the-stars-descend:

ultward:

people irl often don’t believe me when i say that edward is a redhead and every single time i get into this argument i have to pull up proof in the form of official illustrations and just the overwhelming abundance of pre-movie fanart of him with orange hair. (i often forget that a lot of people never got exposed to that early fandom, book-centric content that i was neck deep in back during the heyday of the fandom.) stephenie can call it “bronze” all she wants and everyone is free to interpret that as they wish, but when you google “bronze color” this is what comes up:

and if you saw a person with hair that color you would absolutely call them a redhead. this has been a psa

Yes! Thank you! She refers to his hair most often as bronze. She has also called it reddish brown, and auburn and I think that confuses people? And in certain lightings bronze does look brown. But if you compare literal bronze to actual “redhead” hair it’s pretty similar. I put this together a few months ago as a personal reference (sorry, I hope you don’t mind me adding to your post):