Much thanks to the lovely cullensbabymama7 for chatting with me!
Mandy:
Tell us a little about yourself and how you found fanfiction.
Cullensbabymama:
Well, I'm a 23 year old mother to a 4 going on 5 year old. I love writing, it
has always been something I enjoyed doing even when I was a wee little thing. I
mostly got into writing poetry, but discovered that whoever lived in my head
should be shared, even if it was all insanity. I found fanfiction, honestly
from YouTube. I had this crush on Kellan Lutz and after watching Twilight, the
first movie, I went on YouTube to stalk his interviews. There had been a
convention that Kellan Lutz spoke at for fans, and they hosts went on telling
him how there had been stories on his character and named the sight off, which
was FF.Net. I watched the interview again, and then went to the site... it was
like heaven, that was like in 2009.
Mandy:
What types of genre do you like reading most?
Cullensbabymama7: Romance and Humor. Either with
something else, but mostly the two together. I'm not much of an angsty person,
it always makes me get weepy, those ones.
Mandy:
In your opinion, what makes a story worth reading?
Cullensbabymama7: To me, a story worth reading is a
story you can get lost in. If I start reading a story, and in the first few chapters
I start reading and see it play out in my head like a movie, then it’s worth
reading. If one's imagination is supplied to others, and it captures me even in
a summary, it’s worth reading.
Cullensbabymama7: Having something to read, that causes
the reader to get emotional and attached to is, also makes it worth reading. I
love those.
Mandy: Any Twilight/Vampire Diaries crossover you're reading, loving, and want to recc?
Cullensbabymama7: There are so many, finished and
unfinished. I love emeraldphoenix23, all of her crossovers for twilight/vampire
diaries are amazing, if people aren’t reading her stories and loving them, they
are insane. Also I love your story, it’s one of the crossovers that grasp me
and had me wanting to let my mind go free. There is a story, Twilight Redemption
I believe is the name I'm not sure of the author though, it’s awesome and I
think people should read that too. I don’t know every name of all the ones I
love and wish for people to read. One of my all time favorites though is if the
world falls still or something like that... I don’t know the correct name of
it, but I love that one
Cullensbabymama7: I really suck at keeping track of the
titles
Mandy:
Fanfiction pet peeves?
Cullensbabymama7: Honestly, rude people. It doesn’t
matter how confident a person becomes in their writing even if they make
mistakes along the way, there are always rude people out there, either another
author or just a reader, who put people down. A story could be getting amazing
results by readers and there will be that one or few that put people down. It
causes the person they put down, to feel discouraged and second guess their
selves and their passion for what they are providing.
Mandy:
I was surprised at Stefan not being afraid of Bella after Elena's colorful
description. Why did you give Bella a personality as such?
Cullensbabymama7: Oh there are so many out-takes I've
been writing along the way. I want to post those after my final chapter to The
Older Gilbert Sister. To give people a better look into the eyes of those
around Bella and the way she acts.
Mandy:
How does Bella/Damon’s relationship differ from Edward/Bella’s in Twilight?
Cullensbabymama7: Honestly
I gave Bella the personality that I feel she deserved. When planning the story
while watching the show, I thought there needed a person who had this air about
her. One that was strong and confident, maybe a little insane and nutty, that
over does it, but can be brought back down if somebody stepped up. I wanted
Bella to be what the show didn’t give, and what Twilight didn’t give us.
Cullensbabymama7: Edward and Bella in Twilight, to me,
was a controlling one. Edward smothered her and made the choices; Bella didn't
get to or decided against really speaking up. Damon and Bella, they sort of
feed off each other. He's strong and says what he thinks and so does she. If
Damon didn’t want her doing something she would tell him shove off and that he
needed to go along or just not bother. They are more equals, with each other.
At least to me.
Cullensbabymama7: Edward didn’t really give Bella a
chance to use her voice. Damon does.
Also, Edward didn’t help Bella feel
strong. But in my story, Damon who knows Bella is strong, just as she does, he
makes her feel stronger. Not weak, not unuseful.
Mandy:
How does their friendship differ from Elena/Damon's?
Cullensbabymama7: Bella, even at first if she didn’t
really like him beyond thinking he was attractive, didn’t want to change him.
She accepted who he was and how he was. She could see that behind his eyes
there was another person there, one he hid from everyone else, but she didn’t
try to change who he was or how he acted. It actually grew on her. If he was an
ass, that was alright because it was/is part of him. Friendship shouldn’t be
about changing a person, or wanting to. That person should want to change on
their own if that's what they wanted. Bella didn’t see a need to change him,
because you can’t change who you are. She couldn’t change who she was, and she wouldn’t.
So why do it, or try to? It wouldn’t be a real friendship. Also, she wasn't
really looking for friendship, it just happened and she just went with it. Even
if she didn't like it all the time, it just was. - If that makes any sort of
sense lol
Cullensbabymama7: Elena always wanted to change Damon.
Make him more like Stefan or how she felt he should be, in her eyes. -- At
least that’s how I see it. So the difference is acceptance from the beginning.
Not molding Damon into the person another wanted him to be, but accepting who
he was and how he was.
Cullensbabymama7: I felt Damon needed somebody like
that. Somebody to just accept him, and Bella just so happened to be that
person. They are alike in many ways, Damon and Bella.
Mandy:
Will the sire bond between Bella/Mason/Tyler change into anymore than that?
Friendship or romantic?
Cullensbabymama7: I'm not sure what I'm really going to
do with the sire bond with Bella/Mason/Tyler. Bella and Tyler already had that
romantic bond before the sire bond even took place. Bella was attracted to
Mason before she even sired him, but she never acted on it. I think that their
sire bond with Bella will be more of a family type bond. They are there for each
other, weather they feel the need to do what they thing she needs or wants. The
romantic feelings Tyler has, I think will always be there, but the way she is
with them, how she cares for them, it won’t go farther than it had. So it will
more than likely remain friendship that forms into a family bond. She takes
care of them and they take care of her. Damon likes to call Mason and Tyler her
hybrid babies, because she adores them and takes care of them. They sort of
guide each other. So as far as romantic feelings, it won’t go to that. I'm
still working it out myself to tell you the truth. There might be some issues
with Tyler later on, maybe.
Cullensbabymama7: But as far as the sire bond between
Mason and Bella... it is as it is.
Mandy:
Does Tyler and Mason’s blood have the healing power that Klaus and Bella’s
does?
Cullensbabymama7: I've thought about that, and no. It doesn’t
have the healing power that Klaus and Bella's blood holds. I like it that way.
Their bite can kill a vampire, but their blood cannot save a vampire. I like to
think of Mason and Tyler the next generation of hybrids. They just do not hold
the same things the original Hybrids, Klaus and Bella, hold. Giving them the
ability to heal with their blood sort of will cause a few problems with future
happenings in the story.
Mandy:
So those who are born as hybrids have the healing powers. Bella knows
everything that’s going on, which borderlines on being Mary Sue (except that
you’ve made her character REAL). Is she ever going to fail? Face some serious,
lasting consequences for being so powerful, so involved in nearly all aspects
of the Supernatural?
Cullensbabymama7: She will face some serious lasting consequences.
Bella said that she was the witch, the vampire, and the hybrid. She can use her
abilities to get a head of people sure. But some of her actions will backfire.
She may be powerful, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t be thrown a loop. I
understand how I made her, but as the story goes on, she will face struggles
and things that do not work out as she thought they would have. She gets a head
of herself, gets too cocky... it won’t always be how it is now... I just don’t
want to give my future plans away.
Mandy:
It's those little flaws and the struggles that make her character interesting.
Cullensbabymama7: I will say she is very much like her
father in some ways. Shit just happens, that she thinks wouldn’t or cant, and
she will get a reality check. A few of them.
Mandy:
What led Elena to want to kill Mason and Tyler? She’s always been a martyr to
save other people, but this time she wouldn’t really be saving anyone else…
Cullensbabymama7: I wanted a little twist on Elena.
Yes, she usually is a martyr, but I wanted to do a little something different.
She thought it would save at least somebody, even if it wouldn’t work. And I wouldn’t
say she wanted to kill them, I would say she thought that since a being could
or is two things, that it made sense to her. For a hybrid to be killed to save
two different people. She thought that her suggestion was useful and helpful,
she hoped it was. It wasn’t, and her thinking didn’t help, it sort of caused a rift
between some people.
Cullensbabymama7: Everyone is so use to Martyr Elena...
So why not show them that she can be or say something they wouldn’t expect?
Mandy:
So her intention wasn't one of malice? I felt as I read the chapters that
Elena's attitude towards Bella has gone borderline hatred. Or she's started to
pull away from that sisterly bond that was present in the first few chapters.
Cullensbabymama7: It was and it wasn’t. She was trying
to save at least one person, but she also was careless to think of the people
she was suggesting to die in their place. …
Cullensbabymama7: you're correct...her attitude is starting
to change...
Cullensbabymama7: Elena is pulling away. She is use to
her way or demanding her away, and people listening to her. She doesn’t like
how Bella seems to be right or how Bella thinks she's right. She doesn’t like
how people just follow along... it’s something that will be addressed. Their
bond, the sisterly bond... it's breaking away.
Mandy:
Will the three hybrids (B/T/M) be enough to defeat the original hybrid or do
you have more up your sleeve? *Wiggles eyebrows*
Cullensbabymama7: I've already planted something...
that promise that Bella made Klaus promise... in my recent update... it wasn’t
exactly what she did. But alone, M/T/B. But there are plenty of things up my
sleeves when it comes to our Hybrid Daddy. I believe that if Bella wished to
kill Klaus, or at least do what happened in the show, she could... the thing
is, she doesn’t want that... not right now... Bella has an agenda.
Mandy:
I wouldn't expect anything less from her!
Cullensbabymama7: I wouldn’t either lol.
Mandy:
Are there any hints you can give as to what is coming up for us readers?
Cullensbabymama7: Hints... without giving too much
away, well... I can say that not everything is as it appears to be. Don’t bank
thinking what is going to happen next on the sacrifice. What one says one wants
isn’t. Also, I can say that Stefan isn’t going with Klaus...
Mandy:
Is there any information you'd like to give out that I haven't covered?
Cullensbabymama7: Also... the story isn’t over... it's
sort of really just beginning...
Cullensbabymama7: Any information that I want to give,
that you haven’t covered... I really don’t have anything other to give at this
moment.
Mandy:
Alright! Thank you so much for your time, C. I really, really appreciate it.
Cullensbabymama7: No, thank you! But you’re welcome lol
Cullensbabymama7: I just can’t wait to see who all won
and what not. It's all so very exciting to me. I've always shied away from
contests and what not, but this is the first time I've been entered into
something by another person. I guess I just can’t wait to see how well everyone
did. I went back to check out everyone who was nominated so I could read their
stuff and review to them. But the voting was closed and the nominations were
taken down.
Mandy: I
was pretty strict about the dates, lol.... Those who voted could vote again on
the 29th, so I had to take the polls down to prevent cheating, that's all. :)
Cullensbabymama7: Will there be more things like this
going on?
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