A/N:
I just think Esme is so lovely and aww and she's an amazing character that I thought would be fun to write for. I hope I captured her personality well!
25 things about Esme Cullen
1. Esme's dream as a little girl was to grow up happy and loved, and to have a houseful of laughing children. It was a stereotypical role that many women in her time resented, but Esme gave a contented sigh whenever she played with her dolls, brushing their hair and thinking one day she would get to brush her own daughter's raven hair. When her son was born, the reality of her situation dawned on her and she knew she had to get away from her abusive husband. And although she yearns to hold her little boy again, the family she has now more than fills the hole in her heart.
2. Esme will always remember her first meeting with the one and only, Carlisle Cullen, when she was sixteen years old, and had fallen out of a tree. He was so gentle, so compassionate, that Esme still wondered how a man so good and holy could possibly have ended up with her.
3. Dancing is a favorite past-time of Esme's, and twirling around in a ballroom with Carlisle made her feel like the happiest lady in the world, her unbeating heart swelling with pride and love for the man she'd fallen in love with so many years ago.
4. Esme wears her wedding ring every day with pride, and it's her most prized possession, so when Carlisle suggested replacing it with a newer model, she almost shrieked. She insisted that while it wasn't the most expensive ring, it was received with something that can never be bought - love. It reminded her of their early days, when they didn't even have Edward, and it was the two of them against the world.
5. There were times, when each of her children first joined their ever-growing family, where Esme took moments to wonder if she could ever love these children as much as she loved her little boy. Eventually, she came to an answer for each and every one of them. When she felt as if she couldn't breathe when Edward decided to find his own way in the world, she knew it was yes. When Rosalie left to settle the score on her past, and Esme found herself sitting on Rosalie's favorite chair, worried to the core, she knew it was yes. When Emmett first accidentally ruined the cottage she had just built, and she shouted, causing him to run off into the woods, and she found herself pacing through the woodland, she knew it was yes. When Alice and Jasper left, just before the battle commenced, and Esme didn't hunt for two weeks, until her watery eyes were black as the night, she knew it was yes. Esme knew she could never love anything more than her family.
6. Esme loves old, abandoned buildings; she thought they were just lovely, a blank canvas, and yet full of history and old life. It was amazing to think some of the things that had happened where her own two feet now stood. It made her sad that no-one she knew seemed to share her passion for restoring buildings, until a certain little girl peered over her shoulder one day, forehead creased in confusion at a set of blueprints, and asked her what on earth she was doing. When Esme explained, Renesmee's face lit up, and she exclaimed, "Oh! It's just like my doll house!" And so the two became a little restoration pair.
7. Esme's favorite color is yellow, because it is bright and happy and alive, all the things that people should embrace and care about.
8. Books tend to bore Esme. She likes to be doing something all of the time. Physical hobbies interest her more - gardening, running, swimming, you name it, she does it.
9. Esme often visits Carlisle for lunch at the hospital. You would think it would be Esme who is bothered by the amount of ladies fawning over Carlisle, but in fact it is often Dr Cullen himself who finds himself on the phone with his wife, asking her to come down to the hospital and remind these ladies that he does in fact have a loving wife. Esme simply laughs and tells him that she's getting her coat, happy to give in to his demands.
10. Things Esme loves: Carlisle and her family, the sound of a harmonica, photo-booths, English television, learning, and the color yellow.
11. Things Esme dislikes: bugs, adverts on the TV about sick children/animals, black and white movies, dresses that are too long, and unpainted nails.
Esme tries to appear like a calm and collected lady on the surface, you can always tell when something is bothering her, as she bites her nails, a habit that both Rosalie and Alice have tried to stop her from continuing. From nail varnish to gloves, though, nothing seems to deter stress from reappearing on Esme's cuticles.
13. Esme enjoys light. She doesn't like sitting in the dark, and while darkness doesn't bother her, she'd rather sit in a well lit room than a gloomy, dark one.
14. Esme doesn't believe that sexism should be tolerated by any lady, no matter how much she makes, or if her husband earns more than she does, or under any circumstance. When Charles first began beating her, and she asked him why, he gave her a very simple answer: because you're a woman. Esme would always repeat the same, over and over - my mistakes are no worse than yours, just because I'm a woman.
15. Esme always tries to be the very best version of herself. She knows she's no angel, but she tries to bring pride on her family. The things she prides herself most on are always trying to be a calm and gracious lady, like her mother taught her, and trying to teach her own children those same values. Another thing she prides herself on is always being a good wife. She doesn't put herself last all of the time, but when she can, she always puts Carlisle's needs in front of her own, something he thanks her for gratefully.
16. Esme likes to paint, while listening to old music from long ago. It brings her a happiness that many other things can't, because it is so simple and relaxing.
17. Carlisle's smile always made her weak at the knees, and she dearly hopes to feel this way forever and eternity, because love really is all you need in life to make it happy.
18. While she is a strong, independent woman, Esme has a habit of letting herself be taken advantage of by others, a trait that she said was brought on by her maternal instincts. If she saw someone in need, then she just had to help.
19. Flowers were a gift that Esme always thought was very romantic but at the same time very sad. She always wondered why we kill things that we think are beautiful - flowers, for instance. Surely looking at them on a slow walk in the park was better than watching them slowly wilt in a vase, on the fireplace? Still, whenever Carlisle handed her a bunch she kissed him and thanked him with a smile on her face.
20. Esme likes to dress sensibly but fashionably, and age appropriately. She would never wear a mini-skirt, though she always would as a young girl in her human life. It amused her that something fashionable last month could be seen as hideous the next.
21. Esme can play guitar, but only gets out her old battered instrument when she was either immensely happy or drowning in sadness. There was no middle ground when it came to the guitar.
22. Esme doesn't like driving, and prefers to either walk or ask one of her family members to get her from point A to point B, which they usually comply to happily.
23. Esme would like to become a teacher again one day, if she had the chance. For now, she likes the freedom of being able to pursue whatever hobby she likes on her own timescale.
24. Esme often wonders if her family will expand further. How would have life played out if Bree had joined their family, after the battle against Victoria? The little girl's - because that's all she really was, a child - face would always be burned into Esme's mind. Will Renesmee have her own children one day? That question would not be answered for many years, if even possible, but it made Esme smile nonetheless.
25. On one hand, Esme hopes that life stays frozen at the point they are at now, but at the same time, she cannot wait to see what life throws at her and her family next. She knows they'll get through anything and everything, together, and she's so excited to finally begin the rest of her life with her finally completed family.
