Flamel Aragon

## Flamel Ember Aragon II

Plam Portrait 2, ~2092

**Flamel Ember Aragon II** (born 26th of February, 2051) is a Sami-Swedish worker's activist, labour unionist and organizer. In addition, he was a key founding member and Chairman of the Leadership Committee of the Scandinavian National Lumber Union from the 27th of March, 2069 to the 26th of March, 2073. He was the Chief Organizer and de facto leader of The Oslo Protests from their beginning on the 13th of August, 2075 until his arrest on the 19th of September, 2075. After his unsuccessful public execution during The Day, he vanished from the public eye for 9 years, reappearing shortly after Director Lev Vasiliev's death to start a worker's rebellion in two major cities in the Scandinavian North. After years of fighting in the still ongoing Nordic Civil War, he serves as the de-facto Head of Government of the United Northern Syndicates, a federation of worker states that united to fight off the joint Tsarist and Stockholm Government Invasion.

## Personal Life

Flamel Aragon was born in a small house in the outskirts of Kiruna, a small town town situated in the Lapland Province, on the 26th of February, 2051. He grew up poor, with his father being a lumberjack and his mother a miner. At the age of 15, he begun working at the same lumber company in order to help pay the bills, his father dying as a result of suffering a work related accent just a few months later. This inspired him, along with plenty of his coworkers, to attempt to form a labour union that would negotiate better working conditions and reduce the workplace fatalities. The soon province-wide movement picked up steam and, on the 17th of July, 2067 a vote was held, with 74% of workers affirming the need for unionization. Flamel, due to being only 16 at the time, was not legally permitted to participate in it's leadership structure, but nevertheless spoke first at the 2067 and 2068 yearly union addresses, gathering the respect of most and the hatred of the rich. His 18th birthday, the 26th of February 2069, was met with the resignation of the previous Chairman of the Leadership Committee of SNLU, triggering a leadership election in which Aragon was finally allowed to partake in. He won the Second SNLU Leadership Election by 97.3% of the vote, securing his first one year term. He would go on to be re-elected 3 times, declining a 5th term after an attempt on his life during a January worker's rally in Stockholm left him in serious health complications. In the next 2 years, he focused almost entirely on education, applying for and being granted a scholarship to the Oslo Collage of Humanities, earning an Associate's Degree in Sociology and graduating on the 1st of May, 2075. He has received the title of **Scandinavian of the Year 2075** from Oslo's Yearly Excellence, a TV Show on New Frauntundraland's most watched TV channel, NFNT-1, as well as a **Medal of Merit** from Lapland's Governor, Richard Bailey in 2072. During his 8 years long stay at a Greenlandic detention facility, Aragon contracted Stage 3 Skin Cancer on his lower neck. He went untreated for years as the prison did not have the medical equipment to deal with it, later making a full recovery in the 9 years of medically induced coma which the OYE put him under.

## Political Activism and Views

Flamel Aragon is a known advocate for leftist reform, self-describing himself as a "Social Democrat" during a speech in favor of the 2074 Living Wage Act, which would have raised the federal minimum wage from 70 Krona to 100 Krona per hour, lifting roughly half a million people out of poverty if not vetoed by President Gustav Trudeau. He has declined several times to run as a Labour Party's candidate for MP, stating he felt he was too young to properly fulfil the duties expected of one, but has endorsed Labour for almost every election they've ran in. He is a firm progressive, even helping organize some of the protests against the 2073 Protect The Traditional Family Act, a bill solidifying the ban on same sex marriage in the constitution. Following the Presidential dismissal of all 9 Labour MPs in late 2074, Aragon organized a speech in Oslo Square, calling the government a "totalitarian nightmare".

## Controversy

Flamel Aragon is no stranger to controversy, having been implicated in numerous scandals, both minor and major. Due to that fact, all following information in this section is shortened as much as possible.

### Nuclear Energy

Aragon's position on energy was first made public during a June 2070 SNLU weekly Leadership Committee panel, during which, when asked "What do you think of (Governor) Bailey approving another oil drilling permit earlier this week?", he responded:

> "Oil is.. how would you say it? Not a very reliable resource, y'know, you burn it and it eventually runs out, overextends its purpose. What we, we as in our community, our nation, need is a renewable, safer source of energy.. And, of course, windmills and solar panels are.. hardly enough to say the least. For our, for your and your children's country to prosper, what we need is chemical efficiency, a system of getting power less reliant on dead dinosaurs in the ground. Simply put, Scandinavia *needs* nuclear (energy)."
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The quote was, at the time, widely criticized by many, including the then Lapland Province's Federal MP, who called the Chairman a "madman, willing to risk the lives of millions just to close down oil rig jobs". Throughout the years, Aragon has repeatedly said that he doesn't regret saying any part of it, as he still believes in every part of the pro-nuclear power message.

### Accusations of Homosexuality

On the 30th of November 2071, the Lapland Times, a tabloids newspaper owned by Paul Corp, an investment company with ties to the SNLU's employer, published a newspaper whose first page featured a photo of Flamel in front of a rainbow background, captioned "The F.A.***G.*** who lost you your job" with his first and last name descending vertically from the F and A. The article, meant to play into the more conservative demographic of workers and prevent further unionization, was brought up in every interview Aragon took part in for the next few months, no matter what the actual topic is, to which he once famously replied with "It is an honor doing something worthy of such slander by the tabloids." before ignoring further questions on the subject and instead insisting on talking about the resent coal mine collapse due to the owners going with cheap over effective safety measures.

On the 19th of January 2073, a day before his scheduled speech at a Stockholm protest against the city's policy of violent strike breaking, a far right news website named "FreedomStationStockholm.com" ran a hit piece on Flamel, calling him, among other things, a "degenerate manlover" and a "pederastic lapp" before going back to its usual calls for a societal cleansing to "remove the undesirables". The following day, during Aragon's time on the stage, a drunk right wing extremist militiaman sneaked into the crowd and shot at Aragon 4 times, three misses and one hit directly in his left eye. The criminal, later arrested and charged with attempted murder, defended himself by admitting to the crime and calling for a "homocide", preaching that it was time for a "final solution". He was given 3 months of probation.

### Accusations of Treason

Flamel Aragon has been accused of treason in 27 Lapland Times articles, 13 Press Conferences, 4 Speeches before Parliament and a million interpersonal conversations, the amount of accusations skyrocketing after President Gustav Trudeau's 14th of August social media posts, which served as a rallying cry for his voter base to oppose the protest movement. Aragon has never been criminally charged or suspected of Treason, although, according to leaked documents, he has been investigated 7 times prior to his arrest on the same basis.

After The Day, as the OYE backed Anti-Trudeau Government coup is known, Aragon was not released, nor pardoned, simply disappearing from the public eye as he had 8 years previously, along with the 283 other high profile victims of The Bloody October.

### Association with Controversial Figures

Flamel has been closely linked by his opponents with another quasi-leader in the Anti-Trudeau Government movement, namely the Masked Officer, leader of the 13 Militias Organization. Despite the latter being often seen as an insurrectionist madman, Aragon has done little to denounce him or his actions, more specifically the unauthorized militia training of hundreds, even thousands of civilians. During one of the few times Flamel has answered a question regarding the Masked Officer, he briefly shared his thoughts, saying:

> "The General, as some call him is.. he is certainly not one to avoid ruffling feathers with the law. However, given how he advocates so strongly for people's rights to own firearms, defend themselves and all, I do believe, and yes, this might be controversial, that he would be best left to his own devices until his actions prove dangerous."
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This was just days before the infamous September 19th Assassination Attempt, which is commonly cited by the government as evidence that the 13 Militias Organization are "dangerous and lawless criminals" as then Minister of Justice Óskar Gautason phrased it.

## **References:**

1. Plam said so.
2. Trust me, bro.