Twispite: Justice is Blind

[sos_sporkers]

Title: Justice is Blind
Author: sos_sporkers
Fandom(s): The Twilight series
Rating: PG-13 for content (R for thematic elements)
Word Count: 2209
Inspiration: A Twilight fanfiction (The Dark Side of the Moon) in which Edward claims that the absolute worst thing he can do is turn Bella.
Warnings: Lots and lots of murder or implied murder, but nothing is graphic.

Comments

[lamadamerouge]

This just shows how utterly creepy this guy is. -shudders- I am so glad he's not real.

[sos_sporkers]

Thank you so much! I was trying to bring out the creepy, but I wasn't sure if I succeed.

Can you tell why he killed those people, by the way? Because he wasn't murdering indiscriminatedly. He had a very screwed up reason to kill each and every single one of them.

[lamadamerouge]

You're welcome! I've been working on something with him, but I don't think I'm achieving the same amount of creepy

Hmm... Daniel was an alcoholic during the Prohibition

Jonathon was late or her had more modern ideals about relationships.

James was antisocial and strange?

And the girl at the end was "dressed like a slut"

[albion_witch]

So, Edward killed these people for being an under-aged alcoholic, living and presumably having sex with a woman before marriage, being an atheist/agnostic, and a prostitute?

Yes, truly they deserved the death sentence.

Sarcasm doesn't work so well over the internet.

Still, very creepy.

[sos_sporkers]

Well, the old man was killed for having a mental illness, which obviously meant he was a threat to society. The girl wasn't actually a prostitute. She was just a girl that made Edward lust for her. And, obviously, that was her fault. She tempted Edward into thinking these sinful thought, so therefore, she must be a bad person.

So, basically, Edward is ALWAYS more creepy than you think. ALWAYS.

[albion_witch]

Wow, that's actually worse.

Meyer may have not consciously written him to that extreme, though her writing has shown that she's cool with slut-shaming and ableism.

Still, he's barely developed beyond being incredibly hot and rich, so any view of him wouldn't be so inaccurate.

[mage_apprentice]

What mental illness did you characterize the old man with?

[sos_sporkers]

Thank you so much! I'm glad I conveyed what I intended to convey, because I am SICK of Suethors hand-waving Edward's vigilante past by claiming that he was only killing 'bad people'. Especially when it was so obvious that Edward has seriously screwed up morality.

[sos_sporkers]

Thank you so much!

I definitely agree that the handwaving of Edward's MURDERING spree is just unforgivable.

And why am I not surprised that Meyer basically said that same thing as an idiotic Suethor in her own writing?

[sinestris]

Oh wow, this was just extraordinarily creepy. Edward should NEVER be in a position to pass moral judgement on anyone.

The ones that hit me hardest were the poor boy who was managing to turn himself around and rebuild and the old man with the wonky mind. Being as how I'm trying to sort myself out after many, many years of illness and I have some mental issues (not to his degree, but I'm definitely not good at dealing with people, especially the ones who won't give me a few seconds to work out how to react), so I sympathise with them in a big way.

Just. Yeah. Really well-written and creeeeeeeeeeepyyyyyyyy.

[sos_sporkers]

Thank you! I was trying to make him as creepy as I could.

I'm very sorry that I pushed a few personal buttons and I hope that everything goes well for you.

[sinestris]

You succeeded admirably. Your Edward is genuinely terrifying.

No need for apologies! You wrote an excellent fic with real characters, and it's not like I normally advertise!

I don't really view them as buttons any more; they're just things I deal with. It can be very hard to tell with me over the internet too, I'm a lot more chatty here than I am in real life!

[sos_sporkers]

Thank you, then.

To be honest, I was almost trying to push some buttons in the fic, which is why I chose these characters. I figured they'd have the biggest impact.