Re-boot Sam

=Re-boot Sam=

Main Information
Sammantha 'Sam' Rick is officially the fourth member of the Main Four, having been the last introduced. She's found in the abandoned mental ward that Dell finds and kills the God of Death before him: teasing Dell before they start cussing each other out. Her design is changed quite a bit from the original, and her general demeanor is much more spunky-tease-y and she cusses much more with quite the sailors vocabulary. She's much more childish or immature than she was before- and acts a lot more secretive and closed booked than the original counterpart.

Sam also starts going by 'Sammy' in this timeline rather than 'Sam' and its regarded as an inside joke between only her and Gene. This is also what Max calls her when he first sees her again-and it confuses her at first-thinking that he's Gene.

Appearance
Sammy's appearance is changed significantly from the original design: being more unique and stylized than just wearing black. She has on a hoodie, black jean shorts, 'fun' socks, Japanese style platform boots, black gloves, and her mask. Sam also has ear piercings, two rings around halfway up her ear, and an industrial piercing on her right. In conversation, she says she did some herself. She's more curvy than the average for her height.

She has her hair down and cut shorter than the pigtails she had originally, but still bangs. Her hair now reaches under her ear-layered very messy in the back, with the bangs longer. Sammy hits at cutting it herself-which would make sense since she dyes her hair. Its still dyed, just a more green-blue than cyan. her original hair color is a mix between ginger and light brown. A comment Hex makes later proves that her dying her hair is a rather new thing, since she didn't have it dyed when he last saw her.

Her eyes are hazel but seem very green, and she still has the scar on her face, only its different. Her original scar went from her forehead down over her nose, and was seemingly caused by a cut. The scar she has now covers most of the area under her right eye that reaches over to the opposite eyebrow. More noticeably damaged around her eye, it's a collection of small cuts from glass, and chemical burns. The iris of her eye is also damaged permanently, her sclera is more pink than white, sometimes it looks bloodshot, and she has mild sight impairment in that eye. Usually it gets worse the brighter things are (sees better in darker areas.)

She doesn't take the mask off, not even for Max, using her freckles as an excuse, which is her admitting to having them.

Unlike before, Sammy openly says she has a lot of masks, and thinks they're kinda like records or coins in that she likes to collect them. The one she has on when she meets Dell is white resin with black holes over the eyes, Black eyebrows like upside down 'U's and a small cut between the lips. She changes her mask the next time he sees her, which is light grey and shaped to look like a jolly man smiling. She has many more, including a gas mask.

Exo Traits
With her eye color being hazel-green, her 'Exo eyes' are a yellow-silver color. Sammy has a generally easy time eating and controlling with her Exo being low-expression. Her sense of smell is very strong, but it doesn't inhibit her eating. She can eat human food without much effort and enjoys very bizarre things with her taste buds being different. Some of those things being: pop rocks, salt on water melon, straight vinegar, raw fish, gum, pizza crusts, sprinkles by themselves, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, apple skins (just the skin), and her favorite, waffles.

Being part of the Rodgers family line, she has a unique Exo trait that you'd only have if you were somehow within the family tree. Sammy has three extra rows of teeth in her throat. The teeth are small and she can retract them a little so you don't notice them as much. You can see the first row if you look in her mouth, and you could probably see the second if she kept them out full length. The teeth are small, but sharp.

Backstory
Not much is known about Sammy's background from the time after the Ridge Incident, and when she shows up at the asylum. It's worth noting that when Max asks about her mom and dad she replies with a comment saying her parents are dead like his are, and that everyone in their family she knew is dead but him, actually she thought he was dead too. Mistaking Max for Gene at first, and since she hadn't seen him since before The Ridge. She's three years younger than Max, so she would have been around five or six when the events happened with Max and Gene.

The only major details from between then and now is with her and Hex. She had met him at a bookstore after catching him staring at her, and eventually they became friends, and then they even dated for awhile. Things were great from what Sammy knew, he was the real only stable thing she had for a long time and she really liked him. Unfortunately she found out the hard way that he wasn't exactly Mr. Nice Guy. One day he got back to his apartment where they both stayed and got in a heated argument with her. He kept pushing and pushing, asking about things she didn't understand, and even accusing her of cheating on him. When she tried to calm him down, he started saying really weird things about how she wasn't the right person, and apologizing to her for what he was doing. Their fight then became physical. After fighting quite a bit, Sammy was shoved against the window and had a lamp smashed on her face. Causing a series of events, chemicals burns on her face, and Hex threw her out the window, getting cuts all over her too. She was around nineteen then.

Sammy ran off after that-and has been on the run since. Wanting to find her family if they were still out there. It was a few years later that she saw a wanted ad for Occidere and Max after they crashed their car while on the run, so she tracked the license plate number, and eventually found the asylum. When she meets up with Max and the others, she's twenty three.

Family
Sammy only knows that Max is alive, as far as she knows, she doesn't have any other family than him alive.

Her father, Philip Rodgers, was Max and Genes uncle, which is how they are related. He is Exo but her mother was not. Her mom Halie was a regular human aside from her being a descendent of the goddess Life. Sammy does not know of this fact, and she doesn't learn until much after she meets Dell. She does know that she is Exo, and had known since she was little.

Her parents never got the chance to get officially married, they were engadged, but not married when she was born. Thats why her last name isn't Rodgers; her dad insisted on her having her moms last name, Rick.

In the short story "We Only See Each Other at Funerals," Sammy and Max reminisce about when they were little, talking about dumb little stuff they did and about Max's dads birthday party, and its there that Max talks a bit more about Gene to her. She struggles to understand, trying to ask questions that Max can't answer about The Ridge, or ones he just can't bring himself to talk about. This is the first real glimpse Sammy gets about what happened to them.

Relations
Delta and Sammy met not too long after Hex and her broke up, and stayed with her for a week or so before going on the road. Though she knew what Hex was talking about-she chose not to tell Sammy. Instead she focused on trying to help her get over it. They had a little bit of chemistry, but Sammy wasn't ready for a relationship that soon, and Delta respected that choice.

She doesn't have a strong like or dislike of Occidere, mainly friend-ish with him because he's Max's boyfriend. As long as Max is happy and good, she's good.

Dell and her have a very weird relationship. They like to annoy each other-Sammy especially likes teasing him-though usually it ends in them cussing each other out. He's annoying, and weird, but they have a lot in common. She just won't admit that.

Trivia

 * Sammy's birth name, Sammantha, is spelt with two "m"s as opposed to the regular spelling.


 * She's left handed.


 * Gene and her apparently had a bet going that Max was gay (or at least queer) where if he was, Gene would give her a coke.


 * Her original face claim was of a girl with blue pigtails, and upon searching, reference fanart of Sally Face was used, the main reason she got her redesign so fast. Also-Sammy's original name, Sam, was made by mistake before her character was even introduced or thought of. A typo of "Max" was "Xam" and it auto corrected to "Sam," which gave the idea of making a character related to Max and Gene.
 * Her first mask we see her in is inspired by Masky's mask from Marble Hornets.


 * Though she has only officially dated Hex, Sammy is canonically pansexual. Along with that, she's a switch.


 * She absolutely refuses to eat pancakes-insisting that waffles are superior-but makes an acceptation for chocolate chip or blueberry pancakes.
 * She never went to school and has more real life knowledge than literal knowledge.
 * Sammy's terrified of thunder storms because of the loud noises and flashing lights.
 * Though not stated yet-Sammy has a pet opossum she named "Lil Dickens" after it bit her. She ended up feeding it and now it follows her around, usually in her backpack asleep due to being nocturnal.