Talk:Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined/@comment-201.29.125.82-20151006223124/@comment-24846719-20151008204606

No. Meyer's decision. Either way it's just copy paste with a few added lines to make it sound like it's a male.

Here's the ending of chapter one from both books (Bold is the changes in the Life and Death):

Beau in Life and Death: “I headed back to Charlie’s house, trying to think of nothing at all.”

Bella in Twilight: “I headed back to Charlie’s house, fighting tears the whole way there.”

Here's when Bella/ Beau first sees Dr. Cullen:

Beau in Life and Death: “Then a doctor walked around the corner, and my mouth fell open. She was young, she was blond … and she was more beautiful than any movie star I’d ever seen. Like someone sliced up Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe, took the best parts, and glued them together to form one goddess. She was pale, though, and tired-looking, with circles under her dark eyes.”

Bella in Twilight: “The doctor walked around the corner, and my mouth fell open. He was young, he was blond … and he was handsomer than any movie star I’d ever seen. He was pale, though, and tired-looking, with circles under his eyes.” And finally when Bella/ Beau nearly faints at blood and goes to the nurse's office.



Beau in Life and Death: “They’re blood typing in Biology,” Edythe explained to the nurse.

I watched the old man nod sagely. “There’s always one.”

'''Edythe covered her mouth and pretended her laugh was a cough. She’d gone to stand across the room from me. Her eyes were bright, excited.'''

“Just lie down for a minute, son,” the old nurse told me. “It’ll pass.”

“I know,” I muttered. In fact, the dizziness was already beginning to fade. Soon the tunnel would shorten and things would sound normal again.

“Does this happen a lot?” he asked.

I sighed. “I have a weak vasovagal system.”

The nurse looked confused.

“Sometimes,” I told him.

Edythe laughed, not bothering to disguise it.

“You can go back to class now,” the nurse said to her.”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">Bella in Twilight: “She’s just a little faint,” he reassured the startled nurse. “They’re blood typing in Biology.”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">The nurse nodded sagely. “There’s always one.”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">He muffled a snicker.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">“Just lie down for a minute, honey; it’ll pass.”

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">“I know,” I sighed. The nausea was already fading.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">“Does this happen a lot?” she asked.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.3rem;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">“Sometimes,” I admitted. Edward coughed to hide another laugh.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;">“You can go back to class now,” she told him.”

You're better of just reading the first book and replace he/she the pronouns and male and female descriptions. Except for the fact that Meyer always calls her blond as "blond", not changing when describing female characters like Rosalie or the Denali girls.