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a random embry thought:

I've always personally headcanoned Embry as a HUGE fantasy nerd, but especially for LoTR...and it suddenly occurred to me that the Peter Jackson LoTR films all came out in the years leading up to the events of the Twilight Saga and watching those movies with his best friends was probably so important to him.

Like...

Embry who has a beat-up, mismatched set of the series pieced together from garage sales and thrifting. He doesn't care that they don't match, that he's read them so much that they are falling apart, covered in scotch tape with pages glued back in. He reads those books over and over and over again.

Embry begging Quil (who has read the books and is ALMOST as big of a fan as Embry) and Jacob (who has literally NEVER read the books) to go with him to Forks to watch the movies together. And they tease him and act like they won't go but of course they do because that's thier best friend, you know?

Embry re-reading every book before watching the movie and making little notes in his head about what they changed, what he liked, whatever he didn't like.

Tiffany drove them to the first one, Quil's mom drove them to the second one, and Harry Clearwater drove them to the last. Harry liked LoTR as well and he and Embry talked about the books. It later occurs to Embry (as well as the others) that this was the last normal thing they did with Harry before things really started getting strange on the reservation and Harry, as well as many other people at home, became more distant, more focused on a danger the boys could not see. They were too young and too happy to see it coming.

Embry who is so stoked when Quil and Jake give him a DVD of the first movie for his birthday, watching it together on the old, barely working television at Embry's place and eating strawberry cake.

Embry who was just a kid that loved fantasy and watching movies with his best friends and being totally normally.

Embry watching that movie over and over again after he shifts and before his friends do, because he misses them so much it hurts and it's all he can think to do.

Embry who loved stories about dark, perilous adventures and monsters and the people who defeat the evil that lurks in the dark...and now he has to live such a story.

Turns out, those are only fun to read about.

(and I keep coming back to this one Sam quote from the first book...Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling river slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mist, dark adventure lay in front.)

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I wanted to tell you that, while I'm not active in the Twilight fandom anymore, you describing Embry Call's eyes as "new moon eyes" changed my brain chemistry. I think about it nearly every time I see someone with dark eyes. It's a really beautiful descriptor.

As a writer, I love hearing stuff like this. We all have little writing quirks and descriptions and things like that and hearing Readers picking up on those and loving them is like crack to us.

Seriously, tell your favorite fic Writers this stuff! It's enrichment! It's good for us!

But Embry Call...

Embry, with his raven wing hair and pretty face and soft, deep voice.

Embry, with his new moon eyes, so dark and lovely and so full of longing.

Because it doesn't just mean "dark" to me. Yes, his eyes are dark. So brown they're black and endless. The kind of soft darkness you could fall into sweetly and never, ever care if you come out again. But they're big and surrounded by lashes and luminous, a little bit of light hidden within the shadows. You have to know him to see it, or perhaps, catch him in the right moment, but it's there, that light. That longing.

I started using it to describe Embry/the other wolves and to tie in with my favorite Twilight book but, interesting enough, it was another character from another book that actually created it for me in writings that I never published:

Johnny Cade from The Outsiders.

And I saw so much of the pack in the gang and so much of Johnny in Embry that the two became tied together and began to share the term in my head and later in my writing.

Guys, I have so many Outsiders/Wolfpack thoughts but this is not the post for that.

This is the post about people with lovely, dark eyes and how we both see a new moon when we look at them, 🌑Anon. You may not be active in the fandom anymore but you and I see the same lovely eyes and the same moon.

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Potentially a big ask but what do you think Embry’s sun sign is?? Or even his big three or chart, if you’re into astrology at all because this has been haunting me for so long 😭 I see him as an earth sun sign, maybe a Capricorn?? I’m so curious about what you’d think because I agree with your interpretation of him the most

I'm going to be honest with you, I know only the most BASIC things about astrology. To this day, I have no idea what sun/moon signs are so if anyone who knows more about the subject can answer this, please do!

Instead, 🌃Anon, I'll give you some random Embry thoughts to make up for it:

His mother always wears lavender perfume and, because of that, the scent of lavender is instantly comforting to him. One of his earliest memories is his mom holding him while he's sick and the smell of her perfume lulling him to sleep.

Constant pen-clicker (on that note, Paul hates pen-clicking and has snapped several pens over it).

His favorite cookie is snickerdoodles.

As a kid, he loved to read nature guides and scary stories and would stay up all night reading beneath the blanket with a flashlight. Even had a stash of emergency batteries.

Used to go around making random rock cairns as a kid all over the reservation, after reading about them in some old mystery novel. He noticed that others would add to them or pick them up when they fell and that was sort of nice. He doesn't really do it anymore but still finds them randomly, so someone else must have carried on with it (maybe Collin or Brady???).

His mom wanted to move to the city and study illustration/art but had to give that up when she got pregnant...someone else told him that at some point and he's felt guilty ever since. Sometimes, he still finds her drawing and they're very good.

Always wanted a dog, he would have named it Elvis.

His favorite book is The Outsiders.

Hates tight spaces, even more so now that he's grown a foot and is twice his original size.