Aidan Ferro, District 11

Name: Aidan Shura-Gabriel Ferro
Age: 15
Gender: Male
District/Area: District 11
Appearance:

Aidan is a tall olive skinned boy standing at 5’11. He is very well structured and strong for his age due to those long hours of working in the orchards close to his house and secretly training with knives (he’s really good at fighting with knives but when it comes to throwing, he’s is not that good) in the afternoons after his father taught him. The type of work he does in the orchards have enabled him to be very flexible and make him have the ability to climb up trees with ease. And despite his athleticism, he cannot run fast nor too long without his lungs beginning to hurt and become tired, sometimes fainting. This is something that intrigues everyone who knows him, and when people talk about his lack of being able to run, he becomes slightly afraid that this abnormality may be a disease that can eventually kill him. This worries him because he is an only son and to die means for his parents having an uncertain future.
Aside from that, he has silky straight jet black hair in layers that goes down close to his shoulders. He also has bangs that reach just below his eyes, and are a problem for him because they will not stay in one place, no matter how he combs his hair. So during the entire day, you’ll see Aidan fixing his hair and swinging his head around to get the bangs out of his eyes whenever he is picking fruit and cannot touch his hair. His bangs have also turned out to be distractive to him and are the main reason why he sometimes doesn’t pay attention to what he’s doing.
Aidan has a rare type of green eyes. They are light green and appear to be almost crystalline in the sun. This often catches the attention of everyone that passes by him and does not know him or his family. And he is not the only one with those eyes around District 11. His late father had those same eyes but Aidan’s are stranger, almost like his late grandfather’s eyes.
During summer time, Aidan will wear green, white, or black fitting t-shirts with black or dark blue jeans and boots. Towards the winter, he will usually be wearing white fitting t-shirts with white pants along with his black boots. And sometimes, he will also wear his black thin jacket which he will usually leave unzipped. In rare occasions Aidan will dress in black (usually when he is out of clothing options). This is because he thinks that wearing complete black clothing is bad luck as he has come to realize from the past (he was wearing black clothes when his brother and father died).

Personality:

Aidan is a boy who is very quiet and can appear somewhat hostile when a stranger tries to make a conversation with him. He is trying to work on not acting like that when someone approaches him, but he cannot help it due to his past that has somehow traumatized him. And people notice that when they meet him. That is why they will usually keep on making a conversation with him and be as friendly possible to him so that Aidan can open up to them. And this friendliness people have with him is somehow strange to him, but he doesn’t complain because he loves being around people.
Aside from that, Aidan can be very friendly to you once he opens up and begins to trust someone (which sometimes takes a long time and frustrates him because he wants to trust people quickly but he can’t). He will also take the time to listen to his friends and help them in every way he can when they have a problem with something. He is very loyal to those he loves and will protect them in every way possible if they ever get involved in a problem. And this trait of his is somewhat strange because his middle name (Shura-Gabriel) means defender/devoted.
He is a quick thinker and is very smart in school, although not the best. Aidan will also see the bright side of things all the time. He is usually positive, but mostly for others when they lack confidence and are negative about something.
Aidan can be a perfect friend to someone. But how much of a good friend is he to himself? The answer is: not much. Aidan will often demand himself a lot. He wants to be as close to being the perfect human being for others, even if it has to be at his own expense.
Another thing about Aidan is that he can react impulsively on things like: being insulted and when others are harming people. At first, he will try and talk when this happens, but if others are not willing to reason, he will ignore and leave (when insulted), or fight (when someone is hurting another person). And to Aidan it is hard to try and reason because his first instinct is to begin and fight with someone, something that he does not like. But this instinct is something he can’t avoid easily because he’s been very impulsive ever since he was born (which is the reason he is named Aidan which means fire).
There are two sides to Aidan: The cautious/positive human being on the outside, and the tormented/conflicted human on the inside. Everyone knows Aidan on the outside but only two people know him deeply enough to understand the anguish that he goes through (now rarely) when he’s alone and why he will practice with his knives instead of being in his room sleeping during the nights.

History:

Aidan was born on a hot summer night in District 11. He is an only child but it was not always that way. He had a twin brother named Mario Iñaki that died because of what someone says it is Aidan’s fault.
It all happened the year both were turning six. Aidan and Mario Iñaki were playing close to the orchard field when Aidan’s brother got hungry and was begging Aidan to climb up a tree and get him a fruit that he had been closely watching ever since they arrived to the place in the morning. Aidan then was debating whether to go get the fruit up in the tree or not because he still couldn’t climb trees very well and could fall. But then again, his brother couldn’t climb the trees at all and was hungry. After much thinking Aidan decided to get the fruit for his brother who was begging for it.
As he climbed the tree, he found a bag very well hidden in the tree. Inside were berries that looked very appetizing, and after getting the fruit his brother wanted, Aidan got the bag in the tree and went back towards the ground. He then gave his brother the fruit and opened the bag to retrieve the berries inside. Aidan was about to eat it when he heard a noise coming from up close. He then placed the berries in the bag and told Mario Iñaki to take care of it meanwhile he inspected the place. And as Aidan left, Mario Iñaki gazed the appetizing berries in the bag and ate it.
When Aidan returned a long while later, he found his brother dead. This made Aidan panic and cry for help all around. Then, a woman who was the one spying them earlier said to follow him if he wanted help. Desperate, Aidan decided to follow and trust the woman. He was then led to the peacekeepers who retrieved the bag were Aidan had the berries in, and started to interrogate him.
Aidan would not respond anything except that his father was with them in the orchard (which was true until his father was called to go work and had to leave them alone for the time being). This led the peacekeepers think that the bag of what were poisonous berries, belonged to his father and that he was planning on doing some kind of rebellion. The peacekeepers were then alarmed and called forth Aidan’s father to execute him.
This broke Aidan’s heart. He then tried to reason with the peacekeepers by saying that his dad was not a bad person and to let him go, but it was the reasoning of peacekeepers against a child’s. And during the execution, Aidan saw the lady who turned them in towards the peacekeepers witnessing the execution along everyone in District 11. This made him furious and since then he wouldn’t trust people at all or care much about them.
After the execution, Aidan was taken into government custody and was later placed in adoption since every relative he had was now dead. And three of those deaths were as Aidan considers “caused by him”: his mother’s (during his birth) and now his brother’s along with his father’s. So after being placed in adoption, he was quickly adopted due to his age and those eyes that are intriguing but most of all, how well behaved he was by sitting around quietly (mostly because he would always think of the past and how everyone must hate him).
His new family was kind to him. It was a family who couldn’t have children and when they went to adopt, that is where they saw Aidan sitting around. They then decided that he was the perfect child and soon adopted him. And since then, his new parents began to slowly earn Aidan’s trust until they became a united family. This also made him open up more to people.
Everything seemed to be fine until the woman who witness Mario Iñaki’s death appeared again to Aidan’s life and began to torture him (the woman had nothing against him. It is just that she had gone crazy after something that had happened to her years later. And all that she can remember and repeat are certain things like Mario Iñaki’s death). This then made Aidan (who was thirteen years at the time) enter in a depression that was overwhelming him up to the point where he would spend his time in his room crying or practicing with his knives all day to prevent himself from falling asleep and having nightmares or thoughts regarding his brother. And when his parents found out about it, they all sat and talked with him. That is where they found out about his story. His parents along his friends helped him get through the depression. It is also the same reason why Aidan cares so much about everyone and will always take the time to listen to others, so that they can share their troubles with him because he knows firsthand that to talk things out is good.
Now a days, he will often be sitting around in the streets of District 11 and be either alone thinking about what he is up to, or be with his friends talking about pretty much anything that will make everyone laugh. He also goes to District 11’s orphanage whenever he can to help out with the kids or tell them the many folktales he knows, especially one called: Companions of the Forest (which is about a poor boy that domesticated three animals and went through a lot of trouble after his sisters told everyone that he had domesticated three wild animals. He then became a prince and was soon poisoned by his sisters and an evil man, but was later revived by his three loyal companions).

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