Age: 22
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Aeden is a slight man, but lean and muscular as only a man who travels out West tends to be. He usually dresses well, but not ostentatiously, and has a Colt Army Model 1860 at his side. Beneath his hat is short, red hair and his skin is tan from the Western sun.
Personality: Aedan tends to have a jovial if somewhat withdrawn personality. He often avoids talking about himself or his past, at least, truthfully. He prefers to spend life with a drink in one hand, a few cards in the other, and a joke springing from his mouth. This is not to say that he is naive or ignorant of the world. He is well aware of its cruelties and sad, beautiful wonders that make the heart constrict in a way that is somehow painful and yet soothing. Aedan has a strong dislike for bullies and those who prey on the weak and is respectful of women, even if he is a notorious flirt. He would never lie to a woman, for example. If it's just fun and games, he will give her no reason to think otherwise and likewise when he is serious. He loves gambling, obviously, particularly at card games, and he is not afraid to cheat when it appears that the odds are against him or there is a particular game that he has to win. To accompany this set of dubious skills, he is quite the talker and is not a bad shot either, though he dislikes violence.
History: Aedan grew up in a family of Irish immigrants in New York City. His family fled the Great Potatoe Famine in Ireland and his father worked hard to provide for his wife and two sons and daughter. Nonetheless, growing up, however much he loved his father, Aedan realized that hard work didn't quite cut it, particularly when you're Irish in a city where you were either a cheap source of labor or foreign scum taking jobs from real Americans. From an early age, he took to gambling and cheating to earn extra money, much to his parents' ire. Often he was caught, yelled at, and he would secretly continue as always a few weeks later. When he was 16, he was caught yet again and it was the last straw. Aedan was told either to clean up his act or leave home. Though loathe to leave his two older brothers and younger sister as well as his parents, Aedan saw no other way. He took his deck of cards and took up traveling, often heading west and doing odds jobs such as mining or working on the railroad. Soon enough, he was in the frontier and Aedan doesn't exactly regret his choices.
Equipment: His Colt Army Model 1860, his clothes, a hat, a deck of cards, a few devices to help him in cheating at a game, and a flash he usually fills with brandy or whiskey.