Tomb Raider Sacred Artifacts #4 showed us someone familiar!!!
So in case you haven't been following Tomb Raider, the new comic run, Sacred Artifacts, just released it's fourth and final issue today, and hooooo boy I've got something to yap about with all of you!!
SO! The run was great, just getting that out of the way. They nailed the adventure feel and the way Lara is written feels consistent with both Survivor AND Legend/Underworld, which we now know takes place after Survivor and Classic.
SPOILERS BELOW
At the end of the fourth issue, Lara is having lunch with Winston and her friends.
The friends include Carter Bell from the "Lara Croft and the" spinoff games, Zip, Anaya Imanu from "Tomb Raider Legend", and Winston from the classic games and Legend/Underworld.
BUT! Did you catch it? There's a sixth person in the group that isn't fully shown.
I believe, in the last shot with everyone silhouetted, from left to right there is: someone, Carter, Zip, Lara, Anaya, and Winston
Who is the mystery person? Let's focus in on them specifically.
I am confident that this is the one and only SAMANTHA NISHIMURA!!!
From the second picture it looks as if she may have cut her hair short, but she still has the same skin tone, same hair colour, and distinctive swoosh of her bangs in the front, see here (source Tomb Raider 2013):
Furthermore, this is supposed to be a lunch date between Lara and people she already has established friendships with. We've seen every other person in the group in a different piece of Tomb Raider media, so I don't think it would make sense for this to be a new character we've never seen before. Especially considering it looks SO MUCH like Sam, AND the fact they brought back Sam in the Netflix Series "The Legend of Lara Croft" where the showrunners went out of their way to show Lara and Sam reconnecting after not having spoken to each other for some time.
So yeah!! Sam is still in Lara's life even this far into the Unified timeline and after the events of the upcoming Legacy of Atlantis, the classic games and Legend/Underworld!! Here's hoping she makes a full return in Tomb Raider: Catalyst!!
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ONE LAST THING, If you love Sam and Lara, please come join our Sam x Lara discord server!! Loads of active members are there and it's a lot of fun!! If you want a dedicated place to yap about our girls, this is it!!
Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider, adventurer extraordinaire, ever undefeatable, faces her greatest enemy yet as she goes to pick her friends up from a night out:
Flirting.
Alternatively: In which Sam gets jealous of women approaching Lara.
NEW SS ENDURANCE FIC IS UPPPPPPPPPPP!! GO READ IT HERE!
God this one took forever, shoutout to my pal @computerbutch for all the info regarding Soho and its gay club scene!! You're the coolest <3
I've been posting my Tomb Raider and SamLara art exclusively on twitter all this time, but I'll be posting it on tumblr now on this sideblog, @croftshadows 🌙
I will also be sharing some of my fanfics through here as well!
If you want more of my more recent works, be sure to follow me on twitter or AO3!
- @azurajae
hey everyone! i just wanted to apologize for reblogging from the devoteeofthetombraider blog as, while they barely give credit to stolen art, i reblogged ones that weren't originally posted on tumblr by the artists themselves. after discussing with some fellow fans ive realized that all this blog does is simply say "art by [artist name]" instead of giving real, proper credit. for spreading the posts further on my blog, i deeply apologize.
that being said, i recommend not following, liking, or reblogging anything they post as they dont link to the original art, nor if the piece has a title, or even the artist's accounts, if any. i personally know plenty of artists who have been affected by this, and its disappointing. im going to work on clearing my queue of this person's reposts as well as no longer reblog anything from them. i will also block them and recommend you do the same if they do not change.
I am so very serious when I say that minors should have a legal and easily reinforceable right to say "I don't want to live with my parents (or other adult caretakers)/I don't want to be around that person/I don't want to go to that place" and actually get their wish accommodated. So much childhood trauma could be avoided or ended if children actually had the right to leave the situation or the person hurting them.
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Tomb Raider
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Lara Croft/Samantha Nishimura
Characters: Samantha Nishimura, Lara Croft, Jonah Maiava, Joslin Reyes, Alex Weiss, Angus "Grim" Grimaldi, Conrad Roth, Kaz Weiss, Alisha Reyes, Toru Nishimura, Original Male Characters(s)
Summary:
Three weeks after Yamatai, Sam and Lara reunite with Jonah, Reyes and her daughter Alisha at a pub in London to catch up and pay their respects to those they lost. Unbeknownst to them, a shadowy stranger has followed them there, causing things to go horribly wrong... Canon-divergent fic post-Yamatai. Loosely inspired by the original comic runs.
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Hey all! I just posted a new chapter and a bunch of edits/rewrites to my Sam x Lara longfic "Until Heaven Falls"!! I figure a lot of y'all follow me for my Sam and Lara posting so if you are, this story will be right up your alley!
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BTW, since I shill it on every post now, please come join our Sam x Lara discord server!! Loads of active members are there and it's a lot of fun!! If you want a place to yap about our girls, this is it!!
