Alan Wake

Alan Wake is the titular protagonist of the Alan Wake franchise and a major character in the Remedy Connected Universe. Wake is a bestselling novelist most known for his crime-thriller series, Alex Casey. After suffering from a two-year writer's block following "The Sudden Stop", Alan and his wife Alice vacationed to Bright Falls, Washington. There, Alice was kidnapped by the Dark Presence and Alan fought through the possessed townsfolk to rescue her. Meanwhile, Alan experienced the events of a story he didn't remember writing. After realizing the Dark Presence took Alice as collateral to force Alan into releasing it using the power of Cauldron Lake, Alan instead wrote himself into the Dark Place to set Alice free.