Aiden Pearce (Outlaw’s Saga)

Aiden Pearce (b. May 2, 1974), known by an alias, The Fox, is a fictional grey hat hacker vigilante, who operated out of Chicago from roughly 2012 to presumably around 2029. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, with his beloved sister, Nicole, aka Nicky, being born a few years after him. Due to their drunken and unstable father, they were immigrated to America, eventually settling in Chicago, Illinois. Aiden grew up as a criminal due to the tough upbringing the Pearce’s had, eventually being trained into becoming a master hacker and later grey hat vigilante known nationally as “The Fox,” exposing CToS for their crimes. He continued this career for over sixteen years, but eventually relocated to London. Whether this move was permanent remains unclear. Although not a protagonist of any media, he will appear as a cameo in The Outlaw’s Saga - Grand Theft Auto: Renegade, being one of the notorious characters that would crossover into the series.
== Biography ==
=== History ===
=== The Merlaut Job and Lena Pearce’s death ===
Aiden and Damien proceeded to go through with their plan to hack the systems within the Merlaut Hotel to siphon cash off of the hotel guests. However, a second hacker breached security and, despite Damien insisting that they would stay put, Aiden cut the hack and fled the job, but was too late before he was identified along with Damien. A hit was then put out for Aiden’s death. In a panic, Aiden decided to flee town, but he wanted to take Jacks and Lena with him. On Lena’s insistence, the three would go to a town called Pawnee, northwest outside of the city. However, in the tunnel connecting Chicago to Pawnee, motorcyclists approached Aiden’s SUV, with one of them eventually aiming his gun at Aiden. However, he saw Lena and decided to shoot out his tires, causing the car to crash. Aiden and Jacks survived, while Lena did not, ultimately killing her. This event haunted Aiden throughout his life after that.
=== 9 Months Later ===
After 9 months of searching for Lena’s killer, he eventually discovered that a contractor, Maurice Vega, was behind Lena’s demise and had him cornered in the May Stadium, and eventually intimidated and horrified Vega. He then kidnapped him and put him in the care of a Fixer he hired, Jordi Chin. From then on, Aiden went on a journey across Chicago to find out the reason why he was put on the hit list, what secrets the criminal world was hiding from him, why Lena was killed, and finally, who needed to die to endure that nothing ever happens again. He later discovered that the Chicago Club, run by Dermot “Lucky” Quinn, had put out a hit list on Aiden due to the fear of him exposing their darkest secret about the mayor: the fact that he had killed an innocent by accident, with Quinn having stepped in to cover it up in exchange for partial control of the city, unaware that Aiden was simply doing a job for money. In retribution, Aiden killed all of the associates to the Chicago Club, including fellow hacker and dangerous thug leader, “Iraq”, who was revealed to be the second hacker. Aiden received assistance from DedSec hacker Clara Lille, and expert hacker Raymond “T-Bone” Kenney, who was responsible for an incident sometime back that accidentally cost lives, despite it being for the greater good in terms of taking down CToS and Blume. In a big turn of events, Damien Brenks, who held a grudge against Aiden for bailing on the Merlaut Job and for not listening to his instructions, had Nicky kidnapped for days, forcing Aiden to do his bidding. However, along the way, Aiden, although having finally tracked down and rescued Nicky, had estranged himself from her and Jacks in order to keep them safe and had them sent away from Chicago, never to return, and Clara had herself sacrificed in order to rescue Nicky, although he had already saved her earlier, after he had found out Clara herself had assisted in putting the hit on Aiden, inadvertently causing Lena’s death. In an ironic twist, Aiden watched Clara die in front of Lena’s grave while she was leaving flowers.
Aiden later stormed the Merlaut one last time and confronted Lucky Quinn. Although Quinn had locked himself in a panic room, Aiden activated his pacemaker that was connected to his heart. Quinn revealed the real reason why he had put a hit on him, which was that he believed that he was hacking the Merlaut systems because he was after a secret footage of Mayor Donovan Rushmore accidentally killing Rose Washington. when he was only there to steal money, but rather, it was Iraq who tried to steal the footage. He finally killed Quinn and escaped. However, Brenks had one more thing for him, and while hacking every control Brenks possibly could, Aiden managed to survive the chaos and had Chicago be shut down, with control of the city in his hands. DedSec then confronted Aiden and had requested him to hand over the city privacy controls and data so that they could become the watch dogs and keep Chicago under control from CToS. Aiden refused to allow a big hacker company like DedSec to have all of the data that Chicago had and turned them down. Aiden later confronted Brenks on a lighthouse on Lake Michigan, but when he confronted his old mentor, Jordi himself had come to take both their lives for their bounties. Aiden survived by hacking the lighthouse to stun both men, allowing him to throw Jordi over the lighthouse railing, although he only landed on the platform below and fled, and shot Damien in the head, ending his life.Note: Although what happens below can be altered, depending on player choice, this page follows a certain canon chosen by MinneEagle.After these events, Jordi called Aiden to notify him of Maurice’s final location after he finally talked. Aiden reached the warehouse where Maurice was held and confronted him. Seeing that Maurice had suffered enough from the torment and guilt of accidentally killing Lena, as well as the fact that he was just a puppet who was forced to do an organization’s bidding, Aiden spared his life and walked away, giving both of them another chance at fixing things in life.
=== 2016 ===
Three years later in 2016, Aiden relocated to San Francisco to investigate the Bratva, a Russian gang, but was captured and imprisoned. Thanks to the intervention of Marcus Holloway, a DedSec hacker, Aiden was freed and he escaped. He presumably left San Francisco soon after.
=== 2023 ===
In 2023, Aiden had made his way out to Los Santos, San Andreas, presumably to dig into the activities of Joel Wallace, a notorious criminal in the underworld. With the possible intent of putting a stop to Joel and his activities, he may have eventually learned that he was protected by the International Affairs Agency and backed down, being the reason why Joel is still alive and active in present-day. Aiden presumably left San Andreas not too long after.
=== 2029 ===
In 2029, sixteen years after the Chicago incident, Aiden returned to living in Chicago, but was most likely disgruntled after living as a hermit vigilante for so long. He received a call from old friend Jordi Chin about a contract that he wanted Aiden to take, but it was in London, and Jordi himself couldn’t go due to travel restrictions. Aiden agreed due to the fact that Jacks was attending school in London, allowing himself to reunite with his now-grown up nephew.
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