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. It was around late 2006 that Aaron decided to leave behind his community college, and to start attending Ferris State in Big Rapids. From there, he met Meredith Celestine in class, and the two of them quickly fell in love.

He also tried to make time to be close to Mark, who had taken a job at the Sleet Mountain bottling plant in nearby Stanford. However, he was unsure of Mark's best friend Chris. All the same, Aaron would sometimes visit places with Chris and Mark - mildly annoyed by their recurring debauched antics.

Meeting Monica
Aaron befriends Monica Shelly in a biology class in the spring semester at Ferris in 2009. The two of them bond over a fascination with true crime shows - unaware they'd soon be living in a crime drama themselves. He works on a project with her, as well as her other teammate Vance Lingolin. Unbeknownst to Aaron, Vance was also a part-time employee at Sleet Mountain.

He also doesn't immediately put together that Monica was using the biology class secondarily as an opportunity to find new casual sex partners. She tries to suggest at one point to Aaron her willingness to sleep with him; but he turns the gesture down because of his faith and morals. She respects him for it, and the two remain good friends.

Supporting Meredith
Meredith's Christian contemporary / country music singer aspirations become a major source of bonding between her and Aaron, given that her songs emphasize theology over emotion. After three years at Ferris, Aaron becomes to Wanda like the son she never had. She drops hints that Aaron and Meredith should get married. In the fall of 2008, while Meredith was reading up the news on some gal on campus that got committed to the Gum Arabic Mental Hospital in Texas; Aaron showed up and surprised Meredith with a ring - to which she said yes.

Aaron uses his Music Industry Management major at Ferris to put himself into a position where he can one day be Meredith's producer - or her agent. His relationship with her has a direct impact on both his faith and on his personality, further cementing both.

The tubing party
Aaron attends a tubing party near the Muskegon River in late August, right before the beginning of his final semester at Ferris. 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. He leaves when Chris and Mark start ignoring him and the tubing fest completely, to find drunken college girls to seduce. He is almost sexually assaulted by a drunken Vanessa Fogsdorn, who comes on to him very strongly. However, he is rescued when Mark steps in and offers to sleep with Vanessa instead - and she gladly obliges.

Aaron later gets to help 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. While there, he meets a young Candi Flippo, as Meredith's 4H friend Erin has arrived with Candi, Miriam, and Marina to assist with the move. He offers moral support to Meredith when her memories of being assaulted by record producer Tobey Moffin haunt and discourage her.

Vance goes missing
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 doesn't immediately 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. As Monica becomes obsessed with the case, and depressed that Vance is gone, she turns to her backup friend with benefits Hank Froli for comfort. Aaron advises Monica that sleeping with Hank is not the answer to her grief; but she ignores his advice.

It is from that point onward that Aaron and Monica make it their personal mission to solve the mysteries surrounding their loved ones' disappearances. Aaron pursues every lead he can find on the case; but his endeavors lead him to an unpleasant confrontation with Kyle Tugrass and George Lawence. He escapes, and tries to get help from Chris - unaware of Chris' own involvement in Mark's disappearance. As Aaron tries to inform Chris that he believes something afoul is afoot within the company, and that Chris should leave; Aaron inadvertently cues in Chris to where he and Monica will be that evening to investigate.

Chris hatches a plan to betray Clyde in that moment, and pretends to go along with George and Kyle in capturing Aaron and Monica at Ferris State. Aaron, not realizing that Chris is pulling an act, pleads for his life and Monica's. They are taken to an execution spot near Lot 47 in Big Rapids. However, Chris knocks them out rather than shoot them. He waits for George and Kyle to let their guard down, and genuinely shoots them next. Aaron awakens next to Monica, and the two discover that Chris has left them a note - as well as increasingly incriminating evidence against Clyde and Sleet Mountain. The duo in the field are appalled to learn about Gleeful-N'-Young having a role in Sleet Mountain, meaning that the abduction of Annabelle Shelly and the Sleet Mountain murders were linked.

Aaron flees to Tennessee with. Monica gives Aaron her findings, and he travels alone with the evidence to see Meredith, while Monica stays behind in Big Rapids. 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. However, a corrupt FBI agents tips Clyde off that these agencies are coming. They arrive, 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.

Sodality: Instigation
As Halal Affadidah became more aggressive about establishing his Ameristan prison state, he gave several the chance to register as Toklisanans, Netheeli, or Chimericans, and flee - or risk brutal life under his caliphate. Later, Affadidah would pull a bait-and-switch, denying registered Toklisanans the chance to escape Ameristan. Right before the switch, however, Aaron and Meredith were given leaked documents courtesy of the Navyrope Society and Padua Network's own "Roachline," detailing a hidden timetable for when Affadidah intended to renege on his promise of smooth transition for emigration out of his caliphate.

Aaron quickly informs Wanda, Ashley, and Ashley's new husband Wally of the information Roachline shared with him. The Fobel and Stefflin families make haste to make their exile from Tenessee to Texas; and arrive shortly before the Wall gets erected around Ameristan.

As such, Aaron and his immediate remaining family and friends are spared from getting involved in the Onslaught of the Border that wipes out a majority of the Exodus Agenda. Aaron and Meredith couple do their part to survive in their new Texan home, eventually having two young boys and a pet badger named Savage.

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. 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 along the Muskegon River. 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 when forced to, as Aaron needs to flee to Tennessee and meet up with Meredith if he wishes to take down Clyde.

Like his miniseries counterpart, Aaron is reluctant to show even a tinge of malice toward 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 is much more casual than Mark's, emphasizing that he's the more prudish of the two brothers.

Trivia

 * Primarily superficial details were altered from the original miniseries, 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.
 * Just like with his Classic Gerosha counterpart, this Aaron was staying at the rental home of 516 N. Michigan Ave. in Big Rapids during the events of Blood Over Water.