History
Paul Aristides was a student at John Hathorne High School in Salem, Massachusetts, a town split between magic-using families referred to as "Wicks" and those without magical abilities, called "Blanks". Aristides was a "Wick" with the ability to manipulate other people's emotions.
When Francis Foley, his classmate and member of a rival clique (or coven) with precognitive powers, started predicting the coming of a great disaster and that new student Kim Vesco would be instrumental in stopping it, Aristides was skeptical, regarding Vesco as nothing more than a clueless "Blank". [2]
Foley turned out to be right as their classmate Chad Barrow turned out to be the Thief, a prophesied parasitic magical mutation looking to take control of all the magic in Salem. Aristides, his friends Mason Kaleema and Ren Lowell, and rival coven Foley, Mink, and LB Harrington, joined together around Vesco, who had discovered her own necromancy powers, to oppose the Thief and save Salem.[3]Attributes
Powers
Emotion Manipulation: Paul Aristides was able to manipulate the emotional state of others.