They all play their parts. It’s not like they wear clothes from their eras. With their extremely quick minds, they can alter their speech patterns before blowing their cover when they have to speak with humans.
Alice, Em, Rose most modern and “with it.”
Alice delights in it. She has no memories of early 20th century Mississippi. She only knows what she’s seen of it in photos, books, and TV shows. She’s always looking forward.
Rosalie was the “it” girl of her time. It was reinforced and deeply ingrained in her. I think that would carry over. Had she married Royce and had those beautiful babies she wanted, she TOTES would have been the Hostess with the Mostest. She’d have been a leader in her community with the charities, ladies’ clubs, and stuff. She’d have run the place.
Emmett—modern because it would be fun. He was an “adult” of his time, but he was a good ol’ boy. The country boy Force is strong with that one. Going to high school keeps them up with what’s in, what’s now, what’s happenin’. He’d have fun with whatever era he’s a part of, he’d pick up the slang and he’d use it. Depending on where he was.
Carlisle, Esme, Jasper least modern.
They wear current fashions, but I think they would be more like their human selves because of what they were in their human lives. They were all adults, living as adults. Carlisle was probably never a little boy playing in the streets with the other kids. Esme rebelled against her parents, but not too hard, then she was stuck with an asshole husband. That would have calmed her ass right down. Then she lost her baby. Stuff like that ages you. Maybe not in the physical sense, but emotionally.
It would be the same with Jasper. He was in the War, leading men. He could goof off a little bit, but his position would have kept him from breaking loose with the other fellas. He had a reputation he had to maintain. Then Maria got him.
But, I could see him cutting loose with Emmett. He is a 19 or 20 year old fella.
Edward’s caught in the middle. He was probably always a stuffy old man. Being an only child and financially privileged, I think he would have been a more serious child, yet a sheltered one. His father would have expected it of him. He would be very aware of modern idiom, but he was very staid and stuck in his ways. Parochial.
I don’t care how much Bella and Nessie may have *changed* him, I just can’t see Edward going around saying, “S’up, dude? Yo.” And shit …
It’s almost divided by how old they are as vampires, but I think it would have more to do with their basic personalities and what they were when they were human.
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