May 19th, 2009: In which The Littlest Bella finally arrives, God help us all.

"Ugh. Is this where I meet the family?" She rolled her eyes. "Everywhere I go, everyone always wants to crowd around and meet the new girl, it's so embarrassing. I mean, you'd think they wouldn't be interested in someone so pale and slim and unusually intelligent."

"Mm," I said. "Actually, I was going to try to sneak you in as unobtrusively as possible. The blonde with the shield, I'm pretty sure she wants to scratch your eyes out. And watch out for the one in the corset if you see her around, she'll cut a bitch. And by bitch I mean you."

Featuring

• The Littlest Bella
• Lyra Silvertongue (and Pan)

• Fugagorn

• Helm's Deep Aragorn
• Faramir One
• Faramir Two
• Legolas
• The Littlest Edward
• Tonner Edward

Notes

• About 30% of the first Twilight book is nothing but Bella whining about how cold and wet Forks is.

• Book!Bella's idea of physical flaws is to describe herself as "slim" and "too pale."

• The reason the box has "Edward and Bella" on the back is because the Bella actually comes only as a two-pack with a sunglasses-wearing Edward figure, which I quietly socked away to use as a Littlest Edward double.

• Another 10% is Bella groaning about all the boys asking her out--there's one chapter where like three or four ask her in a row.

• The reason The Littlest Bella can't (or won't) get Lyra's name right also comes from the book--I can't quote it from memory (for once), but Bella says something early on about not bothering to learn any of her female classmates' names. Eventually she can't ignore that they're "Jessica" and "Angela," but she has a stunning lack of interest in the people around her.

• Once again we have Lyra's go-to question (see the notes here for an explanation).

• Yes, this is the doll version of the first biology class scene in Twilight/Midnight Sun. No, the Bella action figure is not actually scented. Although I can go spritz her down with something freesia from Bath and Body Works if that would help. Except not, because florals give me headaches. (No, I'm not making the freesia stuff up.)

• I have no idea how that last picture turned out the way it did--that's the same cream-carpeted, cream-walled hall that's in the early My Little Pony-centric pictures. (I just wanted to get low enough--I'm basically on eye level with The Littlest Edward there--to get a good shot of TLE's defensive hair spikes. And because I used the macro setting to make sure he was clear, Tonner Edward ended up menacingly blurry.) I didn't add any green or red filters or highlights at all. I'm not sure where they came from, but they add a Vertigo-ish touch somehow.

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See also

• Dolls

• The Secret Life of Dolls