Alan Wake

**Alan Wake**, also known as **Novelist**, is the main protagonist from the *Alan Wake* series

## **Charactah Accounts**

Alan was a best-selling novelist who is vacationing with his wife in Bright Falls while wrestling with his writer's block. She disappears abruptly, and Alan comes to in a wrecked car in the wilderness, missing a week's time, and searching for clues as to what happened to his wife.

Alan Wake is a tired writer in search of a vacation, a place where he could forget everything. Whilst he was once much happier in his life and marriage, his rise to fame coupled with a developing writer's block has made him rather short tempered. At times he can still be caring and sympathetic, but this is rare as he becomes more frustrated with his life and work. Sadly, the continuous pursuit by fans and paparazzi have made him somewhat cynical to people, which is why he usually spends most of his time with his wife, Alice. Emil Hartman says that Alan's history of substance abuse combined with his insomnia makes him especially prone to anger.

He is also very strong-willed and brave, although at times blurs the lines between courage and stubbornness. This is in part fueled by his intense love for Alice, making him willing to take on the seemingly invincible Dark Presence in the hope of saving her. Though it is unknown how he met Alice, it is quickly established that he cares for her deeply and often refers to her as his 'muse'. During the first Alan Wake DLC, The Signal, Alan has memories of Alice which seem to make him happy, most of which are sexual and intimate. Their marriage has recently become turbulent in some ways, due to Alan's insomnia and alcohol fueled behavioral issues, but overall the two love each other very deeply.

## **Appearance**

### **Video Games**

* Alan Wake
* Alan Wake 2
* Alan Wake's American Nightmare
* Control

## **Trivia**

* Alan Wake is voiced by Matthew Porretta and modeled by Ilkka Villi.
* He has previously won an award called "The Golden Glocks", which sits on his office shelf in his apartment.
* Remedy Entertainment has called Alan "kind of a dick," noting that he "hates most people" and has many problems with his marriage. The intent of this characterization was to separate him from most golden-hearted characters and "space marine" G.I. Joes. This is intended to add a layer of realism and depth to Alan, making him a more relatable character with moral failings of his own as opposed to a larger-than-life hero with high moral standards.
* As with other Remedy Entertainment games, Alan Wake's name is a pun, in this case on the word "awake."
* One of the books in the Alex Casey series that Alan wrote is titled *The Things That I Want*. This is the name of a level in the Remedy game series, *Max Payne*. Another is titled "The Fall of Alex Casey", just like the subtitle for *Max Payne 2*. On some of the TVs in that game, a 'return to sender marathon' of the fictional show 'Address Unknown' is played, giving another book title. Max muses that "when entertainment turns to a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke". He refers to the coincidental parallels between fiction and his life as opposed to the rewriting of events that the manuscript pages of Alan Wake describe.
* The idea behind Wake ending the *Alex Casey* series by killing off the main character is most likely influenced by the Stephen King book *Misery*, where the main character Paul Sheldon, also a writer, ends his series of books by the same method and for the same reasons.
* There are several Xbox avatar outfits of Alan's clothes.
* With the sequel Alan Wake 2 coming, it is still unknown if the game takes place in 2023. It that's true, then Alan would be 45 years old.