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Ficlet: Ten random facts about Emmett Cullen, Twilight, Emmett/Rosalie, rated PG
Title: Ten random facts about Emmett Cullen
Fandom: Twilight
Pairings: All canon Cullen pairings, but mostly Emmett/Rosalie
Rating: PG? Some talk of blood, death and sex?
Summary: Ten things about Emmett.
A/N: I like this format. It's good for trying out characterisation. I might do this for some of the other characters too. :)
1) Privately, Emmett thinks that Carlisle's ideal of a non-violent vampire lifestyle is just a little silly. He has always been a hunter, and he understands the food chain; it's the way the world works. But he likes humans - his own memories of life are fuzzy by now, but if nothing else, they are amusing, helplessly bumbling about like cubs. He doesn't want to be the nightmare that haunts their sleepless nights. He is a predator, but not a monster. And he respects Carlisle too much: he is Emmett's creator, the closest thing to God that exists in the twilight of their undead existence. Carlisle's rules are the laws that Emmett lives by. He may be a sinner, but he trusts that he has not yet been forsaken.
2) There's other prey that tastes better than bear, but Emmett still likes hunting grizzly best. It's a matter of principle; he's still miffed that he lost that one fight.
3) Unlike the others, who have all had their moments of doubt and regret, Emmett has never struggled with his vampire existence. He has mourned his own death for one reason only: never having said goodbye to his flesh-and-blood family, the raucous bunch of brothers and sisters he grew up with. Leaving them eventually always was inevitable: he was one of the youngest, and most of his siblings already had spouses and children, family of their own. They would've wanted him to lose his heart and mind to a beautiful girl, he is sure, and it just so happens that the one who is meant for him is not human. It is what it is; he never regrets. Still, when Jasper and Alice and Bella join them, he rejoices. He has always liked having a large family.
4) Emmett loves and respects Edward the most of all his adopted siblings, but secretly (and this is the one and only thought he's always hidden from his brother), he was just a little afraid that one day, Edward would want to claim Rose after all. Not that he could, or that he would, but love and jealousy are hard to reason with. This is the other reason why Emmett welcomes Bella to the family so gladly.
5) Everyone thinks it's just Rosalie who likes to make a big show of getting married, and it is true that he cares little for the frills and trimmings and Alice's excited fluttering. But to show the whole world that Rosalie is his, forever, gives him a thrill of pride and joy, every time.
6) There is only one thing he has ever wanted as much as he desires Rose, and that is the blood of one of the two humans whom Edward calls his 'singers'. It was a different sort of need, of course, but it caused strife regardless, and when Bella joins them, Rosalie's old resentment bubbles up again, fresh and unchanged even after all these years, and in spite of himself, Emmett is pleased that she still cares so much. He is also sorry for Bella, though, because Edward loves la sua cantante enough to marry her, make her one of them, and Rosalie will never forgive Bella entirely for confirming the worst of the fears she has carried within her heart for so long. There is nothing he can do, Emmett knows, but prove her wrong, again and again. Fortunately, he has all of eternity to do so, and he will, gladly.
7) For all that Rosalie enjoys the fixed daily rituals of her beauty routine, he thinks she is most beautiful when she is least self-aware, when the trappings of designer clothes and luxurious make-up are stripped away and she is covered in grease, unkempt and utterly confident as she tinkers with the engine of his car. She is carefree then, blissfully oblivious to anything that she cannot fix with a few quick flicks of her wrench, and he'd rather have a happy wife than a flawless one. She is perfect to him always, anyhow.
8) Even though he’s married Rosalie once in every decade of their shared life, they’ve lived less time as husband and wife than as boyfriend and girlfriend. It’s one of the downsides of perpetually looking twenty - by the time people assume they are old enough to be married, they’re moving on already, and then it starts over again in the next town: high school, college, the endless cycle of teenage stupor. It doesn’t really bother him much, where they are and what they are to people, as long as they remain who they are with each other. But secretly, he likes it best when he can call her his wife, for all the world to know. In the years when they aren’t officially married, their wedding bands sit in a velvet box in the glove compartment of whatever car he drives at the time, her smaller one nestled inside his; Rose's engagement ring (always the same one), he wears on a chain around his neck so he can have it handy whenever he feels like proposing again.
9) The others believe his strength is his gift, but Emmett likes to think that his special talent is being the only one who can tell when Rosalie's no means no, when she is just playing coy, and when it's something in between, wary and undecided while she's beneath him in the dark, her eyes wide and frightened. He has spent many years watching her suffer in helpless rage, wishing he could heal her wounds, but he has come to accept that he can only soothe them when they ache, and so he whispers to her, until her lids flutter shut and she can let go, You're safe. I'd never hurt you, baby. Never.
10) It often strikes him as ironic how very human they all still are, for all of their supernatural sensibilities: Alice's preoccupation with silly pastimes that calm her reeling mind. Jasper's careful, observant attempts to fit in. Esme the homemaker and Carlisle the doctor, the perfect couple of a suburban fairy tale. Edward, forever seventeen, in spite of all the wisdom of his years, in his weary contemplation of the world - before Bella, who sees it with the childlike eyes of a newborn, all wonder and fearful delight. And Rose, with her cynicism and resentment of everything and everyone, hiding away her painful, impossible dreams. They are not the ethereal beings of lore - he is the best proof of that. They are simply a family: eight different, strong-minded personalities, united by a love that runs in their blood (if not in the traditional sense). It's not always easy, but then, it's not supposed to be. Such is life; even a vampire's.
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Fandom: Twilight
Pairings: All canon Cullen pairings, but mostly Emmett/Rosalie
Rating: PG? Some talk of blood, death and sex?
Summary: Ten things about Emmett.
A/N: I like this format. It's good for trying out characterisation. I might do this for some of the other characters too. :)
1) Privately, Emmett thinks that Carlisle's ideal of a non-violent vampire lifestyle is just a little silly. He has always been a hunter, and he understands the food chain; it's the way the world works. But he likes humans - his own memories of life are fuzzy by now, but if nothing else, they are amusing, helplessly bumbling about like cubs. He doesn't want to be the nightmare that haunts their sleepless nights. He is a predator, but not a monster. And he respects Carlisle too much: he is Emmett's creator, the closest thing to God that exists in the twilight of their undead existence. Carlisle's rules are the laws that Emmett lives by. He may be a sinner, but he trusts that he has not yet been forsaken.
2) There's other prey that tastes better than bear, but Emmett still likes hunting grizzly best. It's a matter of principle; he's still miffed that he lost that one fight.
3) Unlike the others, who have all had their moments of doubt and regret, Emmett has never struggled with his vampire existence. He has mourned his own death for one reason only: never having said goodbye to his flesh-and-blood family, the raucous bunch of brothers and sisters he grew up with. Leaving them eventually always was inevitable: he was one of the youngest, and most of his siblings already had spouses and children, family of their own. They would've wanted him to lose his heart and mind to a beautiful girl, he is sure, and it just so happens that the one who is meant for him is not human. It is what it is; he never regrets. Still, when Jasper and Alice and Bella join them, he rejoices. He has always liked having a large family.
4) Emmett loves and respects Edward the most of all his adopted siblings, but secretly (and this is the one and only thought he's always hidden from his brother), he was just a little afraid that one day, Edward would want to claim Rose after all. Not that he could, or that he would, but love and jealousy are hard to reason with. This is the other reason why Emmett welcomes Bella to the family so gladly.
5) Everyone thinks it's just Rosalie who likes to make a big show of getting married, and it is true that he cares little for the frills and trimmings and Alice's excited fluttering. But to show the whole world that Rosalie is his, forever, gives him a thrill of pride and joy, every time.
6) There is only one thing he has ever wanted as much as he desires Rose, and that is the blood of one of the two humans whom Edward calls his 'singers'. It was a different sort of need, of course, but it caused strife regardless, and when Bella joins them, Rosalie's old resentment bubbles up again, fresh and unchanged even after all these years, and in spite of himself, Emmett is pleased that she still cares so much. He is also sorry for Bella, though, because Edward loves la sua cantante enough to marry her, make her one of them, and Rosalie will never forgive Bella entirely for confirming the worst of the fears she has carried within her heart for so long. There is nothing he can do, Emmett knows, but prove her wrong, again and again. Fortunately, he has all of eternity to do so, and he will, gladly.
7) For all that Rosalie enjoys the fixed daily rituals of her beauty routine, he thinks she is most beautiful when she is least self-aware, when the trappings of designer clothes and luxurious make-up are stripped away and she is covered in grease, unkempt and utterly confident as she tinkers with the engine of his car. She is carefree then, blissfully oblivious to anything that she cannot fix with a few quick flicks of her wrench, and he'd rather have a happy wife than a flawless one. She is perfect to him always, anyhow.
8) Even though he’s married Rosalie once in every decade of their shared life, they’ve lived less time as husband and wife than as boyfriend and girlfriend. It’s one of the downsides of perpetually looking twenty - by the time people assume they are old enough to be married, they’re moving on already, and then it starts over again in the next town: high school, college, the endless cycle of teenage stupor. It doesn’t really bother him much, where they are and what they are to people, as long as they remain who they are with each other. But secretly, he likes it best when he can call her his wife, for all the world to know. In the years when they aren’t officially married, their wedding bands sit in a velvet box in the glove compartment of whatever car he drives at the time, her smaller one nestled inside his; Rose's engagement ring (always the same one), he wears on a chain around his neck so he can have it handy whenever he feels like proposing again.
9) The others believe his strength is his gift, but Emmett likes to think that his special talent is being the only one who can tell when Rosalie's no means no, when she is just playing coy, and when it's something in between, wary and undecided while she's beneath him in the dark, her eyes wide and frightened. He has spent many years watching her suffer in helpless rage, wishing he could heal her wounds, but he has come to accept that he can only soothe them when they ache, and so he whispers to her, until her lids flutter shut and she can let go, You're safe. I'd never hurt you, baby. Never.
10) It often strikes him as ironic how very human they all still are, for all of their supernatural sensibilities: Alice's preoccupation with silly pastimes that calm her reeling mind. Jasper's careful, observant attempts to fit in. Esme the homemaker and Carlisle the doctor, the perfect couple of a suburban fairy tale. Edward, forever seventeen, in spite of all the wisdom of his years, in his weary contemplation of the world - before Bella, who sees it with the childlike eyes of a newborn, all wonder and fearful delight. And Rose, with her cynicism and resentment of everything and everyone, hiding away her painful, impossible dreams. They are not the ethereal beings of lore - he is the best proof of that. They are simply a family: eight different, strong-minded personalities, united by a love that runs in their blood (if not in the traditional sense). It's not always easy, but then, it's not supposed to be. Such is life; even a vampire's.
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