- LGBTQIA+- I'd never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love. . . seems like a good way to go. - Blaine Swan. Blaine Swan is a seventeen-year-old transgender boy, who has just moved to Forks, Washington to live with his dad, Charlie. He hopes that his previous hurdles in life are over - but when he falls deeply in love with a vampire, Edward Cullens - things can only get worse.