[center][h1][color=fff200][b]WOLVERINE[/b][/color][/h1]133 [color=fff200]⬥[/color] James "Logan" Howlett [color=fff200]⬥[/color] Chaotic Good

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	[color=fff200]⭙ [sub]T I M E L I N E[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr][indent][color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]1883[/b] - James Howlett is born in Cold Lake, Alberta, thought to be the son of John Howlett Sr. and Elizbaeth Howlett. His father is actually Thomas Logan, a groundskeeper at the estate. James spent most of his early years on the estate grounds with two playmates that lived on the Howlett Estate with him: Rose O'Hara, a girl who was brought in from town to be a companion to young James, and a boy nicknamed "Dog", Thomas Logan's son (and James's half-brother). The children were close friends, but, as they reached adolescence, the abuse inflicted upon Dog warped his mind. Dog made unwanted advances towards Rose, which James reported to his father. In retaliation, Dog killed James' puppy, in turn leading to the expulsion of Thomas and Dog from the estate. In turn, Thomas Logan kills John Howlett Sr. during a confrontation. These events lead James to leave home and lead a nomadic life.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]1901-1902[/b] - Logan settles in with Silver Fox, who is murdered by Sabretooth on Wolverine’s birthday in a series of yearly recurring attacks on that day. Sabretooth kills Silver Fox.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]1914-1945[/b] - Service in WWI, time spent in Madripoor.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]1946[/b] - Throughout Logan’s travels during World War II and afterwards, he meets Ogun, who mentors him in martial arts.

      Logan settles in Japan with Itsu. Itsu is pregnant, though is killed by Winter Soldier, who was sent by Romulus, a mutant who has been alive for ages and has taken a particular interest in shaping Logan’s life. 

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]1960's and 1970's[/b] - Wolverine eventually enlists with the CIA, and becomes part of Team X, along with Sabretooth.  He spends time around the world performing covert operations, with  notable service in Germany, Southeast Asia and Central Africa.

Logan is eventually placed within the Experiment X program, under the Weapon X project.  The government experiments with different means to take best advantage of Logan's mutations. The team arrives at the plan to bond adamantium to his skeleton, a process uniquely applicable to him due to his healing factor. Mind control is used to keep him in line, but Logan eventually manages an escape, albeit with no memory of what came before.

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	[color=fff200]⭙ [sub]R E C E N T   A C T I V I T I E S[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr][indent]In the late 1970's, the Wolverine was one of several operatives in the Weapon X program. Owingg the Ford and Carter-era cutbacks to black programs, operations were cut back drastically. In no small part due to the Wolverine's escape, the program, was deemed too volatile and was slowly shut down. It was easy enough for the program to fundamentally let go and let these mutants go back to their lives, though the plans to bring these people back, as necessary, existed and the operatives themselves were provided treatment for longevity and modifications to their memories. 

Logan doesn't remember any of that. He found himself in rural Alberta with a truck and a place to live, but little recollection of how or what happened. While there were far more questions than answers, Logan found himself in a familiar place and a familiar pattern; on the outskirts, the margins, the frontier. He inhabited a place with wide open spaces and relatively few neighbors. In the  course of time, he found a small community of those like him, mutants on the fringe, keeping their head down against a harsh world, and inhabiting their own little space. It was a hippie commune, essentially, and Logan made the obligatory cynical comments about that, but was fundamentally drawn to the idea of letting the world do what it would so long as he had some modicum of peace.

While the others in the commune did their thing, Logan existed on the fringe of that, providing some degree of services as a handyman and fellow that knew the woods pretty well; how to chop lumber, how to otherwise survive. The other mutants didn't ask a lot of questions he couldn't answer about his past. Toward the 1990's, they heard from Xavier and representatives; Hank McCoy and, later, Jean Grey. At the time, Jean had her boyfriend and Logan was in his own dalliance, even if there was something there. Beyond that, the time spent in Alberta was, at least, a quiet sort of existence. That was, rather suddenly, disrupted around the time that Logan started to get closer to the community and start of a relationship with a girl named Bethany, when it started to get serious. The man was blonde and vicious, and seemed to know things about Logan's past. He killed Bethany, he killed other members of the commune. He tried to kill Logan. This led to questions and questions led him to the Xavier Institute.

Once he and Xavier came to an agreement to explore the root of his amnesia, he began to go out on X-men operations. Perhaps it was something about Jean, but Logan, with his rough charm, couldn't quite get past Jean's doubts about his stability. It was true that Logan was a cypher and a paradox, skilled in violence but always looking to settle down somewhere. A man with a strong independent streak that nonetheless committed himself to things, though never easily, with great tenacity. A skeptic and a cynic, a man that'd been hurt many times. Underneath that mass of emotional scars, even the ones that weren't consciously remembered, there was something else, but it was too fleeting in the face of the sure thing that was Scott. And Logan lived up to the billing of unreliability, disappearing for periods of time, off doing his own thing, trying to track down his past. He managed to come up during the big fights, with Magneto, with the Sentinels and in other situations, but he was just as often away pursuing his own agenda. He managed to come up with a couple things; Weapon X and a couple of names, but they were dead ends.

The Kryptonian invasion altered the calculus; they were in more fight than they could handle and it was Jean that unequivocally saved them in the fight. Logan thought they were goners and said what he was thinking, though it was easy enough for a telepath to just dig it out of there nor was it precisely news. After, they survived, but there was tension in the Institute. It was a traumatic fight for Jean and Logan understood trauma, even if he couldn't remember it all. She had her own scars and he tried, in his own rough and earnest way, to help her. Logan was there for the arguments. He had his say with his typical lack of tact. He wasn't entirely sure where his vehemence came from, because he couldn't remember what happened to him. But he made his choices. Jean left. That was when he felt her reaching out for him. It wasn't a hard choice, to leave behind Xavier's. Jean left first, but Logan wasn't far behind.

The next stop was Genosha. It wasn't much of a sanctuary, but it was where Jean wanted to go.

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	[color=fff200]⭙ [sub]A L L I E S[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr][indent]
[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Jean Grey:[/b] The Kryptonian invasion changed Jean Grey, or perhaps it unleashed things that she has to wrestle with for control. Logan was never the polished type and he certainly never commits easily to anything, but he now finds himself tied to Jean and following her into Hell. Hell, in this case, is a mutant nation run by Magneto. In a lot of ways, the bodyguard accusations are true in the sense that he's protecting Jean from other people, but also protecting them from Jean. Logan, above all, understands the need for solitude.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]The X-Men:[/b] In general, Logan is considered a part of the X-men on reserve, like Jean Grey, though he has never really fully joined on for the cause. Jean Grey's departure was also his departure, and that left some trust issues in his wake. While Logan believes generally in what the X-men are doing, he also felt strongly compelled to leave with Jean. There's a lot of wreckage in the wake of Jean's leaving, whereas Logan was expected to pick up sticks sooner or later. In truth, a couple people there probably were relieved that the Wolverine went off on his own again.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Charles Xavier:[/b] While Logan respects the professor, he's an outsider at the Institute, and moreso than the other X-men, his own person. The ideals are fine and the Professor tries his best to make it work in a murky and uncertain world. Whatever went on with Jean and the Professor, Logan was there for it, but he's certainly not saying much.
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        [color=fff200]⭙ [sub]E N E M I E S[/sub] ⭙[/color][hr][indent][color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]William Stryker:[/b] This is an enemy that Logan is not aware of, but he is back in government work, advising on special projects for DARPA, who have seen a huge infusion of resources in the wake of the Kryptonian invasion. He is hardly the only old black ops guy being brought back into the fold. 

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Victor Creed (Sabretooth):[/b] Sabretooth's attack on Logan in Canada when he was just settling in with Bethany and that fits a pattern. What made Logan seek out the X-men in the first place was the possibility of unlocking the answers to these questions but it has been surprisingly hard to find much out about his past. Sabretooth, of course, dangles some of the tidbits before Logan maddeningly when they fight. It's clear that this is part of a cycle, but he has not had luck in learning much more than that.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Erik Lensherr (Magneto):[/b] Logan doesn't trust Magneto further than he can throw him, and is mostly on the island because Magneto feels that Jean Grey is an incredible coup for Genosha. Of course, seeing as Magneto can turn Wolverine into a puppet at any time, there is a degree of contempt there. Logan, in turn, can respect Magneto's position even as he objects to the methods. Magneto is a ruthless guy, and now he's a politician in charge of a nation. That has the Wolverine's hackles up, especially when they want to talk to Jean.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Mystique:[/b] She apparently knew Logan in the past, further back than his memory goes back, but she's not providing answers. So far, Logan isn't taking the bait.

[color=fff200] ⬥ [/color][b]Others?:[/b] That is the rub of having amnesia. You never know who else is out there.
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