Aiden OCollins - HPM

Name: Aiden O’Collins

Age: 32

Gender: Man

Pokemon: Ampharos

Height: 5’6”

Bodystyle: Short and stocky, built to take a hit and to give them out.

Birthday: March 30th

Home Island: Affection Atoll

Personality:

Generally Aiden is a cheerful sort, going out of his way to meet and poke at new people and customers alike. He is a simple man, preferring actions over fancy words. Never one to fear butting into peoples conversation or gathering, always wanting to be a part of the action.

Its fairly easy to rile him up however, as he is quick to temper if his stature is mentioned, or in the defense of someone who needs it. He never shies away from coming to the defense of friends and strangers alike, a habit that often earns him a bloody nose and a black eye but leaves him grinning having always enjoyed a good tussle.

Aiden could be considered a bit of a flirt, though he flirts with everyone equally, often just to see the look on their face. He loves finding peoples buttons and getting under their skin still being very much a child at heart.

History:

Born in a small fishing town Aiden is no stranger to living near the sea, and cooking with its bounty. He was the youngest of three, in a family that barely got by. His elder brother was destined to inherit his father's small fishing boat, and their families only livelihood. His elder sister married young, to a husband who could support her and rarely looked back at the poor family she came from.

That left Aiden often staying home with his mother, while his brother and father were out trying to earn their daily bread. Even then Aden was a cheerful child, happy to help his mother with the cleaning and laundry, and overjoyed when he got to start help her in the kitchen.

Above all else Aiden loved to cook, and to learn new ways to treat the fish pokemon that was their main staple. By the time he was 18 he knew he wanted to be a chef, but also knew that his family could never help him with that dream, it was already straining them enough to have him still living at home with only odd jobs on the docks for income.

So Aiden began his life as a professional vagrant. Working for his travel fair, and stowing away or hitchhiking when that wasn’t an option, Aiden started to travel the world. Stopping in different towns and nations for months at a time, doing odd jobs in any restaurant that would take him to get by and learning the local cuisine Aiden began his study.

He traveled like that for 13 years, not even he knows how many places he has been, as after a time they all started to bleed together leaving only the recipes and techniques he learned along the way.

He would still be traveling had he not been found stowing away and tossed out in Rocollto. Aiden took it as a sign, that it may be time to settle down and set up shop, and figured this little island chain was as good as any he had been to before.

Job: Food Cart Owner

Shop Name: O’Collins Fish Cart

Menu Items: Seasonal fish themed dishes.

Dog/Cat Race: Litleo        

Dog/Cat’s name: Cat

Talents:

Cooking, in several varieties, though he prefers to deal with fish and other seafood.

Spending more time with his mother he learned a lot about mending clothing and basic needle work, so he is capable of maintaining his own clothing.

He is comfortable in the water, and a decent swimmer, though he dosn’t like deep ocean.

Aiden is a pretty fair fishermen.

He is relatively good at sailing, and working around boats

He knows a variety of different knots and ties he learned during his sailing.

Having roughed it a good deal of his life he has decent outdoor survival skills.

Funfacts:

Aiden got his dark hair from his mother, the rest of his family has pale blond hair like his father.

Though he enjoys swimming, and is fairly good at it he developed a fear of swimming in the deep ocean after he was attacked by a sharpedo.

He generally dislikes red meats, preferring fish or poultry pokemon.

He lives in his food cart, parking it in a vacant lot in Affection Atoll, sleeping under the sky in good weather or inside the cart on worse days.