I'M MAKING MORE LONERS AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME ;)
[AW SHEET, WE GOT A REALISTIC PERSON PIC BECAUSE MY STANDARDS ARE APPARENTLY TOO HIGH SO I CAN'T FIND A SUITABLE ANIME PIC]
Sam Payton Haster
"Do you think that even the most wicked person can change?"
Sam is a human. Technically, anyway. Some would argue that he's a superhuman, though Sam doesn't put a lot of weight into that and just considers himself the same person he's always been, even if he's gained "a few things" (his powers in particular). In that regard, Sam is both down-to-earth and downright ridiculous. He's analytical in most everything he does, always taking the route that is objectively the most logical. Though in his pre-apocalypse life he was far more cold, now that the world has gone to sh*t he's generally rather jolly, all things considered, and he really can't resist making a joke out of everything (it's mostly to keep Wyn smiling and laughing through the f*cked up parts of the world). Sam is almost never seen without a smile or smirk on his face, even when he actually isn't even happy: it's a bit of a defense mechanism if you truly think about it. Though his fuse is long, Sam's anger burns like hellfire and he is not one to show mercy to those that have wronged him or those he cares about. He likes to think that giving second or third chances can make things work, but when it comes to a point where he can't afford to be passive about it, Sam will take action and will cut you out permanently -- emotionally, or depending on what you did, physically. Though he relies heavily on his head in most situations, Sam lets his emotions show the most when he's around Wyn: she truly does bring out the best in him, and he knows it.
Physically speaking, Sam is rather lowkey and unsuspecting. He stands at a height of five feet and nine inches, the average height for an American male, and dresses in a large dark blue hoodie with a white turtleneck underneath. His jeans are ripped in a few places with some frayed ends from being stepped on under the heels of his feet, and his white tennis shoes are obviously not new. He's the type that you wouldn't easily -- if ever -- pick out of a crowd, and to be honest, Sam really doesn't mind that. After all, when you're as vigilant of survivors and supernaturals coming to pick a fight with you as though he is, you tend to favor a generic, low maintenance appearance. Sam has a youthful look about him that makes him appear 19 years old as opposed to his actual age, 24 years old. Perhaps it's the way his fine, light brown hair tends to get messy easily, or his big, expressive dark eyes? Who knows, man.
Sam at least started out relatively normal: he was a childhood prodigy with an obvious gift in the field of math and science. His highly analytical brain caught on to patterns and formulas quickly, memorization came easily to him, and he has always been able to make connections with ease. The inner mechanisms of how systems (anatomical, mechanical, and chemical) operated and fit together fascinated him to no end, and his voracious appetite for knowledge made him academically unmatched and constantly curious. Because of his academic gift, Sam burned through pre-collegiate schooling and ended up going to a prestigious university at the tender age of 15. He kept his "boy genius" title throughout his collegiate schooling and became academically ambitious, thus earning him a PhD in physics at the age of 22. As expected, Sam became one of the youngest renowned physics researchers nationally, and he pursued his scientific career ambitiously and fiercely, because he was in love with what he did.
Though he was hired to aid in research projects by others, Sam also much preferred to design his own experiments and projects and work on them either alone, or with his close friend, Allison Erd, another brilliant scientist with a passion for discovery. One of their personal, secret projects was to study just how the fabric of space and time worked and to see if there was a way to manipulate it: in other words, time travel. Realizing just how dangerous it could be (and knowing what the government would likely have to say about it), Sam and Allison kept the project hush-hush.
Then, one late night, Sam and Allison finished the first functioning prototype of a time machine, and after a long day of performing tests on it (with varying degrees of success), Sam stepped inside it while it was turned off to make sure no screws or bolts had come loose. But while he was inside, Allison accidentally spilled her coffee onto the control panel, causing it to malfunction with Sam still inside. The malfunctions caused the machine (which hadn't even been tested on living beings yet) to aggressively thrust Sam through time and space, essentially deconstructing him down to his very cells, and then just as aggressively pulled him back to his own time, assembling him back together again. When Sam awoke, he was on the floor being vigorously shaken by Allison, who was sobbing and begging for him to wake up. The time machine had broken. He couldn't remember anything beyond the machine turning on and being blinded by a bright white light. Allison grew scared and refused to continue working on the project, claiming it was too dangerous. Because she was the only other one who knew of his endeavors and he couldn't continue work alone, Sam threw a sheet over the broken machine and stored it in his basement, a hidden memoir of his brush with death.
Then, when he was 24, the apocalypse happened.
Sam's home had been destroyed by the initial blast, not to mention his neighborhood was overrun by the Infected, so he fled like so many others did. He wandered on his own for a while until he ran into his first supernatural being: a towering angel that was such a bright white that it was painful to gaze upon it... the same light he'd seen before he woke up on the floor of his laboratory that night. The angel told Sam that it had seen his "little time trip" all that time ago, and they told him that they had been the one to ensure that he came back to his own realm still intact. The angel considered him a foolish, arrogant man of science to try and unravel the secrets of woven time like that. And yet despite all that, the blindingly white angel had grown oddly attached to the scientist by watching him progress through his life since that time and figured they'd give Sam what they thought he'd need to survive in this apocalyptic world: power. Before Sam knew what was happening, the angel placed its hand on his head and began pumping massive amounts of power into him all at once. It was agonizingly painful, and Sam was screaming through the whole process, feeling as though his body had become pure fire from all the heat and about to be ripped apart from the inside out. But when the pain subsided, Sam opened his eyes to find that he was lying on the ground and that the blinding white angel was gone.
He came to discover that the angel had given him vast psychic power, and though he had no idea why the angel had given them to him, Sam decided not to question it. After all, he was alive, and considering how the world went to shit, that was saying infinitely more than most in this world.
It wasn't long after getting his powers that Sam stumbled upon Wyn, who had been collapsed on the ground, and giving her the benefit of the doubt, saved her from the barren wasteland she surely would have died in. The plan was just to nurse her back to health and then send her on her way (what did he look like, a babysitter?), but after spending time with the little girl (and diving into her memories to see exactly what happened to her since she wasn't able to tell him), Sam grew attached and took her under his wing, becoming a father figure to her. They now roam the remains of the apocalyptic aftermath, trying to find a way to reverse everything.
Sam's known psychic abilities include mind reading, telekinesis, "memory diving" as he calls it (touching a person's head and seeing into the memories of that person as they think about the memories), and converting his own aura into magical energy for combat (and his aura is rather dense due to his psychic power). When he engages his powers, Sam's eyes go completely white and glow brightly, and though it seems like his irises and pupils have disappeared, he can still see. Sam hasn't completely explored everything that he can do, and to be honest, he's actually rather scared about just how far his powers extend. He's afraid that there will come a point where he gets lost in his own power and loses his humanity, though taking care of Wyn helps anchor himself and remind him that he is still a person, despite all this power he suddenly now has to control.
He is a loner for now lmao who knows
Putting the things makes Young sad :c
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Wynter Kara Nash
"..."
Despite what Sam would tell you, Wynter (or Wyn, as she prefers to be called) is completely average when it comes to abilities. She's a normal human that hasn't been affected by the nuclear radiation, so she lacks powers. Wyn has just turned eight years old, though she has extreme difficulty speaking to the point where she is almost mute (explained in history section), but she and Sam are working on that together. Wyn is a small girl for her age, around four feet tall, with brunette hair that she wears in a bob style, though she thinks she wants to grow it out a little to her shoulders. Her eyes are a dark hazel that are always observing her surroundings, ever vigilant. Because of her small frame, she has small, curious hands that are always reaching out to find out more, or clinging onto the sleeve of Sam's hoodie. Sometimes Sam will let her wear the hoodie if she's cold, and it could practically swallow her whole if she zipped it up.
Despite her verbal limitations, Wyn has very adept at getting her point across via hand gestures and facial expressions. Like a normal child, Wyn loves to explore and interact with just about everything, and she's just as curious as Sam used to be when he was her age. The existence of supernatural beings doesn't surprise her anymore due to living with Sam, but she really doesn't like it when he has to use his powers to fight. She finds him to be scary when he has to use his powers like that, even though she knows he has good reasons to do so.
Wyn is also very stubborn. She's completely set in her decisions once she's made her mind up, and there's almost no amount of convincing in the world that can break her. If somebody she meets calls her Wynter rather than Wyn, she displays her dislike by making a face. Recently, she has begun to learn how to say Sam's name, though all she can manage for now is "Sa". Even so, it's the little victories that she and Sam take pride in.
To put it simply, Wyn is almost completely mute. She was born to two parents that straight up did not want a child, but instead of giving her up for adoption, they for whatever reason just decided to put up with having her anyways. Because of her parents' obvious dislike of her, Wyn suffered from neglect: she was malnourished, not very clean, and had very little interaction with them. In fact, the only human interaction Wyn ever got was when she would be at a baby daycare service, which her parents were all to happy to dump her for most of the day. Because Wyn grew up with very little interaction with others apart from daycare and school when she got old enough to go, she did not develop verbal skills at the rate normal children do. Other children and teachers would speak to her, and though she could make noises and communicate through pointing and facial expressions, she could not speak back in a coherent sentence. As she grew older, Wyn became a very perceptive child and could sense that her parents hated her presence, so she didn't make efforts to be around them either, further isolating herself from others.
If the apocalypse hadn't happened, then Wyn probably would have died in that house, likely from starvation, as a sad little girl who wasn't really given a chance. But after the world went to sh*t, Wyn's parents fled their home, abandoning a terrified little Wyn inside the house as hordes of Infected approached. Eventually, Wyn found her way out and ran as far as her malnourished little body would carry her, until she collapsed and fainted from fatigue in the middle of nowhere.
Wyn woke up enveloped in a large, soft hoodie in the arms of a strange man with a kind smile and tired dark eyes. She was frightened at first, but the man proved to be friendly and wanting to help her. After he fed her the first meal she'd had in a long time, the man told her his name was Sam. He seemed keen on getting her back to her parents and asked if she could tell him anything about them, but Wyn sadly shook her head no. Sam didn't press her about it until a few days later, and this time, he asked if he could "memory dive" with her. Wyn didn't know what he meant, but she somehow felt like it wouldn't be a bad thing, so she nodded. Sam had put his hand on her head and told her to think about her past, so she did as she was told. She thought about the obscure faces of her parents that she couldn't fully remember if she wanted to, the feeling of wonder at all the people she'd interact with at school, the lonely nights where she couldn't scavenge enough food to have a filling meal and knew asking her parents for food would be met with silence, and everything else. Afterwards, Wyn looked up to see Sam with tears in his eyes, and he hugged her tight for a solid few minutes, refusing to let go. Wyn didn't know what he was upset about at first, but after he explained his powers and what he'd seen from her, she understood.
When Sam told her that she could stay with him, she'd felt something from him that she'd had yet to receive in her brief little life: a sense of family.
Wherever Sam goes, she goes, so yeah 
Putting the things makes Young sad :c
also, cas, if you look back on the previous pages of the thread, you'll find the code to use the fancypost that the rest of us are using! samoan says we're free to use it ♥
