Character Declaration: Aiden Costello

[Thegilger]

MC Username: mrgilger

Name: Aiden John Costello
   
Traits and Political Views:
- Democratic Socialist (Skeptical of the Swopian Union)
- Trade Union advocate
- Journalist
- Keenly interested in issues of social justice, particularly issues of economic justice
- 30 years old

Some goals:
- Inform the people
- Achieve Socialism in One Country
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Background:
Aiden John Costello was born in what would eventually become Faru in 1893 to Reina Milosevic and Roger Costello. His father was a first generation immigrant to the region from Sturmhafen in Gilgeria. Their family fled to the region in 1868 after Otis McHale, then Minister-President of Landenburg, engaged in what became known as the Hoyabembe Massacre, in which Arnold Costello, Aiden's Grandfather and a major union leader in Sturmhafen , was killed in order for Otis to seize complete power of in the region and usher in Gilgerian unification.

Costello started his journalism career in 1914, covering the Great War while also working as a laborer and agitating for trade unions, and founded his own paper in 1919 following Faru's independence.

Around that time, Otis McHale's Grandnephew, John McHale arrived in Faru and made a name for himself as a political activist. Aiden would ultimately follow this new McHale's political journey from his meteoric rise to the Presidency until his shock defeat at the hands of Priest Viktor and the Liberty City conspiracy. Now, Aiden must seek to make a name for himself outside of McHale's shadow, seeking to enter socialist politics and do the things McHale was never able or willing to do.

EDIT: After rising first to Treasurer and then Premier within the First Labor Government, and after a stint of inactivity owing to a depressive episode (vacation), Costello's legislative agenda has become clear; reforms all around. Electoral, Economic, the whole nine. He's also become interested in the history of Providence and asserting Providence's unique identity on the basis of it being a model of Social Acceptance that can be embedded into broader Farun culture.