Happy Halloween and Happy HOA HOA HOA HOA season! I'm finally uploading my Twilight sims. They've been updated and styled based on the Breaking Dawn movies. Bella comes with both her human and vampire forms. Each sim has new custom painted tattoos. Feel free to change whatever you want about them, and have lots of vampiric fun!! Please let me know if you run into any issues and I'll sort them out ASAP. ♡₊˚ 🦢・₊✧🩸🕯️🦇
authors note: Just something short I wanted to write. It's not really a fanfic, but more of a self insert of how I would appropriately react with some events in Twilight. Hope you enjoy!
synopsis: You don't have a filter, which is a good thing (yeah, fuck whoever disagrees) which means that you make your dislike for Bella Swan apparent. It's not because she's mean, quite the opposite, but because you find her survival instincts to be nonexistent.
You had been with the Cullens long enough to know one thing: your family was full of liars. Not malicious ones, just polite ones. Polite to a fault. Polite in the “let’s pretend we’re not all thinking the same thing” way.
Esme smiled through everything. Carlisle rationalized everything. Alice saw everything and said nothing. Emmett laughed everything off. Jasper avoided everything. Rosalie judged everything silently. But you? You said it out loud. So when Bella Swan moved down from Arizona, smelling like the world’s most tempting air freshener and staring at your family like you were her personal Netflix show, you did the only reasonable thing.
You stared back.
Hard.
Unblinking.
Like a cat who just realized the laser pointer might actually be alive.
Across the cafeteria, Bella froze, eyes widening as if she hadn’t expected you to notice the staring, which was insane because she’d been doing it for several days now. Edward elbowed you sharply under the table. “Stop that.”
“She started it.” You said, but gave Edward the pleasure of looking away and slouching deeper in your chair. “And why is she even staring at us? Do humans not know that eye contact means aggression? Or is this a regional problem? Maybe Arizona doesn’t have basic survival instincts.”
“(Y/N).” Edward hissed.
“I’m genuinely asking.”
Rosalie sighed like your existence personally offended her. “She’s curious, (Y/N). Humans get curious.”
“Curious about what? We sit here. We look pretty. We mind our undead business. It’s not like we’re juggling axes or sacrificing goats.”
“Alice suggested the axes once, remember?” Emmett said. “Carlisle said no.”
“And the goats?”
“Also no.”
“Tragic.”
Edward rubbed his temples. “Can everyone please behave? She’s not a threat.”
“Oh, I know she’s not a threat,” you said, stabbing at your boxed apple juice with unnecessary force. “She’s a walking liability. A hazard on legs. She radiates ‘about to trip and break something expensive’ energy.”
“She’s clumsy.” Jasper admitted diplomatically.
“Clumsy? Bro, clumsy is bumping into a chair. Bella looks like gravity filed a restraining order against her and it’s retaliating.”
Emmett choked on a laugh. Jasper pressed his lips together so hard they almost disappeared. Alice was openly beaming now, her chin propped in her hand like she was watching her favorite sitcom. Rosalie, for once, did not immediately scold you. She simply gave a slow, unimpressed blink that meant she agreed but refused to compliment you for it.
Bella's eyes drifted up again: straight to your table, straight to Edward, and then (unfortunately) straight to you. When your eyes met, you raised your brows, silently mouthing, "What are you looking at?" She jerked so hard that the cartoon of milk nearly spilled on the table.
Edward kicked your shin under the table. “Stop terrorizing her.”
You glared at him. “I’m not terrorizing her. I’m observing.”
“You’re glaring.”
“That was a neutral expression.”
“For a vampire about to commit a felony.” Rosalie supplied. You rolled your eyes and reached for your fork. Edward snatched it out of your hand instantly.
“What are you—?"
He hissed under his breath, “Your face looks like you’re about to throw it at her.”
You blinked, and paused to considered it. “Okay, fair. But give it back.”
“No. You don't need to frighten her anymore than you have.”
“I wasn't scaring her,” you said, though no one at the table believed you. “If anything, I’m preparing her. This is enrichment. Like zoo training.”
TIME SKIP
When Edward came home that afternoon, his expression was the exact mix of disgust and existential dread you usually associate with Rosalie encountering a crowded mall. He barely got through the door before you spoke. “What crawled up your ass and died?”
Edward dropped his bag with unnecessary dramatics. “I had Biology with her.”
You recoiled. “Oh my god. And, let me guess, she sat next to you?”
“Yes.”
You slapped a hand over your chest. “A tragedy. A violation. You poor thing.” Edward glared. You shrugged. "No actually, I get it. She smells like dessert to you, right? And instead of avoiding you like a human with basic survival instincts she's like, ‘Oh gee, let me sit beside the immortal bloodsucker and try to befriend him.’ That’s a choice. A stupid one.”
Edward groaned. “It took everything in me not to jump across the table and suck her dry."
You raised a brow. “So this is the part where you decide to stay away from her, right?” Edward didn’t answer. You slapped a hand over your eyes. “Oh no. You’re already obsessed, aren’t you?”
And obsessed he was.
Painfully. Horrifyingly. Criminally.
Two days later, he unknowingly let it slip—and by slip, you mean he confessed it like a man who had forgotten what shame was—that he’d been watching Bella sleep from inside her room like a total creep. It happened during another dramatic Edward Entry, where he appeared at the top of the stairs with that look. That haunted, dreamy, lovesick, vaguely murderous look.
“I’ve discovered something.” he murmured, descending the stairs like a gothic chandelier falling in slow motion.
“A personality?” He ignored you. That was mistake number one.
“She talks in her sleep.” Edward said, voice low and weirdly soft.
You blinked once. Twice. “…Excuse me?”
Edward paused, eyebrows lifting in mild confusion. “Bella. She—”
“—talks in her sleep,” you finished for him. “Yes. Yes, you just said that. My question is: how you know this?”
Emmett’s eyebrows shot up. Jasper straightened in his seat like someone had plugged him into an electrical socket. Rosalie turned her head slowly—very slowly—to glare at Edward, because although she disliked Bella with a passion, she wasn’t about to let her brother be a full blown psycho. Her eyes narrowed into lethal slits.
“Edward. Tell me you’re joking.”
He stiffened. “I—”
“No,” Rosalie snapped, cutting him off like a guillotine. “Don’t. Whatever you say next is going to make me want to hit you, and Carlisle will get mad when I break your jaw.”
Emmett raised a hand helpfully. “I can hold him down.”
Rosalie didn’t even look at him. “He wouldn’t fight back. He’d probably cry about it.”
Jasper’s voice was cautious, like he was approaching a wild animal. “Edward, please tell us how you discovered this?”
Hesitation.
A bad sign.
A very bad sign.
You leaned forward, eyes narrowing. “Edward, where were you standing when she was sleep talking?”
“I wasn’t standing.” he said defensively.
Rosalie looked a heartbeat away from physical violence. “Okay, so you were sitting. Where? On a tree branch? Outside her window like a feral owl?"
He winced. “The rocking chair in her room.”
The room exploded.
Rosalie made a strangled, murderous noise. Jasper froze as if preparing emotionally for Edward’s funeral. Emmett dropped the remote and whispered, “Oh my god. You ARE a creep.” And you stood up so fast your chair skidded backward.
“EDWARD ANTHONY MASEN CULLEN!”
“Don’t use my full name—”
“You sat,” you repeated, stabbing each word into the air like a knife. “In the dark. In the corner. In a rocking chair. Watching a human girl as she slept like some sort of pale, sparkly sleep paralysis demon?"
Edward winced. “When you say it like that—”
“How ELSE am I supposed to say it?” you barked. “You violated every privacy law ever created! Even the unwritten ones! Humans don’t even LIKE when their pets stare at them while they sleep.”
“I didn’t mean—”
“Oh my god,” Rosalie cut in, looking genuinely appalled. “I didn't think you could become even more of a loser than you were."
It was at that moment that Esme entered the room cheerfully, but then froze, noticing the tension. “What’s going on?”
You pointed at Edward with the dramatic fury of a soap opera character. “Oh, it's nothing. Just that your perfect golden boy here has been breaking into Bella Swan’s bedroom and WATCHING HER SLEEP!”
Esme blinked. Then blinked again. “Oh dear...”
Carlisle followed behind her, eyebrows rising. “Edward?”
Edward threw his hands up. “I was making sure she was safe!”
You gaped at him. “SAFE FROM WHAT, EDWARD?! NIGHTMARES? PILLOWS? HER OWN BREATHING?!”
Emmett nodded vigorously. “Bro, imagine waking up and seeing YOU in the corner. I’d yeet myself out the window.”
Jasper nodded. “So would I.”
Edward glared at all of you. “None of you understand—”
“OH TRUST ME,” you barked, “we understand PERFECTLY. You have lost your goddamn mind.”
Rosalie stepped closer, voice low. “If Bella finds out about this, she is going to pass out so fast she’ll crack her skull on her nightstand. And then YOU’LL have to explain to Charlie Swan why his daughter died of fright.”
Emmett held up a finger. “Which would be hilarious—”
Rosalie snapped, “Emmett!”
“—but bad.”
You pinched the bridge of your nose. “Edward, listen carefully. Humans don’t LIKE being watched while unconscious. They tend to—oh, I don’t know—call the police!”
“That’s ridiculous.” Edward scoffed.
“Oh?” you asked sweetly. “And what would YOU do if a stranger sat in YOUR room at night?”
“I would know.” He said smugly.
“Yes,” you said dryly, “because you’re a vampire. Bella is a CHIHUAHUA with the durability of a breadstick.”
“Oh! Well EXCUSE ME,” you said dramatically. “Three encounters. That changes everything. Let’s book the wedding.”
Emmett raised a hand. “Dibs on best man.”
Rosalie hissed. “We are not planning a wedding for the girl he’s currently stalking.”
“I'm not—"
“STALKING!”
ANOTHER TIME SKIP
Edward really lived up to his creep status. Not even a week after stalking the poor girl, he took her into the woods and confirmed that yes, he sparkled like a disco ball in direct sunlight, yes, he was a vampire, and yes, the rest of his family were too. You nearly sprinted into the woods to find the largest tree trunk available, solely to beat him with it.
Rule #1 (if there was a handbook): DO NOT REVEAL YOUR STATUS TO HUMANS.
And what did Edward do? He broke it. Crushed it. Set it on fire. Ran it over with his stupid Volvo. And then? Then he had the audacity—the pure nerve—to invite the girl to your home. Your safe place. The one place you guys didn't need to hide. You met them in the kitchen alongside the rest of your family who were busy making Italiano.
Edward practically glowed with smugness. “So, this is Bella.”
You stared at her.
She stared back.
You blinked slowly, once, twice, like a warning system rebooting. “…Why is she here?”
Esme gasped softly. “(Y/N)!”
Bella flushed, shrinking in on herself. “I—I didn’t mean to intrude—”
“You’re not intruding.” Edward reassured her, giving Bella a soft smile like he hadn't done anything wrong.
You pointed a stiff, accusing finger at him. “Oh, she absolutely is intruding. What happened to subtlety? What happened to discretion? What happened to keeping our kind a secret?”
Bella blinked nervously. “I apologize if me knowing brought you guys any problems—”
You barked a laugh.
Not a cute laugh.
A deranged older sibling losing their patience laugh.
“Oh, sweetheart, you didn’t bring us any problems. He did.”
Edward’s jaw tightened. “(Y/N)—”
“No, no, do not ‘(Y/N)’ me,” you snapped, stepping forward. “Do you have any idea how many decades—DECADES—we’ve spent keeping a low profile? Do you know how many times I’ve had to dodge nosy humans, animal control, conspiracy theorists, and that one lady who swore Emmett was Bigfoot?”
Emmett yelled from behind the kitchen counter, “SHE TOOK A PICTURE OF ME EATING A GRANOLA BAR—WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO?!”
You waved a dismissive hand. “Case in point.”
Bella’s eyes widened. “I—I didn’t know—”
“Of course you didn’t know,” you said. “And you shouldn’t have known anything. About any of us. Because Edward was supposed to handle this like a responsible adult. Instead, he took you to the forest like a dramatically depressed anime character and told you everything.”
Edward hissed, “It wasn’t like that—”
“Oh?” you said. “Did you or did you not ‘say it, out loud’ her into a supernatural TED Talk?” Edward opened his mouth. You didn’t let him finish. “Exactly, you dramatically confessed eternal damnation in a mossy forest like the world’s biggest theatre kid.”
At that moment, you heard the sound of a glass breaking and Jasper's slight cursing. You didn't need to be in the same room to know he looked like a man trying to balance a thousand knifes on his head while walking a tightrope over a pit of Bella-scented lava.
“Okay,” you muttered. “Time for intervention number twelve of the week.” You turned your back on the couple and stepped into the main living room where Jasper stood at the top of the staircase.
"Come on, bro." You said, grabbing him by the wrist and nudging him towards the back hallway where the exit was. "Let’s go take a long walk where no gremlins are messing with you."
Jasper gritted his teeth. “Thank you.”
Edward called out, annoyed, “We’re in the middle of a discussion—!”
You flipped him off without looking back. “Yeah? Well I’m in the middle of keeping your girlfriend alive. You’re welcome.”
tbh Esme was tragically underutilized in the twilight saga. like a woman who is forever frozen in the early stages of motherhood, turning the grief for her son into a fierce need to mother every person that walks into her home?? that Bella was a character who was in desperate need of a mother and Esme was right there in desperate need to always BE a mother?? and then she was literally never used unless she was mothering Edward or glued to Carlisle’s hip, despite the fact that she should have probably been more important to Bella than Carlisle ever was
What is Stephanie Myers's problem making her background characters more interesting than the mains. How am I supposed to pay attention to the guy who died from the Spanish Influenza when twins who were burned at the stake for witch accusations are there. Or the 1920s queen who killed her rapists one by one. Or the guy whose father was a vampire hunter. Or the
A fic based on this ramble I wrote last year, I picked up some lines for Caleb (b99) because I fear my imagination does not go towards cannibal related jokes.
“What kind of blood do you even like?” Emmett asked one day, catching you off guard as you looked over at him.
You responded very simply in response with a: “Huh?”
“I mean, you go on enough about how humans taste,” he said with a little shrug, but you noticed the little grin on his face and you could tell where it was going, “Virgin blood, under the influence, you know.”
“Don’t get him started.” Esme warned with a stern look in her face, but turned to you. “You know I don’t judge dear, but…”
You waved her off, you’d learnt that some of the Cullens didn’t appreciate the comedic timing of your rants of human blood and —more specifically— how long they went on for. “I’ll save it for later.”
“Oh great.” Edward rolled his eyes.
“You can’t say anything!” You said quickly, pointing a finger at him. “You hear thoughts, you get it 24/7, 365, all day, all night, you get this regularly scheduled program now.”
“Doesn’t that mean he can say something?” Alice chimed up with a little giggle.
“Stop ganging up on me!” You swiftly said, slumping into your seat and crossing your arms.
“This is probably the most mild we have ever ‘ganged up on you’, and it was only Emmett.” Jasper added in absentmindedly.
You tutted, shaking your head. “You can be quiet too. Hey— and, you know what? Actually let me—”
“Oh, great.” Edward muttered under his breath, but, of course, you all heard it.
“I wasn’t even going to go on about it!” You quickly said. "Guys, just because I fed on humans, doesn't mean I only think of that!"
There was a beat of silence before your lips upturned into a grin. “Man, my cousin was tasty..."
“<<Reader>>!” Esme was swift to scold, but you only burst out laughing.
#2: The not-so-joke you made when talking to Bella
When Edward told his family that Bella was going to visit, they all immediately turned to you and told you not to say anything that... well, that you would say. Then you were warned that, if you couldn't keep it to yourself, stay silent.
Now, you didn't want to stay silent, but you weren't about to not say the fist thing that came to your mind when you saw the human. She knew that you were vampires, and you assumed she knew that you were someone who had a long era of your undead life where you fed on humans.
You were the last one to have the pleasure of meeting the human, swift to come into the kitchen with a grin. “Bella, you made it!"
"Come give me a hug, welcome to the family, I promise I won't try and eat you." You encouraged, motioning a hand towards you, she seemed uncomfortable with it, so you decided to push further. "But don't come near me, 'cause I will try and eat you."
“What— no, they’re not going to.” Edward tried to say with his face contorted into one of confusion and embarrassment of his family.
Esme tutted and shook her head. “Ignore them, they joke about the wrong things.”
She shot you a warning stare and you, instead, grinned back over to Bella. “Who says I’m joking?”
“They’re joking.” Edward said sternly before shaking his head and making quick excuses to pull Bella away from his make-shift family.
“I think that went well.”
#3: How to take care of evidence (or how you’re meant to…)
“Earlier this morning, a dead body was discovered, which happens to be of the man who was recently charged with domestic violence against his wife, the same man that police were unable to find once charged—”
You’re tuned into the sound of the news playing in the other room, and your lips upturned into a proud smile.
That was your doing, of course.
You weren’t exactly able to stay on an animal-blood only diet, it wasn’t sustaining you as much as you were used to in comparison to the century you had spent feeding on humans.
You and Carlisle made a compromise when you joined the coven: you can feed on humans, sometimes, as long as they aren’t innocent people and you don’t get caught.
Maybe… you weren’t able to keep up with the second part, because you ended up leaving quite a bit of evidence of your kills.
“Oh, look, it’s <<Reader>>’s dinner.” Emmett said absentmindedly, and you gave him a roll of your eyes.
“Horrible dinner.” You muttered under your breath. “Bad blood, something not right.”
“Maybe it would be a good meal if you cleaned up after yourself.” You heard Carlisle speak, noticing him once he walked inside of the living room.
You pull an exaggerated frown, but then shrugged faintly. “I will next time, but people deserved to know that fucker died. What a dick.”
“And how would you clean up after? Throw him into the river where he could be found later on? Burn him? Bury him?” Emmett questioned, looking overly intrigued, and you had him to blame when you went too far into your jokes.
“Eat him.” You said plainly.
The room fell silent, Carlisle and Emmett waiting for you to elaborate, because they had learnt that you would no matter what they said to prevent you from doing so.
"Eating is a good way to get rid of evidence, apart from when you realise you've missed a finger.” You spoke once, your tone oddly serious as your eyes stayed fixated on the news. “How do you think they started to figure out those 'missing persons' weren't just missing?"
“What?” Emmett asked simply.
#4: "Eight and a half"
“You have to be good at some sort of fighting, right?” Emmett said, his eyes narrowed at you, causing you to scoff and wave him off.
You crossed your arms over your chest, slumping in your seat. “God forbid I didn’t want to learn how.”
“Didn’t you brutally murder nine people?” Jasper asked, his face contorted into one of confusion. “Before Carlisle found you, that is.”
“Firstly, I don’t brutally murder people anymore, it’s swift and painless —mostly.” You started, pointed a finger at the Southern vampire before shrugging your shoulders, "Secondly, eight and a half, actually, Carlisle decided to find me in the middle of a really good meal."
Jasper snorted a laugh at that, shaking his head slowly, he could feel the disappointment radiating from you. “Here we go.”
“It was a really good meal!” You swiftly said, a topic of conversation that came up persistently. “Genuinely made me think that the whole ‘the blood of a virgin tastes the best’ thing is real! God, my mouth waters at the thoughts and Carlisle just had to be himself and find me!”
#5: The children joke… was it a joke?
"Why are you complaining about fighting? This should be easy for you, you killed so many people." Edward questioned, crossing his arms over his chest, his face contorted into a snarl.
Bella was in trouble, again, but this trouble was an army of Newborn Vampires. You weren’t exactly excited about fighting, seeing as you had confessed multiple times it wasn’t your strong suit.
You groaned dramatically, crossing your arms over your chest just as he did. “They were children, Edward. Weak, little children, one bonk on the head was all it took."
“Oh my God.” Carlisle sighed, bringing his fingers to his face so that he could pinch the bridge of his nose.
Though, this time was different. Your face was straight, not a single sparkle of amusement in your eyes, your tone level and deadly serious. You had pulled this stunt many times, though, pretending to be telling the truth when you were just joking.
“They weren’t, though.” Alice questioned, eyebrows raised.
“Right.” You said with a shrug.
“Right?” Esme echoed with widened eyes.
You shrugged once more, “Yeah, sure.”
“Yeah, sure?!” Rosalie echoed this time.
“Like I said,” you said with a subtle smirk pulling on your lips. “My cousin was tasty.”
