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Esme Cullen

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Esme Cullen is the matriarch of the Olympic coven. She is the wife of Carlisle Cullen and the adoptive mother of Alice Cullen, Emmett Cullen, Edward Cullen, Rosalie Hale and Jasper Hale. Esme is also the adoptive mother-in-law of Bella Swan, and the adoptive grandmother of Renesmee Cullen. She was previously married to Charles Evenson as a human.
In 1921, after losing her baby to lung fever, Esme attempted to hurt herself, but her attempt was unsuccessful. Later, Carlisle transformed her into a vampire on her deathbed. Some time later, the pair fell in love and married, starting to build a family of like-minded vegetarian vampires around them. Esme possessed an unparalleled capacity for unconditional love for those around her, which allowed the members of her adoptive family to consider her as the greatest maternal figure in their lives. She is the oldest Cullen in appearance by three years (though Jasper, Edward and Carlisle are older as they were transformed earlier in their lives). Her Life and Death counterpart is Earnest Cullen.