Hiya gang! It's Kim here bringing in my second (and likely final) character to our little posse! I'll try to keep this short, but I also want you all to know who he is since he's one of the few people in game you won't know anything about originally. So excuse me if I ramble, but at least you don't have to read his profile!
This here is Aden Bennett from Chicago, another Warbler to add to the pack, and he is a workaholic - except, you know, he's in school. He's been on the soccer team since he tried out in his Freshman year, captained the team since the beginning of his Junior year, has been an active member of the Photography Club & Yearbook team since starting at Dalton, worked as editor-in-chief of the Yearbook & Newspaper (The Guardian? I think the paper has been deemed?) his Junior year, and has now taken on the position of editor for the upcoming year. All of that added to Warbler practice, piano rehearsal, & 2 summer classes makes for a happy Aden!
He's a trained pianist with fancy finger skills (started playing when he was three) and he's known to have his camera everywhere he goes, so if you have a Warbler? It's very likely that they are used to him whipping it out and catching all of their crazy fun! They're also likely used to him carrying his soccer ball around with him and dribbling if they're outside & talking, because Aden typically has to be moving to be content. He's very pragmatic and is constantly testing the knowledge of others - including his teachers - but he honest to goodness doesn't mean to be rude, he's just my little sponge brain boy that has to know all the information he can possibly get. To counter the fact that it seems sometimes like he likes to argue, he's got a great sense of humor and a huge amount of charisma, making him almost magnetic in the personal appeal department.
Despite his headstrong demeanor and his focus on all things academic & extracurricular, his friends would know very well that he can easily be pulled off to do something fun and forget about school work, sports & editing. He gets teased (and sometimes offends people, quite frankly) with his realist point of view, but he's certainly not any sort of daft and can pick up on it quickly when he's hurt someone's feelings or made them down on themselves because he pointed out the the more practical sides of their situation. Aden always has a logical explanation for something, and as much as this can mean that he'll never let you off thinking that something's going to be easier than it will, it also means that he can find the good parts of someone's personality and struggles and help them focus on that. The sarcastic quips he often spouts out almost always revolve around comicality and are rarely ever used to dampen the mood. Other than that, he's known for almost always being able to turn a disagreement between friends around, his flirty wink at the girls, and a smile that almost makes him look like the most humble person on the planet.
He has managed to snag a job along with Blaine as a performer at Cap'n Jack's Hot Summer Nights where he does vocals and crazy jazz piano recreating Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire"! He's got that, four hours of school (he's taking some science classes so that his entire summer year doesn't have to be focused around Sports Medicine and he can still take the piano & language classes he wants to do!), self induced physical training to get ready for soccer season, and hour long phone calls at times to his family in Chicago, but all the rest of his time is UP FOR GRAPS, PEOPLE.
Seriously though, don't hate me for trying to explain my complex little Warbler.
Oh, and he's straight. Because we've gotta even out the numbers with this boy school, dangitall.