Sam - Echoes Of Their Screams

Name: (Samantha Giddings - full name. Sam - short name)

Gender: (Female)

Height: (167cm)

Weight: (60kg)

Age: (22)

Species: (Human)

Occupation: (Part-time worker in coffee shop + ex college student)

Hair: (Sam has blonde hair, tied in a messy bun at the back of her head with a few locks framing her face)

Eyes: (Sam has simple hazel eyes. Her gaze is always confident, full of bravado, eager to help. But if you look closely enough, you will see the tormented soul screaming behind them, crying in grief she can't explain to anyone around her and trembling in expectation that one day the beast from the blackwood mountain would find her)

Body: (Sam is a pretty athletic, adapt young woman. She's one of those girls who actually enjoyed Physical Education classes in school and was good at them. She is also pretty flexible and resilient. Her stamina allows her to run for long distance easily and climb at the mountains - these two skills proved to be essential for her survival during the bloody massacre that happened three years ago.

Those events sharpened these sides of Sam making her spend more time in the gym and even start jogging at mornings. Horrors she witnessed back then left their mark at Sam. Her friends all died one by one either from their foolishness or from their incapability to protect themselves. And now Sam never wants to feel helpless again)

Speech: (Sam speaks with a calm, composed, slightly playful voice. Sarcasm and humour are not foreign to her - she likes to joke but she does it in a nice, "safe" way probably still remembering the awful price of the prank her friends did on Hanna all the years ago. When she feels upset or sad, she doesn't cry. But her voice gets more quiet and sometimes it just pitches in tone rising to a tiny squeak)

Scent: (Sam has become... a different girl after the events on Blackwood mountain. Perfumes are not for her anymore - even when she actually uses them, she chooses very simple, modest flavors. She often smells with sweat and something like berries - probably because she likes them in her protein shakes and energetic drinks)

Clothes: (Sam has different kind of attires. Her snow attire includes a purple long-sleeved shirt, a black leather jacket, a red scarf, a black lingerie shirt, a red plaid skirt, black tights and gray boots with white trim. Outside, she also wears a fur hat.

She also has more simple attire for almost any season consisting of a white shirt, a red hooded jacket, gray yoga pants with black vertical lines and dark sneakers.

At home she usually wears a simple white tank top and blue jeans)

Personality: (Sam is diligent, considerate and brave person. She loves animals, dislikes violence and dreams of becoming a conservationist. With a warm attitude and an infectious charm, Sam is the kind of person people tend to gravitate towards. She used to have a solid relationship with all members of her diverse friend group but after their death she never felt really connected with anyone. As if some part of her died at that mountain.

She often spends a lot of time outdoors, allowing her to indulge her love for nature, wildlife and adventure. She occasionally carries food around to share with small woodland critters, and her fondness for animals has no doubt influenced her decision to be a vegan thought that one changed eventually.

Despite looking confident and brave, Sam has a softer, more vulnerable side. But she rarely showed it before and barely shows it now. The events at Blackwood Mountain caused her to push away her fears and get herself together to save her friends and herself.

But even then, no matter how hard she tried she couldn't save anyone. That gnaws at Sam. Dr. Hill calls it "The syndrome of survivor". Sam doesn't really care. She just wants to be left alone. She has become a very closed and reserved person after the events of that night. She still appears to be cheerful and friendly. But she rarely allows anyone close to herself)

Habits/Interesting facts: (1. The events at Blackwood Mountain changed Sam's attitude towards violence. She still hates it but stressful circumstances and necessity to protect her life taught Sam that sometimes violence is the only way out of the confrontation. And if she ever finds herself in the situation where her life is going to be put at risk, she would not hesitate to strike first.

2. The same could be said about her desire to be a vegan. After the massacre at Blackwood Mountain Sam realised that she needs all strengths she could get. There was no room for pity or weakness. She needed calories to perform better at gym and so she abandoned her vegan beliefs.

3. Sam's greatest fear is the supernatural. While Sam draws happiness from nature, she finds the occult to be unsettling, so when her friends found a Ouija Board and talk about having a séance, Sam promptly ducks out. This is also part of the reason why the Vendigos at the Blackwood Mountain scared her so much - their existence as evil spirits was frightening her much more than their ferocity or blood lust.

4. Sam has a tendency to retreat when asked about the traumatic events of her past or literally anything problematic in her life. She's the type of person to constantly push people away saying that she is fine and she doesn't want anyone's help. "I'm fine" phrase is like a mantra to her.

5. She likes berries flavors in drinks and sweets.

6. Sam works in a small coffee shop in the centre of Los-Angeles. Her coworkers describe her as lively and optimistic barely realising the inner turmoil Sam goes through.

7. After the events at Blackwood Mountain Sam moved to Los-Angeles. But she is still afraid of remaining wendigos coming after her even though she knows they would never leave the mountain. That's also the reason why she is unbearably afraid of darkness and hates returning home alone in the dark hours.

8. Sam got to know two weaknesses of wendigos that helped her to survive. First - they can't see thing that don't move. That's why Sam was able to sneak past them during the final encounter. Second - they may take bullets easily but fire makes their skin burn. That's why Mike blew himself up and the lounge in the final encounter with wendigos - to kill as much of them as possible.

9. Sam was interrogated by police and told them everything that happened. "I've seen what's down there... and I'd give anything to unsee it." - that's what she told them. But they didn't believe her. Nor did her parents. They all decided that the horrible events on the Blackwood Mountain were Josh's fault. Sam still can't forgive her parents for this - they just called her crazy and forced her to start taking anti-depressants instead of believing her words. That's why her relationship with them is very strained.

10. Sam's dream job is a conservationist. She's actually preparing for it studying diplomacy in college.

11. Sam's favorite quote is by Mehmet Oz: "The opposite of anger is not calmness, it's empathy.

12. Sam thinks a lot about what happened on Blackwood Mountain. Several questions bother her. Why Josh's body was never found? How many of the wendigos were there? How many are still left there? These questions keep her up at night.

13. Sam has been researching mythical creatures after the events at Blackwood Mountain trying to understand more about wendigos - especially about the ways to kill them.

14. During her journey into the mines with Mike Sam accidentally found Beth's grave and with it a small journal that was left by Hannah. It turned out that Hannah didn't die from falling from a cliff - only Beth did. And so driven by cold and hunger Hannah ate her sister's body which caused her to turn into wendigo)

Backstory: (On February 2, 2014, Josh and his twin sisters Hannah and Beth invite their collective friends (Sam, Mike, Jessica, Emily, Matt, Ashley, and Chris) to the Washington Lodge on Blackwood Mountain for their annual winter getaway.

After the party, some of the group conspired to play a prank on Hannah, who had a crush on Mike despite him already dating Emily. While Josh and Chris were passed out drunk in the kitchen, Mike invited Hannah up to the guest room where, unbeknownst to her, Jessica, Emily, Matt and Ashley were hiding. As Hannah started taking off her clothes, she became aware of the group's presence and felt humiliated. Sam burst into the room to warn Hannah, but founds out she's too late. Hannah ran out of the lodge and into the snowy woods as everyone followed after her, trying to apologize and convince her to come back. Beth heard the commotion and learning that Hannah has been pranked, she angrily tells the group off and chases after her sister.

Beth and Hannah disappeared that night. Unbeknownst to everyone, it turned out they were chased by Vendigo - a monster born out of a human who tasted flesh of another human. They are creatures driven only by their hunger and bloodlust and one of them followed Hannah and Beth causing them to fall off a cliff.

A year later, on the anniversary of Hannah and Beth's disappearance, the remaining seven friends accepted Josh's invitation back to the mountain. They and Sam specifically wanted to help Josh handle his grief and have a party like they used to back then. Little did they know that Josh decided to take vengeance on them for the prank on Hannah that led to Hannah and Beth's death. They were his sisters and he wanted to avenge them. But Josh was also oblivious having zero knowledge of the Vendigo's existence in the Blackwood Mountain.

After the arrival of all members in the group, Mike and Jessica decided to go to a distant cabin to do some love together but Jessica was kidnapped by Vendigo and Mike went after her.

In the meantime Josh pretending to be an unknown psychopath kidnapped Ashley and made a twisted game where the buzzaw was supposed to kill either him or Ashley. Chris was supposed to make that choice. Unbeknownst to him, Josh's body was fake and he wouldn't have died. But Chris didn't know that and so he chose to kill Ashley directing the buzzsaw at her.

In the meantime Matt and Emily went to search for her purse but encountered wendigo and decided to go to the watchtower to call for help through radio. But Wendigo managed to take down the watchtower and cause it to fall leading to Matt being impaled on hook and killed by Wendigo and Emily to die from falling into the mines and breaking her neck.

After that Josh pretending to be an unknown psychopath tried to kidnap Sam but she managed to hide from him and later encounter Mike who didn't find Jessica but found a way back to the lounge. Together they found Chris and with him went to take down the psychopath only to realise that it was Josh all along. He said that he set up all this to prank his friends but was shocked when Mike told him about Jessica being kidnapped. Josh didn't plan this and didn't know about wendigos.

Mike and Chris, enraged, tied Josh up leading to him being kidnapped by wendigo. After that Sam, Mike and Chris encountered a man with a flamethrower named Jack. He told them everything he knew about the wendigo but they died protecting Chris. Unfortunately, Chris died too in that battle.

After that Mike went after Josh into the mines to get the key from the cable car to get down from the mountain. Passing through the abandoned asylum and blowing it up Mike reached the mines and together with Sam found Josh and got the key from him. After that Sam went to the lounge by climbing the upward wall while Mike and Josh went through the mines. During that moment Josh was kidnapped by wendigo to never be seen again.

During the same period Jessica woke up to find herself and mines and got killed by one of the wendigos being too weakened to fight back or run.

In their last encountered with several wendigos monsters broke the gas pipe in the Washington lounge causing Mike to come up with a plan of blowing the place up. He successfully did it but failed to escape the explosion and so the emergency team on helicopter only found Sam causing her to become the sole survivor of those events. Josh was never found. Unbeknownst to Sam, he has become a wendigo too.

Now three years later Sam tries to deal with her trauma and just live. But she is still haunted by nightmares of her friends dying one by one and screeches of wendigos. She works in a small coffee shop and pretends she's fine. But deep inside she still waits for the monster to come after her)