SAWYER.

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important.

      i am not really here for the triangle plots in the show, nor to write it out here, so it's not part of my sawyer's canon. meaning, he does not have a crush on, nor is he in love with kate. he views her as someone he respects and likes as a friend or found family, nothing more. other than that, i pretty much follow canon, tho prefer to stick with the earlier seasons unless plotted out.       

biography.

James Ford was born in December in Jasper, Alabama. When he was eight, a man known as "Sawyer" slept with his mother, claiming he'd take her out of Alabama. The man swindled the family out of all their savings, enraging James's father. He shot his wife then turned the gun on himself, while young James hid under the bed and watched. At the funeral, James began writing a letter to the con man, vowing to find him one day and kill him. A stranger gave him a pen when his dried out, and he finished the letter, though he promised his uncle he wouldn't.

James dropped out of school in the ninth grade. At 19, he was $6,000 in debt, and he tried the confidence trick his nemesis has used to obtain the money. He later adopted the name of his enemy. Though he continued tracking the original Sawyer to take revenge, he became the very man he hunted.

James often employed his earlier con. At one point, James was just about to succeed in swindling a couple, Jessica and David, out of $160,000, but when he discovered that they had a young son, he abruptly called off the deal. Unlike his nemesis, James drew the line at harming children in his cons; seeing the boy wracked him with guilt and he did not want to force a child to go through what he had.

A later victim, Cassidy, saw through the trick and Sawyer took her on as an apprentice, teaching her how to run small cons, but Cassidy was actually the victim of a "long con" scheme all along. Sawyer seemed genuinely fond of Cassidy, and for a while considered abandoning the scam. His partner in the con though forced his hand by threatening Cassidy's life. Cassidy gave him up to the authorities on the advice of a woman named Kate, whom she met shortly after the relationship ended.

The court sentenced him to approximately seven years. The warden commuted the last six years of Sawyer's sentence in exchange for conning a fellow prisoner into revealing where he'd stashed stolen money. After his release, he and Hibbs participated in the Tampa Job, which by accounts did not turn out well for him. Hibbs later approached James, claiming the original Sawyer was named Frank Duckett and lived in Sydney. James traveled to Australia, and while there, a man's car door hit him. Sawyer visited a bar and met Christian Shephard, who talked about his son and encouraged Sawyer to finish the business he planned to do. With this in mind, James met Duckett and shot him. He realized right after, though, that Hibbs had tricked him again - Duckett was innocent. James ran. 

He later got into a bar fight and head-butted the Australian Minister of Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry. Police dragged him to the station, and ordered him deported to America on Oceanic Flight 815, little knowing that the plane would crash on a mysterious, unknown island.

After Sawyer crashed on the Island, his drifter instincts took over and he began looting and hoarding from the wreck. This included stealing from the luggage compartments and even pawing through corpses' wallets, giving him a shady reputation in the camp. However, Sawyer soon became bored of keeping to himself and accompanied the group of survivors heading for higher ground to use the radio transmitter. On this trip, he began to know Kate. He also shot a polar bear, revealing that he had stolen a firearm from the U.S. Marshal after the crash. He later shot the dying marshal in the chest with this gun, but he missed the heart, hitting the lung instead. As the marshal was now dying painfully, James internally felt an extreme guilt for having caused the man to suffer more. Sawyer nevertheless would continue to act selfishly in an attempt to get people to dislike him, something which Kate came to see through, as she wasn't too different from him.

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