Samba Brindelle
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Samba Brindelle

Samba Brindelle is a boistrous sorcerer woman who lives for thrill and danger, and is highly attuned to water and the ocean. She is well known among the locals as a friendly face anyone can look to if they're in trouble or in need, and it's said that her laugh can be heard all the way down the coastline of Alumanate.

⚠⚠⚠ This article contains descriptions of sexual assault, grooming, and the resulting traumas associated with it. Reader discretion is advised. ⚠⚠⚠

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Appearance

Height
8'

Weight
~600lbs

Main Color
White

Magic Color
Blue

Eyes
Sapphire blue, large, expressive

Skin/fur pigmentation
Thick, soft white fur that is infused with salt and smells of brine. Well groomed

Hair
Long, curly, dyed black and blue, shiny and almost iridescent

Physical Description

General Physical condition

Despite the common views of someone of Samba's body shape - that being extremely large, fat, and muscular - Samba is healthy, strong, and has an excellent metabolism. Her only immediately visible physical affliction is to do with a genetic mutation of her spine, which gives her a stiffer back than usual and requires her to do frequent stretches after long periods of immobility such as sitting or sleeping.

Body Features

Samba is covered in a thick, waterproof layer of soft white fur, which is most notable for being infused with salt and smelling like brine. This fur is so thick that one could push their entire hand into it and then keep going. It requires frequent brushing to prevent matting. There are three blue stripes on either side of her hips, which are slightly curved and ragged in shape.

Her hair, while naturally white, is dyed black and blue and almost iridescent in appearance. It is dense and curly, similarly waterproof to her fur, which makes it difficult to wash properly and require more soap to clean.

She is very heavy-bodied, being much fatter than usual for a sorcerer with thick thighs, a large belly, and broad shoulders. This combination of features allows for her to lift multiple times her own weight.

Samba has large hands and paws, which are surprisingly delicate for how strong they are.

She also has an unusual spine that has hypermobile exposed teeth showing over her skin. Despite how it may look, these teeth are not attached to a mouth and do not lead to any cavity or produce any bodily fluids such as saliva. They serve no physical purpose, nor do they bring her any pain.

Facial Features

Samba has a bright-eyed face with iridescent, sapphire blue irises and white pupils. Framing her eyes are markings that resemble a mask. She has short black ears which blend in well with her hair, and fluffy bangs that seem to cover one eye when at rest. Her teeth are clean, mostly flat, and have two decently-sized cat-like fangs.

Physical Quirks

Samba is ambidextrous, but prefers use of her right hand.

When walking, she has a slightly uneven gait, which is a neurological side effect of when she was hospitalized in her youth. She tends to veer slightly to the right.

She has a slightly gummy grin, which becomes more pronounced when giving her biggest smile. She is self conscious about this trait, so only people she really feels comfortable around will see it.
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Apparel & Accessories

Samba wears a variety of clothing, varying from simple shirts and pants to fancy dresses and suits. When doing her job, Samba will most often wear a captain's uniform and brimmed hat with gold badges at the top signaling her rank. On the chest of her uniform is a badge shaped somewhat like a combination of a Venus♀ symbol and an anchor.

Often, she will also wear a gold choker with a sun symbol on the front.

She does not often wear shoes.

Specialized Equipment

Samba rarely carries much specialized equipment on her person, but she is well known for using a large grapnel or plow anchor as a weapon if ever she is to enter combat.

Samba has also been known to use the actual anchor for her ferry or a larger boat if cornered, with said anchor potentially weighing multiple metric tons.

Samba is the owner of a decently sized ferry boat called the Sully Shuttle, which is made mostly of aluminite to protect it from the harsh waters of the ocean. It is in impeccable condition.

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Affinity & Magic

Sorcerer's Code: Phase Shift

Samba's code, her affinity, allows her to enter a nonphysical form and phase through objects, much like a ghost. This effect applies to any small object and living thing she touches, such as her clothes, and can only be used for a short time. She does not find herself utilizing it often due to her lifestyle.

Immense strength

Samba is able to lift multiple tons seemingly with ease, and is incredibly skilled at grappling. She is one of the few sorcerers who are able to go toe-to-toe with an average stickfigure duelist in terms of pure strength.

Aquatic proficiency

Samba is highly attuned to water, and is capable of holding her breath for up to two hours. She is faster in the water than she is on land, which has earned her the nickname of selkie or hippocampus among fellow sailors.

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Mental Characteristics

Gender Identity

Having grown up in stickfigure society, Samba has adopted a lot of stickfigure views and cultures around her own gender identity. As such, she rarely connects with typical sorcerer gender roles and instead finds herself more comfortable presenting and identifying as a stickfigure's perception of a woman. Because of this, sorcerers from Khartes Trichier are more likely to view her as rather masculine.

Sexuality

Being exposed to the internet at a young age allowed for Samba to explore her own sexuality in a relatively safe and quiet environment, where she could discover herself without judgement. As a younger teen, Samba would identify as female-attracted for several years, before exploring further into bisexuality and eventually pansexuality. She is comfortable in her own sexuality nowadays, but when she was younger she would struggle with coming to terms with it; later being clinically diagnosed with hypersexuality brought relief to her and she would proceed to indulge in what her mind and body physically needed with few remaining complaints.

Samba is primarily attracted to stickmen and other sorcerers, but has found attraction in other species including fauns, digidevils, mandrakes, and dragons. While her attractions to digidevils and dragons are met without resistance, it is rare she is able to speak of her attractions to mandrakes or fauns without pushback from general stickman or dragon society. She tries not to buy into societal stereotypes, but it is difficult to challenge them when the infantilization of fauns and othering of mandrakes is so deep-seated in the world she lives in.

Education

Samba went through basic necessary education during her young life, and was put into public school alongside her stickman peers. She frequently had to take special education classes due to her physically slower development, and found herself falling behind in classes due to there being few accommodations for her developmental state.

Once Samba graduated high school and could pursue education of her own will and at her own speed, she started going to college classes to be a mariner, specializing in marine transportation. She went to college for eight years before officially graduating and moving on to her own goals. As a result, Samba seems to know just about everything one should know about sailing the seas.

Employment

Samba found no employment in her teen years, instead getting her first job as a crewmate on a cargo ferry when she was 19. This first job inspired her to go into seamanship, as it was the first place she felt like she truly belonged in her life.

Spending multiple years doing college education and simultaneous sailing, Samba has never strayed from what has brought her the most joy; that being the ocean. Even as she spends more time with Gabo in recent years, she still makes sure most of her time is spent out on the open water.

Accomplishments & Achievements

The Boiling Range

Samba and her friend Jigsaw are two individuals responsible for the discovery of Mustora's resting place, the subsequent death of Mustora, birth of her offspring Kosenta, and the disappearance of the Boiling Range.

After striking a deal with Filokensia National Park to release any findings into the public domain, Samba and Jigsaw were given the tools and equipment needed to safely traverse the Boiling Range without harm to body or mind. The two sailed into the enormous storm, fighting their way through shipwrecks, archipelagos, and sea monsters in order to discover and document the King Elder Dragon, Mustora.

Once Mustora surfaced and began her swim to landfall, the Boiling Range began to clear and weather around the globe was affected for several months after the fact. Upon making landfall, Mustora laid a single egg which hatched almost immediately into her lone offspring, Kosenta. After this, Mustora passed away on the boiled away stone peninsula, and Kosenta was taken to Filokensia for studying and raising, where she is still being raised today by the local elder dragon Sh'kavor.

Samba and Jigsaw became well known names in the local press, being heralded as great adventurers and scientists of their time. The subsequent disappearance of the Boiling Range made Highgate and Filokensia a much safer place to live, and allowed for ships to pass through the area with much less danger to worry about.

Intellectual Characteristics

Emotional intelligence
Samba is overall emotionally immature and impulsive, which leads to her having a hard time making rational emotional decisions based on the situation. While she is eager to please, she struggles to read the emotions of others around her and makes poor decisions based on that.
Technological intelligence
Samba is very good with technology, having spent a lot of her youth using it and still using it to this day. She is able to at least learn basics of using various technologies rather quickly, and is savvy in using personal devices such as computers. She is especially proficient in nautical machinery such as boats.

Samba knows at least a little about coding.
Street smarts
Samba has overall average intelligence when it comes to street smarts. While she is very good at being versatile and adjusting to different situations, she has poor situational awareness and can struggle remembering basic things like her own size or strength.

Fears & Phobias

Samba has significant cynophobia - the fear of hounds. Traumatic experiences with her family pet and online predators as a young preteen/child made her completely unable to touch hounds. 


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Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Samba has a strong desire to help others and to make new discoveries. Being a sailor, she can do both. Finding the dormant cores of entities in underwater shipwrecks has inspired her treasure hunting adventures to also be search-and-rescue adventures, of which she has recovered many lost individuals.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Samba is well versed in the technical aspect of seamanship. She knows the infrastructure of boats and ships inside and out, and will be able to talk for hours about anything sailing-related.

She is decently proficient at art, and is capable of drawing both characters and machines to an at least average degree. This stemmed from spending a lot of time online as a teenager, where she was inspired to start drawing with the furry community.

While she is also athletic in the water, Samba finds herself being clumsy on land and tends to forget how large she actually is. This leads to her bumping into things a lot, hitting her head on low ceilings, and tripping on objects as she walks.

Likes & Dislikes

Foods

Samba's favorite foods overall are sweets. She has a large sweet tooth, but also tends to enjoy tangy food. Her top favorite foods are milk tea without tapioca, fried squid, cake, most cheese, and sweet corn and spinach.

She will eat fish and bugs, and does enjoy most aquatic invertebrates like crab and shrimp, especially grilled or fried.

While Samba is typically open minded when it comes to foods she will eat, there are a few that she absolutely refuses to eat, and those include extremely sour or bitter food; especially food that is typically enjoyed by mandrakes. She will never eat anything fermented, moldy, or rotten. She will also refuse to eat anything too sticky.

Music

Samba prefers soft music and ambient music, especially songs within the lo-fi or jazz genres. She's found enjoyment out of subsonic funk as well, which is a genre popularized by dragons.

As a contrast, Samba will despise any music that is too loud or grating. Heavy metal, phonk, and speedcore set off negative responses in her head, and she will have to turn it off or leave the room immediately as soon as it comes on.

Sounds

Samba's favorite sound is that of the ocean waves at night. She has spent many nights in the middle of the ocean with nothing but the sound of the waves to soothe her, and such a noise has become equivalent with the sound of home.

Similarly to music, Samba hates loud and grating sounds such as those of mandrake screams or babies crying.

Textures

Samba greatly enjoys the feeling of soft, smooth, and "planty" textures like moss or feathers. If she finds herself in a bed of grass or soft plants, she will likely fall asleep there very quickly.

She despises drier, sticky textures, but will tolerate slime for as long as it will take to clean it out of her fur.

Virtues & Personality perks

Samba is bombastic, confident, and extremely eager to please. She's always wanting to make others like her, which can manifest in doing things such as physical labor that others find difficult to complete, or acting as emotional support or a physical shield if they need it.

It is rare to see Samba down on herself or for her to self deprecate. What she does she will do without second thought, which leads to her almost always having a proud smile on her face. She extends this self-confidence to others, always complimenting them for the things she loves about them.

Samba is open-minded, which makes her easy to befriend and low on prejudice. She can get along with just about anyone, as long as they are kind to her and the people she cares about.

Samba is also resourceful and can make the best of almost any bad situation.

Vices & Personality Flaws

Samba is, as a contrast, also extremely impulsive and can be considered emotionally immature to a fault. The positives of doing things without second thought come with their own negatives; she can do things that get her or others in trouble when she is only trying to help. She can go into situations completely unprepared, which leaves her vulnerable for consequences as a result.

Samba thinks mostly with her emotions rather than with her intelligence; despite being an objectively intelligent person, she makes terrible decisions out of emotions like excitement or anger, and can put people in danger with this emotional immaturity and impulsiveness.

While Samba is difficult to anger, it's notable that her main way of dealing with what anger she has is through self-destructive tendencies or violence; this can manifest as small as pulling hairs, but can get as extreme as physical violence or killing in the most stressful of situations. As of current, she has only been the direct cause of two deaths, one being that of her father.

Personality quirks

Happy stims

When Samba is feeling notably happy or excited, her fur will noticeably puff up and her ears will flutter quickly. She also has a habit of tapping or shuffling her feet, as well as purring loudly. Her purrs are so deep that they shake her whole body.

Self soothing gestures
Samba has a habit of scratching the back of her neck or behind her ears to stim. She also will flex her spinal fangs in waves when deep in thought, which can be barely visible through any clothing she wears.

Nervous tics
When Samba is feeling physically uncomfortable to the point of distress, she is notable for standing stiffly and tightly gripping one of her shoulders with an opposite hand.

She will also slightly or fully face away from someone if nervous, avoiding eye contact.

Hygiene

Samba is somewhat of a hypochondriac, which leads to her taking excellent care of her own personal hygiene. Her fur and hair are of an immaculate quality, and the skin underneath is smooth and soft. She showers daily, which is generally considered excessive for a sorcerer.

Her room and living space are of a similar cleanliness, but cannot be considered spotless by any means. They are well organized but can get a little dusty if she has her mind preoccupied with other things.

Speech

Samba has a loud and bombastic voice, which booms when she shouts. She has a difficult time keeping quiet, and her whispers can be croaky.

Her speech isn't typically very verbose, and she speaks generally to the point. Her sentences are usually short and she uses simpler words most of the time. She can be quite vulgar.

Moral Code

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Contacts & Relations

Family

Klaver
Samba's father. He was a neglectful, absent, abusive parent who left Samba with significant traumas throughout her childhood. Being a police officer, he was able to get away with his actions until a friend of Belote took legal action against him in court.

Recently, an emotional outburst from Samba led to the brutal death of her father by her own hands.

Belote
Samba's mother. She spent most of Samba's childhood under heavy influence of drugs against her will, but she always did her best to take care of her children and protected them when she was able to. She was the person who eventually got herself and Samba out of the dangerous situation they were in, taking custody of her child and moving to Alumanate. Belote is a lawyer, and specializes in helping others like her get out of their terrible situations.

Samba currently lives with her mother, to take care of Belote and to live with someone she is familiar and close to.
Tiro
Samba's older brother by four years. She spent a lot of time with him in her youth, until he was driven out by Klaver and attacked by the family hound. They didn't reconnect until several years into adulthood, where Tiro first ran across Samba again by choosing to sail to the east for an isolated training trip. At the time they didn't recognize each other, with both of their appearances having changed significantly, but they later met up again on the way home and realized who each other was.

Nowadays, Tiro and Samba are in good contact, and frequently message and speak to each other about casual things. They visit rather often, hanging out and being as siblings are.
Velvetine
Samba's niece, being Tiro's daughter. She adores this little girl, and is always excited to play with her whenever they visit. Samba loves carrying Velvetine around on her shoulders.
Madiao
Samba's grandmother on her father's side. She doesn't find herself particularly close to Madiao, but still goes out of her way to visit and hang out with her every now and then. Samba has a hard time connecting with her grandmother, due to the fact that Madiao is so deeply connected and attached to her abusive father. As of recent, an emotional outburst on Samba's part drove them further apart from each other, and she has a hard time looking Madiao in the eyes.
Hanafuda
Samba's grandfather on her father's side. Similarly to Madiao, Samba has a hard time being able to connect to him, especially considering how absent he can be from any visits she makes. She holds less discomfort toward him due to his sense of justice, and seems to disconnect him successfully from the existence of her father. Despite that, they don't particularly talk much.
Byroh
Samba's grandfather on her mother's side. She doesn't speak to him often, but Samba finds herself fond of Byroh's bold, independent personality and fun demeanor. She's always excited to go speak to him again, no matter the situation. She feels comfortable in his presence.
Hildegard/"Tape Wyrm"
Samba's grandmother on her mother's side. Like Byroh, she doesn't speak to her often, but they aren't on bad terms.

Significant other

Gabo
Samba's boyfriend, future husband. He is a mandrake she met at the east-Alumanate ship port. They got along well almost immediately, and eventually blossomed from a friends, to friends-with-benefits, to partners relationship. He is one of the few individuals that Samba has ever found herself truly getting romantically attached to, and he is the one she has fallen the hardest in love with. She loves everything about him, even the "gross" parts that come with being a mandrake.

Friends

Maxwell
Also known as "First Mate Max". One of Samba's oldest friends in the nautical business, who works as a first mate on her boat. They get along very well, despite their bickering, and Max cares a lot about Samba, despite how grumpy they act about it. They are shy and reclusive, only ever raising their voice around Samba herself or other people they trust. Most of the time, they live out on the docks or on the boats themselves. There is a small corner of the Sully Shuttle that is dedicated to Max's sleeping space.
Charm
Samba met Charm in her 20s, when they and Tiro were heading to Armaed for a month-long training session. She grew attached to Charm rather quickly, acting quite flirtatious and friendly to them. Once the training session was over, Samba and Charm managed to become pretty good friends, especially now so that Charm is married to her brother Tiro. They talk frequently.
Esper
A friend of Samba's who she doesn't meet in person often, but she does have good relations with. They met by being in general proximity of each other in Alumanate, running into each other and becoming friends that way.
Plung
A friend Samba met through Tiro. Samba likes to tease him, but overall really enjoys his company and is happy to visit and hang out with him.
Jigsaw
Another close friend Samba met through Tiro, and the person she spent a good while with on the ocean, studying Mustora and the Boiling Range in general. They're very close now, and Samba does her best to visit every now and then.
Dorahm
Samba met him once on the metro, flirted with him, and had a brief night out with him. After which, they remained in contact, and they visit each other occasionally - since Dorahm visits Alumanate rather often, they also bump into each other on the streets semi-frequently. They spend most of their friendship talking online.
The Hondrus Grotto Gelimos
A group of gelimos, as well as some mandrakes and a dragon, who were gracious hosts to Samba when she first visited her boyfriend at his home. Samba decided to make herself the most helpful and friendly guest she could be, deciding to clean up the surrounding area and otherwise help the gelimos with anything they needed doing. As a result, the normally shy gelimos opened up to her, and she found herself making a bunch of slimy new friends.
Penumbra
A "girl-friend" of Samba's who she hangs out with in excursions frequently. Being more local than many of her other friends, Samba likes to go out for lunch, drinks, parties, and several other types of social scenarios with Penumbra just for fun.
Alaki Quartet
A friend of Samba's mother who also happens to be a friend of Samba. She acts as she always does, being both friendly and flirtatious, and overall welcoming to him. Secretly, she does want her mother to become more attached to this man, or to Luther, so she can have someone to keep her company when Samba inevitably moves out to live with her partner.
Luther
Another friend of Samba's mother, who she treats in a similar fashion to Alaki. Much like him, Samba secretly hopes that he and Belote can become close, or at least have some fashion of relationship so Belote can have her own group to take care of her.

Rivals/enemies

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Social

Internet

Samba frequently peruses the western Cenara internet sphere, but primarily as a lurker as opposed to actively interacting with people online. She keeps herself primarily to online chatrooms, and stays away from social media. She has almost no public internet presence.

Personal space/Affection

While Samba is notably affectionate, she tends to get feisty around people who touch her without at least letting her know first. She is typically most fine with touches on the hand or hip, whereas the back or head may get her to react violently.

Religious views

Samba isn't particularly religious, considering herself more agnostic than most other Khartes sorcerers. She follows some of their religious customs, mostly as a habit from being raised by and living with a religious mother.

Hobbies

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Pets

Samba has one pet seline named Potato Chip. She met Potato Chip's colony in the Smog Outlet when exploring the southeast, and brought the whole colony home with intention of keeping them all as pets. Belote refused to let Samba keep all of them, so after much contemplation, Samba chose Potato Chip as the sole seline she kept.

Potato Chip is quite affectionate with Samba, but overall an independent animal and doesn't actively seek affection from others. She spends most of her time lounging on Samba's bed or the couch in the living room. Often, she will also join Samba on the ferry, as a companion for long trips across the sea.

Many people refer to Potato Chip as "gnomish", "ugly", and "hallowed". Samba thinks Potato Chip is the cutest animal in the world.

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Personal History

Childhood

Samba, originally named Mille Vlanda, was born in the Dominion of Dusk to a father who didn't want her, and a mother who was not prepared for her. Despite such a rough start in life, Belote tried her absolute best to make sure Samba received the best quality of life possible. The best years of her early life were those before she reached the age of 10, as she managed to be able to stay away from the absent Klaver and spend more time around her older sibling.

For most of her younger years, Samba was given room to do just about anything she wanted. She could play games as long as she liked, she could eat whatever she wanted, she got whatever toys she asked for just so she'd stay happy. At one point, Samba asked for a puppy, which at first was fulfilled by Belote buying a plush hound for her. She named this plush hound Mr. Pirate, and kept the toy all the way until she moved out with her mother in adulthood.

Shortly after getting the plush, however, Klaver brought home a real hound puppy, which Samba grew deeply attached to very quickly. She'd play with the puppy almost constantly, sleep with it, cuddle with it, and refuse to take her eyes off of it. The puppy, who had been brought home as a guardian animal, also grew deeply attached to Samba and would act aggressively to anyone who tried to harm her.

As Samba grew older and neared puberty, she began to gain weight as a result of her metabolism slowing. Klaver viewed this as an opportunity to gain control over his rowdy child. He began to insult her, refusing to let her eat as much as she desired, and treating her much worse as a threat of what others in the outside world would think of her.

At the age of 12, Samba began developing a severe eating disorder. She would eat less and less, and began losing a significant amount of weight. Samba began spending a lot of her time on online forums to hide from the stress, and first began using the name "Samba" as part of an online handle for said forums. Going to these forums under the username sambasalta, she would find websites dedicated to animals and pet owners who wanted to talk to other pet owners and share their stories.

During her stay on these forums, Samba began earning complimentary comments on her photos of her pet, most of them referring to the animal as "cute", "pretty", and having a beautiful coat. On one forum particularly, she received unusual messages that requested for more photos of the hound doing specific things. Photos of the hound from behind, her paws, Samba's hand in the hound's mouth. Samba didn't know any better, so she did these things, leading to more messages from unusual strangers.

As time went on, the messages became worse and more explicit, leading to an incident that caused the hound to bite Samba in self defense. Belote discovered Samba with a bleeding arm, crying, hiding away from the animal as the hound growled at her in return. Belote learned that Samba had been touching the hound inappropriately as per the request of several strangers online, and proceeded to ban Samba from all online activities for several years.

Once Samba's arm was sufficiently treated and had stopped bleeding, and the family hound had been kept far away from Samba, Belote took it upon herself to remove all traces of Samba from the internet and take down the website full of predators using her power as a lawyer. The site owners ended up being jailed, as well as the individuals who attempted grooming her daughter. As a result of this incident, Samba developed severe traumas related to hounds and could no longer touch them without panicking.

Around this time, her older sibling Tiro was been kicked out of the house, and the family hound that she had spent so long with was killed in the scuffle with him. Soon after this incident, Samba's eating disorder became significantly worse, to the point that she had to be hospitalized due to health complications at 16.

Leaving Dusk

After Samba was removed from the hospital, Malani - a friend of Belote - managed to help the two gather evidence of Klaver's abuse, and they formed a case against him that allowed Belote to divorce Klaver, take custody of Samba, and leave the home. They moved to Alumanate and successfully filed a restraining order against Klaver, free to live a proper life without him hovering over them.

In her new environment, Samba finally received proper education with schooling that was designed for her mental processes. During her last two years of high school, she under the approval of her mother would get a legal name change to officially go by Samba Brindelle, as opposed to her birth name. She also developed a rising interest in seamanship, giving her an opportunity to explore the world outside the confines of the city. She met several elderly sailors in her late teens, working as a crewmate on their cargo ships to raise money and earn experience in the field.

Alongside her final years of high school, Samba was assigned a therapist to work through her eating disorder and the hound-related traumas she experienced. This therapist stuck with her until her mid twenties, in which they both decided Samba had recovered enough to be able to continue working on her issues on her own. Samba's immense weight gain during this time, as a result of her healing from her eating disorder, did lead to some temporary health issues; however, she continued doing proper exercise and eating nutritiously, and grew healthier in no time.

Also in her mid twenties, Samba became the captain of her own ferry, the Sully Shuttle, due to gaining respect and earning a degree in marine transportation. She quickly became one of the most trusted and well-known ferrymen in eastern Alumanate, with her huge affinity for water and knowledge of sailing and the sea. For anyone wanting to go from west to east, Samba could halve the time it took to sail. She especially found her niche in being able to traverse the dangerous Boiling Range, which had few sailors willing to travel through it.

As a side hobby, Samba also took up treasure diving. On days with no passengers she would explore underwater shipwrecks and loot them for treasures. Being able to hold her breath for so long gave her incredible abilities to survive the dangerous waters. While she would most often surface with technology and scraps of metal, occasionally Samba would find valuables such as Ellyrites, precious metals, fossils, entity cores, and on especially rare occasions, enchanted tools and weapons. With the help of said valuables, Samba and her mother Belote managed to wriggle themselves into financial stability.

Modern Day

Samba has since made many friends across Cenara, especially so while traveling across the ocean waters. The more people who take her ferry, the more she gets to know, which helps enrich her highly social instincts as a sorcerer.

One of her friends, Jigsaw, joined her in 772 CE to explore the Boiling Range and search for Mustora. Filokensia National Park provided them with the equipment needed to explore the range safely, including a suit that protected Jigsaw from the burning waters, in exchange for the promise that all discoveries they made would be made public information. They spent several months sailing into the Boiling Range, exploring shipwrecks hidden deep within the burning archipelagos to learn more about the history of the area. In doing so, not only did they find her, they also woke Mustora from her long hibernation. This led to the disappearance of the Boiling Range, the death of Mustora, and the birth of Kosenta all within mere days from each other.

A few months after returning home, Samba met a mandrake named Gabo who had newly begun to work at the eastern docks with her. They quickly became friends and spent a lot of time together, with Samba frequently spending her break time talking to him and showing him things she'd found on her treasure dives. As the months passed, their friendship grew closer, gradually blossoming into stronger bonds. Samba grew fond of Gabo, eventually asking him on a date, and after said date she wished to enter a relationship with him. Since then, they have become even closer, spending more time together and visiting each other at their homes.

In 774 CE, Samba visited The Smog Outlet when the route there was safe enough to traverse by boat. In doing so, she discovered a small colony of cat-like therocephalians she called selines. Despite their initially hostile or defensive behavior, Samba chose to take the whole colony home to her mother. She fully intended to keep all of them, but Belote refused to let her keep any more than one. This seline was thus named Potato Chip and became Samba's main companion on her lone trips across the sea for treasure hunting.

In the year of 777 CE, Samba went briefly stay with her extended family in Khartes Trichier. Her family on her father's side remained a slightly sore spot for her, which led to Samba being on edge during a visit to her grandmother Madiao. After a tense, uncomfortable exchange, Samba made the rash decision to seek out her father for retribution. Said retribution turned out to be a violent outburst. Samba physically attacked her father, who refused to fight back, brutalizing him and his body until he died by her hands. She crushed his sorcerer's code in her hand, which killed him almost instantly. After this outburst, she panicked and hurried home, where she went to her mother for help and called upon her partner for emotional support.

Samba remained on edge for a while, gradually getting better, until her grandmother Madiao came to her home to try and receive some emotional support for herself. Samba viewed this act as a breach of her safety and privacy. She ran away from home not long after Madiao arrived, going with her boyfriend to Hondrus Grotto and stay in order to calm down and recover.

Samba spent the greater amount of the visit learning to coexist with the gelimos that lived there, foraging for her own food and helping them with physical labor around their home. This experience was relaxing for her, which allowed her to calm down and process the events that had happened not long ago by keeping herself distracted and active.

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