Talk:Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined/@comment-112.198.83.191-20151012041454/@comment-24846719-20151018043759

Jacob didn't have a character in the first Twilight, his counterpart wouldn't either.

Meyer only really wrote Jacob as character in New Moon because her editor suggested it. In fact, look at Breaking Dawn again, more specifically his prescence and relevants in book one and three. He's barely there because Meyer wrote Forever Dawn after Twilight where Jacob was just as important as Mike or Eric or Tyler. Don't remember them? Well that's what he actually was in Twilight, a background character that was only there to be so in love with Bella and provider her with what she needed. In the case of Twilight, to be the "mystical" Native American boy who tells Bella the story about treaty and Vampire pack. That was it for him with the occasional mentions for him like at the end with prom. Same with Forever Dawn where he and the wolfpack were only there for muscle, Leah's character dilemma in Book 2 and Eclipse? Gone. Sam getting over his vampire prejudice? Never brought up again. The wolves and their imprintees? They're gone. The characterization that Meyer (supposedly) gave them did not exist in Forever Dawn. Forever Dawn was later retooled to Breaking Dawn and in the end Book Two was the last thing that Meyer wrote that connected to New Moon and Eclipse and thus had to resolve all the werewolf conflict in that section. The love triange? What love triangle! The mentally-adult baby is his one and only love! The whole turning Bella and thus breaking the treaty and causing a war? Hey, imprinting solved it. That's only a fraction of what Meyer had just done away with because she didn't want to go to too much in rewriting book 3.

In short, Meyer never meant for a love triangle with Jacob, only just another boy to fawn over her self-insert.