Here’s the real issue with imprinting

We were all shocked and disgusted when Jacob imprinted on Redistribution because it was always framed as romantic, even though its always stated that it’s not innately romantic. Actions speak louder than words and I think if we had been introduced to the idea of imprinting as truly platonic love it wouldn’t have been so shocking and gross.

Jacob imprinting on her makes perfect sense in terms of settling the dispute between the Cullens and Tribe story wise, so I understand Meyers reasoning for going there.

However, imagine maybe instead of Emily being imprinted on by Sam, she had a daughter with someone else, and Sam imprinted on her daughter. This scenario would also still allow for the drama to happen between him and Leah. Maybe he gets close to Emily after imprinting on her daughter, falls in love and leaves Leah, whatever, you get the idea.

It would also allow us to see an example of imprinting that’s purely platonic, and even a direct example of what a more fatherly imprinting may look like for Jacob and Rigatoni. Maybe it would have made the impending imprinting too obvious but I will never ever forget the disgust I felt when our dear Jacob imprinted on that poor baby!

I haven’t read the books in like a decade so feel free to let me know if I’m totally mistaken in my thinking here lol