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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Right, clumsy female meets hot male has never been seen before Twilight.
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That's what I'm thinking.
I mean, the one more or less original thing about Twilight characters was the hot vampire who still goes to high school and sparkles in sunlight. Remove that and you're left with characters who are perfectly ordinary; remove the whole vampire thing and high school thing, turn one character into a college graduate and another into billionaire businessman, and you're left with characters who don't really sound very copyright-infringing to me, even if some people recognise some characteristic traits (clumsy, hair colour, family, background) about them that remind them of characters from another book.
Now that people
know that this was Twilight fanfic, with the characters originally based on Twilight characters, I don't doubt that many people who have read both do see enough similarities to think "oh yeah, they really are Bella and Edward"; would the majority of readers (even those who have read both) have drawn that conclusion if the original fanfic hadn't been popular and the fanfic connection had never come out, though?
Or would they at most just have gone "oh, in some ways, this Ana person reminds me of Bella from Twilight at times, she's just as clumsy, and Christian is all hot and stalkerish, a bit like Edward", in a way that people often draw parallels with characters/situations/plots of other books they've read, when they want to describe something? I read a LOT of books (especially in genre fiction) that remind me of other books, with characters whose occupations/looks/behaviour occasionally feels "vaguely familiar", but there's no way for me to even know whether the author of the book in question even read the thing it reminds me of, or whether it's just some genre/character trope or random coincidence, e.g. with the characters based on real people and real common behaviour traits.