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NAME: Bigby Wolf
AGE: At least a few centuries old; physically in his forties (never ask a wolf his age)
CANON: The Wolf Among Us
CANON POINT: Post-game
CRAU: N/A
OTHER: TWAU was originally created as a prequel to the Fables comics, but Bill Willingham has since de-canonized the game as of 2021. While I'm interpreting Bigby solely based on his characterization in TWAU, I'll occasionally defer to the comics for broader lore about the world Bigby comes from, along with some extra history and quirks for him that aren't explored directly in the game. I just won't be using them much as reference for his overall personality because that version of him can be very to his game counterpart.
SUITABILITY: World's most repressed wolf gets sent to a supernatural sex resort to loosen the fuck up for once (this is good for him, actually). He's a full grown adult who's probably a little out of practice at this point in his life, because let's be so for real, but the guy's got pent-up primal urges all the way through. As a character, Bigby is heavily defined by his restraint, both physically and emotionally, and the struggle of finding balance between letting go and pulling back. He pretty much exclusively prioritizes business over pleasure, and although he has some deep feelings for one person in particular, he's buried those under a mountain of professional and personal boundaries for centuries.
For that reason, putting him in this sort of environment will push him into actually reconciling those sides of himself without the burden of his usual reputation hanging over him. He's no stranger to world-hopping or pseudo-magical phenomena, and while he might be resistant to the whole premise out the gate just based on his history, he won't be a holdout for long. Bigby tries so hard to be a lone wolf, but he's been called out on playing that up plenty. He craves affection and connection, and being actively encouraged to indulge in his desires again might actually let him develop past his usual walls, for better or worse.
HISTORY: Wiki
Once upon a time in the Homelands, where every Fable used to reside, the deity known as North Wind fell in love with a white she-wolf named Winter. Though they courted, he soon moved on, just as the winds are wont to do, leaving her to slowly deteriorate from her own heartbreak.
Born in a litter of seven pups, the runt that would eventually become the Big Bad Wolf experienced the loss of his mother at a young age. While his brothers went to search for their father, he stayed by her corpse to fight off any scavengers, only to fail due to his small size. From then on, he vowed to eat something bigger and bigger every day, until he was strong enough to take his revenge on North Wind. After seven failed attempts, he turned his unbridled rage onto the rest of the Homelands, antagonizing and devouring anyone who dared cross his path. Elsewhere, the figure known as the Adversary began his takeover of the Homelands.
While defending his territory from the Adversary’s armies, Bigby happened upon a prisoner, a woman with skin white as snow and hair black as coal. Unafraid of the Big Bad Wolf, she asked for his help to break her shackles, and somehow amused and endeared, he obliged. Eventually, Bigby was among the Fables who fled to the mundane world, where he wandered Europe for years until discovered again by that same woman, Snow White. She offered him passage to the New World and a place in a growing community of Fables. He accepted, and she cut him a lycanthropy-stained knife, granting him a human form.
Three centuries later, sometime during the 1980s, Bigby Wolf is now the Sheriff of Fabletown, a hidden community of Fables in the heart of New York City. Equal parts protector and enforcer, he maintains peace and order despite his own vicious past. A house call leads to an unexpected murder of a Fable, the first in years, followed by another, both working girls. In search of their killer, Bigby ultimately uncovers and takes down an underground crime ring built on exploiting the most vulnerable and the most desperate, including Fabletown's own acting deputy mayor. After making his way through various underlings, he eventually finds his way to the Crooked Man, who he detains for making the order to have those women dead, before sending him down the Witching Well for his crimes.
ABILITIES:
LYCANTHROPY / TRANSFORMATION. Bigby can physically shift between wolf and human without the use of any magical glamour. Compared to a traditional werewolf, he has a bit more control over these transformations, but they are often triggered as an aggressive response to being backed into a corner. Sometimes the easiest way out is through. He has four forms to note: HEIGHTENED SENSES. Even as a human, Bigby has an acute sense of smell and hearing. He relies on both for his investigative work, but they can also be debilitatingly overwhelming if left unmanaged. He smokes like a chimney as a form of self-medication against sensory overload, and the worse the cigarettes are, the better they help dull his sense of smell in particular. He’s going to have a great time in a resort filled with all sorts of sounds and scents.
DURABILITY & STRENGTH. Fables are as strong and durable as their stories are popular amongst mundies. For someone as well known as the Big Bad Wolf, that means he’s capable of doing a lot more than an ordinary person would be. Bigby can both pack a mean punch and get thrown out of a three-story window, all without breaking a sweat. This isn’t to say he can’t feel pain or get hurt; he’s just a lot more resilient overall, especially when he’s in his stronger forms.
REGENERATIVE HEALING. Fables are also near-immortal, thanks in part to their ability to recover quickly from most injuries. Bigby himself is shown to sustain quite a few beatings in only so many days, including a broken bone and multiple gunshot wounds, yet he's still able to get back up on his feet with nominal downtime. This might also explain why he can smoke and drink as much as he does (all while having abysmal eating and sleeping habits) without it affecting his fitness much. Injuries from silver (and to some extent, fire) are notable exceptions; they can and will be lethal if not tended to immediately. Silver in particular is akin to poison to his system, weakening his overall health and slowing his regeneration altogether.
VICES:
TEMPERMENTAL. Bigby has an aggressively violent temper, and that’s putting it lightly. The thing most people know him for is being a vicious and vindictive monster with no remorse. While there’s more to him than just being an angry wolf nowadays, especially with the amount of work he’s done to integrate himself with the rest of his community, that’s still very much a part of who he is. All those feelings of unfettered rage don’t just disappear, and it’s not uncommon for him to let them out when given the right opportunity, even if he knows he shouldn’t. When he’s quick to rile up, there’s only so much pushing around he can take before he finally has to remind people why they used to be scared of him in the first place. He doesn’t shy away from using force when he needs to, nor is he afraid of actually following through with any threats he’s made. There's a reason why he gets into so many fights in only the span of a couple of nights; he is just not in the business of de-escalation like he should be, given his line of work.
LONELY. Or a lone wolf, if you will. Generally aloof, Bigby has spent a long time keeping to himself and going about life on his own terms. Despite his job requiring more social interaction than he cares for, he struggles quite a bit with actually building connections, preferring to keep people at arm’s length despite the inherent isolation that goes with it. He simply accepts that as the way it has to be, having nowhere to fit in even within Fabletown. The upper class of the Woodlands only have him around out of necessity (the lack of something as small as a real nameplate is telling), whereas the rest of the stray Fables view him as government lapdog, if not an irredeemable monster. It’s just easier for him not to have to constantly justify himself to people who don’t even want him around anyway, ignoring the fact that he is intrinsically a pack animal. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy for those who do know him to see right through those walls of his.
ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES. Grumpy, sarcastic, an all-around asshole — Bigby isn’t exactly gunning to win a popularity contest anytime soon. His default state of being can come across as gruff, if not outright rude, making him hard to get along with when he constantly seems to be irritated by something. When his patience wears thin, which it so often does, he’ll toss all pretense to be as blunt and callous as he has to be to get his point across, because clearly no one will take him seriously if he doesn’t. Not to mention, the guy does not know how to go five seconds without swearing. Some people might find it a little endearing. Others are more likely to call him a furry gobshite prick. Either way, if he doesn’t have some kind of constant scowl on his face, then something is clearly wrong.
VIRTUES:
DETERMINED. Bigby is nothing if not tenacious, evident by just how much he’s willing to put up with once he sets his mind on something. His job as sheriff is far from easy, especially when his reputation and demeanor don’t lend well to getting much support. Nevertheless, he remains resolute through everything Fabletown likes to throw at him, just for the sake of the community, because he sure as shit isn’t doing it for the pay. Despite how much everyone loves to complain about everything he does wrong, he's still the one they call for help when things go sideways. When something needs to get done, he’ll find a way to get it done, even if it takes everything he has. Given the lack of a real bed and any actual food in his apartment, it's safe to say he spends a majority of his time in the office or around town, doing his best to keep things running as a one-man show. Dependable and hard-working, perhaps to his own detriment, one might think he has something to prove to everyone, and that's not a wrong assumption to have.
PROTECTIVE. Perhaps an extension of his more wolfish tendencies, Bigby will go to great lengths to protect and defend the people he cares about, often to his own detriment. He’ll jump straight into a fight to keep someone else from getting hurt, just as much as he’ll punch a guy right in the face for calling Snow a bitch one too many times. On a broader scale, much of what he does for Fabletown is for its own protection — either from mundies or from itself — a job he takes very seriously despite how often his fellow Fables makes him want to desperately crash out. As much as he could phone it in, he still tries, time and time again, because that’s just what he does. What Bigby lacks in self-preservation skills, he more than makes up for in keeping people safe from harm’s way, even if he has to take the brunt of it to do so.
CARING. In true New Yorker fashion, Bigby isn't nice, but he is kind. While it’s easy to dismiss him as having nothing but a bad attitude, Snow said it best: he has a hot head, and a big heart. Though he struggles to express that side of himself, especially through that naturally gruff exterior of his, he can be sympathetic, even gentle, when someone truly needs it. There are even instances where he skirts around his own rules, just to make the playing field fairer for others. He’s deeply impacted by other Fables experiencing hardship and injustice, especially those who lost their lives under his watch, because at his core, he wants to help, and he wants to make things right. After all, he only became the young, angry wolf he did because he loved his mother enough to go after the one he blamed for her death. For as much as the residents of Fabletown love to call him out as being the problem (which, in all fairness, he can be), the only reason he goes as far as he does is because he cares, even if they don't see it that way.
SUIT REQUESTS: Both Hearts and Diamonds would push the limits of Bigby's usual level of self-control over himself, so no preference for one over the other.
HEARTS. For someone as guarded as Bigby, this suit immediately represents big problems. Openly showing his feelings, even towards those he has a lot of genuine affection for, is just not something he does. Maybe it’s a bit of a pride thing (lone wolf, by the way). Maybe it’s the fear of actually being vulnerable for once. Regardless, putting all his awkward and unresolved emotions to the forefront and pushing him to actually connect with people is quite possibly the best punishment to force him through. Let him pine earnestly. Let him crave gentle affection. Let him get huffy and jealous and possessive over people he starts viewing as mates. This is the only way he can learn to stop keeping everyone at a distance.
DIAMONDS. A natural fit for someone who tends to get physical whenever his emotions get the best of him. Despite all the effort trying to prove he’s more than just the angry wolf he used to be, at the end of the day, he’s still very much an animal with the capacity to growl and bite when things don’t go his way. He already has plenty of aggression just below the surface, ready to jump out when given the chance, so this suit would very much intensify all the feral impulses he’d otherwise be working to suppress. This would also be a good opportunity for some of his more animalistic features to come out more frequently, in addition to playing around with just how much going into heat might affect that wolf brain of his, even after he satisfies his physical urges.
RANK REQUESTS: No strong preference, but a high-rank would be an immediate challenge to his normal way of living. Bigby lives in a shoebox of an apartment with zero attention paid to his well-being. With a reputation as a notorious as his, why would anyone want him to be comfortable? Suddenly living in luxury, being doted on by staff who won't leave him alone, would be incredibly uncomfortable, giving him something to work through (or against) from the very start. Otherwise, somewhere in the mid-rank would be the nicest option, just to give him an actually nice bed to sleep in for once, along with some leeway to snoop around.
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NAME: Bigby Wolf
AGE: At least a few centuries old; physically in his forties (never ask a wolf his age)
CANON: The Wolf Among Us
CANON POINT: Post-game
CRAU: N/A
OTHER: TWAU was originally created as a prequel to the Fables comics, but Bill Willingham has since de-canonized the game as of 2021. While I'm interpreting Bigby solely based on his characterization in TWAU, I'll occasionally defer to the comics for broader lore about the world Bigby comes from, along with some extra history and quirks for him that aren't explored directly in the game. I just won't be using them much as reference for his overall personality because that version of him can be very to his game counterpart.
SUITABILITY: World's most repressed wolf gets sent to a supernatural sex resort to loosen the fuck up for once (this is good for him, actually). He's a full grown adult who's probably a little out of practice at this point in his life, because let's be so for real, but the guy's got pent-up primal urges all the way through. As a character, Bigby is heavily defined by his restraint, both physically and emotionally, and the struggle of finding balance between letting go and pulling back. He pretty much exclusively prioritizes business over pleasure, and although he has some deep feelings for one person in particular, he's buried those under a mountain of professional and personal boundaries for centuries.
For that reason, putting him in this sort of environment will push him into actually reconciling those sides of himself without the burden of his usual reputation hanging over him. He's no stranger to world-hopping or pseudo-magical phenomena, and while he might be resistant to the whole premise out the gate just based on his history, he won't be a holdout for long. Bigby tries so hard to be a lone wolf, but he's been called out on playing that up plenty. He craves affection and connection, and being actively encouraged to indulge in his desires again might actually let him develop past his usual walls, for better or worse.
HISTORY: Wiki
Once upon a time in the Homelands, where every Fable used to reside, the deity known as North Wind fell in love with a white she-wolf named Winter. Though they courted, he soon moved on, just as the winds are wont to do, leaving her to slowly deteriorate from her own heartbreak.
Born in a litter of seven pups, the runt that would eventually become the Big Bad Wolf experienced the loss of his mother at a young age. While his brothers went to search for their father, he stayed by her corpse to fight off any scavengers, only to fail due to his small size. From then on, he vowed to eat something bigger and bigger every day, until he was strong enough to take his revenge on North Wind. After seven failed attempts, he turned his unbridled rage onto the rest of the Homelands, antagonizing and devouring anyone who dared cross his path. Elsewhere, the figure known as the Adversary began his takeover of the Homelands.
While defending his territory from the Adversary’s armies, Bigby happened upon a prisoner, a woman with skin white as snow and hair black as coal. Unafraid of the Big Bad Wolf, she asked for his help to break her shackles, and somehow amused and endeared, he obliged. Eventually, Bigby was among the Fables who fled to the mundane world, where he wandered Europe for years until discovered again by that same woman, Snow White. She offered him passage to the New World and a place in a growing community of Fables. He accepted, and she cut him a lycanthropy-stained knife, granting him a human form.
Three centuries later, sometime during the 1980s, Bigby Wolf is now the Sheriff of Fabletown, a hidden community of Fables in the heart of New York City. Equal parts protector and enforcer, he maintains peace and order despite his own vicious past. A house call leads to an unexpected murder of a Fable, the first in years, followed by another, both working girls. In search of their killer, Bigby ultimately uncovers and takes down an underground crime ring built on exploiting the most vulnerable and the most desperate, including Fabletown's own acting deputy mayor. After making his way through various underlings, he eventually finds his way to the Crooked Man, who he detains for making the order to have those women dead, before sending him down the Witching Well for his crimes.
ABILITIES:
HUMAN. His day-to-day form, Bigby now lives his life as a wolf in man's clothing. While able to hold his own in a fight, mostly due to him being a Fable, he's also literally just some guy, so don't expect some crazy feats while he's human. HALF-WEREWOLF. Piss him off enough, and Bigby will take it up a notch. Mostly human-like, with a sharper set of teeth and claws, along with thicker hair and yellow eyes. He's stronger, faster, and whole lot more primal while in this form. WEREWOLF. Right what it says on the tin. Much larger than his previous forms and covered in grey fur, but still bipedal despite his more animalistic behaviors at this point. Again, the limits of his abilities are extended in this form. WOLF. His original form, better known as the Big Bad Wolf. About eight feet tall, with pitch black fur and pure yellow eyes, he is as menacing as he is powerful. While in this form, he can also blow gale-force level winds, just as all the stories say. Nowadays, Bigby only reverts back to a full-on wolf as a last resort.
VICES:
VIRTUES:
SUIT REQUESTS: Both Hearts and Diamonds would push the limits of Bigby's usual level of self-control over himself, so no preference for one over the other.
RANK REQUESTS: No strong preference, but a high-rank would be an immediate challenge to his normal way of living. Bigby lives in a shoebox of an apartment with zero attention paid to his well-being. With a reputation as a notorious as his, why would anyone want him to be comfortable? Suddenly living in luxury, being doted on by staff who won't leave him alone, would be incredibly uncomfortable, giving him something to work through (or against) from the very start. Otherwise, somewhere in the mid-rank would be the nicest option, just to give him an actually nice bed to sleep in for once, along with some leeway to snoop around.