Edward Mason and the triangle crisis
There should be a role swap
Jacob is a Native American veggie Vampire
Bella is a werewolf of mixed heritage.
Edward is a human who moved to forks recently
The vampires and werewolf\shifters. Have an uneasy truce.
Jacob was turned long ago on an accident, and stayed around and kept connection with them. He gets pictures, letters, but rarely comes in person unless the call for war goes up.
Charlie had a native mother, a father who died young, and a little sister. His mother kept in contact with the Quileute’s, and her family support was supportive. He went into police work as a way to keep her home safe.
Rene went off into the world, but he managed to keep custody of his daughter.
His daughter is a bit of a Dumbass Daredevil, and is friends with Leah, Rebeca, and Rachel. Seth is the voice of reason.
*If the Sam thing with Emily happens, Bella is kicking his ass. Seth is not holding her back with that one. Bec joins her.
Charlie has Bella go to the schools in Forks to get all the opportunities he can give her. It's why she doesn't have any close friends there.
Edward is a foster kid to a family that has had a lot of foster kids.
Alice became the Cullen's child after her family situation was discovered as abusive (the visions and her families reactions to that) (they put her in an asylum, closest thing I could think of in a modern context, though depending on the time period, the Asylum angle could still work)
A lot of therapy was involved. She married a very charismatic and traumatized ( and mid level empath) war veteran, Jasper Whitlock. They both go to therapy to talk only. No pills, no machines.
Rosalie is still a vampire in this AU, and killed Esme's abusive husband. She's going around as a legendary cryptid Hero, and has killed a lot of rapist's. Emmet is related to Esme's husband's side of the family, but Esme' had still agreed to take in her brother in law's kids if their parents couldn't take care of them anymore. Of course, this was before the... Downsides of being married to that bastard (does he deserve a name?) we're well known.
Still when it happened, and her mother in law called to ask if the offer was still good. (Her mother in law is nearing 70) Esme said yes. Of course she said yes. Alice was doing a lot better, and maybe more family would be good to have. Alice certainly is enthusiastic about the idea. Emmet arrives and they get along like a house on fire.
Years later, Emmet gets in a bad hiking accident. Rosalie finds him before the search parties, and can not think of any other way to save him. So she resorts to the only way she can.
Emmet learns control, and makes sure he does not slip when visiting his family.
Carlisle is the son of a rich man who didn't agree with his father's views, particularly after what his father had him do in the name of the family business. So now he is donating to charity, and did Doctors without borders when he was younger, and it started as a way to spite his father, but now he loves this stuff, and wouldn't give it up for the world. Still, being rich and famous has its downsides, which is why they moved to Forks, to try to get away from all that.
Esme came from an immigrant family, and married for a green card.
It didn't work out as hopped a first, but the second marriage she had was a lot happier
Wait, I never specified how Rosalie was turned?
Let's say it was by an alternative vigilante psychic (similar but not the same power as Edward) called Murphy Stamp. He's a Vampire vigilant, on a crusade against Human trafficking. But he's not heartless, and willing to give victims a second chance to avenge themselves.
Rosalie and Emmet are still into the sciences too.
Edward's being a grumpy kid, with a taste for the dramatic, working through his mother's death, after she died. He's moody, and mad at the world, and DOES NOT WANT TO BE HERE OK!
Esme is trying to get him to start playing piano again, and work with a therapist.
Winny teenager Edward here
He and Bella become school friends, who argue about Shakespeare interpretations. He has a hard time reading her, and she gives him a space outside of his grief and gets him to do other things.
Admirably, some of them are pretty crazy like cliff diving, and really Bella, how did you talk me into this.
Edward also smells crazy tasty.
This becomes a problem when he is exploring (and brooding) in the forest, and comes across James, Laurent, and Victoria.
Jacob saves his ass there, literally comes and sweeps him off his feet, and into the forest. Cause three on one odds on an escort mission is not good.
Of course, Edward gets a crash course explanation on vampires. He doesn't want to go back to the Cullen's, and instead asks to go to Bella's house and have a sleepover. So Jacob drops him off at Bella's house, and she answers the door, and Edward spends the night talking with Bella about the vampire revelation.
The next week, Bella is sick. Like stupidly high fever sick.
Edward is worried. Charlie is super worried.
Her grandmother remembers something from the old legends, and looks into them.
Jacob gets some letters demanding an explanation.
Jacob tells them about the three vampires he found in the woods about to attack a human. He had no way of knowing until he got there, that the Human's friend Bella, was family.
They agree this is a problem, and tribe elders debate who of the younger generation should be sent to meet Jacob in person.
Of course, they didn't factor in teenagers.
Rachel decides, it's my friend, and my vampire relative. Of course I'm going. Rebeca says , "Of course. Then I'm going too"
Leah goes, like I'm letting Bella be the only one. She's my dumbass BFF.
Seth says, "No way am I letting you guys do this alone. I'm the voice of reason, I'm not letting you go off and do this without me."
And it just becomes a thing for the LaPlush teenagers to go off and visit their vampire relative.
Meanwhile, Rosalie and Emmet come back. They don't initially get along with Jacob, but floofed Bella joins the fray. They come to an uneasy truce to fight James and Victoria. Who has not been idle.
Victoria decided to go for Vampire Army, while James has found and taken interest in Alice. Because If James is allowed to go off on a hunt by himself, then his mate is allowed to go off and do her own special interests.
Alice writes Rosalie a letter that she is being stalked. Rosalie and Emmet cite family problems and leave. Jacob and the werewolves take care of the vampire army.
Emmet and Rosalie set James on fire.
E: AM LOVING THE ROLE SWAP U GOT GOING ON
K: The phone went off Tumblr connection (stupid mobile Tumblr) so later you will probably get an out of context peice about Edward crushing on Jacob and Bella
E: AND AM READY FOR THAT MISSING PIECE. Gotta keep that live triangle
K: If it's triangle, then we also have Jacob crushing on the werewolf chick, and the angasty human, and Bella crushing on her friend and her vampire battle buddy, who opens up opportunities for even more dumb Daredevil stunts.
Triangle sides should support each other, not threaten to break apart! The triangle is the stablest shape in existence!
Otherwise it's a badly done construction project.
Well, I wish love triangles meant all the idiots involved were pining after each other.
Sadly it just means a conflict of interest in the hook up
E: EXACTLY EVERYONE CRUSHES ON EVERYONE
GET MORE DUMBASS SUPERNATURAL FRIENDS TO DO DUMB SHIT WITH
I thought that's what it was supposed to be!! But live triangles rarely go like that in most stories.
K:Meanwhile, Edward is having a personal crisis of a different kind than grief.
Jacob is hot. Like scorching hot. His voice is sexy, even when he's chewing Edward out for being a dumbass. He could probably listen to Jacob talk for hours. He sparkles, and what even is up with that. Since when does he find sparkles sexy? He's all muscled, he knows mechanics,and Edward is having fantasies he should not be having about motor oil.
He's writing (horrible) poetry that he would never read out loud, and trying to compose a song Jacob would like. He doesn't know what Jacobs music tastes are, but he has never written so much music of varied tastes. He is like researching this shit.
Which is problematic, as he was fairly sure he had (might still have) a crush on Bella. They are friends who do dumb shit together, and its only grown from there. It's grown since they had that sleepover about the supernatural, and then she became a werewolf, which means she has never been fitter in her life. Also it's kind of sexy to watch her kick misogynists asses.
He may have a thing for muscles, and clearly, people of native descent. Also a bisexual, and how will his religious (if charitable) foster family take that? What if they hate it, and send him away, and he never sees his crushes again?
Mike Newton is Edwards' other friend, for no real reason, other than all the things cannon threw at him. Jessica is crushing hard on Angela, except she's dating Ben. Tyler still almost hits Edward with a car (Alice prevents it, she randomly showed up to visit). Mike gets in a fight with him
Lauren makes it as a model here.
From now on, love triangles involving one person deliberating between two people, are bad construction projects
Of the three of them, Edward is the one who cares the most about romance. Among all this vampire army problem stuff, he's trying to get them to notice him as a romantic prospect. While also not wanting them to notice, because this is embarrassing.
He picked them both flowers.
He got them jewelry. It was hair clips.
He's trying to learn to cook with wild game, and giving it to Jacob first, to drain it!!!
Bella and Jacob talk about it, and conclude he is trying to be a supportive friend.
Edwards wondering if they are daft! He's got them flowers! Jewelry! Food! He's friggin trying to learn to cook for them, is that not enough!
He both wants them to notice, and absolutely does not want them to notice, because He's still embarrassed.
Is there something he is culturally missing out on, or something?
Edward Mason and the Triangle crisis
E: HNSKHMS HI H I LOVE U GIVING EDWARD HIS TEENAGE LIFE SO MUCH
THE DESCRIPTION OF HIS CRUSH PROCESS IS TO DIE FOR. MUSCLES FOR THE WIN
AGREED!! IT'S ISN'T A LOVE TRIANGLE IF IT ISN'T EVERYONE PINING
K: Edward, mike and Jessica talk about their efforts in trying to get the people they like to notice them.
Edward (in his head) wonders if the reason they are not noticing him, is if its because he's a human.
What would the bible say about changing his species for love???
E: Oh God imagine him getting accidentally friendzoned. NOO BABY BOI U GOTTA BE MORE BOLD.
There's nothing in the bible that's "against" it. Nothing at all so for it Eddy boy!!
K: He asks Carlsie about the ethics of species change, and gets a theological talk he is not prepared for. Not at all. Carslie completely forgets the point, and the theological talk gets very off topic, as it goes into finer, and increasingly off tangent detail. It gets so siderailed. Fascinating, but siderailed
Emmet and Rosalie have bets.
Edward shouts "Bite me" in an argument. He was both relieved and disappointed no one took him up on it
He's also sets out to buy porn, when Alice shows up, and gives him an informative and embarrassing talk, about sex. It covered the details he was looking for, but Oh God Alice, Why!!!
She then gifts him with some books about healthy relationships.
Jasper takes him out to get drunk after
Esme looks into the schools health ed, and LGBTQA+ center.
They don't have nearly enough information out there.
Esme kicks up a fuss at the school board quality.
Forks gets the awakening it was not prepared for (but needed)
