Aiden "Blue Bird" Elwood

Aiden Elwood
Portrayed By	Derek Digital
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	February 27, 1985
Age	27
Zodiac Sign	Pisces
Aliases	Blue Bird
Place of Birth	New Glassgow, Nova Scotia, Canada
Current Location	NYC
Occupation	Fire Breather, Fire Dancer, Sword Swallower, Escape Artist, Waiter.
Known Relatives	Timothy Elwood (Father), Selene Elwood (Mother, deceased), Kieran Elwood (older brother)
Significant Other	Lauren Halloway
Identity	Known
Known Abilities	Flight via Wings, Empathy, Emotional Control
First Appearance	???

History

The Cast –

Adien “Blue Bird” Elwood – The Protagonist
Keiran Elwood - The Brother
Timothy Elwood - The Father
Lauren “Animality” Holloway- The Lover
Howard Warwick - The Ringmaster
Benjamin Warwick - The Mute
Jun "Yin" and Jing "Yang" Hsu - The Twins
Alejandro “The Metal Man” Ramos - The Metal Man
Kande “Madam Mermaid” Wallace- The Mermaid

Act One -

When the free spirited Selene Elwood decided to name her first son Kieran, Timothy Elwood wasn’t exactly thrilled with the idea. But his wife wouldn’t take no for an answer, she wanted her children to have unique names to encourage them to be individuals. Two years later when Selene decided to name their second son Aiden, Timothy just smiled and agreed. For the next eight years life was golden for the Elwoods in the small city of New Glassglow, Nova Scotia.

Tragedy struck one evening when Selene was driving home from work. It was a rainy night and hard to see. When she turned the corner she couldn’t break in time to avoid hitting a moose. The accident killed Selene and left Timothy to be a single father. The loss hit the family hard and took quite a while to get over the loss of Selene. Timothy did the best to raise his two boys, taking them to local hockey games and trying not to left the grief of losing Selene over power the family.

Four years went by without incident before Aiden got sick. Two lumps started to painfully grow on his back and his entire body was constantly in pain. He was taken to doctors who were clueless as to what was going on. For the next month Aiden was in constant agony and he missed a lot of school from being in too much pain. One afternoon when Aiden and Kieran were home alone blue feathered wings seemed to erupt from Aiden’s back. It was a painful ordeal as they tore through his skin to break free. Kieran helped bandage Aiden’s back and clean off his wings as he found the fact that his twelve-year-old little brother had wings was awesome. There father, however, did not.

Sometimes you think you know someone, you think they’re a good person but unbeknownst to you they have a prejudice that brings out their ugly side. When Timothy came home and found his son had wings, that ugly side came out. He was furious that his youngest son was a mutant and it was the first time he raised a hand against one of his children. Eventually Aiden was locked in the closet while his father figured out what to do with him.

A week passed and Aiden was still locked in the dark, his older brother occasionally slipping him poptarts and other food under the door. Kieran waited for their father to go out and he unlocked the door letting his brother free. They both knew that Aiden couldn’t stay there so he quickly washed up, changed into clean clothes, packed a bad with food, clothing, a flashlight, blanket and forty dollars so that he could run away. With a hug and tearful goodbye the brothers promised that they’d find each other again someday.

Act Two –

Aiden eventually found himself in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his money having run out a week ago. There was a country type fair going on and he found he could sneak around at night for scraps of food and he could sleep in the horses stable unnoticed. After a few days he was approached by a tall man wearing a derby hat. He started to scramble to get away when the man held out an apple for Aiden. Too hungry to refused he quickly took the apple and devoured it which is when he noticed something odd about the man, he had three eyes.

The man explained his name was Howard Warwick and he ran a show that featured mutants. He told Aiden that it wasn’t a glamourous lifestyle but it would be someplace for him to belong. Not having anywhere else to go, and something about the three eyed man made him want to trust Howard, Aiden followed him to an old Winnebago and a beat up covered pickup truck. There were signs advertising “The Astonishing Howie’s Wonders” and the various wonders he showcased.

It was explained to twelve-year-old Aiden that Howard ran a freakshow for mutants that didn’t fit in with the real world. He was introduced to Kande, a woman with gills and scales, Alejandro, a man made out of steel, Jing and Jun, twins where one was all white and the other was all black and Benjamin, Howard’s Son, who seemed normal except for the fact that he didn’t talk. He was immediately accepted into their family and cared for.

That night, as Kande was helping him wash up and clean out sticks, mud, bits of straw and other things caught in his wings, she gave him his nickname of “Blue Bird”. He realized that he was the youngest of the group as Kande was eighteen, Alejandro and the twins were sixteen and Benjamin was thirteen. He was told about how they preformed at various fairs across the Untied States and Canada doing tarot readings, fire breathing, singing, dancing, sword swallowing, magic tricks and more. That the group had embraced their mutations and decided to make a living off of being different rather then hiding from the world. Howard and his son, Benjamin, first found Kande and the group had grown from there.

As time passed Aiden learned the ins and outs of the business, he wasn’t old enough to be taught how to breath fire or swallow swords but he watched with anticipation. A year had gone by when the pain started up again but this time it was just his stomach. Upon inspection they noticed that yellow markings were starting to form on his body. After a few days the markings painfully spread out from his stomach up his arms, down his legs, leaving him covered from his neck to his feet. Only his face was spared. His new family cared for him and helped him as the second part of his mutation manifested.

It was quickly apparently that the tattoos on Aiden changed colour depending on his moods along with him being able to tell what others were feeling. It helped Aiden develop a friendship with Benjamin as he could tell what he was feeling without him speaking and the two quickly became best friends. For the most part Aiden was happy, he had a home and he had people around him he was growing to love and call family.

Act Three –

That last three years were some of the happiest of Aiden’s life even though living out of a cramped Winnebago wasn’t exactly the most ideal living situation. Television, video games, and computers were all things that Aiden didn’t grow up with. Dancing and singing were their entertainment along with the radio in the Winnebago, which was the only way they kept up on current events. Overall it was very much a gypsy style of life.

Now that he was sixteen he was finally not only going to get to learn how to breath fire, something he’d been wanting to do since he first saw Howard do it, but learn how to swallow swords and learn how to be an escape artist. He was no longer going to be running around promoting the fair and just being on display as ‘The Blue Bird’ but as an actual performer doing stunts.

One afternoon he was working with Jun on how to get out of a straight jacket when Howard came walking over with a teenage girl. As soon as Aiden laid eyes on her his heart skipped a beat. He fell over in the straight jacket when he was introduced to Lauren and could barely get out his own name. Jun laughed at Aiden and helped him out of the straight jacket. That night everyone was introduced to Lauren where it was revealed she could talk to animals and that she had some animal features such as pointed ears, cat like eyes and a tail and that she was also sixteen, like Aiden.

As time passed Aiden fell madly in love with Lauren and Lauren with Aiden in return. She introduced him to music he had never heard before and when they were eighteen they were running around to various clubs together when they were performing in big cities. They were taught how to breath and twirl fire together, becoming a bit of a duo when it came to performing. Aiden also learned more and more how to escape from various rope tricks and he loved the performance. He was a mutant and embracing it, letting the world know what a ‘freak’ he was and that he didn’t care. The two talked about everything together except their past, they wanted to live for the future not in the past.

Aiden’s fashion changed through Lauren as they frequented what clubs they could, he started dressing more in a goth style and developing his own sense of self. He didn’t do it to impress her but he found he just liked it, the music, the dancing, the people and the clubs. He had fun and he found that people there didn’t seem to care about his wings, that was as long as he didn’t smack anyone with them. They would drag out the other members of the act when they could as well, especially the silent Benjamin.

Life was great and Lauren was Aiden’s first love and first many other things as well. He was happier then he’d ever been and the fact that he had an older brother back in Nova Scotia was pretty much forgotten. He got to travel, see the country, meet a variety of people and perform. He had a family, a girl he was madly in love with and a silent best friend.

When Aiden was twenty four years old, having been with the group for half his life, the fact that they were all openly mutants caught up with them. They were performing in Texas when a group of anti-mutant protesters showed up to their performance. The group preformed as usual, trying to ignore them, and Howard arranged to give the town a refund for hiring them and leave quietly. He didn’t want any trouble but apparently the anti-mutant group did.

While packing up Jing started to panic when she realized Jun was missing, not only that but she could feel him crying for help through their telepathic link. She tried to get a location on her brother as she panicked when the group showed up with the all white mutant beaten and tied up. The rest of the family just stood their frozen in fear, Aiden’s tattoos almost glowing yellow.

Howard went out to approach the group to talk to them and as he started to explain that they were just getting ready to leave one of the members shot Howard, the three eyed father figure, fell to the ground dead. Time seemed to stand still for both sides, which gave Jun just enough time to break free. As soon as Jun reached his sister everyone seemed to snap out of what happened and panic ensued.

There was no time to organize an escape and as they ran towards the Winnebago the lynch mob opened fire upon the group. Aiden flew up into the air, Benjamin grabbed Lauren and teleported off with her, Alejandro stepped in front of the twins to shield them and Kande dived to the muddy ground. As Benjamin came back, he grabbed Kande and teleported off with her as Alejandro, Jun and Jing were pushed into the truck by Aiden and just told to go. There was a promise that they’d see each other again as Aiden wanted to wait for Benjamin to get back.

When Benjamin teleported back he grabbed Aiden but there was a gun shot that was fired off before they teleported away. They appeared in the middle of the woods where it was dark and rainy. Aiden called out to his best friend as he watched him fall over, he noticed a dark spot growing on Benjamin’s back in the rain and he realized he’d been shot, messing up where he wanted to teleport them. Benjamin looked at Aiden and started to speak, the first time Aiden ever heard his voice. “Lauren’s safe. Find her.” He whispered before dying.

Act Four –

The next morning when Aiden woke up, he was tired, cold and underdressed in just his t-shirt, jeans and boots for where ever he was. He dug the best grave he could for his friend and started to wander. He felt lost and alone and not for the first time since the pervious night, he cried feeling the loss of Lauren, Ben, and his family. It took him almost a day before he found himself at a small farmhouse. He took his chances and knocked on the door when he was met with a married couple. Through them he found out that he in British Columba and the nearest city was Vancouver. After a bit of talking with the couple, they agreed to let the winged mutant stay there for a bit in exchange that he would help out around the house.

He stayed there for about two weeks, and they even paid him a small wage, before he decided to hit Vancouver. For the next year and a half Aiden flew from city to city in Canada and the US, finding small jobs to do and searching for Lauren, but he had little luck. Some places were quick to accept him and others found a much harder time trusting a tattooed winged mutant. He had no luck finding Lauren though.

After a while his energy and money was running out and Aiden was finding it harder and harder to find places to work when he decided to try New York City. He heard that there was a small freakshow on Coney Island and he figured they might have some information in regards to his friends. He had no luck finding any information but he did get offered a job.

After thinking on it for a few nights Aiden realized that he couldn’t live like he was forever. He wanted to continue his search for Lauren but he couldn’t do it broke and starving. He also figured if he made a bit of a name for himself here she might hear about it and find him. So the winged ‘Blue Bird’ accepted a job as a sword swallower, fire breather, fire twirler, escape artist and general freak of nature.

After a few weeks of working there one of his fellow freaks found out that he’d been sleeping in the park till he saved enough money for an apartment and offered him crashing space on his couch. It was the first friend he made in New York City, Jeff “The Human Oddity” Devereux. Jeff was also a sword swallower but also hammed nails up his nose and swallowed glass and razor blades. Jeff helped Aiden learn the ins and outs of New York City and how to survive in the big apple. Jeff also taught Aiden the basics on how to use a computer so that he could go to the library and see if he could find information on where Lauren might be.

After six months of sleeping on Jeff’s couch, Aiden finally was able to afford his own apartment. It helped that on top of the freakshow job he also got a job waiting tables at a small bistro in Mutant Town, Le Bistro Bestial. He frequented the goth club scene in New York City still having a fun time dancing and having a few drinks. For the first time since he was twelve, Aiden found himself living someplace for longer then a few weeks and he found he could get used to it.

It’s been a month since he’s gotten his apartment and he’s been able to build up his wardrobe and furnish the small studio apartment. He still hangs onto hope that he can find Lauren one day, going to the library almost daily to search the internet for any mention of her. Every night he lights a candle in his window hoping that one day she’ll find him.

Soundtrack

Aiden Radio on Pandora
Track 1) "Without You" by Seabound
Track 2) "Until the End of the World" by Apoptygma Bezerk
Track 3) "Standing" by VNV Nation
Track 4) "Spawn" by Beborn Beton
Track 5) "Electronaut" by VNV Nation
Track 6) "Without You" by L'ame Immortelle

Relationships

Lauren Halloway

Lauren Halloway is a mutant who is able to communicate and influence animals. She developed some animalist qualities herself having cat like eyes, pointed ears, retractable claws, enhanced agility and a prehensile tail. She is Aiden’s true love and the two have an incredible bond. She introduced Aiden to the goth lifestyle he lives and dresses while he helped her to develop self confidence. Aiden still believes she is alive even though he hasn’t seen her for two years and her whereabouts are unknown. She is the same age as Aiden, 26. (If you're interested in apping please contact me.)

Howard Warwick

Howard Warwick was a mutant with three eyes, his third eye allowed him to see the truth nature of people. It also granted him the ability to see invisible people, x-ray vision, night vision and enhanced sight. He became a father figure to Adien to the point where he loved him more then his real father. He rescued him from the dark and taught him to love himself for who he is, embrace his mutation and make others embrace it too. His death hit Aiden hard, as well as the rest of the family, as he was a father and mentor to all. Howard Warwick was known as the The Astonishing Howie and was known for his magic tricks, ventriloquist act, sword swallowing, fire breathing, bed of nails and being the Ringmaster in a sense.

Benjamin Warwick

Benjamin Warwick, the son of Howard Warwick, was a mutant who could teleport. For some reason he never talked. Unlike the rest of the group nothing made him stand out as a mutant. His only contribution to the show was that he was the only contortionist. Benjamin was also Aiden’s best friend as the two were the same age. Even though Benjamin didn’t talk Aiden could always tell what he was feeling which created a bond between the two.

Jing and Jun Hsu

Jing and Jun Hsu are twins who share a telepathic bond. Jing has black skin, hair and white eyes and could see the future, which made her almost playful. She loves to dance and read tarot cards for people. She was always very optimistic and affectionate though there was a bit of a mysterious side to her due to her powers. Jun is a telekinetic with white hair, black eyes and white skin, he used his telekinesis to get out of various death traps. He is bit more grounded then his sister and was quicker to anger but she was always there to calm him. They are like siblings to Aiden. They are 30 years old now. (If you're interested in apping please contact me.)

Kande Wallace

Kande Wallace is a fish like mutant who had gills on her neck, scales and could breath, and talk, under water. She did her whole act underwater, which involved her singing and doing escape tricks in the water. She was a big sister to Aiden and she always treated him like a younger brother. Even when he was in his early twenties she still sometimes dotted on him like the twelve year old that she first met. He would come to her whenever he needed advice on things. She is 32 years old now. (If you're interested in apping please contact me.)

Alejandro Ramos

Alejandro Ramos is a mutant whose entire body is made up of organic steel. This allows him to have super strength and super durability. Since his teeth were made of steel he did a lot of nail chewing stunts along with showing great feats of strength. Alejandro was an older brother to Aiden, gave him his first beer, his first cigarette and constantly teased him. Alejandro was always playing jokes and pranks on the others to keep spirits up. Him and Jing seemed to share romantic feelings. He is thirty years old now. (If you're interested in apping please contact me.)

Timothy Elwood

Timothy Elwood is Aiden’s father. He’s someone that Aiden no longer has any connection to and Timothy is glad his mutant son is gone. There hasn’t been mention of Aiden in the house since he left fourteen years ago.

Kieran Elwood

Kieran Elwood would be twenty eight years old now. He is someone Aiden misses on occasion but doesn’t feel a brotherly bond with anymore. He’d like to see his brother someday but he’s almost afraid to. Knowing how much he’s changed in fourteen years, he doesn’t know how much his brother has. He may or may not be a mutant as well. (If you're interested in apping please contact me.)

Powers

Wings

Wings – Very much like bird wings, but blue in colour, Adien has a pair on his back. His back has developed joints for the wings that connect to his shoulder blades and the wing connects to his back for about a foot and a half. The bone structure is of that as a bird and can break as easily as his other bones. If something happens and the wing is removed it will not grow back as it would be like having an arm removed. He can carry twice his weight and still fly, anymore and it becomes quite cumbersome. Adien can fly at a maximum speed of sixty miles per hour and he can keep this up four an hour before he starts to tire. As for maneuverability Adien is quite agile in the air, he can do basic tricks such as flips, sharp turns and dives. He cannot stop on a dime though he needs to be able to glide to the ground or else he risks hurting himself on landing. He cannot hover in the air with his wings he can only glide. He also has good agility with his wings being able to move them out of the way as needed. His reflexes with his wings are equivalent to that as with his arms, which isn’t anything super-human. He can fold his wings up against his back so that they aren’t as cumbersome when walking around. Each wing is about ten feet long.

Hallow Bones

Hollow Bones - To be able to fly Adian has hollow bones. His bones have a lighter density and stronger then normal bone, but because they are hollow they require the same amount of pressure as normal bones in order to break. This also makes him quite lighter in weight then he appears to be. If he loses his powers his wings won’t vanish as they are physically part of him, just he’ll be to heavy to be able to fly.

Emotion Markings

Emotion Markings – Adien has what appears to be a tribal like tattoo all over his body, from his neck down to his feet. It covers the back of his hands, neck, chest, legs, feet, everywhere but his face. All these markings are linked into his nervous system. They allow him to feel other peoples emotions, influence peoples emotions and they change colour depending on what he is feeling.

Colour Markings – Each colour represents a different feeling, when he’s feeling more then one emotion the markings can take on almost a dual colour appearance, like if he’s feeling nervous yet excited they tattoos would show as a yellow and orange at the same time creating an odd visual illusion. The more strongly he’s feeling an emotion the brighter the colour becomes, almost glowing if he’s feeling it very strongly.

The colours are as follows –

Green – Joy, Happiness, Contentment, Cheerfulness, Optimism, Relief and other joy related emotions.
Orange – Surprise, Amazement, Shock, Curiosity, Interest and other excitable type emotions
Purple – Loving, Affectionate, Longing, fondness, compassion and emotions tied to love.
Red – Anger, Rage, Envy, Fury, Irritation and other such emotions.
Blue – Sadness, Suffering, Shane, Pity, Sympathy and emotions tied to maybe feeling sad.
Yellow – Fear, Nervousness, Anxiety and other fear related emotions.

Empathy

Empathy – Adien can tell what another person is feeling as long as they are in close range which is anything closer than five feet. He has to be engaged with them for at least five minutes in some sort, he can’t just look at someone five feet away and know. His markings almost let him give off a field that extends to five feet around him so that he can sense the emotions of others. He can only sense up to two people at a time. This ability also allows him to sense the emotional changes in someone when they’re lying or being deceitful.

Emotional Control

Emotional Control – Adien can influence the emotions someone is feeling if they’re within five feet of him. He has to be engaged with the person and skin contact does help. The same field that is used for his Empathy is used for this. Anyone with any sort of body armour, resistance, mental resistance or emotion based resistance will not be influenced by Aiden’s power. He can only inflict one emotion on a person and the effects will last for ten minutes per five minutes he’s engaged with someone to a maximum of a half hour. The person he’s influencing will start to feel the effects of the emotion control almost immediately. This power takes a lot of focus on Aiden and he can only influence one person every two hours and if he’s distracted while trying to influence someone he can lose his control and the influenced emotion that would usually last for twice as long as he’s interacted with them will fade in a minute.

Invulnerability to Emotion Control

Invulnerability to Emotion Control – Due to the field that is always around Aiden his emotions cannot be influenced by a superficial force.

Timeline

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Quotes

• "I said it!"

Trivia

• Aiden is an accomplished sword swallower, fire breather, fire dancer and escape artist.
• Aiden is technology illiterate.
• Aiden is pop culture illiterate.
• Aiden doesn't have a formal education past grade eight.
• Aiden loves to go dancing at goth clubs.
• Aiden is quite vain and puts a lot of time and effort into his hair and makeup.

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