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OOC PREFERENCES:
•CONTACT METHOD: whitespire
•THREAD-JACKING: Go for it, but if it becomes a long chain that veers off topic please take it to an inbox!
•FOURTH WALLING / CANON PUNCTURE: Yes? And no. It's an extremely complicated situation. If you're interested in doing it, please contact me first. The tldr is that Alan Wake may or may not be fictional in his own universe! It's a lot. This canon is a lot.
•BACKTAGGING: Please!
•AVOIDED TOPICS: Infant/Newborn death is a hard no, ask first re: parental death with cancer
•PREFERRED GENDER PRONOUN: She/Her

IC CHARACTERISTICS:
•CURRENT CANON POINT: End of base game (not final draft)
•PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Tall, vaguely nordic looking man with shoulder length brown hair that ends in a wave, bright blue eyes and an alarmingly well groomed beard. Dresses like a college professor in a Guillermo Del Toro movie. Tweed jacket with elbow patches. He's almost always got a brown leather messenger bag with him with a lamp poking out, and a dedicated strap/spot for a flashlight which never leaves his side. Wedding ring. Typical American accent, tends to sound kind of pulp-y or noir at times. Probably smells a little like coffee.
•DEMEANOR: Stiff. Tired. Constantly on high alert.
•ABILITIES: Insanely talented novelist. Decent with firearms now that he's had practice. And, copied from his app:
Angel Lamp - A simple art deco table lamp with the cord cut, Alan is able to use it as a guiding light. Much like Dumbledore's Illuminator from the Harry Potter series, it has the ability to either take light sources away and into itself, darkening an area, or give light to a place that needs it if there is light stored in it already. While in the Dark Place, this also reveals hidden paths, which won't much matter in the barge. Taking or giving light sources only seems to go work with electricity/light bulbs and not light from fires or other sources.

Imagination: Alan is able to harness his vivid imagination, and combined with a flashlight or other light source he can strengthen the beam. Flashlights can shine a little bit brighter through force of will, and a flare gun can act more like a grenade launcher.

Echoes - As a writer, Alan is able to find inspiration in the most random of places. He has the ability to see and use echoes whenever they appear to him: visions of little snippets of another person's life. This can be anything from an inner monologue to a conversation between two people from any point in their past--all he needs to do is find a little mote of an echo, stand in the right position, and then he can straight up eavesdrop on someone else's life. Further information, examples, and a player opt-in here.

•MEDICAL INFORMATION: While he is a parautilitarian/supernatural guy that can re-write reality, physically, just a normal guy with the exception of light. Being in a well-lit area soothes Alan more than the average person. While not a magical cure-all, Alan can recover a tiny bit of his health via video game logic--not a whole lot, that goes to painkillers and bandages in his inventory, but enough that if he's on deaths door he can at least not bleed out if he makes it to a safe haven before he falls unconscious! If your character does have the ability to sense supernatural Alan will probably kick off a lot of alarm bells-- just PM me!

•CABIN INFORMATION: The door is a simple, ordinary white door with a spiral on it. The cabin interior is his writer's room. Please get him a cot, someone. Anyone.
•OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS: Badmouth his wife and it's an immediate fight on sight.

IC PERMISSIONS:
•MENTAL: Alan's mind/memory is swiss cheese at this point. I'd be very into this, but I'd love ooc communication first!
•MIMICRY: Absolutely, it's happened like three times in canon.
•VIOLENCE: Yes
•MAGIC: Yes.
•DEBATE: Yes, but Alan is an insanely stubborn guy who's convinced he's right 90% of the time, so be prepared for that.
•OTHER / NOTES: n/a