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PLAYER INFO

Name: Gann
Age: Over 30s
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CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: James “Logan” Howlett (Wolverine)
Canon: X-Men Movies
Canon Point: The Wolverine (Mid end of movie)
Appearance: Logan
Tall, ruggage looking, wild hair that almost sticks up in wolverine ears. He wears tank tops and blue jeans or black pants, boots and a bad attitude. He will be arriving in the attire in the picture, which is white tank top, dark pants, boots and of course the bad attitude. Because that sure is a look.
Age: Apparent Age: 40’s / Actual Age: 181 (Birth year: 1832, current year 2013)


Character snapshot:
Logan is a very old, very tired mutant with a healing factor and metal claws that come out of his hands. He’s a bit of a grouch when things aren’t right, and generally his world isn’t right. He’s protective of people, especially kids, and tends to sacrifice himself for others with ease. Though he will put up a ‘i don’t care’ exterior, he really does care. He doesn’t take bullying, to him or anyone else. He fights for what HE thinks is right and can’t be told what to do. His friends circle is very small, and generally hard to get into, but that doesn’t mean he won’t help a person out, and he really is a soft sport. (119)


World description:
He’s Canadian, though he wanders a lot, and will be showing up in this place from Japan. The world he is from is a lot like our Earth, except that there are Mutants. Mutants hold powers they were generally born with that appear after they age, generally teens. In Logan’s case, when he turned 13, he developed animal-like instincts, bone claws and a healing factor. Some people can read minds, some can lift objects, some can turn into ice, others into beasts. Mutants are hated and hunted in fear by standard humans. They are generally disliked because they are considered superior to humans and could be a problem to humanity. Some mutants, like Magneto, demand that normal humans bow to them and give mutants a bad name.

A deeper description can be given as needed but I didn’t want to ramble on and on when it’s pretty well Earth with superpowers. (151)


History:
Born James Howlet in 1832 in Canada, he was a sickly child and his powers manifested when he was 13. He killed his biological father on mistake and ran away from home with his brother Victor.

Over a 128 year span the two brothers ran through war after war fighting the good fight. They had an argument while Victor was too aggressive, Logan was more a good man. They split for some time. Then Victor went about killing old team mates and Logan’s girlfriend, causing Logan to turn in a favor with Stryker, his former leader. Team X was a military project that grafted Adamantium to Logan’s bones and sharpened the bone claws into knives. He later fights against his maker to help rescue kids being used as experiments by the man. Stryker shoots him in the skull with an adamantium bullet and makes Logan forget everything in his past.

Years later Logan is found by Victor who is hunting down a girl named Rogue. They fight and just before he’s beat completely, The X-men come in and save the day. Logan and Rogue later join the Professor at his school. He meets Jean here, the love of his life. Jean and Professor X try to help get his memories back.

Sometime later Jean has died but risen again as Dark Phoenix and Logan is the only one who can stop her. He ends up killing her once again, something that haunts him often. She haunts his dreams as if she were there in his head.

Over the years Logan rebuilds his memories. He is invited to Japan to meet a man he saved in 1945. Yashida wants Logan’s healing factor, and as much as Logan wants to die, he doesn’t give in to the offer, so Yashida tries to force it from him, needing his bone marrow to extract the powers. Thus Logan is strapped to a chair where his claws are about to be cut off. This is where he will be coming from. Just before he loses his claws.

I know this is rushed but I tried not to make it too long. For a complete history, please check this link. (342)


What are your character’s mental/emotional strengths?
1 - Strong Willed
He's very pig headed and doesn't back down often. He knows he can handle himself in a fight and even if the odds are stacked against him he's confident he can take care of the situation. And when he can't? He brushes himself off, gets up again and goes back to fighting until he can't fight no more or until someone stops him. Confidence is key and he has confidence in himself to spare.

2 - Caring
He's caring to a fault, but it's one of his strongest assets to his personality. He might come off as a grumpy, cranky guy, but he does care, especially for women and children or anyone in trouble. It's one of his endearing qualities. It's not that he doesn't think they can take care of themselves, but that they shouldn't have to.

3 - Puts Others before himself.
He's a strong self sacrificer, but not because he has a death wish, but because he's sure of himself and knows he's healed. He has no problem standing in the way of pain so long as it saves another from it. He's more likely to stand in front of a bullet, a ray beam, a punch, a robot, a car, a whatever have you, to protect the innocent than not. He'd rather take it and heal than let someone else get hurt.
(227)


What are your character’s mental/emotional weaknesses?
1 - Women and Children
Putting others before him could also be a weakness, but in general, he has a weakness to women and children in general. First, he loves a strong woman. Someone mentaly stable and strong is sexy and he has such a weakness to strong and sexy. Kayla, Jean and Mariko are all strong in different ways, but also all vulnerable in ways Logan felt he could help provide for. As for children, teens especially, he finds himself surrounded by them often. Yes, working at the school will do that to you, but he genuinely enjoys their presence, even if he pretends he doesn’t. If a kid needs help, asks for help, or seems to be distressed or in trouble, he will bend and help.

2 - Bullying
He abhors bullying and will stand up to it. He doesn’t take to name calling well. Don’t kick him in the balls, it only makes him mad. That kind of thing. And if you are picking on someone weaker than yourself, it’s bullying for sure. He’ll stick his nose into someone else's business if he sees it. I put this in weaknesses because it’s something that even if his loner self wants nothing to do with it, he will push himself into trouble over it.

3 - Loner
Speaking of loner self, he’s a big loner and would rather hermit himself away in the Canadian wilderness than be around people. This is especially true the seven some years after Jean died. He can get in his head sometimes and waste away on liquor and smokes and a campfire in the middle of nowhere. He’ll become a real mountain man if he can. He doesn’t enjoy being a loner but he does allow himself to wallow in self pity and angst easy enough.

4 - Anything to do with Jean
And then there is Jean. Anything to do with her is a weakness. She could ask for the moon and he’d try to find a way to give it to her. He loved her with all his heart when he didn’t remember anything of his past. And once he remembered again she was still always on his mind. Jean never betrayed or hurt him. Not until she died, then he was crushed. When she returned to life as the Dark Phoenix she tormented the Professor and everyone else, deciding to take out the world. Logan had to stop that, and thus he killed her himself, shoving his claws into her midsection. It haunts him to this day. (423)


What events or circumstances in your character’s past have impacted them the most?
1- The death of his ‘father’ which led to killing his biological father.
When he was 13 he was a very sick boy. Thomas Logan, the grounds keeper of the estate came, drunk and loud, to the house. He got in a fight with John Howlett and killed the man. Young James saw this and his mutant powers woke up, causing bone claws to come out of his hands. He killed Thomas, who whispered that he was his real father. His mother Elesibeth was disterbed by James and scared. James ran away from home with his brother Victor to run wild on their own and fight in many wars.

2 - Falling in love.
Three women have had a huge impact on Logan over the ages. Kayla, Jean and Mariko. Kayla was murdered and died in his arms, twice. Jean died once, resurrected and then he was forced to kill her himself. Mariko is a little less tragic, as he only just met her and fell for her. It’s more of a casual romance, still too burned by Jean haunting his mind to let go. Jean is the one who has impacted him the most over the years. Killing her was the hardest thing he has ever done.

3 - Adamantium Skeleton.
While angry that Kayla was killed, a past commander of his, Stryker, decided to recruit Logan into the Weapon X program. He went through a drastic procedure that no one else could survive. By having a healing factor in his mutation, he was able to survive having adamantium grafted to his bones, giving him sharp, sword like claws. Adamantium is indestructible metal and can only be destroyed by other adamantium weapons.

4 - Long lived life.
Logan is 181 years old. He has seen war after war after war. He has lived life alone and around people. He spent most of his life with his brother, who mutated to something more savage than Logan did. He spent a lot of his life in Canada, trying to be alone. He has loved and lost and lost and lost some more. When given the chance to take his mutant abilities away he decided, though he was tired of living, he still had reason to live. So he passed on the opportunity to help someone live and die on his own. He has had a few opportunities to die and as much as he wants his life to end, he has never taken the easy route. (412)


What impressions do others tend to have of your character and how do those impressions differ from who your character truly is?
He comes off as a big grouchy son of a bitch who doesn’t give a damn about anyone or anything. He tends to make people feel like he’s just in this for himself. That all he cares about is what’s good for him. In truth he’s very caring, to a fault, and it tends to bring him trouble. For people he even mildly befriends he will protect them fiercely. This tends to be more so true with females of any age and teens or children of any gender. It’s not that he thinks they cant defend themselves, it’s more that he thinks they shouldn’t have to.


What motivates your character?
It used to be ‘finding his memories’ but now that he’s found them, and lost everything, very little motivates him. Or so it seems. Nowadays relationships, friendships and protecting people is what motivates him to do anything. The most recent case being Mariko, his Japanese lover and granddaughter of the guy he has to fight. He would do anything to get her back and protect her, even fight off a hundred ninja and the Silver Samurai.

His motivations are generally geared around his relationship with a person, be it friend, foe, lover or humanity in general. As much as he pushes to leave it all behind he always finds his continuous telling him to go back and help a person.


How does your character handle crisis or adversity?
He’s level headed, for the most part. While the world is falling apart around everyone, he’s lighting a cigar and trying to take the situation in. He’s able to handle stressful situations on his own just fine. He has no concern for his own life and disregards his health, which makes it easier to handle wild or strange situations and a crisis.

It’s when others are involved that he starts to get a bit more broken down. He’s a bit more aggressive or hectic in a crisis situation when others are being hurt. Not to the point that he can’t handle himself and he’s still level headed, but he’s easier to set into a rage. And when he gets mad, the claws come out and blood tends to spill. Depending on the situation and his mood. Natural disaster? Level headed and calm; get everyone to safety. Robots attacking the city? Time to crack some skills and save the day.


Skills, abilities, and physical weaknesses:
This list will be a general rundown of how I might use his powers.

Instantaneous Regeneration:
Also known as his Healing Factor. Depending on how severe the wound is he can heal within seconds or hours. Stripped down to his bones, he can still regenerate back to normal health. He can be killed, but given time his system will regenerate and bring him back to life. Because of the Adamantium grafted to his bones this helps with his indestructibility.
WARP: I’d like this to still be a thing, but at a much, much slower rate. Instead of instant healing, a scratch will take a day, a bullet a few days. This could also be nulled completely if mods would rather.

Reduced Aging Process:
Because of his healing factor it seems he’s slowed in the aging process as well. There is a possibility that he has stopped aging, or slowed to a point that it’s almost not noticeable. Later we find that he is aging but it’s the metal in his body that is making him sick. At that point in his life he seems to age more aggressively, like time has caught up to him a bit more.
WARP: Aging at normal speed. He won't really notice this at all within the next year.

Poison Resistance:
High tolerance to poisons and tranquilizers, drugs and alcohols. This isn’t to say he can’t be affected by them, but it takes a lot more to do anything at all, and poisons that generally kill a person might just make him sick. A single tranquilizer might take out a normal person but Wolverine simply gets a bit groggy and shrugs it off. He drinks alcohol by the bottle to feel much of anything but never gets to a ‘drunk’ status.
WARP: Without the healing factor this basically goes away and he becomes standard human tolerance. I’d like to say he still has some resistance but not really anything spectacular like normal.

Retractable Bone Claws:
His natural born mutant power was to grow retractable bone claws that would regenerate if broken. This and his healing factor are his genetic mutation. Three spare sharp bones shoot from between the four knuckle joints, extending well past his hand. If broken off they will regenerate. These bones retract back into his arm.
WARP: These are already changed. See next power and warp.

Adamantium Skeleton:
The Weapon X Program grafted Adamantium to his bones making him indestructible. The bone claws are now covered in perfect sharp blades, still three of which shoot out of his knuckles. His entire bone structure is covered in this metal, leaving him indestructible BUT also vulnerable to opponents with magnetically aligned powers or metal control powers. He has control over how fast or slow he can draw his claws out, as well as how many at once.
WARP: He’s going to have control over these still but it will be harder to pull out, and hurt a hell of a lot more. To the point he’ll almost not want to do it. When retracted, his knuckles will have to heal in normal time, leaving his hands bloody.

Superhuman Advances:
Strength, Speed, Endurance, Reflexes, Agility, Senses, Weather adaption.
Unlike normal humans his mutant DNA that helps his healing factor also assists in his health, age and general abilities. He can run faster, hit harder, and lift large things with ease. He has high stamina and endurance, a high resistance to different elements and temperatures as well as enhanced senses. Taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight are all high above most other humans. Like an animal he can track things on the wind. His senses enable him to ‘feel’ danger in the air, much like an animal.
WARP: I’d like to keep most of this, though I will be playing that his senses are all duller than normal. I just really enjoy playing with his animal-like senses a lot.

Hand to Hand Combat and Stealth Skills:
Excellent hand to hand combat skills learned from years of experience from wars, cage-fighting and other military training. Heavy fisted (thanks to adamantium bone structure), fast with hard impact. Has learned several fighting disciplines but tends to fight like a street fighter. Not scared to use the dirty tricks if needed to win a fight. He’s trained as a mercenary and has the skills of one. Stealthiness comes in that territory though he tends to be a meet you head on kind of guy.
WARP: No warp, this is all pure training.

Vehicle Control:
Handles a motorcycle like a pro, able to drive at high speeds in the worst conditions with expert control. This could possibly extend to cars and other vehicles. Can handle tinkering on cars, trucks and bikes. He likes to work with mechanical things.
WARP: No warp, this is all pure training.


Inventory: He’ll only come with a dirty white tank top, black pants, underwear, socks, and boots. He has nothing else on him. (See appearance for what he looks like). No cigar, no lighter, no jacket, sadly.

HORROR INFO

What aspects of your character are you most interested in exploring in a horror setting?
I know how he handles himself physically. I’m looking forward to stripping the healing away or at least slowing it down so he has to deal with physical pains and healing in standard time. I’d also like to look into his relationships with other people in the game. How will he handle others, especially after Yukio and Mariko have got him out into civilization once more. I’d like to watch him try to find a way out and protect others while doing it.


What is your character’s mental state upon entering the game?
Logan has just spent 7 years in the Canadian wilderness as a mountain man with very little to no contact with other people outside of a small town he goes to get shopping done. And most of that is buying a new bottle of Jack Danals and cigars. He would spend his nights on a hill, in a cave, in self pity for most of that time, having nightmares and dreams about Jean. Some loving, some nice, but most all of them ended in blood and tears.

Yukio found him and brought him to Japan, getting him cleaned up to greet a man he once saved so long ago. While there he met Mariko and instantly felt a connection to her. She felt one as well. While he spent time with Mariko, he worked out some of his issues and Jen slowly stopped haunting his dreams. From where I am taking him from Jean will not have said her goodbyes yet. I would love to still play with Jean being in his mind, and now Mariko being on his thoughts.

He is also thinking about going back to the X-men and finding out what happened to all of them. As far as he knows, Charles is dead, Jean is Dead, Scott is Dead, the school was destroyed. There wasn’t anything to care about anymore. He’s listless and about to go wandering.

For the most part, he was in the middle of trying to save Mariko and kill a crazy man, as well as fight the Viper. Things are hectic! He’s stressed and worried about Mariko from the point in canon I’ll be taking him from. He hasn’t yet found her and doesn’t know if she’s safe. So he’ll want to get out of here to find her as well.


What unsettles and frightens your character? What sort of encounters would chip away at your character’s psychological stability?
If he hurt someone who was innocent. A child or someone who didn’t deserve it. That would wear on him strongly. He’s not good with getting close to people, but he DOES get close, and those people getting hurt will anger him. Getting hurt by HIM will devastate him.

Jean is another topic that will wear him down. She’s vindictive in his dreams and I can picture her being a constant problem in his head here.

Not being able to do much will wear on him as well. Being trapped in a cage like this would be upsetting to someone who likes his freedom (being trapped in a real cage would enrage him). Being made to feel worthless would be hard.

Seeing children hurt or lost is a big thing too. He’d want to do what he could to help them.

Not healing properly is going to piss him off because he can’t throw himself in the way of things like he normally would and that will get to him, because what if someone else gets hurt because he didn’t react in time? Though honestly, he’d still try to react…


What horrifying events or genre elements would you like to see utilized in the game?
Mental horror and physical horror. Voices. Whispers. Lost Children who aren’t there. Creatures. Monsters. Fog and weather. Mind altering chemicals of effects. Visions of the future and the past.

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