Let's say that Meyer never learns about the Quileutes. For the sake of everyone's blood pressure, let's say that Meyer has no idea to use ANY marginalized group as the catalyst for Bella discovering the truth about Edward. How do you think she'd write Bella finding out the truth if Edward would never tell her? Counterpoint, how would YOU write Bella finding out the truth?
I feel in my heart that if SM didn’t have Jacob to tell her, it would either be Alice or Rosalie. There was a deleted scene from the movie script where Alice and Rosalie are in the girls bathroom at school and kind of watching Bella (not like, while she’s actually using the toilet, lmao, just you know hovering and observing her in the public part) and I could imagine that happening here too and then them playing it off to Edward as like “we just HAPPNED to be in the bathroom at the same time” “You don’t USE the bathroom!” “We use the MIRROR!”
If it’s Alice, it’s sweet and nice and eye-rolling about how how ridiculous Edward is. “Hi! I’m Alice, Edward’s sister! He’s going to kill me for this but I know he’s never going to be able to tell you himself, so guess what? We’re vampires!!”If it’s Rosalie, given how much SM dislikes her, it’s probably going to be Rosalie trying to scare Bella and her being aggressive and ‘mean.’ “Look, I don’t know why my idiot brother is so OBSESSED with you but you really need to stay away from him–and us. He’s barely holding it together. He’s never wanted someone’s blood so much in his whole life. That’s right–we’re VAMPIRES. This little . .. whatever it is . .. you have going on with Edward is putting my whole family at risk and is probably going to end with you dead one way or another.”
(I know that Rosalie is big on secrecy and it would be Out of Character to a degree for her to be the one to spill it, but OOC has never stopped SM before, and I COULD see her throwing Rosalie under the bus here to spare Edward having to make this confession).
Alternatively it could be Emmett. Either he accidentally says something incriminating or he’s trying to help Edward out by spilling the beans, but Bella’s just like WHO IS THIS GIANT BOY AND WHY IS HE TALKING ABOUT FLOWERY BLOOD.
If I did it, I would expand Bella’s reading list beyond classic romances. My Bella’s read Dracula, she’s read Tuck Everlasting, she’s read The Picture of Dorian Gray, she’s read Frankenstein. She’s got the literary vocabulary to not only compare Edward to Romeo and Heathcliff, but also to Dorian Gray and Jesse Tuck. So she’s able to quickly move on from radioactive spiders and kryptonite to “an old painting in the attic” or “drank from an enchanted spring.”
I think the movie was also smart to bring in James and his crew sooner and have people being mysteriously killed in the area. That might be enough to tip Bella from “general immortality” toward ‘vampires’ based on her reading. Then Jacob doesn’t have to tell her and no Indigenous culture is appropriated and rewritten. She figures it out herself based on characters from books she’s read.
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