Craig Aldine (The Businessman)

"For the first time in my life I'm speechless."

## Craig Aldine

Craig Aldine is the fourth party member and ally that you get in The Road. He is more well known by his screen name, (The Businessman). He is first found being held hostage by The RedHeads. After Mahkhal's group kills The Redheads, they heal Craig's wounds and adopt him into their group. Craig is a very matter of fact kind of person, but he is also glass half full. His main skills include healing of HP and TP, and immobilizing enemies. He can also make enemies bleed, and he has a specific move that heals his own TP.

## History

### Local58

Craig Aldine is only subtly mentioned once throughout the course of local58, during a conversation between
minor characters.

### The Road

Before the events of the road, it is not known when Craig was born, or who he was born to. The only things about Craig's past are revealed by his title (The Businessman). It can be assumed that Craig worked an average, everyday 9-5 type of job, and could be viewed as your stereotypical "average man" compared to the rest of the main cast, however the nature of some of his moveset could contradict that notion.

Craig Aldine most likely led a normal life before the apocalypse, and lived the most important bulk of his lifetime within the timeframe before the apocalypse happened, Craig most likely is the most knowledgeable about what actually went down, and is the most knowledgeable in general out of the 4 party members in The Road. Craig knows generally how to survive in this new world, but having a better past most definitely haunts him.

## Appearance

Craig Aldine is a man of just above average height, with an average weight for his height. He has dark blue hair, and light blue skin, and his eye color is black. Craig wears a suit and tie over a grey undershirt. He also wears black pants and shoes.

## Attributes

Physical strength level: 5.5/10

Speed: Medium-Fast

Pain Tolerance: Medium

Armor: Medium-Low

Range: Medium-High

Learning Capacity: High

## Skills

Discuss Abilities

Headbutt

Concentrate

Tackle

Discuss Powers

Big Tackle

Charge Tackle

Discuss Teamwork

Kill Them With Words

Tackle Combo

Fire Beam

## Personality

Craig is an intelligent, reserved, and generally kind man. He cares for his allies by healing them, and letting them know what is usually the best way of going about an idea. Craig can often be seen as weak as a first impression, but in reality he is fairly strong compared to the average person in The Road's universe, and has most likely had to punch his way out of (and win) a lot of situations. Craig is a personification of fearing the older man in a profession where men usually die young.

Unlike the other party members, it is largely unknown why Craig cares for Mahkhal as much as he does, and decides to stick with him, but it seems as though after Mahkhal, Dylan, and Jannice, saved his life, he felt an obligation to stand by them, which later turned into genuine care for the group.

Craig's personality remains the same throughout the course of the road. He has some slight development at times, but he is a man who already knows who he is, and his personality does not change throughout The Road, because the experiences he goes through during it aren't anything he hasn't seen before. Craig's motivation is the common drive to stay alive that everyone in The Road's universe has, which then transforms into a drive to help Mahkhal's group find and kill The Poet.

Craig has had to deal with a lot of troubling situations, as far as him being judged based on his skin tone, and even nearly killed because of it, and other similar situations that happen during the post-apocalypse. Craig stands tall throughout all of this though, and stays strong, and keeps the same personality. Craig always strives to be the bigger man in every situation, and tries his best not to stoop down to other people's levels.

## Tips

Craig is the most useful party member for support purposes, he becomes the backbone of the group not too long after he joins your party, with his various support moves that make sure you aren't always relying on items that you may or may not even find. Craig starts out doing very little damage at the start, and has only one healing move but later on he gains the ability to stun in several different ways, restore health and TP with several different support moves, and even cause bleeding on enemies. He also has a very strong attack called "Fire Beam" which costs 50 TP and is able to do comparable damage to Machine Gat Fire, and even K.O. Craig has minimal attacks that focus on raw damage, but he mainly focuses on applying damaging status effects to enemies, and applying restoration status effects to his allies, making him almost entirely support focused. Craig is most well partnered with a Party member like Jannice or Mahkhal who is able to dish out large amounts of damage as their primary focus, so that Craig can focus on expanding on that damage, and maxing out its effects on the enemy.

## Trivia

* Craig will have different responses to Mahkhal's actions depending on the choices he makes about his arms and his party members.
* Craig's screen name (The Businessman) was originally misspelled as (The Buisnessman) and was later fixed.
* Contrary to popular belief, Craig Aldine is not physically weak, he could even be classified as on the stronger side.
* Craig Aldine's unnamed wife was killed before the events of The Road, making him widowed.
* Craig is 5'11" or 180cm tall, and is the second shortest character of the main cast of party members in the game.
* Craig is only mentioned once in Local58 in hidden dialogue.
* Craig has a genetic mutation that gives his skin a light blue hue.
* Craig is partly French.
* Craig's past isn't really looked into, but it is assumed that he lead a normal life before the apocalypse.
* Craig is the oldest of the four party members.
* Craig has an advanced hip replacement, which plays a role in why he is so good at tackling people.
* Craig doesn't seem to show much emotion, an makes it very hard to tell his actual feelings about Mahkhal.
* Craig has introverted and extroverted traits.
* Craig has an unused animation of him breathing fire.
* Craig's healing abilities seem to come from the same energy that produces Mahkhal's fireball, Anaconda Virtue's fireballs, and Bernard's fire attacks.
* Craig often looks like he is smiling, but if you look closely, he is actually slightly frowning.
* Craig has a badass mustache..