Alijah

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**Alijah** is the eponymous protagonist of Alijah and Logan next to Logan. He lives in the house on Block Block with his best friend, uncle, aunt, and younger cousins. On occasion, he'll visit his hard-working father and sleep-deprived sister in their apartment, Brook Avenue.

## Appearance

He's mixed between White-American and African-American, while also having a heavy amount of acne on his face. He's also known for his low metabolism, which makes him rail-thin and rather lightweight.

He always wears the same green polo shirt, black shorts, white socks and black shoes. He rarely changes his clothing attire, wanting to "stay consistent". When he does, however, he'll always be wearing a random green shirt or his classic green jacket with a white shirt underneath.

His haircut is always bushy, curly hair, and we don't see him with a haircut until the end of Season 1, the special *Are You My Evil Twin?*, and second half of Season 2. In Season 3, it reverts to normal, and in Season 5, it turns back into a fade, until the end of Season 6.

## Personality

Alijah is a kind, loyal, generous, optimistic, fun-loving, adventurous and well-intentioned adolescent. He always shows a friendly demeanor to all he encounters, even if they are really harsh. He'll always be there to lend a hand for others, and give the best help that he can. His optimism comes off as inspiring, as seen in *The Good, The Bad, and the Third Person*, where he lifts the spirits of multiple kids working together to the defeat the Cooper Kings and their army of warriors when they were at their lowest point. Thus said, Alijah will always utilize his upbeat attitude to bring others up out of a bad mood, which is kind of why he does such a good job as leader.

Intelligence is a trait he rocks out of him and Logan. While he's academically basic and normally gets 70s in his report cards, that's only because he thinks school is corrupted and meant to do the same to you, treating it as the most useless thing in his life in spite of trying to get at least a 70. He's known for crafting complex schemes that get better with the more prep he's given, like how he formed a plan to ambush the sentient toys in *Revenge of the Toys*. He's also proficient in drawing, writing stories (on computer), keeping notes, catching onto tricks, making traps, and even manipulation at some points. However, characters like Peyton and Isaiah are more intelligent than him due to having ideas that aren't that reckless, possessing knowledge on much more areas of smarts than him, knowing when to stop their foolishness, and overall making better decisions than him for a majority of the time.

Because of this, he also has a unique vocabulary, which he normally uses to make sarcastic comebacks, and this is repeatedly pointed out by Isaiah, who defines him as "the man with jokes so meta that even depressed people felt shade". In *Two Protagonists, One Isaiah*, he said this, and in *Trust Fall*, he said Peyton's doubt in their loyalty is "like saying there's no squirrel in someone's tree when there really is, and you're just lying to see them land in getting scratched to death". This shows his love to fool around at the wrong times, and it often ends in serving as a major hindrance, as seen in episodes like *First Day of Freedom*, *Nature's Finest* and *The Joke Gets 'Tire'-ing*, where he constantly jokes in the midst of combat, which (mostly) landed in him getting beaten down.

He may not be the strongest, but his determination helps him keep on fighting. There are several examples of this, such as in *Chores Be The Churning*, where despite working for hours without rest, he still retains his willpower, *Wild Night Out*, where he stays up the entire night for Logan once he falls asleep as per his promise, *The Joke Gets 'Tire'-ing*, where he still keeps facing off against the pack of wild dogs despite his bleeding, *Unleash The Thing*, where he kept on going despite being beaten to near death by the cool kids, and especially *Alijah and Logan: The Movie*, where no matter how many grievous injuries he receives, how many times he got talked down, or how many times General Malcomitch beat him up, he never stopped getting up to fight.

He's lazy most of the time, and only motivated when he has a proper goal, like obtaining money or helping someone else. In almost every episode, he's portrayed as a slacker that is forced to do chores and sometimes tries to avoid it as long as he can before doing the bare minimum later on, though he will do them at times for the sake of not being grounded. In *Two Sides of the Same Coin*, he and Logan went to Dr. Techno so he can build a machine that could make clones of them to go to school, though Alijah first stated he didn't want to do any school work, and later on, when Negative Logan tried to distract them while he and Negative Alijah were ruining their lives by making them think they were helping them, Alijah knew something was wrong, but soon fed into the lie when sitting on the couch.

Alijah is immature despite his intelligence, as shown in *Babysitting*, when he laughed at potty-humor jokes alongside Jackson and Savannah, *Play The Game*, where he refuses to take responsibility for setting his family in danger when playing a board game for money via lying, and *Can't Remember*, where even after he recovers from losing his memories, he impulsively spends money on Milky-Way Bars for the second time. Like someone immature, he'll easily laugh at something childish or make jokes when he's not supposed to (e.g. *Butter Flying In Thy Stomach*, when a nearby toddler started repeating the word "dukie", he obviously couldn't control his laughter when he tried in front of Tina, and joined them in saying it after a while), but unlike someone immature, he doesn't refuse to learn from failure just to defend his self-esteem.

## Skills

Despite being consistently weaker than Logan, he has shown to be strong on his own. In *First Day of Freedom*, he ripped a door off of it's hinges, and kicked an entire refrigerator down with ease. In *The Derby That Darned It All*, he easily lifted Logan, Peyton, Jackson and Savannah all at once to protect them from the wild dogs. In *Two Protagonists, One Isaiah*, he wrestled with 3 grown adults at once, and they were each capable of punching through metal. In *Take A Chill Pill*, he easily yanked an anvil away from Josh, proceeding to throw it into the sky.

***Note:*** *It should be known that he can easily scale to Isaiah, who can burst through locked doors, collapse an entire house, and slam a football so hard that it caused a shockwave to envelop the entire city of Whatchamacallit.*

While he doesn't seem that strong, he's much better in durability, normally tanking the explosion of Logan's house and taking punches from the ladder, as he's well known to be able to exert 100,000,000 tons of TNT with sheer strength, as per the words of Isaiah. He also survived being crushed by an entire apartment in *Piece of Cake*, and Peyton's Dungeon in *Prank Gone Wrong*. This consisted of the following:

* Mud bath with several street cats, raccoons and feral pigs
* Hallway filled with cannons that shoot wall-piercing Nerf darts
* Room that has bowling balls attached to ropes swing around and hit you
* Water slide from space to the Earth as you land on the hard ground
* Wrestling ring with a 7-ton elephant
* Challenge where you race down a grass hill on the lid of a trash can, only to fall on rocks, cacti, wooden boards, rings of fire, and an entire dumpster full of hard objects
* A room with a sign that says "It Ends Here", only for you to be launched all the way around the Earth and back at the start

He's also surprisingly fast, dodging cannonballs and lightning on a daily basis. He also outran Jackson on several occasions, and as shown in *One Too Many*, he can go from Whatchamacallit to the North Pole in 5 seconds, which results in 55 mph. He's even on par with Josh, who can go from Whatchamacallit to the Pacific Ocean and back in 3 seconds (4,048,800 mph), and Peyton, who was said to be 6,706,166 mph by her coach. He and Logan are equal, as they have dug to the Earth's core in short-time frame. The calculation is shown below.

* **Speed:** 1,297,440 miles per hour
* **Distance:** 1,802 miles
* **Time:** 5 seconds

For intelligence, he has shown to be much better at forming schemes and being team leader instead of school projects. This results in **Above Average**, and the feats for it are seen on the list below. While he normally gets 70s at school and is horrible at giving advice for such, he has...

* Formed several schemes to achieve a goal, and only few backfired
	+ In *Chores Be The Churning*, he made a fool-proof plan for cleaning Logan's house, and had several back-up ideas
	+ In *Nature's Finest*, he outsmarted the Annual Bear Menace by having it open the cage to "check the door", only to give him his honey and kick him out (turns out that he planned the entire thing to get rid of ABM, who tortured Whatchamacallit for decades)
	+ In *Revenge of the Toys*, he made an advanced battle plan for him, Logan, Peyton and Jackson to defeat the sentient army of toys
	+ In *Put On Yer Mask*, he came up with so many ideas that they filled up an entire folder from A to Z (though they all ended in failure, Plan Z was the one that succeeded)
	+ In *We're Animated!*, Alijah secretly made a plan of his own to restore reality to its original form as Logan failed to do so by himself
	+ In *Slack-Jawed*, he already planned out 20 ways Josh would beat up Logan's bully for the 2 weeks he traveled to his house
	+ In *Prank Gone Wrong*, he made the world's greatest prank and used it on 2D-Thin, who was mind-controlling Peyton for all of April Fools Day
* Pulled off being the team leader on several occasions
	+ Helping people bond towards a common goal and ending quarrels is no problem since he helps Logan, Isaiah and Peyton on working together multiple times
	+ In episodes like *The Good, The Bad, and the Third Person* and *Highest Form of Flattery*, he leads an entire group of kids to victory
	+ He even lead an entire city twice in *Alijah and Logan: The Movie* and *Alijah and Logan: Two Sides of the Same Coin*
* Outsmarted the Cooper Kids too many times to count
* Good at manipulating others for his own benefit
	+ Tricked several antagonists into his traps with ease
	+ Lies to get out of sticky situations
		- In *Play The Game*, he lied to The Curser about trying to banish him from existence
		- In *The State's Bacteria*, he made all of Whatchamacallit think he and Logan were hired by the Mayor during her vacation
* Became so analytical that he was able to come up with several clues for where the family beach-house was in *It's Survival, But They Ain't Fit*, and generally points out useful tips no one else would look into
* Lifted Peyton out of her sadness several times with his methods, which was something nobody else could do
* Can do on-the-fly moves of improvisation when a plan doesn't work out
	+ In *Bet You Can't Do This*, after Peyton found out about his plan to make her leave the house so he and Logan can get her candy, he switched the bags and left like nothing happened, much to her dismay later on
	+ In *Revenge of the Toys*, Alijah's plan was messed up because of Jackson, but he expected it, and planned ahead to where his scheme really succeeded
	+ In *The Daily Lag*, when Glitch corrupted the chip, he shoved it in Olden's electricity-crafted body to rid of it as he inserted it anyways, with Glitch thinking it was his corruption connected as he was purified and vaporized by Olden's superior energy
	+ In *Men of the House*, he called the police ahead of time before he made his scheme to defeat the robbers, as just when it failed to stop them, the police were able to bag them just in time
	+ In *Slingshot*, when Peyton was at the top, Alijah used her arm to get him a point when she and Logan weren't looking
* Was able to proficiently drive a car
* Has plenty of combat skill and experience despite having zero training

## Trivia

* Unlike the traditional "schemer", Alijah is sincerely kind and thoughtful despite his constant plans that mostly land him in trouble. After Season 1, he became tied to making several copies of these plans.
* During the first half of Season 2, he used to have a temper activated whenever anybody attacked his loved ones, which was worse than usual.
* His nickname is "Bubba", of which he was humiliated for in *Take A Chill Pill*.
* He used to be slightly naïve and gullible in the first season due to Early Installment Weirdness (experimentation on his character) alongside Logan, having insane luck due to this, though the shtick died out in the first season and was passed onto Jackson.
	+ Alijah also used to be somewhat of a weakling until Season 2, where his greater feats of power were distinguished.
	+ In later seasons, he slightly more mature episode after episode, accepting responsibility and thinking more rationally, mostly due to guidance by his father, Brody.
* He was revealed to be the next in line to hold up the reputation of bring something magic to the world by his father, Brody, in *Hero Nomination*, saying he was "destined for greatness as he fought the forces of evil". Makes sense, given how in Alijah and Logan: The Movie (which was released at the end of Season 5, whereas *Hero Nomination* was released during Season 4), he was repeatedly called the "chosen one" alongside Logan, and was stated to fulfill his destiny once he defeated General Malcomitch at the end of the movie. Even before that, in *Season 1's Over Already?*, he was called "the chosen one" by Dr. Techno, hinting to these events, *We're Animated!*, he was stated to be "the one to save the realm", *The Rise of Evil*, where he and Logan were called "the pure heroes", and *Alijah's Story*, where the Narrator called him an "ancient warrior with his own tale to tell".