Aidan Wilson

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Aidan Wilson is a player character, a vampire belonging to Clan Toreador. The only known Childe to the Dublin Sheriff, Persephone, and also an accomplished doctor and musician on his own, Aidan acts as a Chameleon, a proxy between the Camarilla and the Anarchs, doubting where his loyalties lie.

## Physical appearance

Aidan appears to be perpetually in his mid twenties, and likes to dress like a metalhead from the 70's, the way he used to do in his youth, with leather jackets and tight jeans and, most of the times, a pair of Doc Martens he preserves almost impolute. He has striking long red hair, shoulder length, that he keeps pristine as much as he is able, for it is the physical trait of his he likes the best; only wears it up on a messy bun when he is working in laboratories. The sparse freckles across his nose and shaved face gives him even more of a youthful, carefree look, while also being handsome in his own right. He is also tall and on the lean side, not having built much of a muscle; his hands however are sturdy and nimble, akin to those of a surgeon. He has a tattoo of a sun just below the left side of his collarbone, and another that reads "poser" on his forearm near his right inner elbow.

## Personality

Aidan likes to put up a front of a cheerful, outgoing man, somewhat cocky and with a sharp tongue, but measuring his words when he is around his elders and being generally charming, especially if he is searching to flatter. On the inside, however, is very conflicted about himself, and has deep regrets for acting out of impulses and whims like most people in his clan. He tries to get himself together and balanced, but his nature doesn't allow much room for that, and he ends up having fickle moods in many ways, enthusiastic one day and sullen the next one. He is also easy to influence, and has a hard time making up his mind when it comes about something he doesn't have a strong opinion about; on the other hand, he used to be very skeptic on his youth and until these nights, he considers himself mainly a man of science despite being a supernatural, undead creature himself.

## Background

### Mortal years

Aidan was born to a humble family of Christian values in Wales. He was cherished in his childhood, but as he was growing up, he was having more and more demands and expectactions over his head. As he was starting to take inusual interests like wacky experiments for science class, or daydreaming too much about playing the guitar, he was quickly shut down. The straw that broke the camel's back was when he got punished and hit with his father's belt because he had been discovered dressing as a girl, and he was also tried to be discouraged as quickly, being called a "sexual deviant" and worse.

Not that it did much for stopping his interests anyway, as he started frequenting as a teenager night clubs in where he would start playing the guitar and exploring himself freely in ways he couldn't back at his strict way of life, like many of his peers in those years. That was also the time when he started to take and experiment on recreational drugs, a little too fascinated at how both body and mind responded to them.

At first, Aidan was going to pursue a degree in Chemistry, but due to family pressure and later on his own accord, he ended up studying General Medicine and then specialized in Forensics. He somehow ended up managing in between his studies and his wild night life, but at a huge cost for his mental stability. He started developing an erratic behavior and mood swings, in great part due to abuse of sustances, and his concentration would get worse on his low ends. He ended up leaving his house and holing himself up on one of the many guest houses the London around that time period had, even if he wouldn't stay long; somehow, on one of his most stable periods, he had managed to get a scholarship for working on a laboratory.

Aidan was quite popular around the slums, patching people up that couldn't afford a doctor visit and also playing the guitar at clubs, where he got many invitations to participate in jigs. When word had gotten around of a prestigious clinic selecting him for a scholarship and practices, many were happy for him; others didn't take it so well, calling him a "poser" and a "sell-out". Such accusations would take other forms in other contexts after he was Embraced, but it made him put a front towards most people to keep them at arm's length.

### First contact with Kindred

During his youth and due to moving in the scenes he did and on difficult neighborhoods, he unknowingly got acquaintanced with ghouls and a few vampires from different factions that took a liking to him. Because he doesn't remember some of those encounters well, Aidan suspects now he might have been fed upon at some point and/or had his mind wiped out when using Disciplines on him. One of the most vivid encounters he had was with his future sire, Persephone; stumbled upon her after a rough night of hers, he had insisted to give her some first aids, the quick recovery of hers baffling him. He also knew, on a later time, she just happened to be around because she was giving chase to a supernatural entity that had holed up in the laboratory where he worked, and after that encounter, she had used Dominate to make him forget he saw her and to get away from the place.

An event that ended up costing him his job; as security cameras got messed around and the laboratory as well, because he was supposed to help with the night watch, he was fired on the spot. That sent him to a new spiral of self-destruction, completely demoralized and barely without any motivation to find to go forward. When he found Persephone again, he was drinking himself to death and on the brink of a depressive phase, and realizing she had unknowingly caused his misfortune she felt guilty, so that spurred her to give him another chance to get another job in Dublin, to put him back on his feet again. That, in the end, led to another unfortunate incident that concluded with his Embrace, and his existence as a vampire began.

### The Embrace

Surprisingly, Aidan took his transformation and awakening fairly well, despite the obvious initial shock; he had mostly given up on his previous life, so he saw this one as a fresh start. He immediately took interest on what constituted the vampiric condition on a scientific lens and began to run tests under his sire's supervision. It wasn't something that hadn't been on other vampires' minds before, but even with modern medicine's advances, many processes on their bodies are still unknown and are dismissed for being supernatural and out of any logical order. However, even if some of his tests have failed due to not having enough information or the tests subjects (staked vampires on Torpor and ghouls, mostly) sometimes having become ashes, Aidan hasn't given up even until these last nights.

Persephone had been the one introducing him to Kindred society, obviously, as much as vouching for him as a Toreador patron; his skills are unconventional within the Toreador, and even the guitar playing is regarded with a bit of amusement and skepticism on equal parts, but as she has a good reputation in the Camarilla, so does he to an extent. He even gets his own Haven and a special permission to work on a laboratory with blood bank access, but the places he ends up frequenting the most are the locals owned by Anarchs, because he can come and go freely to the territory of Connaught where the Barony is located. Eventually, he accepts working as a Chameleon for the Anarchs.

## Skills and flaws

Aidan has finalized his studies in Forensic Medicine. As such, he is an accomplished doctor, and he knows his way around how bodies work, both for the dead and the living, ranging from giving a quick diagnose to perform surgeries and autopsies. Upon his Embrace, he has made his cause to learn as much about the vampiric condition as he can and see if it could be improved in some way.

Because of that, the clan weakness affects him differently that it normally would for other clan members; when it comes about the topic of his interest -medical research and specifically blood conditions- he forgets about everything else and only can focus on that for a while, even getting a bit obsessed about it, because he finds beauty in the process and in pursuing it to advance themselves as the betterment of his kind. He also finds bodily processes such as blushing fascinating; as this results as coming off as a bit morbid and odd, most clansmates give him a wide berth and even call him a poseur.

He is also a good guitarist, and loves playing and even composing music (his influences being psychedelic and progressive rock and punk rock mostly, along with music of the British New Wave), but these nights he only does that as a hobby and to unwind, even if he is way more praised publicly for his guitar skills than for his work as a doctor. Even so, he feels more appreciated for that around the Anarchs than in the straight laced, tradicionalist Camarilla.

Aidan has cyclothymia, a milder form of bipolar disorder, with frequent mood swings between hypomanic and depressive episodes; he might have worsened his condition due to abuse of drugs when young and his own vampiric condition. He also has a deep, paralyzing fear of snakes and almost everything that has hard scales; he prefers, as it's a very blatant weakness, it isn't known publicly if it can be helped.

## Disciplines

##### Auspex

* Heightened Senses (1)
* Unerring Pursuit (2)
* Sense Vibrations (2)

##### Presence

* Awe (1)
* Daunt (1)
* Lingering Kiss (2)
* Entrancement (3)

##### Celerity

* Cat's Grace (1)
* Fleetness (2)
* Blink (3)
* Unerring Aim (4)

#### Blood Sorcery (Biothaumaturgy path)

* Thaumaturgical Forensics (1)
* Thaumaturgical Surgery (2)

## Character relationships

### Persephone

Aidan shares a lot of history with his sire, and has a good amount of conflicting feelings about her. For one, unlike many other Kindred, he had never bore a grudge with her over his Embrace; even if he was understandably shocked and hurt in the beginning, her straightforwardness about the subject and her own eccentricities eased him a lot, and also managed to win his trust. He also likes to consider each other very close, since he has confided in her a lot, had shared a lot of moments together, and in return she has also got her own guard down around him more than a few times. On the other hand, he feels like he owes her for having introduced him to vampire society so seamlessly and for always vouching for him and his variated skills, her being the only reason he remains in the Camarilla on the present nights, and he also has the increasing suspicions she is hiding something big to everyone else, including himself.

On his first nights, and due to his own mood swings, he used to wonder if she was a Malkavian believing herself to be a Toreador, so he would share the same traits, but it wasn't anything of the sort. He really cares a lot more about her than he shows, and even if he teases and playfully bickers with her a lot, generally treating her as if she was his equal, he respects and seldomly second guesses her. He has recently found out he is, in fact, in love with her, making his conflict about her a bit more nuanced.

### Lilith

As he is both very intrigued and also amused by how much of an atypical Toreador she is, Aidan discovered over time collaborating together on investigations and generally helping each other out that they had more things in common than just the hair color and the clan. In fact, one of the things that are more notable, especially putting the two of them next to the other, is their uncanny physical resemblance, almost as if they were twins. An impossible event given that she is decades younger than him and also new to the vampire society, but amusing enough that they both started to joke about the subject and also getting others confused about them both for fun. In the end, and in result of their growing friendship and kinship, Aidan treats the Neonate as he would a younger sibling, and he ends up confiding to her many things he thought he wouldn't share with anyone else. He cherishes her curiosity and youthful enthusiasm, her remaining Humanity reminding him of his own one, not so hidden as he would thought. He often thinks he truly would have liked to have a sister like her when he was alive. They both end up forming part of a Coterie together.

### Eugene

Crossing paths with him the first time during an investigation of a Masquerade breach that ended up being a Blood Hunt, Aidan has somehow managed to maintain contact with the elusive Tremere Justicar despite both of them walking different paths. They share an interest over music and investigating the unknown, and they have become close enough that even Eugene has managed to share some skills of Blood Sorcery with him, to help him with his own research about blood at large; in return Aidan helps him to have a better grasp over modern technology, which he still struggles with. Aidan finds him very intriguing and worthy of admiration, and believes he has an alluring aura over him, developing an infatuation that he believes is one sided despite having nearly flirty banters often, so he manages to shut it down most of the times. At the end, he prefers to consider them both colleagues and allies and not complicate things further between them, as vampire relationships are complicated enough as they are.

### Samael

Aidan is acquaintanced with the Anarch Baron since his own days as a mortal in the London slums, obviously unaware by then of his true nature. They share a taste for similar music tastes and they frequent similar ambients, but that is pretty much all both vampires have in common. The Toreador knows that he is tolerated despite the rivalry Samael has with his sire, but he is unaware that he is genuinely appreciated among the Anarchs -more than with his fellow clansmates back in the Camarilla- and even more so if he made up his mind about his true allegiances. In any case, Aidan knows it's better to be on the Brujah's good side, and he truly respects him as a leader.

### Ezekiel

Aidan views Samael's Childe and second-in-command (or First Mate, as he jokes around due to his pirate-like shenanigans) a bit like an eccentric uncle. They don't get to coincide often, but when they do, the Elder is usually cordial, even friendly with him. Aidan suspects it has to do with the fact he is so close with Lilith, one he knew he took under his wing in a sense. As he knows how not to press the wrong buttons around the Brujah, he knows he can go on at ease with him.

### Byleth

The new kid on the block and Anarch trainee intrigues Aidan quite a lot. He doesn't know where did they come from, and is baffled that they get to have such a brilliant mind especially when tactics are involved, for such a young age. Most likely, and if they get to survive, the Toreador is very sure Byleth can become a leader on their own right, but it doesn't seem like they are very interested in that for the moment. Despite a bit of a tight start with him, the Gangrel got to relax a little when he is around, even if they're more Lilith's friend than his, and they became a part of their Coterie as well while investigating the Sabbat ambushes.

### Adelheid

Aidan is somehow acquaintanced with one of the legendary ghouls the mysterious Toreador Justicar, Rose Szigethy, has, as him and his sire have had some dealings with her in the past. He knows she isn't one to be underestimated, for long as she has been around, and she is the one in charge of her Domitor's Art Gallery while on her absence.

### Wilhelm

Rose's Sire and a member of Toreador socialité gone rogue and rumored to have been operating on the Sabbat's clutches, Aidan has received lately some attempts to engage in contact. As much as he is intrigued, he is also wary: he doesn't know what the hell would someone like such a personality want with him, although he suspects it might be related to *shared interests* concerning vampire biology and potential.

### Caden

Aidan has known Caden for a while as they move in similar circles, both for the Anarchs and musically speaking too, because he is a drummer. He hasn't coincide with him often, as the Malkavian likes to make himself scarce, but the times he did he always treated him kindly, and has even offered him advice whenever he can. He is surprised like the rest he had decided to help them and join their Coterie, but he welcomes him, treating him a bit like an awkward little brother.