He metaphorically broke his arm in the process, but was aware that it was going to happen because that's how horror stories work. Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: His rewriting of the Dark Presence to give it a weak spot.Determinator: He is going to find his wife.Deadpan Snarker: When he's in a good mood which is unfortunately not often for him.Chekhov's Gun: The "clicker" that Alan had as a child, a cut-off light switch which his mother told him would drive the darkness away if he turned it on.Given that said monologue is part of his writing of the game's events, it's somewhat justified. Captain Obvious: Has a few moments of this during his inner monologues.Hartman touching that nerve again later is one of the many reasons for why Alan wants to punch the smug grin off his face. Alice trying to trick him into writing again causes a heated argument, and Dr. Berserk Button: Causing harm to Alice is his biggest one, but he's also very touchy when it comes to his writer's block being prodded on, especially when he thought he was just going to have a simple vacation.
Badass Bookworm: He's a novelist that's a surprisingly good shot for someone who spent just a bit of time in range practice.The game naturally invokes this in-universe as well, since Alan wrote the game's events himself. Author Avatar: He has quite a few things in common with the game's writer Sam Lake.As of Control, Alan has been in the Dark Place for 10 years with no apparent hope of escape, and not only is his will to escape starting to wane, more mysteries are piling up. And I Must Scream: The exchange for releasing Alice was that Alan confined himself to the darkness underneath Cauldron Lake so he could write a definitive end for the Dark Presence through a new story.The Anderson brothers' moonshine had that extra special kick to it. The Alcoholic: Mainly due to the many parties thrown in the wake of his most recent novel.Control indicates that this may be invoked, as some of the information in the AWE expansion that Alan was already a Parautilitarian even before he came into contact with the Dark Presence, and that Alan was in turn created by Thomas Zane to be a Reality Warper Action Survivor.If the enemy is more than twenty or thirty paces away, he's not likely to hit them, even with a more accurate gun like the hunting rifle. This is generally shown in his performance in-game Wake can't run very far without getting tired, he can't take too many hits, and he's not an exceptionally good shot. Action Survivor: He's literally just a novelist who spent a bit of time on the gun range and wears a quite dapper tweed jacket.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, all while fighting dark supernatural forces. The title character, a best-selling novelist who is vacationing with his wife in Bright Falls while wrestling with his writer's block. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and it's what we'll remember in the end. "In a horror story, the victim keeps asking "Why?" But there can be no explanation, and there shouldn't be one.
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