Oh boy! So let me try crystal-balling: Bella either kills or turns Pera or is stopped before she can do fatal harm or bite. It’s also possible Elspeth could suck out her venom should Pera be bit, I guess. Brady is sure to attempt steam-rolling Bella in any scenario, but Jacob should be able to halt that attempt quickly. Even if he can’t or won’t, Bella is very unlikely to die considering they’d have to be chill with dismembering her and then continuously lighting her on fire, all the while ignoring Elspeth fighting for her mother; something Jacob cannot do.
If Bella is somehow stopped before she can get at Pera, and is thwarted from trying to so again, then everyone except Elspeth will most likely be quite peevish with her. It’s also very likely that Pera just so happens to be Bella’s yummy singer. Either that or she was extremely hungry, which is also a possibility if she was stupid enough not to feed after reassembling herself. Elspeth also noted that Pera’s blood smelled very good. Maybe mother and daughter have similar tastes. I imagine Bella will have some difficulties travelling with the pack should Pera be her singer, though it will do wonders for her self-control should she learn to resist her.
If Bella kills Pera, it is likely that either Bella or Brady will have to die, since Brady won’t stop trying to kill her. The pack or what is left of them after this confrontation obviously lose the ability to ‘hide’ with Pera in this scenario; cue Volturi slaughter and slavery.
If Pera starts turning, and Elspeth either can’t or is too late to suck out the venom, then they most likely lose the ability to ‘hide’ during Pera’s transformation due to her not really being in a state to concentrate, and may also find themselves with quite a large contingent of Volturi on their heels during that time. When she wakes up she’ll maybe be all kinds of more awesome than she already is, have a sudden desire to chew on all humans present, relationship issues with Brady and be a little peeved with Bella and life in general.
In both above scenarios, they’re all very likely to suddenly pop up in a relatively seclusive location in the middle of NYC with a woman screaming her lungs out—or a dead woman, and a ravenous vampire doing her best to devour said woman.
I’m going to bet on the latter scenario of Pera being turned vampire because Alicorn has already gone out her way to explain what would happen to a wolf-imprint relationship should the imprint be turned vampire. That and the PeraVamp and BellaVamp combo could be verrrra awesome should Bella actually learn how to use her witchcraft in any other situation than playing dead, and Pera could probably help her with that.
If Bella is somehow stopped before she can get at Pera …
I believe that the traditional way to do this is to tear her limb from limb. And then keep the limbs and stuff separated. Well, that presents us with both a TV Trope and a LessWrong Trope.
Interesting, but I’m getting a little tired of all the mayhem. I mean I’m all in favor of Lois McMaster Bujold’s idea of how you create plots in character driven fiction—“You ask yourself ‘What is the worst possible thing I could do to these people?’ and then you do it.” But the worst possible thing you can do to vampires and five and a half year old half-vampires is just not comparable to the worst possible thing you can do to Captain Cordelia Naismith. She escaped with just a few broken bones and the loss of her government job.
First prediction that came to my head: Volturi learned about Elspeth and Bella from Cody and sent some sort of magical impersonator to ambush the pack. But that would require two different powers—first reading Cody’s mind to learn Bella’s appearance and then doing the impersonation. So it’s Del who’s the ambusher. Which also makes sense strategically, because instead of having to take out Pera before getting ripped to shreds, she just has to touch her, get the hell out of there and hide the reinforcements waiting nearby (but well beyond the range of Pera’s feeble senses). Or maybe unhide Pera and then kidnap her—the wolves could be dealt with later. Or, for extra nightmare fuel value, be left forever trapped in the hiding place.
Normally, when reading fiction, I come up with optimistic predictions. This story must radiate some sort of aura of doom.
I briefly considered the possibility of this Bella being a Volturi impersonator too, but I didn’t delve into that hypothesis as much as the others—probably because I don’t really like how the Volturi has all these original characters with awesome gifts. It definitely makes sense to send Del if they have an agent with a gift capable of impersonation though. It would be another great move by the Volturi, even though this situation and the one in La Push more or less fell in their laps, and they just proceeded to do the obvious with what they had. Playing on Cody’s loneliness was a smart move though, if that is what they did.
I think I’ll be disappointed if your hypothesis turns out to be true. I think the only thing that even slightly speaks against it is that Bella’s/Del’s eyes turned black when Pera hid her. I don’t know if Del would react that way, but Bella certainly would if Pera is her singer. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s update!
This would be significantly more awesome than the singer hypothesis, but suddenly jumping on Pera instead of safely approaching and touching her is stupid in that scenario.
Chapter 6.
Oh boy! So let me try crystal-balling: Bella either kills or turns Pera or is stopped before she can do fatal harm or bite. It’s also possible Elspeth could suck out her venom should Pera be bit, I guess. Brady is sure to attempt steam-rolling Bella in any scenario, but Jacob should be able to halt that attempt quickly. Even if he can’t or won’t, Bella is very unlikely to die considering they’d have to be chill with dismembering her and then continuously lighting her on fire, all the while ignoring Elspeth fighting for her mother; something Jacob cannot do.
If Bella is somehow stopped before she can get at Pera, and is thwarted from trying to so again, then everyone except Elspeth will most likely be quite peevish with her. It’s also very likely that Pera just so happens to be Bella’s yummy singer. Either that or she was extremely hungry, which is also a possibility if she was stupid enough not to feed after reassembling herself. Elspeth also noted that Pera’s blood smelled very good. Maybe mother and daughter have similar tastes. I imagine Bella will have some difficulties travelling with the pack should Pera be her singer, though it will do wonders for her self-control should she learn to resist her.
If Bella kills Pera, it is likely that either Bella or Brady will have to die, since Brady won’t stop trying to kill her. The pack or what is left of them after this confrontation obviously lose the ability to ‘hide’ with Pera in this scenario; cue Volturi slaughter and slavery.
If Pera starts turning, and Elspeth either can’t or is too late to suck out the venom, then they most likely lose the ability to ‘hide’ during Pera’s transformation due to her not really being in a state to concentrate, and may also find themselves with quite a large contingent of Volturi on their heels during that time. When she wakes up she’ll maybe be all kinds of more awesome than she already is, have a sudden desire to chew on all humans present, relationship issues with Brady and be a little peeved with Bella and life in general.
In both above scenarios, they’re all very likely to suddenly pop up in a relatively seclusive location in the middle of NYC with a woman screaming her lungs out—or a dead woman, and a ravenous vampire doing her best to devour said woman. I’m going to bet on the latter scenario of Pera being turned vampire because Alicorn has already gone out her way to explain what would happen to a wolf-imprint relationship should the imprint be turned vampire. That and the PeraVamp and BellaVamp combo could be verrrra awesome should Bella actually learn how to use her witchcraft in any other situation than playing dead, and Pera could probably help her with that.
I believe that the traditional way to do this is to tear her limb from limb. And then keep the limbs and stuff separated. Well, that presents us with both a TV Trope and a LessWrong Trope.
Interesting, but I’m getting a little tired of all the mayhem. I mean I’m all in favor of Lois McMaster Bujold’s idea of how you create plots in character driven fiction—“You ask yourself ‘What is the worst possible thing I could do to these people?’ and then you do it.” But the worst possible thing you can do to vampires and five and a half year old half-vampires is just not comparable to the worst possible thing you can do to Captain Cordelia Naismith. She escaped with just a few broken bones and the loss of her government job.
Sorry. I expect there to be less mayhem starting around chapter 10. At least for a breather.
First prediction that came to my head: Volturi learned about Elspeth and Bella from Cody and sent some sort of magical impersonator to ambush the pack. But that would require two different powers—first reading Cody’s mind to learn Bella’s appearance and then doing the impersonation. So it’s Del who’s the ambusher. Which also makes sense strategically, because instead of having to take out Pera before getting ripped to shreds, she just has to touch her, get the hell out of there and hide the reinforcements waiting nearby (but well beyond the range of Pera’s feeble senses). Or maybe unhide Pera and then kidnap her—the wolves could be dealt with later. Or, for extra nightmare fuel value, be left forever trapped in the hiding place.
Normally, when reading fiction, I come up with optimistic predictions. This story must radiate some sort of aura of doom.
YAY!
And now my image of you has been altered to be ever so slightly more like GIR.
*googles, watches a 2-minute video of clips of the character*
...Yeah, I get like that sometimes.
I briefly considered the possibility of this Bella being a Volturi impersonator too, but I didn’t delve into that hypothesis as much as the others—probably because I don’t really like how the Volturi has all these original characters with awesome gifts. It definitely makes sense to send Del if they have an agent with a gift capable of impersonation though. It would be another great move by the Volturi, even though this situation and the one in La Push more or less fell in their laps, and they just proceeded to do the obvious with what they had. Playing on Cody’s loneliness was a smart move though, if that is what they did.
I think I’ll be disappointed if your hypothesis turns out to be true. I think the only thing that even slightly speaks against it is that Bella’s/Del’s eyes turned black when Pera hid her. I don’t know if Del would react that way, but Bella certainly would if Pera is her singer. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s update!
They don’t have that many original witches. (Although I did have to make up Corin and Afton’s powers because they weren’t specified in canon.)
This would be significantly more awesome than the singer hypothesis, but suddenly jumping on Pera instead of safely approaching and touching her is stupid in that scenario.