Ooh can u do Jake for the ask thing! (This is @witchyangela btw!!)
omg thank you, elle!! i can’t wait for your answer for this!
How I feel about this character
I love Jacob. Out of all the main characters of Twilight, he’s certainly one of my favorites. Twilight/New Moon Jacob was an absolute sweetheart and such a great guy and then of course eclipse happened.. which i will never forgive stephenie for, that racist ass trashy mormon bitch
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Benjamin and Bella are mine and the fandom’s two biggest picks for Jacob. If Jacob was an adult/Leah wasn’t an adult, maybe i could see these two together, but Leah gives off far too much lesbian energy, and in canon, they’re there’s too big an age/maturity gap anyway. i tend not to go crazy with shipping when it comes to twilight characters bc i care more about them individually tbh, tho i do think him falling for a cute guy from the rez would be wonderful for Jake.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Jake, Embry, and Quil!! God, I would have loved to see more interactions between these boys but it wasn’t relevant to bella’s story of course i mean wouldn’t you have loved to see them bantering more and doing dumb shit together?? i need that fanfic. Them hanging out in jake’s garage, embry and jake actually working on shit and quil just sits around like some pretty boy, or going to the beach or playing video games together. Honestly, when teenage boys aren’t acting like total asses, they can be entertaining and funny as hell.
My unpopular opinion about this character
This isn’t an unpopular opinion within certain niches of the renaissance, but Jacob isn’t some trash character. This sentiment of him being garbage and the worst mostly stems from ppl (who also LOVE edward and forgive him for stalking bella and other shit he pulls) who like to overlook the minor detail (it’s not minor, i’m being sarcastic) that st*phenie purposely wrote him to take an emotionally manipulative and abusive turn in eclipse in order to make Edward be the #1 choice for Bella, thus indulging in the racist stereotype of the violent Native man. This stereotype was historically weaponized as propaganda among colonizers/white people to further subjugate the Natives in a ‘if we don’t kill these guys off, they’re gonna rape our (white) women’ way, and i’m sure you can draw the parallels between st*ph’s racist portrayal of jacob and this shit. I cannot understate what a piece of shit St*phenie is.
Anyways to reiterate my opinion that is more so fandom-targeted than character-targeted - if this fandom is gonna forgive jasper and edward’s bullshit, they sure as hell can do so for Jacob.
EDIT: the fact that I didnt think of this the first time!! Jake was better for Bella than Edward. There, I said it.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
More like what i wish didn’t happen to him. I wish St*ph didn’t write him to be so lovesick over Bella in Eclipse and that he never impr*nted in bd. he didn’t fucking deserve that shit.
