She was so repressed due to being raised in the child bride harem centered Church of Later day Saints, yet even her inner child demanded she write this whole arc into twilight... and fought to have it included all the way up the ladder to celluloid.
That inner child doing that... is the heart of the inner kids I box for.
Stephanie Meyer inadvertently wrote the perfect encapsulation of what Molesters ARE to children... how it is murderous from jump...how it is the child's light they want to snuff out, to consume... & how they flip it in front of their culturally dumb, zombified, blood-sucking mothers who are too caught up in the respectability politics brandished by the cult [of personality &/or popularity] to even fathom protecting their offspring from lecherous old white men imagining their festering 60+ child eater selves as superheroes.