Alice Cullen

Alice Cullen, previously Mary Alice Brandon as a human, is one of the main vampire characters in the Twilight saga. She is the adoptive sister of Edward Cullen. Alice is described as graceful, petite and pixie-like, with short, black, spiky hair. Her special ability is to see the future, which is an enhanced version of her psychic abilities as a human. Her partner is Jasper Hale, whom she brought into the Cullen fold with her. 
==Canon==
Alice (and through her, Jasper) is the only member of the Cullen family not directly adopted or "saved" by Carlisle Cullen. After she turned into a vampire, her first vision was of her future mate Jasper Whitlock and of the Cullen coven. She began her "vegeterian vampire" diet on her own and by the time she met Jasper in 1948, her self-control was comparable to the other Cullens.Meyer, S. (2011). The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide. Little, Brown and Company. In 1950, she and Jasper found and joined the Cullens. For the sake of the 'human' ruse, Alice adopted Cullen for her surname while Jasper took Rosalie's last name. This supposedly implies to humans that she is Edward and Emmett's biological sister, while Jasper and Rosalie are biological siblings.
Alice's superpower or special ability is the ability to see the future through vivid visions, during which she becomes paralyzed (it is only a momentary thing). However, her power is limited in that she sees only the finite (but not fixed) future, after a decision had been made or changed. She cannot predict futures by choice. Due to this, decisions made in the spur of the moment cannot be foreseen. It is also limited by "species", as she can see visions and futures involving humans and vampires, but not werewolves or half-breeds. She gets migraines around Renesmee, her niece, because her half-vampirism causes havoc with Alice's psychic ability and she often uses Jacob Black as a painkiller as werewolves act as a silencer for her ability. Her theory about this, as explained in Breaking Dawn, is that she can only see futures of species she herself has been. Hence, her visions of human futures are foggy while visions of vampire futures are crystal clear.
Alice's favourite sibling is Edward Cullen and she is Bella Swan's best friend. She enjoys playing "Newcomb's paradox-chess" with her telepathic brother Edward. 
===Human origins===
Mary Alice was born into a middle-class family in 1901 in Biloxi, Mississippi, and had a younger sister named Cynthia. Her father was a jeweler and pearl trader while her mother was a housewife. Because she had a psychic ability as a human, she had premonitions as a child. She was heralded as a "witch" and "changeling" by townsfolk after she predicted accidents accurately. She saw her mother's murder in a vision and tried to warn her in vain. After her father remarried, she suspected that her stepmother was the murderer. In a vision, she saw that her father and stepmother had collaborated on her mother's murder, and were planning to kill her as well. Though she tried to seek help from relatives and the town marshal, she was turned away and her father caught her and told the town that she had gone mad.
In 1920, her father had her committed to a mental asylum, where she was eventually turned by an old unnamed vampire who worked at the asylum, to protect her from the tracker vampire James. It was implied that the vampire would feed on Mary Alice, as the tracker James called her the "little victim". However, the vampire saved Alice by turning her and sacrificed himself in fighting James to protect her.
The date on her tombstone matches the date of her admission to the asylum. Alice's human memories are near nonexistent because of the persistent electroshock therapy she underwent in the asylum. It caused her to forget her mother and the rest of her biological family. She re-discovered them through research, as a vampire.She discovered that her younger sister Cynthia's daughter, Alice's biological niece, is still alive in Biloxi. She makes the decision to stay out of her life to keep her safe and to avoid explaining her vampirism.
==Fandom==
Alice is a fan-favourite character, among readers and viewers alike.
===Shipping===
*Alice/Jasper is her canon pairing and is rather popular, with fans liking the history and the dynamic they have and even wishing they could have their own story instead of being in the background of Bella and Edward.
*Alice/Bella is also a common ship.
*Alice/Edward
*Alice/Jacob
===Common Tropes & Fanon===
==Fanworks==
===Fanfic===
===Fanart===
* Psychic Eyes by judyeve
===Vids===
* Cannibal by Madam Xaela
==Fannish Links==
* Alice Cullen works at AO3
* Alice works at FFN
==Resources==
* Alice Cullen page on the Twilight Wiki
==References==
Category:Twilight Characters