Aidan Conlaed Cooper

[aidan cooper]

›› AIDAN CONLAED COOPER

Under The Mask ,

NAME Aidan Conlaed Cooper
NICK NAME Ai, Con, Aid, Coop
AGE 22
GENDER Male
BAND AND POSITION Bass // Sighted South
HOMETOWN Las Vegas
SEXUAL ORIENTATIONRanges somewhere between bisexual and gay… he just doesn’t care all that much… doesn’t worry about that sort of thing.

Persona ,

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES,

strengths

• His writing
  
• His ability to stay calm, almost perfectly calm
  
• His intelligence
  
• His ability to read people very well
  
• His bass playing, honestly
  
• Actually his general music ability is pretty awesome
  
• His acting ability as well… not shitting lying acting, but honest stage sort of acting… it comes in handy too
  
• Shutting everything out and keeping his head and his focus
  
• His logic
  
• He has a set or standards and morals that are very odd but very specific and he sticks to them

weaknesses

• His ability to be absolutely and completely logical… it leads to some not so great stuff
  
• Being generally cheery and goofy is a bit beyond him…
  
• He sucks at making lasting emotional connections or friends
  
• The right amount of chocolate could get him to do almost anything
  
• The right amount of cigarettes could get him to do almost anything
  
• Affection can make him say stupid stuff, as in stuff he would rater keep secret
  
• He craves cuddling, affection like that

SECRETS

• A lot of his past is secret, even from his band mates
  
• His depression… that his band mates know about
  
• The scars on his arms… but the band figured that one out too
  
• The meaning behind the 3 star tattoo’s on his back

DESIRES

• Find someone who makes him happy, not necessarily in a romantic kind of fashion, who he could love and just… be around… someone who isn’t necessarily a band member
  
• Stay with the band
  
• Watch the band make it somewhere, somehow
  
• Survive long enough to see his mother buried
  
• Get better at playing the Bass, learn a new instrument too… maybe something totally weird like the accordion or something
  
• Lean Latin and speak it fluently
  
• All of this is just to keep him going honestly… his heart isn’t really full in anything

FLAWS

• His depression…
  
• His logic
  
• His inability to make many emotional connections with people
  
• His dislike of reveling himself to people
  
• His inability to look into other people’s feelings and consider them… he’s a bit self absorbed, but unintentionally so

CRIMINAL RECORD

• N/A

PERSONALITY TRAITS

• Broken
  
• Musically Talented
  
• Lost
  
• Depressed
  
• Hopeful
  
• Careful
  
• Self Destructive
  
• Not a Big Believer in Love
  
• Intelligent
  
• Quiet
  
• Sweet
  
• Tolerant
  
• Loyal

DETAILED

• Broken
  
  Broken would be the word to describe Aidan. He is terribly broken. He’s damaged and pulled apart and messed up. That’s the plain and simple truth of it. He’s got a broken heart, a broken soul, scars on his arms and really it’s fairly miraculous that he’s still alive. Not entirely together but he’s alive at least. Granted there have been people who’ve been through more then he has been through, but still. His band mates help him out, keep all the pieces together and he loves them for it
  
  
• Musically Talented
  
  Music ahs been his escape form the time he was very, very young. He loves music, all sorts of music. He loves playing it, listening to it, writing it, anything to do with music. Like perhaps he could make the world disappear is he got the music loud enough. And he’s good at it. Not just at the bass, but he can play trumpet and guitar and piano as well. He wants to learn a few other instruments, he’s in the process of learning the violin. He loves music, it’s his life.
  
  
• Lost
  
  Most of the times Aidan really has no true direction. He’s tagging along with his friends like a shadow, hoping the band gets some place for no other reason then… well why not. He’s not as terribly passionate about it as the rest of the band is. He pours his heart into it, that’s for sure, no one could accuse him otherwise. But perhaps it’s not where he was really meant to go. But he ahs no where else. He still feels lost most of the time though, because really he has nowhere else.
  
  
• Depressed
  
  The depression has taken a hold of him in one way or another for a very long time. He’s logical about it though, he really is. Perhaps he’s not a full fledged cynic, but he doesn’t have a lot of motivation for his continued survival and existence. There are plenty of days that he’d rather just not wake up, just stay in the darkness of his dreams. It’s an appealing thought certainly. But he’s functioning and he moves through the day, does his best, tries his hardest and though death and suicide and other such morbid thoughts are always in the back of his mind, he’s able to keep a control on it.
  
  
• Hopeful
  
  He’s still hopeful though. Hopeful for something, he’s not quite sure what. he continues with his day and hasn’t completely lost faith in the human race or in himself. His friends are very key in this as well. He isn’t really a dreamer but he just wants for a better day and thinks and hopes that maybe, somehow, he’ll get that.
  
  
• Careful
  
  He’s a careful sort of person about nearly anything and everything. He watches everything with cautious, curious eyes and thinks far more often then he just feels. He’s not impulsive at all really and whenever he does anything, including high risk sort of stuff, he’s as careful as he can be about it.
  
  
• Self Destructive
  
  He really is self destructive, chasing hell and death and pain and all that. He’s a bit of a masochist, well more then a bit. Scars litter his arms. Those are self inflicted though, two long gashes on each arm and smaller scars everywhere on his forearms. He drinks quite a bit, has been for a long time. Not enough to make him an alcoholic and almost never enough to make him pass out and forget, but just enough to make his brain fuzzy for a little while. Pot is his drug of choice but he’ll try any drug once, he really will. He doesn’t have a lot of sex or anything, but when he does it’s rough. He wants to feel it, wants to make sure it’s real.
  
  
• Not a Big Believer in Love
  
  No, love is just… a four letter word. At least for Aidan. Emotionally sure it exists, but he doubts he’d be able to achieve it properly and have it last. He’s terrible at emotional connections in general and he’s afraid of having his heart broken again. Because not just your loves break your heart. And it really hurts and he’s afraid of it happening again. He’s not a slut but he’ll take casual sex over the trials of a relationship, again just for the fear thing. Friends with benefits is something else he prefers. Still there’s a lot of trust involved in that.
  
  
• Intelligent
  
  To just say that Aidan is smart would an understatement. He’s insanely intelligent. He reads to an insane degree and about anything and everything. He just absorbs information, stores it in his head. He’s full of information, really he is. But his intelligence is a bit of a downfall for him because… well he just knows things, lots of morbid things, lots of bad things about the world. And knowing things… it’s not always a good thing.
  
  
• Quiet
  
  Unlike many other members of his band and rock stars in general, Aidan is very quiet and reserved and calm. He likes staying out of the limelight, though not entirely possible. He’s just calm and even tempered and hardly ever gets obviously angry. He likes just sitting around, staying quiet. He’s not good at being hyper and loud and obnoxious. Even when he drinks.
  
  
• Sweet
  
  He’s a sweet heart, really he is. He’s terribly affectionate with his friends he trusts. He can look into your eyes and make you feel wonderful and important. He adores cuddling, craves the affection. He’ll watch movies with friends and hold them close, hold their hands, plays with their hair. He says sweet things to people he truly likes or loves. He’s good at that
  
  
• Tolerant
  
  Given the fact that he’s very quiet and reserved he certainly has to put up with a lot form his band and form the other bands. People tend to be much louder then he is and he puts up with it. He’s very even tempered and very tolerant. He’s easy going and just deals with things.
  
  
• Loyal
  
  Aidan is good at keeping secrets and is fiercely loyal to his friends. He’ll fight for them, die for them, anything. And that’s not just a pretty phrase, it’s not meaningless, it’s honestly true. His friends are all he has left. He would die for them.
  
  

Looks ,

EYES

His eyes are a really pretty grey blue that he loves, even if they are a little bland and empty. And they are. Not a lot of emotion gets conveyed in his eyes. He doesn’t ten to wear eyeliner or anything… sometimes. When someone else asks him too.

HAIR

His hair is long and he likes it that way. It ranges between earlobe length and shoulder length and that works for him. It’s blond and light brown in streaks and he does enjoy his hair. It makes him look a bit younger as well, which he thinks fits with his personality though.

WEIGHT

Aidan isn’t overly skinny but he’s on the thin sort of side. Maybe lean would be a better description. At any rate he’s around 130 pounds. He fluctuates a little bit, ranging form 120 on bad weeks to 140 if he’s doing okay. It puts him right on that cusp of underweight/normal but he’s never been terribly unhealthy. He’s just slight.

HEIGHT

He’s right about 5 foot 10 inches and he likes that a lot. It’s not too tall, not to short. As far as he’s concerned it’s the perfect height and he adores that.

CELEBRITY CLAIM Michael Pitt

CLOTHING STYLE

His clothing style is a bit… odd. Or eclectic. That’s probably a great word to describe his clothing style. Given the nature of the band and the slight weirdness of it, his on stage clothing is a bit out there. But he doesn’t mind. He’s laid back, will put anything on. And it’s happened before. His band mates tend to be a bunch of weirdos and they’re all younger then him so he’s fit into a few of the girls’ skirts and such. Pictures were taken but they didn’t go anywhere. It was like some freaky friendship thing, but they were all okay with it. When left to his own devices, Aidan prefers comfort over anything else, including flash and such. So mostly it’s no-name jeans and t-shirts. Long sleeves are preferred over all else, no matter what the weather. He doesn’t like to show the scars. When absolutely necessary to wear short sleeves he’ll out on mesh gloves or something to hide his forearms.

Miscellaneous ,

FAMILY His Mother Gene, but he thinks very little of her and he doesn’t know his father. No siblings, thank god.
PETS Nope
LIKES

• Quiet… undisturbed quiet
  
• Anything chocolate or chocolate flavored
  
• Loud music with a bass rhythm you could feel in your chest, in your bones… literally
  
• Any sort of piano music
  
• Fantasy novels
  
• Sci-fi novels
  
• Really any sort of novel that wasn’t sappy romance or ridiculously stupid… fairy tales are okay though
  
• Traveling and being on the road
  
• Just being in a band
  
• Hearing the applause
  
• Rain… listening to the rain
  
• Thunderstorms
  
• The copper smell that happens when there’s blood… a lot of blood
  
• Crime Dramas… and House… and itunes
  
• Youtube
  
• Cuddling with someone you trust, really trust
  
• Knowing things… anything really
  
• Knowing things other people don’t know

DISLIKES

• Stares… it happens often enough
  
• Crazy breathless fan girls… especially if they faint… it’s just ridiculous
  
• People overplaying things, making them seem bigger then they are… in a good way or a bad way
  
• Manipulation
  
• Judgmental people
  
• People telling him how he should live his life… it’s aggravating
  
• People pretending to know more than they really do
  
• Idiots… then again who likes idiots… especially when they’re in your face
  
• Probing questions that he really doesn’t want to answer
  
• People trying to be his friend when they’re not that close
  
• People trying to figure him out
  
• Pity
  
• Stalker behavior
  
• Annoying show tunes (unless he’s singing them and it’s just a stupid stunt or something with friends… then it’s okay)
  
• Overly fluffy stuffed animals (ones that are moderately fluffy are okay.)
  
• Overly sweet things

OTHER

Background ,

BULLETED

• Birth on May 17th
  
• Grew up with only his mother
  
• Age 5 – started public school
  
• Age 6 – picked up first guitar
  
• Age 8 – Started playing the trumpet
  
• Age 9 – learned about sex from watching his mother and her boyfriend… by accident
  
• Age 11 – became acquainted for the first time with people who would later become members of the band
  
• Age 11 – Began playing the Bass
  
• Age 12 – Attempted suicide for the first time
  
• Age 14 – Started high school
  
• Age 14 - Began playing the piano
  
• Age 15 – Got the idea of a band in his head and the heads on the others
  
• Age 17 – Attempted suicide for the second time
  
• Age 18 – Left his apartment and moved in with his friend
  
• Age 19 – Officially started the band with his friends
  
• Age 20 – Got his star tattoos
  

DETAILED

Aidan grew up no a rather broken home with only his mother and no one else. He survived though, diving into his books and his writing and his music. His mother always had some boyfriend or another and Aidan made a point of avoiding them. A few got a little too… handy… with him. Even young he knew they shouldn’t be doing that. Nothing to bad, no rape or anything, but it was still an uncomfortable environment to grow up in, especially wit his mother having sex with these men in the room next to him. He was never particularly happy growing up but he made a point of staying, as well as he could, no the side of good. He got a job young, under the table, shit money, but it paid for his lunches.

Growing up was tough in a Vegas public high school but he kept at it. He got into the high classes, studied all he could. He didn’t know where he was going after school, he doubted it mattered. He was always a bit depressed, came with growing up in a hopeless situation with very little motivation. Age 12 marked his first suicide attempt. He didn’t cut his wrists deep enough and woke up, sticky with blood and woozy but otherwise alright. He cleaned up, didn’t tell his mother, and pondered over it.

He loved music and all spare money he had went to furthering his ability to play or listen to write. It was a consuming thing. He never made many friends but those he had he kept. He was still slipping and even with the idea of a band and playing music loosely with his group of friends (he was the oldest, always the oldest) he was still slipping. He was falling further and further into the darkness and at age 17 he attempted suicide again. This time it might have worked. But his best friend caught him, cleaned him up, bandaged the new gashes on his arm and kept him safe.

The music and his friends were keeping him alive. He got fed up with his mother and he uncaring ness and moved out of his apartment at 18 and in with his friend, the same friend who found him bloodied on the floor and saved him from suicide without taking him to the hospital. The band, the real band, was wonderful. It kept him alive, kept him relatively sane, kept everything together as best as it could be.

That’s what it was for him, a survival and coping mechanism. It wasn’t like his love his passion even if it was his life. He always gave his whole soul, broken and messed up as it was, to the music. It didn’t seem right to give any less. And he loved his band mates, his friends and even though he’s the oldest, he’s still this broken up kid, hardly older, mentally, then a kid in many respects. He left his mother, hadn’t spoken to her, got his star tattoos on his back to remind himself of his suicide attempts. He moved on, stayed in the past, all at once and lived in the music.

Puppet Master,

YOUR NAME Melly
AGE 18
GENDER Female
YOU FOUND US AT can’t remember… probably an advert…
THAT ONE SET OF WORDS applecider

[milo martin]

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