Emmett Cullen (born Emmett McCarty) is a fictional character in Twilight, a young adult series written by author Stephenie Meyer.
Emmett Dale McCarty was the youngest in a large family with Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was 20 and living in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 1935 when he was mauled by a bear. The injuries from the attack were severe and he was found by Rosalie Hale who was hunting in the area at the time. Rosalie carried him over a hundred mil...
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Emmett Cullen (born Emmett McCarty) is a fictional character in Twilight, a young adult series written by author Stephenie Meyer.
Emmett Dale McCarty was the youngest in a large family with Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was 20 and living in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 1935 when he was mauled by a bear. The injuries from the attack were severe and he was found by Rosalie Hale who was hunting in the area at the time. Rosalie carried him over a hundred miles to Appalachia where Carlisle Cullen was, asking him to spare Emmett's life by turning him into a vampire. Emmett described the experience as being saved by an angel who brought him to God, saying in a deleted scene from Twilight that "Hell's not so bad if you get to keep an angel with you." Rosalie has stated that she saved Emmett because his innocent appearance reminded her of her friend's child, Henry.
Emmett took the news of becoming a vampire in stride, saying, "if Carlisle and Rosalie, my angel, were vampires, how bad could it be?" He...
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