Lynch, Aiden Orvall

[Aiden Lynch]

AIDEN ORVALL LYNCH

Name- Aiden Orvall Lynch
Nicknames- Aiden, Aidz, Orrie
Age- Twenty Four
Gender- Male

Face Claim - Van Hansis

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Position- Patient
Patient class- Medium Profile


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Skin tone-Generally quite pale
Hair color- Dark blonde
Eye color- Brown
Height- 5' 11
Weight- Average
Tattoos- None
Piercings- None
Scars- One on his lower right side that is about 4 inches long.


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Disorders-

• Wrongly diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at 19
  
• PTSD
  
• Re-diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder at 22
  

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Personality- On a normal day Aiden is just a normal guy who is friendly but shy, kind but quiet. He could pass for ‘just another guy’ and looking at him, you probably wouldn’t think that there was anything wrong with him. If anything, he looks a little bit down and lost in his thoughts, but he’ll pretty much always have a smile for anyone who stops by to say hi. He takes some pride in his appearance and keep himself neat and tidy – often looking younger than his age. Example here.

However, Aiden has Dissociative Identity Disorder, meaning that there is ‘another person’ inside of him, and that other person is the complete opposite to Aiden himself. The other person isn’t kind and quiet, he tries to be overpowering and possessive, often making threats to get what he wants. It’s quite easy to spot when the changeover has happened because his whole body language changes from person to person. Aiden himself is usually quite introverted, whereas when the other holds a very sure and confident appearance, even though he lacks basic hygiene sometimes. Example here.

At first, the other side of him would only appear for a few hours at a time and with quite a long time in between shows, but gradually he began to appear more and more regularly, and his personality became stronger and more dangerous, which is why Aiden was admitted to Black Forest Asylum in the first place. As much as Aiden hated it, he began to see the effects caused by his ‘alter ego’ and realized that it had been for the best that he’d been admitted. Over time, however, the other person seemed to be appearing more regularly and for longer lengths of time, and that person is not only a danger to others, but also to Aiden himself.

Now, there seems to be equal parts Aiden and his opposite, and there is no telling when the other will appear. Usually though, whenever the other side of him does something bad which results in someone getting hurt, or something getting damaged, it seemed to almost instantly revert back to Aiden, leaving him to deal with the consequences of what his counterpart has done. So, it is no secret why Aiden often seems reclusive and depressed, always taking the fall for what the other person inside of him has done.

Likes-

• Friends/making friends
  
• Conversation
  
• Reading
  
• Classic/show music
  
• Outdoors
  
• Hanging out
  
• Being himself/in control
  
• Visitors
  His alternate:
  
• Loud music
  
• Being in control
  
• Causing trouble
  
• Escaping

Dislikes-

• Losing control of his body
  
• His parents
  
• Finding out what the other side of him has done
  
• Violence
  
• Being locked away even though he knows it’s necessary
  
• Remembering the past
  His alternate:
  
• Black Forest Asylum
  
• Classical music
  
• Peace/calm
  
• Not getting out
  
• People trying to control him
  
• Aiden

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History- Aiden was born in Baltimore, MD, into a family who were plagued with problems. For years, Aiden's father had battled with gambling and drug abuse, and he'd found himself deep in debt from an early stage, and no matter what he did he could never find a way to get the money that he needed and his frustration grew - a frustration that he took out on his girlfriend, although she would never admit it to anyone.

When she fell pregnant her parents had insisted that the two of them abide by traditional standards and get married, which if just what they did - and only because her parents were willing to pay for the whole thing. At that point, they were unaware with the problems faced in his life and the gambling and drug addictions that he held. He himself hoped to use her parents money to pay of his debts but once they were married, her parents quickly discovered the monster underneath him and, when their daughter refused to leave him, they wanted nothing more to do with either of them.

Truth was, Aiden's mother was too scared to leave him, afraid of what he might do to her and her unborn child if she attempted to run, although she told her parents that she stayed out of love, and for their child. No one knew the truth.

When Aiden was born his father finally realized just how much a child cost to raise and so his frustrations grew - paying off his gambling debts, feeding his drug addiction, and paying for a child, wife, and home, was more than he could handle. He turned to more gambling to try and pay everything off but it only succeeded in making things worse.

His wife took the brunt of the fall and was regularly pushed around, shouted at, and hit, eventually growing into all-out beatings. Aiden spent his youngest years watching from the shadows as his mother was thrown around by the man he knew he was supposed to love as a father, but never could. His only escape from the nightmare of his young life was the recess of his imagination.

Because of his fathers problems and the situation they were in, Aiden was rarely given the chance to interact with other children and spent much of his time creating his own friends in his mind. But of all of them, there was one who he considered to be a guardian angel to himself. He'd fall asleep to the image of his guardian friend in his mind - a strong, brave friend who would stand up to Aiden's father and protect his mother, never showing weakness or cowardice.

It was only when Aiden turned 7 that his father first turned his hand to his only child, and the blow shocked him like nothing before. Over all the years his father had never turned to him in anger and had saved all that up for his mother, but then something changed. It scared Aiden to know that he could end up receiving the same pain his mother went through weekly - sometimes daily, and his fears weren't wrong.

By the time his was 10 Aiden lived in constant fear, always hiding as far away from his father as he could get, never wanting to add another bruise to the myriad he already owned. Like always, his escape was found in the creations of his imagination, as they were the only 'people' who could make him forget his real life. He could picture himself anywhere that he wanted to - open beaches, deep forests, high mountains... all the places he'd seen in books that his mother had shown him.

When Aiden was 13 the fighting between his parents was at the worst he had ever known, and the bruises and cuts on his own body never left. Night after night he would hear his mother begging and screaming and his fathers unceasing shouts of her to shut up and take what she deserved, until one night it all ended in silence, rather than the usual sound of the door slamming and his mother sobbing. Scared, Aiden fled back to his room and buried himself under his covers, refusing to believe that anything had happened differently that any night before.

The whole of the next day he stayed alone in his room, letting his constant, trusting friend talk to him and soothe him, reassure him that everything was alright and that his mother was simply sleeping off the pain and would be in to see him later. There was nothing to worry about. His friend was strong, confidant - full of promises that everything would get better and that no matter what happened, one day Aiden would escape from under his father's roof and be free to live the pain-free life that he should have had.

After two days Aiden couldn't stay in his room alone any longer and despite what he tried to make himself believe, he knew something must have happened for his mother not to have come to him in all that time, and he stole downstairs when the house was quiet.

Things were worse that he'd thought and he didn't know what to do when he saw his mothers broken and abuse body sprawled on the floor, no doubt where his father had left her after the screaming had stopped. She was cold like marble and, at 13, Aiden had no idea what to do. So he did nothing, not even leave.

For what could have been hours, or could have been days, Aiden sat in that room, just staring at his mother, unable to even begin to comprehend the horror that had occurred and he never once let the word 'dead' enter his mind - he refused to believe it even though he knew it was true.

In all the time that passed there was no sign of Aiden's father and no other movement inside the small house. Rumor had it that his father skipped down - smuggled himself out of the country on a cargo ship to escape what he'd done along with his debts, but Aiden was never told for sure.

At some point, one of the neighbors from the nearby houses called the police, reporting an unusual smell that was beginning to emanate from the house where Aiden's mother lay dead. It was only then when the police, fire, and ambulance teams all appeared at his door and barged in that Aiden finally began to let himself understand everything that had happened.

Spending time in the hospital, Aiden was made to talk to every kind of psychiatrist and professional that there was on offer but he refused to speak about his life and what had happened, so Aiden was eventually taken to a foster center, where he was quickly fostered out by a kind couple who were so nice to him that he didn't even know how to react. All his life he'd been faced with hatred and pain, so their gently kindness scared him - scared him enough that he'd try and lash out and shout at them instead but they never lost their temper with him, only talked softly and calmly too him, confusing him more.

At some point Aiden gradually began to calm down - he stopped his shouting and violence, he accepted the love that they offered, talked to his therapist, even started a home schooling program with a tutor his foster parents brought in. Over the next few years the bruises stayed away, the memories faded, and he lost his dependence of his imagination, knowing that he could trust and rely on those around him in his life to keep him safe and to listen to him when he needed someone to talk to.

Between the ages of 13 and 18 Aiden became the most level-headed and kind person that anyone could meet and it was hard to believe he came from the background and history that he did. Aiden loved his foster parents so much that they adopted him when he was 15, and he even called them 'mom and dad' because they meant so much to him. They'd completely changed his life around and gave him the life he never dreamed he'd have. Things weren't perfect, but compared to his past? He couldn't imagine anything better.

It was when Aiden hit late 18, early 19, that people began to notice slight changes in him, and his mood seemed to vary somewhat and his personality change slightly with his moods, though he was more often his normal self, with just odd phases of difference. His parents passed it off as nothing, until he started claiming that he couldn't remember what happened in the times when he 'changed'.

A trip to the doctors later they were told Aiden simple had a case of Bi-polar disorder, that that it was probably nothing to worry about, and that combined with the trauma of his past it was probably triggered by an onslaught of PTSD, and nothing more.

Aiden and his adoptive parents had no choice but to believe the doctor's diagnosis although as the years passed they began to question it more and more. It just didn't add up with all the information that they read online about the condition - especially not his memory loss, and the fact that the 'manic' phase seemed to equal his worst mood/personality changes.

Finally, at 22 he was re-diagnosed by a professional who claimed that the doctor who first saw him had been very, very wrong, and that Aiden in fact suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder caused by everything that had happened in his childhood, and he was told that chances were that the condition would get worse as time passed. The professional wasn't wrong.

Before Aiden reached his 23rd birthday his parent had decided that it would be for the best if he went to stay long term at Black Forest Asylum. They reassured him that they admitted him there with the best of intentions and that no matter what happened, they would always love him and they would always visit him as frequently as possible, and keep him up to date with everything that was going on, but that hopefully with the nurses and medications provided by the Asylum he would get better and be able to return home to them at some point in the future.

Aiden didn't like it but he trusted his parents and stayed their regardless, trying to make the most of a bad situation. It was only as his condition worsened and he began to see the effects and damages caused by the 'alternate' being inside him that he realized that his parents really had made the right choice, and because of that person, Black Forest Asylum was where he belonged.

As those around him began to tell him just what his 'alternate' was like Aiden began to pick up on some key things that sounded familiar to him, and his memory returned to his childhood and his constant angel who'd stayed with him. This...'other self'? It sounded as if his inner angel had gone rogue...

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