Aaron Sullivan
Role: Male 3
Age: Twenty-one
Occupation: Town Guard - "Someone needs to keep things in order, and I'm not the only one to do it."
Likes:
- Weapons - "That does not mean I'm trying to kill you. Shooting's just fun."
- Knowledge/Reading - "You can't do anything if you don't know anything."
- Hiking - "There's a lot in nature to be admired, and no one disturbs you when you're trying to think."
- Philosophy - "Figuring out how you want to live is important, figuring out why is even more so."
- Games - "One way to apply and use your skill. Everything is a game, some are more fun than others, and some are more serious than others. It's all about what moves you decide to make."
- Ultimate (Frisbee) - "The best sport ever invented. Wanna play?"
- Helping others - "Everyone needs help at one time or another, and I know that."
Dislikes:
- Reflecting - "Looking at myself after I do something makes me seem... horrendous to myself."
- The Human Condition - "I understand the imperfection of others, but when I realize my own imperfections and can't fix it... I hate it."
- Sleep - "There seems to be not enough time to do everything you want in a day, and sleeping just gets in the way."
- The Past - "How do I get over it?"
- Elitism - "There are just some people who think they have some sort of God-given right to tell you what to do, and it pisses me off."
Fears:
- The Disease - "How are you not scared of something that has destroyed entire societies?"
- The Future - "It's scary to look at myself then not know what's going to happen to me."
Dreams: "Dreams? How do you 'dream' after such atrocities?"
Personality: Aaron has a very analytical view of situations and scenarios presented to him, whether in theory or in reality. Often, he analyzes himself, and how he resolved an event. Sometimes he thinks he did great, other times he doesn't. Although he can be quite depressed, and hikes off to somewhere when he does, he can be quite sarcastic and tries to be humorous, though at times he can go too far with an idea. As a town guard, he tries to resolve verbal outbreaks between two people before it goes too far, and shows his analytical and rather caring side.
Having grown up with such a turbulent childhood, he can be rather touchy. Sometimes, he gets annoyed easily or doesn't have patience. Some days he exiles himself from the town to God only knows where.
Background: Aaron was found by survivors of the apocalyptic event that swept the lands. The people who found him, James and Kasey Sullivan, a young married couple who were in their mid-twenties, took him into their care and has raised him ever since. When he was young, they told Dust's authorities that they were all a family, they told them their story of being survivors, a rather ordinary one, and they were accepted into the town's limits.
At a rather young age, Aaron became interested with the past, how people got to where they were as a whole. Why was life so different then stories his "parents" would tell him of the past. His mother took care of him at home while his father worked as a laborer, moving crates of necessary goods from one place to the next, as at the time, stabilizing society was more important than developing it. Since the town was under the impression that James and Kasey were Aaron's parents, he didn't go through the system of being rotated from one family to the next. However, Kasey did get pregnant with her own child, and the Sullivans did participate in the fostering program of the town.
As Aaron progressed with his reading, he began reading more substantial things. When he was 10, he read Animal Farm by George Orwell, and began developing a view on how he thinks societies should run and how life should carry on. Soon after, his baby "brother" was born, Nick, and shortly after that his parents had a rather serious conversation with Aaron, where it was revealed to him that he was not in fact their child, and that he was found abandoned as an infant. Feeling like James and Kasey have been lying to him for 9 to 10 years, Aaron ran away from home, living on the streets of Dust and hiding from people as much as he could. He learned that Nick had died from a series of diseases and conditions, including diabetes, at a young age, with little medicine to go around. Kasey soon after committed suicide, and not able to handle it, James ran off to somewhere in the wilderness, and is presumed dead, having not been seen since years. Aaron was then sent unto the fostering system of the town.
Resenting how his life had progressed, Aaron grew up and still has a multitude of unaddressed problems. He did socialize, usually through activities. He learned to play ultimate, playing Frisbee with others, and in his different households learned different survival/living skills. He works now as a town guard, trying to give Dust something back because of what the town has given to him, and has grown up almost in the library, reading book after book trying to find answers to his unresolved life. On his days off, he is nowhere to be found. Aaron lives rather mysteriously now.