JetCity · Emberwake · Vanguard · Founder

Aiden Rios

The first ember. Instinct-driven, first-strike, allergic to waiting — he once walked into an operation uninvited because someone inside it needed saving, and the Collective's founders decided the only thing to do with a man like that was make him one of them. South Side Chicago, same streets as Tank Blackwood. Touch-heavy, protective, reads a room by scent before anyone's said a word.

Founding bond with Elias Ward — non-romantic, non-negotiable, predates Emberwake itself. One doesn't come without the other.

Scent: dark spice, heated amber, smoke.