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Authors: Stephenie Meyer

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“They ended up being vampires in the way they are because I have strong opinions on free will. No matter what position you’re in, you always have a choice. So I had these characters who were in a position where traditionally they would have been the bad guys, but, instead, they chose to be something different—a theme that has always been important to me.”
—Stephenie

 

 

NAME
:
Rosalie Lillian Hale

DATE OF BIRTH
:
1915

DATE OF TRANSFORMATION
:
Late 1933, at age 18

SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION
:
Carlisle Cullen

PLACE OF ORIGIN
:
Rochester, New York

HAIR COLOR
:
Golden blond

EYE COLOR
:
Dark blue, almost violet (human); gold/black (vampire)

HEIGHT
:
5’9”

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
:
Rosalie has strikingly beautiful features and a stunning, statuesque physique. Her wavy blond hair falls halfway down her back.

SPECIAL ABILITIES
:
She does not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.

EDUCATION/OCCUPATION
:
She has earned degrees in electrical engineering, business, and astrophysics, and has studied medicine (the last as a favor to Carlisle, to help keep him up-to-date with the latest advances).

HOBBIES
:
She enjoys enhancing cars and doing anything mechanical.

VEHICLE
:
Red BMW M3 convertible

FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS
:
She is married to Emmett Cullen. She considers Carlisle and Esme Cullen to be her parents; Edward Cullen, Alice Cullen, and Jasper Hale to be her siblings; Bella Cullen to be her sister-in-law; and Renesmee Cullen to be her niece. Before her transformation, she grew up with her biological parents and two younger brothers.

 
PERSONAL HISTORY
:

Rosalie Hale was born to a banker and his wife in Rochester, New York. Luckily, the bank her father worked at stayed solvent through the stock-market crash and resulting economic downturn. The Great Depression did not seriously impact
Rosalie’s family the way it did many less fortunate families. Her parents were eager to do better, though—to move in higher social circles. As Rosalie grew and her beauty increased, they hoped her loveliness would open doors for them.

Rosalie enjoyed her parents’ pride in her looks, her father’s pleasure in buying her beautiful clothes, her girlfriends’ envy, and the admiration of every man she passed. The result of all this attention was that Rosalie tended to be self-absorbed and rather shallow, with a focus on the material.

“I
WAS THRILLED TO BE ME
,
TO BE
R
OSALIE
H
ALE
. P
LEASED THAT MEN’S EYES WATCHED ME
… H
APPY THAT MY MOTHER WAS PROUD OF ME AND THAT MY FATHER LIKED TO BUY ME PRETTY DRESSES
.”

—Rosalie, on her human life (
Eclipse
, Chapter 7)

 

At eighteen, Rosalie was considered the most beautiful girl in Rochester, and possibly the state of New York. Her family was moderately wealthy and she wanted for nothing. Rosalie envied no one… except for her friend Vera. Vera had a husband who loved her and the most adorable baby boy, Henry. Rosalie longed for a husband and a baby of her own. When Rosalie caught the eye of Royce King II, the son of the richest man in Rochester, she felt that she was on her way to having absolutely everything she’d ever wanted. Her parents were overjoyed; a whirlwind courtship and plans for an extravagant wedding quickly followed.

One night, a week before the wedding, Rosalie was walking home after a visit with Vera. A few blocks from her street she heard the drunken laughter of a group of men. A moment later, she realized one of them was Royce. She’d never seen Royce drunk before, and didn’t know the dark side of his
character. Royce and his friends brutally assaulted and raped Rosalie. Thinking her dead, they abandoned her in the road.

Moments later, Carlisle Cullen found Rosalie and transformed her to save her life. He hoped that Rosalie might make a suitable companion for Edward, but they never viewed each other in that way, though they did come to love each other as brother and sister.

One of the first things Rosalie did as a vampire was to take revenge on Royce and his friends. She hunted her attackers down one by one, saving Royce for last because she wanted him to suffer psychologically from the fear of knowing that something was coming for him. She tortured all of her attackers to death, but she didn’t drink their blood; she was repulsed by the idea of having any part of them inside her. She and Carlisle (and, later, Bella) are the only vampires in the Cullen clan who have never killed humans for blood.

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.

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