#with a queen on top!

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anon again! I was looking at Smeyer's FAQ for breaking dawn and say this bit about the chess pieces, "Breaking Dawn‘s cover is a metaphor for Bella’s progression throughout the entire saga. She began as the weakest (at least physically, when compared to vampires and werewolves) player on the board: the pawn. She ended as the strongest: the queen. In the end, it’s Bella that brings about the win for the Cullens."

I don't know that much about chess but that doesn't seem right. Bella's shield helped but she doesn't seem as powerful as Jane or Alec or Kate or whatevs who can really hurt people. Or does Smeyer just mean she's the most powerful piece on the Cullen side?

Okay here's the thing: I was a pre-teen chess champion. I was the first kid in my elementary school to win the school chess tournament both years I was eligible to play (4th and 5th grade) but then I realized that competitive chess stressed me the hell out AND was completely optional and I stopped playing. I mean other than casual games with family or no-stakes online chess with strangers. No tournaments. I'm probably no better than the average adult at this point, idk.

But I have some Chess Experience, is my point. And the thing about the queen is that yes, she's the most powerful piece on the board, but it's more in OFFENSE. She can move in any direction she wants, as many spaces as she wants. She's a powerful attack piece.

Bella's shield, however powerful, is not an offensive weapon. It's defensive. So in that sense, the metaphor doesn't quite work. Bella's value is in how she can protect HER side, not how she can attack the other side. For me, Bella's maybe more like a rook (or the castle if you aren't into chess terms). There's a special move the rook can do to protect the king (called 'castling'), kind of like shielding him. Or maybe Bella's shield is more like the entire row of pawns protecting the other pieces. The point is her gift protects her side, but doesn't attack the other side. She brings about the win because the Volturi decide it's not worth trying to fight with Bella blocking their powers, not because Bella can actually attack them in a special way.

I get what SM's going for here, and it's not a terrible metaphor, it's just not quite right in terms of what the queen can do vs what Bella does. But I get that a pawn becoming a rook or a pawn becoming a whole row of pawns wouldn't be as impressive as a visual metaphor as the queen. I think it would have worked better if she didn't directly compare it to that final non-battle, and rather more generally compared it to like "weak human (pawn) becomes powerful vampire (queen)."

And as an aside, I do lowkey resent the idea that Bella brings about the win. To me, it was a group effort. Yeah, her shield is a big part of it. But who trained her in using the shield (Kate!)? Who willed a victory (Siobhan!)? Whose centuries of friendships and connections brought these forces together in the first place (Carlisle!)? Who brought back Nahuel to give the Volturi the excuse they needed to bail (Alice!)? To reduce it to "yay Bella saved the day!" seems to be an oversimplification but again, I get the metaphor. It's a nice visual.

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