“What goes up doesn’t always come down.”
A B O U T
Name: Aidan Bhanwadia Nickname: None Age: Twenty-Two Date & Place of Birth: November 3rd, 1994 & Seattle, Washington. Sexuality: Up To Player Pronouns: He/Him Faceclaim: Avan Jogia Alternate FCs: Suraj Sharma, Raymond Ablack, Dev Patel Status: OPEN
M O R E
Major: Up to Player + Criminal Justice Classification: 'Senior’ Occupation: Student & Bartender @ The Spot Rank: Hero Power: Gravity Manipulation Limitations: While Aidan can manipulate the gravity of others, it is difficult for him to manipulate how gravity affects him. Increasing gravity is easier than easing gravity.
P E R S O N A L I T Y
+ protective, outgoing, clever – sarcastic, insecure, harsh
B I O G R A P H Y (tw: racism)
For many years, the first several years of Aidan’s life, he was a normal kid. He had two supportive parents that encouraged him to try out new things. Or so he thought. Even from a young age, he noticed there was a weird distance between himself and his father. As well, whenever there was news about supers on the television, the channel was almost immediately changed. Whenever Aidan would ask why, his parents would just offhandedly say that they weren’t a fan of super heroes - that cites with a hero population were more susceptible to attacks. Otherwise, his childhood was normal. He had a lot of friends, got into trouble for breaking things, and had an innate curiosity about everything.
In high school, he noticed even more of a drift between himself and his father. Whatever Lily did was fascinating to Aldin, but with Aidan, his passions just earned him a ‘that’s nice’. And Aidan just tried harder to try and get his father’s approval, to no avail. This made him sort of resentful of his sister, but he also knew, deep down, that it wasn’t her fault. As well, the ideology that superheroes were the ones causing all the cities problems were further drilled into he and his sister’s heads. They were even discouraged from seeing superhero movies, because they promoted propaganda.
At seventeen, Aidan’s life turned in a new direction. He’d begun noticing strange occurrences. Sometimes when he’d be in P.E., he could make the weights easier to lift with enough focus, or as he’d think about the pencil stuck into the ceiling falling to the ground, it did. Then one day, he was at in the cafeteria having lunch when someone began to pick on his best friend, Tyler. The bully, Aaron, was calling Tyler all sorts of slurs and as soon as he laid a hand on Tyler, Aidan stepped in. Things quickly escalated. First to screaming, and then to shoving. Aaron swung first and as soon as he contacted Aidan’s gut, the adrenaline rush took over. Without a moment passing, Aaron hit the ground, hard and couldn’t move. And somehow, Aidan knew that he had developed a super power. The school security was quick to act and send Aidan to the principal’s office, giving him several days of in school suspension while Aaron got off with a warning. This caused the boy to be paranoid, thinking that the reason Aaron got off so easily had to do with the fact that Aidan had developed this superpower - not owing to his race.
When he finally confided to his mother about what had really happened, he finally learned the truth. Aldin wasn’t Aidan’s biological father. Shortly after Aldin and Laura married, she had an affair and he found out years after the fact. But this incident only drove more tension in the household. Late at night, he would hear his parents angrily whispering about the incident, and how they now had a child with powers. The night he heard them talking about how they could find someone to remove his powers was the night he left. Tyler family opened their arms to Aidan and it was there that he heard about Skybourne. Tyler’s father attended school at Skybourne University and learned how to control his ability there. And Aidan wanted to do that, and learn more about heroes from a non-biased stand point, so he enrolled and has been taking a few hours every semester while keeping up a full-time job.
F A M I L Y
Aldin Bhanwadia (father - estranged) Laura Bhanwadia (mother - estranged) Lily Bhanwadia (younger half-sister - alive)
C O N N E C T I O N S
Victoria Hernandez: She frequents the bar and has become a regular of his. Although they’ve never hung out any time aside from his shifts, he’s interested in learning more about her. All he knows is that she’s looking for a space for her business.
Stella Walsh: Aidan has seen Stella and her friends come in to the bar time and time again, and he has never seen her pay for a single thing. He’s only talked to her a handful of times, but she’s a lot more down to earth than he expected.
