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->''"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?"''
-->--'''Edward Cullen'''
''Midnight Sun'' is a companion novel to the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series. It is a PerspectiveFlip of the first book, showing Edward's side of the story.
The manuscript leaked in 2008 and the author, Creator/StephenieMeyer, felt so betrayed over the whole thing that she put the project on hold for several years, saying "If I tried to write ''Midnight Sun'' now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die." [[http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html The leaked draft manuscript]] was then put up on Meyer's website. The finished novel was published on August 4, 2020.
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!!''Midnight Sun'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Things which were only alluded to or loosely explained in the original ''Twilight'' novel-- Edward's hunting trip with Emmet, the precise way Edward's powers work, Jessica and Mike's characters, even conversation content between Edward and Bella-- are all explained more thoroughly with Edward's point-of-view now available.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Edward expresses some annoyance about living with three perfectly matched couples, especially when he thinks there's no hope for him and Bella.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
** When Edward runs through scenarios on how to get away with killing Bella in class, he thinks Bella's blood would cool in the five seconds it would take to kill the rest of the class. That's not how temperature works.
** Edward can run on snow without leaving tracks or indentations, despite weighing the same as a human man his size.
** During the van crash, Edward tackles Bella out of the way. The van then ricochets at a ''90 degree angle'' off the truck back toward them for him to stop it with his hands, explained as the "strong iron frame" of the 1950s truck deflecting it. All of this occurs within less than a second.
* CallForward:
** Edward's plans to leave Bella for her own safety solidify in his mind after James almost kills her in the ballet studio. He would do this at the start of ''New Moon''.
** Jacob thinks something's gone rancid in Bella's home and that she's wearing an awful perfume after she dances with Edward-- a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state. Charlie is remarkable to Edward for ''not'' having thoughts in exact words, just emotional tones.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Intentionally or not, Edward's inner monologue frequently evokes school shooters. He spends pages pondering how to most efficiently kill the other 20 people in his classroom while preventing them from escaping or raising an alarm, all so he can feed on Bella.
** His inner monologue on going after Bella when she's at home and her father's away comes off as if he's planning to rape her.
** Edward's exchanges with the school receptionist play out like scenes at the beginning of a porno; he gets her flustered with his voice and she repeatedly reminds herself he's "too young".
%% * EmoTeen: Half the cast.
* HiddenDepths: Edward asks Bella what her favorite movies are at one point, and she gives him quite the interesting list. (In order: the 1995 adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', and ''Film/SomewhereInTime''.)
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Edward constantly complains about how shallow teenagers and humans in general are, constantly looking down on them and calling them silly, and yet he's just as shallow when it comes to his thoughts about Bella. Really he's probably more immature than most of the teens in Forks.
** The first time Edward enters Bella's bedroom while she's asleep, he's repulsed by himself as something no better than "[[ThePeepingTom some sick peeping tom]]" since he's a dangerous vampire. Before she goes to Port Angeles, he tells himself he's not trespassing on her privacy or leering at her the way a peeping tom would; he's ''protecting'' her. After her tells her he's been watching her sleep almost nightly and she blushes, he's offended that she might believe he's just a pervert.
---> '''Edward:''' Are you very angry with me?\\
'''Bella:''' ''[blushing]'' That depends!\\
'''Edward:''' On?\\
'''Bella:''' What you heard!\\
'''Edward:''' ''[thinking] I felt a rush of relief that she did not believe me capable of a viler kind of surveillance. Her only worry was embarrassment at what I might have heard her say? Well, on that matter I could comfort her.'' She ''had nothing to be ashamed of.''
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for breaking into Bella's bedroom and watching her sleep is both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that Bella did not see this as a wrong thing to do.
* LampshadeHanging: Multiple times, Edward acknowledges he is {{stalking| islove}} Bella, "Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker."
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Edward is ''supposed'' to be one.
* MustBeInvited: When Edward first comes round to Bella's house (that she is aware of) she gives him an explicit invitation. He is amused and thinks she may be thinking of this aspect of vampire mythology.
* PaedoHunt: Edward flashbacks to his past as a SerialKillerKiller, focused on a time he killed a paedophile just before he could attack a child.
* PerspectiveFlip: The manuscript is the first book, but from Edward's point of view.
* {{Pun}}: When Edward flees from Fork to escape the temptation to kill Bella, he goes to Alaska, the state nicknamed Land of the ''Midnight Sun''.
* StalkingIsLove: Edward feels guilty and berates himself for stalking Bella, but justifies it to himself as protecting Bella from harm or death by speeding cars, stray meteorites, or [[{{Hypocrite}} creepy men sneaking into her bedroom to watch her]]. He still does it anyways despite acknowledging to himself that it's criminal-- according to human laws. As in ''Twilight'', Bella isn't bothered by it when he tells her; he was "protecting" her when he saved her from a would-be rapist in Port Angeles. Her only concern is what he might've overheard her say in her sleep.
--> She smiled wider again. Her clear, dark eyes seemed deeper than ever. I'd just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Bella's sleep-talking is mentioned in ''Twilight'', but we actually see it here from Edward's perspective.
* TitleDrop: The title is how Edward sees Bella after she says his name in her sleep:
--> '''Edward:''' 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?
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: In the leaked manuscript, Edward finds Bella cute when she's mad, repeatedly calling her a "furious kitten that thinks it's a tiger" among other things.
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->''"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?"''
-->--'''Edward Cullen'''
''Midnight Sun'' is a companion novel to the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series. It is a PerspectiveFlip of the first book, showing Edward's side of the story.
The manuscript leaked in 2008 and the author, Creator/StephenieMeyer, felt so betrayed over the whole thing that she put the project on hold for several years, saying "If I tried to write ''Midnight Sun'' now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die." [[http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html The leaked draft manuscript]] was then put up on Meyer's website. The finished novel was published on August 4, 2020.
----
!!''Midnight Sun'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Things which were only alluded to or loosely explained in the original ''Twilight'' novel-- Edward's hunting trip with Emmet, the precise way Edward's powers work, Jessica and Mike's characters, even conversation content between Edward and Bella-- are all explained more thoroughly with Edward's point-of-view now available.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Edward expresses some annoyance about living with three perfectly matched couples, especially when he thinks there's no hope for him and Bella.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
** When Edward runs through scenarios on how to get away with killing Bella in class, he thinks Bella's blood would cool in the five seconds it would take to kill the rest of the class. That's not how temperature works.
** Edward can run on snow without leaving tracks or indentations, despite weighing the same as a human man his size.
** During the van crash, Edward tackles Bella out of the way. The van then ricochets at a ''90 degree angle'' off the truck back toward them for him to stop it with his hands, explained as the "strong iron frame" of the 1950s truck deflecting it. All of this occurs within less than a second.
* CallForward:
** Edward's plans to leave Bella for her own safety solidify in his mind after James almost kills her in the ballet studio. He would do this at the start of ''New Moon''.
** Jacob thinks something's gone rancid in Bella's home and that she's wearing an awful perfume after she dances with Edward-- a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state. Charlie is remarkable to Edward for ''not'' having thoughts in exact words, just emotional tones.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Intentionally or not, Edward's inner monologue frequently evokes school shooters. He spends pages pondering how to most efficiently kill the other 20 people in his classroom while preventing them from escaping or raising an alarm, all so he can feed on Bella.
** His inner monologue on going after Bella when she's at home and her father's away comes off as if he's planning to rape her.
** Edward's exchanges with the school receptionist play out like scenes at the beginning of a porno; he gets her flustered with his voice and she repeatedly reminds herself he's "too young".
%% * EmoTeen: Half the cast.
* HiddenDepths: Edward asks Bella what her favorite movies are at one point, and she gives him quite the interesting list. (In order: the 1995 adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', and ''Film/SomewhereInTime''.)
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Edward constantly complains about how shallow teenagers and humans in general are, constantly looking down on them and calling them silly, and yet he's just as shallow when it comes to his thoughts about Bella. Really he's probably more immature than most of the teens in Forks.
** The first time Edward enters Bella's bedroom while she's asleep, he's repulsed by himself as something no better than "[[ThePeepingTom some sick peeping tom]]" since he's a dangerous vampire. Before she goes to Port Angeles, he tells himself he's not trespassing on her privacy or leering at her the way a peeping tom would; he's ''protecting'' her. After her tells her he's been watching her sleep almost nightly and she blushes, he's offended that she might believe he's just a pervert.
---> '''Edward:''' Are you very angry with me?\\
'''Bella:''' ''[blushing]'' That depends!\\
'''Edward:''' On?\\
'''Bella:''' What you heard!\\
'''Edward:''' ''[thinking] I felt a rush of relief that she did not believe me capable of a viler kind of surveillance. Her only worry was embarrassment at what I might have heard her say? Well, on that matter I could comfort her.'' She ''had nothing to be ashamed of.''
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for breaking into Bella's bedroom and watching her sleep is both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that Bella did not see this as a wrong thing to do.
* LampshadeHanging: Multiple times, Edward acknowledges he is {{stalking| islove}} Bella, "Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker."
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Edward is ''supposed'' to be one.
* MustBeInvited: When Edward first comes round to Bella's house (that she is aware of) she gives him an explicit invitation. He is amused and thinks she may be thinking of this aspect of vampire mythology.
* PaedoHunt: Edward flashbacks to his past as a SerialKillerKiller, focused on a time he killed a paedophile just before he could attack a child.
* PerspectiveFlip: The manuscript is the first book, but from Edward's point of view.
* {{Pun}}: When Edward flees from Fork to escape the temptation to kill Bella, he goes to Alaska, the state nicknamed Land of the ''Midnight Sun''.
* StalkingIsLove: Edward feels guilty and berates himself for stalking Bella, but justifies it to himself as protecting Bella from harm or death by speeding cars, stray meteorites, or [[{{Hypocrite}} creepy men sneaking into her bedroom to watch her]]. He still does it anyways despite acknowledging to himself that it's criminal-- according to human laws. As in ''Twilight'', Bella isn't bothered by it when he tells her; he was "protecting" her when he saved her from a would-be rapist in Port Angeles. Her only concern is what he might've overheard her say in her sleep.
--> She smiled wider again. Her clear, dark eyes seemed deeper than ever. I'd just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Bella's sleep-talking is mentioned in ''Twilight'', but we actually see it here from Edward's perspective.
* TitleDrop: The title is how Edward sees Bella after she says his name in her sleep:
--> '''Edward:''' 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?
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: In the leaked manuscript, Edward finds Bella cute when she's mad, repeatedly calling her a "furious kitten that thinks it's a tiger" among other things.
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[[caption-width-right:300:Edward infects Bella with his toxic seeds.]]
->''"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?"''
-->--'''Edward Cullen'''
''Midnight Sun'' is a companion novel to the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series. It is a PerspectiveFlip of the first book, showing Edward's side of the story.
The manuscript leaked in 2008 and the author, Creator/StephenieMeyer, felt so betrayed over the whole thing that she put the project on hold for several years, saying "If I tried to write ''Midnight Sun'' now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die." [[http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html The leaked draft manuscript]] was then put up on Meyer's website. The finished novel was published on August 4, 2020.
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!!''Midnight Sun'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Things which were only alluded to or loosely explained in the original ''Twilight'' novel-- Edward's hunting trip with Emmet, the precise way Edward's powers work, Jessica and Mike's characters, even conversation content between Edward and Bella-- are all explained more thoroughly with Edward's point-of-view now available.
* AloneAmongTheCouples: Edward expresses some annoyance about living with three perfectly matched couples, especially when he thinks there's no hope for him and Bella.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics:
** When Edward runs through scenarios on how to get away with killing Bella in class, he thinks Bella's blood would cool in the five seconds it would take to kill the rest of the class. That's not how temperature works.
** Edward can run on snow without leaving tracks or indentations, despite weighing the same as a human man his size.
** During the van crash, Edward tackles Bella out of the way. The van then ricochets at a ''90 degree angle'' off the truck back toward them for him to stop it with his hands, explained as the "strong iron frame" of the 1950s truck deflecting it. All of this occurs within less than a second.
* CallForward:
** Edward's plans to leave Bella for her own safety solidify in his mind after James almost kills her in the ballet studio. He would do this at the start of ''New Moon''.
** Jacob thinks something's gone rancid in Bella's home and that she's wearing an awful perfume after she dances with Edward-- a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state. Charlie is remarkable to Edward for ''not'' having thoughts in exact words, just emotional tones.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Intentionally or not, Edward's inner monologue frequently evokes school shooters. He spends pages pondering how to most efficiently kill the other 20 people in his classroom while preventing them from escaping or raising an alarm, all so he can feed on Bella.
** His inner monologue on going after Bella when she's at home and her father's away comes off as if he's planning to rape her.
** Edward's exchanges with the school receptionist play out like scenes at the beginning of a porno; he gets her flustered with his voice and she repeatedly reminds herself he's "too young".
%% * EmoTeen: Half the cast.
* HiddenDepths: Edward asks Bella what her favorite movies are at one point, and she gives him quite the interesting list. (In order: the 1995 adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', and ''Film/SomewhereInTime''.)
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Edward constantly complains about how shallow teenagers and humans in general are, constantly looking down on them and calling them silly, and yet he's just as shallow when it comes to his thoughts about Bella. Really he's probably more immature than most of the teens in Forks.
** The first time Edward enters Bella's bedroom while she's asleep, he's repulsed by himself as something no better than "[[ThePeepingTom some sick peeping tom]]" since he's a dangerous vampire. Before she goes to Port Angeles, he tells himself he's not trespassing on her privacy or leering at her the way a peeping tom would; he's ''protecting'' her. After her tells her he's been watching her sleep almost nightly and she blushes, he's offended that she might believe he's just a pervert.
---> '''Edward:''' Are you very angry with me?\\
'''Bella:''' ''[blushing]'' That depends!\\
'''Edward:''' On?\\
'''Bella:''' What you heard!\\
'''Edward:''' ''[thinking] I felt a rush of relief that she did not believe me capable of a viler kind of surveillance. Her only worry was embarrassment at what I might have heard her say? Well, on that matter I could comfort her.'' She ''had nothing to be ashamed of.''
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for breaking into Bella's bedroom and watching her sleep is both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that Bella did not see this as a wrong thing to do.
* LampshadeHanging: Multiple times, Edward acknowledges he is {{stalking| islove}} Bella, "Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker."
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Edward is ''supposed'' to be one.
* MustBeInvited: When Edward first comes round to Bella's house (that she is aware of) she gives him an explicit invitation. He is amused and thinks she may be thinking of this aspect of vampire mythology.
* PaedoHunt: Edward flashbacks to his past as a SerialKillerKiller, focused on a time he killed a paedophile just before he could attack a child.
* PerspectiveFlip: The manuscript is the first book, but from Edward's point of view.
* {{Pun}}: When Edward flees from Fork to escape the temptation to kill Bella, he goes to Alaska, the state nicknamed Land of the ''Midnight Sun''.
* StalkingIsLove: Edward feels guilty and berates himself for stalking Bella, but justifies it to himself as protecting Bella from harm or death by speeding cars, stray meteorites, or [[{{Hypocrite}} creepy men sneaking into her bedroom to watch her]]. He still does it anyways despite acknowledging to himself that it's criminal-- according to human laws. As in ''Twilight'', Bella isn't bothered by it when he tells her; he was "protecting" her when he saved her from a would-be rapist in Port Angeles. Her only concern is what he might've overheard her say in her sleep.
--> She smiled wider again. Her clear, dark eyes seemed deeper than ever. I'd just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.
* TalkingInYourSleep: Bella's sleep-talking is mentioned in ''Twilight'', but we actually see it here from Edward's perspective.
* TitleDrop: The title is how Edward sees Bella after she says his name in her sleep:
--> '''Edward:''' 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?
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: In the leaked manuscript, Edward finds Bella cute when she's mad, repeatedly calling her a "furious kitten that thinks it's a tiger" among other things.
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* AdaptationExpansion: Things which were only alluded to or loosely explained in the original ''Twilight'' novel — Edward's hunting trip with Emmet, the precise way Edward's powers work, Jessica and Mike's characters, even conversation content between Edward and Bella — are all explained more thoroughly with Edward's PoV now available.
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* AdaptationExpansion: Things which were only alluded to or loosely explained in the original ''Twilight'' novel — novel-- Edward's hunting trip with Emmet, the precise way Edward's powers work, Jessica and Mike's characters, even conversation content between Edward and Bella — Bella-- are all explained more thoroughly with Edward's PoV point-of-view now available.
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** Bella's blood would not ''actually'' cool in the five seconds it would take Edward to kill the rest of the class. Although in fairness, he was deliberately running through scenarios in his head and rejecting them just to keep himself from acting; it didn't really matter whether his reasoning was correct, so long as it kept his head busy.
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** When Edward runs through scenarios on how to get away with killing Bella in class, he thinks Bella's blood would not ''actually'' cool in the five seconds it would take Edward to kill the rest of the class. Although in fairness, he was deliberately running through scenarios in his head and rejecting them just to keep himself from acting; it didn't really matter whether his reasoning was correct, so long as it kept his head busy.That's not how temperature works.
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** Jacob thinks Bella smells bad after she dances with Edward - a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state.
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** Jacob thinks Bella smells bad something's gone rancid in Bella's home and that she's wearing an awful perfume after she dances with Edward - Edward-- a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state. Charlie is remarkable to Edward for ''not'' having thoughts in exact words, just emotional tones.
* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Everyone seems to think in (usually) complete, plot-relevant sentences. This seems to be actually treated as how things work rather than a TranslationConvention, as the narration contains statements such as "His thoughts were no longer coherent", as if coherence were the default state. Charlie is remarkable to Edward for ''not'' having thoughts in exact words, just emotional tones.
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** Intentionally or not, Edward's inner monologue frequently evokes school shooters. Some have compared it to a stalker/pedophile/rapist/serial killer's how-to guide. His inner monologue on going after Bella when she's at home and her father's away comes off as if he's planning to rape her.
** Edward's exchange with a school secretary feels alarmingly like a dialogue scene at the beginning of a porno.
** Edward's exchange with a school secretary feels alarmingly like a dialogue scene at the beginning of a porno.
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** Intentionally or not, Edward's inner monologue frequently evokes school shooters. Some have compared it He spends pages pondering how to a stalker/pedophile/rapist/serial killer's how-to guide. most efficiently kill the other 20 people in his classroom while preventing them from escaping or raising an alarm, all so he can feed on Bella.
** His inner monologue on going after Bella when she's at home and her father's away comes off as if he's planning to rape her.
** Edward'sexchange exchanges with a the school secretary feels alarmingly receptionist play out like a dialogue scene scenes at the beginning of a porno.porno; he gets her flustered with his voice and she repeatedly reminds herself he's "too young".
** His inner monologue on going after Bella when she's at home and her father's away comes off as if he's planning to rape her.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Edward constantly complains about how shallow teenagers and humans in general are, constantly looking down on them and calling them silly, and yet he's just as shallow when it comes to his thoughts about Bella. Really he's probably more immature than most of the teens in Forks.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for watching Bella sleep works as both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that neither Bella nor Edward seemed to see this as a wrong thing to do.
%%* LampshadeHanging: On Edward's stalking factor.
%%--> "I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling."
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for watching Bella sleep works as both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that neither Bella nor Edward seemed to see this as a wrong thing to do.
%%* LampshadeHanging: On Edward's stalking factor.
%%--> "I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling."
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* {{Hypocrite}}: {{Hypocrite}}:
** Edward constantly complains about how shallow teenagers and humans in general are, constantly looking down on them and calling them silly, and yet he's just as shallow when it comes to his thoughts about Bella. Really he's probably more immature than most of the teens in Forks.
** The first time Edward enters Bella's bedroom while she's asleep, he's repulsed by himself as something no better than "[[ThePeepingTom some sick peeping tom]]" since he's a dangerous vampire. Before she goes to Port Angeles, he tells himself he's not trespassing on her privacy or leering at her the way a peeping tom would; he's ''protecting'' her. After her tells her he's been watching her sleep almost nightly and she blushes, he's offended that she might believe he's just a pervert.
---> '''Edward:''' Are you very angry with me?\\
'''Bella:''' ''[blushing]'' That depends!\\
'''Edward:''' On?\\
'''Bella:''' What you heard!\\
'''Edward:''' ''[thinking] I felt a rush of relief that she did not believe me capable of a viler kind of surveillance. Her only worry was embarrassment at what I might have heard her say? Well, on that matter I could comfort her.'' She ''had nothing to be ashamed of.''
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for breaking into Bella's bedroom and watchingBella her sleep works as is both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that neither Bella nor Edward seemed to did not see this as a wrong thing to do.
%%* * LampshadeHanging: On Edward's stalking factor.
%%--> "I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.Multiple times, Edward acknowledges he is {{stalking| islove}} Bella, "Like a stalker. An obsessed stalker. An obsessed vampire stalker."
** Edward constantly complains about how shallow teenagers and humans in general are, constantly looking down on them and calling them silly, and yet he's just as shallow when it comes to his thoughts about Bella. Really he's probably more immature than most of the teens in Forks.
** The first time Edward enters Bella's bedroom while she's asleep, he's repulsed by himself as something no better than "[[ThePeepingTom some sick peeping tom]]" since he's a dangerous vampire. Before she goes to Port Angeles, he tells himself he's not trespassing on her privacy or leering at her the way a peeping tom would; he's ''protecting'' her. After her tells her he's been watching her sleep almost nightly and she blushes, he's offended that she might believe he's just a pervert.
---> '''Edward:''' Are you very angry with me?\\
'''Bella:''' ''[blushing]'' That depends!\\
'''Edward:''' On?\\
'''Bella:''' What you heard!\\
'''Edward:''' ''[thinking] I felt a rush of relief that she did not believe me capable of a viler kind of surveillance. Her only worry was embarrassment at what I might have heard her say? Well, on that matter I could comfort her.'' She ''had nothing to be ashamed of.''
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for breaking into Bella's bedroom and watching
%%--> "I’d just admitted to stalking her, and she was smiling.
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* MustBeInvited: When Edward first comes round to Bella's house (that she is aware of) she gives him an explicit invitation. He is amused and thinks she may be thinking of this aspect of vampire mythology
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%%* StalkingIsLove: Slightly deconstructed in that Edward berates himself for his stalker behavior. Slightly because he still does it anyways, and despite acknowledging in words that it is creepy does not seem to have corresponding feelings about it.
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* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Edward finds Bella cute when she's mad, repeatedly calling her a "furious kitten that thinks it's a tiger" among other things.
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* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: In the leaked manuscript, Edward finds Bella cute when she's mad, repeatedly calling her a "furious kitten that thinks it's a tiger" among other things.
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* HiddenDepths: Edward asks Bella what her favorite movies are at one point, and she gives him quite the interesting list. (In order: the 1995 adaptation of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', and ''Film/SomewhereInTime''.)
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* CallForward:
** Edward's plans to leave Bella for her own safety solidify in his mind after James almost kills her in the ballet studio. He would do this at the start of ''New Moon''.
** Jacob thinks Bella smells bad after she dances with Edward - a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
** Edward's plans to leave Bella for her own safety solidify in his mind after James almost kills her in the ballet studio. He would do this at the start of ''New Moon''.
** Jacob thinks Bella smells bad after she dances with Edward - a nod to Jacob becoming a werewolf later in the series, and to how vampires and werewolves smell bad to one another.
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* TalkingInYourSleep: Bella's sleep-talking is mentioned in ''Twilight'', but we actually see it here from Edward's perspective.
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* AloneAmongstTheCouples: Edward expresses some annoyance about living with three perfectly matched couples, especially when he thinks there's no hope for him and Bella.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Edward's criticism and disgust at himself for watching Bella sleep works as both an emotion he is feeling in-story and an acknowledgment of a common criticism of ''Twilight'', namely that neither Bella nor Edward seemed to see this as a wrong thing to do.
* PaedoHunt: Edward flashbacks to his past as a SerialKillerKiller, focused on a time he killed a paedophile just before he could attack a child.
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