⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Redd
Contact: pokerap | AIM: writersblockredd
Age: 26
Current Characters: Ryuunosuke Uryuu | Fate/Zero | greatestcool
Frank Archer | Fullmetal Alchemist | sadisticwarfare
Yeager | Tales of Vesperia | scythegun


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Logan
Age: No canon age is given but he is older than the protagonist who looks to be in their early- to mid-twenties; 32 is the headcanon age I'll be using for him
Canon: Fable III
Canon Point: Immediately after his first confrontation with his sibling over the protesters, before his sibling escapes the castle with Walter and Jasper

Background:

Logan @ Fable Wiki | Fable III Synopsis

It would be impossible to write an application for Logan without mentioning his sibling and his parent, the former King/Queen of Albion. They're both very influential figures in his life. Keeping the genders of these two vague would be incredibly difficult, so to make things easier on myself I'm going to use the headcanon that the Hero of Bowerstone is Logan's mother (former Queen of Albion) and the Hero of Brightwall is Logan's sister.

Personality:

Once upon a time, Albion was ruled by a benevolent queen who united the land and kept the peace intact. Her son, Logan, took the throne after her and attempted to maintain the same sort of peaceful rule. But a threat even greater than the one the Hero Queen had seen was facing Albion - and only the King himself knew.

Ultimately, Logan wants to be a good person. This is very important because quite frankly, Logan makes a lot of awful decisions. Four years prior to the start of Fable III, Logan journeyed to Aurora - a distant, desert land - with a group of soldiers. Journeying is something he had done numerous times in the past, though it was his first time going to such a distant land. It was during his travels that he ran into the Crawler, a monstrous being that wanted to destroy Albion and spread its darkness. No one knows exactly what happened, but Logan was the only one to survive the ordeal. He was nursed back to health by the Aurorans and he returned to Albion after promising to bring an army to wipe out the Crawler and end its reign of terror over the people of Aurora.

That one event changed Logan's life and outlook on it in an instant. He went from being a more idealistic ruler who ultimately wanted to maintain peace and keep things as fair and balanced as possible (a very difficult job, and one he personally didn't find himself quite suited for) to a tyrant in a relatively short span of time. The darkness had touched him, and he knew just how terrifying it was. He needed to find a way to stop it, and fast. The best way to prepare against the incoming darkness was to build an unbeatable army, and in order to build an army capable of combating the darkness he needed funds. Logan was quick to employ Reaver (a pirate-turned-businessman who served as an ally in Fable II), who went on to form child labor laws in Bowerstone Industrial, for the sole purpose of raising money. It didn't matter who Logan had to hurt in order to make the money necessary to build up his army - the ends justify the means, and in this case, that meant the difference between total annihilation and salvation.

Let's back up for a moment. Logan obviously wasn't always a tyrant king who would go so far as to sacrifice his people's safety and happiness for money. Actions don't necessarily define a person, after all. They do speak louder than words, however, and words aren't something Logan offered a lot of to explain or justify what he was doing. Possibly the biggest mistake Logan made was not telling anyone just what the seer Teresa (the same seer who guided his mother to victory against Lucian in Fable II) had told him - the Crawler would attack Albion and destroy the nation, spreading darkness as it went. Why didn't Logan say anything? He figured the people would decide he was insane and would rebel. Yes, like reigning with an iron fist wouldn't result in that. Obviously his decisions there aren't exactly the best. His decision-making skills aren't much better, but he is very decisive and once he's selected a course of action, he sticks to it despite whatever morals he might have or whatever the popular opinion might be. The ends justify the means. If he has to harm his nation to spare it, then so be it.

Logan does have strong morals and he does realize that what he's doing is terrible. He can understand why people would turn against him, and he understands the unrest within the kingdom. That doesn't mean he'll change his mind about the way he's doing things, however. Even when his own sister - the one person he genuinely cared about - turns against him and leads a rebellion to overthrow him, Logan shows no signs of altering his course any. In fact, he does just the opposite. He forces his sister to choose between sacrificing a group of protesters or her childhood friend, simply because she spoke up against him. Granted, Logan was going to have the protesters killed anyway, but he ultimately forces his sister to make an incredibly tough decision. As he puts it, it was time he "stopped treating her like a child." Logan executes whomever she chooses and she retorts that she will never forgive him for this. That was just what Logan wanted; if she never forgave him, she'd never forget it either. Why would he be so cruel toward his own sister? Because Logan knew that someday she would be forced to make incredibly difficult decisions like this. She would one day rule Albion and she would come to understand just what he had to go through. But for the time being, she had turned against him, and Logan lashed out. He attempts to justify it, both to her and to himself, but ultimately Logan was acting out of anger.

This is hardly the only time Logan gets angry at someone and lashes out, however. He has had protesters and "spies" killed in the past for opposing him. This was by no means necessary or profitable, but it did instill a sense of fear within Albion. Opposing Logan would lead to death. Captain Swift (a member of the "old guard", a group of soldiers loyal to the ideals Logan's mother left behind) is an excellent example of this - Logan discovered that Swift was attempting to recruit people to his sister's cause; she had already turned Swift and his soldiers against him, so Logan took his anger out on Swift. He had Swift executed in a public display that was hardly necessary and overly brutal, but done out of anger, hopefully to dissuade anyone else from opposing him. It didn't work and only made the rebels even more furious with him, but Logan wasn't thinking of how the rebels would react when he ordered Swift's execution. Though Logan was fully aware that it was an awful thing to do, he has no remorse in doing it. Swift is not someone Logan brings up again and he never apologizes for what he did.

Emotions are a bit of a strange thing with Logan. He never looks anything but mildly unhappy, even when things are actually going his way. He spends a good deal of his time in the War Room, overlooking a map of Albion. He talks to himself and makes plans out loud, never once showing any sort of emotion other than frustration. The position of king is obviously a very stressful one, and it's one he was more or less forced into due to his bloodline and position as the elder brother. His sister was far too young to rule when his mother died, and Logan accepted the throne as he was supposed to. That is a major problem Logan has - there are all sorts of expectations placed on him, and he has to live up to them regardless of whether he wants to or not. He is the King of Albion, his duty is to serve the people first and foremost. This results in some bizarre emotional behavior. Logan is expected to be calm at all times and deal with things with a level head. He isn't supposed to show fear. He is supposed to be a leader regardless of the circumstances. Logan doesn't mind the position - he doesn't believe he's the best suited for it, but what other options are there? - and he has adapted to it quite well. That means that no, he shouldn't ever seem to be afraid or anything but calm, even when he's feeling other emotions. This is usually his state, calm and collected, but the biggest exception is anger. Logan usually looks furious when he's ordering executions and ordering his own sister to decide the fate of her friend and a group of protesters is no exception. Teresa, the seer, shows Logan's sister an image of him ranting at the map in the War Room - he gets surprisingly riled up even though he's by himself in the image; he's talking about the Crawler but it appears as though Logan's talking about destroying Albion. His sister believes he's crazy and his emotional displays (or more accurately, the lack thereof) make this seem entirely plausible. This doesn't mean that Logan is only capable of feeling anger, however.

Logan does feel a lot of guilt for what he's doing to the country. He feels guilt for the soldiers he lost in battling the Crawler, and he feels guilt for betraying his promise to the Aurorans, and he feels (some) guilt for the people he's hurt and had killed in the name of defending Albion. He believes that he's a good person deep down, but ultimately stopping the Crawler is far more important that doing the "right" thing at the moment. Whether Logan is actually a good person inside is up in the air, but "the ends justify the means" is more or less a personal mantra by now and it's not doing him any favors. Logan feels he has to do what will benefit the country in the long run rather than in the short term. He has to keep the country alive, even if that means going down in history as the worst ruler. He will do whatever it takes to save Albion from the coming darkness. This does not make him selfless, however; Logan does have a certain level of comfort that he expects and maintains - the castle is never affected by the poverty that plagues the rest of the country, after all - but he does not put himself before the country. Albion as a whole is more important than any individual, including its king. As such, the guilt Logan feels is locked away. It's something he can deal with later. Saving the country is more important. If being a dictator and ruling with an iron fist will ensure their survival then fine, he'll be the hated ruler of Albion. He has to do what is best for the country. After his sister takes over as queen, he will accept her decision to kill him, believing this to be best for the country. Should the player decide to spare Logan, at the end of the game (after the Crawler has been defeated) he'll say that Albion will heal better without him and he presumably leaves the country.

Ultimately Logan's loyalty to Albion and his sense of duty are his defining characteristics and they drive him to do some truly horrible things. He has plenty of regrets but his personal morals can be shoved aside for the sake of doing what he believes will save Albion. Logan is decisive but rash, often giving in to anger and using his power to harm others even when there's no defending his actions as "necessary" to save Albion. There's no denying that Logan has been messed up by his encounter with the Crawler, but he was never going to be the perfect ruler either. Logan is defined by his position as the King of Albion, something that won't follow him or be able to define him in another world.

Abilities:

Unlike his mother and sister, Logan is not a Hero. Heroes are capable of wielding magic and powerful abilities, making them exceptionally skilled fighters capable of tackling dangerous threats all on their own. Logan is a perfectly ordinary human. He's never shown fighting, but he carries a sword at his side and judging from several remarks the characters make in-game, Logan presumably went off exploring prior to the incident in Aurora. So Logan used to fight a lot and was at least decent at it. Logan is also responsible for the complete lack of trolls in Albion - they were a strong enemy fought frequently in Fable II - so Logan most likely used the hammers he had commissioned to take out the trolls. It's been four years since he's done any serious fighting, but he can still defend himself if need be. Otherwise Logan has no special skills or abilities despite being the son of one of the most powerful Heroes in Albion.

Alignment:

Thras. Four years ago Logan embarked on an exploration into the unknown and faced the Crawler. He was a different man then and someone who fell closer to "bravery" until he faced the Crawler. Everything he does during the course of canon can ultimately be attributed to his fear of the Crawler and what the Crawler will do to Albion, though his actions are all an attempt to stop the monster from afar. Basically he has the potential to go either way on the scale, though right now he's leaning more towards fear.

Other: If this app looks familiar, that's because it is! I've edited it a bit, but I submitted this app some time ago!


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample:

(Threads with Kamui and Farina on the test drive, with another emotion sample below!)

The more time he spends here, the more he realizes how screwed Albion is. Perhaps it's not really fair to say that when Reaver is still in Albion and is perfectly capable of running Industry on his own (though without someone to constantly nag him who knows what the industrialist is doing) but ultimately Albion is without a ruler. The only options are a temporary one or putting his sister on the throne, which is highly unlikely given her current status as a wanted criminal for treason.

Logan has been told that time doesn't pass back home while he's here. Theoretically it should be possible, it would be like a Slow Time Potion, only extended for however long he's here. Logan has never been good at sitting still though and he finds that he always gets worked up at night.

(Maybe it's because of the Crawler. He always associates darkness with the Crawler.)

He's noticed lately that the walls in the apartment he's been staying in have gotten darker. The color's been creeping up from the floorboards (which are also darker) and while it doesn't quite look the same as the dripping, oozing darkness from Shadelight, it's made him uneasy. His crystal has darkened to the point where he feels the need to hide it as well. He's not doing well here, but he never really expected to.

"Albion needs me," He says to himself, once again finding himself drawn to the window. He folds his hands behind his back as he stares out at the city. "If I don't return to Albion soon, I—"

He doesn't finish his thought because something moves. He's the only person in the room (in the apartment) so there shouldn't be anything moving and Logan turns toward it immediately. His hand goes for his sword, but he doesn't have it on him. Why would he? He's in the safety of his own apartment.

(He thought it was safe, at least. That was clearly a mistake.)

The moving thing is a shadow. It's not one of the Crawler's Children but Logan freezes in place anyway. He feels the familiar fear that washes over him every single time he thinks about the damn Crawler and what he experienced across the sea and that makes the shadow grow. It climbs up the wall and begins to spread once it reaches the ceiling. His fear is only making it worse; he knows that emotions do that here (for some reason) and he knows they can manifest in different ways. If he wasn't terrified maybe he'd find it insulting that his fear manifests as shadows. Or maybe he'd find it cruel. It doesn't matter because he's not in a place where he can consider that without making this worse somehow.

The shadows don't have eyes, at least. They aren't mocking him in his head and they aren't trying to attack him. They're simply spreading out from the ceiling and down the other walls, covering the entire room in darkness. "No, not again." He's not sure how his voice is as steady as it is, but it's exactly what he needs to snap himself out of the stunned state. "I'm not doing this again."

He grabs his sword on his way to the door and when he leaves the apartment, the shadows trail after him. They leave dark marks across the floors and walls of the hallway, but by the time he reaches the lake, they've been reduced to tiny tendrils trying to kill the grass beneath him. They're powerless as long as he's not afraid.

If only the Crawler were that easy to subdue.

Questions: N/A