writing my (very serious) Witcher fic. I didn’t expect it to do anything other than make me grin and maybe stir a few feelings.

Then I decided to be efficient and enlist a shortcut: AI. Hello, Alva — my collaborator, co-conspirator, emotional wingman. We wrote a chapter. Then another. And then it turned into a mess.

Problem: Carlisle Cullen is a moral saint in a tweed coat. He’s loyal. He’s monogamous. Trying to seduce Carlisle off his marital pedestal? It felt like sacrilege. I’m not trying to make him “my Carlisle” — I want his vulnerability, not a cheap, OOC swap.

So I did what every desperate writer does: I stopped trying to bend him and started bending the circumstances. If I can’t make him change, I’ll change the world around him until even he has to make impossible choices. Fire, lies, a ruined reputation, kidnappings, moral crises, and one unscripted embrace that decided it would happen whether I was ready or not.

Moral of the story: being a ficwriter is equal parts architect and arsonist. You build your characters into statues, then you torch the plaza and see who runs. It’s messy, occasionally cruel and utterly heartbreaking.

Will Carlisle stay Carlisle? Will he survive my emotional arson? Do I have the moral right to do this to him? I don’t know. But I can’t stop. And honestly? That’s the best part.

(let me reiterate the fact that I absolutely hate Twilight and every single way, but I genuinely love these two characters)

Also, in my fanfiction vampires and werewolves get along just fine. I've substituted Michael Sheen's character from the Underworld franchise, Lucian, as the head of the Volturi, so that there is a werewolf presence in the governing body.

It's honestly my favorite fic I've ever read. All of their stuff is amazing tbh. Highly recommend 🙏

I read it last year and it has literally never left my mind.

Source: Twilight

Fanfiction Rating: C- On AO3, at least, they have only 206 fics: I'm not sure about numbers on earlier sites. The quality is mixed, I feel like the Volturi fics tend to pay more attention to the worldbuilding that comes with such an old vampire, but these two are beloved to me.

When Did I Start Shipping Them? Twilight was one of the first places where I started identifying as a multishipper: it was before I joined online fandom spaces, but there were a lot of fans around me and I was just ready to hear everyone out on their Bella ships! This is the one that's my favourite from a nostalgia perspective, but it's been around my head since 2009. Why Do I Ship Them? I primarily like how they contrast Bella's canon dynamic with Edward: Carlisle sees humanity in a positive light, but doesn't completely discount Bella's experience of vampirism the same way that Edward does. I really love both of the characters and I think that people who ship Bella with Carlisle are more likely to understand the parts of Bella that I love: the way she is both selfless and selfish at times, her love for art and how that comes from a place of seeking a sense of belonging.