Full Name: Aiden Philip Stevens
Nicknames: n/a
Pronouns and Gender: He/Him, Cis Male
Age and Birthday: 31 years old, May 2nd
Zodiac: Taurus Sun, Sagittarius Rising, Scorpio Moon
Birth place: San Diego, CA
Sexuality: Biromantic Asexual
Status: Single
Occupation: Line Cook at Tejas Cantina
Education: GED
Residence: Ocean Crest
Family: Anastasia Galioto, Philip Stevens (deceased)
Time in Aurora Bay: Since summer 2007
Face claim: Thomas Brodie-Sangster
tw: divorce, drugs, child custody, , emotional neglect, stroke/illness, violence, cheating mention, parental loss
── history.
Aiden was born an only child in San Diego to an otherwise seemingly happy couple. His father was a land surveyor and his mother a realtor, which mean he never had to want for a thing in his life. This also meant that he had been primarily raised by a nanny in his formative years when their jobs ate up all their time. Attention, of all things, is what he hoped for most, but it was hard to complain to anyone when instead he got every new game console and iPhone as they released.
When Aiden was in fifth grade, it came to light his father was having a emotional affair with a coworker. Although nothing physical had happened between, it was enough to spur a divorce. After the ink on the papers dried and his mother purchased a new home, she took Aiden to Aurora Bay and transferred him to the middle school there.
Moving to a new town meant leaving any of the friends he had behind, and in his new school Aiden quickly became a problem. Halfway through the year he already faced two suspensions from violence and destruction of property, but his mother did very little to rectify his behavior. A slap on the wrist, and some hush hush money later, not even getting into trouble earned him her attention.
Weekends and every other Wednesday he took a bus back to San Diego to spend time with his father once he hit the age of thirteen. There was never an argument on his father's end about not seeing his son, and his mother didn't want to put in the effort of driving back and forth at the time. It was only after he was old enough to travel on his own. Although mentally exhausting, there was no animosity toward his parents, from him or between each other. It's almost as if the marriage had been done long before that the sting of an affair in the making was easy to shake off.
This does not mean Aiden didn't get into his own fair share of trouble through out middle or high school either. Skating by with C's and D's in high school while in trouble for truancy and fighting any other classmates simply looked at him the wrong way. He also had no issues with destroying lockers or breaking beakers in the science lab, so on and so forth. He was known for running his mouth too much which led him to get into many physical altercations, so he learned how to fight to defend himself.
Around his sophomore year in high school, his father suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. It put an end to his career, Aiden took it upon himself to help take care of him the weekends he went to visit. Became a barback in a local dive bar, but also partnered up with coworkers to distribute and sell marijuana to leave money in his apartment.
Despite his mother's push for him to go to college, all chances were dashed when his math professor in his senior year refused to pass him. He didn't want summer school, and in a reactive rage, Aiden got ahold of a bat from the gymnasium and shattered the wind shield to that teacher's car. Instant expulsion left him the option of taking the G.E.D. which he did, so he settled in working as he had been and helped to support the house and bills for his father. (Note for me because I forget things - Aiden had been held back eighth grade year so he was 19 as a senior).
His mother been distant enough from Aiden she never caught on where his money was going. His father passed right before he turned twenty-one from causes spurred on by the stroke. The loss wasn't horribly difficult to get over. Aiden did grieve for a period of time, became a shut in for a few months at all the resentment for not really truly knowing his father as a person despite doing all he could to financially help, but in the same breath battling with the relief he felt over it.
Currently, he lives rent free with his mother in a house on Aurora Bay Drive, but she's cut him off from her finances. While he lives rent free and has a decent car she bought him for his sixteenth birthday, she's decided Aiden can provide for himself otherwise. Food, hygiene products, clothing, etc. all is on him. Keep his nose clean, stay out of trouble (which he does, for the most part), he quit the drug selling scene and used his restaurant experience to become a line cook. He is going through the motions at this point.
── personality.
A storm that brews along the coastline is the most comparable thing to Aiden, looming in the distance with a quiet power, and in a flash, it can be overhead and you’re in the heat of it. He is someone who could have your back in a fight, but chances are, he is why you need him to have your back in a fight.
He has a mouth that runs faster than he can keep up, spewing insults and expletives with ease and a monotonous drawl that might give off the indication he is unimpressed by whoever the receiver is. Chances are, he isn’t, but his unfiltered verbiage has a tendency to be directed even the most innocent passerby. Aiden doesn’t have a care about whether the world likes him, and he can be unmovable to pressure. If you need an honest opinion about something, he is your man.
His loyalty is unwavering for those who manage to get to his heart, and for those who can, they can see there is a tenderness there. Shielded by iron-clad walls, his generosity, though selective, is seemingly endless to them. He will protect his friends without any regard of his own safety or the consequences he may reap from his actions.
── headcanons.
⊹ aiden's best friend is jack daniels. while he can go days without drinking easy, it does have a hold on his life to some degree. he finds it softens the edges of life.
⊹ just like a typical cook in restaurant, he lives off monster energy drinks.
⊹ he is an amateur free runner. nothing extreme - aiden mostly can scale buildings, ledges, and fences with ease. a skill learned mostly to outrun trouble.
⊹ he has a pet guinea pig named J.D. get it? J.D.? jack daniels.
⊹ his favorite brand of cigarettes are filterless lucky strikes.
⊹ aiden loves spending a lot of his free time playing dead space.
⊹ there is a tic-tac-toe match tattooed on his leg from a game he lost against mack montgomery. the loss is forever immortalized, but he loves it.
⊹ chipped his left canine opening a bottle of soy sauce when he was 20 years old but tells people it was from a fist fight.
⊹ images of his home - (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) no longer applicable as he lives at OC
── connections.
I am down for most connects other than end game romantic connections. one, for the fact Aiden is a tough one to earn love from, and two, I like to work on natural chemistry. I also don’t do any sort of pregnancy plots - scares, accidental, etc.
♡ @lucydriscoll - an unlikely friendship formed out of aiden's incessant need to break in the faces of bullies, the day he'd seen lucy being picked on something in him snapped and he came to her aid. it's been the theme of their friendship since, and he watches after her. maybe to the point of being smothering, but it is just habit at this point.
♡ @fionaosmvn - the first time aiden met fiona he'd been sure they wouldn't get alone well. yet, they meshed, and to this day she drags him about with only some reluctance. he won't admit it, but the fight is for show as he eventually relents. he might tell her that he doesn't like her, but in the same breath he'd commit atrocities to anyone who gives her a problem. (not in game currently, but still canon)
♡ @cricketcampbell - unexpectedly, aiden's developed a respect for her. at first, cricket had just been the personal chef his mother hired. a worker to pay no mind to, until he started working as a line cook. then of course he developed a curiosity in her work, and he likes to pick her brain. slyly, of course. he can't be so obvious it's a compliment.
♡ @silascody - ex-boss from when aiden was a runner. being older, silas had been someone aiden looked up to. the absence of any strong male figure in his life made it easy for him to do so, the respect he holds for him insurmountable. he'd admittedly felt a little lost when he stopped dealing, and more so when silas disappeared all those years. he looks at silas as some sort of psuedo-brother.
♡ @priyaxdesai - ex-customer from his high school years, aiden wouldn't exactly label her as a friend. simply a client and a familiar face who sought out his house to escape the suffocating routine of her parents' expectations. though without that job in motion anymore, as well as her disappearing from aurora bay, he's fallen off from her life. that's not to say he is itching to find out where she's gone, or what she's been up to.
♡ @mackmontgomery - mack is the equivalent to a weighted security blanket around aiden. for someone who couldn't give a rat's ass about anyone's opinion on him, the fact that aiden feels one hundred percent comfortable around mack means more than he'd ever verbally admit. that being said, aiden will do anything to preserve that.
♡ @ambivalenceshefelt - nikki's golden retriever energy doesn't always match well with the extreme feral possum energy of aiden's but he does think she is a sweetheart. he will answer her late night calls for food when she asks, assuming he's up to make the drive, and he can empathize with her on the topic of her mother setting expectations on her. bleh.
♡ @noralevin - hanging out under the bleachers, climbing up restricted fire escapes, getting high in the custodial closets of the school — all memories aiden can look back on fondly. that being said, when nora returned back to aurora bay, that old flame reawakened, and he hits her up with no question. he's glad she hasn't tried to shake him, because he's holding onto that nostalgic feeling with a white-knuckled grip.
♡ @atticus-cortes - after a disagreement over some classmate on atticus's sports team (involving loss of their player due to drug use from narcotics aiden provided), he and aiden had at it in the hallway. atticus landed an admittedly solid swing to aiden's face, but that didn't keep him from persisting in that brawl. feelings were left at mildly tolerant at best, until they both ended up working at the All Nighter in their young twenties. apparently, getting stoned and making weird snacks with the ingredients on hand was enough to mend their relationship. (no longer in game still canon)
♡ @astridlius - aiden would kick it with astrid during school hours, hang out under the bleachers and hide in custodial closets. he liked her, he really did. until he learned that his vandalism hadn't been found out by chance, and she'd been the one to tell the faculty he smashed his math teacher's windshield. he'd been angry then, and he's angry to this day, and blames his expulsion on her. (no longer in game but still canon)
♡ @carinaferren - friend of her late brother's, to some degree. he drifted from rowan before the accident, but also one-sided enemy-ship on her end. one-sided indifference-turned-annoyance on his end.
── links.
⊹ inspo
⊹ playlist about aiden
⊹ aiden's personal playlist.
@aurorabayaesthetic
