This research is descriptive qualitative. The focus of this research is facethreatening acts between male and female characters in Twilight Novel. The dataare taken from all conversation between male and female characters containingasking in applying face threatening acts.The research objectives are: (1) to reveal the face threatening acts in theconversation of each character in Twilight novel, (2) to explain the facethreatening acts in Twilight novel, and (3) to find out the reason why male andfemale use different kind of face threatening acts. There are four types of facethreatening acts: (1) bald on record, (2) positive politeness, (3) negativepoliteness, and (4) bald off record.This research also analyzes the relationship between male and femalecharacters. There are four relations between male and female characters: (1)distance and power relationship, (2) distance and equal power relationship, (3)close distance and power relationship, and (4) close distance and equal powerrelationship.Keywords: Face Threatening Acts, Bald on Record, Positive Politeness, NegativePoliteness, Bald off Record