Aaric Mitchell

"Aaric sported a white pullover hoodie and black pants and black shoes. While Conley and Caleb had gray eyes, he had green eyes. Yet despite being almost forty-five years old, he looked no older than twenty-five"

--Aaric's first appearence in The Marked.

Aaric Conley Mitchell is the oldest brother of Conley Mitchell, Caleb Mitchell, and Daniel Mitchell, possesses the mark of Sunlight Manipulation. His mother, Kendra Mitchell, died after giving birth to his younger brother, Daniel. At some point in his life, he was an E.N. Security Officer but later retired.

Early Life
Not much is known about Aaric's early life, save for that he had awakened his mark at a very early age and thatnhe was, at some point in his life, was an E.N. Security Officer and later retired for unknown reasons. It was also during this time that he met Mason Kelly, whom he later married though they split up after Daniel's eighth birthday.

Appearence
Bray Zachariah: "I was going to ask why your mouth is crooked."

Aaric Mitchell: "Is it that noticeable?"

--Aaric and Bray Zachariah on his crooked mouth.

Despite being between the ages of fourty-five and fifty-four, he looks to have the looks and sights of that of a twenty-five year old. He has pale coloured skin and jet black hair. His mouth, however, is crooked due to to inactive nerves on the left side, often leading to people commenting on it and resulting in him showing his insecure feelings about it.

He has been noted to be very attractive as many people, human and demonkind alike, have all called him "Pretty Boy" on numerous occasions, a nickname he shares with his three younger brothers.

Like all males who are marked, Aaric has what looks like a giant tattoo of a cross on his back, being formed out of what looks like solar waves forming the four points with the sun being in the middle.

Aaric also possesses a strange tattoo of a barbed wire wrapping around the top of his right forearm.

Personality
Mason Mitchell: "So it slipped your mind, it happens to all of us. You can't blame yourself for something that is completely natural to us. We have all overstepped the limit level when we first develop a new power. We all have."

Aaric Mitchell: "But this is different, Mason. I can't ask him to do something like that. It isn't right. He is only sixteen, going to be seventeen in three or four weeks. If he had used this new power one more time, he could have easilty killed himself. And it would be on me. How can I not feel responsible for that?"

--Aaric and Mason on Aaric's overprotectiveness for Daniel.

While usually donning a more serious nature, he has shown to be very overprotective for his deaf brother, Daniel, much like his other two brothers. When his crooked mouth is brought up, he shows a more comical, insecure side of him, something that not many people see.

He is also shown to be extremely intelligent, immediately understanding how Jensen Alistair's mark worked after the latter had only briefly explained what was happening to him, as well as having knowledge on other marks. He also knows a lot about demons, vampires, and witches, having formed a good intel on them to safely deal with them should the need ever arise.

The Boxes of Lucifer
"He took a deep breath before looking over to the box Jensen had sitting next to him on the edge of the table. He reached over and picked it up, examining every side of it. It was a very unusual thing to carry around and probably was probably the only useful thing Becka kept in her bag that wasn't sex oriented. The inverted pentagram on the bottom told him it was definitely demonic. A few red lines expanded from the pentagram to the other side of the box, making it look like it was on fire inside"

--Aaric examining one of the boxes of Lucifer.

After finally setting things straight with his younger brother, Conley, Aaric began visiting him and his younger brother, Daniel, often. When a string of odd murders began occuring on Elenwood Island, Aaric began looking into them himself while Conley, now Executive of the E.N. Security, ran his own investigations. It was during this time that Aaric realized the murderers were in fact vampires, who he assumed were hunting for a blood supply. While Aaric tried to keep it a secret from Conley, he was discovered and forced to reveal what he knew to the latter.

That night, he and Conley traveled to an abandoned house in the woods in the mountains where Aaric had followed a few vampires to. During their search, Conley discovered a book that they both found to be unusual. A grou of vampires then showed up, carrying a woman whom they had all been feeding off of to use as leverage. Aaric managed to rescue the woman and take her to safety while Conley engaged the vampires. When the woman was safe, he helped Conley kill the rest of the vampires while feeling saddened that the Alpha Vampire was among rhem as the death of the Alpha would kill every vampire he turned.

A few days later, he joined Caleb and Conley at their family manor to discuss a new development; Daniel has awakened a mark, the divine essance of angels that both Conley and Caleb, along with himself, possess. While they were all initially saddened at their little brother was going to be like all of them, they later tried looking on the bright side and decided that it was best if Daniel stayed with Aaric to help the deaf boy with his mark.

Upon arriving at Aaric's house, he and Daniel were confronted by a group of vampires along with their Alpha. A fight quickly started between them. Unknown to him, two of Daniel's new friends, Jensen Alistair and Shade Masters, had seen his sunlight while they were driving up the mountain and decided to drive to where he and Daniel were. Just as they had pulled up, they all witnessed Daniel killing the Alpha by grabbing his neck and freezing his entire body.

With the death of the Alpha, all vampires that he had turned were killed instantly. When he allowed Jensen and Shade into the house with him, the former of the two explained that he had been able to see colors whenever a sound was made and that he focused it into a blade that almost cut him and Shade in half. Aaric explained that he has a "Mark" and that his mark is Sound Manipulation.

Just as Jensen got sick from the sickness that follows the awakening of a mark, Aaric told Shade that he and Daniel will help Jensen while she goes home. While originally thought to last only two weeks, Jensen's sickness lasted over a month. After Daniel managed to save Jensen from dying, Aaric realized that Jensen was never meant to survive the sickness and that overtime, the mark might corrode Jensen's body.

Though Aaric later decided it was best to keep this from Daniel and would rather his his little brother spend time with his friend without worry.

While Jensen was still in the recovery stages of his sickness, Aaric watched as red lightning created by a storm demon attacked the community pool that Daniel, Shade, and Daniel's first girlfriend, Hayden Zachariah, were at. When he arrived, he saw that most of the city block was destroyed but that Daniel, Shade, and Hayden were thankfully relatively unscathed, save for a few deep scratches.

A few days later, while Shade and Hayden were shopping for dresses for the upcoming Winter Formal, Aaric and Jensen and Daniel all walked around the mall where Aaric witnessed Jensen's fast development of his mark, seeing him run two quaters together to produce sound and then focusing the sound to produce a small blade. But he also noticed that it was unstable as the soundwaves became visible to him, someone who cannot see sound through normal means.

Later on, Aaric went to the Bennett Family Home after remembering wha John Bennett, one of the vampire murder victims and once a marked person, had told him; he had a metal safebox in the attic that he wanted Aaric to have should anything ever happen to him and his family. While Aaric found the safebox, he also found that it was empty. He was then confronted by a woman named Becka.

After she revealed that she had information on not just him, but others marked as well, she threatened to reveal everything she had unless he went on a date with her the night of the Winter Formal. Reluctanly, he was forced to agree and Becka left,

While driving Daniel to school, he and Conley discussed what had happened with Becka, leading Aaric to start his own investigation and Conley telling Aaric to keep a close eye on Daniel since, to avoid accidentally freezing other people, Daniel was releasing his own power back into his body, causing his natural body tempurature to be extrememly low. During his search for more information on Becka, he discovered an article of a teenage girl who had killed her whole family and later disappeared. By comparing Becka's age to the date of the article, he discovered that Becka was the girl.

A few nights later, Becka broke into his house while Daniel, Shade, Jensen, and Hayden all slept. She later revealed that she was marked and that she liked Aaric a lot, but not enough to let him live for finding out what he knew about her. Before she could kill him, Aaric was able to get her to reveal everything the storm demon, the demon who had attacked the community pool, was planning. Becka later decided to do so but not before she was attacked by Daniel.

During the fight that ensured, Hayden and Shade and Jensen all awoke, leading them to prticipate in the fight against Becka. Though Hayden was unprepared for Becka's mark, the three of them were able to keep up with Becka for a short while before the marked woman was able to incapacitate all three of them. While Aaric almost collapsed due to him running low on sunlight in his body, Becka managed to form a deep scratch on Hayden's face, angering Daniel enough to the point that he tried to freeze her.

While he managed to freeze her arm without touching her, it was enough to drive her to the point of near insanity to the point she started muttering nonsense to Aaric as she went to kill him. When Jensen and Shade went to attack her, she was able to subdue them both and went to kill them and Aaric. Daniel, however, was able to stab her in the back with a knife, forcing her to flee from the house but not before dropping her messenger bag. While they were all recovering from the ordeal, Hayden found Becka's journal and read what she had about Aaric, causing her to become shocked at what she read.

While going through her bag with Jensen the following morning, they found a box that was pure black and had an inverted pentagram with red lines running along the box. They later realized that they were feeling immense amounts of anger and recalled having the same feeling when they were at the manor to discuss what to do with Daniel and his mark. Thinking that maybe another box was hidden there, Aaric, Jensen, Shade, Hayden, and Daniel all went to the manor to search the floors.

While Jensen searched the basement, Shade searched the middle floor, and Daniel searched the attic, he and Hayden searched the third floor. While he admitted to Hayden that he wanted her to search the floor with him so that she didn't tell Daniel anything she found out about him, he also said that it was because he was dangerously low on sunlight and that he would need someone near him should a fight ensure in the manor.

As they all searched the manor, they found it in completely chaos. While they didn't know about the other floors, the floor that Aaric and Hayden were searching looked like a flash fire had occured and incinerated everything in sight. This later turned out to be an illusion created by the box hiding in attic as a means of defense. Daniel. however, was able to get rid of the illusion by using his new power of shifting molecules back to their original state in conjuction with his long-term power of being able to see how molecules react in different environments.

With two boxes in tow, the group all decided that it was safe to assume that there were more than just two and decided to keep an eye out for the others.

A couple of days afterwards, Aaric met Hayden's aunt, Bray Zachariah, and her hearing dog, Bruno; he was surprised to learn that Bray is deaf and that she had convinced Daniel to get a new hearing dog, a siberian husky who Daniel named Artic. While he was initially unsure about how Daniel would react to having a new hearing dog after his previous hearing dog, Connie, had died a few years back, he later agreed with Bray in that Daniel needed a hearing dog.

While grocery shopping with Daniel, Hayden, and Artic, Aaric later ran into his ex-wife, Mason Mitchell (nee Kelly). Out of shock of seeing her again, his feelings for her quickly resurfaced and the two decided to go out on a date during the Winter Formal. While on their date a few days later, they recalled past events when they were still together before they went back to Aaric's house.

While there, she helped him uncover the secret behind the vampire murders that occured months ago, her figuring out that the vampires were targeting houses that might have held a box at some point in time. When she told him of the boxes defense to produce illusions to either hide themselves or force people to argue with each other as a means of drawing attention away from the boxes, she thought that maybe it was best if Aaric and Daniel went back to John Bennett's house.

A couple of days after the Winter Formal, Daniel and Aaric went to John Bennett's house where Daniel was able to use his mark to reveal that the box in the metal safebox had used an illusion to make itself invisible to the unaided eye. While Aaric was able to get the box, Daniel was suddenly exhausted and Aaric had to help him to the car to go home.

That night, when Daniel went to have him text Hayden to bring Becka's journal back, he walked into Daniel's room to see him bleeding from his eyes, ears, and mouth due to having overused his new power within a short span of time and collapsed. Mason then called Cassandra, whom everyone called Cas, Conley's ex-girlfriend, to rush over and help.

After Cas managed to get Daniel's breathing under control and stated he will be fine as long as he doesn't move too fast, she told them to never call her again. Aaric later felt guilty for what happened to his little brother, saying that he shouldn't ask Daniel to push himself like that. While Mason tried to assure him that Daniel would be fine and that everyone who is marked as overstepped their limit with a new power in the beginning, it still didn't make him feel any less guilty.

After a couple of weeks, when Daniel was better, Shade called Aaric, telling him and Daniel and Hayden to come over immediately. Along with Jensen, the group met at Shade's house where she showed them a borken metal safebox that she found in the basement. While the group puzzled what could have happened to the box, a red lightning bolt struck the house, causing an explosion which killed Shade and Jensen in the process and separated Aaric and Hayden from Daniel.

When Aaric managed to unbury himself from the rubble, he began searching the ruins for any sign of the others. He managed to find Hayden alive and luckily almost unscathed but unfortunately found Shade's dead body. After covering her, he helped Hayden in unburying Daniel, who was bleeding badly from the side of his head but still okay.

When the three of them split up to search for Jensen, Aaric saw that it was Daniel who found Jensen's body, deeply upsetting the deaf boy at seeing the death of his best friend. He saw Daniel take Jensen's necklace before the deaf boy stated that things had just gotten personal, revealing a side of Daniel that neither he nor Hayden have ever seen.

When they walked out of the ruined house, they found that the entire neighborhood and the street had been hit by red lightning, causing one massive explosion. When they spotted a witch and five demons walking along the streets and killing anyone still alive, Aaric and Daniel engaged the witch and her army, the result ending in the death of the witch.

As they contiued on, they fought their way out of the neighborhood and noticed six red lightning bolts shooting up into the sky. While making their way to the nearest lightning bolt, they noticed that the others were slowly disappearing, leading them to suspect that each bolt represented one box, totaling six boxes in all. Before continuing to the last lightning bolt, Daniel had Hayden go back to Aaric's house so that she wouldn't get hurt anymore.

While Hayden initially refused, believing that if she could make it past Daniel's mark and get through Jensen and Sahde dying and could even fight Becka with him, then she could help here, Aaric told her that it was best if she went back and that they will be back there shortly after. While she didn't want to, she reluctantly agreed and left while he and Daniel continued.

Upon reaching a partially destroyed house, Aaric and Daniel hid inside while looking at the box. Before they could act, a witch and a few demons began fighting the demons guarding it. As they watched, they were later joined by Mason, Bray, and Bruno. When Mason said that her and Bray had seen the explosion from the house and that Bray was worried for Hayden's safety, she said that they followed them. Aaric then told Bray that Hayden went back to his house and Bray left.

After the fight with the witch and the demons ending with no one left standing, the three of them left the house to retrieve the box. But they were quickly surrounded by the storm demon and an army of demons. Just as a fight was about to ensure, the three of them were joined by Caleb, Caleb's girlfriend Alex, their witch friend Kristen, Conley, his demon friend Cain, Conley's best friend Marcus, and Marcus's son Kenny, whom was also marked.

When the storm demon had his demon followers go to attack them, Mason played the violin she brought with her and used her mark to open the ground beneath them, swallowing the demons, and then closing the ground up, effectively killing some fifty demons single-handedly, leading Aaric to assert that this made Mason the best of them all. When the storm demon went to atack them himself, he was quickly subdued by Conley.

But before Conley could kill him, Aaric told Conley to let Daniel do it since the demon had killed Jensen and Shade. Along with everyone else, he witnessed Daniel killing the storm demon by grabbing his neck and freezing him and shattering the demon's head.

Some weeks after the death of the storm demon and the battle, Aaric witnessed Daniel and Ashton, a bully who used to buly Daniel all throughout their school years, becoming friends.

After Daniel's birthday, while he and Mason were sleeping, he awoke to feeling a pain in his arm and saw his barbed wire tattoo moving and wrapping more of a barbed wire tattoo around his arm.

The Ephemeral Line
At the end of The Marked, in a short preview for the next story, Aaric is seen seeing Daniel off to collage four months after the events of "The Marked" have played out.

Marked Abilities

 * Sunlight Manipulation: Aaric was born marked, possessing the rare mark of Sunlight Manipulation. He awakened his mark at the age of four, surprising his mother and other marked people, surprising them even more when he was able to live through the sickness at such a young age. Around the time he was sixteen, he was praised as the strongest marked person alive, surpassing even his mother. While being an incredibly powerful mark, he also suffers the drawback of needing to absorb sunlight constantly to be able to use his power due to the almost non-stop rain over Elenwood. Despite this drawback, he is able to use his mark to it's fullest extent, utilizing it in his fighting style. After his arm was injured from the explosion that blew up Shade's house, he was able to use his mark with one hand with little trouble.
 * Mark Aspect Creation: Aaric also possesses a rare ability of being able to create multiple aspects of his mark, creating two in an attempt to work around the drawback of constantly needing sunlight around him. However, he unintentionally created the fatal drawback of his body constantly needing sunlight circulating throughout his body or his heart and lungs will fail.
 * Gun Control: Aaric was seen with a gun when he and Conley searched the abandoned house. It is possible that he has a fairly considerable amount of skill with a gun to be using one.
 * Mark Intelligence: Aaric is also shown to have a vast knowledge of other Marks, able to easily identify Jensen's mark after only hearing a brief explanation. In his journal, he also has entries on other marks he has run into during his lifetime.

Trivia

 * Though his exact age is never given, it is known he is older than Mason, who is 50 at the time of her appearence, putting his age between 50 and 54.
 * His first name is Daniel's middle name, making him a partial namesake.
 * While Aaric states that Daniel is more like Conley, Daniel is actually more like Aaric.
 * It is never known what it is that Hayden finds out about Aaric though it is known that it is something terrible by Hayden's reaction.