Your name: Alex Character and journal: Aiden | coagmentatio Dates missing: 02/16 - 02/19 Current canon point: Just prior to death in Lockdown. New canon point: 02/19 in deadland.exe Ability changes: N/A History + personality changes: No changes to canon history, and there's not a ton of significant CRAU happenings with him (compared to most everyone else in the simulation). For the most part, this is just an update to what he knows from talking to those he did manage to interact with during his time there (a combination of handwave and me belatedly diving in to establish things).
Aiden quickly let depression get the better of him.
He avoided all meetings, frankly, only keeping updated on anything via talking with Yuuki Mishima (hereafter just Yuuki) whenever the teenager and he hung out together in a dorm room. Aiden didn't bother learning as much as he could have, but he did ask questions to try and avoid staying in total darkness.
Frankly, Yuuki was the closest to a friend he bothered keeping. The only other person he didn't actively avoid is Yoosung, but that was more about the latter's relationship with the former, than it was about Aiden caring a ton about Yoosung... or so he'll claim.
Some things he eventually figured out from doing his own experiments / paying attention / not bothering to eat or sleep for lengthy periods of time are:
- they remain the same as they were when they died (i.e. they'll never get taller, lose or gain weight, grow hair) - they do not have any true physical needs like for oxygen, sleep, or food
The fact that they could still feel things, however, definitely made it so it did take active paying attention. Anyway...
Learning those things took even more of a toll on his emotional state, thus resulting in even less inclination to interact with the others. Why did anything matter, why bother, etc... It quickly became Aiden's darkest time and the very example of rock bottom for him. And, while he could have bonded with more of the others, his depressed state drew him into believing that being alone, being stuck in that state without a close friend, would also be more than he deserved.
So he even began to draw away from Yuuki.
Moving forward, they all learned about being able to data share and communicate with the living, but (as shocking as it is) Aiden was never interested. He didn't want to learn about anyone else's life and he damn sure wasn't going to share any of his own past. Also, communicating with the living? Pfft...
What he was interested in learning more about was being able to generate small items. He practiced this a lot on his own, mainly, to change clothes or create pencils and paper. Nothing fancy.
Then came the big explosion...
After everyone was ushered into a void, Aiden wound up moving into the area that Yuuki and Yoosung Dataed Up, and that's where he's been existing, ever since. He's been spending time with the Phantom Guild, but... nothing extremely special has gone on, since. He's learned about Earth holidays? Those are fascinating.
He's gotten fairly attached to Yuuki, much as he would hate to admit it... Though, the biggest thing he'd be taking from this update is the knowledge that all the living got out and are fighting. There are major penalties, too, for him spending over half a year plagued by extreme self-induced loneliness. This is much different from canon, for him. Back on Daeseon, he at least felt useful in some regard. For over half a year, he's been in this state on top of being stuck doing... basically nothing. Which is, in large, due to him staying so willfully separated from basically everyone.
CRAU Update with CW for depression
Your name: Alex
Character and journal: Aiden | coagmentatio
Dates missing: 02/16 - 02/19
Current canon point: Just prior to death in Lockdown.
New canon point: 02/19 in deadland.exe
Ability changes: N/A
History + personality changes: No changes to canon history, and there's not a ton of significant CRAU happenings with him (compared to most everyone else in the simulation). For the most part, this is just an update to what he knows from talking to those he did manage to interact with during his time there (a combination of handwave and me belatedly diving in to establish things).
Aiden quickly let depression get the better of him.
He avoided all meetings, frankly, only keeping updated on anything via talking with Yuuki Mishima (hereafter just Yuuki) whenever the teenager and he hung out together in a dorm room. Aiden didn't bother learning as much as he could have, but he did ask questions to try and avoid staying in total darkness.
Frankly, Yuuki was the closest to a friend he bothered keeping. The only other person he didn't actively avoid is Yoosung, but that was more about the latter's relationship with the former, than it was about Aiden caring a ton about Yoosung... or so he'll claim.
Some things he eventually figured out from doing his own experiments / paying attention / not bothering to eat or sleep for lengthy periods of time are:
- they remain the same as they were when they died (i.e. they'll never get taller, lose or gain weight, grow hair)
- they do not have any true physical needs like for oxygen, sleep, or food
The fact that they could still feel things, however, definitely made it so it did take active paying attention. Anyway...
Learning those things took even more of a toll on his emotional state, thus resulting in even less inclination to interact with the others. Why did anything matter, why bother, etc... It quickly became Aiden's darkest time and the very example of rock bottom for him. And, while he could have bonded with more of the others, his depressed state drew him into believing that being alone, being stuck in that state without a close friend, would also be more than he deserved.
So he even began to draw away from Yuuki.
Moving forward, they all learned about being able to data share and communicate with the living, but (as shocking as it is) Aiden was never interested. He didn't want to learn about anyone else's life and he damn sure wasn't going to share any of his own past. Also, communicating with the living? Pfft...
What he was interested in learning more about was being able to generate small items. He practiced this a lot on his own, mainly, to change clothes or create pencils and paper. Nothing fancy.
Then came the big explosion...
After everyone was ushered into a void, Aiden wound up moving into the area that Yuuki and Yoosung Dataed Up, and that's where he's been existing, ever since. He's been spending time with the Phantom Guild, but... nothing extremely special has gone on, since. He's learned about Earth holidays? Those are fascinating.
He's gotten fairly attached to Yuuki, much as he would hate to admit it... Though, the biggest thing he'd be taking from this update is the knowledge that all the living got out and are fighting. There are major penalties, too, for him spending over half a year plagued by extreme self-induced loneliness. This is much different from canon, for him. Back on Daeseon, he at least felt useful in some regard. For over half a year, he's been in this state on top of being stuck doing... basically nothing. Which is, in large, due to him staying so willfully separated from basically everyone.