On a journey trying to spork City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, I found myself in the Twilight Lexicon, as a side-effect. Meyer is an author of the same caliber as Clare, after all. So, I skimmed through to see some "arguments" Twihard and Twimoms sprout and what did I find? Someone arguing the imprint between Sam and Emily.
When Sam imprinted on Emily, she too should have reacted in the same way as Kim, Rachel, Claire, and Renesme did... Emily didn't though. She was upset about it. She even tried to use and abuse the power of the imprint to force Sam to love Leah. Even though Emily owned Sam's free will, according to the section on Imprinting on pg 310. He was able to reject her request... This of course is what leads up to the fight, as she severely mistreats him, and he thus accidentally phases...striking her. After the horror, Sam debates making Emily command him to kill himself... While things work out... Emily shouldn't have been able to refuse him from the start.
YOU--
YOU--
Okay. Here is my exact reaction, through GIFs and single sentences.
WHAT.
YOU AREN'T, ARE YOU.
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
DIE, YOU VICTIM-BLAMING PIECES OF
SHIT!!!!!!
When Sam imprinted on Emily, she too should have reacted in the same way as Kim, Rachel, Claire, and Renesme did...
The only two of those names I actually recognize are children. So Emily
should have reacted like a victim of child grooming and been vulnerable enough to manipulation that he could control her without a fight?
Emily didn't though. She was upset about it. She even tried to use and abuse the power of the imprint to force Sam to love Leah.
Because Emily instantly grasped the power of the imprint and calculatedly and maliciously attempted to mind-control Sam into a relationship he no longer wanted? Or because Sam's male and she's female, so he's excused ripping her face off because he's upset, and she's not excused failing to see "No! Go back to Leah!" as unconscionable mind control? (Which it obviously
wasn't, since he was able to freely resist.)
Even though Emily owned Sam's free will, according to the section on Imprinting on pg 310. He was able to reject her request...
Which means that she
didn't own his free will, and the whole "Imprinters are so helpless and at the mercy of the people who they imprint on!" is a mountain of bullshit. Sam got everything he wanted, and the women were left to suffer for it, the Twimoms can cry me a fucking river about big bad Emily 'controlling' him so cruelly.
This of course is what leads up to the fight, as she severely mistreats him, and he thus accidentally phases...striking her.
So she
actually thinks that refusing a guy, telling him to go back to his fiancee, and generally not submitting to his every whim the moment he decides he wants you is cruel mistreatment?
After the horror, Sam debates making Emily command him to kill himself...
Of course he does. Because he's a manipulative shit who can't even contemplate suicide without looking for ways to rub the guilt in Emily's face and further traumatize her for life.
While things work out...
"Things work out" means that the abusive walking shitstain gets everything he wants because he's 'in love', and the woman spends the rest of her life being compelled to be the Stepford superwife.
Emily shouldn't have been able to refuse him from the start.
Yeah,
that's what's wrong with Sam and Emily's relationship. That horrible, horrible
woman had a brief stretch of exhibiting
free will.
That's the thing that needs fixing.