So too with Bella, her rationality isn’t what makes her special.
It does seem to become progressively more relevant. While it isn’t luminosity that made Bella a witch or Edward’s pseudo soul-mate, those skills become relevant when she uses them to navigate the world from that starting point. We can see Luminosity diverge from canon as Bella makes sensible decisions. For example, I think she wiped out the whole plot line for book two while simultaneously navigating herself and the Cullens away from the most idiotic decisions they made in book 1.
“Luminosity” isn’t Bella’s only skill and it isn’t responsible for determining her starting position but it is worth following her along as she models approximately sane decision making skills while encountering progressively more difficult challenges.
She gave forewarning to expect a half-vampire birth. Obviously Bella isn’t going to give birth to a child herself but if she does in fact use the eggs Rosalie harvested then the child presents the same risk of being misunderstood. If the Volturi have forewarning it will not be necessary to call witnesses to prove that Edward and Bella’s surrogate offspring is not an immortal child.
I had wondered whether Bella would want her children to be (biologically) fathered by a sperm donor or by Edward. While a half-vampire pregnancy does seem problematic the alternative would be to have a child that is vulnerable to death for 17 years and then must endure 3 days of living hell. I assume Bella would prefer the half vampire child if a suitable surrogate volunteered.
On the other hand Bella man not want to put a human through a traumatic pregnancy and prefer a human child that will later be turned. In that case it would be time for Edward and Bella to tour the world, with Edward scanning every male they encounter, looking for the most powerful man-witch they can find!
Note that in this point in Luminosity, Bella has absolutely no reason to believe that half-vampires are possible—and neither have the Volturi.
Just whatever her prior is for that sort of thing working (maybe 0.3 or so). It’s the sort of thing I would expect her to test before she tried anything herself!
Although it sounds more practical to hold off on that sort of thing until you have taken over the world.
Ok. Is that something to do with getting the Volturi on side and avoiding a lot of the trouble there by becoming vamped? I picked up on Victoria creating an army of newborns for the purpose plotting vengeance but only loose impressions of the plot thereafter.
I’ve just been listening to the early parts of Twilight, by the way, and I can see why luminosity!Bella was so adamant with her boundaries regarding pointless mysteriousness. Cannon!Bella rewards obnoxious behaviour with the granting of status and signals of attraction. Fairly believable of an exaggerated gender typical female character but still somewhat pathetic in large doses. Really, being vague, communicating abysmally and being generally inconsistent needn’t be all that impressive.
Victoria is the Big Bad in books 2 and 3 both. In Luminosity, she dies before she has the chance to make a nuisance of herself. No one’s kicking around in Luminosity at this time who seriously wants vengeance on Bella (at least now...)
Yeah, canon!Bella is much more tolerant across all sorts of dimensions than luminous!Bella. The latter is more selfish, more prickly, more inclined to wash her hands of things that don’t seem worth the trouble. Alice didn’t have to give canon!Edward strict instructions about how to treat canon!Bella, because there’s basically nothing he could do to drive her off.
It does seem to become progressively more relevant. While it isn’t luminosity that made Bella a witch or Edward’s pseudo soul-mate, those skills become relevant when she uses them to navigate the world from that starting point. We can see Luminosity diverge from canon as Bella makes sensible decisions. For example, I think she wiped out the whole plot line for book two while simultaneously navigating herself and the Cullens away from the most idiotic decisions they made in book 1.
“Luminosity” isn’t Bella’s only skill and it isn’t responsible for determining her starting position but it is worth following her along as she models approximately sane decision making skills while encountering progressively more difficult challenges.
And book 3. And some major details of book 4, although she hasn’t precluded the broad contour of the story.
Did Bella just eliminate a whole other plot with a single sentence? (At the end of chapter 32.)
The only plot I can think of which that sentence would have eliminated, was already up in flames the minute Bella turned.
She gave forewarning to expect a half-vampire birth. Obviously Bella isn’t going to give birth to a child herself but if she does in fact use the eggs Rosalie harvested then the child presents the same risk of being misunderstood. If the Volturi have forewarning it will not be necessary to call witnesses to prove that Edward and Bella’s surrogate offspring is not an immortal child.
I had wondered whether Bella would want her children to be (biologically) fathered by a sperm donor or by Edward. While a half-vampire pregnancy does seem problematic the alternative would be to have a child that is vulnerable to death for 17 years and then must endure 3 days of living hell. I assume Bella would prefer the half vampire child if a suitable surrogate volunteered.
On the other hand Bella man not want to put a human through a traumatic pregnancy and prefer a human child that will later be turned. In that case it would be time for Edward and Bella to tour the world, with Edward scanning every male they encounter, looking for the most powerful man-witch they can find!
A man-witch: it’s more than a sandwich!
Note that in this point in Luminosity, Bella has absolutely no reason to believe that half-vampires are possible—and neither have the Volturi.
Also, it’s Rosalie, not Rosemary.
Just whatever her prior is for that sort of thing working (maybe 0.3 or so). It’s the sort of thing I would expect her to test before she tried anything herself!
Although it sounds more practical to hold off on that sort of thing until you have taken over the world.
Ok. Is that something to do with getting the Volturi on side and avoiding a lot of the trouble there by becoming vamped? I picked up on Victoria creating an army of newborns for the purpose plotting vengeance but only loose impressions of the plot thereafter.
I’ve just been listening to the early parts of Twilight, by the way, and I can see why luminosity!Bella was so adamant with her boundaries regarding pointless mysteriousness. Cannon!Bella rewards obnoxious behaviour with the granting of status and signals of attraction. Fairly believable of an exaggerated gender typical female character but still somewhat pathetic in large doses. Really, being vague, communicating abysmally and being generally inconsistent needn’t be all that impressive.
Victoria is the Big Bad in books 2 and 3 both. In Luminosity, she dies before she has the chance to make a nuisance of herself. No one’s kicking around in Luminosity at this time who seriously wants vengeance on Bella (at least now...)
Yeah, canon!Bella is much more tolerant across all sorts of dimensions than luminous!Bella. The latter is more selfish, more prickly, more inclined to wash her hands of things that don’t seem worth the trouble. Alice didn’t have to give canon!Edward strict instructions about how to treat canon!Bella, because there’s basically nothing he could do to drive her off.