Logan Hawthorne

✦ Appearance

Logan is very stocky with thick, powerful but not fully lean musculature. He also has a small forehead. His eyes are sharp and piercing, when not offset by a more pleasant expression. He often keeps his mid-back length hair in a french braid.

✦ Info

Personality: Logan is pragmatic and patient. However, when he gets the chance, he can be really fucking goofy. He's good at knowing the right time to crack a joke. He holds himself to the highest standard, but at the same time at least tries to avoid working himself to death. He knows very well what he is and isn't capable of; he just worries about the eventuality of him not being enough. Who wouldn't?
Likes/Dislikes: Likes candy and sugary foods; enjoys a hobby of making candy. Hates coffee. Is really into civil engineering.

¶ Backstory

His twin sister Avabella was the only Hawthorne kid of their generation that matched him in intellect; prodigal twins, of equal level. Each displayed an affinity for magic early on, Logan to electricity and Ava to fire.
What Logan also displayed was an uncanny skill of perception. Sometimes he bordered on clairvoyant, knowing things he had no business knowing: It would be years until it could be explained, by Logan himself.
After evaluation at the age of 9, the clan described his sensory talent as a "once in a generation" ability. So acute was his ability to feel magic, he could feel the residue of a mage's presence in an area, five hours after they left; without sensory training.

He enrolled at DFMA at the age of 17: At 24, he graduated from a dual degree program with a Bachelor's in the Combat Prowess Program and a PHD in Runic System Theory. His professors, on some occasions, urged him to "take it easy," something which seemed ridiculous to him at the time.
In the present, he kinda wishes he had, but it's not that big of a deal.
Soon after graduating, in AE694 he joined the ATDF.

Soon afterward he transferred to a Diagonal which had jurisdiction over the cultural region of Acuria, for a particular reason: He'd heard of a particular mystic group, through the grapevine; rumor said they could rewire the senses.
It was fascinating enough that he had to investigate. He spent several years in the region — This is how he learned the One True Sense technique — before he transferred back to Dragonfall in AE702 as a Knight under Alessia Gataki.

✦ Magic Name: Gulthan Ūle

Overall place in type triad: Defense
Elemental Properties: Lightning, Psychic

¶ Description

Logan's expertise in Runic systems, namely Sadyarushk, is one of his greatest assets as a Rook. Theoretically, if left to his devices for long enough, Logan could create a runic matrix to solve any situation; in reality, not so much.
One True Sense and his runic expertise mesh together exceptionally well, allowing him to discern the functionality of enemy enchantments so as to counter them.
His defensive capabilities, combined with his enhanced mobility, enable him to make sure everyone comes home alive.

¶ Techniques

» One True Sense (Self, Passive || N/E)
Logan has rewired his brain through extensive training and effort. The barriers between his senses have been broken, allowing them to overlap, combine, and even strengthen each other. This includes the five senses everyone knows as well as magic sensing, but also lesser known ones.
A far more comprehensive perception of his surroundings is the end result. It may seem, to the outside observer, that Logan can see in all directions and even through walls but it's more complicated (and less extreme) than that.
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Kinaesthesia and balance are amplified, making Logan far more resilient to disorienting spells. His acute magic senses overlap and amplify almost everything. Hearing, sight, pallesthesia (vibration sense), thermosensation, all combine and amplify the others.
Not only does this combining strengthen each pathway of his perception, if an offensive spell closes off one of those pathways, Logan can continue on almost entirely unhindered.
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µ Inborn Extrasensory Gift (Self, Passive || N/E)
From childhood, Logan has always seemed to know things he shouldn't. That's because, from childhood, he's always had an extremely acute ability to sense magic. So acute in fact that he knew his older cousin, Simon Hawthorne, was going to experience heart failure over a year before it happened.
Nobody believed him.
His extrasensory gift has only grown stronger with time and training. Now, if he knows the signature of a mage, he can pinpoint their exact location relative to him if they're uncloaked within 100 meters. Logan can also track magi through the magic residue their presence leaves behind.

» Psioelectric Discipline (Self || Lightning, Psychic)
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µ Friction Control (Self || Psy, Lightning)
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µ Cicruit Break Riposte (Defense || Lightning)
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¶ Gear