Hi, newb with newb question.
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 10:00 am
Hi! You can call me Scribbler. I've been trying to get into Glowfic lately (Eva is very persuasive, thanks friend) and I just have one question before I begin writing anything with anyone.
I understand how the template thing works (...I think, I'm only on "The Empire of the Stars" and the multiversal stuff starts slow). But the thing is...
My main writing/RP muse for group RP is an off-canon version of Edward Cullen. This is, presumably, why my friend got me into Glowfic in the first place.
He's from a continuity that is not completely divorced from Twilight canon, but is about as far away from it as Luminosity proper is. The gist: Edward is gay, Carlisle is evil, the Cullen family has some rather cult-y elements to how Carlisle runs it and every Cullen is some measure of fucked up because of it.
Edward is a complicated wreck of a man, but I'll try to sum him up succintly. Basically- in my head, the version of Twilight that should have existed is explicitly transhumanist. Bella wants to be more than human. Edward believes that being a vampire has made him less than human. He believes, just as in canon, that he's lost his soul, and that even if he hasn't, the despicable things he's done have made him irredeemable.
Because of this, he is low-key suicidal. He usually has enough of an instinct of self-preservation not to run into a dangerous situation, and being a twipire, most dangerous situations he might stumble into won't kill him anyway. But the thing that kept him from making a premeditated suicide attempt until New Moon was that he believes suicide is a sin.
Fairly par for the course, so far. The three biggest differences:
Edward is, as I mentioned, gay. The only physical attraction he has to Bella is because she's a singer. He managed to convince himself that that's the same thing as sexual attraction, but his marriage to her is not... very happy. At all. His!Bella may or may not actually be a Bell- she probably is- but if she is, he's going to be very relieved to find out that there is someone else out there who likes Bella much, much better than he ever could, who is probably not any flavour of supernatural. This only feeds into Edward's self-loathing and desperate need to disappear. Being a Christian (of a weird, unaffiliated, heavily-influenced-by-Carlisle variety, formerly Catholic), he feels like being a "sodomite" is a sin and a horrible temptation and thinking about romance in general makes him kind of sick.
The second big difference is that he's ... probably on the autism spectrum? He requires little to no social interaction. He is perfectly fine with only interacting with his siblings and spending all the rest of his time making music. His special interests are music, plagues and the eradication of them, and the Chicago Cubs; he stims with his super-speed as well as with music. He's not much of a fan of heat, large crowds (and boy, the telepathy doesn't help) and various textures, and he wears nothing but grey, white, and black because he can make them all match. I joke around that Edward is the most boring man alive, because if he wasn't a vampire, his life would be very, very boring; his idea of an exciting evening is going to a piano recital and then editing wikipedia articles on obscure Russian composers.
Last is the issue of backstory. This!Edward grew up poor, unlike canon!Edward, who's a lawyer's son. Because of this, he has a ... weird relationship with evil!Carlisle, that's half based on guilt and half on something like filial piety. He feels beholden to the man, because Carlisle technically saved his life; not only that, Carlisle is the only reason he was able to become a pianist and a composer and to drive around at a couple hundred miles an hour and do most of the things he loves. At the same time, though... Carlisle stole his soul, and he deeply, bitterly resents him for it. He usually keeps this buried under the surface.
There's a couple other differences with this 'verse- the notable ones include that vampire mating doesn't exist the way it does in Twicanon (or Luminosity canon!), and werewolf imprinting exists but it's Different.
With this in mind, could I still write this!Edward? Would he be the same as the Standard Edward Template, or would he be his own beast?
I understand how the template thing works (...I think, I'm only on "The Empire of the Stars" and the multiversal stuff starts slow). But the thing is...
My main writing/RP muse for group RP is an off-canon version of Edward Cullen. This is, presumably, why my friend got me into Glowfic in the first place.
He's from a continuity that is not completely divorced from Twilight canon, but is about as far away from it as Luminosity proper is. The gist: Edward is gay, Carlisle is evil, the Cullen family has some rather cult-y elements to how Carlisle runs it and every Cullen is some measure of fucked up because of it.
Edward is a complicated wreck of a man, but I'll try to sum him up succintly. Basically- in my head, the version of Twilight that should have existed is explicitly transhumanist. Bella wants to be more than human. Edward believes that being a vampire has made him less than human. He believes, just as in canon, that he's lost his soul, and that even if he hasn't, the despicable things he's done have made him irredeemable.
Because of this, he is low-key suicidal. He usually has enough of an instinct of self-preservation not to run into a dangerous situation, and being a twipire, most dangerous situations he might stumble into won't kill him anyway. But the thing that kept him from making a premeditated suicide attempt until New Moon was that he believes suicide is a sin.
Fairly par for the course, so far. The three biggest differences:
Edward is, as I mentioned, gay. The only physical attraction he has to Bella is because she's a singer. He managed to convince himself that that's the same thing as sexual attraction, but his marriage to her is not... very happy. At all. His!Bella may or may not actually be a Bell- she probably is- but if she is, he's going to be very relieved to find out that there is someone else out there who likes Bella much, much better than he ever could, who is probably not any flavour of supernatural. This only feeds into Edward's self-loathing and desperate need to disappear. Being a Christian (of a weird, unaffiliated, heavily-influenced-by-Carlisle variety, formerly Catholic), he feels like being a "sodomite" is a sin and a horrible temptation and thinking about romance in general makes him kind of sick.
The second big difference is that he's ... probably on the autism spectrum? He requires little to no social interaction. He is perfectly fine with only interacting with his siblings and spending all the rest of his time making music. His special interests are music, plagues and the eradication of them, and the Chicago Cubs; he stims with his super-speed as well as with music. He's not much of a fan of heat, large crowds (and boy, the telepathy doesn't help) and various textures, and he wears nothing but grey, white, and black because he can make them all match. I joke around that Edward is the most boring man alive, because if he wasn't a vampire, his life would be very, very boring; his idea of an exciting evening is going to a piano recital and then editing wikipedia articles on obscure Russian composers.
Last is the issue of backstory. This!Edward grew up poor, unlike canon!Edward, who's a lawyer's son. Because of this, he has a ... weird relationship with evil!Carlisle, that's half based on guilt and half on something like filial piety. He feels beholden to the man, because Carlisle technically saved his life; not only that, Carlisle is the only reason he was able to become a pianist and a composer and to drive around at a couple hundred miles an hour and do most of the things he loves. At the same time, though... Carlisle stole his soul, and he deeply, bitterly resents him for it. He usually keeps this buried under the surface.
There's a couple other differences with this 'verse- the notable ones include that vampire mating doesn't exist the way it does in Twicanon (or Luminosity canon!), and werewolf imprinting exists but it's Different.
With this in mind, could I still write this!Edward? Would he be the same as the Standard Edward Template, or would he be his own beast?