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Aug. 26th, 2013 09:04 pmPersonality:
Sami is a delightful combination of mother-hen and raunchy maiden aunt. She'll chide you for not eating enough while openly ogling your boyfriend's rear.
She has a tendency to collect strays, her staff becomes her family and she treats them accordingly, tough love included.
She's friendly to everyone, and has been in New Orleans long enough that she's almost gone native, she can say: "C'mon back now, hear?" And actually mean: "Go to hell and take your entitled, arm-candy, trophy-wife with you."
She's a naturally personable sort, something she's always blamed on coming from a community like hers, and from having as many siblings as she did.
Appearance:
From the waist up she's olive complexioned and surprisingly buxom. She has what she calls the 'hypno-rack', because it's been known to catch the attention of almost everyone. From the waist down she's snake, about fifteen of sandy rattlesnake-type scales, though patterned like a boa constrictor. She does have a rattle on the end of her tail that she often uses to keep time with whatever music is playing.
History:
Sami was born and raised on a small island near Crete, not quite small enough that everyone knew everyone else, but close. She worked in the maternity/pediatrics ward of the local hospital, which was small enough that these were the same group of staff. She also often served as nursery-warden/denmother to keep the baby centaurs, satyrs and fawns from tromping on the squishier babies and to keep the gnome babies from burrowing into things or getting lost in the furniture and so on.
Her lover (because they were never officially married, but they'd never really cared either way) was a member of the island's army and one day during a routine training exercise there was an earthquake that effectively swallowed his squad, and between the fault line and the landslide there was no way even to collect remains.
Losing him was what prompted her to leave the island, a physical upheaval to go with the emotional one. She decided on America, and New York in particular so that she could come in through (or at least past) Ellis Island the way some ancestors had done. She stayed in New York long enough to learn a new trade in bartending. Once she was done with New York, she decided that a cross-country road trip was a good way to clear her head and decide what she really wanted to do.
She never got any further than New Orleans, deciding that it was where she was meant to be, mostly because on her first night there she found an underground bar -literally, in a former cellar/storage space- called the Snake Pit, where a python named Rita tried to steal her drink and an owner-slash-bartender named Ollie Sinclair -who for some inexplicable reason went by 'T-Bone'- offered her a job because she fit right in.
It was a job offer that she accepted, though not exactly on the spot. When Ollie finally retired a few years later, he deeded the bar to Sami, with the blessing of the staff and the regulars, as she'd become rather a fixture there already.
Fighting Abilities/Other Skills:
Sami's not much of a fighter. She can handle a shotgun and a crossbow both with the same level of skill (which is intermediate, give or take) and she's a constrictor, so she prefers disabling opponents instead of killing them outright.
Also: her bite is venomous, but that's a last line of defense.
Sami is a delightful combination of mother-hen and raunchy maiden aunt. She'll chide you for not eating enough while openly ogling your boyfriend's rear.
She has a tendency to collect strays, her staff becomes her family and she treats them accordingly, tough love included.
She's friendly to everyone, and has been in New Orleans long enough that she's almost gone native, she can say: "C'mon back now, hear?" And actually mean: "Go to hell and take your entitled, arm-candy, trophy-wife with you."
She's a naturally personable sort, something she's always blamed on coming from a community like hers, and from having as many siblings as she did.
Appearance:
From the waist up she's olive complexioned and surprisingly buxom. She has what she calls the 'hypno-rack', because it's been known to catch the attention of almost everyone. From the waist down she's snake, about fifteen of sandy rattlesnake-type scales, though patterned like a boa constrictor. She does have a rattle on the end of her tail that she often uses to keep time with whatever music is playing.
History:
Sami was born and raised on a small island near Crete, not quite small enough that everyone knew everyone else, but close. She worked in the maternity/pediatrics ward of the local hospital, which was small enough that these were the same group of staff. She also often served as nursery-warden/denmother to keep the baby centaurs, satyrs and fawns from tromping on the squishier babies and to keep the gnome babies from burrowing into things or getting lost in the furniture and so on.
Her lover (because they were never officially married, but they'd never really cared either way) was a member of the island's army and one day during a routine training exercise there was an earthquake that effectively swallowed his squad, and between the fault line and the landslide there was no way even to collect remains.
Losing him was what prompted her to leave the island, a physical upheaval to go with the emotional one. She decided on America, and New York in particular so that she could come in through (or at least past) Ellis Island the way some ancestors had done. She stayed in New York long enough to learn a new trade in bartending. Once she was done with New York, she decided that a cross-country road trip was a good way to clear her head and decide what she really wanted to do.
She never got any further than New Orleans, deciding that it was where she was meant to be, mostly because on her first night there she found an underground bar -literally, in a former cellar/storage space- called the Snake Pit, where a python named Rita tried to steal her drink and an owner-slash-bartender named Ollie Sinclair -who for some inexplicable reason went by 'T-Bone'- offered her a job because she fit right in.
It was a job offer that she accepted, though not exactly on the spot. When Ollie finally retired a few years later, he deeded the bar to Sami, with the blessing of the staff and the regulars, as she'd become rather a fixture there already.
Fighting Abilities/Other Skills:
Sami's not much of a fighter. She can handle a shotgun and a crossbow both with the same level of skill (which is intermediate, give or take) and she's a constrictor, so she prefers disabling opponents instead of killing them outright.
Also: her bite is venomous, but that's a last line of defense.
