NAME: Edward Anthony Masen Cullen
DATE OF BIRTH: June 20, 1901
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: 1918, at age 17
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Carlisle Cullen
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Chicago, Illinois
HAIR COLOR: Bronze
EYE COLOR: Green (human); gold/black (vampire)
HEIGHT: 6‘2"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Edward is thin and lanky but muscular. He has untidy
bronze hair and boyish looks.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: He can read the thoughts of anyone in close proximity to him,
with the exception of Bella Cullen.
EDUCATION/OCCUPATION: He has two medical degrees but has never worked as a
doctor. His other graduate degrees are in literature, mathematics, law, mechanical engineering,
several languages, art history, and international business. Edward owns his family‘s house in Chicago, and about every fifty years or so, he "inherits" his family fortune from himself.
HOBBIES: He loves music—he plays a variety of instruments, sings, and has an
extensive vinyl and CD collection. He also enjoys collecting cars.
VEHICLES: A silver Volvo S60R and a silver Aston Martin V12 Vanquish
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: He is married to Bella Cullen and has a
daughter, Renesmee Cullen. He is the natural son of Edward and Elizabeth Masen, and the
"adopted" son of Carlisle and Esme Cullen. He thinks of himself as a brother to Alice and
Emmett Cullen, as well as to Rosalie and Jasper Hale.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Edward was born to Edward and Elizabeth Masen on June 20, 1901. He was their only
child. His father, a successful lawyer, provided Edward with many advantages, including music
lessons and the opportunity to attend private school; however, although his father provided for Edward in material ways, he was emotionally distant and often away from home on business.
This absence was made up for by Edward‘s close relationship with his mother; he was the center of her life.
Edward excelled at his studies and became an accomplished pianist. As he grew older,
Edward became enamored of the life of a soldier. World War I raged during most of his
adolescence, and Edward dreamed of the day he could join the battle. His mother‘s greatest fear was that she would lose Edward in the war. Every night she prayed that it would end before her only son turned eighteen and was old enough to enlist.
Nine months before his eighteenth birthday, the Spanish influenza hit Chicago, infecting
all of Edward‘s family. Gravely ill, they were treated in the hospital where Dr. Carlisle Cullen
worked. Edward‘s father quickly succumbed to the disease. On her deathbed and fearing for her son‘s life, Elizabeth Masen begged Dr. Cullen to do what was necessary to save her son.
Somehow she seemed to know Dr. Cullen had a supernatural means to save Edward.
Moved by Elizabeth Masen‘s plea and having already thoroughly considered the idea of
creating a companion, Carlisle took Edward from the hospital late that night, carrying the unconscious boy to his home. There Edward became the first human Carlisle changed into a
vampire.
Edward formed a deep bond with Carlisle, who became a father to him, gaining Edward‘s
trust and love the way his natural father never had. It was Carlisle who first realized that Edward
possessed mind-reading abilities; he noticed Edward answering questions that Carlisle had not asked aloud. Edward had always had a knack for reading people; after his transformation, this ability blossomed into a true psychic talent.
Edward‘s new family gained a member when Carlisle transformed Esme to save her life
after her suicide attempt. Edward was still young enough to appreciate a mother‘s care, and Esme gave it to him. Edward grew to love his new ―father‖ and ―mother.‖ But as much as he respected Carlisle‘s ideals and valued Esme‘s gentleness and tenderness, he couldn‘t help questioning what it meant to be a vampire.
After almost a decade of living with Carlisle, Edward decided to leave his new parents
and experience an alternate style of vampire life. He began drinking human blood instead of
animal blood. Rather than become a true villain in his own estimation, he became a vigilante.
Edward used his mind-reading abilities to target serious criminals as his victims—murderers,
rapists, abusers, pedophiles, and the like. For his first victim, he tracked down Charles Evenson, Esme‘s abusive ex-husband. In the end, though, he couldn‘t accept taking so many human lives, no matter the justification, and in 1931 he returned home to Carlisle and Esme and their way of life.
Edward knew from hearing their thoughts that Carlisle and Esme were sometimes
concerned that he had no romantic love in his life. When Carlisle transformed Rosalie Hale and brought her into the family in 1933, Edward knew that Carlisle and Esme hoped she and Edward would become a couple. But as stunningly beautiful as Rosalie was physically, Edward was not attracted to her somewhat shallow and self-absorbed mind. The feeling was mutual. Edward and Rosalie always treated each other as brother and sister, and were not always on the best of terms.
When the Cullen family lived in Alaska, Edward had another opportunity to find romance, this time with Tanya, the leader of the Denali coven, a group that also practiced a"vegetarian" lifestyle. Though Tanya was interested in Edward, he did not return that interest. It
wasn‘t until the Cullen family returned to Forks in 2003 that anyone captured Edward‘s
attention. There Edward met a human girl named Bella Swan. Bella was markedly different from every other person he‘d ever met in two impossible-to-overlook ways: First, her blood "sang" for him the way no other human‘s had; second, her mind was the first he‘d encountered that was entirely closed to his mind-reading abilities.