bella and edythe seeing each other for the first time except this time they're in a university library and they're both grad students
thanks to everyone on the last post that helped me out w edythe's eye color and info about her human life... thought i could get away with this au w just having reread the first book and watched the movies but i was wrong :/
I think part of the problem with Edward (apart from the control issues and being in a relationship with a child) is that we never get to know more about him from when he was human.
I don't even know what his eye color was, and believe me, I looked!
I just keep having these scenes in my head where Edythe and Bella are talking about her past and what she was like before she was turned. Maybe she has an old picture of herself from before? Maybe she has some from the 30's, the 60's???
So here's Edythe in like 1917ish based on some fashion plates!
Bella, half vampire and half human, was raised by her vampire dad. She and Charlie drank animal blood and lived a nomadic lifestyle. Which meant they moved around a lot and they lived away from humans. Bella was home schooled and rarely interacted with humans. Aside from eating food and sleeping, Bella lived more as a vampire than a human. As a result her human side was suppressed. It was a subconscious thing and Charlie never meant for Bella to repress half of herself. It's just what happened.
Then Charlie died and Bella went on the run from James and ended up hiding out in Forks. Her situation provides her with the opportunity to live amongst humans. For the first time in her life she has neighbors and she could go to school. Though now she's suppressing her vampire half. Doing her best to blend in with the humans and hoping that it'll somehow be enough to keep James off her trail. At least for a while.
For some reason or another, Bella's always repressed a part of herself. Until she met the Cullens. Here was a coven, each member just as much a vampire as Charlie had been, that lived amongst humans as if they were one of them. Most of them attended school. Their coven leader was a doctor and spent his days treating humans. These vampires had found a way to exist in both worlds. Something Bella, a literal offspring of those worlds, hadn't managed to figure out. And through becoming a member of the Cullen coven she learns to do exactly that. Because of that, Bella learns to be a better and balanced version of herself.