Renesmee Cullen

The Basics—

• Name: Renesmee “Nessie” Carlie Cullen
• Date of Birth: September 10, 2006
• Place of Birth: Forks, Washington
• Current Residence: Forks, WA
• Status: Vampire-Human Hybrid

Physical Appearance—

• Hair Color: Bronze curls
• Eye Color: Chocolate brown

Associations—

• Family: Parents Edward and Bella; grandparents Carlisle, Esme, Charlie, Renee; aunts Rosalie and Alice; uncles Emmett and Jasper.
• Significant Other: Jacob Black (imprinted)

Personality/Characteristics—

• Special Abilities/Talents: She can place her own thoughts and memories into other people’s minds, even those that are shielded, by touching them with her hand. Just as Edward can hear other people’s thoughts, Renesmee can do the opposite and implant her own thoughts into another person’s mind.
• Description: Renesmee is Edward and Bella’s daughter. She has “shiny bronze colored hair [that falls] in ringlets” and Bella’s “chocolate brown eyes” (Breaking Dawn, pg. 438). She is warm-blooded and “has a heartbeat, though it runs a little bit faster than human’s. Her temperature is a little bit hotter than usual, too. She sleeps” (Breaking Dawn, pg. 429). Renesmee also prefers drinking blood to human food, but can survive on both.

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Personal History—

While on their honeymoon on Isle Esme, Bella and Edward conceive Renesmee. The baby’s conception is possible because Bella is still human at that point, and male vampires have “many versions of venom-based fluids that retain a marked resemblance to the fluid that was replaced, and function in much the same way and toward the same purpose” (Stephenie Meyer).

Edward’s first instinct is to remove the fetus from Bella before it hurts her. Bella, however, is determined to go through with the pregnancy. Keeping the baby comes at a large price, though, nearly killing her.

Renesmee’s birth comes only one month after her conception. Mere moments after she is born, and as Edward changes Bella, Renesmee meets Jacob, and he imprints on her. Bella decides on the name Renesmee in honor of her mother, Renee, and her mother-in-law, Esme. However, without Bella’s consent, the rest of the family and Jacob give her the nickname Nessie.

Renesmee grows exponentially, and she ages mentally even faster than she does physically. As the Cullens later find out, vampire-human hybrids grow much faster than human children grow, but stop growing once they hit adulthood. Irina, however, does not realize that Renesmee is a not an “immortal child” when she runs off to tell the Volturi about her. In the end, Nessie manages to win over enough vampires with her charm to serve as witnesses of her growth to the Volturi, and all survive the encounter.

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