Introduction
Hello, my name is Carlisle Cullen. My story is different than most you'd find in a place like this. Currently, my family and I live in a small and mostly quiet town in Washington called Forks. We're able to live in peace there thanks to a treaty that came about many years before now. I may look human to most, but I am far from it. I am a vampire as is all of my family. We're an odd collection of vampires considering we're unlike the rest of our kind. But it's probably better if I start more towards the beginning.
I lived in London and was the faithful son of an Anglican pastor during the mid 1600's. My father was determine to rid the city of evil and sin and wanted to take out creatures such as werewolves and vampires. He did not always find those that were truly of that kind, but as he aged and I was put in charge of the hunts, I kept on doing his work. Eventually, I did find a group of vampires in the sewers of London, but was attacked during the fight. Three painful days later I emerged as a vampire myself.
Naturally, I was horrified by what I'd become. Something I'd been fighting against most of my adult life and now I was one of them. I tried killing myself through several ways, but nothing seemed to work as it would have if I'd still been human. I fled to the woods and came across a herd of deer. It was then that I realized that, as a vampire, I did not have to live off the blood of humans but could hunt animals instead.
Many years passed and I travelled all over Europe. Mostly, I studied and was able to develop a tolerance to human blood so that to this day, the smell has little to no effect on me. This serves great purpose in that I studied medicine. I found that I was able to hear and detect certain things that human doctors could not. While I was in Italy, I stayed with a coven of vampires known as the Volturi. They are the equivalent are royalty of our kind and I learned much from them, but still would not drink the blood of humans as they did, so I left and decided to travel to the New World.
This was where I started a family of my own. While I was living in Chicago during the Spanish flu epidemic, there was a young boy who's mother begged me to save him any way that I could. I could not save his mother, but I did the only thing I knew to do to save he son. Her son became my own son, in a sense, and the first member of my family.
Edward and I lived together for several years and soon there was another addition to our family, Esme, who is now my wife. Later there was Rosalie. Both of whom would have died if not for having changed them into vampires. Emmett has been the last that I've personally changed and have added to our family. Alice and Jasper joined us, but on their own.
We travel around to keep our identities hidden, acting as a family and playing different parts as the cities change. Currently, we live in Forks, Washington, and I am a doctor at the local hospital there. My oldest, Edward, has left for his own reasons but the rest of us have all stayed in Forks. We live well here and I must say it's one of the most enjoyable places we've stayed in several decades. Perhaps not all of my family would agree, but then again we don't always agree on everything. What family does?
I lived in London and was the faithful son of an Anglican pastor during the mid 1600's. My father was determine to rid the city of evil and sin and wanted to take out creatures such as werewolves and vampires. He did not always find those that were truly of that kind, but as he aged and I was put in charge of the hunts, I kept on doing his work. Eventually, I did find a group of vampires in the sewers of London, but was attacked during the fight. Three painful days later I emerged as a vampire myself.
Naturally, I was horrified by what I'd become. Something I'd been fighting against most of my adult life and now I was one of them. I tried killing myself through several ways, but nothing seemed to work as it would have if I'd still been human. I fled to the woods and came across a herd of deer. It was then that I realized that, as a vampire, I did not have to live off the blood of humans but could hunt animals instead.
Many years passed and I travelled all over Europe. Mostly, I studied and was able to develop a tolerance to human blood so that to this day, the smell has little to no effect on me. This serves great purpose in that I studied medicine. I found that I was able to hear and detect certain things that human doctors could not. While I was in Italy, I stayed with a coven of vampires known as the Volturi. They are the equivalent are royalty of our kind and I learned much from them, but still would not drink the blood of humans as they did, so I left and decided to travel to the New World.
This was where I started a family of my own. While I was living in Chicago during the Spanish flu epidemic, there was a young boy who's mother begged me to save him any way that I could. I could not save his mother, but I did the only thing I knew to do to save he son. Her son became my own son, in a sense, and the first member of my family.
Edward and I lived together for several years and soon there was another addition to our family, Esme, who is now my wife. Later there was Rosalie. Both of whom would have died if not for having changed them into vampires. Emmett has been the last that I've personally changed and have added to our family. Alice and Jasper joined us, but on their own.
We travel around to keep our identities hidden, acting as a family and playing different parts as the cities change. Currently, we live in Forks, Washington, and I am a doctor at the local hospital there. My oldest, Edward, has left for his own reasons but the rest of us have all stayed in Forks. We live well here and I must say it's one of the most enjoyable places we've stayed in several decades. Perhaps not all of my family would agree, but then again we don't always agree on everything. What family does?