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.
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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
