Above right: Aiden as a gargoyle, as rendered by Christi
Smith Hayden.
Nickname: Fergs (from Birdie only)
Species: Formerly human, now gargoyle
Gender: Female
First Appearance: "Where You Need To Be" by Christine Morgan
Other Appearances: "Sterling Silver," "Double Date," "A Gargoyles Christmas Special," "Future Imperfect," "Black Roses," "Mother's Day," "Love Machine," "The Wedding," "Lead Me Not...," "Menagerie," "Xantasia," "Dear Diary," "Breeding Season," "Dark Beauty Part One: Pursuit," and "Dark Beauty Part Two: The Institute" by Christine Morgan.
Created by: Christine Morgan
Father: Kenneth Ferguson, professor of medieval studies, University of California at Irvine
Mother: Lady Finella, one-time betrothee of King Kenneth, foolish over Constantine
Other Family: "Aunt" Mary Bywell, Tom's mother
Grandmother: Morag, deceased.
When Mary and Finella bid farewell to Princess Katherine, the Magus, and Tom, their goal was to keep the Grimorum Arcanorum away from Constantine. Avalon's interpretive answer to this was to send them forward in time, to the year 1976. They washed up by Castle Wyvern, where they met Kenneth Ferguson, who was doing a research project on the castle.
Aiden was born to Kenneth and Finella a few years later, after they sold the Grimorum to David Xanatos. A good student with an interest in history, Aiden eventually discovered the Internet and became pen-pals with Lexington.
In November of 1996, Kenneth Ferguson had the opportunity to speak at a seminar in New York, and took the whole family along. Aiden wanted to meet Lex, arranging a time and place in Central Park. This meeting changed her life forever.
When she arrived in Central Park, Aiden made the mistake of letting a creep convince her that he is Lex, but luckily for Aiden, the genuine article showed up and rescued her. She overcame her shock at finding out her friend was a gargoyle, but got a new shock when it turned out that Aunt Mary recognized Lex, and vice versa.
Eventually, everything was revealed about her mother's past. Aiden also found out, thanks to Owen, that a combination of factors including Finella's exposure to both the Magus' magic and Avalon's gave her an innate sorcerous talent. Xanatos promptly made her an offer she couldn't- and didn't- refuse: tuition and the chance to study magic in exchange for her services.
Aiden became enrolled in the exclusive Sterling Academy, where she made
the acquaintance of Birdie Yale and Professor
Lennox MacDuff. On Aiden's 18th birthday, Owen gifted her with Hecate's
Wand, a powerful magic item that could only be used by a human sorceress.
Much to Owen's concern, the first thing Aiden did with the wand was to
accidentally cast a love spell upon him and the dean of the Sterling Academy,
Cordelia St. John. This spell was eventually weakened, but not before
the pair conceived a child. Mortified, Aiden swore never to use the
Wand again, a promise Xanatos advised her against making- said he, "Fate
loves to make a person break a vow."
Eventually, Birdie learned about Aiden's friendship with the gargoyles,
and they went on a double-date with Lex and Broadway,
attending the Scarlet Angel Blue Moon Concert. For the occasion, Aiden
used Hecate's Wand to turn herself and Birdie into gargoyles. The night
went well, letting them meet the band (including Ebon, the amnesiac reformed
Thailog)
and
battle some Quarrymen.
A magic scroll was accidentally used by Aiden to transport herself and Lex into a possible future, where they became caught up in a conflict between Janine Xanatos (daughter of Alexander Xanatos and Patricia St. John) and Moray MacLachlan (son of Demona and MacBeth). Aiden was given several terrifying glimpses of things that may come to pass, including Elisa and Hudson's deaths at the hands of a rogue Avalon gargoyle, Lex's maiming and subsequent cybernization, and the theft and destruction of Angela's egg. The pair managed to return to the present.
When Aiden was abducted and then rescued by Demona some months later, she found herself tempted by Demona's knowledge of magic. But when it turned out that the spell they pair casted required a virgin to control the summoned unicorns ... the night after Aiden and Lex become lovers, chaos resulted and it took the help of Lex, Birdie, and Broadway to set things right.
Aiden later goofed again, this time using Hecate's Wand to accidentally transform everybody else in the castle into animals. The situation was worsened when Petros Xanatos showed up with his fianceé Lydia. To break the spell, Aiden, Birdie, and Lex wound up taking a trip to Una and Leo's shop in London, where they met the London clan and found the cure they needed.
A combination of science and sorcery let Aiden and Lex create the ultimate video game; to celebrate, they went to Disneyland and were surprised by a visit from skiff-travelers Broadway and Elektra. Aboard the sailing ship Columbia, Lex finally popped the question. Aiden joyfully accepted.
Aiden transformed herself- permanently this time- into a gargoyle, and joined in the Manhattan clan's breeding season. Despite getting interrupted by Xanatos when he caught them on the ledge outside his office window, Aiden and Lex produced two eggs which will eventually hatch into a male and a female. She also rang in the New Year by dumping a huge amount of water on a mob attempting to storm the castle, although she immediately felt horribly guilty about it.
Be she in the form of human or gargoyle, Aiden is quiet and shy, easily embarrassed, and quick to take any actual or perceived blame for things that go wrong. She is convinced that she has the worst luck in the universe and that she will never be as competent a sorceress as everyone expects. Low self-esteem, nervous, wistful, and eager to please are all terms that suit her quite well. She doesn't give herself enough credit, and isn't half the failure she thinks she is.
Aiden Ferguson is a talented sorceress, although she still lacks perfect control of her abilities. However, she is far more accurate with her spells now than she was when she first discovered her potential. As a gargoyle, Aiden possesses the normal abilities and traits of any member of that species, including wings that enable her to glide, claws and talons that can dig into stone, a prehensile tail, eyes that glow red when she is angered, and entering into a regenerative stone sleep by day.
As a human, Aiden was a petite thing, about 5' and 100 pounds soaking wet. She has fair skin, shoulder-length beige-blond hair, pale blue eyes, and a vaguely pixie/mousy cast to her features. As a gargoyle, she is much the same, petite and slim, except that her skin color is light grey, she has webbed wings, and a pterodactylian crest sweeps back from the crown of her head. Aiden is never without a filigree heart-shaped necklace on a silver chain, a gift from Lex. She also often carries a "I (heart) NY" tote bag.