Though vengeance was satisfying in its way, Rosalie remained deeply unhappy in her vampire life. She missed her human family greatly. More than that, the chance to have what she most longed for--a husband who loved her, a baby of her own--had been taken from her along with her humanity.
Two years later, Rosalie's life changed. While the Cullens were living in Tennessee, she discovered a man, Emmett McCarty, being mauled by a bear in the woods. Something about the man reminded Rosalie of her friend Vera's young son, and Rosalie didn't want him to die. She rescued Emmett and took him to Carlisle. She asked Carlisle to transform him, even though she hated her own vampire existence and knew her request was selfish.
"There are characters that I have to work for a little bit harder, and sort of get down to their motivations. A few of them--Rosalie, for example--were difficult. It took me a while to figure out what her thing was." --Stephenie
But Emmett didn't see Rosalie as selfish; he fell in love with her, and he easily adapted to vampire life. He and Rosalie soon married--and did so repeatedly over the decades. Rosalie loved being the center of attention as the bride, and Emmett loved making her happy. The two have sometimes lived as a couple apart from the rest of the Cullen family.
FAMOUS QUOTES
"I'm so very sorry, Bella. I feel wretched about every part of this, and so grateful that you were brave enough to go save my brother after what I did. Please say you'll forgive me." New Moon, Chapter 22
"It's just that... this is not the life I would have chosen for myself. I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me." New Moon, Chapter 24
"Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending--but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now." Eclipse, Chapter 7
"Over my pile of ashes." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 10
"Oh, wonderful. I knew I smelled something nasty." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 15
"You. Got. Food. In. My. Hair." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 15
"I'll help him toss you, dog. I owe you a good kick in the gut." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22
NAME: Emmett McCarty Cullen
DATE OF BIRTH: 1915
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1935, at age 20
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Carlisle Cullen
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown, almost black
EYE COLOR: Blue (human); gold/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 6'5"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Emmett has an imposing frame; he is both tall and extremely muscular. His hair is curly and nearly black. He has dimples when he smiles, and his face has an innocent quality not often seen in a grown man.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: He does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: He has attended high school and college multiple times. He's never finished any particular degree, preferring instead to move quickly from one subject that interests him to the next.
HOBBIES: He loves competitive sports and games, especially anything that involves a physical challenge.
VEHICLE: Red Jeep Wrangler modified for off-roading
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: He is married to Rosalie Hale. He considers Carlisle and Esme Cullen to be his parents; Edward Cullen, Alice Cullen, and Jasper Hale to be his siblings; Bella Cullen to be his sister-in-law; and Renesmee Cullen to be his niece.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Emmett grew up in the small town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, part of a large Scotch-Irish family. He had what his parents considered a wild adolescence; never one to worry about consequences, Emmett ran with a wild crowd that drank, gambled, and womanized. Emmett was always a help to his family, however. He was an excellent hunter and woodsman, and always kept the McCartys supplied with game. When he was twenty years old and out on a routine hunting trip in the Smoky Mountains, he was attacked by a large black bear. Emmett was close to losing consciousness when he thought he heard a second bear fighting with the first. He figured they were battling over who would get his corpse.
Then the growling stopped and Emmett felt like he was flying. He managed to open his eyes and saw what he thought was an angel. When the transformation began and the fiery agony spread through his body, he was sure he'd died and gone to hell.
In his delirium, he'd seen Rosalie as an angel and Carlisle as God, but in fact they were both vampires--and now he was a vampire, too.
When the pain left him, Emmett learned what had really happened to him. In his delirium, he'd seen Rosalie as an angel and Carlisle as God, but in fact they were both vampires--and now he was a vampire, too. He took the truth in stride; Emmett was never one to worry about situations outside of his control. He continues to think of Rosalie as his angel.
With his naturally happy nature, Emmett adjusted easily to the idea of being a vampire. Learning to control himself, however, was a more difficult challenge. In the years just after his transformation, Emmett was often unable to resist human blood. The Cullens were forced to move often until Emmett learned to restrain himself.
"IT WAS ONLY TWO YEARS LATER THAT SHE FOUND EMMETT. SHE WAS HUNTING--WE WERE IN APPALACHIA AT THE TIME--AND FOUND A BEAR ABOUT TO FINISH HIM OFF. SHE CARRIED HIM BACK TO CARLISLE, MORE THAN A HUNDRED MILES...."
--Edward, on Rosalie (Twilight, Chapter 14)
He genuinely bonded with all the members of his new family and, aside from his dietary lapses, also made their lives more comfortable. Emmett's easygoing nature brought out Edward's more optimistic side, and Rosalie became a different person altogether. When Emmett, ever practical, wanted to provide for his human family, Edward gave him a small fortune, which Emmett left in a bag on their doorstep. Even though he knew he could never again be a part of their family, he wanted to ease the burden of losing a strong, hardworking son. After doing what he could for them, he didn't look back.
Eventually, Emmett and Rosalie married--and have remarried more than once over the years, because Rosalie enjoys the process and the attention so much. At various times they have lived apart from the rest of the Cullen family as a married couple.
FAMOUS QUOTES
"Hell, yes!" New Moon, Chapter 24
"I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around." Eclipse, Chapter 4
"Nice to have toddlers guarding the fort." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 11
"Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22
"So it's still standing? I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?" Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25
"I'm sure you'll ace your classes... apparently there's nothing interesting for you to do at night besides study." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25
"'Bout time somebody scored around here." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 25
"She's too tame." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26
"Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch." Breaking Dawn, Chapter 26
NAME: Mary Alice Brandon Cullen; preferred name: Alice
DATE OF BIRTH: 1901
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1920, at age 19
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: An unnamed vampire who worked in a mental institution
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Biloxi, Mississippi
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Dark brown (human); gold/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 4'10"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Alice is tiny and graceful. Her hair is very short and spiky because her head was shaved in a mental hospital and her hair was in the process of growing out when she was transformed.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: She can see into the future, although what she sees is based on decisions being made; thus, she must wait for a decision to be firmly rooted in the mind, or acted upon, before she can see the end result. Her talent is limited to humans and vampires because she has been both; she cannot see the futures of werewolves or hybrid vampires.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: She has attended high
school and college several times. She has degrees in fashion design and international business. One of the ways she makes money is by using her gift for seeing the future to predict windfall investments in the stock market.
HOBBIES: She plays the stock market and loves designing and shopping for clothes.
VEHICLES: A canary yellow Porsche 911 Turbo
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: Alice is married to Jasper Hale. She considers Carlisle and Esme Cullen to be her parents; Edward Cullen, Rosalie Hale, and Emmett Cullen to be her siblings; Bella Cullen to be her sister-in-law; and Renesmee Cullen to be her niece. She had a human sister named Cynthia, and she has a human niece who still resides in Biloxi.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Mary Alice Brandon--or Alice, as she was commonly known--lived in a middle-class home in Biloxi, Mississippi, with her parents and her sister, Cynthia, who was nine years younger. Her father was a jeweler and a pearl trader. He bought the pearls from local divers and then moved the pearls inland to be sold in more profitable markets away from the coast. His job kept him away from the family for days at a time. Alice's mother tended to their home and the orchard on their property, and took care of Alice and Cynthia. The girls were fairly close despite the wide age difference between them.
Alice had the gift of foresight even as a little girl, but her premonitions were not nearly as strong as they would be later in her life. They came to her more as feelings than visions. At first her parents thought her premonitions were amusing. "Alice is always right," they would say when the five-year-old dressed herself in a slicker even though the sky was blue; later, of course, the rain would begin. "Grandma will be here soon," she would announce. They would laugh and put out an extra plate.
"Alice was a character who just popped into existence fully formed--so easily. It was like if Edward existed, then he must have a sister named Alice, and she would be this person. And she was one of the things that was sad for me with the book, because I wanted her to be real so much. Oh, I would love to have a friend like that. There must be someone just like her somewhere, because it seemed so obvious that she must exist." --Stephenie
As Alice grew older, she became more hesitant to share her predictions. She hated looking ridiculous when her premonitions turned out to be wrong. (Weather was the easiest for her to predict correctly, because it didn't involve people and their tendencies to change their minds.) By age ten, she rarely voiced her predictions at all, but those she did give came true often enough that people started to talk. "That uncanny child of the Brandons" was seldom asked to other children's birthday parties. Alice's mother loved her deeply and counseled her to keep quiet about her premonitions.
By the time Alice turned eighteen, she'd learned to ignore her gift, for the most part, but occasionally she felt compelled to speak.
People started to use the words witch and changeling when talking about her.
By the time Alice turned eighteen, she'd learned to ignore her gift, for the most part, but occasionally she felt compelled to speak. When she did, it sometimes turned out badly, such as when Alice warned a friend not to marry a certain man; the friend ignored her, and it was revealed that the man's family had a history of insanity. Rather than blame herself or her husband, the friend whispered to others that Alice had put a curse on her. On another occasion, one of Alice's favorite cousins planned to go west to seek his fortune, and Alice begged him not to. The cousin died in an accident on the road, and his parents--Alice's aunt and uncle--blamed Alice for jinxing his trip. People started to use the words witch and changeling when talking about her.
Then Alice had her most terrifying vision. She saw her mother being murdered by a stranger in the woods on her way into town. She told her mother what she had seen, and her mother listened to her. Alice's mother kept her daughters in the house with the doors locked and a pistol loaded. Mr. Brandon returned home from a trip two days later to a dirty house full of terrified women and empty of food. On Mrs. Brandon's insistence, he searched the woods near the road but found nothing. He was angry with Alice's "damned stories" and ordered Alice not to put everyone in a panic again.
Alice began to be haunted by flashes of the stranger, still stalking her mother. When she told her parents what she'd seen, her father was furious with Alice's hysteria. He insisted that the family go about their usual routine. But he was often gone, and when he was, Alice's mother followed Alice's desperate warnings as much as possible. Still, she had to shop for supplies and tend her orchard. When a month passed and no one had seen the man, Mrs. Brandon grew less wary. She began returning her friends' visits and attending sewing circles. She took the pistol with her every time she left the house--at first. After two months, she started to forget.
One night Alice had a perfectly clear vision of the man in a Model T running her mother's buggy off the road just outside of town, where there was a steep drop. Alice's mother had already left home in the buggy. Alice ran after her, seeing in her mind the stranger watching the crashed buggy to be sure there was no movement inside. Next she had a vision of the man driving away from the scene of the accident. Alice knew she was too late, but she kept running.
The death of Alice's mother was declared accidental, and Alice's protestations to the contrary were met with disdain and suspicion. Alice's father ordered her to be silent.
Mr. Brandon remarried within six months of his wife's death. The woman was a blond Yankee from Illinois who was only ten years older than Alice; Mr. Brandon had frequently sold pearls to her jeweler father in the past. The new Mrs. Brandon was quite cold to Alice, though she made a pet of the younger Cynthia.
Even unguided by visions, Alice was bright. Careless, offhand comments by her new stepmother and evidence of longer preparations for this marriage than should have been possible made Alice suspicious. She took her suspicions to her father, who raged at her for suggesting ill of his new wife.
The night after her confrontation with her father, Alice had a vision of him and the stranger who had killed her mother. Her father was giving the man money. Then Alice had a vision of the man standing over her with a knife. Too late, she realized that she'd confided in exactly the wrong person. Alice rushed out into the night and ran five miles to the home of her aunt and uncle, her only living relatives. Alice beat on the door until they answered, then gasped out her story: Her father had arranged to have her mother murdered and was sending the killer after her next. The aunt--who still blamed Alice for her son's death--shoved Alice off the porch and told her husband to get the dogs and drive Alice away.
Both her aunt and her father were already there, and the marshal had been informed that Alice had gone mad.
Alice hurried ten more miles back to town and arrived at the town marshal's house to find it lit and busy. Both her aunt and her father were already there, and the marshal had been informed that Alice had gone mad. Alice accused her father of his crimes and her stepmother of complicity, but no one listened. Most people already thought Alice was crazy--or possessed by the devil. The marshal was paid well to have Alice put quietly into an asylum two counties away. Few people knew what had actually happened, and everyone who did know the truth was very understanding about the Brandons' desire to pretend that Alice had died.
In the mental asylum, Alice's head was shaved during the threat of a typhoid outbreak. She also endured electroshock therapy. The treatment caused her to lose her memory, but it also allowed her naturally cheerful and humorous disposition to return, since she no longer remembered the sadness and horror of her recent life.
Unknown to Alice, a vampire was working as a groundskeeper at the asylum where she was incarcerated. This vampire, who was taking advantage of this pool of humans who could die without much notice being taken, formed an attachment to Alice. He kept her from the shock treatments and other horrors whenever he could. He learned of Alice's abilities; she always knew when he was coming to visit her. He would bring hidden objects with him, to see if she could guess what he had. She always got it right. r />
Then Alice had a vision of James.
Then Alice had a vision of James. It occurred the moment he caught her scent, old and faded, in her hometown two counties away. She saw James find her. She told her only friend, the vampire, and he knew that what she was seeing was fact. He planned to escape with her, but Alice saw James catching up to her anyway. He offered other options, but every choice ended with James. Then the groundskeeper decided to change her. Alice saw that this would be very close. There might not be time for her blood to transform sufficiently for James to gain nothing in killing her. The vampire had heard enough. He bit Alice immediately and took her away to hide her. Knowing this would barely slow James, he put himself in James's path to delay him. From Alice's vision, he knew James was a strong hunter, and that it was a fight he would not win.
She was able to see the best future for herself.
After her transformation, Alice awoke alone. The pain of the transformation had the same effect on Alice as the shocks; she remembered nothing of her life in the asylum, or of the vampire who had transformed her. She was unaware of James as the reason for her change. Fortunately, Alice's psychic gifts were now greatly enhanced and strengthened. She was able to see the best future for herself.
Alice's first clear vision as a vampire was of Jasper Whitlock. She knew that Jasper was her future mate, but she also knew that he wasn't ready for her yet. Instead of going to look for him, she waited for him to find her. In the meantime, she practiced--with sporadic success--living a "vegetarian" lifestyle, knowing that in time she and Jasper would end up with the Cullen family.