The Emotional Roller Coaster Of Life Inspiration

So where'd I come up with the idea of The Emotional Roller Coaster Of Life, or TERCL (as I sometimes abbreviate it to myself)? There are many parts to this story that have extremely rough basings on my history and history of my family. But they are also inspired by the Twilight Saga.

The nine primary characters, while all very OOC when compared to the Twilight Saga on the outside when looking at an in depth look aren't.

In Twilight, Bella was in love with both Edward and Jacob and was more of an optimist than a pessimist. This Bella is very similar. She is in love with both and is ultimately undecided about who she belongs with. But, unlike Twilight Bella, her life has been a little harder, because her mom ran off when she was pregnant with her and Bella spent the first nine years of her life only with her crack addict mother.

Jacob was always in love with Bella until late in Breaking Dawn when he imprinted on her daughter, but there was a moment in the chapter's from Jacob's POV where it almost felt like the story could go in a Jacob/Leah direction. If that had happened, it would have been very slow to occur. Eventually, Seth, Quil and Embry were all members of his pack. Also, Jacob had a temper. So in TERCL, he still has that temper, and he loves both Bella and Leah, while Seth, Quil and Embry are all his little brothers.

The biggest things for actually both Edward and Alice are this love for their family and their supernatural gifts. So to bring that forward in my story, I wanted them to be part of a family unit, to be close, which is why their twins. There's no supernatural in this story, but how could bring forward things like hearing voices, being in a realm outside yourself, etc... that is part of what brought me to the decision to make it so they both have a history of abuse and their choice of coping mechanisms.

As for Rosalie, in the Twilight Saga, one of her biggest regrets was not being human, because she wanted the ideal life that women in the early 1900s, she wanted the perfect husband, the kids, the white picket fence. At the time periods she was human, those were driving desires for a lot woman. In my story, she is still driven, but it's by the things that a lot of this time period want. She wants a successful fortune five-hundred business, wants the solid future, wants to never need for anything.

Emmett has often been considered as being bear-like and being protective. He's also a bit of a joker and very sexual. So here you have Emmett as a cop, the chief of police actually, and he takes his job seriously, but he's often seen as a joker. He's a typical lady's man. He likes sex and he's not all that particular about who he gets it from. That will change as the story develops.

Then there's Jasper. He was always one of the most serious characters in the books, had a history with war and always seemed a little on the fringe. But he was madly in love with Alice. In this book, she is still his whole world, he's still too serious, still has a history with war.

Leah and Seth round out my major character, but they were relatively minor in the Twilight Saga. In the saga they were siblings and Leah had a history of being in love with a man she'd never be able to truly have, while Seth was younger, a little too innocent with an issue of hero worship for not only Edward, but Jacob as well. In this book, some of that is apparent, Leah is in love with a man who's married to another woman, and she thinks of Seth as a crutch more than anything else. While Seth still looks up to Jake, his brother, in matter of fact, he looks up to his so much that he aspires to be him.

So that rounds the main characters out. This story, as a whole, is going to be very angsty and not everyone will get a Happily Ever After, though most will. This is a story that brings a lot supernatural characters and humanizes them, gives them human issues, with ultimately human resolutions. For those that are reading this... be prepared for difficult journey.