Fans Came Up With an Alternative Twilight Finale, And It's Better Than The Real One
If not Edward's wife, what else could Bella have become?
Summary:
- Bella shouldn’t have become a mother.
- The perfect way to explain Bella's uniqueness was that she wasn't human at all.
- Fans still feel that Bella's character lacked the journey of self-discovery.
The Twilight Saga did an excellent job of dividing viewers into different fan groups and pitting them against each other. For example, there were those who rooted for Jacob to end up with Bella, but of course there was also a huge group of people who thought that Edward was the one for her.
Another example is when half of the audience wanted Bella to become a vampire as soon as possible, and the other half wanted her to explore her life as an adult and not rush into such a serious decision.
Actually, the question of Bella's finale is the one that fans are most concerned about. For example, many fans weren't so keen on the idea of Bella getting married. But still, if they had to choose between Bella the wife or Bella the mother, the wife would be the choice.
Fans would love to see her return home after the honeymoon and go to college and have some kind of normal life, because that is what she told Edward she wanted. That way, she would have human experience, and only then would Cullen change her.
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But this theory is a bit boring when you really think about it. The most unexpected and truly shocking way to develop Bella's story would have been to expand her true identity beyond the human-vampire question.
“I would have loved to see them get married, do the bite on the honeymoon, then go home to Forks. Except, the bite doesn’t work. Bella cannot be changed. Just like certain abilities cannot affect her. So the Volturi come after them because Bella is still human. Except, she’s not. Turns out Bella is some other mythical being they hadn’t encountered before,” Redditor alexxmama said.
This theory really made a difference in the fandom because it started to create a lot of sub-theories that made sense. For example, some fans mentioned that it would have been interesting to see Bella frustrated by the failure of the change and how that would affect her relationship with the Cullens.
What fans wanted for Bella was to see her journey of self-discovery. Not the forced short-term vampire one where she could finally hear the birds and see the dust in the air, but something deeper about her personality.