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Alice Cullen
The Twilight Saga character
Created by	Stephenie Meyer
Based on	Twilight (novel series)
Designed by	Stephenie Meyer
Portrayed by	Ashley Greene
Voiced by	Ashley Greene
Motion capture	Ashley Greene
In-universe information
Alias	Mary Alice Brandon
Nickname	Alice
Species	Vampire, Human(originally; formally)
Gender	Female
Occupation	Student
Family	Carlisle Cullen(adoptive father) Esme Cullen (adoptive mother) Jasper Hale (partner) Edward Cullen (adoptive brother) Emmet Cullen (adoptive brother) Rosalie Hale (adoptive sister) Bella Swan (adoptive sister-in-law) Renesmee Cullen (adoptive niece)
Relatives	--
Origin	United States of America
Nationality	American

Alice Cullen

Alice Cullen ( né Mary Alice Brandon) is a fictional character in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. She is featured in the books Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, and their corresponding film adaptations. Alice is a cognitive vampire and the member of the Cullen family. She is known for her sweet and loving nature. In the Twilight film series, Alice is portrayed by Ashley Greene.

Biography

Alice Cullen is the adopted daughter of Carlisle and Esme Cullen, adoptive sister of Edward Cullen, Emmet Cullen, Rosalie Hale, the adoptive sister-in-law of Bella Swan and the partner of Jasper Hale. Alice is petite and pixie-like, with a grateful gait and hair that is short, spiky and black. Her special ability is to see the future. Her ability is limited; she is only able to see the outcome of a decision once it is made. Due to this, decisions made in the spur of the moment cannot be foreseen. Alice can see futures involving humans and vampires, but she is unable to see those involving half-breeds such as Renesmee and werewolves. She is bubbly and optimistic, she loves and cares for everyone. She is close to her brother Edward and she enjoys shopping, makeovers and throwing parties. Her early life is vague, as she remembers nothing about her human life and woke up alone as a vampire. It is eventually revealed that she was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and was committed to an asylum because she had premonitions. Alice was transformed by an old vampire who worked at the asylum to protect her from James, a tracker vampire who was hurting her. After some research, Alice found her grave and discovered that the date on her tombstone matches the date of her admission to the asylum. Through her research she additionally discovered that she had a younger sister named Cynthia, and that Cynthia’s daughter, Alice’s niece, is still alive and lives in Biloxi.

Physical Appearance

Alice is a very beautiful person, petite, the shortest of the Cullens at 4’10” in the books, “thin in extreme”, with the small “pixie-like” features. She is also described to have large eyes and long, delicate eyebrows. Her hair his cropped short, spiky and inky black because her head was shaved in a mental hospital and was in the process of growing out when she became a vampire. In the movies, her height is altered to 5’6” due to Ashley Greene’s original height. Her hair original dark brown, eye colour was replaced by medium gold after she became a vegetarian vampire.

 She moves very gracefully, continually cited as dancing, with a carriage that would “break any ballerina’s heart”, as described by Bella in Twilight. Also in Twilight, James states that when they were human,Alice’s blood smelled much better than Bella’s. This could indicate that Alice was James’s singer. 

Personality and Traits

Alice is portrayed as being optimistic, and she loves and cares for Bella like a sister. She often ignores other people’s advice and does things her own way, which usually results in the outcome being better than predicted . She is kind and cares for those she loves. She loved to sing with music three octaves higher than the song really is with her silvery bell-like voice. She has vicarious fun dressing up Bella ”like a three-dimensional paper doll” and decorating for and throwing parties. She also loves shopping at expensive shops in large mails as well as makeovers and playing the stock market to make money. Alice is described as being a very fashionable person, going on massive shopping sprees with the money she helps her family make by predicting the stock markets. In Breaking Dawn, Edward tells Jacob that Alice almost never lets them wear the same thing more than once. Alice enjoys buying clothes for Bella.

In Breaking Dawn, Esme furnishes a cottage for Edward and Bella, and Alice stocks the closet with an overflowing amount of clothing. Alice is often disappointed when Bella doesn’t dress as she wishes. Although Alice and Edward are  very close, Edward often playfully calls her annoying, as she says in Eclipse when she is telling Bella about the graduation party. 

Powers and Abilities

Alice is known as the most agile vampire in the family, supported with her precognitive powers. Despite her small size, she is very capable fighter. She uses a very agile and somewhat artistic style of combat, performing leaps and jumps around and over her opponents, distracting them and then easily defeating them. She has shown great mastery in martial arts, being the best female fighter of her coven, as well as possibly third best overall fighter in the family. Her fighting style is very creative and somewhat logical. She employs not only sheer strength and speed, but can incapacitate her enemy with cunning strikes and sly tactics, such as attacking from above. Alice has also very good evasive skill, able to dodge an attack seconds before touching her, usually by some athletic feats, and be still fully concentrated to attack back immediately. Despite her tiny body structure. Alice has also proved her surprising physical strength, as she could deliver lethal punches, palm thrusts, and kicks to much bigger and heavier opponents and sending them flying away.

 Alice has the power to see the future. The premonition she experienced as a human are intensified in her vampire life, and she uses them to her advantage in order yo keep her family safe. It mainly works by her focusing on a certain object or person and keeping track of it’s decisions. She can also focus on several objects at the same time, up to the limit her mind allows. Her power is also one of few not affected by Bella’s mind. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide explains that she makes extra money by using her power to predict windfall investments in the stock market. The visions show up after someone’s decision, that probably means that her power is working all the time like a system alarm, no matter the distance of the target. However, Alice’s foresight has too many limitations: she can only see the outcome of someone’s decision once it is made- meaning the future can always change , and if the decision is not firmly rooted, she can see several possible futures at the same time. Also, her vision can be clouded if someone else’s decision is involved. Her greatest limitation is that she cannot see any future that involves Quileute shape-shifters or vampire/human hybrids, even if it could be someone else’s decision she is tracking. This is a mystery that Carlisle her theorised is due to the nature of the shape-shifters, who, in the spilt second it takes for them to phase, don’t technically exist. Carlisle also believes that there may be a link with the shape-shifters and Renesmee or anything connected to them because she has no experience as being one of them; she sees vampires best because she is one, and can see humans because she was one. While talking about her talent, she describes herself as being  “far from infallible”. Alice also has the ability to draw a scene that she sees in her visions without looking, and also rather quickly, as seen in the Twilight movie. Edward’s power of mind reading allows him to see what Alice sees at the time when they are in close proximity.

In Breaking Dawn, when the Volturi make a move on the Cullens, Alice departs to look for a half-human half-vampire hybrid by looking for blind spots, something she comments was not the easiest thing she’s ever done, and eventually locates one named Nahuatl in South America. Alice’s gift makes her greatly prized by the leader of the Volturi, Aro, who wishes for her to join his guards, thinking she would be very useful. Aro wants Edward too, though with less intensity. However, her bond to her family keeps her from joining the Volturi, despite Chelsea’s ability to manipulate relationships.

Relationships

Alice is the soul mate of Jasper Hale, the sister of Cynthia Brandon and the aunt of Cynthia’s daughter as well as the adoptive daughter of Carlisle and Esme Cullen. She is also the adoptive sister of Emmet and Edward Cullen, as well as Rosalie Hale. Alice is the adoptive sister-in-law of Bella Swan and the adoptive aunt of Renesmee Cullen(Edward and Bella’s daughter).

Film Portrayal

Ashley Greene portrays Alice Cullen throughout the franchise.

Greene wears a wig when playing the role, as her hair is longer than the character’s is said to be. Author Stephenie Meyer said that Ashley Greene was the actress who came closest to her vision for the character. Meyer said “I saw a picture of her and just thought, ‘you found Alice! Oh my Gosh!’

In the storytellers, Alice is portrayed by several; different actresses in three separate segments: Paloma Kwiatkowski and Emma Tremblay in The Mary Alice Brandon File, Maddison Carter in We’ve Met Before. Sara Yoko Howard in The Groundskeeper.

References

1. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide 2. Meyer Stephenie. (2005) Twilight 3. Meyer Stephenie. (2006) New Moon 4. Twilight Lexicon | Personal Correspondence

External Links

   Stephenie Meyer’s official website
   The Twilight Series Official Website
  The Twilight Lexicon