[male, he/him] Welcome to Aurora Bay, [CIAN CADWALADER]! I couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [JACK O’CONNELL]. You must be the [TWENTY-NINE YEAR OLD] year old [SCUBA BOAT TOUR DRIVER]. Word is you’re [OUTGOING] but can also be a bit [SELF-DESTRUCTIVE] and your favorite song is [MY WAY, SEX PISTOLS]. I also heard you’ll be staying in [OCEAN CREST APARTMENTS]. I’m sure you’ll love it!
A T A G L A N C E
Full name: Cian Cadwalader Date of birth: August 1st, 1995 (29 years old) Gender: Male Location: Ocean Crest Apartments Occupation: Scuba Boat Tour Driver Relationship status: Single Time in Aurora Bay: From birth to age 16, returned around four years ago Faceclaim: Jack O’Connell
(tw: alcohol, parental death, criminal behaviour, drug overdose)
B I O G R A P H Y
Cian had always lived life a little larger than everyone else. For as long as he could remember, he had tried to make every moment worth it. Born into the middle of a large gaggle of siblings, he had always felt that he needed to fight to be heard, to be seen, to have attention offered to him — and so he did exactly that. He learned quickly that the two ways to get attention at home were to do something really good, or to do something bad — and the latter had always come easier to Cian.
Cian had often felt that he was a natural troublemaker — as a child, he had had a knack for pranks and mischief, and he’d relished in the attention it brought him. But slowly, people began to expect that mischief from him, and the attention waned. Each time, he found he had to do more, only to get less attention than he had done before.
When he was eleven, Cian finally found a group of older friends to call his own — a group that provided him that attention, that unconditional love for which he had always longed. Every day, he’d hang around with them — they protected him, both in and out of school. To him, they were effortlessly cool — unafraid to fight, unwilling to follow the rules, unable to simply let life pass them by. Any opportunity to party, to explore, to cause trouble, that group was there. Cian was there.
Throughout his teens, Cian found himself in and out of legal trouble for charges related to alcohol and violence. Still, to him, it was all worth it — because his friends were in that same trouble too. It was the group of them, together. Always together.
Cian became known as somewhat of a runaway — he was constantly going missing for days on end, never thinking to contact his family, ignoring any contact they made with him, and spending his time with his friends.
Listen — his family may not have given him attention, but it wasn’t as though there was never any care there. It wasn’t as though there was never any love. His parents did all they could to try to help him when they were in Aurora Bay, but eventually, they had to take a firmer stance — and they moved the family. They had hoped that if they separated Cian from these friends, then he could have an entirely fresh start somewhere else. He could start again, without his reputation, without any bad influences — just him and them and the open pages of his future.
It didn’t work. Cian caused trouble everywhere he went. If he couldn’t find it, he would create it — and so he did. He found a few group of troublemakers, and everything started all over again.
Things came to a head when his father died of a heart attack, not long after Cian turned seventeen. His desire to live life hard was now coupled with a longing to block out any and all feelings of grief and pain. Looking back, he was fairly sure he didn’t stop partying for around eight years.
When his younger siblings started heading down a similar path to him, it was the final push his mother needed to kick him out the house. Now nineteen and homeless, he surfed from coach to coach of friends until they grew sick of him, and then he’d move onto the next one. He burned a lot of bridges back then. He found himself traveling up and down the country, from state to state, in his hunt for a new coach — or, if he was really lucky, a bed, partying all the way. His life back then is somewhat of a blur. Days seemed to blend together, entire nights missing from his memory.
When Cian was twenty-five, he saw one of his friends — one of the first friends he had made since leaving Aurora Bay — overdose. He tried to save him. He failed. Reeling from the loss, Cian was faced with a choice — react the same way he had when his father had died, and risk the same fate as his friend, or make a change.
He chose to change.
He tried his hardest to earn an honest living, and rebuild his shattered life. He tried to make amends with his family. He learned the important life skills he had skipped out on for years. Eventually, an old friend of his recommended him for a job back in Aurora Bay — a Scuba Tour Boat Driver. So, he moved back to Aurora Bay, back where everything had begun all those years ago, and tried his hardest to start again.
Jury’s still out on whether he’s succeeded.
P E R S O N A L I T Y
Positive: sociable, outgoing, charismatic, resourceful
Negative: self-destructive, flighty, unpredictable, careless
O T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Cian grew up working on and around boats. When he started causing trouble as a teenager, one of the ways his family had tried to divert him was to get him into sailing and manual labour. Obviously, it didn’t work — but he did have a real skill for it, on the rare occasions he applied himself.
Cian loves the water. Now that he’s slightly calmer than he once was, he loves the tranquillity of the ocean — but he also loves it’s unpredictability and power. If you lose him and he isn’t making a general nuisance of himself in a bar somewhere, he’s probably somewhere by the sea.
Cian struggles a lot with actually getting close to people. He doesn’t really understand the concept of unconditional love — and despite having a deep, innate desire for love, when people start to get close to him, he has a very bad habit of pushing them away. They’re probably going to leave him anyway, so he might as well beat them to it. It’ll hurt less that way.
Despite this, Cian loves being around people and being the centre of attention. He may be tamer now than he once was, but old habits die hard, and when the opportunity calls, he is more than willing to answer.
Cian is totally an animal person — he currently has a black and white domestic shorthair cat called Marmite, and he desperately wants a dog, but doesn’t feel he is living a life that would be fair to bring a dog into right now.
C O N N E C T I O N I D E A S
Anyone from his old group of friends in Aurora Bay! These were a group of troublemakers in every sense of the word. Cian was quite unceremoniously moved states away when he was sixteen and wouldn’t have kept in contact with any of them, but now he’s back, and so it would be great to have some of his old friends around somewhere. Their relationship could either be positive or negative — Cian is genuinely trying to better himself, so it’s up to you whether you think they would still get on or whether there might be some tension there!
Roommates!
Exes — Cian is quite a flirty individual, and does want to be loved, but will also run away the second things start to look real. It’s up to you whether they currently have a positive or negative relationship now.
Party buddies — look, I never said Cian was good at starting a new life, okay? He’s just tamer than he once was — that doesn’t mean he’s calm by a normal person’s standards.
Friends — come give this boy some friends please. He’s very sociable, and he can and will mould himself to fit almost any group. He’s also unshakeably loyal, even if he doesn’t show it (or even allow himself to accept it sometimes)
Drinking buddies
Colleagues
Attendees of the scuba boat tours
Family! He comes from a huge family, so honestly, anything goes here!
People he’s hurt. Between running away from anything that looks real, and his past in Aurora Bay as a juvenile delinquent, Cian will have hurt people.
Honestly, anything can go with Cian — he’s been back in Aurora Bay for around four years now, and he lived there originally for around sixteen years, so he’s had plenty of time to meet muses and have some kinda relationship with them, whether positive or negative.
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