while our beloved aaron dingle will never aspire to labor, i actually think a lot of his dismissiveness and resentment towards working is because he hates the scrapyard, he's always sort of hated the scrapyard, and now it's this thing he feels obligated to keep hold of despite that
aaron genuinely enjoyed being a mechanic. he took pride in his work. he teased cain about being the best one he had. he traveled to attend a workshop to become an even better mechanic. when cain was attacked and in hospital, aaron ran the garage on his own for months at just 20. he described the position of being a mechanic on a rally crew that ed found for him as a dream job. he came back in 2014 and started working at the garage again and seemed perfectly happy with that
it was adam that pushed for them to open a business together, adam who wanted to be something more than a farmer's son. first it was taxis then it was scrap and it was just anything that could get adam a different life. and aaron agreed because adam's no good on his own, because he loves him, and if it all failed then he could go back to the garage
i think aaron found a lot of satisfaction out of fixing things, out of being given something broken and dying and figuring it out. it was a rough start, because he sees himself as an eternal fuck up who's never been thought of as smart of accomplished or much of anything and acts accordingly, but he he figures it out. he's good at this. it gets him respect from the uncle he looks up to and the family he's still not all that sure about and a place in this village that's his home now, for now, maybe forever (he hopes)
scrap doesn't do that for him. there's no satisfaction in it, really, in spending his days among broken, discarded things and then breaking them down even more, in taking them away so no one has to look at them anymore. he once made a living out of fixing things and now he makes it by tearing them apart and in a lot of ways the scrapyard is just another scar
the scrapyard would have failed, except that robert sunk 10k into it so he and aaron would have an excuse to see each other. and it was this thing that aaron never really cared for, but for years he did it with adam and robert, it was something he created with them and then two of the most important people in his life were gone and the scrapyard was still there.
it was adam's dream and robert's investment and it's where he was when he was happiest, when he had robert and liv and seb, when adam was still there with him, and now it's all gone. he lost everything, everyone left, and now it's one of the few things that remains of them. so even though he hates it, even though it hurts him and claws at him, he stays
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