#that fic lives rent free in my mind you cannot blame me

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[thegamingcatmom]

Hi! First questions of the year woooo! /o/ What's your take on vampires not being able to sleep? You think they should be able to? (I have mixed thoughts about it bc I think sleep is very necessary but it wouldn't be the same for them bc they don't tire physically yet it would do them good to rest the mind imo) Also I have this question living rent free in my mind since last year (ha im so funny :p) Regarding mates and stuff I am not sure if vampires can tell who their mate is by looking into their eyes it's canon or if it's just somethign the fandom made up in fics and stuff. BUT in the case of it being how it works in canon how could Irina not tell Laurent wasn't her mate? Correct me if I am wrong but I believe in canon theyw ere supposed to be mates but then yk they weren't. At least I think they weren't bc to me is obvs Laurent was using her to get info on the Cullens etc, if she was her mate he wouldn't go help victoria when he found his literal soulmate, right? In any case in the majority of fics in which Irina doesn't die (thank god for fanfics) is common to make it like he was not her mate but I cannot for the life of me understand how she could not tell if vampires KNOW their mate by looking into their eyes. I'm not blaming her ofc, she's spent a thousand years waiting for her mate so poor bby yk to be played like that but I find it kinda weird? Bc she truly thought he was her mate otherwise she wouldn't have done the things she did in BD2 or would be all angry at bella in BD1.. ANYWAY I hope it makes sense, thanks <3

HERE'S TO 2025! 🥂

Okay so, the short answer: I love it.

The long(er) answer:

I think not being able to sleep is part of what makes them so fascinating. Like, imagine how damn productive you would be if you had an extra 6-8 hours to get stuff done every day.

...Aight, real talk: I think it's sexy af.

(That was the honest answer.)

Like, vampires are literal predators, and the fact they don't sleep only adds to that feeling of danger. I mean, ofc they won't spend the entire night hunting (I think?), especially considering they only need to hunt like...every few weeks or smt? But it's just the fact they're out (or in) doing...something while everyone else is asleep that's just so fascinating (and sexy) to me. Like, AKSFJSAKLFN-

Listen-

Sleep is something so vital for pretty much any living creature, and the fact (twilight) vampires have no need for it just shows how superior and otherwordly they are.

...I dunno how else to explain my fascination. 🥲

BUT-

I agree that resting the mind is smt that any creature requires at SOME point. And I kinda wanna believe that, sometimes, vampires just lay or stand somewhere (makes no difference to them) and just...close their eyes. Recharge their mental battery. Go into standby, so to speak.

As for the question regarding mates-

Not that canon matters (much) anyway, but I don't think vampires finding their mate à la imprinting is actually canon. But even if it was-

I don't really like the concept because I think it's just boring and lazy and too easy, which is also why I don't include it in any of my writing. Like, I mentioned way back that the reason why The Sisters and MC won't have mating bonds is because I don't want our unhinged Denalis being able to use this as an excuse for their deeds like "ye we kinda uprooted your entire life but it's meant to be so it's kinda alright, right??"

(Spoiler: Tanya's probs gonna try anyway. 😏)

...Granted, not every vampire who meets their "mate" ends up kidnapping them, lol. But like, such a bond essentially "forces" you into loving someone, and that's really off-putting to me. I'm someone who values the journey, y'know what I'm saying? I need drama and spice and a whole lot of working for it. 🫠

Bonding with someone via eye contact is something the wolves have because their instincts basically find them the perfect match to have strong and healthy babies with (or so I've read once), but vampires don't have that need. I mean-

Listen-

Ofc there's ppl you just click with, right? Then there's ppl you really click with. I'm not saying that kind of connection doesn't exist, but it's not something that suddenly turns your whole axis like it does with the wolves' imprinting thing.

...Then again, I've read once that choosing a partner based on "breeding success" is something that does happen, albeit not consciously. It's like your body just knows who's gonna be a suitable baby daddy/mommy, lol. The power of evolutionary "drives"... 😏

ANYWAY-

My point is:

In my stories (feral or not), imprinting like the wolves have doesn't exist for vampires. You either click or you don't (just like for us humans). However-

I do think that vampires feel things a lot more fiercely than humans. Like, when you live for an eternity, there's gotta be a longing for someone to share it with. The longer you go without, the stronger that longing becomes. All your senses are attuned to finding yourself that perfect match, so it's a lot easier for vampires than it is for us humans to find out whether someone is suitable or not.

Now, to get to the last point(s):

Bc she truly thought he was her mate otherwise she wouldn't have done the things she did in BD2 or would be all angry at bella in BD1

She wasn't actually angry at Bella. She was furious at the Cullens for inviting one of the wolves (Seth) because she believed them to have killed Laurent wrongfully. She didn't believe Edward when he said Laurent was trying to kill Bella first, so she likely felt betrayed by them for inviting the very thing that brutally slaughtered her "mate" (even though it wasn't Seth who did it, but seeing him made her relive that trauma).

The things Irina did in BD2 had nothing to do with Laurent, either. Not really. She went to visit the Cullens to make amends for how she behaved at the wedding, and just for everything that happened after Laurent (denying the Cullens their help in the fight against Victoria & her army because they wouldn't allow Irina to kill one of the wolves to avenge Laurent). But then she spotted CGI Kid (aka Renesmée) and ran for the hills (I don't blame her) because she thought the Cullens created an immortal child. And we all know how that went for her and her family-

...

So ye, everything that went down in BD2 was solely thanks to CGI Kid's existence.

Which makes me hate her (CGI, not Irina) even more.

Honestly, every damn plot would've been better and more engaging than CGI Kid.

...But that's a different story. 🙃

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Thanks a lot for your ask! 💋

[kingofattolia]

The Good:

1. Sarcasm. There were SEVERAL good bits that I can totally hear Obi-Wan’s voice saying in my mind

“I had hoped that dying would be enough to untangle me from the Skywalker family’s Issues. And yet here I am again.” (The capitalization of Issues is literally there in the text.)

“The Jedi Order may have died out, but their dedication to posturing theatrics is alive an well in Master Yoda.” (YOU’RE ONE TO TALK, OBI-WAN)

“This isn’t the first time I’ve had to make an appearance here to facilitate a group therapy session between [Luke] and Yoda.”

“I don’t know why I am defending Anakin -- even in my own head -- especially after he killed me. Old habits.”

2. We Are All About Anakin. for a guy who insists that Anakin Skywalker ceased to be, Obi-Wan sure does let him live rent free in his head. he CANNOT even go 2 dialogue exchanges with Luke without getting 100% lost in an Anakin flashback. I respect that.

3.��“...Jolting awake in the middle of the night thinking, Anakin probably doesn’t know how to swim; I have to teach him how to swim. How do you teach someone to swim?” YES. YES. I FREAKING CALLED THIS. Did I not write this EXACT FLASHBACK into LAWCA????? Take THAT, Ms. Claudia “teenage Obi-Wan didn’t know how to swim” Gray!!!!!!!!! CHECK AND MATE

4. Bail sent reports about how Leia was doing to Obi-Wan while he was on Tatooine. GOOD.

5. THIS ENTIRE PARAGRAPH

MMMMMMMMMMMMMPHGPMFPHG. THIS IS REEFING ON MY HEARTSTRINGS. ALL 3 OF MY FEELINGS ARE WOUNDED.

6. “It isn’t about Anakin anymore, I remind myself.” L O L. You can try to tell yourself that, but we all know the truth, Obi-Wan.

7. “...The incident with Tru Veld and the fireworks in the reflecting pond.” I need to know more about this!!! Who’s going to write the fic.

The Bad:

1. Mackenzie Lee is apparently a very vehement anti-Jedi Order partisan.

“The robes and the ceremony and the rituals and the endless rules that had been carved into me so deeply and at such a young age that I sometimes couldn’t discern what I actually believed in and what had simply been told to me over and over before I was old enough to understand what any of it meant.” 

This strongly intimates that Obi-Wan considers himself to have been almost brainwashed by the Order. Does this sound like the man who has repeatedly called the Jedi his family and struggled to remain one even after the Order was gone because it was the core of his faith and his highest ideal?

There’s an entire paragraph of Obi-Wan mentally blaming Yoda and the Council for being too hard on Anakin, giving him “obstacles no one else had to overcome,” trying “to force him into a mold he would never fit.” And saying, “You can only be pushed and pulled and reformed so much before you break.”

Like... after what Obi-Wan has been through and with his personality, doubt and second-guessing is only normal, and as he says, he’s had nearly 20 years to do this on Tatooine. But this sounds like he is literally saying that the Council sabotaged Anakin and are to blame for his choices. And the sentiment about “only being reformed so much” is a direct contradiction of Jedi beliefs, which are about CONSTANT evolution, seeking, and becoming better over time for everyone.

And this paragraph ends with the sentiment that, “Any Jedi would have fallen.”

ANY JEDI WOULD HAVE FALLEN

Can you imagine Obi-Wan saying that if treated the same way as the Council treated Anakin, ANY JEDI WOULD HAVE FALLEN? Like, how can Anakin even be blamed for his mass murders, right?? Actually, the Jedi Order totally deserves its own genocide, honestly! They practically did it to themselves!! 

Definitely something Obi-Wan Kenobi would say.

“The types of liaisons the Jedi Order had overshot on repressing.” BRO.

Then later, he blames Qui-Gon. 

Then later, he blames himself. “For every way the Council had broken Anakin down, I had stood by and let them.”

Doubt and sadness are natural. But apparently everyone in the whole world is at fault here for Anakin in the space of one day going from wanting to kill the Sith to instead joining them, and killing everyone else he ever knew and loved, except Anakin himself. Where is the Obi-Wan that told Qui-Gon’s ghost in The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi that Anakin “made his own choices”?

This is a big yikes, Mackenzie. Like, if you want to write your anti-Jedi manifesto, that’s fine! Plenty of people have done it! 

But you CANNOT use the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi to do it. That’s just a ridiculous, absolute travesty of characterization.

2. Characterizing Obi-Wan Kenobi is a tightrope of uneasy balance and contradiction, and she falls off it on the “strait-laced, too-rigid, never-broke-a-rule” side repeatedly.

“Qui-Gon had tried to nudge me off that straight and narrow, encouraging an embrace of the spirit of the Code rather than the literal interpretation of it, but his relaxed attitude had only made me more determined to be the Good Jedi.”

“I had only had to think about touching Siri Tachi’s hand under the table at midday meal to feel as though I deserved a punishment handed down from the Council.”

MPHGPMFPHMGJPmfpgmgpjfgufmgmgh. Yes let’s totally ignore that we have it re-canonized in M&A that it was Obi-Wan’s very rebelliousness that got him assigned to Qui-Gon in a feat of reverse psychology. Let’s ignore Legacy of the Jedi and Secrets of the Jedi, where Obi-Wan yells at Qui-Gon in a garden over the whole Siri Tachi affair. 

I’m embarrassed for these quotes, honestly.

oh wow this Obi-Wan story in ESB FACPOV is a hot mess