Logan Xiomara Fairfax

[Logan Fairfax]

the roleplayer


NAME: Sapphire
CONTACT: telepathy, smoke signals, PM, or AIM
GENDER: *flips coin* …damn, it landed on the edge.
AGE: 24 but in denial
ROLEPLAY EXPERIENCE: 3650 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes and 36 seconds give or take
OTHER CHARACTERS: Cybele, Kyle, Lexi
HOW YOU FOUND US: Bee threatened me and she’s scary




Logan Xiomara Fairfax IX
It's all about the Pentiums! (It's all about the Pentiums, baby)
Yeah
What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM

character basics

NICKNAMES: Xio, Fairfax; Gamertag: XioFax9
AGE: 36
GROUP: Somnium Staff
BIRTHDAY: February 29, (Celebrates on the 28th if it is not a leap year)
OCCUPATION Computer/Programming Teacher, Network Administrator
GENDER: Female

PLAY-BY: Daryl Hannah (circa Elle Driver)

appearance

When most people meet Logan, the there are a couple things that may catch their attention. They may choose to take out a measuring stick and find out that stands exactly 5’10” without heels. Likewise, they may get out measuring tape and find that Logan is slim and in shape (all thanks to her Wii.) Some people notice that Logan has long blond hair, almost always worn down and out of her face because she is to lazy to do anything fancy with it. If one were to see Logan without her clothes on, their eyes would probably be drawn to her large tattoo collection: Back | Sternum/chest/upper torso | Left outer thigh | Right leg/ankle

What no one ever notices about Logan is that she only has one eye, which is a lovely shade of blue by the way. Seriously, look at her face; the eye patch over her right eye is barely visible. Once people find out about this boring tidbit, they certainly don’t stare, ask questions, or make pirate jokes because that would be mean/rude. And if they did, Logan certainly wouldn’t kick their asses, because that would also be rude.

Dress wise, it is rare to see Logan in anything but a pants suit and heels. Her clothing is almost all black, grey, brown, or a mixture of the three. She also has at least one eye patch to match her outfits, but usually defaults to the completely black patch. Aside from the patch, Logan always wears a small golden locket with a picture of Iris in it.

personality

Likes:
Alcohol, whiskey in particular: Give Logan a bottle of Jack Daniels Black Label and you will have a friend for life…or at least until the bottle runs out. This particular vice allowed her to meet and become friends with Kyle Ehrlich, the school nurse.

Programming: Logan is well versed in Assembly, Unix, C, C++, C#, VB.Net, Java, HTML, PHP, ASP, Javascript, Asp, and SQL. She only codes web pages in Notepad; GUI’s are for sissies.

Video Gaming: FPS, RPG, Sim, MMO, you name it, Logan has probably played it. Her favorite games tend to be older PC, NES, or SNES era games or extremely violent modern games. She’s always up for a challenge and can often be found playing (and destroying) students on various network games.

Loud Music: Logan will listen to just about anything (Country music being the exception) with the general rule of thumb being the louder, the better.

Smoking: Although she has cut back recently…at least while Iris is around.


Hates:
Mac’s and any technology/software created by Apple: Logan despises Macs. DESPISES THEM!! From the inability to easily (or at all) upgrade the hardware to the way I-Tunes takes over all aspects of the OS the second it gets installed.

People who act like they know more than she does: You know why? Because chances are they’re wrong.

Sports Gaming: Ugh…unless its unrealistic like Blitz or Looney Tunes Basketball you probably won’t find Logan playing a sports game. She finds them boring and would rather be shooting someone.


Fears:
Tragedy befalling Iris: If anything serious were to happen to Iris, Logan isn’t sure what she would do. Her daughter means everything to her, even if they don’t see eye to eye on many things and tend to fight often.

Trust: Logan doesn’t like let people beyond the friend or best friend level. She believes this is due to bad relationship choices early in life.

Somnium gets rid of all its PC’s and decides to only use Macs: This truly is the definition of Hell.

Goals:
Create a cybernetic eye: Aside from normal vision, it will also grant the user X-ray vision

Eventually have a son: While she may not admit it, part of her feels obligated to continue the family naming tradition.

Open an arcade: After Iris goes off to college of course…


Logan the Teacher is still a work in progress. She knows that a teacher is supposed to be caring, compassionate, nurturing, and other things of that nature. Sadly, this does not come naturally to Logan. She is that teacher in school that you absolutely hate but (much to your chagrin) actually taught you something. If you want to learn and are willing to push yourself to your limits, you will get along just fine. If not, watch out.

Logan the Network Administrator is a cruel, cruel mistress. Obey the Somnium Technology Usage Rules and Logan will never bother you. Step over the line, though, and you better be ready for a fight. When it comes to her precious network, Logan has a three strike policy: One strike gets you banned for a month; Two strikes gets you banned for a semester; Three strikes gets you banned for ever. If you break something and need Logan’s help, she will attempt to be patient and show you how to avoid future problems. Do it again and she may not be as patient. And yes, she is watching you…and you should be ashamed of yourselves…

When the job is done and the night is young (or morning whichever the case may be) Logan is in the mood to party! Even though she’s one of the oldest staff members, she never quite grew past her ‘college mentality’ phase. You can expect to see her at the Weeping Goat buying rounds and dancing on tables or hunkered down in the student’s Recreation Room LAN-partying it up.

Logan likes to win and tends to do so quite often. Unfortunately, that goes hand in hand with her enjoyment of bragging and talking smack while winning. Don't be too put off, though. Ask nicely and she'll buy you a pint after the match. Relationship wise, Logan believes that it doesn’t matter who you’re with or what gender they are, so long as the night is good. This, and reluctance to truly trust someone, have kept her from keeping long term relationships.

family & history

FATHER: Logan Fairfax VIII, 65 retired musician
MOTHER: Xiomara Fairfax, 25 (deceased)
SIBLINGS: None
OTHER FAMILY: Iris Fairfax, 16 (daughter)

HISTORY:
Birth & Early Life
The Fairfax family has an old tradition when it comes to naming their children: the first born son will carry name ‘Logan Fairfax’ and pass it on to their first born son. This naming convention was going fine for 8 generations when a car crash threatened to stop the tradition. Xiomara died shortly after the accident but doctors were able to save her daughter.

And thus, Logan Fairfax IX entered the world one month premature and 2 lbs underweight. She spent her childhood in the northern suburbs of Chicago and accompanied her father when the orchestra he played in traveled.

High school was a largely forgettable period in Logan’s life. The only good thing that happened was when her father bought her a Nintendo Entertainment System. Making 8-bit Mario defeat Bowser and rescue the Princess shaped Logan’s eventual career decision in ways that no amount of time in the classroom could.

College
During college, two life changing events happened in the story of Logan IX. No, the double major in Computer and Software Engineering, while also important, wasn’t one of those events. Logan attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering for five years.

The first life changing event occurred during her first year at school. Logan makes up a different story whenever anyone asks how she lost her eye. The only consistent detail is that she lost it sometime during her freshman year.

The second life changing event was the birth of Logan’s daughter, Iris. Iris was born during Logan’s Junior year. Logan chose not to marry the father due to differences of opinion. She occasionally tells people he’s dead. Iris’ entrance into her life caused Logan to reevaluate the way she was living and what she would need to change now that she was caring for another life. Reevaluate, mind you; not exactly change. Luckily, her friends were always willing to babysit when Logan needed to attend classes or parties.

The In-Between Years
After college, Logan and Iris moved around constantly. Logan did freelance work for then booming technology companies. By the time Iris was 7, the pair had lived in 31 out of 50 states. They were quite well off, although Logan realized moving around so much was taking its toll on Iris. She swore to find consistent work that would allow her to stay in one place.

Then the Dot-com bubble burst. Logan found herself unemployed and unemployable thanks to saturation. Plans to settle down would have to wait.

Somnium
When Iris turned 10, Logan decided it was time to try again (try being the key word in that statement.) While visiting her father, who had retired to England, he suggested the two move in until she found stable work. They accepted and moved in a month later. Logan continued free lancing websites and software for a year before the network administrator position became available at Somnium. Logan saw this as a win/win situation; not only could she have a stable job, but Iris would also be able to go to a private school upon turning 14.

At first Logan was only hired to perform technology related duties. She helped modernize the school by retooling their wiring plans, adding and maintaining the onsite PCs and servers, and establishing Somnium’s intranet, blogs, and websites. After two years, the previous Technology teacher retired and teaching duties defaulted to Logan. She’s still working on the teaching aspect of her life with mixed results. When Iris turned 14, she and Logan moved into their respective Somnium dormitories.

This is Logan’s fifth year at Somnium.

dream form
Once again, it seems like the picture that best describes my character is NSFW, hence the link.

When Logan entered the dream world for the first time, she was horrified and overjoyed by her dream form. From the waist up, she resembles a normal woman with mid length black hair and black eyes. Below the waist, though, Logan’s body resembles a gigantic black widow spider. Logan dubbed her dream form “Arachne 2.0”, after the DOS based web browser and its namesake, the weaver from Greco-Roman mythology.

Logan believes her arrogance, thirst for blood (in this case literally,) and the need to weave webs (again literally) formed Arachne. While she claims to be in complete control of Arachne, that isn’t quite the case. The spider part of her mind is always present, attempting to influence the human side. Logan works to maintain a balance between the two, but has occasionally let the spider take over completely. When this happens, the carnage can only be described as beautiful. Arachne also has the ability to talk to spiders, making her a valuable information broker if you can afford her.

Over the years, Logan made a home for Arachne in a large cave system on the edge of the Mists. The cave is laden with traps and dead ends; very few that enter make it out alive. Logan tends to confine herself to the less populated areas of the Dream World as a self-preservation method. Its also more likely that her meals will go unmissed then too.

Logan’s dream form is one of her best kept secrets. While in the dream world, so only refers to herself as Arachne. To date, and to her knowledge, only 2 other people know her form: Iris, who insisted on meeting her mother in the dream world; and Kyle, who she told while the two were on a drinking binge one night. Logan also suspects the Headmaster may know but, fearing his response, she has never asked.

[Logan Fairfax]

Fin

[Beeee.♥]

Accepted

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