Post by Logan on Nov 29, 2010 2:40:49 GMT -5
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LOGAN
Shane Logain | two hundred and two | Straight | Evil | Hell raiser | Cam Gigandet[/color][/font]
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Disguise You don’t survive over two hundred years without figuring out how to blend in with the crowd. He is a master of disguise, his plain attire allows him to sneak around almost anywhere unnoticed
Assassin As a vampire he was a perfect killer, yet his time with the league of Vampire Assassins taught him to utilize his skills to their maximum potential.
Fighting Having lived for so long Logan has been able to search the world, especially since gaining a soul and truly understand fighting techniques.
Vampire Abilities Super Strength, heightened senses, cool teeth. What more could you ask for?
Detective Skills Logan is a master detective as he spends a lot of time reading detective novels, he also uses his heightened senses while dealing with crime scenes but the novels do help with his exposition.
His Soul His soul gives him a compassion and foresight that most vampires don’t possess.
A prophesy to fulfil His knowledge of the Shanshu Prophesy has given Logan a goal in life, to play his part in the apocalypse, be it for the heroes or villains he will once again be human.
Mentor Having been taught by several great men, women and demons about controlling his abilities and refining his skills he now feels he can pass the information onto others.
Languages He can speak many languages fluently while he is able to understand and speak limited amounts of other languages.
Insight He thinks like a vampire, this gives him an advantage while facing vampire enemies.
WEAKNESSES
Vampire: All the usual things that harm vampires, crosses, holy water, fire and sunlight are all fatal to Logan.
His Soul: Although it is the key to his redemption it is also his biggest burden he carries and as such he suffers a condition not unlike post traumatic stress disorder. He has issues dealing with his violent past. (Unlike angel, Logan has not had a century to deal with his issues, more like a decade so he’s still a little messed up.)
Humanity: Everything he thought he knew when he was a vampire is suddenly becoming less clear the more he bonds with humans.
Pride: He believes that he is a lone warrior and often rejects help from others and stands alone as he has previously cost innocent people their lives. Including a brilliant Slayer which he takes responsibility for.
Human Blood Like an addict who can’t quit when he smells human blood in the air he has to do everything he can to resist going in for the kill.
Doctors Having the unique perspective of watching modern medicine evolve has made Logan very cautions of Doctors, Also due to the experiments that were carried out on him.
Blood Rages He can become enraged occasionally and lose all control. This helps him in dire situations however it is ultimately very dangerous to be around him.
Relations with Humans His gruff demeanour and blunt attitude can rub people up the wrong way, it’s just the way he communicates but he’s rarely the hero who people will thank after he saves them. [/SIZE]
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PERSONALITY At first glance, Logan is seen as a barbarian thug. He is rough, surly, and rude and makes sure everyone gets equal treatment. As the master of the monosyllable, getting him to speak can be an accomplishment in and of itself. He is often believed to be a gruff loner, leaving all commitments he may have and taking missions on his own to solve personal problems without letting anyone else in on the details. Logan is a man fighting a war within – his very human soul competing with an aggressive, hungry animal with a bottomless appetite. This will sometimes manifest in the form of 'blood rages', which he will sometimes sink into when angry enough in the heat of close-combat.
In contrast to his brutish nature, Logan is extremely intelligent. In his two-hundred years of life, he has journeyed the world and has a wealth of knowledge and understanding that very few can rival. He has spent time among Indian warriors, Japanese samurais, European soldiers, Indian monks, and African wise men. As a result he understands many different cultures and languages, including English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Cheyenne, Spanish, Arabic, and Latin; he also understands and can partially speak French, Thai, Vietnamese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and Hindi. He also has a basic understanding for several demonic tongues however is unable to speak them.
Logan has had a hard life, having spent a large portion of it as a heartless killer, a paid assassin and a soulless vampire. However, he has also grown a lot in the century he has been alive, and has developed a strict code of personal honour and morality. Deep down – past the rough exterior – is a tormented man who regrets his past actions, and wishes to make up for unforgivable sins. He is deeply loyal to those he calls friends, and will give them the shirt off his back if he feels they truly need it, and is very protective of the slayer’s legacy, even if it often appears that he doesn't really give a damn about anyone. He is rebellious toward authority, especially the out of date watcher’s council, stubborn in his opinions, and irreverent toward almost everyone, but experience has proven that he is a powerful ally and an irreplaceable friend... even if the others sometimes wish he would go away.
LIKES
Weapons He collects weapons from around the world, mainly bladed. He also has several movie replicas made into actual lethal versions.
Slayers He feels some sort of connection to Slayers as they were both chosen to be champions.
Japan The culture is amazing and everything is open 24/7 perfect for a vampire.
Daytime TV Daytime is a Vampire’s primetime, and there’s nothing Logan enjoys more than the View or Kathy and Hoda in the afternoon. Actually he would rather watch something else but can’t figure out how to work his TiVo.
Comic books Even when he didn’t have a soul he still read and enjoyed comic books.
Smoking The last pleasure of a two hundred year old man who has given up everything in search for redemption. Yet he can’t bring himself to quit smoking.
Detective novels From Miss Marple to the Da Vinci code he loves all works of detective fiction.
Animal Blood Be it Bovine, Swine, Caprine, Serpentine or Feline(only occasionally) Logan can’t live without the stuff, really he couldn’t live without it. He adds cereal for texture and in the morning he uses the microwave to heat it up, so it would be advised not to use his cup.
DISLIKES
Vampires in popular culture Let’s face it they are all lame.
The Beach Although he lives in Miami he has never once visited the beach during the day although once he becomes human it will be the first thing he does.
Rare Bloody Meats it’s not the same unless the blood is hot and coming out of the artery.
Watchers He has only ever met one watcher he didn’t hate. He believes they are outdated.
Drawn human blood The aroma will instantly catch his attention and more than likely distract him.
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On Christmas Eve of 1792, Shane encounters an escaped convict on his father’s property trying to break into his family’s home to steal money from the families safe. The convict scares Shane into stealing food for him. He threatens Shane not to tell anyone and do as he says or he will drink his blood and cut out his heart. Shane fearfully does as the convict asks and even allows him to stay in the barn overnight. The convict tells Shane he will return and reward him for his good deed.
Fifteen years passed before the convict returned to visit Shane once more. He hadn’t aged a day although Shane had become a man. He had taken a wife and had joined his father in business and was even changing the family’s reputation. The Convict was finally able to return his thanks and sired the young man. Shane discarded his Shane Logain identity and christened himself Logan. The Convict disappeared into the night, never to be seen again.
This is where Logan’s history gets interesting.
On the night he is initially sired his hunger is so overpowering he savagely murders his own wife in their marital bed. Feeling no remorse he flees the scene. For the next few years he roams the world, looking for other vampires. He never stayed in the same place for more than two months. Travelling the world he met his fair share of enemies and allies, having sired over a hundred other vampires in his heyday. Through travelling the world he picked up a number of skills, including many languages and combat styles, he rarely stayed in any one place long enough to master one style which has made him a very varied yet extremely versatile fighter.
In this time Logan was a member of the League of Vampire Assassins. Which is as cool as it sounds. He eventually left the cause after an altercation with its leader and became a freelance mercenary, he was never the mastermind but worked for hire, he killed many political figures, celebrities and crime lords. He was one of the world’s highest paid assassins and was even hired by the British government in WWII to kill Hitler, he failed but in his defence Hitler had golems for bodyguards. It was on an assassination to Deli that he encountered his first Slayer. Faiza Begum, an Indian street urchin. She died at the age of only seventeen three years after being given the burden of the Slayer
Logan's abilities quickly call him to the attention of the authorities, upon returning to the United Kingdom in 1978 he is kidnapped by the MI6 in conjunction with the Watcher’s Council and the Slayer at the time, London born punk, Lilly Lane. Lilly was as ruthless as she was smart. She set up a sting which involved her as a honey pot for Logan to be trapped in, she drank a vial of poison before her encounter with Logan and when he finally began to drink her blood he was poisoned. She died but she was able to capture Logan which was in her eyes a victory as she died on her own terms.
MI:6 and the Watchers had uncovered several papers published by Nazi Occult Scientists that spoke of being able to house the soul of a recently departed into a Vampire’s body, which also tied into a prophesy that had been written in the twelfth century regarding the apocalypse. Logan was experimented on for almost a year before his captors managed to gift him with a soul.
The experience shook Logan to his core. There were no longer fond memories of battles won, nor could he understand why he no longer wanted to create havoc. He was held for another six months and weaned of human blood by a friendly apprentice watcher called Naomi. Naomi cared for him and saw him not as a Vampire but a human. She told him the details of the Shanshu Prophesy and said he was to become a champion, yet the Watchers still thought it was too risky to let him free.
Naomi fell in love with Logan however he saw her as nothing more than a means to an end, she would be his only escape. He convinced her he loved her too and they secretly plotted their escape, Naomi using her basic knowledge of magic was able to dispel the barriers which held him and they escaped into the night. Over time he had grown fond of her but he couldn’t bring her with him and abandoned her on tower bridge, telling her to return to the council and help the next slayer.
For the majority of the 80s he lived a fairly nomadic life. Travelling the world for a second time, but with new eyes, he could see the damage that had been done. He helped where he could, he even lived with some trans-dimensional monks who hid in the Himalayas. When the monks were able to find a successful portal back to their home dimension Logan passed up the opportunity to join them as he had unfinished business on Earth.
He crossed paths with the Watcher’s council and a Slayer once again, now in Russia. Svetlana was a young girl of good breeding who had been called upon on her fifteenth birthday, she was 19 when Logan met her. He worked with her in a Clandestine manor, her watcher was aware of his help but did not report his involvement to the Watcher’s council at Svetlana’s Request. Svetlana died when she was unable to defeat a gang of Gargoyles who were terrorising the town of Kondopoga, Logan showed up too late and was unable to save her from her grizzly fate.
Logan was disheartened by his inability to save the slayer and retreated from Russia. He figured that he had to step out on his own and that his fate would not be determined by a Slayer. He continued to live his nomadic existence before he moved to Miami where he has started up his own Private Investigation company, which specialized in the Paranormal. Six months into his new life he discovers that a Slayer had arrived in town.
Hell maybe their fates were connected.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT I’ve chosen to have Logan already running his Private Investigations company as it opens him up to more plotting potential than being linked solely to the slayer. The way I have always looked at it Buffy is Spiderman and Angel is Batman. So while Gamma has great power and great responsibility Logan is actually on a mission. He wants to clean up the streets to make up for his own transgressions and ultimately save the world. Becoming human again is what his ultimate goal is. I could see him undercover amongst the Inner Circle? It would open up some more plotting potential before a double cross or even a triple cross of the Inner Circle already know he isn’t loyal. Who knows? Also Paige/Logan could be a fun pairing to play on the Cordy/Angel dynamic.
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