Aurora Aldenberg

aurora  j. aldenberg

I USED TO TRUST THE MEDIA TO TELL ME THE TRUTH

Aurora’s mother, Elise Aldenberg was a politician, and quite a good one at that. She was from Capricorn, her husband a Capricorn as well. As a child, Aurora was spoiled with attention and nearly whatever she wanted, as her parents were both quite wealthy and could afford the luxury. They had high hopes for their daughter, just as they did for themselves, as the family was already influential in the corrupted maze of Stelisius politics, as they held a lotof money and power that could be used to sway things to their side, as well as hold a commanding force that would be difficult to oppose, though Elise was more no-nonsense, rather than an idiot for the masses. When Aurora was 3, Elise gave birth to another child, Alyssa, who Aurora really bonded with, and the two were nearly inseparable. Wherever Alyssa went, it would not be strange for Aurora to be tailing behind her.

Aurora was 8 years old when Elise was elected by the Celestial Council as the Executive Officer. It was definitely an important moment of her life, because things were never really quite normal after that. She would never have a personal life, and there would always be a role she’d have to take, to the eyes of her parents and towards the public. She was always a bit of a spoiled child, considering she grew up in one of the wealthier realms. Elise was increasingly busy, and Aurora found the solution to the lack of attention she was getting was mischief and mayhem, which was once childish and innocent, evolved into things more destructive and sinister in nature. Aurora had a sly and cunning atmosphere about her to raise more than a few eyebrows at her antis, but it got her the attention she sought, although it may have been negative. This continued pattern of mischievous and corruptive behavior never vanished, and Aurora liked to assert her prominence over other people, it was not unlike her to try and force someone into submitting to what she said, or on the other side of the coin, pretend she was interested, only to backstab them mere moments later. The world was her chessboard, everyone mere pawns to play with, while she sat at the throne.

In high school, her ambitious nature peered through, and she began to narrow her path. Her antics were stale, she needed to find another way to get attention and play for her worth. She found that she wanted to go into government work, just as her parents. And that was where she set her mind to. She graduated with no problems, though her high school life was quite boring. A lot of people were intimidated by her, but Aurora paid little attention to that, as she thought it weeded out the undeserving from her presence. Yes, she was definitely choosy on who she hung out with. As the Head of State’s daughter, she had quite a few luxuries of that sort.

Just like her mother and many descendants before her, Aurora continued the family legacy of being sorted into Capricorn. Honestly, she hadn’t expected much differently. She knew where her path was to take her, and she had very few objections. University was a breeze, and Aurora graduated and scaled her way up the political totem pole, just as the rest of her family had done years before. It despised her to have to live in her mother’s shadow, though her outspoken desire to surpass her was never relevant enough to bring to the table. A spiteful little girl just trying to make her mark on the world.

Through months and years of under dogging it, Aurora landed herself into a position of power, Executive Officer for the Stelisius government. What this meant was that she had the job of overseeing security and handling funding, something she was quite well at. The job was quite difficult, especially with the new concern of a rebel group, the Insurgency, that came from nowhere. It deeply bothered Aurora that she could not find the source of where they were coming from, and at this point in time she saw them as a mere disturbance, nothing more. She’d have to put out more propaganda to conflict the citizens who may have thought of abandoning their government in favor of these rebel views.

That all changed when the Insurgency made their first major move, the assassination on Aurora’s mother. Disturbingly enough, Aurora cared more about the reputation of her bloodline than her mother. To her, this wasn’t just an act of war against Stelisius but a personal attack to the Aldenberg bloodline, which did nothing but infuriate her. She needed something else, state propaganda wasn’t going to work. No, she needed to teach the world a message. The hunt was on, to break the Insurgency out through its core, no matter how hard it may have been. Aurora’s orders were simple, one traitor of each caste. Even the higher ones such as Pisces, Aquarius and Capricorn. It took a week, but Aurora had all her traitors in her hands, and did something quite controversial, executed them herself on broadcast, the faintest smirk seen on her face as she did so.

The world was torn, outraged at Aurora or in support of her deed to cleanse the world’s filth. She wasn’t just out for blood, she wanted answers too. Of course, as an outsider this intel was hard but after months, she got the name of the leader. Not a full name, she couldn’t even be sure if it was a nickname. Three letters to end her month long search, Rio. Aurora has been aggressive with pushing those above her to take action against the Insurgency and wipe them out from their core.




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MOMSEN, Taylor as Aurora Aldenberg