Aaron Littleton
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Portrayed by [[]]
Carole Littleton - Grandmother
Lindsey Littleton - Great Aunt
Jack Shephard - Half-Uncle
Thomas - Father
Claire Littleton - Mother
Deceased Great Uncle
Kate Austen - Foster-Mother
Aaron Littleton is a child who was born on the Island, and is the son of Claire Littleton and Thomas; the grandson of Christian Shephard and Carole Littleton; half-nephew of Jack Shephard; and great-nephew of Lindsey. Before making a fatal mission to the Looking Glass, Charlie Pace acted like a father to Aaron, and passed on to Aaron his family heirloom ring. Aaron makes it off the Island as one of the Oceanic Six, and Kate Austen is acting as if she were his mother.
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Before the Island
Aaron is the son of Claire and her ex-boyfriend Thomas. Thomas was initially enthusiastic about the prospect of having a child with Claire but later panicked and left her. Aaron was to be adopted by Arlene and Joseph Stewart in Sydney, before Claire had a change of heart. Richard Malkin, a possibly fraudulent psychic, said danger surrounded the baby. He claimed there was a couple in Los Angeles "perfect" for the baby, and insisted Claire catch Flight 815 to meet them. ("Raised by Another")
On the Island
Season 1 (Days 41-44)
While Jack was busy tending to Boone after the Nigerian plane accident, Claire went into labor outside the camp. With Kate's help, Claire delivered a healthy baby boy whom she named Aaron. His birth approximately coincided with Boone's death. ("Do No Harm")
Aaron received the nickname, "Turnip-Head," from Charlie, who often watched after him. Charlie found one day the only thing that would stop Aaron from crying was the sound of Sawyer's voice. ("The Greater Good") Charlie became very close to Aaron and Claire and offered to let them stay with him when they got rescued. ("Born to Run")
When Danielle Rousseau found out Claire had delivered her baby, she devised a plan to get her daughter Alex back. She kidnapped Aaron to attempt a trade with the Others at the location of the black smoke. Charlie and Sayid rushed to rescue Aaron and took him back when Rousseau realized the Others were not there. ("Exodus, Part 2")
Season 2 (Days 44-69)
Sun was working in her garden when she was interrupted by Claire and Shannon, with Aaron and Vincent in tow. Claire told Sun nervously that they had found the message bottle from the raft. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
One night, Shannon began screaming in the middle of the night. Claire took Aaron with her to see what was going on and Charlie scolds her for waking the baby. Locke helped Claire put Aaron down for a nap the next day and listened as she complained about Charlie, saying he acted like the baby's father. ("Abandoned")
Claire introduced Aaron and herself to Mr. Eko and shortly after found out there was heroin inside the Virgin Mary statue Charlie had been carrying around. Charlie apologized when Claire confronted him, but she told him she didn't want him around her baby. ("The 23rd Psalm")
Charlie began having visions about Aaron being in danger because he had not been baptized. He kidnapped Aaron while sleepwalking, later insisting it was a misunderstanding. Charlie started a fire to distract everyone so he could take Aaron to be baptized. When the fire was out, Claire realized Aaron was gone. Locke rescued and returned Aaron to his mother. Later when Claire asked Mr. Eko about baptism, she admitted she had not been baptized either. Mr. Eko then baptized both Claire and Aaron together. ("Fire + Water")
Aaron became sick and developed a rash, at which point Rousseau told Claire that he was "infected" and Claire began to have flashbacks of when she was taken by the Others. She remembered Aaron being injected in utero with the CR 4-81516-23 42 vaccine. Despite Jack telling her that it was a common, non-threatening virus called Roseola, Claire began a determined search for what had happened to her during that time with Ethan. She, Kate and Rousseau trekked to the Medical Station where she had been held. Claire did not find the vaccine she thought would be there, but she did find and take a blue bootie she had knitted in the nursery they had set up for Aaron. The next day, Aaron’s fever broke and he began to recover. ("Maternity Leave")
Some time later, Charlie gave Claire a small case of vaccine and a pneumatic injector he had found on the food drop palette. He told her there was plenty for her and Aaron. ("Three Minutes") Desmond, after his return to the Island, saw her using the injector and told her she was wasting her time.
When the Hatch imploded and the sky turned purple, Claire held her hands over Aaron's ears. Bernard moved Aaron and Claire to safety, helping them to avoid being hit by the quarantine door. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
Season 3 (Days 69-91)
During Locke's vision, Locke points at them and Boone tells Locke Charlie, Claire and Aaron are "fine; for awhile", and appear to be a family in the vision. ("Further Instructions")
Desmond tells Claire she and Aaron needs to move down the beach, so he can fix her roof. ("Every Man for Himself")
Charlie arrives at her tent, carrying Aaron, and tells her about a picnic he has planned on the beach, and arranged for Sun and Jin to take care of Aaron while they dine. ("Par Avion")
Sawyer goes over to Claire and says something nice about Aaron, giving him a blanket to give to her. Sawyer does so awkwardly making Aaron cry. Later Sawyer bringing food to Claire, who lets him hold Aaron. ("Left Behind")
The next day, on the beach, Charlie hears baby Aaron crying, but Claire is asleep and seems unfazed. Charlie comforts Aaron and wakens Claire to find that she isn't feeling well. Charlie takes the baby and leaves Claire to sleep. Later Charlie is shown sleeping next to Claire's bed with one finger in baby Aaron's grasp and the other hand holding Claire's. ("One of Us")
Aaron is carried by Claire while following Jack into the Jungle. Desmond says he has seen a flash—one of Claire and Aaron getting into a helicopter and leaving the island. Before Charlie leaves for the looking glass, thinking of Aaron as his own son, Charlie passed off his Drive Shaft ring, a valued family heirloom to Aaron before he went on his sacrificial mission. Later Claire picks up Aaron and leaves with Hurley, but they do not see Charlie's "DS" ring, left behind in the crib. ("Greatest Hits")
Aaron cried at the exact moment Charlie drowned within the communications room in the Looking Glass, suggesting some sort of extrasensory perception of the event on his behalf. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Season 4 (Days 91-97)
Sun and Claire change Aaron and Sun remarks how she gets to have her baby in a hospital. Aaron accompanies Claire and the rest of the survivors to the cockpit, where he, involuntarily, goes with his mother and sides with Locke. ("The Beginning of the End")
At the Barracks, Aaron lives in a house with Claire. When Kate comes to the Barracks, he interacts with her, and Kate remarks that Claire is a good mother. Claire remarks that being a mother was the last thing she thought she would be, and encourages Kate that she should be a mother someday. ("Eggtown")
Hurley was looking after Aaron, as Claire was still sleeping. He was in Hurley's care from the game of risk, until Sawyer had returned with an injured Claire. When Sawyer had recovered her from the wreakage of her house, she asked where Aaron was. After Claire had rested, Aaron was with her once again. Once Ben had set the Smoke Monster on the mercenaries', Aaron escaped by his mothers side, with everyone else. Aaron stayed with his mother, after her decision to side with Sawyer and head back to the beach, as following Locke and Ben was no safe place for them both. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
The next day Miles tries to help Claire numerous times with Aaron. However since Sawyer dosen't trust him around her or Aaron, he issues a restraining order. Later, whilst still on the trek, Frank appears from a bush warning them that Keamy heading their way. So the group hide behind some trees. Aaron lets out a cry, Keamy notices this but can't quite figure out what it was. Aaron is tightly cluched to his mother after this, in her attempt to keep Aaron quiet. Eventually Frank convinces Keamy and the group to leave before it gets dark. That night Claire wakes up and notices Aaron is not by her side. To Claire's suprise her father was holding Aaron. Next morning, Sawyer looks for Claire after noticing she's missing. Although he finds Aaron crying in a tree log, there no sign of Aaron's mother anywhere. ("Something Nice Back Home")
It is learnt that Aaron's mother persued her father to Jacob's Cabin. When Locke enters the cabin and finds Claire there, he asks her where Aaron is, and her father responds. He tells Locke that Aaron is in the right place. ("Cabin Fever")
After the Island
Aaron left the island under unknown circumstances, and is in the care of Kate and not Claire. Which means that Aaron is being "raised by another" even after multiple warnings from Richard Malkin. Also Charlie passes on a message from Hurley to give to Jack, telling him he shouldn't be raising him, possibly reffering to Aaron. ("Raised by Another") ("Something Nice Back Home")
After the Island, Aaron, now around two years old, is one of the Oceanic 6 and living in California in the care of Kate, who refers to him as her son. Aaron refers to her as his mother. Kate's mother also has a great desire to see her "grandson", but Kate is strongly opposed to this for unknown reasons. For reasons also not yet explained, Jack does not want to see Aaron, and thus does not visit Kate's home. Kate returns home, where Aaron is in the care of a nanny, and goes upstairs to say hello and give him a hug. ("Eggtown")
Sometime later, Jack finally agrees to see the baby, and begins a relationship with Kate as well. He reads Aaron to sleep, and treats him as a son, Kate believes Jack is a natural at the job. However, as tension grows between Kate and Jack, they begin to have arguments, eventually leading Kate to state that she doesn't want such behavior around her son. As Jack screams that Kate isn't even related to Aaron, Aaron walks in, scared. Kate rushes to Aaron to comfort him as Jack leaves. ("Something Nice Back Home")
Trivia
- Nicknamed "Turniphead" by Charlie.
- In the 2004 Japanese anime film Howl's Moving Castle, the character Turniphead (who is a scarecrow) turns out to be a missing prince who was under a witch's spell.
- The name Aaron comes from a Hebrew word meaning "bearer of martyrs". Sun asked Claire what it meant but Claire said she didn't know.
- The name could also derive from an Egyptian word, "Aha Rw", which means "warrior lion."
- Other known meanings of Aaron are "High mountain", "exalted", and "of high station".
- After asking what she named her newborn son, Mr. Eko informed Claire that Aaron was the name of Moses' elder brother.
- Aaron was a spokesman of sorts for Moses, persuading the Israelites to follow his brother and performing miracles with his staff, which turned into a viper before Pharaoh (Exodus 7:8-14) and unleashed the first three plagues. Aaron joined Moses, Nadav and Avihu on Mount Sinai to receive the Covenant, and saw a vision of God (Exodus 24:9). During Moses' 40-day encounter with God, Aaron acceded to popular demand by making a golden calf, outraging his brother (Exodus 32). Aaron became chief priest after the Ark and Tabernacle were constructed. He died at the age of 123 on Mount Hor, and was allegedly denied entry to the Promised Land after he called forth water from a rock by invoking his own name ("I command") rather than invoking the name of God ("I command you in the name of God").
- Aaron is the name of the Kyle Rayner, the Green Lantern's father, who was in the military and worked for a covert government agency. Aaron Rayner left his family when Kyle was almost three years old. Kyle Rayner is one of the main characters of Walt's comic book, originally belonging to Hurley.
- The biblical Aaron is the great-great-grandson of Jacob (through Levi, Kohath and Amram).
- Aaron in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other sources was the precursor of the line of the "Preistly Messiah" (as opposed to the "Royal" Messiah of the Davidic line).Several people on the Island offered to help care for Aaron, especially Charlie who assumed the position of surrogate father. However, Sawyer was the unlikely person who was found able to soothe Aaron’s incessant crying by reading to him.
- Aaron slept in a crib made by Locke (as a birthday present for Claire) in "Numbers", but Claire and him arrived to the barracks and left the crib and the "D.S." ring behind.
- It is calculated by the timeline that as of "Something Nice Back Home", he is 59 days old.
- Aaron and Walt are the only two children among the middle section survivors.
- Both he and Walt have been described as "special" (Aaron by Richard Malkin and Walt by Tom).
- Aaron's bedroom in Kate's Los Angeles house is decorated with Australian stuffed animals including an emu, a kangaroo and a wallaby; this refers to his biological mother's Australian nationality
- Aaron is currently being "raised by another" (Kate instead of Claire) despite the many warnings that Richard Malkin gave to Claire. Coincidentally, however, he was briefly raised by a Los Angeles-based family (Jack and Kate) as Malkin had originally intended.
Casting
- Extras casting director Julie Carlson is responsible for finding babies to appear as Aaron
- For the second season she needed 27 babies.
- For the third season, she needed 30 babies.
- She spends a lot of time calling doctor's offices, mom's clubs and twins clubs.
- The babies (boy or girl doesn't matter) all have to look alike, making close-ups difficult.
- The babies soon outgrow their part due to the time frame on the show being roughly one episode per day on the island.
- For emergencies, Carlson always arranges to have an extra infant on the set.
- William Blanchette played Aaron in a flashforward at the age of 2. To prevent spoilers, he was credited as child. In the end credits of the episode, he was credited as "two year old boy." ("Eggtown")
See also
- Matthew David Viventi - One of the many dozens of babies that have portrayed Aaron
- Jade Heimowitz - "The Baby that Never Cries."
Trivia
- Aaron is a Scorpio, just like his mother, Claire. In astrology he is also an infant and not even old enough to walk, this very likely shows some kind of a strong connection between mother of the baby and the parent of that particular child throughout both of their whole lives; Locke remarks to Claire that it's a good sign that her baby's birthday is close to her own birthday.
- Desmond told Charlie that he had a flash of the future, in which he saw Claire and Aaron leave the Island via a helicopter. According to Desmond, this would only happen after Charlie sacrificed himself. ("Greatest Hits")
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Aaron Littleton/Theories
- Why did Richard Malkin say that Claire must raise Aaron herself? ("Raised by Another")
- Why did Claire pick the name Aaron? ("Do No Harm")
- Why does Kate act as if she is Aaron's mother? ("Eggtown")
- Why does Kate refuse to let her mother see Aaron? ("Eggtown")
- Why does Jack not want to see Aaron? ("Eggtown")
External links
- Honolulu Advertiser -August 21, 2007 - "On A Baby quest" - Article on the casting department searching for the many babies required to portray baby Aaron.
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| Centric episodes | "Pilot, Part 2" • "Tabula Rasa" • "Whatever the Case May Be" • "Born to Run" • "Exodus, Part 1" • "What Kate Did" • "I Do" • "Left Behind" • "Eggtown" | |||
| Flashback characters | Adam • Aussie official • Sam Austen • Baseball Hat • Connor Brennan • Rachel Brennan • Tom Brennan • Kevin Callis • Suzanne Callis • Federal agent • Mark Hutton • Diane Janssen • Wayne Janssen • Sayid Jarrah • Jason • Johnny • Man • Edward Mars • Michelle • Minister • Ray Mullen • Nurse • Cassidy Phillips • Sanjay • Six Foot Five • Ticket agent • Trucker • Wheeler | |||
| Flashforward characters | Bearded man • Melissa Dunbrook • Duncan Forrester • Arthur Galzethron • Diane Janssen • Aaron Littleton • Pearson • Jack Shephard • Veronica | |||
| Items | Mugshot • Safety deposit box • Time capsule • Toy airplane • Kate and Tom's tape | |||
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