Arabella Anthony

Arabella Taylor Black (born Arabella Taylor Monroe) is a member of the Cullens coven. She is the wife of Whyatt Black, and the daughter of Rosabella Cullens. She is the adoptive daughter of Alec Salvatore. She is the mother of Madison, Olivia, Katia, and Mirabella Black and the twin sister to Elizabeth Forrester. Her other siblings are Eli, Ariana, Callen, Seth, and Luna and her adoptive siblings are Austin and Alyson Salvatore. Arabella is also the granddaughter of Emmett and Rosaile Cullens as well as the great-granddaughter of Dr. Carlisle Cullens.

Her faceclaim is Candice King.

Early Life
Arabella was born on January 5 in Forks, Washington to Rosabella and James Monroe along with her twin sister Elizabeth. Her childhood was quiet, she was close with her mother and sister as well as her older brother Eli. As she got older, she began having issues with her father. She resented the way he treated her (he barely noticed her) and began feeling like she had no place in her own family. Throughout her teenage years these feelings increased, leading her to sometimes take her anger out on her twin by lashing out at Lizzie. Finally Arabella made the choice to disown her father and step away from the situation. She felt as though he didn't love or care about her, and she deserved more.

Arabella turned to longtime family friend Alec Salvatore and told him what had happened. She opened up to him about how sad she was about never really having a father figure in her life- although she did admit that her grandfather Emmett was around if she needed. Alec offered to take her under his wing and adopt her as his own to which she readily agreed. She had known Alec her entire life and had always been far more comfortable confiding or venting in him than in her birth father. Not long after this, Alec began dating her aunt Alena and eventually marrying her. It makes for some interesting explaining when she calls Alec "dad" and Alena, his wife, "aunt." However, Arabella doesn't mind- she finds it funny. As a result of their marriage she considers her cousins Austin and Aly more like younger siblings and she treats them as such.

Ara has remained close with her mother, twin, and brother. Eventually her mother remarried, this time to a man named Edward Anthony. At first her made an attempt to bond and get to know Ara, but that didn't last long. He visited her first child, Madison, when she was little but it didn't last long. He never met any of her other children and Ara quit trying to talk to him. However, Rosa and Edward gave Ara more siblings including Ariana, Callen, Seth, and Luna. Arabella is very close to her siblings and loves them dearly.

Physical Appearance
Arabella is a beautiful young woman with a pale complexion, blue-green eyes and medium length blonde hair which she often wears in a variety of different styles; straight, curly or naturally waved. She has a slim, yet toned and athletic figure. She is 5'8 tall.

Personality
Ara was one of the popular girls at school, the captain of the cheerleading squad, and was organizing the parties and always displaying a high degree of leadership among her friends. Beautiful and chic, she was also very strong and determined, much like her grandmother, Rosaile Cullens. She is extremely loyal and protective of her friends. She has a sensitive and loving nature. Despite having a confident exterior and high social prestige, underneath it all she could be very insecure, neurotic, and upset that she could never say the right thing to make guys fall for her. This tended to make her an overachiever at times.

Phasing into a werewolf for the first time made her see the world in a different light, with her maturing as well. She became much more responsible and protective. She enjoys knowing she could see the world and have a thousand more birthdays and that she is not bound by trivial human conventions and with her immortality and abilities, she is free.

Powers and Abilities
Arabella has basic vampire and werewolf powers as a result of her being a vampire/werewolf hybrid. However Ara did manage to compel a human to do her bidding at a very young age, a thing that is very rare among new or young vampires because mind compulsion is an ability a new vampire needs to be taught (either by an older vampire, or with time). She was also able to use dream manipulation, a high form of telepathy (a skill that usually requires practice and learning to achieve) on the first try. Over time her skills with mind compulsion have drastically increased. She can even cast realistic illusions on individual people. Arabella is also a very skilled fighter. She has been trained by many members of her family in various forms of combat and she has proven to hold her own in a battle. She also has been seen running at extraordinary speed, being able to outrun even werewolves on the Full Moon in her normal form; she has also been shown to defeat a werewolf in human form with much ease. Ara is also a very skilled deceiver when she wants to be.

Dream Manipulation
Some vampires can control dreams and the subconscious via their limited form of telepathy. A vampire's ability to produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming is tied to whether their target's minds are weaker than theirs. Other effects of this ability is the distortion of reality and people being trapped in the dream.

Relationships
Arabella is married to Whyatt Black and mother to Maddie, Liv, Kat, and Mira. She is the daughter of Rosabella Anthony and Alec Salvatore and sister to Eli, Lizzie, Ariana, Callen, Seth, Luna, Austin, and Alyson.