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Aug. 1st, 2030 10:40 amNickname: Sam, Sami. (People who don't know her won't know this, but also: Smurph, Smurphy, Smurphette, Sam Bam.)
Age: Mid-late 30s.
Hometown: Born in Montreal, Quebec. Raised outside of Toronto, Ontario. She's Canadian!
Currently Resides: New York, Toronto, Las Vegas, London - those would be most likely, but any big city will do. If she's away from Canada, she makes regular trips to the Toronto area to visit her father, as well as trips to her family's cabin in Northern Ontario.
Height: 5'6"
General Description: Curvy and athletic build, not super jacked but definitely muscular. Her stomach is flat and toned but she doesn't have like, super abs or anything. She has blonde hair, always long, sometimes dyed with highlights or streaks of various colors, and blue eyes.
Distinguishing Marks: She has a few small scars on her forehead from getting cut during her wrestling years, and a mark at her left eyebrow from where she used to have it pierced. If one looks closely they might guess her nose has been broken before. Her ears are currently pierced twice in each earlobe. There are scars on her stomach, mostly around her lower abdomen. Most prominent of these would be two stab wound scars, and also a few small surgical scars. She has a surgical scar on her right knee, but it's very faint. Other smaller scars are scattered around her body from various injuries over the years. The only ones she will actively hide are the large scars on her stomach.
She also has several tattoos: a small pair of angel wings on the back of her neck with "grace" written below in a flowing script, the words "love you forever" on her right wrist in her late mother's handwriting, a four-leaf clover on her right hip, a maple leaf on her right hip,
Personality: Sami is generally pretty friendly. She's got some of that stereotypical Canadian Niceness. That said, she does have an edge and sometimes her temper is easily triggered. As much as she gets into fights, she generally won't throw the first punch, but she's more than willing to run her mouth. She'll stand up for people getting bullied. When she's truly pissed off, her insults can be cruel and vicious, though never racist/homophobic/transphobic. At her very worst, she might get a little sexist, at the worst calling someone a bitch or insulting a guy's manhood. Mostly she'd find something the object of her fury is sensitive about and focus on that.
She does have a pretty strong Canadian accent, and she says 'eh' a lot. She can mimic accents fairly well and might disguise her accent with something more neutral, or something completely different.
Once she's friends with someone, she's pretty loyal, and generally available for all kinds of favors. She loves kids, and is generally pretty good with them. Strong auntie energy. As much as she wants to be a mom, it's not really in the cards for her for one reason or another. She's very family oriented. Her father and brother are the most important people in her life, and the same would apply to any found family situations she gets into. (I'm open to AUs where she is either a single mother or becomes a mother with the right ship. If it goes that way we can adjust!)
Alignment: Chaotic Good, mostly, but an argument could be made for Lawful Neutral. She definitely has her own code that she lives by. Ultimately she wants to do Good. She also understands that sometimes Bad things have to be done to achieve certain goals. She's probably a "For The Greater Good" kind of person. When she finds a cause she's generally devoted to it, and she isn't the type to pull the ladder up behind herself, she wants to help those who come after her. It's why she gets into training after she ends her career as a professional wrestler. She also might teach self-defense courses.
Sexuality and Gender Identity: Sami is a straight, cisgender woman. She has questioned and experimented, but ultimately she prefers men both sexually and romantically. Occasionally she will take female or non-binary lovers, but she'll be up front that she is only looking for sex. It could be said that she's a "tomboy" because she doesn't always dress strictly femininely, but she embraces her femininity and does enjoy getting all dolled up when the occasion calls for it. She is a staunch supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, because it's the right thing, and also because of the many queer folks she knows. Her brother is bisexual, as is her father.
Romantic Inclinations: However prickly she may seem about getting close to anyone, she's a big fuckin' romantic. She loves love, and desperately wants love. Her parents had something of a fairytale relationship up until her mother's death, and deep down that's ultimately what she wants. Unfortunately her romantic choices have largely been... bad. Sami's had a lot of abusive relationships, with one in particular ending up with her getting stabbed, hence the scars on her stomach. In some versions of this she ends up killing that ex in self-defense, in others he dies in prison, in others still he could be waiting to come after her and finish her off. By default, as she is written, she is months or years removed from this attack and learning to love/trust again. She generally goes for athletic types, but she also can't deny simple chemistry - if she hits it off with someone, she'll give it a go, whether that's a relationship or just a hookup.
Upbringing: Sami was raised in a wealthy family, as her father was a professional hockey player in the NHL until he retired, and then worked as an analyst in the media. He's a beloved figure locally, as is her brother Jay, who went on to play in the NHL as well. Though she grew up with money, she is used to scraping by on her own - as much as her family is willing to help her, she is often too stubborn to accept unless the situation is truly dire. She was a bit of a terror as a kid, getting kicked out of girls' hockey for being too rough. Her whole life, she'd been a wrestling fan, but it wasn't until her teenage years that she got it in her head that it was something she could actually do. After much pleading, her father agrees to sign off on allowing her to begin training at age sixteen, and she takes to it like a fish to water. It's something that finally gives her focus and purpose in her young life. That does go off the rails through her twenties as she gets into drugs and bad relationships, and ultimately it costs her the opportunity to have any kind of successful career in the wrestling business. The Murphys belong to a Catholic church, and though Neil attends sometimes, neither Sami nor her brother Jay are practicing at all. (They pretty much go for like, Christmas or whatever.) Sami was extremely close with her mother until Grace Murphy's death when Sami was around age eleven, after a long sickness. Neil Murphy never marries again, much less dates anyone. The loss strengthened the bond between the remaining Murphy clan.
After graduating high school and turned 18, she started taking independent wrestling gigs around the Toronto area. From there she branched out and gradually moved farther away, eventually spending time in Mexico, the UK, and Japan to hone her craft and perform. She's also performed all around the US. In addition to her wrestling training, she has also received training in multiple legitimate fighting styles. She is skilled with boxing and kickboxing, as well as various styles of martial arts, and she is very knowledgeable about submission holds and ways to subdue a foe. She speaks fluent French (she learned this as a child, from her mother), as well as fluent Spanish, and is mostly fluent in Japanese. She also speaks some Russian and German - enough to ask basic questions and get around if she had to. Sami isn't the most academic of people, but she likes learning languages and has an affinity for it.
If you read all that, thank you. You're a fuckin' legend. Now, a little about me!
Name: Julien (formerly Des)
Age: 40
Location: USA, east coast (so eastern time zone)
Writing Preferences: I tend to match my partners, tbh. I'm cool with prose or brackets, present or past tense. I will say though, that I do a fair amount of tagging on my phone, and prose makes that easier because I will fuck up HTML formatting on mobile.
OOC contact: I am on Discord at juliensalad - I only ask that you DM me here to let me know who you are if adding me on Discord. DMs in general are always welcome.
Writing Schedule/Speed: I don't really have a set schedule, it's basically whenever I have the time and attention span. Either boomerang tags or I get distracted by stuff and reply more sporadically. I also have multiple RP accounts here (you are welcome to ask if you'd like to know about them), so I may be inspired to write one character more than another at any given time. But as far as my life/job, I work a weekday 9-5 type gig so I'm around the most on nights and weekends. That said, I have my phone with me at work, and if I have downtime I'll sneak in some mobile tags.
Plot Preferences: Sami has a lot of possibilities, both for stuff branching off her actual backstory as well as AUs. I'm happy to AU her into most settings, but I do struggle to write her with magical stuff outside of, say, Marvel or fantasy settings. Vampires and werewolves and other monsters might be a struggle. Aliens probably would work, perhaps in a Star Trek or Star Wars setting where it's kind of baked in to the setting and I can figure out a way to slap her in there.
I love angst and fluff in equal measure, and while I'm not the best at writing action threads it definitely fits for Sami's character so I will do my best. Smut is fine, but not necessary, and I do prefer a little buildup of CR first, unless approached to plot something. Definitely fine to fade to black if that's your preference! Just let me know.
Cross-medium: I am very choosy when it comes to cross-medium interactions. I don't have a lot of familiarity with a lot of animated canons, especially anime, so I'm hesitant to engage. My preference is for more "realistic" looking animation, or properties I'm familiar with. Most 3D rendered stuff is fine. Strange faces squick me - this includes some practical effects/prosthetics used for certain live action roles. It's a mix of being strongly affected by uncanny valley, and also an aversion to things I interpret as body horror. As a result I have to be careful with interactions for my own comfort. There's also the added issue (for me) that some animated characters look like children to me regardless of their canon age, and I'm not interested in interacting with anything like that in any context.
Triggers & Limits: I like to say that when it comes to writing, I don't have triggers so much as I have squicks. I might get grossed out and uncomfortable, but it's not really causing a mental health issue for me, like a trigger would. The biggest squick I can think of for me would be any kind of eye-related gore or imagery. I'm also trypophobic, which I think ties into that. The typical "nopes" like animal cruelty/bestiality and toilet stuff are definitely off the table. I also don't want to do gore or torture for the sake of it - it'd have to tell a story.