Logan Jones

He may be a sociopath, but there's no better Ranger to have your back in a fight
==Quick Facts==
*Left hemisphere pilot of the Mark III Jaeger Vulcan Specter; older brother Jackson serves as right hemisphere; Andrea is their Spare
*Required to submit to regular psychological evaluations (above and beyond those required for all Rangers) to assess his stability and suitability for Ranger duty; rumours follow him that PPDC brass occasionally 'fudge' his assessments to keep him in the Conn-pod because of his effectiveness as a pilot and fighter
*The Joneses are probably the best wingmen among all the Jaeger pilots
*Has the same bottomless stamina as Jackson; which allows them to slowly grind fight opponents into submission; their toughness makes this a viable and effective strategy
*He and Jackson have the weakest stable neural handshake of any active duty Rangers; they never develop a fully-fledged Ghost Drift, despite more than a decade of regular Drifting
*The Drift-induced bond between him and Jackson causes the other to appear as an impression of colour (Jackson appears gold to Logan; Logan is black-green-blue to Jackson) and allows them to tell when each other are in distress if they are within a certain distance
*Possessed of a ridiculously accurate mental clock which allows him to function as a human stopwatch
*Skilled at picking locks using either specialized or improvised tools; his picks are regularly confiscated by his chain of command; also a skilled pickpocket
* Has nervous tic of twitching his fingers; the motion shifts /Vulcan's armour plating in such a way as to trap excessive debris and locking up its left thumb on a regular basis
==Personality==
Even quicker-tempered and less mature than Jackson, which is saying something. Goes out of his way to antagonize Chuck, who he refers to as 'Shortstack.' Will pick a fight just to pick a fight and say anything necessary to incite one, whether or not he believes what he's saying. Enjoys teasing his brothers; which results in fights with Jackson and Derek trying to hide from him. Trusts only three people in the world: himself, Jackson, and his paternal grandmother (Nanny).
==Pocket & Personal Effects==
* Reading glasses (which he only wears when alone or around Jackson or Nanny)
* A small and well-hidden stash of yarn and knitting needles
* At least two sets of lock picks; always keeps a torsion wrench on his person
* A collection of paperback James Bond novels
* Mobile phone
== Headcanons ==
*Is ticklish, but only Jackson knows this (everyone else is too afraid of him to try it)
*Has never held a driver's license or learned to drive (the PPDC driving course aside)
*A fan of spy and espionage fiction, especially Ian Fleming's James Bond novels
*A surprisingly soft touch when it comes to children and cats
*Can sleep anywhere he feels relatively safe; the safer he feels, the more quickly and deeply he can fall asleep
==Closet==
* Standard issue Ranger gear in Team Vulcan Specter grey
* Anything not Team Vulcan grey is black (except for the handful of orange Shaolin Rogue gear)
* Collection of beloved Shaolin Rogue t-shirts, gifts from Feng
* Post-war: Armored black leather motorcycle jacket (a gift from Jackson)
==Timeline==
1992 Oct 18: Born
2000 Jun 19: Brother Derek born
2000 Q3 or Q4: Begins exhibiting severe behavioural problems; diagnosed with conduct disorder
2002 April 4: Logan overhears his father calling him a 'monster' and Nanny offering to take him in
2002 April 5: Nanny teaches Logan to knit ("Silly")
2005 (mid): Makes first appearance in juvenile court
2006 (early): Spends a period at a camp for 'troubled youth'; it's only effect is to make him better at not getting caught
2006 (late): 'Discovers' (or maybe confirms) his asexuality with his first kiss ("Unwanted")
2007: Pushes Derek down a flight of stairs, severely injuring him and straining the already rough relationships between all three Jones brothers ("Give In")
2008 Q4: Debates dropping out of high school and leaving home; decides against it
2009 Feb (mid): Jackson moves out of the family home to attend university in Sydney
2009 (mid): Parents finalize an acrimonious divorce; share custody of him and Derek
2010 Dec (mid): Graduates from Westport High School in the lower half of his class due to lack of effort; moves out of the family home
2011 Jun (mid): Drops out of university after a semester during which he rarely attended class or completed required work; cuts of contact with all family members except Nanny ("Disappearer")
2014 Sep 2: Near enough to Scissure's path to hear (and smell) the Kaiju; makes his way to a refugee triage center in Hornsby
2014 Sep 4: Calls Nanny from the refugee triage center, agrees to work his way north to meet her ("Lungs")
2015: Lands in Brisbane, homeless, unemployed, and in and out of trouble with the law
2015 Dec ~10: Jackson tracks him down and convinces him to sign on with the PPDC and attend the Jaeger Academy ("Excuse")
2016 Jan: He and Jackson begin term at the Jaeger Academy in Kodiak, AK, United States
2016 Feb: He and Jackson put on the Ranger track at the Academy; diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder; prescribed reading glasses which is he tries his hardest to avoid wearing
2016 Mar: Introduced to a pair of Buddhist novices from the Shaolin Monastery, brothers Chao and Feng; the quartet quickly become friends, sparring partners, and roommates; Logan and Feng are immediately inseparable
2016 Apr: Meets Andrea after Jackson suffers a separated shoulder in training; Drifts with her for the first time
2016 Jun (mid): Graduates from the Jaeger Academy ranked 4th in his class behind Chao, Feng, and Jackson
2016 Jun (mid): Moves to the Sydney Mini 'Dome at the Hong Kong Shatterdome; meets Chuck, he and Jackson immediately begin tormenting him
2016 Aug 28: He and Jackson run off the first Team Vulcan Specter Handler; Jamie extorts his way into the position ("Timing")
2016 Aug 31: Jamie demonstrates, painfully, he is not to be messed with ("Spoons")
2016 Q4: Has both shoulders tattooed with blackwork similar to this to 'complete his Ranger look'.
2017 Jan 10: Vulcan Specter officially launches with a parade in Sydney; picks a fight with the Hansen brothers (with Jackson's help) in front of the press, quickly establishing the Joneses as the 'anti-heroes' of the Australian Jaeger program
2017 May 5-8: Travels to Anchorage with Logan for tweaks to Vulcan Specter's AI after the Jaeger's 'sea trials'; taunts both Yancy and Raleigh into fighting him; teams up with Feng to take them on a second time ("Monster," "Beckets Bite Back," "Black and Blue and Orange") 
2017 May (mid): Moves to the completed Sydney Shatterdome
2017 May 25: Sydney Shatterdome officially opens under the command of Marshal Nguyen
2017 Oct: Attends Mark III Launch gala in Hong Kong; ignores his 'date' to hang out with Feng
2018 Mar 14: Assists in the kill of Hellmaw at the Battle of Singapore with Jackson and Vulcan Specter ("Bad Boys")
2019 Jan 14: Discovers Derek is now Team Striker Eureka's Handler and is very unhappy ("Handler")
2019 Jan 16: Meets Cameryn; reunites with old 'friend' Lamb ("Maneuvers")
2019 Jan (mid-late): Kidnaps a member of the Hansen family, ends up with a broken collarbone and without a disciplinary write-up (for once) ("'napped")
2019 Feb 16: Lucky Seven badly damaged by Mizuchi at the Second Battle of Manila; Herc and Scott hurt; Lucky Seven becomes the first Jaeger permanently removed from service due to damage
2019 Mar 3: Attends the formal inquiry into Lucky Seven's destruction in support of Scott; sees Scott stripped of his Ranger status ("Stripped")
2019 Nov 28: Watches helpless from Guam with Jackson and Vulcan Specter as Triton Tasmania is destroyed and Iorangi and Elizabeth killed at the First Battle of the Breach; has to keep Jackson from charging in to help, which would be a really stupid move seeing as Vulcan Specter cannot withstand abyssal pressures ("Guam")
2021 Sep 24: Deployed near Taiwan in advance of the Battle of Hangzhou, a storm forces he and Jackson to spend several nights in Hong Kong before returning to Sydney; spends the time hanging out with Feng; picks a fight with Cheung, Jin, and Hu; meets Liu in an unforgettable fashion ("The Jones vs Hong Kong")
2021 Dec: Takes the news of Feng and Chao's deaths very, very hard, so hard in fact, Jackson almost asks the 'Dome psychologist classify him as Code Violet; attends Chao and Feng's funeral in China with Jackson ("Get to Know Vulcan Specter")
2022 Jan 31: Deploys with Jackson and Vulcan Specter at the Battle of Melbourne, but is held out of combat by Nguyen
2023 Jul 1: Jackson informs him of PPDC Command's desire to remove him as a pilot of Vulcan Specter, giving the right hemisphere to Logan and placing a new Ranger (Mako is the first choice) in the left hemisphere; they discuss and ask Nguyen to make their case to remain a team
2023 Jul (late): Nguyen pushed into retirement by PPDC Command; replaced by Josephs
2023 Aug 8: Arrives in Anchorage with Jackson for a Drift Compatibility test with Mako; sabotages the test by picking a fight in town with Raleigh which leaves him too injured for the test to proceed
2023 Q4: Josephs, under orders from PPDC Command, begins a campaign to force Jackson into retirement through extra work and regularly replacing him with Andrea for patrols; Jackson, being a stubborn fucker, is unmoved
2023 Dec: The plan backfires spectacularly when Andrea has a 'breakdown' and quits the PPDC, leaving Command no choice but to keep Jackson on active duty
2024 Jan ~31: Helps cover up Chuck's absence when Chuck visits Koffiefontein
2024 Jul 30: Assists in the kill of Bonesquid at the Battle of Port Moresby with Jackson and Vulcan Specter
2024 Aug (late): After Jackson begins experiencing vivid nightmares and is diagnosed with PTSD, they realize they're unlikely to live much longer if they remain Rangers, continue anyway
2024 Sep 25: Against protocol, deploys with Jackson and Vulcan Specter against Rachnid at the Battle of Brisbane without backup, a transport difficulty delaying Striker Eureka's arrival; assists in the kill of Rachnid; Vulcan Specter destroyed; knocked unconscious and falls into a coma ("Red")
2024 Sep 29: Jackson tracks him down where he's been hiding in the part of Jackson's mind they share in the Drift and convinces him to return to his own body; Logan wakes up, learns he has suffered fractured cervical vertebrae and permanent nerve damage which leaves him with a quiet, raspy voice and skin across his chest, upper arms, shoulders, and back that sometimes itches and feels like it is trying to crawl away ("Gold")
2024 Oct (early): Discovers bubble bath has a soothing effect on his crawly skin (or at least distracts him from it); begins blogging about his experiences with it under his real name; to everyone's surprise the blog is an immediate hit; businesses large and small begin sending him samples to test and review
2024 Oct (mid): Faces a formal inquiry into the destruction of Vulcan Specter; both he and Jackson are found to have acted properly and are honourably discharged from the PPDC with full pensions and benefits ("United Front")
2024 Oct (mid): He and Jackson accept job offers from Caitlin and make plans to move to the United States
2024 Oct (late): Moves to Pittsburgh with Jackson and starts working in Caitlin's lab
2024 Dec (early): Visited by Stacker at Caitlin's lab; agrees to be a reserve pilot for the relaunched G*psy Danger if Raleigh can't be found ("Recruiting Drive")
2025 Jan 4: Stacker calls, tells him to get on a plane (which turns out to be a Russian military jet) at the Pittsburgh airport for a flight to Hong Kong; hugs Jackson and leaves with no explanation; the closure of Hong Kong airspace due to the impending Second Battle of Hong Kong grounds him in Vladivostok
2025 Jan 5: After thirty-six hours with no contact, returns to Pittsburgh with a Russian military parka he gives to Jackson and still no explanation of his whereabouts
2025 Q3: Begins correspondence with Australian martial artists Blossom and Quinn
2025 Q4 or 2026 Q1: After encouragement from Jamie and Nanny, Blossom and Quinn visit Pittsburgh; the pair immediately attach themselves to Logan like limpets and he's strangely fine with it; Caitlin tests both Blossom and Quinn for Drift Compatibility and discovers Blossom could be Logan's 'Drift soulmate' (Quinn is insanely jealous); after much discussion, the pair Drift and form a lingering connection similar to the one Logan shares with Jackson ("Powerpuff Girls take on DriftSci")
2026 ~Jun: A routine Drift becomes anything but and he and Jackson wind up with a permanent mental connection to Vee "(Vee)"
2026 ~Q4: Travels to Australia; visits Nanny, Jamie, Blossom, and Quinn; acts with Blossom as a test 'pilot' for Shinohara Heavy Industries' prototype SFL Jaegers; Vee requests permission to form a permanent connection with Blossom, which is granted
~2027: Moves to Australia, where he shares a home with Blossom and Quinn and assists in running their business; leaves Jackson in Chuck Darling's capable hands
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