About
Name: Samantha Crane [Formerly Blackwell]Superhero Name: Crane or Sammy. Anything but five letters is not permitted.
Current Age: 18
Gender: Female
Universe: DC Villain
Abilities: She's quite brilliant, with genius level intelligence. Also, not that bad with a handgun. After dating a psychic for a bit, she also seems to be able to manipulate her environment ever so slightly, a skill she is nurturing in secret.
Personality: Unfortunately, Samantha suffers from a rather pronounced case of OCD, along with Child Genius Syndrome. She's prone to being paranoid, but over the years has managed to learn to control that compulsion. What she still has issues with is her affiliation with the number five, along with a crippling phobia of the number four.
Four sounds like the Chinese word for death. For as long as she could remember, Samantha had an adamant hatred for the number four, and refuses to go near anything related to it [fourth street, apartments numbered four, buildings with a four in their address; unless the address' digits add up to something divisible by five.] She tends to count her words, and touch objects in multiples of five.
Aside from her compulsions, she's a strong individual. In a mental capacity, at least. Samantha was writing for college students while still in High School, showing that she has above average intelligence. She's also infallibly loyal, and willing to do all she can to help those who have helped her. Particularly a certain Professor.
Romantically, Samantha prefers females. She finds this decision to be logically sound. She's a woman, and thus knows how women work far more than men. There are only a handful of males she actually respects as well, she's none too fond of most men.
History: Samantha's father left her mother when she was young, plunging them into a mountain of debt. All her life, Samantha did whatever she could to make extra money. If it was selling magazines, running a paper route, or even doing classmate's homework. She was a hard-working and diligent girl, extremely bright for her age.
When she was four, she began to notice she had strange compulsions. Rituals that needed to be done in order to get through each day. As the years went on, the rituals became more elaborate. One involved having to circle her school at least fifteen times before entering each day. This caused her to have to leave an entire hour earlier than she normally would.
As her life progressed, Samantha began to notice a correlation between the number four and great tragedy. When she was eight, her grandmother passed away. At twelve, her grandfather died in a horrid car accident. On her fourteenth birthday, her pet dog was hit by a car. In April of her fourteenth year, her mother committed suicide.
It was at that point she became terrified of the number four. She was placed in a foster home, and her foster parents attempted to cure her of her compulsions Her birth mother never really had time to notice the rituals, since she had been working three jobs, just to keep up with the debt settlement companies. Samantha was aware that the moment she turned eighteen, the debt would fall to her to fix.
So she went back to doing homework for students; this time those who were in college. Samantha had an avid interest in psychology, and when she learned students needed reports done, she eagerly did so. Some paid upwards of one hundred dollars for her work, since it was a guaranteed 'A'.
However, her job didn't last past the third semester. A professor noticed a certain writing structure in the reports she was providing. All the sentences had five or multiples of five words in them, the paragraphs had five or ten sentences, and so on and so forth. She was caught and brought before the student government.
It was during all this that she caught the faintest attention of one of the professors. During her tribunal, Samantha spent a lot of time on campus, doing her rituals each day while staying in a dorm with an older friend [the daughter of a girl her mother grew up with]. Professor Jonathan Crane took notice of her compulsions and offered to council her.
At first, their sessions made little progress. However, during their fifteenth meeting [three fives, good luck], they had a breakthrough, and Samantha began to gain control over her compulsions, as well as her fear of the number four.
Of course, Crane was eventually put away in Arkham. Yet each week, on the fifth day of that week, he would receive a letter from Samantha. The two became something akin to pen-pals. So it was no difficult task for Crane to contact her when he finally managed to escape.
Now that she's of legal age, Samantha is well-prepared for the bad luck that this four-based year will bring for her. She chose to work for Professor Crane, AKA the Scarecrow, in an effort to make money for school and to study under his tutelage.
However, the relationship between the two began to grow, and Sammy began to see the man as the father figure she never had. She also grew quite close to Molly Randall, Jonathan's girlfriend. Over the months of living together, Samantha went from minion to adopted daughter, with Crane presenting her with the paperwork as a gift one day after school.
If anything, Samantha's dedication to the man grew that day, and she worked side by side with him as often as he would allow. He didn't seem too keen on letting her become some sort of villain, and Molly was completely against the idea.
Sammy seems to harbor a lot of ill will towards anyone who harms or injures her father, especially the Batman. However, as he is her father's quarry, Sammy has set her sights a little lower. She intends to use her genius mind to unravel the mystery behind the identity of the one who wears the Robin mantle, or at least she would....if romance weren't so distracting to her.
The Other Side: Sammy, much like her adopted father, has DID, aka split-personality syndrome. Sammy's ulterior self speaks more articulately, and also prefers being addressed as 'Samantha'. Cold and sadistic, her appearance tends to be triggered by the presence of Crow, Crane's alter-ego. To Crow, Samantha is his true protegee, and she studies diligently under him, desiring to use fear to insight chaos and show mankind its own true colors.
Unlike Crane, Sammy seems to have some sort of hold on Samantha. Should someone she care about become upset, or possibly hurt by Samantha or Crow's actions, Sammy has learned to fight her way back up to the surface, and once again re-assert herself as the dominant personality. But how long can she keep it up?
Other Info: She carries five guns on her person, and is prone to fits of uncontrollable anger if presented with the number four.
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"An interesting specimen indeed."
Chase asks, in his mind
evaluating wether or not that the girl was a threat to him at all.
apparently he had needed to ask Jack something important for once. He quirks a brow at Sammy,
curious to whom the young woman was but nonetheless on his guard.
Warning: Incoming Pervert
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[ HEY SAMMY <3 - POINTS AT HIS PROFILE SONG - ]
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