X-MEN ☆ james 'logan' howlett / wolverine

SETTING

2020's, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Westchester, New York.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: ("James Howlett") Alias: ("Logan" + "Wolverine" + "Wolvy" + "Skunk" + "Runt" + "Wolvermean" + "Amazing Immortal Man") Age: ("200-something") Birthplace: ("Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada") Affiliation: ("X-Men Louisiana Team" + "Formerly the Avengers" + "Formerly the Co-Leader of the X-Force")

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APPEARANCE

Logan is a rough-looking berserker, standing at 5'3", or 160cm. He is rather buff and hairy, which is why he gets compared to a wild animal quite often. He weighs about 300 lbs, or 136.08 kg, mostly because of how heavy his skeleton made of Adamantium is. Logan possesses animal-like canine teeth; two sets of three, foot-long retractable bone claws stored in his forearms (also covered in Adamantium); mutton chop sideburns; a weirdly unique hairstyle; and a hirsute physique. His hair is black, and his eyes a steel blue color. He also possesses a scruffy beard.

PERSONALITY

Logan has a tendency to get angry....alot. He is naturally short tempered, and harm to his friends can send Logan into a berserker rage..where morality goes completely out the window and he becomes an animal...a killing machine. Word to the wise? play it safe: Don't make him angry. Logan has the spirit of a guardian angel. He cares and cares deeply, despite his cold and gruff demeanor. For his friends and those he loves, there is no distance he wouldn't cross, no pain he wouldn't suffer, and no opponent he wouldn't face. It's just how he works...besides, whoever scorned him has something coming. Logan's lived a very long and very hard life. He's had to learn lessons over and over again, and while he may be a big softy on the inside, on the outside he's an insufferable grouch who looks like he hates everything. Somehow it's attracted many friends and foes over the years, but underneath that cold exterior is a warrior's honor, a defender, and a lover more than a fighter. Broken: Logan's lived a -very- long time. He's fallen in love. He's made friends. He's had kids even! But one way or another, everything always ends the exact same way: everyone is dead, and Logan is still alive to wander the earth. Thanks to this he avoids getting close to people, out of fear that he'll lose them too. This heavily fuels his protective nature. Much of his beer-drinking is in mourning for those he lost. Logan has tons and tons...and tons...and tons...AND TONS of pride. He can be lured into fights pretty easily and he tends not to hold back when he fights scumbags. He won't kill an unarmed man though, his honor and his pride more often than not being the same thing.

BACKGROUND

Wolverine's life began in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, sometime between 1882 and 1885, a couple of weeks before the 19th of April. The mutant who would come to be known simply as "Logan" was first born with the name James Howlett, the illegitimate son of a rampant affair between Elizabeth Howlett (who was married to John Howlett, owner of a large estate) and the Howletts' grounds-keeper, Thomas Logan. As a boy, James was notably frail and prone to bouts of allergic attacks, often kept in bed by sickness and other physically restraining symptoms. He was largely neglected by his mother, who had been institutionalized for a time following the death of her first son, John Jr. in 1897. James was constantly under the pressure of his grandfather, Mr. Howlett, who believed that James required constant punishment by a strong hand, in order to be raised properly. "Firm, but fair," was what Mr. Howlett said to justify his abusive actions. Regardless, nothing would prepare James for the happenings and tragedies life would send his way. Thomas, in a drunken stupor and armed with a shotgun, invaded the Howlett Estate with his son and attempted to take his former lover Elizabeth with him. John, Sr. attempted to stop him and Thomas shot him in the head, in cold blood. James had just entered the room when this occurred and his mutation finally manifested: bone claws extended from the backs of his hands and he attacked the intruders with uncharacteristic ferocity, killing Thomas immediately. Already an emotionally disturbed woman since the death of her first son, Elizabeth, completely unhinged, drove James away and took her life immediately afterward with a blast from Thomas' gun. Thus leaving James Howlett completely and utterly alone for the first time in his life. James flees into the wilderness and does not emerge for many years. By the time he does, he simply goes by the name Logan. He lives as a drifter, gambling, killing and fighting for a living until his travels take him to the island of Madripoor where he first encounters the organization known as HYDRA. He witnesses them pulling the strings behind the scenes of world events and that lights a fire in him he hadn't felt in a long time. Thus did he decide to return home to Canada and fight in World War I. Despite his highly meritorious and valorous service during the war, Logan falls out with his unit, The Devils Brigade, after he repeatedly finds himself at odds with his officers. He leaves the army and starts living off the land again. During this time he meets a native woman named Silver Fox and they marry, living happily together until shes abducted by another animalistic mutant named Sabertooth. This act sends Logan over the edge as he hunts down Sabertooth in rage. While, sadly, he does not find them during his journey, he comes to Japan and meets the renowned martial arts master named Ogun. Ogun takes Logan under his wing and trains him in Japanese martial arts and philosophy, helping Logan control his animalistic nature and mature from a simple brute to a sophisticated warrior. Following his time in Japan, Logan wandered the world again fighting in the Mexican Revolution, working as a bandit, a bootlegger, a PI and many other things. All the while learning new skills and trades. Among his teachers during this time is the father of Black Widow, who teaches Logan how to be spy but their partnership ends with Logan being involved in the mans untimely death and Natasha's adoption by Ivan. When the Second World War begins Logan returns to Canada where he joins the Canadian special forces and crosses paths with Captain America, Nick Fury and Black Widow. After the war he tries to give up fighting and become a monk but his enemies soon find him, killing his fellow monks and sending Logan to once again wander the world alone. Logan lives the life of a nomad until he is picked up by Team X and has his memories altered once again. He fights in Vietnam for the US Government alongside Silver Fox and Sabertooth completely unaware of their past history. Its during this time he is given the name Wolverine. Despite the modifications to his memory and Team Xs efforts to keep Logan under their thumb, he and Sabertooth renew their hatred for each other in short order. With the help of distractions and the mutants presence, Logan manages to escape to freedom. He doesn't stay gone for long before he is recaptured and, in what proves to be a poor decision by Team X, he is modified by bonding Adamantium to his skeleton. The pain of the process taxes Logan's healing factor to its limits and sends him into an absolutely feral state. In his rage he kills most of the scientists working on him and claws his way through dozens of highly trained operatives to get out of the Weapon X facility to freedom. Now calling himself Wolverine, he becomes a wanderer again until he is tracked down by Heather and James Hudson while in Canada. The pair are superheroes working for the Canadian government under the code-names Vindicator and Guardian. They bring Logan in and he is given over to Department H, where he is reformed and pressed into service in the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight. His time with the team is marked by intense disputes with the teams other members as well as unrequited feelings for Heather Hudson. After Logan leaves Alpha Flight, he travels into the United States and while he's there, a fateful destiny causes him to encounter Professor Charles Xavier, finding him after a run in with mutant terrorists including Sabertooth calling themselves the Brotherhood of Mutants. Despite only coming with Charles because the telepathic mutant promises to restore his memory, Logan soon finds himself part of a new team: the X-Men. A group of mutants working to protect humanity and mutantkind alike. Despite thinking their cause was hopeless and not getting along with their leader, Cyclops (and being in love with Cyclops' on-again, off-again lover, Jean Grey), deep down Logan likes the team and the school it was based out of and finds in it something he had never had before: a home. Joining the X-Men brings Wolverine to the attention of the hero community at large. He'd met Captain America (during world war 2, known as 'Lucky James', but Cap didn't know about his healing factor), the Hulk and others in the past but never as a fellow hero, and while he doesn't always get along with everyone he meets (coughs), he definitely makes a name for himself as a known hero in short order. Through the school and the X-Men, Logan finds he makes powerful, personal connections to Charles Xavier and Jean Grey, as well as some of Xavier Institute students; such as Kitty Pryde and Jubilee, becoming something of a father-figure or at least a big brother to the both of them. (despite he officially thinks them as his adopted daughters) When it came to his team, Logan always got along best with Nightcrawler, Colossus and Jean Grey but eventually came to respect the others, yes, even Cyclops. Thats not to say Logan didnt have his friction with some of the team or the students and he often left to go travelling, but he always returned. The longest of these trips happened after Jean Grey's transformation into Dark Phoenix, leading to her death. The second came after her return bringing up old feelings he thought he had forgotten. It was during this period Logan would meet his much younger, female clone Laura Kinney, aka X-23, aka Talon. The two started off fighting, but came to understand one another (at least to some degree) with Logan watching over her from afar until she joined Xavier's School and eventually, the X-Men. He eventually ended up in Japan, more than happy to let Laura take on his codename, but ended up fighting Yashida Shingen and meeting and falling in love with Mariko, though eventually they would part ways due to Mariko's role in her family's business. She would later be killed by Sabertooth and Logan would once again wander, returning periodically to Xavier's before hitting the road again. Now Logan is back, seemingly over his loss for now, and fitting back into the peaceful routine of the school until the next adventure comes calling.

...and he's always ready for a friendly game of 'SNIKT!'.

GOAL

Nothing specific. He just wants to survive.

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