The Original Twilight Ending Is the Cringiest Thing We've Ever Read
Stephenie Meyer revealed her initial plans for Twilight's finale, and boy is it bizarre and random… Brace yourselves, you're about to witness the pinnacle of cringe!
There are two groups of people in this world: the first ones love the Twilight Saga, and the second ones consider the first weird.
Today, we're hoping to put an end to this divide by pointing out the real weirdo here — the young Stephenie Meyer who had some very, well, peculiar ideas regarding the Saga's finale back in the day.
It's easy to get lost in the sheer number of Twilight versions that have been written, discussed, and even briefly mentioned over the many years since Stephenie Meyer first came up with the idea to create a modern-day vampire story.
From Edward's POV in Midnight Sun to the gender-bent version called Life and Death, Meyer had a lot of funny ideas.
It was actually during the presentation of the latter, the Life and Death version of the Saga, that Stephenie revealed what her initial drafts for Twilight's finale looked like.
The author addressed it when answering one of the fans' questions, and let's just say literally no one was ready for what she shared.
Apparently, at the original finale of Twilight, Jacob and Edward swap bodies.
Yep.
It has something to do with fighting the newborn vampires, but we've no idea how this would've helped.
If you remember the story about spirit warriors in Eclipse, this is exactly what Jacob does: he leaves his body and Edward overtakes it for the battle using his mental abilities. Now, there's a lot of "somehow"s incoming.
Somehow, this trick of theirs helps win the battle against the newborn bloodsuckers. Somehow, no one else knew that Edward and Jacob pulled this off.
Somehow, after the battle, Edward is unable to leave Jacob's body, so Jacob's soul takes over the currently-vacant Edward's shell out of frustration.
Somehow, no one still realizes what happened, including Bella, the Cullens, and the pack.
Everything becomes clear when Edward-in-Jacob's-body first transforms, and everyone sees that the wolf's fur is now silverish instead of brown.
Somehow, this is when everyone notices the entire body swap thing. By the way, the color change is due to the fact that a werewolf's fur is determined by his soul, not his body… Somehow.
Does this sound like a 12-year-old's bizarre fanfic to you? It definitely does to us, but it's the official original ending revealed by the books' author.
The one reason it never made it to the final edit is that Stephenie Meyer's mother hated it so badly that she told her daughter to rewrite it into something more coherent.
This is the cringiest thing we've ever happened to read, and we have some experience in this industry. We don't know what else to say, to be honest.
Actually, there is one thing: God bless Stephenie Meyer's Mom for saving the books from this absolute unit of a plot twist. God bless her.