@ghstwilson // sam has faced far more embarrassing moments in his life ( a lifetime in team sports pretty much ensures he’s far from unfamiliar with practical PRANKS ) and he takes a lot of pride in his ability to take pretty much everything in stride with a smile. he’s starting to get a LITTLE uncomfortable though, one hand gripping his towel around his waist and the other banging ( again ) on his dorm door. “ ghoooooooSTTTT ? you home yet ? ” under normal circumstances, he would just go bother jack at this point, but his friend is off hacking who knows what with who knows what until who knows when. “ ----- really could use an assist here. ”
hi guys!! i’m ollie and i’m here with my boy samson and i am so excited :))) i have one more exam on thursday so i’ll be a little scarce until then but then i’m home freeeeeeeeeee...
[ GREGG SULKIN ] — SAMSON LILLION is a TWENTY-THREE year-old MALE cadet from THE UNITED STATES and the NORTH AMERICAN unit, also known as agent DAGGERZ. Intel tells me that HE is LAIDBACK & ADAPTABLE, if not a little AGGRESSIVE & PRIVATE. HE shows promising progress in HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT, STEALTH, IMPROVISATION. better watch your back. [ ollie | 20 | est | they/them ] -- for jack's bff wc !
HISTORY
--- the lillion family was rich to say the least ; some mixture of old money and billions from new medical tech research ( a major breakthrough with cancer detection, as far as samson knew ). he didn’t particularly care and his parents didn’t care MUCH for him either, so long as he stayed out of trouble and got good grades. ( he learned early on that it was pretty easy to NOT get caught ).
--- if anyone told samson he couldn’t do everything, he never listened. from a very young age he was an extremely active child, very clearly gifted with impeccable hand-eye coordination and an ability to learn any sport in the matter of a day or so. in his young life he frequented several teams : football, gymnastics, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, soccer -- you name it, samson probably played it at one point. his focus never really narrowed from the multitudes; he never really loved at one sport more than the other but he had some very notable high points.
--- first it was nationals u10 titles two years in a row before he quit gymnastics ( though he never forgot anything he learned during this time there -- the flexibility and bodily awareness he gained in that time has proven very beneficial ). then it was a spell of elite youth lacrosse and hockey teams, culminating in his name on the 15u and 16u world championship rosters. he was going to be absolutely legendary, had he stayed on that path ( which, obviously enough, he didn’t ).
--- samson lillion’s life had a seemingly predicable trajectory, but is anyone really so naive as to think they can truly predict anyone? every piece in samson’s life was seemingly perfectly accountable, but no one really stopped to take into account JACK GUTHRIE. childhood friends due to parents who ran in the same wealthy circles.
--- samson did not love the sports he played. oh he loved the teams and the feeling of winning ; but he did not quite love the sport as so many do growing up, dreaming of the nhl, the nba, the olympics -- that was not samson’s dream ( he didn’t know what his dream was ). not until he and jack started their little... side business.
--- the academy came to him at the end of his junior year : he’d actually been on their radar ever since his name came up at the top of too many sports to be truly feasible, but with year of vigilante business on top of that -- that had finally been enough for them to step forward. he had DECLINED ; a lifetime of playing team sports had taught him it’s hardly ever one person’s effort -- MUCH of their ragtag success had to do with jack’s prawless behind the computer and his brain to come up with absurd plans. and jack was apparently not something the academy was interested in, and thus samson was not interested in them.
--- ironically, he quit the hockey team that year too ; much to the shock of talent scouts all over the nation despite the fact they’d been harping on his somewhat sluggish play as of late ( yeah, he was tired. fighting crime by night tends to do that to a person ). FULL attention on their extracurriculars, him and jack only grew more successful in the year that followed and the next time the academy came, it was with an offer for both of them.
MISC
--- SPECIALIZATIONS: HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT, STEALTH, IMPROVISATION. samson’s specializations are unsurprisingly very physical-based ; that’s the whole reason the academy recruited him after all. his hand-eye is next to perfect and his ability to learn new techniques and weaponry is unparalleled. his reflexes have been honed from years of athletics ; flexibility and bodily awareness taught early on in gymnastics and translated well to combat as well as parkour ; despite his size, he’s surprisingly stealthy and light on his feet -- most likely due to a gymnastic background and years of sneaking around ; he’s also had years on years to practice quick thinking, both in actions and in talking his way out of situations ( he finds people think him to be a bit of a dumb jock when they first see him and he’s very inclined to play into that if it’ll help him ). sam definitely gets labeled as more brawn than brains, but he’s intelligent in his own ways. he especially has an eye for seeing patterns in opponents’ fighting styles and analyzing them on the spot ; this allows him to find weakness and exploit them, while also predicting their next moves. his own fighting style is unpredictable but effective.
--- PERSONALITY : samson in a word is very laidback and incredibly adaptable. he doesn’t let much phase him -- he doesn’t think there’s a whole lot to gain from it. that being said, he is a very private person to say the least. as a young child, he did not want to burden others with additional worries, and so he learned early on to take care of things himself. however, this is not always very obvious ; he’s a very amiable and laid-back person. he likes to keep things light and diffuse tension before hits or a mission. people say he always always has a smile on his face, but there are a lot of things he doesn’t tell people
--- THE CODENAME : samson will maintain until he’s dead that it’s all jack’s fault for the codenames. a rift off cloak and dagger, really ? ( but he’s secretly a little found of them anyway --- they’ve grown on him ).
--- OTHER : a lot of people call him sam. like so many that most don’t even realize his full name is samson not samuel. before the academy he really did his best to get people to call him samson ( it’s his NAME after all ), but now that he’s in the academy, most just call him his codename now. he has a brutal scar on his neck that starts at his adams apple and extends almost three and a half inches toward the side of his neck --- ironically, it’s not a souvenir from his vigilante days, but from his hockey days, sustained from a skate blade when he was fifteen ( at a fleeting glance the scar looks more like a rash or a hickey now, but if you look more closely you can see it’s slightly miscolored scar tissue ). he’s 6′2″, 194 lbs now.
