Post by Sam Nanami on Feb 23, 2012 16:08:42 GMT -5
Samantha "Sam" Nanami!
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][THE BASICS]
"If you don't shut up I'll fly down there and suck every last bit of blood from your stupid cheating cow body!"
{Zoey}
Former Name: Samantha Nanami.
Name: Sam Nanami.
Age: She appears to be in her mid to late twenties; in reality, she is one-hundred-and-seventy-one years of age.
Birthdate: August 12th 1841.
Grade: N/A.
Orientation: Lesbian.
Birthplace: What would become Kagoshima, Japan.
Occupation: History Professor at the House of Night.
Cat: Kaze.
Species: Blue Vampyre.[THE LOOKS]
"If she shakes her butt any more, she's gonna break something."
{Zoey}
Height: 6’0”.
Weight: 115lbs.
Build: Incredibly lean and skinny, Sam’s build is extremely masculine.
Hair Color: A very dark brown, bordering on black.
Eye Color: A dark hazel, which tends to shift shades depending on her mood.
Distinguishing Marks: Where her Mark is concerned, a latticework of names, dates, and words frame her face; it represents her love of history, reading, and writing all in one. As for other tattoos, she has the number 8 tattooed on her right ring finger, a Roman cross on her left wrist, a swallow on her right triceps (she got it after having a dream that she had a tattoo of a bird on her right triceps), audere est facere ("to dare is to do" in Latin) on her left triceps, ivy along her right side, "Mary" (in honor of her mother) on her right inner forearm, and the outline of a violin with an "N" for Nanami inside (which she got in honor of her father in 1960, exactly once century after his death) on her lower back. As for scars, a network lines her hands from her learning to use a sword, along with others o=in different places on her body from her martial-arts and sword training. Lastly, her tongue is pierced, but she has no other piercings to speak of.
Species Appearance: N/A.
Play- By: Katherine Moennig.[THE RELATIONSHIPS]
"If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you problems."
{Zoey
Mother: Mary Schmidt Nanami; English noblewoman; deceased.
Father: Arashi Nanami; formerly a teacher, then a jack of all trades with an uncanny talent for the violin; deceased.
Siblings: None.
Significant Other: N/A.
Children: N/A.
Other Important Persons: N/A.[THE TRUE YOU]
"Darkness does not always epuate to evil as is light does not always bring good."
{Nyx}
Personality: In a nutshell, Sam is somewhat cold, distant, and strict. Of course, that’s only in the classroom. Outside of it, though she retains a professional relationship with other teachers and the students, she’s more open and warm. Though, due to her upbringing in the Victorian era, Sam is more reserved with her emotions, and expressions. She’s most reserved about her sexuality, and slightly with sexuality in general, though that doesn’t bother her as much. She is also good at concealing her feelings behind a mask, but will only do so if she doesn’t trust herself with what she really feels. She distrusts others easily, and will often be cold to those she does not have faith in. This will persist until said person either gains her trust, or takes the hint and leaves.
As for those few she does trust, however, Sam will be very open with them, but as previously stated, slightly reserved due to her upbringing. She has no intention of ever baring her soul to anyone, unless they can prove to her satisfaction that they can be trusted wholly and completely; this stands doubly so for anyone she would consider taking as a mate. (She regards a mate and a lover as different things; a lover is someone you merely sleep with – a mate is the person you spend the rest of your life with.) Of course, that said, due to her rather strict religious beliefs, she has no intention of sleeping with anyone, unless they had proven themselves worthy of being her mate first; kind of like a “no sex before marriage” mentality would be for humans.
Likes:
- Women; though not all.
- Reading; mostly about history, though she enjoys a good fiction book now and again.
- Teaching; she loves imparting her knowledge of history to students.
- Writing; she’s written a good number of short stories, and even a novel, but found that her love of history outweighed her love of writing.
- Sports; she’s quite the active person, and really likes to stay in shape.
- Music; she can play the piano and the violin both very well, but prefers to listen rather than perform.
Dislikes:
- Men; though not all.
- Having her classes interrupted.
- Not being able to be alone with her thoughts at least once a day.
- Students who continually disobey, despite numerous disciplinary measures.
- Being hated for who and what she is.
- Bigoted chauvinists who think that, just because she is a woman, she is weak or lesser than they.
Fears:
- Failing to live up to the expectations her parents had, even after they parted ways.
- That she’ll spend the rest of her life alone; she’s not desperate by any means, but she would like to have a mate.
- Screwing up again and losing her job a second time.
Powers: Sam doesn’t have an affinity, but her does have remarkable intuition. While some would argue that this is simply because of her age, she thinks differently. She has always been able to read others, even those she has just met, very well. It’s uncanny, really; if asked, Sam will say that she believes this was a gift which she was given by God, and then which Nyx enhanced by choosing her for one of Her children.
History: Born in 1841 in Kagoshima, Japan, Sam was most defiantly not planned. Her mother, Mary, had been part of a group selected to populate the new British colonies in China as of 1839, but her ship had hit a storm and been blown off course, leading to a shipwreck on the coast of Japan. Mary had been the only one to survive, and even she was half dead by the time she pulled herself from the wreckage and made her way up the shore. Arashi found her there, while he and a friend were taking a walk along the beach. Sam doesn’t know why her father took her mother in, or how her mother remained hidden for as long as she did, or even how her parents could communicate, but somehow they managed it.
Slowly, the couple learned each other’s language, but more than that, they learned the path to one another’s hearts. In 1841, roughly two years after they had met, a daughter was born to them. Mary was slightly ashamed – her staunch Protestant beliefs were all but in shambles now, though she still held tight to them – but loved her baby in spite of all this. The girl was given an English first name – Samantha – but received her father’s surname, Nanami. Less than three months afterward, Mary and Sam were discovered; Arashi’s family intervened upon their behalf, and so they escaped death, but would be sent back to England. Rather than allow his love and daughter to be parted from him, Arashi left Japan with them, much to the rage of officials, whom only discovered this weeks after the boat had set sail.
The next few years passed quietly, with Sam showing an intelligence rarely seen in children sp young. Mary’s family, though all but disgraced by what had happened, welcomed her back, along with her love and daughter, with open arms. It wasn’t until 1854, when the first few Western advances were made in Japan, that Arashi and Mary could marry with any degree of safety, but by this time, things were strained with their thirteen-year-old daughter. Sam had never been like other girls, and not just in the multi-racial sense. She had begun to withdraw from her parents, when it was shown that they didn’t support her in anything she did.
Growing up in a sexually-repressive culture for women, Sam had long struggled with her sexuality and coming to terms with it. Her first inkling had been when she was eight, when she nursed a severe crush on one of her mother’s friend’s daughters. Things had only grown from there, and by the time she was twelve, she was quite sure that she had no liking for boys whatsoever. This disconcerted her, but it had her parents up in hypothetical arms. Of course, due to Sam’s unusual tenacity, she wouldn’t hear anything of being “normal,” as her parents put it; this was how she was, if they didn’t like it, then it wasn’t her problem.
The major break, however, came at the conjunction of two events; she was fourteen at the time. The first, being that Sam had begun to dress like a man; the second that she had become a Catholic. On the religious front, her struggle had been just as hard as her sexual one. With her mother being a staunch Protestant, and her father being an odd mix of Protestant and Shinto, she had never quite known what to believe, nor which was right for her as a person. Eventually, she came upon Catholicism; a minority group in England, but still strong. She liked that, and it was what initially drew her, but soon she began to love it for itself. When her parents became aware of both these things, Sam was then sent to live with her mother’s (Catholic) parents in Austria. (Mary had converted to Protestantism when she came to England to live with her aunt for finishing school.)
Just one year after that – Sam had settled in unexpectedly well in Vienna – a tracker had found her. While she knew her grandparents had been accepting of the idea (it had never been within their morals to hate without knowing) she never knew what her parents thought of this turn of events. Regardless, Sam had been enrolled in the Vienna House of Night at fifteen, and her life as a vampire began. With it, came another set of struggles. The teachers were understanding and kind enough, but the students often ridiculed her for her multi-racial background, for her sexual orientation, and for her dressing like a male. This began to affect Sam’s thinking of herself – she’d never let it get to her before, but teenagers always seemed more susceptible to peer pressure and the like than younger children.
Thus, her eating habits began. She lost weight drastically, and she was already drinking blood by the time her fourth former year ended, to replace the nutrients, if not the weight. Her teachers worried slightly, but hoped that her Changing would help with this. When she Changed at the end of her sixth former year, her teachers’ suspicions proved correct; her weight stabilized, but her eating habits continued to be erratic. Something else that this helped to stabilize, were her beliefs. Her Catholicism had long been at odds with Nyx, but that quickly changed after she herself had Changed. She began to see Nyx and God as two sides to the same coin; the yang and the yin; the night and the day; the Mother and the Father. She had often been known to say, when questioned about her beliefs, “If God is my Father, then Nyx is my Mother.” This was the one thing she didn’t let peer pressure get to her about; she had always been, and always would be, strong in her faith.
One year after she had Changed, three deaths had hit her hard. In that year, (1860) both her grandparents and her father, died. Her grandparents had passed on peacefully, and from natural causes, but her father had been brutally murdered. Others had many had theories as to why, but Sam knew best why: he was hated because of his Japanese birth. He had long since been blamed for all the problems Great Britain was experiencing by the general populace, but it seemed that some particularly violent person had finally done something about the general hate of the alien in their midst.
Sam attempted to reconcile with her mother, but Mary would not have it, especially not now that her daughter was a vampyre, of all things. Some years after that, in 1865, Mary passed away as well; this left Sam as sole heir to both her parents’ fortune, and her grandparents’. Being financially set for the next few decades, Sam set to working on her knowledge of history, society, and politics. She had always wanted to teach, and so that was the goal she worked towards. Years passed, and though her knowledge grew and grew, she was never quite right for any of the teaching positions she applied for, at any House of Night; she suspected it was because she was a woman, but was assured that it was not so.
When the threat of the First World War loomed upon the horizon, in the summer of her seventy-third year, Sam quickly made sure everything she owned would be secure for at least the next decades, and disappeared into the forests of Germany. She relocated, when the Second World War began, to the Transylvanian forests; she only emerged back into society in 1950, five years after the War had ended, and found that, aside from her fortune (which only she could access) she had been forgotten. This served her purposes well, and she withdrew to a manor-like home in the mountains of Austria.
Twenty uneventful years later, she relocated to Italy, Rome to be exact, and applied for a teaching position that the Roman House of Night. Miraculously, to her anyways, she received the post, and she taught there for a decade, and then became involved with one of her female sixth formers. They were discovered, and she was asked to leave her position. Soon after, she relocated to America; though reluctant to leave Europe, she knew that, if she ever wanted to have a chance at even a remotely clean slate, she would need to remove herself from the scene of her crimes, and past for a few decades. She moved to Chicago, and soon came upon the Tulsa House of Night. Much to her surprise, despite her past issues, she was eagerly hired, and has been teaching there since.[THE PUPPETEER]
"Zoey, I have said it once before and I will say it again. You are as slow as a fat kid on crutches"
{Aphrodite
Alias: Sam.
Codeword:
Experience: Close to eight years.
How you found us: An advertisement on United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
Other characters: No, none.
How we should contact you: PM; I’ll give out my personal contact information as I see fit.
