“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
– Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
NAME: Logan Couture
BIRTHDAY: January 28, 1818
GENDER: Cisgender male
SPECIES: Banshee
OCCUPATION: Bartender at Club Entre Nous
YEAR THEY JOINED ZORA: 1830
FACECLAIM: Ewan McGregor
America, the land of dreams, was never a great place for Logan Couture or his family. His family were immigrants from Scotland, seeking a new and better life with different opportunities. His father was French while his mother was Scottish, and they had thought that, in America, they could find a place that would be brand new to them both- something to give them both the same footing with no focus except for their little family that they hoped to start. They brought their son into the world at the end of January in a cold winter in New York, settled in a small, cheap place that they could barely afford but loved all the same. Their son was named Logan, after his mother’s surname, as his surname was his father’s. Logan’s first scream came when he was seven years old, when his mother was taken by witch hunters. They have never found proof of her death, but Logan and his father never held much doubt. was only a child when his mother vanished (assumed dead) by the hands of witch hunters, His father tried very hard, working as a tailor and teaching his son as much as he could. However, Logan was only twelve when his father fell ill as well. He spent the next year of his life caring for him, trying to keep them fed and clothed by keeping up with his father’s business. This, of course, only worked so well and for so long, and by the time his father had succumbed to his illness, Logan was out of work completely.
Logan’s life continued to be a struggle as he tried to keep afloat in the vast city of New York, with no real direction to go or anywhere to look for guidance. He lived by stealing, whether it was food or pickpocketing money, and had to fight for his survival every day of his life. Some of this finally changed three years later, when he got caught trying to steal food. Getting caught came with a beating, as he had grown used to, but for once it was stopped by a kind spinster. This woman brought him home to her two sisters, and the three women got him a job sewing clothes with them at the factory they worked at. It wasn’t a dream job but the years he spent with those women easily became the best of his life in a long time. The best part of the arrangement, or one of them at least, was that the sisters were also supernatural and he didn’t have to hide his naturally empathetic skills. The women were kind to him, patient and supportive and, when he turned eighteen, gifted him with a boat ticket to France. They told him about Zora, that it would be safe there, and that he had too much life to live to remain here barely surviving. And so, Logan began his journey across the sea.
When he arrived in Zora, Logan was completely lost as to what to do with himself. He didn’t know how to start over on his own, his survival always having depended on other people being willing to lend a helping hand. He followed the only thing he truly knew and got a job at the tailor shop. Zora was good for Logan, but the problem he found was exactly that. After a lifetime of fighting for survival, he didn’t know how to possibly live any other way and his brain became his own worst enemy. Childhood trauma mixed with the constant awareness of death sent Logan into a slow spiral throughout his adulthood. He made even the simplest things into complicated disasters, something that quite easily led to him always having some sort of crisis in his life.
Though he had found a home and security in Zora, Logan was unable to shake himself out of his own haze, leading to him going back to travelling in 1900. He made his way through Europe, searching for anything that might bring him a sense of meaning to his life. That goal, overall, evaded him, but upon receiving news that Zora had once again moved, Logan was forced to consider returning to America. His opinion on The United States is hardly flattering, and he blames it for much of what went wrong in his childhood. However, all his travels had brought him was a new dependency on alcohol so, with nothing to lose, Logan returned to Zora in its new location in 1920. He feels strange going back, and even stranger realizing that he truly has come to see it as home. Wanting a change from his usual work, Logan has gotten a job at Club Entre Nous as a bartender and is still desperately seeking a purpose.
