#succubus tanya denali

[miss-morgans-lover]

Twilight Character's as things my friends/family have said (Part 16):

"Shit they're straight" - Tanya when flirting with a women she thought was gay

[lauradevries]

The Original Succubus: Tanya Denali

Source [x]

[feastingonfanfiction]

Waiting on the red string of fate

Tanya Denali x fem!reader

SUMMARY: a red string of fate for a vampire is a lot of waiting for the continuation of that string, one stops waiting to enjoy life and then the other end comes along looking for her, how will it go to learn the one you waited for stops waiting...

A/N: First attempt at ever writing a fic, so sorry if it's not great. I'm not good with timelines and it's been at least a good decade since I've read twilight, so if aspects of the story are inaccurate sorry, I only really wrote this cause the idea got stuck in my head and wouldn't stop until I wrote this out. Most of it's just how one would go about life with a red string of fate

Angst?-ish Idk

Don't really know how to end this story. Perhaps I'll make a part 2. Perhaps I won't idk

[update:I've got ideas on how to end this story now, prepare for multiple routes some angsty depending]

Masterlist

part 2

Part 3

Chapter 1: Waiting on the red string of fate

When Tanya was little, she'd stare at the unattached string blowing in the wind that sat on her finger.

A muted dull shade of red.

What did this mean? Did she just not have a soulmate in the world? were they gone before she had the chance to meet them?

Or perhaps they had yet to be born? That'd be quite an age difference between soulmates she'd think back then.

Now she was older, string still unattached, none of her questions were ever answered.

Unknowing to what it could mean with an unattached string all she could do was stare and wonder.

And then she was turned.

Her string was still the same after becoming a newborn, the yearning for a soulmate amplified but still her string was still cut off.

Traveling with Sasha and eventually obtaining her sister's Kate and Irina, all was fine as they went about their immortal lives.

Her sisters like her and Sasha all had strings detached from any potential mate and they truly understood eachother in this aspect, it brought them just a little closer to know they were the same in this way,

And then the immortal child incident happened. As much as Tanya wanted to just break down she knew she had to step up as the leader of the coven now as the first bitten, her sisters needed her.

But the pain from the loss of Sasha grew within the coven, the world seemed cruel from at first the lack of a mate to now the loss of their mother.

Eventually, Tanya had chosen to do something to deal with it all, seeking out pleasure with others after hearing some info.

Over time and over centuries having heard from other vampires that they met on their travels, those that eventually found their mate, the chances of this happening could take centuries for some and others said that fate had brought their mate to them. With the grief and desire for connection in that moment and not wanting to wait, Tanya and her sisters decided why not seek out some fun whilst waiting who knows how long. So they went about seeking out humans who rather didn't seem to care about the concepts of waiting for a fated soulmate, those people who chose looking for connection right there, right then, rather than who knows how long. Their encounters with their prey lead to the succubus legend forming, not that they cared.

Some centuries later the sisters had desired something more with the mortals rather than immediately feeding off them after their one night stands, a little more of the connection they seek from the yearning and desire for their mate that they had yet to believe were here, judging from their still unattached strings.

Seeking some type of solution to their issue of the need to feed Tanya went off to sate her desire on the blood of the forest animals nearby, finding it working well enough to continue their dynamic with the humans. So then their little group slowly transitioned over to animal blood.

Over time, they met many others on their travels, eventually a mated couple tied together, curious of their diet decided on joining their little family.

Eventually time passed and within the 1700s Kate was the first to realize her string lead off somewhere, her chosen had finally come about.

The first in their little family (besides carmen and eleazar) the sisters happy for her, their small group decided to go off trying to find where Kate's match could be, only to find the string leading off into the ocean. Figuring they were on another continent they chose to depart their old homeland they'd been on for centuries and set sail off to a new place, who knows what they would find whilst boarding a boat for America.

On their travels avoiding the conflict happening and looking for Kate's mate, which yielded no results no matter where they looked the 1700s eventually transitioned over to the 1800s and Kate could only feel her hope dwindling, their little family did their best to comfort her but knowing mortal lifespans and with that war that happened who knows what could have happened to kate's mate's fate. The sisters did their best to comfort her in her downcast mood. Eventually she stopped in her looking, not everyone met their fated and she had so hoped she would meet them before their mortal lifespan ran out, hoping that giving up the search the fates will bring whoever they are to her, the century passed and it wasn't like her mates thread showed any sign of potentially ending which gave Kate enough hope. For then Kate continued her life, one day she'll find her mate she thought to herself.

Through the land they traveled they eventually craved a more permanent residence, some place to eventually call home. After such searches being resultless, slowly ending up on their way to the west coast around the 1900s they come across another group of vampires, surprised at the fact their groups shared a vegetarian diet they decided on traveling together for a while. Tanya's eye catching the brooding loner of the group, one much like her and her sisters with no mate attached yet, her interest in him peaked when he showed disinterest, a challenge in her mind, though her attempts to form some sort of connection with him went nowhere and lead to inevitable rejection which frustrated her.

Eventually parting ways Tanya's group decide to head where the Cullen's had come from, Denali, Alaska.

Here Tanya decided it would be an okay place to settle down and call it their home for a good while, and so that's where they stayed and where the Denali coven was born.

Pov change: Her fated

Sometime in the 2000s

As a little girl you had always wondered who could be your soulmate, your parents said they were already in the world somewhere when you were born with the string around your little finger.

You couldn't help but wonder how old were they? A couple months? A year older? Were they waiting for you too? as you were waiting for them, you played with the vibrant red string. Imagining what kind of person they could be when you grew up.

You couldn't help but push aside the desire of teenage crushes as you grew, a hopeless romantic at heart after reading too many stories of how people meet their fated and the magical feeling of finally meeting your destined. Was it too hopeful? Probably, but who cares? Not you at the time.

At the age of 20, that summer you chose to take a gap year at your university to travel, hopeful in seeking your destined. Filled with hope that maybe they too were looking for you, how naive you were then you think when looking back.

Your string had lead you far from home, leading you outside of a club in a randoom city in Alaska. Heading inside and following the string with your eyes you couldn't help but feel out of place, heart pounding rapidly whether from the adrenaline of finally meeting "the one" or the anxiety of the atmosphere of the nightclub and the amount of people here which was not your scene.

As your eyes trailed after the string, you eventually see it lead to a hand, what you hoped vs what you saw broke your heart.

For there your red string lead to a hand that cupped another person's face as your soulmate kissed someone else. In your eyes from what you could see of her, she was beautiful. It felt like a dream to see her for the first time, but that which quickly soured to what she was doing.

She hadn't seen you but you saw her and couldn't help but stagger back.

You didn't know how to feel in that moment, you came in hopeful and now you were faced with heartbreak.

You had known not everyone in the world was like you and how some people chose not to wait, testing out relationships with other people rather than hoping the fates just dropped your destined in your lap, but from the relationships around you in your life, of your friends finding their matches to the fictional stories that you read, you couldn't help but hope for the same. But here reality decided to tie you to someone you guess didn't want to wait, and that just broke your heart a little more.

Perhaps she was the kind that didn't care for wanting a soulmate, perhaps she was in a relationship with whoever she was kissing.

Broken spirited, you turned to leave not wanting to be seen, going unnoticed by the one you had went to seek out. Perhaps you shouldn't have gone looking for her your thoughts suggested. Rushing out leaving the nightclub door swinging shut in your rush. Tears blurred your eyes as you felt like you forgot how to breathe.

Perhaps soulmates aren't worth looking for you thought as you wanted to get as far away from the cause of the pain in your heart as you could. Perhaps you shouldn't have gotten your hopes up, perhaps you shouldn't have hoped at all.

You rushed off thinking you still had all of the year to just travel and try to mend what's left of your broken heart.

Tanya's POV

It's been over a millenia at this point since her turn and over time she had subconsciously avoided ever looking at her string anymore, it's always been the same, unattached to anything. What's the point of checking? Some internal part of her couldn't help but still feel the yearning though for "the one", but her life was going good right now, they'd settled in Denali, they kept in touch with the Cullen's, occasionally Kate would venture off in search of her mate with no luck, but her string had shown no sign that her mate had fallen to the fate of a tragic mortal end so clearly something was up and she was hopeful.

It was one night at a club when things changed though, Tanya was working her way on getting with this person she just met, kissing them, but then she felt something. She tried to ignore it, but eventually she couldn't as the feeling reared its ugly head as she pushed the person away. Confusion wracked her mind as she tried to understand why she felt like so. Deciding to call it a night despite not being able to sleep she left the confused person with an apology on her lips.

The night passed and then more days and nights after followed but the same sensation would not leave her, why did she feel like her world was ending? Why did she feel something was horribly wrong.

In her pondering state in the living room,

Irina enters having returned from feeding and notices her sister's face, brows furrowed as she pouts. Clearly getting the sign that Tanya was off, she then notices her sister's string, it was no longer unattached, but she had noticed this before and just assumed Tanya knew already and chose to ignore it.

Perhaps her sister was considering going off to find her mate? Always an option and it has been a sufficient amount of time since its first appearance adoning her sisters finger, so she bring it up to her.

Tanya is broken from her concentration over her confused emotions to the sound of Irina voicing a question. Looking up at her she asks "what?" Before asking her to repeat what she said, and Irina asks again, "do you think you'll go look for your mate?"...silence, "my mate?" Confusion evident in her voice as she looks down at her hand, where there once was an unattached dull thread she had grown used looking at and then ignoring, now holds a vibrant red string connected to her finger. Trailing off to who knows where, realizing her mate was finally, finally in her life, all she could mutter was "oh....." before a wave of surprise hits her and she blurts out, "I have a mate,"

"Yeah? It's been a couple of years now? Perhaps a decade maybe two?" Irina said confused "did you not realize your string was suddenly leading off somewhere?"

Tanya couldn't help but feel embarrassed,

Her mate's been around for years and she hadn't realized. She realized her mate is out there and she can finally go meet the fated one she's always wondered about. Who they might be and how perfect they might be together.

The coven leader decides then and there that yes she would go find her mate.

Unknown to her the broken heart of her fated sat on the other end of the string.

(Maybe part 2)

[denalilily]

🤍 About Me 🤍

hi I'm Lily and welcome to my blog!! I joined last summer and am lovin it. tumblr is literally my job. like, seriously. I post every single day. I mostly reblog twilight posts and all my original content is about twilight. I mainly create memes and gifsets, but I also write fanfiction (check out ao3 below). my favorite characters are the denali sisters and my otp is kate & garrett so most of my content is about them! other stuff you might find on my blog include: funny posts, political posts, poems, sports, positivity & mental health support, art, lgbt stuff, games and more. this blog does not have too many posts. I love the community on tumblr and always happy to make new friends/mutuals, so if you dig my vibe feel free to message me! and if you're a twilight fan.....

I run a discord server for twilight blogs to come together and chat, so if you're interested in getting to know your mutuals, making new friends and discussing twilight stuff message me for the link!

my fav characters: Kate, Garrett, Tanya, Alice, Riley, Carlisle, Charlie, Bree, Leah, Demetri, Mike, Jessica, J Jenks, the blond kid who plays Spiderman

my fav ships: Kate/Garrett, Tanya/Bella, Alice/Demetri

🫀 My Creations 🫀

not exhaustive 🙂

Hasta la Vista, Baby (WIP fic)

Hasta la Vista promotional concept gifset

The Hunter

Baseball scene with Gangnam Style

Jalice divorce moodboard

Carlesme divorce moodboard

Twilight ships VDay edit

Twilight social media AU

Kate and Garrett gifset (Hamilton edit)

Volturi confrontation gifset (les mis edit)

Black Widow video edit of the Denali sisters

Garrett's quotes

Kate's quotes

Twilight characters + funny text messages meme

Denali sisters succubus inspired gifset

Video meme of the Cullens and Denalis

🤍 Garrett's phone gallery 🤍

🤍 Kate's phone gallery 🤍

Garrett's speech meme

Garrett and vegerarianism meme

Twilight character meme

Breaking Dawn Christmas celebration drabble

a Breaking Dawn AU crackfic

Twilight characters incorrect quotes generator memes:

Part 1

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The first anonymous Tanya Denali ask because it deserves a spot on my pinned post

[panlight]

How old is Tayna supposed to be? The actor was 31 when the films came out and RPatz was 24, but Edward the character is only 17. Is Tayna supposed to be around his age or around her actor's age? Because it's pretty gross if Meyer made Tayna pursue Edward if/when she's in her 20s or older. :/

I don't think even the guide gives and age for Tanya.

Given that of all the female vampires with an age given, the oldest is 28 (and Esme is the second oldest at 26), we can probably assume that SM intended her to be young, probably late teens/early 20s like everyone else.

I don't know if fandom always read it that way, though? I mean if you look at the Fifty Shades of Grey books (which I have not read but have been morbidly fascinated with in terms of 'how does this match up with Twilight?' so I've done ~research) there's a character called Elena who was a friend of Christian's mother and seduced him when he was a teen. Presumably she's based on Tanya or at least the Denali sisters in general, especially given that name, which can be Russian (also spelled Yelena).

That . . . seems to imply that at least some of the fandom read Tanya as an older woman seducing a teenager.

My guess is that SM intended her to be like 20ish and that by the time she meets Edward he's been "17" for almost 20 years so SM wouldn't have seen anything weird about it. I think also SM's angle is like "oh, a single male vegetarian vampire! Here's my chance at a partner!" and didn't think about age issues at all.

I think Tanya/Edward could have been interesting but not with SM writing it. He's got all this angst and guilt about his ~rebellious period and she was a people-eating succubus for presumably centuries, so she could offer a perspective on moving on and forgiving yourself that Carlisle Of the Perfect Record can't, and it might be good for him. But you'd have to tread carefully with the age thing, because even if she's only biologically 18-20, she's also like 900 years older than him from the vampire angle and the power dynamics could go sideways real fast.

I do appreciate the movies generally going with older actors for the supporting vampires though. There's literally no reason everyone has to be so young.

[gcddamnvampire]

Tanya Denali // The Twilight Saga

Before she was changed, Tanya was a fighter. She could often be found on the battlefield, trying to show off to them men who said women couldn’t fight. For many years, she was a member of the queen’s guard, until her great-aunt, Sasha, changed her. Sasha would also change two more women, whom Tanya would eventually consider to be her sisters. After many decades together, Tanya’s new mother of sorts, Sasha, was killed by the Volturi for creating an immortal child, whom they considered to be dangerous and against their laws. This crushed Tanya, but she stayed strong for the sake of her new sisters. The three of them tried to fill the void of losing Sasha with the company of humans, leading to the creation of the original lore of a succubus. However, this didn’t last long as Tanya would have difficulties not killing her lovers due to her diet. This is what lead her to feeding an animals instead.

[dollsandmakebelieve]

The Sisters of the Denali Coven: Tanya, Kate, and Irina

The coven was originally founded by Sasha, who was responsible for transforming Tanya, Kate, and Irina into vampires. They considered Sasha their mother and one another sisters. 

After their "mother" Sasha was killed by the Volturi, the three sisters then searched for pleasurable company of men to deal with their loss, and subsequently are the originators of the "succubus" legend; a demon in the form of a beautiful woman who has sexual intercourse with men before killing them. (Source)

Fandom: The Twilight Saga

Character Maker: The Lady Of Hera

[like-rain-or-confetti]

How would Vladimir and Stefan support his human friend who just came out as lesbian only to them and she is struggling to accept herself ,also she lives with them.

They'll do little things to show it's okay.

"You're attracted to females? Huh. So am I."

"Funny, you should mention that, I am also attracted to females."

"Well would you look at that? All three of us having an attraction to females. Best of luck to you both, I'm the prize here💁‍♀️."

"That's what fools tell themselves, Stefan."

They'll catch on to any girl you find attractive almost immediately.

"Oh she's quite lovely indeed. Well done, you have taste."

"Shut up Stefan and she's cute. That's all I'm willing to admit to you, thanks."

They'll give their own opinions.

"Little one, let me tell you now, none of those of the Denali coven are a good idea. Stop gawking at Tanya. She'll ruin you."

They think they're protecting you from yourself and the Denali's.

"The succubus is always tempting but it's never a good idea to give into temptation. Come along. Maybe we can find you a nice girl...no, not Kate...or Irina. Why not Senna? No, actually not Senna. A woman from the Amazon is not ideal for you."

"Oh come now, you could do much better than the Italian scum. You're not desperate!"

It's adorable and annoying all at the same time.

[mytwilightimagines13]

Masterlist: Tanya

Lemon Masterlist

Series The new Denali (Finished) (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three) (Part Four) (Part Five) (Part Six)

Loose imagines Succubus (Horror) Sing for me

[phil-dwyer-stan-account]

The Denali sisters should’ve been Filipina

I love that we’re trying to make the characters more diverse, but allow me to add to the discussion. 

The Denali sisters should be Filipina. Let me explain:

So there are two main Filipinx stories about “vampires” that involve beautiful women drinking blood, the “mandurugo” and the “manananggal”. This is going to be mostly about the mandurugo, but feel free to read up on the manananggal cause they're cool. So the mandurugo are these young beautiful women that seduce men by day and then at night they have wings and drink the blood of the men they seduce. They have these hollow tongues to help them slurp up the blood and maybe other stuff if you want and its cool af. 

You might be thinking, “but phil-dwyer-stan-account, that doesn't match the description of the twilight vampires!” Okay well, neither do most depictions of vampires. Also, Smeyer said that the Denali sister were the ones who inspired the succubus legend. The succubi and the mandurugo have a lot in common. My point is that there are vampires in Filipinx folklore and they seduce men in order to drink their blood. 

Another thing is it would be fine for them to still be in Alaska. Asian people make up the third-highest racial group in Alaska(following white and native American/Alaskan) at 5.4% with Filipinx people making up 4.4 percent(an overwhelming amount of Asian people in Alaska are Filipinx). So there’s an argument to be made for them being Filipinx in Alaska.

Also, most of the Asian representation in the media(and there isn't much) tends to be East Asian and I want all Asian people to be represented in the media. (I still want East Asian vampires I just think the Denali Sisters should be Filipina). 

I just think that Kate(and Tanya and Irina but Kates power and relationship with Garrett would play against stereotypes of the quiet submissive Asian woman) being a powerful outspoken Asian woman of Filipinx decent would be so cool and I feel robbed that it isn't what we got. 

(Also I know that it’s messy cause Carmen and Eleazar are Spanish but I have some ideas about that too)

Sincerely,

An Asian woman that's tired of a lack of representation

(Also if anyone wants me to make some headcanons or Denali sisters fan cast with different filipina actresses let me know. I also have some ideas about them being from different islands and stuff)

[denalilily]

Return on the Tanya Denali anon here. There’s just something so funny to me about the idea of Tanya’s mate being a woman just for Kate’s running commentary on Tanya helping to create the succubus legend when it was really women she should have been going after 💀

I hc she went after human women too 🤷🏼‍♀️ just saying, if I was an immortal succubus I certainly wouldn't limit myself to just men

[teamjacobthot]

twilight saga character tag!

thank you sm @softtwihoe for tagging me <3 i feel like im still new to the renaissance fandom on tumblr even tho i never stopped being a twihard so shit like this warms my heart <3

now my spicy twilight takes………………...

1. Character you find most relatable to you as a person?

the love of my life, without a doubt, 100% leah clearwater. mfs tried to make her feel bad for feeling her feelings but she was valid in all of them. also its canon that shes a scorpio but yall aint hear it from me

rosalie bc we have similar trauma (lmao :/) and like to disagree with people. i also love big dumb men

edward. as a fellow whiny musical pissbaby who cant let shit go, i get it

2. Character that didn’t have a POV in the books or certain unfinished manuscripts, but you wish did?

ok maybe this is super underground but sue!!! mf!!! clearwater!!! she had allllllll the tea on the pack and tbh i really wanted to see how she and her family were before and after harry’s death. that event was a really big deal (outside of just bella and edward) and set shit OFF in new moon

billy bc he also had hella tea and i bet he was super fucking conflicted during the ENTIRE saga bc he couldnt say shit to charlie!!! that shit sounds rough!!!!!

quil bc he was the last to phase and i just wanna know what he was going thru. he would’ve had hellaaaaa jokes too but smeyer doesnt care abt nonwhite characters so :/

charlie, assuming he supports the black lives matter movement

i guess overall i just wanna know how EVERYONE was doing in new moon bc that story ran DEEP. i want a midnight sun for new moon but for every character

nobody asked but new moon is the best in the saga and new moon stans have the best pussy

3. Character that’s underrated and deserves more recognition?

the entire wolf pack but wbk

riley but tbh i think its bc i just loved xavier samuel in the eclipse movie

the denali coven!!!! their story was incredible imo and while irina was a snitch, i understand why she snitched. she didnt deserve to die. the denalis deserve so much better and while garrett is cool to have around, that doesnt fill the void that irina left bc the volturi decided to be a bunch of haters. i want them to heal so bad. 

tanya gets a bad rep for having a crush on edward but she deserves better too

i’d like to read abt the vacations that the denalis with the cullens too

oh and all thats just BESIDES the succubus legend that tanya and kate and irina started in canon!!!!!!!! like??????????????????? they fucked and killed human men??????????? thats the story i wanna READ bitch!!!! thats my jennifer’s body (2009) fantasy!!!!! smeyer is a coward tho

btw carmen and esme are girlfriends :)

4. Character you thought was unnecessary for the story?

ok besides the obvious, and nobody drag me for it, but bree tanner. I get she was there to show us how fucked up the volturi are and to sorta predict bella as a newborn but……...we already knew the volturi kill mfs just for fun. if the cullens werent gonna adopt her we really didnt need many details on her. and regarding the newborn thing, bree’s role as a newborn didnt really mean shit bc bella ended up being ~the perfect newborn~ anyway!!!! smeyer tried to sell us the short second life of bree tanner as if there arent other worthy characters of having a spinoff novella about like leah or seth or rosalie or emmett or charlie or resume from bella’s ovary. that being said………..

resume, for multiple reasons including:

resume literally shouldnt exist. vampires shouldnt be able to have working sperm and even then, edward shouldve pulled out. he could barely even tongue kiss bella so wtf made him think he could cum in her????? whyyy didnt he use his big vampire brain to consider that????? 

resume seemed totally unwanted and unthought of??? bella and edward were so mf absorbed in each other like regular teen couples (with 1000x the intensity but still) that it didnt seem likely that theyd want a baby after fucking like three times anyway. miss bella “fuck them kids” swan also gave no indication of wanting children. ever. EYE would have simply aborted and went on to live my best vampire life :)

resumes existence defeats the purpose of imprinting bc theres no way she’d be able to conceive with jacob. at all. but we know smeyer doesnt think shit through

smeyer writing in resume ruined jacobs character even more esp coming off the shitshow that was eclipse. periodt

5. Top 5 female characters?

leah <3

rosalie

bella

sue

angela

6. Top 5 male characters?

jacob (pre-eclipse but that’s implied)

emmett

seth

quil/paul (i love them equally)

edward’s dumb ass <3 sometimes

7. Character interaction that didn’t happen but you wish it did?

rosalie and edward but only under the condition that he finally stops being a misogynistic pissbaby towards her and accepts her for the sexy legend that she is. i feel like they’d get along well but smeyer is anti-hottie and anti-talent so i guess we’ll never know :/

leah and someone who loves her and respects her and validates her feelings :)

JACOB AND HIS SISTERS. OR EVEN JUST RACHEL. she literallyyyyyyyyyy came home after YEARS in breaking dawn but he was too busy simping over bella to acknowledge her??? huh???

bella and a licensed therapist

edward and a licensed therapist

8. Character that deserves more development?

the whole entire wolf pack but wbk

more specifically, embry. whooooom is his father???

emmett. like we get it hes funny and hot but like……….spare depth maam? any spare depth????

9. Character who is your total opposite?

jasper bc he fought for people who look like me to be ENSLAVED and the fandom lets it slide for whatever reason :|

10. Character you warmed up to after experiencing the Renaissance?

edward, in some ways. i relate to him when im feeling extra self-loathing but then i get over it lmao. he’s still stupid tho

i used to think alice was annoying af (and i still kinda do tbh) but as a fashion hoe, i get it

charlie, sorta, even tho he’s a cop. i wasnt there for the original conversation on here but do yall think he supports black lives matter? idk tbh but we’ll never know bc smeyer probably doesnt know what police brutality is. anyways ive really enjoyed the discourse on his relationship with bella and how he doesnt trust edward

jacob <3 he’s always been my heart, my soul, my baby, my fuckin cinnamon apple, etc. but i love the posts that other fans/nonhaters have been making abt how warm and kind he was before smeyer fucked him over and how he deserves so much better. its like yes im glad youre seeing all the things that make me a team jacob thot :)

idk if yall have already been tagged but im tagging @howlonghaveyoubeenseventeen @leahclearwaterdefensesquad @leahclearvvater and @bellas-dumptruck-ass! also anyone can fill this out and say i tagged them <3

[aion-rsa]

How Midnight Sun Adds to Twilight Canon

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The following contains spoilers for Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun.

As discussed in the review, by dint of being a retelling, Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun doesn’t drastically change Twilight canon. (For that, check out Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, Meyer’s gender-swapped rewrite of the first book that concludes with Beaufort Swan turning into a vampire to be with his immortal lady love Edythe Cullen.) However, it does expand our understanding of vampires through Edward’s perspective of his family: how each of the Cullens was turned, how they found each other, Edward’s personal struggle to follow Carlisle’s code of ethics, and how each Cullen interacts with Edward regarding Bella.

What Bella didn’t see in Twilight was how much Rosalie pushed back against Edward bringing a mortal into their family and tempting her to give up her humanity, and how Alice’s visions directly impacted his every move around Bella. In these Midnight Sun interactions, we also get a hint at Edward’s love life pre-Bella… or rather, his potential love life, as—surprise!—there’s not nearly as much as you would expect from a sexy vampire. Finally, Edward reveals more about his struggle with his vampire nature, and how he has made some peace with his bloody past.

Edward’s Talent and its Limits

One of the things that most draws Edward to Bella is that hers is the only mind that he can’t read, so he constantly feels off-balance around her. While he tells her as much in Twilight, in Midnight Sun he ponders what her parentage might have to do with it. It turns out that he also has difficulty parsing Charlie Swan’s thoughts; he can only get fleeting impressions or a few words here and there, as if there is a similar (though more permeable) shield. With Renée Dwyer, however, things are loud and clear—perhaps too loud, as Edward considers that even non-telepaths can probably at least intuit Renée’s thoughts and needs, the way that people seem naturally drawn to attend to her.

Alice’s Visions and Edward’s Dramatic Irony

The biggest “change” that Midnight Sun makes to the Twilight canon is the reveal that Edward knew almost from the beginning that Bella might one day become a vampire. Among the Cullen/Hale siblings, he and Alice are especially close due to their shared mental powers: As he can read her mind, that gives him a direct look into her visions. Concerning Bella, Alice sees a myriad of potential futures, but a few distinct paths stand out: Edward kills Bella. Edward leaves Bella, a blow to her emotional and physical well-being. Bella becomes a vampire.

The way Alice’s visions work is to first provide all potential futures, and then to quickly whittle down options, or clarify the major ones, through present actions. In real-time, through their arguments and debates over the Swan girl, Edward and Alice collaborate to figure out what is most likely to happen. While his taking Bella to the meadow eliminates the potential future in which he kills her—Edward has the attack of bloodlust that Alice predicted, but pushes through it—he can’t shake the likelihood that Bella will someday be a white-skinned, red-eyed, immortal creature.

This knowledge lends a dramatic irony to Midnight Sun, as Edward is constantly questioning whether his every action with Bella might tip the scales in one direction over the other. He, of course, does not share this dilemma with Bella, not wishing to encourage her toward the vampirism she claims to want. While Alice does let slip this vision by the end of the book, Edward struggles for as long as possible to give Bella as much free choice concerning her fate as he can.

With that in mind, Edward resolves by the end of Midnight Sun that he will live in the present in their relationship and resist the urge to peek at Alice’s visions:

I was taking our relationship one day at a time, one hour at a time. I didn’t look into the future. It was enough that I could feel it coming. When I promised her forever now, I meant as far as I could see. And I wasn’t looking.

But that’s simply a temporary solution to a permanent problem, and includes Edward trying to hide information both from Bella and himself. As he reflects to himself, he anticipates that something will happen to make him leave, and he doesn’t let Bella in on this fear. Instead, he tells her aloud that he will stay with her, then adds to himself:

As long as I can, as long as it’s allowed, as long as it doesn’t hurt you. Until the sign comes, until it’s impossible for me to ignore.

Which would seem to imply that he is not at all surprised at the events of New Moon, the “sign” to leave that he was already waiting for.

Edward’s Missing Week with Tanya and the Denali

After their bizarre first meeting in Twilight, Bella notices Edward’s absence from school for close to a week, before he reappears and saves her life in the parking lot. Midnight Sun reveals that Edward fled to Denali, Alaska, the Cullens’ former home and where their fellow vegetarian vampire coven still resides. It’s meant as a respite from Bella’s intoxicating scent, but it causes complications when vampire Tanya wonders if it means that Edward might have changed his mind about her romantic interest in him.

Alas for Tanya, despite her exquisite beauty, Edward has (amber) eyes for only one face. While they have a wistful conversation about how she wishes he would see her that way, ultimately Edward apologizes for “toying with [her] expectations” and actually draws inspiration from her relationships. After all, Tanya isn’t called a “succubus” for nothing; she’s had plenty of human lovers, many of whom lead long and healthy lives once Tanya learned to curb her bloodlust.

Though Bella eventually meets Tanya and the rest of the Denali coven in the later Twilight books, her cameo here fills in more of her one-sided romantic and sexual tension with Edward.

Cullen Family History

A lot of the Cullen family history comes out either during Twilight or certainly throughout the rest of the series, but because so much of Edward’s dilemma in Midnight Sun is about losing one’s humanity, he recalls how each of the Cullens and Hales joined the family.

To that end, the Cullens are unusual for having a family unit, as opposed to the more typical vampire coven. Covens might come together temporarily for a shared purpose and disband over disagreements, but a family is bound by deeper promises to one another: to lead a “vegetarian” lifestyle and maintain their treaty with the Quileutes by not draining human blood, but also to make decisions for the good of the family.

In contrast to how his telepathy makes him closer to Alice and her visions, Edward’s strained relationship with Rosalie gets explored more in Midnight Sun. As readers know, Carlisle turned her intending for Rosalie to be Edward’s mate, as Esme was for him, but despite her beauty, Edward wasn’t attracted to her. Instead, he saw her as a sister—at first in name, but then in action, the night she brought Emmett to the Cullens, near-death from a bear mauling, and begged Carlisle to change him to be her mate.

Despite this, they still clash over Edward’s choice of love in Midnight Sun—primarily because Rosalie is jealous of Bella. Left for dead by her ex-fiancé, immortality was the only option that Rosalie had, and she would give anything to have another chance at a human lifetime. So, Bella’s fervent desire to be turned feels to her like an utter waste. While these are sentiments that Rose expresses to Bella over the course of the Twilight series, Edward’s perspective delves deeper into his sympathy for Rosalie’s position, even if he resents her for not being willing to stick her neck out for Bella like the rest of the Cullens.

Edward’s Innocent/Guilty Victim

Edward understands Rosalie’s struggle with their vampire identity, and longing to be human, as he too has grappled with their bloodthirsty nature. As he tells Bella in Twilight, he had a bout of “rebellious adolescence” about ten years after becoming a vampire, in which he rejected Carlisle’s pacifism and left the family for a few years, to explore his baser instincts. Edward thought that because he could read humans’ minds, he could choose to kill only the guilty—rapists, murderers, moral monsters—and therefore “have it all” as a vampire with a conscience.

But while he admits as much to Bella, what he leaves unsaid is a big flashback upon which Midnight Sun expounds: September 1930, and his one victim who was technically innocent. In Milwaukee, Edward came upon a human man who was plagued with evil thoughts concerning a young girl in the tenement. Even as he repeated to himself, I can’t. I can’t. I can’t, he put together the resources and a plan to kidnap the young girl—the book doesn’t go graphically into his plan, but it’s easy to intuit that he intended to rape and murder her.

In the past, Edward had killed predators to ensure that they would not have a next victim; this time, he would be stopping a would-be monster before he took his first victim. Right as the man prepared to kidnap the girl, Edward captured him and killed him—serving the justice that the man had always subconsciously known he deserved.

In the end, Edward decided, even stopping humans from enacting evil on others was not enough to justify his killing them, and so he returned to Carlisle and the rest of his family.

Saving Bella

Readers get Edward’s side of the frantic chase after Bella and the tracker who lured her to a dance studio in Phoenix to kill her slowly in order to torture the Cullens—Edward, of course, but also Alice, his onetime victim who got away.

While Alice’s visions are the group’s lodestar for locating Bella before James kills her, Edward is so seized by vengeance that he could potentially alter their future to one of the scenarios where Bella dies. During their high-stakes chase scene in Phoenix, Jasper uses his talent of manipulating emotions to give Edward the empathic equivalent of a shot of novocaine: cold, numbing, and pushing aside pain so that he can focus on the job at hand.

Edward and Jacob

In contrast to his disdain for Mike Newton and the other human boys sniffing around Bella, Edward finds that he likes reading the mind of her friend Jacob Black: he considers the Quileute boy’s thoughts “engaging,” “pure and open,” and “restful.” Clearly he doesn’t see Jacob as a threat in Midnight Sun—at least, not at the beginning of the book. By the end, when Jacob cuts in to their dance at prom (to warn Bella that the Quileutes want her to break up with Edward and that they’ll “be watching” her and the Cullens), Edward notices with some surprise that the boy seems to have had a sudden growth spurt.

He also catches a curious thought from Jacob, about Bella having a weird perfume smell—something that Edward certainly didn’t notice. It’s all foreshadowing for Jacob’s werewolf transformation in New Moon, but it’s especially curious that Edward never catches on to the fact that his eventual rival for Bella’s heart is also a supernatural creature.

Persephone and the Pomegranate

The cover imagery for each side of the Twilight story provides some insight into the narrator’s impression of vampirism. For Bella, it’s an apple: the symbol of temptation, yes, but also of knowledge. A pair of hands hold the apple out, as if they have plucked it from the tree but haven’t yet worked up the nerve to take a bite. Bella’s journey in Twilight is taking that irreversible step toward knowing, because once she does, she won’t want anything else.

Where Bella sees potential, Edward sees consequence: Midnight Sun replaces the apple with a pomegranate that has already been split in two. Throughout the novel, he likens Bella to innocent Persephone, who eats half the pomegranate seeds and curses herself to spend half her life in the underworld with Hades, her (depending on the telling) lover and/or captor. Spurred on by the knowledge, via Alice’s vision, that there is a very possible future in which Bella becomes a vampire, Edward cannot stop obsessing over this metaphor and how, he believes, it would rob Bella of the joys of mortal life.

The Meaning of “Midnight Sun”

The first time that Edward realizes Bella is dreaming of him, and it’s not a nightmare, it challenges his self-perception the way nothing or no one else has in his near-century of life. He reflects:

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

It… reads like pretty bad teenage love poetry, but what he’s trying to say is that when he was turned, every part of him was frozen, including his sense of self and his desires. As the sun permeating his midnight, Bella is making him reexamine what he’s allowed to want.

It’s not quite as poignant as the meaning behind Twilight: “It’s the safest time of day,” he explains to Bella. “The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way… the end of another day, the return of the night.” But perhaps, as he seems to realize, if he pushes through to the deepest part of night, he’ll find a bright light to illuminate new parts of it he hadn’t noticed before.

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[panlight]

What do you think is a relationship between Kate and Garrett like? They are my favourite ship of all. You have said that you think they might have open marriage. I totally respect your opinion but, I do think it will just be the two of them for the eternity 😊

But, what about other things? Are they protective of each other? Does one of them go overboard with it? Who is more romantic? And I have always been wondering what nickname would Kate give to Garrett?

And, after breaking dawn Kate will be sad for a looong period of time. How will it affect them? How will Garrett comfort Kate? He will have to be very patient and gentle. Like Emmett had to be with Rosalie in the beginning. I think that will be even bigger challenge for them than their different lifestyles.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you! ❤️

I think SM intends for them to be just the two of them for the rest of forever. I personally think, realistically, there might be some growing pains before they get there, though. Which to me doesn’t make them less compelling as a romantic couple, but more so. He’s a wanderer--he’s constantly traveling and looking for a new adventure. She’s a former succubus who has never tried monogamy before. There’s stuff they’ve got to work through, and compromises that have to be made. Add to that that when he announces he’d follow her anywhere, he’s known her for about a week and a half. They have a lot to learn about each other before they settle into a perfect piece of forever. It’s gonna take work, and communication, and compromise, but to me that’s much more romantic and satisfying than just like, instant true love with no problems. But I get that appeal of that fantasy, too!

He already seems head-over-heels for her, so the first compromise is probably living in Alaska, at least for awhile, as Kate’s not going to want to leave Tanya, Eleazar and Carmen after losing Irina. She and Garrett have already lived through a traumatic experience together--something that is known to bond people--and him being there to support and comfort her through her grief for her sister may be the thing that makes her think that maybe she’s willing to give monogamy a try, if that’s what Garrett wants. I could see them snuggled up by a fire in the Denalis mountain home, with Garrett distracting her from missing Irina with stories of his adventures, describing the great battles he’s witness, the beautiful places he’s seen, how he first met Carlisle, etc. 

I get the feeling he’s the more romantic. She’s tough and independent and doesn’t know how she feels about his “I’ll follow you anywhere, woman” gestures of love. But she comes to enjoy it, as long as he doesn’t go too far into the hearts and flowers stuff. ‘If you ever start talking to me like Edward talks to Bella, we’re done,’ she teases him. Kate’s nature is to be protective, she was a bodyguard in her human life and her power makes her the guardian of the family as a vampire, so I think she’s protective of him and at first probably better at showing her love that way than through romantic gestures, but Garrett gets it and is into it. “My woman could kick your ass! She’s kicked my ass!” 

I don’t know about nicknames--I’d imagine Garrett would pick up some of the diminutives that I’m sure Tanya called her--variants of Katya. I know there’s a lot of confusion about where the Denalis are actually supposed to be from, since the guide says Slovakia, but Life & Death makes them “Russian brothers”, and they mostly have Russian names, but neither Russia nor Slovakia existed when they were turned so . . . ? I tend to think that whatever their origins, they spent some time among Russian culture in recent centuries, because otherwise their (adopted?) names just don’t make any sense (Tanya’s ‘real’ name is almost certainly Tatiana; her mother Sasha’s would have been Alexandra, etc.  They probably called Irina things like ‘Ira’ or ‘Irochka’ sometimes, Kate’s name should have been Ekaterina/Yekaterina, not ‘Katrina’ which just does not fit with the others). ‘Garrett’ doesn’t have the same origins so I’m not sure what sort of nickname she’d come up with for him, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up playing into some of these Russian-ish nicknaming conventions. 

[bellasredchevy]

apparently this is a hot take: the hottest denali is carmen, then kate, then tanya and finally eleazar

the important thing to remember is that the whole denali “origin of the succubus myth” clan can Get It

have your “i’m just gonna say it” moment and drop your unpopular opinions about twilight anonymously in my inbox

[gaydenali]

irina headcanons

loves to read and write. she’s written many novels over the centuries, but theyre classified under a bunch of pen names

anytime she is infatuated with someone, she writes a romance novel of her fantasies with them. tanya is usually the one to review them as kate makes fun of her for falling in love so quickly

during their succubus era, she would spend a long time with her partners compared to her sisters. irina would take them out on dates and cook them dinner often prior to killing them

the first denali to really consider the vegetarian diet because she begun feeling remorseful for killing the (wo)men they slept with

she finds it hard to verbally explain her feelings alot of the time. when she is really down, she visits the cullens and sometimes just lets edward reads her thoughts. he’s the cullen shes closest to because he comforts her after comprehending her thoughts

she is very fond on animals as she lived on a small farm when she was human. she likes to spend time with them even though her sisters tease her for “playing with her food”