Aaron Stefflin (Cataclysmic Gerosha)

Aaron Stefflin is the main protagonist of Dozerfleet Comics Sims 4 comic Blood Over Water, part of The Gerosha Chronicles. He is mostly a direct analog to his Earth-G5 counterpart, from the original miniseries.

Early life
Aaron and Mark were both born August 9th of 1985. They led unassuming lives together and apart at various points; hearing about most of the madness happening in the world outside their bubble of an existence near Detroit, yet never imagining they'd be dragged into a conflict with it. While Mark became interested in the business route early one, Aaron became more interested in music industry and video production

Blood Over Water
Aaron is friends with Chris Kennal, by virtue of Chris being Mark's best friend and coworker at Sleet Mountain. Aaron has also befriended Monica Shelly in a biology class the previous spring semester at Ferris. However, he does not initially know about Monica's relationship with Vance Lingolin, another Sleet Mountain employee. He is dating Meredith Celestine, an aspiring Christian contemporary / country singer whose songs emphasize theology over emotion. He decides to pursue the Music Industry Management major at Ferris, so that he can worm his way into a position of influence in the industry and improve Meredith's chances of success. His relationship with her has a direct impact on both his faith and on his personality.

He is first introduced at the Sleet Mountain company party held at Crooked Lake, when he is tricked into going on a boat ride with Chris and Mark to another part of the lake where drunken college girls are hosting a party of their own. Aaron chooses to say in the boat, while Mark and Chris venture ashore in search of sexual conquests. He tries to advise Mark, serving as a sort of conscience. Alas, Mark proves to be careless and disregards a lot of Aaron's warnings. While Mark dresses more like a stuffy businessman, it is Aaron who ironically has the more uptight personality.

Aaron also helps Meredith and her mother Wanda load up their moving van, as the latter two decide to leave Big Rapids permanently and move back to Nashville. He offers moral support to Meredith when her memories of being assaulted by record producer Tobey Moffin haunt and discourage her. He later gets involved in offering moral support to Monica when he becomes the only one who believes her theory that Vance was murdered by the other employees at Sleet Mountain. However, he does get involved directly in helping Monica prove the case against Clyde and the company until after he begins to have suspicions of his own that Mark may have also been murdered.

It is from that point onward that Aaron and Monica make it their personal mission to solve the mysteries surrounding their loved ones' disappearances. However, his doing so leads to a months-long game of cat-and-mouse between him and the George Lawence / Kyle Tugrass duo. His efforts culminate in a showdown in which he and Monica are both captured, about to be hauled off to an execution spot. It is in this moment that Chris is forced to decide which team he's really on. When Chris chooses to betray George and Kyle and leaves Aaron and Monica alive, they go their separate ways. Monica gives Aaron her findings, and he travels alone with the evidence to see Meredith. Meredith and Wanda then help Aaron hide from any further pursuit from Sleet Mountain or Gleeful-N'-Young. Meanwhile, they let Aaron give his evidence against Clyde to the FBI. The FBI, IRS, and EPA quickly descend on Sleet Mountain - only to discover that Clyde has vanished. Aaron considers transferring to a school not far from Nashville, so he can start his life over. He and Meredith eventually marry, and he gains a friend in the form of Ashley Phillips after Chris rescues her from a Gleeful-N'-Young brothel.

Personality
Aaron's miniseries personality is expanded on, showing the depths of his survival skills as well as elaborating more on his religious and moral convictions. He is also shown to have a romantic interest, albeit one who lives a distance away from him. Meredith Celestine is named after Meredith Doyle, the same former hallmate from Brophy/McNerney that the Dozerfleet founder named Ciem cameo character Merdie Dolon after. She is given a personality somewhat modeled after that of Megan Barker, with her appearance modeled on Taylor Swift. It was seen as necessary that Aaron be given some sort of romantic pursuit, especially to show how his choices in how to handle romantic leads differs from those of Mark. Some more background is also given to his friendship with Monica. He may not approve of Monica's past activities with Vance, but he is sympathetic to her cause of bringing justice to those she believes are responsible for his disappearance. When Mark also goes missing, they have a mutual quest to expose what's really happening at Sleet Mountain.

Aaron is shown to be nervous, cautious, and otherwise a friend to most living things. He is not amused by Mark's and Chris' "player" antics, especially during the beach party on Crooked Lake. However, he does his best not to appear "uppity" and self-righteous about his disapproval. He is gracious when dealing with Monica, and explaining why his path of love with Meredith is superior to her path with Vance. Due to how kind he is, as well as her own openness to learn from mistakes, she becomes very accepting of him. They only part ways as close friends when they decide that they must split up if they want to protect their families whilst continuing their quest to take down Clyde.

Like his miniseries counterpart, Aaron is reluctant to show even a tinge of malice towards any living creature. That includes the very Sleet Mountain villains he feels a need to expose to the FBI, even when said villains are in the throes of trying to kill him. Aaron's clothing style, in spite being more uptight than Mark, is much more casual. Mark has a larger playboy personality, but still prefers to dress up.

Development
Other than the above-mentioned changes, primarily superficial details were altered to make it more obvious that Aaron and Mark chose two contrasting lifestyles. Aaron is given a love interest, and doesn't stutter as often in this version. He is also better about controlling his weight than Mark, whereas they had identical physiques in the original. He is otherwise not altered that greatly from the miniseries, though he is portrayed as using more common sense. To compensate, his adversaries are also made smarter. This forces him to still rely on luck to get out of several situations.