Player: Nikolai

Character Name: Ayden Kishmir

Age: 20

Sex: Male

Species: Corvid (Or "Treejay", Rufous Treepie / Blue Jay mix.)

Height/Weight: 5'0" & 120 lbs.

Social Status: Outer Class

Physical Description: Ayden has a unique feather pattern due to his
genetics. Grey and black feather pattern with specks of blue on his
head, and a varied black streak which runs across his eyes and back
to the edge of the small upward crest of feathers on his head. His
front is a dirty mix of brown and white feathers, his back a dark
brown with a white and blue strip running down the middle. His wings
and tail feathers are gone due to violence directed toward him as a
child leaving nothing but indents in his plumage where his wings and
tail once were. His legs are a dark brown, fading to black. He also
has black lower legs and feet with small, yet sharp claws. He
generally wears a jacket that he's had for years. He's kept it since
just after his forced amputations of his wings and tail, and so it
has many patches and some new rips which he fixes when he can. He
also wears a thick pair of pants and tough boots to keep his feet
warm.

Background: Ayden was born to two parents who were hoping to become
UniClass citizens through bearing a child. They were not keen on
becoming some new species, and feared any genetic alterations, but
they hoped that rumors of child-bearing based decisions were still
being made. Unfortunately, they were too hopeful, and blinded by
false information. His father, a Rufous Treepie and his mother, a
Blue jay, were turned away after his birth, due to them both being
within the same Familae taxonomy - still a same-species couple,
according to the Ministry. (Ayden later found out this claim, one
made by his father, was false. Though the event may have been a
severe, unexplained, hallucination. Either way, he now believes it
was due to his family's religious past).

His father turned to alcoholism, and his mother slowly died of
depression and sickness. Around the age of ten, Ayden was walking
the streets, trying to find his way home after his father had
dragged him to a bar and had proceeded to drink himself to
unconsciousness. A few of his father's friends told Ayden to go home
and they would take care of it. The Avian assumed his father was a
goner. On his way home, he was attacked by a gang of purebred wolves
who harassed him and kicked him around for a while, hating him for
being a bird, an avian. Whether they mistook him for a member of
another gang, or if they hated him due to racism is something he
still wonders about today. They dragged him to the basement of an
old abandoned warehouse, and took his clothes from him. They tied
him to a table and removed his wings and tail with a dull knife.
They burned his own body parts in front of him in a barrel and left
him for dead. He lay there, dying, until, luckily, an hour later; a
kindly old vixen found him and rescued him. She cared for him until
his wounds healed.

She left one day, without reason or notice, leaving him nothing but
the jacket he wears now today, some mushroom spores, and a note that
simply described how to care for the mushrooms. Ayden took what he
could, and has, to this day, been a solo survivor. Along the way
he’s picked up some primitive mechanical and technological skills.
Ayden used to want out of Einheit. He used to hate living in the
city. One night when he unwittingly broke into Meltharas's
apartment, he found himself face to face with death. The man who
nearly killed him was the one who probably saved his life. After
that night, after he realized that he could have been mislead by his
father's words and his own anger, he grew less bitter toward the
Uniclass and the Ministry.

Not too long after that, he befriended a Hybrid by the name of
Czeska, a young convert to the Uniclass who only continued to
further his positive, rather than negative feelings about the
Hybrids. Even after a frightening encounter with a Minister for
being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he still maintained a
more positive view. It wasn't until he began to hallucinate and
dream that he eventually discovered, or so he believes, what really
happened.

In the weeks he was having his hallucinations and schizophrenic
fits, all brought on by what seemed like nothing, he "discovered"
the truth. The avian wandered his way deep into the Undercity where
he had a revelation of sorts. Ayden believes, though it all could
have been nothing but hallucination, that he saw his father. The
elderly man died despite, even if it was a strong hallucination,
which after days of traveling with little food or water, it very
well may have been, though Ayden doesn't think so. Now the bird
believes he knows his true past.

Ayden had, after this, began to have feelings for a uniclasser,
Czeska, who had been kind to him on many occasions. Quickly he fell
in love, sooner than he perhaps even expected. Upon one of Czeska's
visits a ministry raid took place down the hall from Ayden's
apartment. The Ministers went room to room, and when they arrived at
Ayden's, he was found, with her and one other hybrid, posing a
dangerous situation not only for Ayden, but for Czeska. After the
encounter, Ayden was ordered to get in the queue for hybridization,
and thus he complied, even though he had been thinking of doing it
for Czeska anyway.

Months after applying for Hybridization, Ayden was one of the
thousands upon thousands of citizens who witnessed the images of the
hacked victory day video broadcast which depicted the six fingered
'god king' of Argent City announcing that he was alive, and images
of Ministers firing howlers into the city. Whether this was faked,
or whether this was real, Ayden believed it. In this, he felt betrayed. Any
and all positive feelings about the ministry were cast into darkness, and the
memories from his past came flooding back again, with all the
negativity they carried. The bird fled, for better or worse, into
the Undercity where he now lives.

Ayden has been under-ground for some time now, and has been
exploring a cavern system that he is mainly utilizing to grow mushrooms for a
cause that he hopes will prove fruitful in the long run, though what the cause is
is something he reveals only to those closest to him. He does one day hope to
create a better world for the purebreds of Einheit, and his clashing opinion of unity
may one day get him killed.

Personality: Despite his hard past, Ayden has always kept an up-beat
attitude toward life. He's prided himself on his self-sufficiency
and his independence as well. He wants to help those around him as
well, to help the purebreds as he was once helped. He was hurt too,
but his forgiving nature, and sympathy for the purebreds, is enough
to keep him going. He stays as invisible as possible, and does good
things silently so people are unaware of his activity. Of course, he
does it without regard for his own well-being.Ayden's feelings
towards the Uniclass have grown more sour than ever. Despite his
forgiving nature, he now can only brood about the pain the Ministry
has brought down on the city. He feels bad for those who so blindly
fall into the hands of the Ministry, though he tries to keep his
opinions, and hatred, to himself.

Weapons/Equipment:
-A basic handgun that he carries only in the undercity.
- A couple of Combat Knives for self defense.
- A toolkit filled with wrenches, screwdrivers, wire strippers, etc.
for tinkering with robotics and mechanical equipment.
- A bag for the tools and food/provisions for explorations and
scavenging outings.
- Multiple ropes, and a few hooks for climbing or maneuvering for
deeper/ more complex expeditions.
-An old yellow-bulb electric lantern that he generally hangs from a
staff in order to light his way through the Undercity.