Turns out I'm living in a horror film

Content Warnings

General Warnings
The Scream films feature gratuitous violence, murder, blood, and gore. Sam comes with content warnings for past substance abuse and mental illness (psychosis and trauma).

Psychosis
Sam experiences audiovisual hallucinations and is diagnosed with psychosis and prescribed antipsychotic medication*. These hallucinations are not an accurate portrayal of real-life psychosis; they are a storytelling device that function however necessary to advance the plot, up to and including a hallucination guiding Sam to a hidden weapon during a struggle.

*In Rubilykskoye, Sam has no access to antipsychotics and considers herself to be "off her meds." This will factor into Sam's own perception of her mental stability but will not significantly affect her actual state, as canon implies her hallucinations are brought on by outside stressors regardless of being medicated.

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Appearance

Height

5'7" (~170 cm)

Build

Slim with some visible muscle tone, particularly in arms and thighs.

Hair

Black, wavy, down to the middle of her back.

Eyes

Brown

Voice

Video reference.

Scars

Sam has scars from puncture wounds to her lower left abdomen and inner right shoulder, and a horizontal gash across her outer right bicep. Her scars are typically covered by clothes but those on her arm and shoulder may be exposed during warmer months when she wears shorter sleeves or sleeveless tops.

Dress

Sam's style is functional: a fitted top, trousers, lace-up boots. She prefers clothes that she can maneuver and run in. She goes for muted, solid colors, nothing too vibrant, no florals or busy patterns. Never wears skirts or dresses with the exception of rare special occasions. Visual references.

Formative Events

Uncovering the Family Secret
When Sam was thirteen years old, she learned that the man raising her was not her biological father. Her mother's teenage diary revealed that Sam was fathered by infamous serial killer Billy Loomis, with whom her mom had a high school affair. The man she had grown up calling dad overheard when Sam confronted her mother and walked out on the family. Sam's mother swore her to secrecy, especially from her younger sister, Tara. From then on, the dark secret of her parentage was Sam's to keep and privately contend with.

Leaving Home
Sam spiraled out during her mid-teens, abusing drugs and getting into trouble with the law. A copycat killer emulated the crimes of Billy Loomis during Sam's freshman year of high school, exacerbating internal conflict over the bloody legacy she inherited. Sam left home as soon as she turned eighteen, driven into isolation by heavy guilt for being the cause of Mr. Carpenter's abandonment and self-loathing over her fears of turning out just like Billy Loomis. This fractured her relationship with Tara.

Return to Woodsboro
Five years later, Sam was much improved: she was supporting herself in Modesto, in a serious relationship with Richie Kirsch, and combating dark visions of Billy Loomis with prescribed antipsychotic medication. Cue another round of copycat killings, this time targeting Tara, who narrowly survived. Eventually, the perpetrators were revealed to be Richie and Amber, Tara's best friend. The two had bonded over their love of the Stab film franchise, which chronicled the crimes of Billy Loomis and his many copycats but had suffered creatively in recent years. They planned to frame Sam for their murder spree and inspire a sequel with the daughter of the original killer as its villain. Sam and Tara fought back, with Sam gaining the upper hand on Richie and stabbing him in self-defense, then Tara getting hold of a gun and shooting Amber dead. These events brought Sam and Tara much closer together but gave Sam intense trust issues with anyone outside of her small circle. She would also have to face her own actions, later telling her therapist that the reason she sought professional help was because killing Richie had "felt right."

New York City
Tara applied to college out of state and Sam followed her to New York, where they enjoyed relative peace for a short while. The next round of copycat murders started in the days preceding Halloween. There were three killers this time around: Richie's father and two younger siblings. Sam and Tara killed one sibling each in clear self-defense. When the time came to take out Richie's father, he no longer posed an immediate threat and Sam considered sparing his life to prove the point that she was better than Billy Loomis. It was Tara's look of permission that motivated Sam to fatally stab him because, after all, he had "fucked with [their] family." Sam's growth arc during these events involved learning to accept help from those close to her (she had originally proposed sacrificing herself to the killers to keep others safe) and accepting that Tara could take care of herself (she had become somewhat overbearing in her efforts to keep her sister safe).

Abilities & Skills

Abilities
Sam is a baseline human with no superhuman abilities.

Skills
Sam is skilled at wielding weapons without hesitation. In Scream (2022) she successfully defends her life using knives and a gun. While not addressed on screen, her shooting accuracy is significantly improved in Scream VI (2023), an upgrade in skill that implies she has visited the gun range between films. Her body undergoes a visible transformation in that same time period: in Scream VI (2023) Sam appears more toned, with new muscular definition particularly noticeable in her arms, suggesting a focus on strength training. She is very resourceful, thinks fast on her feet especially in life-or-death situations, and knows a lot about proper care for puncture wounds.

Inventory

• Buck 120 General hunting knife (acquired via August Minstrel)

Monster

Appearance
Sam's monster form looks like her in the nude, covered in blood, seven feet tall with demonic features. It is unclear if her skin is red or if that's all the blood; she is perpetually soaked with it, dripping crimson wherever she goes. (IMG REF #1 — NSFW) Hands extend into long, straight claws narrowing into sharp points, similar in shape to XXL stiletto nails. The irises and sclera of her eyes are completely black. (IMG REF #2) Two red horns resembling the structure of bones protrude from the top of her forehead. (IMG REF #3) She has large, bat-like wings topped with thick, sharp talons. (IMG REF #4 — NSFW)

Powers

FLIGHT — In demon form, Sam is able to fly through the use of wings, "raining" blood over land below her.

Behavior
Maintains Sam's intelligence, memories, and personality absent any inhibitions, empathy, or moral hangups. Hungers for violence above all. Craves the kill and enjoys getting creative with it, often using wing talons and claws to puncture prey. Delights in spilling as much blood as possible, just as likely to target major arteries for mess as to build up with smaller wounds. Notably, does not kill to eat or seem driven by physical hunger; just a serial killer in it for the thrill of the game.

Transformations
Sam has not undergone monstrous transformation yet.

Permissions

IC Permissions

Touching

Yes

Kissing

Yes

Sex

Yes

Shipping

21+ F/F and M/F

Powers Use

With discussion

Fighting

Yes

Injury

With discussion

Death

With discussion

OOC Permissions

Fourth-Wall

Yes, the Scream movies are very meta and there is an in-universe franchise based on canon events, so the fourth wall is already paper thin.

Backtagging

Always

Threadjacking

Public network threads

Warnings

I do my best to remember to warn for content but please do let me know if I've forgotten to label something. I appreciate warnings for graphic descriptions of eye trauma.

Kink List

Legend:
→ Giving
← Receiving

Yes

• f/f
• m/f
• age gap/difference
• aphrodisiacs/sex pollen
• begging
• blindfolds →
• blood play
• breath play →
• clothed sex
• choking →
• cock warming
• degradation
• dirty talk
• edging
• face fucking
• hair pulling
• hate sex
• inebriation (alcohol, drugs)
• knife play →
• marking (biting, bruising, scratching)
• name calling
• oral sex
• orgasm control/denial
• overstimulation
• pegging →
• power imbalance →
• restraints →
• rough sex
• sounding →
• somnophilia →
• spanking →
• vaginal sex

Maybe

• anal sex ←
• blindfolds ←
• breath play ←
• choking ←
• consensual noncon
• double penetration ←
• dubcon
• knife play ←
• restraints ←
• power imbalance ←
• somnophilia ←
• spanking ←

IC Limit

?breeding kink ←
?noncon →
?underage partners

Kinks that would require a lot of trust or overriding plot/event mechanics for this character to engage in.

OOC Limit

• emeto
• lactation
• scat
• watersports

⏵ player information
name and pronouns: Lia, she/her
age: 18+
contact: howlites @ Discord

⏵ character information
name: Samantha "Sam" Carpenter
canon: Scream film franchise, specifically Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023)
age: 26
canon point: The end of Scream VI which takes place late October 2023
history: Biography @ Scream Wiki

abilities: Sam handles weapons without hesitation. Despite no formal training, she has effectively wielded a small variety of knives and guns against motivated killers. She is comfortable with a taser too. Sam is very resourceful, thinks fast on her feet, and knows a lot about proper care for puncture wounds. Trust issues have made her extremely self-sufficient and she has picked up skills as a result of refusing to outsource jobs to strangers; at minimum she learned how to use power tools to install extra deadbolts in her apartment door.

personality: Sam doesn't think of herself as a good person but she is always trying to be better. She was a troubled teenager who used "every drug [she] could get [her] hands on" and got in trouble with the law. Cut off from her family, Sam had to overcome substance abuse without any support system, on top of supporting herself financially with only a high school diploma and a juvenile criminal record. The one person she connected with during that time, her boyfriend Richie, turned out to be a serial killer fashioning himself after Sam's infamous father. Needless to say, Sam has trust issues.

Sam maintains a wall between herself and others: she doesn't volunteer information, doesn't entertain strangers, and doesn't really live her own life. She deeply regrets abandoning her younger sister Tara and doubles down on protecting her, to the point that Tara feels suffocated and begs Sam to back off. When a new killer targets them in New York, Sam proposes a self-sacrificial play to spare her sister and friends. She has to be talked into letting the others protect her for a change. Not only does she see it as her responsibility to be the protector, she also doesn't see herself as someone deserving of protection.

Sam's first instinct is always to run. When she couldn't bear to keep hiding a part of herself, she skipped town. When Tara is attacked a second time, Sam's plan is to flee in hopes of outrunning the killer. When targeted in New York, being a person of interest legally barred from leaving is the only thing that keeps her put. Circumstances usually conspire to keep Sam from following through but the impulse to run is always foremost.

It could be argued that Sam's secretiveness was passed down from her mother, Christina. By lying about Sam's true parentage, Christina made sure that Sam was born with something to hide, even if she wouldn't know it for years. When Sam discovered the secret of her birth, it tore her family apart, driving away the father who raised her. Years later, Tara was stabbed nearly to death because someone discovered Sam's real father was serial killer Billy Loomis and tried to emulate him. When her secret broke containment and spread across the internet, conspiracy theories posited Sam as the mastermind behind the most recent killings. Life has taught her that the less people know about her, the better, so Sam keeps things close the chest.

"There is a darkness inside of me," Sam admits to her therapist. Another inherited trait, this darkness was passed down from her biological father. Deep down, Sam recognizes something savage inside of her that could only have come from him. This darkness has been instrumental to her survival both times she has been targeted by copycat killers. Unleashed, it's the thing that enabled her to stab Richie Kirsch 22 times, slit his throat, and shoot him in the head. But outside of fighting for her life, or the life of someone she considers family, Sam tries to keep it buried. She often argues with visions of her late father, manifestations of her darkest urges that push her to let loose. Scared of trusting her own judgment, Sam looks to her loved ones for guidance. When she spares Detective Bailey's life, telling him "my father was a murderer... No matter what you think, I'm better than that," it's Tara who gives Sam the green light to kill him anyway.

samples: One & Two