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APP [Hadriel]
PLAYER
Player name: Maniette
Contact: Same at Plurk!
Characters currently in-game:Koda None
CHARACTER
Character Name: Bigby Wolf, aka The Big Bad Wolf
Character Age: Looks to be in his late 30s/40s; but is at least as old as the story of Red Riding Hood, versions of which can be dated back as far as the 17th century, if not much earlier.
Canon: The Wolf Among Us
Canon Point: Post-episode 5, but not by much.
History: Have an entire wiki page!
Personality:
Sheriff Bigby Wolf is the Big Bad Wolf of fairy tale legend, hailing from such stories as Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs, but also literally every other Fable featuring a big bad wolf in human history. He is a Fable, meaning that his strength is directly derived from how popular stories featuring him are. And, given his sources, he is a very powerful Fable: one with a very violent history from the Mundie perspective, but far more so from that of his fellow Fables'.
Apart from trying (and failing) to eat both Red Riding Hood and the Three Pigs, he successfully ate countless numbers of actual humans in the Homeworld, where all Fables resided originally, so much that he's lost count and is wholly deserving of the term "monster". Other Fables are, entirely justifiably, scared of him.
And yet despite his notoriety, he is the Sheriff of Fabletown. Old King Cole himself, the merry old soul and founder of Fabletown, chose Bigby because he is shown to be a highly competent detective and able fighter; the latter being a necessary skill when Fabletown includes a great many non- or superhuman characters that greatly outrank a mundane human in strength. Bigby also has an extremely enhanced sense of smell, and while this is amazing for sniffing out clues, it's also very easy for him to get sensory overload due to living in New York City, and he has to chainsmoke the shittiest brand of cigarettes known to man to try and minimise the input he gets; and even then, it takes a lot fo willpower to block smells out.
Unfortunately, his personality is a lot less appealing than his skillset. He is a very gruff person, sarcastic, blunt, foul-mouthed and brash: and due to his aforementioned past, all but a few Fables (the list including the Woodsman, Snow White and one of the Three Little Pigs) won't willingly have anything to do with him outside of Bigby investigating them for some reason or another. He also has a short temper, and is easily goaded into brawls and acts of violence. He has absolutely no problem with using force, which almost always ends poorly for whichever party has set off his temper: Grendel in particular finds this out the hard way, by insulting Snow White and Bigby in back-to-back statements and resultingly getting his ass handed to him and his arm ripped off in what was arguably a pure show of force - don't mess with the Wolf. And don't call people a bitch around Bigby.
However, he does legitimately care about other Fables (especially Snow) and Fabletown, and sincerely does want to help them: but when he's not being any of the above, he also comes across to others as very closed off, or callous and indifferent. This is, in large part, because he doesn't feel like he can adequately help the citizens of Fabletown, due to his violent history and personal shortcomings. He's also limited by his position of privilege, in that he doesn't actually know what it's like for the large number of Fabletown citizens who get in trouble and are unable to communicate it to the Woodlands Office, or the citizens like Faith and Lily who simply slip through the cracks.
He's still shown, when it comes down to the wire, to want to protect the 'little guy', be it a prostitute being smacked around by a drunken asshole, or even said asshole being sucked into a fight by Sleazy McFuckface. He's also shown to be deeply affected by the death of people he cares about, and that combined with his protective nature is what causes him to pursue Faith's murder so passionately.
During the course of the game his fighting and detective prowess are shown countless times through the game's plot, of a prostitute named Faith being murdered and her head being left on the doorstep of Bigby's apartment building, prompting him to solve the mystery of her death. He's been shown to accurately piece together crime scenes with very little in the way of clues or evidence: and while this is an admirable skill, it also leads to him semi-frequently jumping to conclusions, or at least chasing them down to make sure he knows if it's hiding more conclusions onto which he can take a big sweeping swan dive.
As 'The Wolf Among Us' is a Telltale game and thus full of impacting choices, the ones this particular Bigby has made are as follows:
- Ripped off Grendel's arm
- Spared Tweedle Dum
- Did not burn Aunty Greenleaf's tree, and hired her as a witch.
- Arrested the Crooked Man, and let Aunty Greenleaf turn him into a crow
Inventory:
- Shirt, tie, pants and shoes. Basic detective attire, good for any time period.
- Two packs of Huff 'n' Puff cigarettes (y'know, that shit brand) and a lighter.
- Maybe some lint?
Abilities: tl;dr Bigby is OP as fuck. But in detail:
- Transformation: Bigby has four main forms he can transform seamlessly (and apparently instantaneously) between. His primary look is simply human, which, unlike a lot of animal Fables, is an actual form and not a Glamour. If something proves too much for that form to handle then he will transform into his half-wolf form, in which he has a much greater strength, hella claws, and may or may not be visibly larger as well, and definitely furrier. After this, and it takes a lot to get it this far, is his werewolf form. In this form he can take manymany, many, many shotgun shells to the chest and appear functionally unharmed, while still strong enough to flip cars and lift a Tweedle with one hand. And finally, his true form is that of the Big Bad Wolf, larger than an elephant and capable of huffing and puffing your ass into next week. He's only shown to use this form once in-game, when he would have been actually killed otherwise (and even in this form, it was a tough fight).
- Near Immortality: A Fable's strength and endurance are directly related to how well-known their story is. As the actual, singular Big Bad Wolf from across multiple stories, he's practically immortal, to the point where he has actively shrugged off almost 40 shotgun blasts. That's as many as 10 times 4. His pain threshold is also through the roof, to the point where he can set his own broken arm back to normal, and he has a greatly accelerated rate of healing.
- Strength and Agility: Even in his human form, Bigby is unnaturally fast and strong. He has been shown to easily follow Tweedle Dee on a parkour chase through a Mundie apartment block, and while he was panting at the end he recovered easily. And in werewolf form he was shown to capably keep up with and hold on to a speeding car with a driver that was actively trying to throw him off.
Flaws:
- He's from the mid-80's, so he's a bit behind on current events and technology.
- Thanks to Snow White cutting him with a lycanthropy-stained dagger in order to give him a human form, he is enough of an Actual Werewolf for silver to be excrutiatingly painful to him, and he has been explicitly told that a bullet too near his heart would kill him.
- Has a very short fuse, and is embarrassingly easy to goad into a fight.
- Curses like a motherfuck.
- Nosy bastard. Is a detective, and a damn good one, and this means sticking his nose in where it's not wanted and doggedly pursuing things regardless of consequences.
- Has an extremely oversensitive sense of smell, and chainsmokes the shittiest cigarettes imaginable to stop himself from getting sensory overload, and even that's not enough.
- When he calls the wolf out, it takes a concentrated effort to put it back, and usually it takes alcohol or more cigarettes to do so.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: Feat. one (1) skeleton (but also have an unreasonably angry fist fight)
Player name: Maniette
Contact: Same at Plurk!
Characters currently in-game:
CHARACTER
Character Name: Bigby Wolf, aka The Big Bad Wolf
Character Age: Looks to be in his late 30s/40s; but is at least as old as the story of Red Riding Hood, versions of which can be dated back as far as the 17th century, if not much earlier.
Canon: The Wolf Among Us
Canon Point: Post-episode 5, but not by much.
History: Have an entire wiki page!
Personality:
Sheriff Bigby Wolf is the Big Bad Wolf of fairy tale legend, hailing from such stories as Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs, but also literally every other Fable featuring a big bad wolf in human history. He is a Fable, meaning that his strength is directly derived from how popular stories featuring him are. And, given his sources, he is a very powerful Fable: one with a very violent history from the Mundie perspective, but far more so from that of his fellow Fables'.
Apart from trying (and failing) to eat both Red Riding Hood and the Three Pigs, he successfully ate countless numbers of actual humans in the Homeworld, where all Fables resided originally, so much that he's lost count and is wholly deserving of the term "monster". Other Fables are, entirely justifiably, scared of him.
And yet despite his notoriety, he is the Sheriff of Fabletown. Old King Cole himself, the merry old soul and founder of Fabletown, chose Bigby because he is shown to be a highly competent detective and able fighter; the latter being a necessary skill when Fabletown includes a great many non- or superhuman characters that greatly outrank a mundane human in strength. Bigby also has an extremely enhanced sense of smell, and while this is amazing for sniffing out clues, it's also very easy for him to get sensory overload due to living in New York City, and he has to chainsmoke the shittiest brand of cigarettes known to man to try and minimise the input he gets; and even then, it takes a lot fo willpower to block smells out.
Unfortunately, his personality is a lot less appealing than his skillset. He is a very gruff person, sarcastic, blunt, foul-mouthed and brash: and due to his aforementioned past, all but a few Fables (the list including the Woodsman, Snow White and one of the Three Little Pigs) won't willingly have anything to do with him outside of Bigby investigating them for some reason or another. He also has a short temper, and is easily goaded into brawls and acts of violence. He has absolutely no problem with using force, which almost always ends poorly for whichever party has set off his temper: Grendel in particular finds this out the hard way, by insulting Snow White and Bigby in back-to-back statements and resultingly getting his ass handed to him and his arm ripped off in what was arguably a pure show of force - don't mess with the Wolf. And don't call people a bitch around Bigby.
However, he does legitimately care about other Fables (especially Snow) and Fabletown, and sincerely does want to help them: but when he's not being any of the above, he also comes across to others as very closed off, or callous and indifferent. This is, in large part, because he doesn't feel like he can adequately help the citizens of Fabletown, due to his violent history and personal shortcomings. He's also limited by his position of privilege, in that he doesn't actually know what it's like for the large number of Fabletown citizens who get in trouble and are unable to communicate it to the Woodlands Office, or the citizens like Faith and Lily who simply slip through the cracks.
He's still shown, when it comes down to the wire, to want to protect the 'little guy', be it a prostitute being smacked around by a drunken asshole, or even said asshole being sucked into a fight by Sleazy McFuckface. He's also shown to be deeply affected by the death of people he cares about, and that combined with his protective nature is what causes him to pursue Faith's murder so passionately.
During the course of the game his fighting and detective prowess are shown countless times through the game's plot, of a prostitute named Faith being murdered and her head being left on the doorstep of Bigby's apartment building, prompting him to solve the mystery of her death. He's been shown to accurately piece together crime scenes with very little in the way of clues or evidence: and while this is an admirable skill, it also leads to him semi-frequently jumping to conclusions, or at least chasing them down to make sure he knows if it's hiding more conclusions onto which he can take a big sweeping swan dive.
As 'The Wolf Among Us' is a Telltale game and thus full of impacting choices, the ones this particular Bigby has made are as follows:
- Ripped off Grendel's arm
- Spared Tweedle Dum
- Did not burn Aunty Greenleaf's tree, and hired her as a witch.
- Arrested the Crooked Man, and let Aunty Greenleaf turn him into a crow
Inventory:
- Shirt, tie, pants and shoes. Basic detective attire, good for any time period.
- Two packs of Huff 'n' Puff cigarettes (y'know, that shit brand) and a lighter.
- Maybe some lint?
Abilities: tl;dr Bigby is OP as fuck. But in detail:
- Transformation: Bigby has four main forms he can transform seamlessly (and apparently instantaneously) between. His primary look is simply human, which, unlike a lot of animal Fables, is an actual form and not a Glamour. If something proves too much for that form to handle then he will transform into his half-wolf form, in which he has a much greater strength, hella claws, and may or may not be visibly larger as well, and definitely furrier. After this, and it takes a lot to get it this far, is his werewolf form. In this form he can take many
![Tweedle](http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fables/images/9/9b/BOF_Tweedles.png/revision/latest?cb=20140627014432"){kind=link}
- Near Immortality: A Fable's strength and endurance are directly related to how well-known their story is. As the actual, singular Big Bad Wolf from across multiple stories, he's practically immortal, to the point where he has actively shrugged off almost 40 shotgun blasts. That's as many as 10 times 4. His pain threshold is also through the roof, to the point where he can set his own broken arm back to normal, and he has a greatly accelerated rate of healing.
- Strength and Agility: Even in his human form, Bigby is unnaturally fast and strong. He has been shown to easily follow Tweedle Dee on a parkour chase through a Mundie apartment block, and while he was panting at the end he recovered easily. And in werewolf form he was shown to capably keep up with and hold on to a speeding car with a driver that was actively trying to throw him off.
Flaws:
- He's from the mid-80's, so he's a bit behind on current events and technology.
- Thanks to Snow White cutting him with a lycanthropy-stained dagger in order to give him a human form, he is enough of an Actual Werewolf for silver to be excrutiatingly painful to him, and he has been explicitly told that a bullet too near his heart would kill him.
- Has a very short fuse, and is embarrassingly easy to goad into a fight.
- Curses like a motherfuck.
- Nosy bastard. Is a detective, and a damn good one, and this means sticking his nose in where it's not wanted and doggedly pursuing things regardless of consequences.
- Has an extremely oversensitive sense of smell, and chainsmokes the shittiest cigarettes imaginable to stop himself from getting sensory overload, and even that's not enough.
- When he calls the wolf out, it takes a concentrated effort to put it back, and usually it takes alcohol or more cigarettes to do so.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: Feat. one (1) skeleton (but also have an unreasonably angry fist fight)