Why Scottish Logan is the Best Human AU for Logan
(An Essay by Me, the Scottish Logan Supplier)
Okay so I decided to finally make this post so let’s jump right on in.
Logan Sanders.
We know him, we love him, we wanna write him in our human AUs.
But man! Pinning down a nationality can be hard sometimes! Do you just make him a plain ol’ Floridian? Do you just spin a globe and choose that way?
Never fear, indecisive writers! I present to you all the reasons you should try making Logan Scottish in your fics and fanworks!
So, what can we turn to in canon that works with this read for Logan already?
1) Let’s start with the basics; his name. Logan.
As a Scot myself, I cannot tell you how quintessentially Scottish the name Logan is. I can right now list over 18 Logans I’ve met / known JUST in the course of my early school life.
The name origin is also, you guessed it, Scottish!
“Logan is a Scottish name that comes from the Gaelic word “lagan” or “lag,” which means “hollow”. The name itself means “Little Hollow”.“
(Side note: OWCH, the angst potential holy shit)
[For those who like Logicality among us, this also actually applies to Patton’s name too! It’s also of Scottish Origin!]
2) Logan canonically has an appreciation for poetry. And so do us Scots!
It’s a MASSIVE part of our culture and history, so much so there’s a position called The Scots Makar. The term originated as a term for bards and poets in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and was very recently revived to describe a government appointed poet.
Considering Logan HIMSELF has described himself as a bard (”I claimed to be the better bard / and I backed it up”), this point solidly applies to Logan.
Also to further the point, Scotland has a National Poetry Slam.
Please can you just imagine a story where Logan enters and obliterates the competition like he obliterated Roman’s weak rhymes? Legendary.
3) Our national animal is the Unicorn.
Listen, this one explains itself.
4) Logan is canonically a Ravenclaw. (also obligatory Fuck JK Rowling, all my besties hate JK Rowling)
What does this have to do with my point? Rowena Ravenclaw was canonically Scottish. I know this isn’t necessarily ‘evidence‘, but it’s a fun little coincidence and I think it’s pretty cool when added to everything else.
This is an odd point, but bear with me: a ‘crofter’ is a term for farmers who use the technique called Crofting.
And what is Crofting?
“ Crofting is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production particular to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man.”
There’s a lot of history in Scotland around Crofting and honestly tell me the idea of a Scottish Farmer Logan isn’t just the cutest thing.
[Side note: the term was originated in Germany and the founders of Crofters also got their start there from what I can see, so a fun lil side idea: Germanic-Celtic Logan.]
6) Logan swears the most of all the Sides.
Not so much in the main series, (though he DOES have his share of bleeped profanity), but in the outtakes Logan is the side that swears the most by a landslide. I can’t remember who made the one I first watched but there’s been a couple videos counting every instance and Logan comes out first for the most prone to profanity.
To be clear, I know a lot of you will be like “Isn’t that just a stereotype?!“ and if not written respectfully or used to make fun of the culture, then yes, that’s just being disrespectful.
However, from first hand I can tell you; profanity is a MASSIVE part of our culture. I don’t have time to go massively into it, but there’s a fantastic documentary called Scotland: Contains Strong Language that goes into the significance and culture around it. It’s just under an hour on YouTube and I highly recommend it.
Other smaller points that also help include:
- His colour being blue which is generally a colour applied to and connotative of Scotland (see: the Ravenclaw point again for an example)
- The many famous inventors from Scotland who I think we can all agree Logan would look up to and admire.
And just cool things that you can do with Logan being Scottish:
- Logan! Speaking! Scots Gaelic! Cannot tell you how cool it’d be to see Logan - and honestly more characters in general - speaking our language. Especially considering it’s very much an endangered language.
- FAE LOGAN AUS. Just imagine it.
- Logan getting to use the colourful clapbacks like you find on Scottish Twitter.
- Logan in a kilt. That’s all I need to say. This man would own it, lest we remember how gorgeous he looked in this;
- And a last point: it’d just be really, really cool to see more of our culture explored and learned about when explored through a character like this!
I’ve no idea how to end this, so here’s my favourite Logan picture:
