Logan
His past a mystery to him, the feral X-Man known as Wolverine fights to maintain a sense of place in the world - and his humanity.
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Details
Character Journal: x_snikt, x_wolverine
Real Name: James Howlett (unknown to Logan)
Codename: Wolverine
Aliases: Logan, Ogun, Patch
First Appearance: May 14, 2003
Date of Birth: Unknown
Place of Birth: Kansas (actually, Western Canada. Kansas is a memory implant)
Citizenship: Citizenship is dual American/Canadian (unknown to Logan)
Relatives: None.
Education: Unknown.
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Self defence instructor for Snow Valley Memorial Center for Mutant Affairs
Team Affiliation: X-Men
Biography
Weapon X
Logan's background is a mystery to him and he has no memories of his childhood. While he has an occasional glimpse or flashback to his life before Weapon-X, his reliable memory doesn’t begin until after his escape from the Weapon-X facility.
According to Colonel William Stryker, James Howlett was US Military personnel who volunteered for the Weapon X project. Of course, Stryker was at best an unreliable source with his own agenda, so his word must be taken with a grain of salt.
Living At The X-Mansion
After escaping from Weapon-X, Logan spent his time moving from place to place in northern Canada, working as a bouncer or a lumberjack or even a memorable stint as a pit-fighter in a truck-stop dive bar. It was in just such a bar in Laughlin City that he met Rogue, and from there he got wrapped up with the X-Men.
Quickly going back to his solitary ways, Logan left the mansion to search for more clues about his past. Finding nothing, he returned to the mansion during the events of X2. During the year that followed, Logan was actively involved with the X-Men, still hoping to find the answers to his past.
Time for a Break
In April 2004, Logan received a job offer in Canada, which Marie encouraged him to take. It was a difficult decision for him to make, but in May 2004 he accepted the offer with Alpha Flight. He kept up his physical training and spent a lot of time with Dr Walter Langkowski exploring chemical and biological alternatives to memory-salvage therapy.
Logan’s Return
Logan returned to the mansion in March 2006, less stable than when he had left. While some individuals were happy to see him, others (like Scott and Doug) were less than pleased by his return. Logan had a particularly disastrous initial reunion with Jean, who was under Jane’s control at time, when he attempted to stab her at the zoo. She was able to convince him to not hurt her and Logan later played a part in her rescue from the Hellfire Club.
Out of Place
Logan’s return to the mansion was tumultuous. He had several suspensions from the team and was relieved of his teaching duties due to an incident with Crystal. Despite initially wanting to leave, he eventually settled into living at the mansion and working as a self-defense instructor for Snow Valley, maintaining active friendships with Marie, Ororo, Garrison and a few select others, as well as taking the young Yvette Petrovic under his rough guidance, teaching her to track and to carve wood. A relationship developed between him and Sarah Morlocke, the two finding common ground with their inability to function as ordinary people, and their mutual love of fighting.
The strain was telling, however, and Logan became more and more solitary, taking frequent solo trips into the wilderness. In December 2007, he discovered he was the great-grandfather of Noriko Kikuchi, whose great-grandmother he had apparently met in Japan during his amnesiac years. The crisis point came in January 2008, when he, Garrison, Marie and Heather Hudson encountered the Wendigo whilst searching for Joseph Twoyoungmen, who had gone missing in northern Canada. Forced to tap deep into his animal side in order to protect Heather, Logan had trouble coming back to himself. The decision was made by him to remain in Canada, where he would work on regaining his humanity with the help of his old Alpha Flight friends.
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5'8
Weight: 300
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown and pointy
Other Features: Muttonchop sideburns, retractable claws
Powers
Logan has one natural power and two artificial ones. His natural power is his cellular regeneration talent. Logan heals at an extraordinary rate of speed. Cuts and scrapes disappear in seconds. Gunshot wounds, seconds to minutes. The more extensive the damage, the longer it takes to heal, but there is little save for total incineration or disintegration that can permanently put Logan down. As a side-benefit to his enhanced cellular regenerative rates, his sense of smell is far more sensitive than a normal human's. Logan's sense of smell is about as sharp as a bloodhound's, if not slightly sharper. His hearing also is enhanced beyond human norms - he can hear the scuffle of a combat boot on carpet from across the Mansion if the background noises are sufficiently quiet. Logan's true age is also impossible to determine as his body repairs age-related breakdowns almost as they happen. While he's not immortal (as far as he knows) he will be extraordinarily long-lived. His healing factor also greatly enhances his stamina - his muscles build up lactic acid at an extremely delayed rate compared to normal human muscle tissue.
Logan also possesses three claws, each one a foot long, grafted to the long bones of his forearms. These claws can be extended out between the third knuckles of his fingers. The claws are made from adamantium, a so-far unbreakable substance that also is razor-sharp. Logan can cut through steel and concrete easily with his claws, and other substances with barely more effort than that. Only energy fields are impervious to his claws, and substances more than a foot thick can escape being severed. Logan's healing talent repairs the wounds caused by the extraction of his claws - there are no natural egress points built into his body.
Logan's skeleton has been coated with a thin layer of adamantium as well. This adds the strength of the alloy to the shearing force requirements to break his bones. In other words, his bones are virtually indestructible. Adamantium is also quite ferrous.
Equipment
None.
Trivia
In 2004, whilst Piotr Rasputin was away from the mansion training, Logan became the Art teacher. He was surprisingly good at it.
Logan has a good number of skills that he has no idea how he learned, such as several different styles of Okinawan karate, stealth and tradecraft, motorcycle riding, aircraft piloting and woodcarving.
Logan remembers scents and feelings more than he remembers names or locations.
Plots
2003
X-Men Mission: Bombing At Disneyworld
2004
2006
2007
X-Men Mission: Fin Fang Foom!!!
2008
Meta
Player: Redhawk
E-mail: 140px
AIM: redhawkfg
Player Icon Base: Hugh Jackman
Meta Trivia
Logan was originally played by Bonnie. Redhawk adopted him in March 2006.
