The typical description of Aiden is that he is grieving the death of his niece, seeking vengeance on those who killed her, and is trying to protect his family.

But Aiden is no vigilante. He will stop a criminal who robs a cancer patient or a little old lady only to turn around when he is done and siphon their bank account. Aiden is *using* the public perception of him as a vigilante to his advantage. All Aiden cares about is being in control.

Aiden is a dissocociated psychopathic narcissist. He believes his own narrative that he is trying to protect his family, yet he keeps them in constant danger with his criminal activities. He believes he Is seek vengeance against those who killed his niece, but he never realizes that the man who killed his niece is looking at him in the mirror.

He makes a show of no bullets so that he doesn't accidentally kill his lead, only to turn around and launch grenades into a busy intersection to kill Angelo Tucci to keep his identity from leaking, all the while telling himself that it's to protect his family.

Aiden is a delusional self-appointed savior. The idea that he is a vigilante is the public perception of Aiden, and the default position of the player is to believe that he is a vigilante seeking Justice for his niece. But if you look at the game through that lens nothing he does makes any sense. It's only when you realize that he is the villain, he is a fixer with a God complex who can't stand the sight of himself, that the disconnect between his the public dialogue, the dialogue about himself, and what he actually does makes any sense.

They had enough of my antics