Full Name: Aeris Flores
Nicknames: n/a
Pronouns and Gender: He/Him, Cis Male
Age and Birthday: 36 years old, November 9th
Zodiac: Scorpio Sun, Libra Rising, Gemini Moon
Birth place: Los Angeles, California
Sexuality: Demiromantic Bisexual
Status: Single (& for the streets) / emotionally preoccupied
Occupation: Cresent Moon Tattoo Shop Owner
Residence: Seabrook Quarter
Time in Aurora Bay: 8 years
Face claim: Samuel Larsen
tw homelessness, break up mention, dui mention, emotional manipulation, poor family relations
── history.
Aeris was always one for trouble. He never really thought to much about it though. It just found him. Maybe it's because there's never been a thought in his head.
Not one about his future, his ambitions or even about consequences. He grew up easy with a silver spoon in his mouth, his siblings just as easy as him as they were given every single thing they'd ever wanted and more. With his father as a CFO to a big pharmaceutical company and his mother a small actress/model that worked in Los Angeles, they hadn't been exactly present in terms of raising the kids while growing up.
That being said, he had absolutely everything handed to him, never having to want for a thing; and maybe that's has been the root cause for his issue handling being told 'no'. Nothing was ever off limits, everything was always right there for the taking especially when affordability hadn't been an issue.
By the time Aeris was a teenager, he became reckless, dumb, and nothing could be said or done to get him to shape up, as much as his parents did try. He chose not to go to college; he figured the whole thing was a huge waste of time anyway (it wasn't like he'd get in; his grades were solid D average).
Instead, he just lived off his dad's money. His father didn't seem to be worried about it, he wasn't hitting the headlines dragging the family name or anything like that. That was, until Aeris had gotten into an accident while under the influence, and that didn't look good for his father or his mother.
It hadn't been the first time, either, but the two times preceding didn't involve another car so it was easy to sweep under the rug. Thankfully, the people in the other car were fine, and Aeris escaped with just a few scrapes.
Before he graduated, he'd been given the boot and became homeless, sleeping wherever he could. The first DUI wasn't the last trouble he'd been in, and it was soon they'd seen the error of their ways.
So Aeris started couch hopping around his friends' places, finding anywhere he could. By the third month out, his parents frozen all his cards and stopped sending him money. It wasn't long before he'd dropped out of high school either. There wasn't a point when he didn't have anywhere to live, or a means of a meal.
Aeris eventyally started staying over at his childhood friend's house most of the time. They were Aeris's best friend, his guardian angel in that sense. It didn't take much after that before Aeris's spot on the floor became a spot in their bed. He may have dropped out of high school, but Aeris still went to prom with them. He cheered them on at graduation, but it all went awry when the first college acceptance letter came in.
Aeris didn't want them to go study across the country, he didn't want to deal with the distance, and he didn't want to get on a plane and join the adventure. So, of course, Aeris did the next best thing - tried to convince them to drop their dreams so they could just live together in Los Angeles.
It ended in a fight, and a rather volatile one at that. Nothing got physical, but the words exchanged left them both wounded, and Aeris grabbed his bag and walked out the door.
Drawing hadn't been something he thought he'd use for his future, but going from not having to want for a thing to having nothing he knew he needed to figure something out. As it turned out, he had enough talent to slap together a portfolio, and there was enough promise in his scrapwork to catch the eye of a tattoo artist.
Aeris started an apprenticeship at the local tattoo shop after being encouraged by multiple people to do it. It would get a roof over his head and food in his belly by the time he was a licensed professional right? Early adulthood was rough, but he did his best and eventually managed to be able to afford a small room in a multi person apartment. It wasn't a lot, but it worked.
A bada bing, a bada boom, eh-squeezy (don’t make me write out all of his twenties now, I’ll add details later), he gained enough traction to have a clientele base, and his artwork kicked off. Using social media to sell his work, Aeris’s savings boosted within the year. He opted to leave Los Angeles and sought out buying his own shop. First it began as a travelling artist that bounced around as a guest appearance in various shops around SoCal, occasionally in Nevada, then he found what he wanted.
Crescent Moon Tattoo.
It took a half a year of going back and forth with the current owner, until Aeris stepped in as a permanent artist at the shop by the age of thirty-one.
── personality.
Aeris has a tendency to take what he wants without apology, or at the very least, he will try to. It’s easy most times considering his magnetic presence wrapped in charm. If it doesn’t benefit him, he won’t do it. Or he will try his best not to. I would say he draws people in to use them like pieces on a chess board, but that would be giving Aeris too much credit. He’s never put that much thought into anything.
The lack of forethought has him chases impulses, and he acts out without care or fear of consequence, and even when faced with them, accountability is a foreign concept to Aeris. Every fault is someone else’s mistake or character flaw, and every fallout is due to the other’s failure to understand him. That’s what he will say, anyway, and he will try and twist everything to make the other person come across the antagonist of his story.
── headcanons.
⊹ Aeris minds his business ™ ~ he didn't see shit, don't bother asking, and he wants to know fuck all about your personal drama.
⊹ When it comes to any problem between you and him, be very specific or he'll find a way around what you said. Twist it to benefit him. How else can he try and turn things in his favor?
⊹ He requires his food is at a temperature dangerously close to burning his taste buds off, or he won’t eat it. Steam must be coming off it or he simply cannot, will not, vetoed and in the trash.
⊹ His level of loyalty to someone is based on how of use they are to him.
⊹ Getting to know him well enough to be on a first-name basis takes a lot of time and patience, but to fall within the parameters of what he considers ‘close friend’ means you can call him at 3 in the morning without any explanation needed, and he will be there.
⊹ He might not have the money he used to, but that doesn't mean aeris doesn't like to spend it. he splurges a lot, more than he should at some points.
⊹ Aeris can't return to his parents property as there had been a restraining order issued when he tried to break in and steal things post-break up with his one serious partner.
── connections.
Not open for pregnancy plots or end game romance plots off the bat. I would like to work his character some before determining any long-term, permanent partnerships. I am open to discussing ideas with heavy plotting, however I look for natural chemistry and nothing forced. He has a lot to learn and even more growing up to do before some poor soul decides to take him as their own.
However, any past or current but temporary (for whatever reason) romance/partner plots, hit me up as I am more laid back about those.
♡ @dilcne - his downstairs neighbor to their bi-level sublet home, aeris finds it funny watching her mill about taking care of the plants. it provokes a sort of banter he finds amusing, even if her nagging about keeping the place cleaned up is purposely ignored. now, as they're fwb situation got complicated and messy, and at this point, he doesn't know where he stands with her.
♡ @mackmontgomery - his employee at crescent moon tattoo. mack, at first, wasn't someone aeris paid much attention to. he's... well, he's mack, and aeris's 'too good for anyone' disposition made it easy for him to just work under the same roof as him.
♡ @bradley-banner - someone from his teen years, aeris knows bradley through her brother. the various parties they’d gone to together with her in the background.
♡ @priyaxdesai - met her one off at a bar, when in a moment of frustration (tinder date ghosted him) he offered a free drink to the person closest to him.
♡ @jaredx- aeris isn't sure what started it, but there is some rivalry between them.
♡ @maura-cortes - first she was zigg's girlfriend, then she ended up a name in aeris's little mental black book. he never intended on it, until the night it happened. (not in game, but still canon)
♡ @ziggykyeons - once good friends, now enemies, aeris would be lying if he tried to ever said it didn't sting at least a little bit to have ziggy cut him out like that.
♡ @jordanmitchell - jordan is a fun conversationalist to him. he will flock to her if he sees her, ready for her to banter and drag him through all the shit she can give him.
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── links.
⊹ pinterest.
⊹ inspo.
⊹ music.
@aurorabayaesthetic
