Sam

18 | January 6 | Male | Human
Student | High School | Remedial

Sam stands roughly 5’9” with an average, slender build. He has fair skin and dark hair, which he keeps just long enough to sweep back out of his face. He keeps facial hair short and well maintained, making his slightly round face seem more square and masculine. His eyes are a dark, piercing green-gray like storm clouds over the ocean.

Sam's style of dress tends to be heavy, like he's always got a chill around him. He prefers more autumn colors, like browns and grays, but also enjoys subdued brighter colors like red. He always smells like fresh cut apples.

Appearance

Face is model Valentin D'Hoore

Sam’s personality is like the season he is coded to: temperamental and moody, but transient. His emotions spike easily, but he rarely holds grudges. When he does obsess over something, it consumes him however to the point of near madness.

He has a dark, sarcastic sense of humor and tends to play heavily into the roguish archetype. He is confident and when pressed for it can be wise and caring.

Active
Blessing: Ode to the Dying
Sam can, for those worthy, offer succor in the face of death. He can ease pain and help the spirits of the dead pass on to their appropriate afterlife if they so choose. He cannot heal, but he can make the process of dying easy both on the one dying and the loved ones they are leaving behind.

Blessing: Transient Being
Sam can, for those worthy who make an appropriate sacrifice to him, change things about them that they wish to change. This can be as simple as physical appearance, or it can even extend to portions of their personality or memory if they wish. These changes are temporary however and fade with time. The fading depends on the person's eventual acceptance of how they are normally or some other degree of personal growth.

Blessing: Fortune's Kiss
Sam can, for those worthy who make an appropriate sacrifice, change their luck and cause good fortune to befall them. The good fortune tends to either be minor and long-lasting or severe and short-lived. He cannot change a person's fortune to stop impending death and he cannot influence love in any way.

Passive
Knowing
Sam intuitively knows if a person is worthy of his blessings: that they are kind, selfless, and honest among other positive qualities. One need not have all of the qualities, but only one is not enough.

He can also see a person's line of fate, giving him insight into what their future holds if they continue on their current path. He cannot directly speak this to anyone, but he can offer general advice.

Sam can also see if any person has potential for magic locked inside them.

Spiritual Connection
Sam can see, speak to and hear, and interact with the spirits of the dead as though they were still alive.

Health and Life
Sam is immune to most diseases and ages more slowly than a normal human, meaning they he will likely live to 200 years.

Uncursable
Sam is unaffected by curses and the effect of aura-like abilities.

Weakness
Gift of Samhain
Sam’s ability to bless others begins to weaken after Samhain has passed until he loses them altogether at the festival of Beltane. His blessings then begin to grow in strength until Samhain, when they are strongest.

Sam was born as a twin on the Isle of Man. When he was young, his powers began to manifest and he became scared and withdrawn. He lashed out and rebelled. Druids, knowing the true nature of the boy and his twin sister, offered to take the children to help them better learn to control their budding powers. The children were separated.

Sam lived most of his life with the Druids, until it was suggested that he be sent to Manta Carlos at the age of seventeen to live.

Sam lives at the Academy and gets a stipend from them. He also has some money saved up for him by the Druids.