Sander Cohen

Sander Cohen heard you like ~art~, so he put his ~art~ in your ~art~ so you can run while he throws fire at you.
==Canon history==
Sander Cohen was a big name artist in the super-Objectivist underwater city of Rapture. He painted; he sculpted; he composed symphonies; he wrote (terrible propaganda) plays; he put out albums of swing music and croony ballads. His ego could have swallowed the universe.
He had his critics, of course, but as his influence grew and the city got more corrupt, they displayed a convenient tendency to just... disappear. By this point it was the fag-end of the 1950s, the city was filling up with mad, deformed junkies, and Cohen himself was getting more insane by the day. Blame the civil war, and the proliferation of genetic wonder drugs that just so happened to destroy you even as they gave you incredible powers.
For those not in the know, these drugs are called Plasmids and gene tonics; they're made using a drug called ADAM; and people who use them (making themselves stronger or prettier or able to shoot lightning from their fingers) are called splicers. This has been your lesson for today in specialised vocabulary.
Of course, when people were busy fighting each other, they didn't have much time for plays and art shows. Cohen grew angry and resentful that he was stuck down here in this soggy bucket rather than wowing Hollywood or being the toast of Broadway, and blamed Andrew Ryan - the founder and ruler* of the city - for his misfortune.
(*Ryan was really bad at being Objectivist.)
Cohen locked himself in Fort Frolic, the city's entertainment complex, and started covering dead splicers in plaster and calling it art. This was not the apex of his career. When a young man called Jack came poking around, Cohen was impressed by his skill and drive, and sort of forcibly adopted him as a disciple. When I say this, I mean that he trapped the guy in Fort Frolic, then said he'd only let him go if Jack killed and took photos of some ex-disciples who'd annoyed him. Cohen was basically the most douchebaggy mentor ever.
After Jack left, Cohen just sort of hung around, dreaming about the past, admiring his artwork and plastering the occasional passerby. Then one day not too far down the road, he was zeefed into Wonderland.
==Entranceway history==
(watch this space)
==External links==
*Cohen's app @vitaelamorte
*Sander Cohen on the Bioshock Wiki
*List of Cohen's logs
Category:Bioshock
Category:Characters