Bella and Edward Are (Barely) Two Different People
Fresh from my Midnight Sun rereading, the parallels and similarities between these two just. stood out like a sore thumb. So without further ado, here are the receipts:
Bella being afraid of seeing Edward and Edward being afraid of seeing Bella for an entirely different reason
Edward being disgruntled about Forks and high school and high key thinks he is better than this. Bella being disgruntled about Forks and high school and high key thinks she is better than this.
Both are meh about anyone human. Except Angela. Angela is cool and kind and honest. Ben is too. They’re nice
Rosalie: *exists* Bella and Edward: 😬 🤢 😡 and eventually 🤝
Bella wants to pair Mike and Jessica, tries, and succeeds. Edward wants to pair Angela and Ben, tries, and succeeds. They should open a matchmaking agency methinks
Bella winks. Edward winks. Wink wink
Bella calls Edward her Romeo like the dramatic classic lit nerd she is. Edward calls Bella his Persephone like the dramatic classic lit nerd he is
Edward loves speed, Bella quickly develops a liking for Edward running, motorcycles speed
Tanya and Mike: *exist* Bella and Edward: 😡😭😡😩😡🥺😡
Both go from Debussy to…this? (Linkin Park)
Edward’s favorite color quickly changing to brown and Bella’s quickly changing to topaz. Eye color is clearly a big deal
Bella is mother in a depressingly parentified way. Edward is mother in a Latina mom-coded way
They’re okay-looking at best and ugly at worst…except that most everyone gawks and wants to date them and thinks dirty thoughts about them. But that means nothing, that’s because they’re new to town/an alluring vampire. It’s probably not because people think they’re genuinely hot, lol
Speaking of which, what does Bella see in Edward and Edward see in Bella?! Can they believe that their love would really want to be with them? Isn’t that just amazing? Isn’t that some inscrutable and unfathomable miracle of the universe?!!!
Edward thinks he’s a monster for being a vampire (understandable). Bella thinks she’s a monster for briefly cheating on Edward with Jacob (also understandable). Both should fucking chill
Bella “I’m Switzerland” 🤝 Edward “An obsessed vampire stalker”
Bella has her useful mind shield and Edward his mind reading. It’s like mirrors except the inverse
Bella forgives Edward for everything leaving her dead inside with a figurative gaping hole in her chest. Edward forgives Bella for everything cheating on him with Jacob and just loving Jacob in general. Very forgiving people
Edward is in her books, Bella is in the stars of the night sky. Bella is the girl and Edward is him. If they are together, it is heaven. This is to say, both cannot and do not chill
Edward: “Soft perfection” 🤝 Bella: “Perfect”
Bella cannot function without Edward. Edward cannot function without Bella. Romeo and Juliet quietly prepare a lawsuit. There can be room for only one epic literary het couple fucked over by love and this cursed heteropatriarchal Christofascist life. And it ain’t the vampire and his favorite blood bag
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Not to sound all like “I don’t actually like the canon character” however clone wars Obi-Wan is mmmmm not what I expected. I certainly like him, but he doesn’t capture something that movie obi-wan does.
It could just be the uncanny valley-ness of his design and voice, however sometimes I feel like he’s too sassy. His sass is important but I really do think he’s missing those small moments of gentleness and compassion that made Ewan’s Obi-Wan stick out to me so much.
I like how clone wars digs into how Obi-Wan isn’t always a great person, how he’s loyal to the Jedi to a fault, and is actively aware Something Is Wrong with Anakin but can never bring himself to acknowledge it, as well as his fear that he’s loosing grip of Anakin and doesn’t know how to guide him anymore. 
all of that is so good and true to Obi-Wan, but I feel like his calm Jedi composure isn’t there anymore. This could just be a result of the fact that it’s an animated show and the characters are more animated, but I do miss the way he was just always vibing and the calm cadence he spoke in. he really felt like someone you would call a Jedi master, and while Anakin gets all of his recklessness and smack talk from Obi-Wan, those parts of him are just cranked up to 11.
And like idk. I’m torn. I like a lot of what clone wars does with Obi-Wan, the layers it adds to his character, but sometimes when I watch him I’m like “you’re my boy, but also you’re not”
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