<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/QUGJ6UA.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Logan</strong></span></span></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Basics</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Full Name:</strong>James ‘Logan’ Howlett, f.k.a. Wolverine<br/><strong>Age:</strong>Indeterminate, possibly a couple hundred years, but he physically appears to be in his late 50’s/early 60’s<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Nationality: </strong>Canadian<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>History teacher, can substitute for Combat classes<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Physical Description</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Hair Colour:</strong>White with a peppering of gray<br/><strong>Eye Colour:</strong>Green<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5’3”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>200 lbs.<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong>Hugh Jackman, specifically using stills from the<em>Logan</em>film due in March 2017<br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Nothing distinctive that isn't described in the general appearance below.<br/><br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong>Logan has a distinct look. He’s shorter than most men, but is wide and muscular which gives him a deceiving sense of largeness. His hair is soft-looking, mostly white with some stubborn gray still peppering through, and lacking the iconic ‘spikes’ that he sported in his youth.  Also unlike his younger self, Logan wears a beard, with a thick moustache and a particularly riveting set of sideburns.<br/><br/>He typically dresses in an unassuming and comfortable wardrobe, even when he’s ‘superheroing’. He patterns most of his outfits around a tan-colored bomber jacket, usually wearing light plain shirts beneath, and some drab blue jeans that seem to be as old as him. During classes he adopts a more academic look, with a particular flair for suspenders and glasses.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Who they are</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Logan was the Wolverine of the past- aggressive, confident, cocky, brutally honest- but he’s had much of his abrasiveness rubbed away with age. He is that man, but 50 years older, and he lived through a practical hell on Earth of an alternate future that has left him troubled and perhaps sensitive.<br/><br/>For the bulk of the fifty years between the death of his X-Men and his inexplicable transference to the current present, Logan was a strict pacifist, to the point of failing to defend himself against aggressors. When the villains arose during his past, he had been tricked into murdering nearly every friend he had ever had. He committed suicide (though it didn’t take, of course) and from then on vowed to never unsheath his claws again. Though Logan survived that night, Wolverine died forever. Since returning to the present and uniting with these familiar yet different X-Men, he is still hesitant to fight, but he has ultimately, reluctantly revoked his previous vows in the face of danger to his team and his students.<br/><br/>Now that he lives in ‘the past’, Logan is constantly wary that the villainous uprising that had ended the world as he knew it is always around the corner. Logan is on alert for trouble, thinking each night the horrors of his past would begin to repeat themselves, that he would be fooled into killing everyone he loved yet again. He has trouble looking into the faces of some particular mutants, remembering their horrified, dead expressions from when Mysterio had used his illusions to force him to kill every soul within the Xavier school.<br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>He doesn’t remember much from before the Weapon X program abducted him and turned him into a killing machine, but whatever you’ve heard about Logan since then is probably true. He’s lived a long and varied life, has been a part of seemingly ever mutant team that has ever existed, and some that you aren’t supposed to know existed.<br/><br/>Then, one night, everything changed, and Logan’s life became hell. Villains attacked the Xavier school, and Logan watched his good friend and young protege Jubilee die in a sudden, senseless explosion. His peers on the X-Men- Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, etc.- were nowhere to be found, and Wolverine urged the students to flee into the escape tunnels beneath the school while he fended off the likes of Stryfe, Doctor Octopus, Sinister, Bullseye and many others.<br/><br/>It was only when the fight ended did Logan realize what had happened. He awoke from his blood frenzy to find himself holding the still warm corpse of Jubilee. She had not died in an explosion, but at the end of his claws. And all around him were the corpses of his allies… Cyclops, his face and visor slashed in half, Havok completely beheaded, Storm lying broken on the floor like a discarded doll, Beast’s back snapped in half leaving him mangled and hideous… The master illusionist, Mysterio, stood over him then, having tricked Logan, even his sharp senses, into murdering the mutants, every last one of them in the school.<br/><br/>Beaten and devastated, he stumbled off of the school grounds and wandered north for miles and miles, before laying down in front of a freight train in an attempt to kill himself. Though Logan survived as his head was crushed beneath the screaming steel wheels, Wolverine died that night, and for half a century onwards, Logan never unsheathed his claws. He would never hurt another soul again.<br/><br/>The country was torn apart, carved into kingdoms by various villains. Logan eventually drifted westward, where he met a woman, Maureen, and fell in love with her. The two of them settled down outside of Sacramento, California, on land run by the Hulk Gang, ruthless hillbilly landlords, descended from an incestuous relationship between a maddened Bruce Banner and his cousin, Jennifer Walters. The two of them had two children, Jade and Scott, and though it was difficult living under oppression, Logan was happy for a long time, working as a farmer to keep his family fed and sheltered.<br/><br/>Then, everything went wrong. Hawkeye, old and blind, enlisted him on a journey across the country, Logan only agreeing to help his old friend so that he could pay rent to the increasingly greedy Hulks. During his travels to the east coast, he witnessed the atrocities of the past and the bleakness of the present. It wasn’t until Clint was betrayed on the east coast by agents of the Fuhrer Red Skull that Logan broke his vow. He killed Red Skull’s men and the murderous tyrant himself, and jetted back to California to take out the Hulk Gang so that his family could live in peace.<br/><br/>He arrived too late. The Hulks came weeks early to collect on their due rent, and when Logan wasn’t there to pay, they brutally murdered Maureen, Scotty, and Jade. With nothing left to lose, Logan sought out each of the twisted kin of Banner and killed them all, including their senile patriarch.<br/><br/>Logan began to fight for justice once again, working to slowly loosen the grip of the villains on the world. But before he could complete his quest, Logan was lost in time, and awoke in circa 2010’s New York City, where he was taken in by the X-Men, the sames one that he had mistakenly murdered fifty years ago… Only this time was different. The Avengers no longer existed. Neither did the Fantastic Four, nor the Defenders, nor S.W.O.R.D. nor S.H.I.E.L.D. nor A.I.M. nor the Power Pack. The only superhuman people that existed were the mutants themselves, and there was a fair share of differences there, too. Some were familiar, like the Professor, but others were different... Cyclops was a woman, and a kid, Psylocke was almost as young as her, and his own younger self was dead, encased in Adamantium.<br/><br/>Still, even though the past is drastically different from what he remembers, Logan is vigilant and wary that the past will still find some way of repeating itself and thrusting the world into villain-dominated chaos.<br/><br/>Logan's opinions on the three current factions:<br/><br/>Xavier and his school: Professor Xavier knows Logan's past, and Logan fully understands why the Professor operates his team and his mutants as strictly non-lethal. It's a stance that he's comfortable with, as he's reluctant to even pop his claws in self defense, afraid that he'll once again be tricked into murdering everyone he loves. Logan does his best as a member of the faculty to keep the school in order, even when it is occasionally thrust into chaos by anti-mutant forces outside of its doors, a constant influx of mutant refugees sent into their care, and the threat of escalation posed by Magneto's revolutionary faction.<br/><br/>Magneto and his Brotherhood: Magneto was one of several villains that arose to destroy the world in his past. While many of the other villains no longer exist, Magneto does, and worse, he's considered perhaps the world's greatest villain. Logan is constantly wary that Magneto will be the one to recreate his horrific past, and is staunchly opposed to Magneto's tactics and ideology, even if he agrees, on some level, that the government should be opposed.<br/><br/>The anti-mutant U.S. Government: The past that Logan came was partially ruled by a fascist Red Skull, and Logan thinks that the old Nazi villain would admire what the current United States leadership has done to the mutant community. A Canadian without even the concept of patriotism to make him apologize for their actions, he is a vocal critic of their policies, though not nearly as stand-offish as his adopted daughter, Laura. When forced to interact with government entities on campus, Logan does it with a frown.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Superpowers &amp; Equipment</span></strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Class:</strong>Beta<br/><br/><strong>Advanced Healing Factor:</strong>Logan’s healing factor is not as potent as it once was; Wounds that took seconds to seal now take minutes, but he can still effectively heal from any conceivable wound.<br/><br/><strong>Bone Claws:</strong>A secondary mutation, Logan has claws of bone that emerge from the three center knuckles on his hands, extending roughly ten inches long.<br/><br/><strong>Superhuman Senses:</strong>Logan has superior senses, particularly sight, smell and hearing. These senses are most commonly applied to tracking, as he can follow decayed scents, see from great distances and hear through walls. He can even identify people based on their scent.<br/><br/><strong>Adamantium Skeleton:</strong>After Logan was captured by Weapon X, the program forcibly grafted adamantium to his skeleton. Most prominently this means that his bone claws have become razor sharp blades, but this also includes the same advantages and flaws of having metal throughout one's entire body (e.g. having one hell of a headbutt, but not being able to float). The adamantium poisons his body, which slows his healing factor, which, over time, has allowed Logan to slowly show age.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong><strong>Flaws or Weaknesses</strong></strong></span></span><br/><br/><strong>Made of Metal:</strong>With adamantium coating every inch of his skeleton, Logan is understandably extremely susceptible to magnetism and an inability to float. (He’s strong enough to swim, but floating is definitely out of the question.)<br/><br/><strong>Regressed Healing:</strong>Whether it’s the march of time or the slow buildup of adamantium poisoning his immune system, Logan’s healing factor is not what it used to be. To the layman, he may heal remarkably fast from wounds, and can still completely heal from decapitation of limbs and near annihilation, but experienced observers would see a significant slowness in this regeneration compared to his previous capacities.<br/><br/><strong>Reluctant Fighter:</strong>Logan was tricked into killing almost every mutant that ever lived, including every one that had been at the Xavier school when the villains rose up. For fifty years he never popped a claw, not even in self defense. Since then he’s broken his vow to never hurt or kill, but he is still hesitant to do so, afraid that he will once again accidentally harm someone he loves.<br/><br/><strong>Paranoid:</strong>It happened at exactly midnight, eastern standard time. The villains tooked out the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the Defenders and other super-teams almost simultaneously at that time, while Logan was tricked into doing the same to his team. Logan never sleeps before midnight, constantly wary that, despite all of those non-mutant villains and heroes no longer existing, history will repeat itself, and he’s always looking for signs that the villains will rise together again and reignite an apocalyptic future.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Other</strong></span><br/><br/>Playing him rather faithfully to the current Old Man Logan comics. References to his past will be extremely faithful, even if those characters are critically different in their current incarnations. For example, if a player decides to play a female Nightcrawler, Logan will still remember Kurt Waggoner of his past. After all, divergent timelines and all means that not all details are the same as the past that he came from. This is represented in comics and I hope not to offend anyone with this, as I love original spins on existing characters such as age changes, gender bending, etc.<br/><br/>PC & NPC Connections:<br/><br/>Lady Deathstrike: In a world so different, Logan is surprised to find his relationship with Mariko, for better or for worse, is pretty much where he left it. She is his bitter enemy, and worse, she thinks Logan is 'cheating death' by existing after he had already died, even though the Logan she knew is, in fact, dead.<br/><br/>Sabertooth: Sabertooth is one of the villains chiefly at fault for the previous Logan's death, so now Logan is especially on guard against his sometimes bitter enemy, sometimes brother in case Sabertooth now considers his job to be left unfinished.<br/><br/>Rahne Sinclair: Logan recognizes Wolfsbane as a bright pupil but is frustrated by how inability to draw any attention to herself. He wants to help her open up and be less shy and assertive.<br/><br/>Betsy Braddock: One of Logan's first missions with these new X-Men happened to involve Betsy's liberation from The Hand. It was one of the first, and most potent reminders that this was not his world, these were not his people. Betsy was nothing like what he remembered. She'd never been on missions with Wolverine, Longshot, Colossus, Storm, Dazzler, Havok, Maddie, Rogue... He once confronted her, demanding that she remember him, and it didn't go very well.<br/><br/>Salem Summers: She's another, equally egregious example of how much this world differed from his own. She had a similar past to his Scott, but of course was a young woman, not a man. Their personalities are so strikingly similar, and Logan can't help but feel like a hypocrite as he realized that Scott's humorless boy scout routine was much more charming coming from a cute young woman.<br/><br/>Laurie Collins: Wallflower is Logan's teaching assistant. He has partly selfish reasons for wanting her around, hoping that her pheromone powers, which transmit her own mood to others, would mean that she would lend him some of her natural cheerful optimism, which he sorely lacks.