(Ignore the scary raider gear, this was the closest pic of her I could find)
Full Name: Samantha Lee Harding
Nickname(s): Sam
Age: 20
Character Appearance: Sam is a small young woman with an athletic build, green eyes, and dark blonde hair kept in a choppy pixie cut (shorter hair means there's less for the zombies to grab) that used to be better kept, but it's hard to be well groomed in this sort of situation. She has very light freckles across her cheeks, nose, and shoulders, but they're starting to fade due to the lack of sun. She's only 5'3" and thin which makes her very hard to grab, but she's not super resistant to the cold due as a result. Since her hair is short, she wears beanies and hats of all sorts to keep her ears from freezing off. Though beggars can't be choosers in this sort of situation, she prefers to wear multiple light layers that hug her body as not to slow her down on excursions (leggings under jeans, shirt under sweater under coat, ect.).
Skills:She's a very skilled junker due to working as a mechanic as her dad and she can use the parts she finds to make make-shift tools, or weapons. She's also fast thanks to participating in sprints and hurdles throughout Middle and High school.
Equipment: A tool kit to take apart cars and bikes, a hiking backpack, flashlight, sleeping bag, mess kit, sleeping bag, duct tape, Costco-size bag of jerky, fishing wire, a hook, Swiss army knife, a spare set of clothes, a lighter.
Weapons: Heavy monkey wrench, compound bow and arrows, compact semi-auto pistol
Character Bio & Backstory: Sam is the youngest of four with three older brothers. Her mother died during childbirth leaving her father to raise the four of them on their own; now her dad was a good man, but he also only had learned how to raise sons from that point on, so he raised her like he raised the rest of them. Her hair would tangle easy when it was longer so he kept it short, he didn't know how to pick out clothes for little girls so he dressed her the same way he did her brothers and gave her their hand-me-downs to save money, she played with action figures rather than Barbies. By the time she was old enough to make her own decisions, she was so used to the way things were that she didn't really care to make changes. Try as her dad might to get Sam in to football like his other kids, the only sports she was interested in was Track and archery, so he took her to those meets instead and she got relatively decent in them. Surprisingly, her dad was not into fishing, but her eldest brother Tony was,so he'd take her out on trips when he'd return from college. It was around Middle school where Sam's father realized that having her help around in the shop was far more fruitful than any of his sons due to her small stature and dexterous hands. Eventually she got so used to helping around that it just became a job for her, he started paying her when she was sixteen and she's stayed there ever since, putting off college until she thought of something she wanted to do more.
The infection took them by surprise; since they lived in a rural area, the news spread slower. Someone that they thought was sick and needed help ended up biting and infecting her father. She was saved when a fellow co-worker shot her father, but she was terribly shocked by the sight. The two traveled together for a while, hitting up both of their places and grabbing supplies. Eventually the man showed his true colors by taking advantage of her vulnerability and raping her. That night when she recovered, she caught him off guard and knocked him out cold by hitting him over the head. She then stole his gun and share of the supplies and basically left him for dead, leaving him only some rations and a knife to defend himself.
Flaws:Weapon use: Doesn't know how to use the gun she stole very well
Build/Size: Prone to Hypothermia with prolonged exposure to the cold due to how thin she is
Pettyness: Doesn't like sharing with people she doesn't like
Food: Can cook (technically) but nothing she makes ever tastes good
Personality: She can be a huge dick sometimes and is too stubborn to apologize without prompting
Strengths:Build/size: She's fast and nimble and nearly impossible to catch due to her small stature and hurdle experience
Good with hands: Not only is she good at building and taking things apart, but she can also untie near impossible knows, grab things out of tight spaces, and do shadow puppet shows to keep people entertained.
Food Gathering: She can hunt silently with her bow and arrow, and has gone ice fishing before.
Kept Secret or Hidden Agenda: Sam is absolutely terrified to tell anyone that she has more than a sneaking suspicion that she might be pregnant. She missed her period and has had morning sickness on more than one occasion. If her group knows that she's going to become virtually useless in a couple of months as well as provide yet another mouth to feed, they might exile her or attempt to force her to abort it through violence.
Additional information:- Whether be a strength or weakness, Sam will always try to spare the person in question and will have trouble shooting them if they're turning into a zombie. If someone is caught stealing from them, Sam'll suggest a punishment rather than exile or death. She knows she needs to be stronger in her resolve, and she's trying, but she can't help being so forgiving.
- She absolutely no longer trusts flirts, especially guys with perverted tendencies.
- Sam hopes that her brothers are still out there somewhere, and would try to find them if they weren't in different states entirely.
- She's only good at fighting from a distance, her strength is limited.
