SAMANTHAANNGALLAGHER,


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APEEKBEHINDTHEMAGIC
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NAME ! jevs
AGE ! –snorts- I’m good ;] 27, almost 28
PREFERED CONTACT METHOD ! messengers are usually on
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED ! ashton whitmore, damia nichols

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WANNAGETTOKNOWME
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FULL NAME ! samantha ann gallagher
NICKNAME(S) ! Sam, Sammy/sammie (will get slapped)
AGE ! 21
DATE OF BIRTH ! April 20, 1970
DATE OF DEATH ! n/a
RACE ! witch
AFFILIATION ! evil
OCCUPATION ! currently works for a local paper in the Bay area part time (writes for the arts and living section) and then also works a local bookstore and publishing company called City Lights Booksellers and Publishers.

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ATASTEOFYOURWITCHCRAFT
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POWERS !

( ACTIVE POWER )

• TELEKINESIS ! the ability to move things with your mind. telekinesis can be used to move solid objects as well as some forms of energy, such as flame or energy balls
  
  ( PASSIVE POWERS )
  
• PRECOGNITION ! the ability to perceive the future. sometimes it is only expressed in vague reams while asleep, other times it is clear and occurs at will and when awake
  
• ENHANCED SENSES ! enhancements of sight, smell, taste, touch, and/or hearing
  

FIRST MANIFESTATION !

The first time Sam ever learned of her telekinesis, she was three years old. She had been in an orphanage and was throwing a fir because one of the older boys had taken her toy. She was crying loudly and then they started to tease her for crying. She was three years old, she wasn't nine or ten like most of the other kids there were. Well she had been throwing her temper tantrum and it was then that one of the lamps on the wall flew across the room. They had all seen that she had not physically thrown the lamp, but there was no other explanation for how it had happened.

As for the other two, she has known about her enhanced senses since she was an infant. She had always heard more than what people thought she could, and she could see for miles beyond what the naked eye could see. She actually hates her enhanced senses, as she finds it more unnerving the helpful. She hates hearing and seeing what she doesn’t want to hear and see; and her sense of touch is heightened during sex – which is probably the only good thing about it – and just makes for amazingness.

Her precognition came about when she was about six. She had been in one of the many foster homes she would be in and out of for the first thirteen years of her life; it had been a bit after in the evening and the man that ran the place should have been home by now. His wife hadn’t seemed worried, but then Sam had told he that there had bee a serious accident and that her husband died. The woman though that Sam was playing some cruel joke on her – like a six year old would be that cruel as to play such a joke on her – and punished her. Well about an hour later, a trooper appeared at the house and told the wife of the accident and that her husband had died. Samantha would find herself back at the orphanage before the end of the next day.

PROFICIENCY !

From the beginning stages of finding out hr powers and what she could do, she was at a standstill as she had no idea why she could do the things she could or who she could ever go to had she ever had a question about the things she could do. Her telekinesis has grown and gotten way better since she was that little three year old child that threw temper tantrums when she was teased or mistreated. Now she could do it at will and she had a better grip of control on it; her precognition she has also learned to control. Her enhanced senses, however, were still like she had just manifested them. They were erratic and all over the place; she picked up so many different things that she felt like she was ready to implode.

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MIRRORMIRRORONTHEWALL
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OVERALL APPEARANCE !

( HEIGHT / WEIGHT ) Samantha is about five feet seven inches tall and weighs in at somewhere around one hundred and twenty pounds. She is a slender girl, though she is no skeleton either. She eats often, she loves food, but she doesn’t gain much weight. Her metabolism has always been rather high, but she also doesn’t eat crap either so it doesn’t pack on the pounds, which she is very happy for as she is not really a fan of exercise.

( DISTINGUISHING MARKS) her skin was pretty much flawless in the way of piercings, tattoos and blemishes, though she does bear a single birthmark. This is a mark that most do not see, as it is on the back of her neck, just below her hairline, and she rarely wears her hair completely up and off of her neck for anyone to see. It is faint, just a slight discoloration of the skin; it curves around her hair line in a crescent sort of way and, from the way the birthmark is shaded, it looks like a crescent moon or something similar to that.

FACIAL FEATURES !

( HAIR ) her reddish brown hair is medium in length and there is just so much of it. it gets on her nerves sometimes, like when she is actually studying or doing her homework and those stray pieces escape the clip holding it off of her work and get in her way. The number of times her hair has fallen into her ink bottles or even her food in enough to make her want to chop it all off; she would never do such a thing though. She loved her hair, as she felt it was one of her more favorable features.

( EYES ) her vivid green eyes are known to go wild when she is adamantly passionate about something. if you are in a verbal altercation with her, they will get brighter and brighter the madder she gets. And in the opposite terms, when she is sad, her eyes are a very soft green; when she is happy, her eyes are also a bright green, but more of a bluer green color, which shows the difference between her anger and happy emotions. One of her tell-tale signs of how she is really feeling, but only those that know to look for it will be able to tell; not many know of this either.

( FACE / SKIN TONE ) her face is slightly oval shaped and her cheekbones are rather defined. Her complexion is rather on the pale side, though she can tan out all right over the summer months when she actually chooses to go outside. Her jaw is very defined as well and she has been known to turn her chin at those she does not respect or care to look at in a somewhat equal way by looking at the face to face.

STYLE !

Sam is the sort that preferred to wear whatever she wanted and didn’t usually answer to anyone when it came to what she wore or how she looked in what she wore. Jeans and baby-tees or tanks were her preferred choice of clothing, usually with flip flops as well; San Francisco was usually warm year round, though there were some cold moments, and she enjoyed her time immensely. She is the comfortable sort, though she will dress to impress when given the opportunity. And man can she clean up nice; she preferred black when she dressed up nicely, since her skin was more on the pale side and it just looked better on her; black and red were her colors apparently and she was glad that she liked both.

PLAYBY ! kristin stewart

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ONTHEOUTSIDELOOKINGIN
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LIKES !

( HEALTHY FOOD ) She loves to eat and she can always be found munching on something – though she is usually hiding it when she is in class, unless of course the teacher doesn’t mind so long as she shares what she has. Never sweets though, and she is a rare customer of any candy shops as well. Not that she doesn’t like chocolate – what girl doesn’t like chocolate – but she is more of a fruits and vegetables kind of girl. Call her weird, she won’t care and she’ll probably kick your ass if you try to because of her food preferences.

( MEN - PHYSICALLY ) To put it quite bluntly, Sam has no need for a man beyond that of a physical aspect. She feels that being in a relationship and having emotional attachments to someone. It makes you weak, or so she says, but even with that mentality, she cannot deny herself the physical and sexual desires and needs that she has. She usually makes it known from the beginning that she isn’t looking for a relationship and that it was strictly a sex thing. Most guys didn’t have a problem with that anyway so it wasn’t really a big deal.

( CLASSICAL MUSIC ) Not to say that she doesn’t like other kinds of music or anything, but classical music just relaxes her; it lets her think. It isn’t heavy on her brain and it doesn’t aid a migraine. She likes some rock music, but she is just more of a classical kind of person. She prefers calm environments, even though she is the sort to like chaos as well… d**n the hypocrite-ness in her.

DISLIKES !

( MEN - EMOTIONALLY ) A clingy man is a definite turn off to her. Sam is the sort that sees men more as a means to an end than anything else. She feels that they would be her downfall one day, that a man that would finally get her to the point where she would no longer be in control of her own life and that she would have to rely on him to keep her going. She never wanted to be dependent on another, especially a man, and she doesn’t want to ever have to worry about needed to feel like she needs someone in her life. She has been able to get through it so far without one and she sees herself being able to go for a bit without one. She just doesn’t want to be abandoned again in her life time, like she had been by her own parents the day she was born; she didn't; want to lose another person that was supposed to mean something – she keeps them at bay so she can’t let them get too close and destroy her.

( HER SENSES ) Her entire life has been left with this pain in the ass power that she wishes she could trade in for something else. If only that were possible; she hated being able to hear, see, taste, touch and smell everything. Sure it had it’s perks, like she’d always know if something was burning and she could hear people talking about her without even trying to, but sometimes it was better not to see, hear, touch, taste and smell things. Sometimes she didn't; care what people said about her or anyone she knew; sometimes she didn’t care that she could see for miles and see someone kissing their girlfriend across the Bay. Who cares? She definitely didn’t and she hated that she had no choice in whether she saw, touched, tasted, felt or heard it.

( GOODY TWO SHOES ) If there is one thing Sam cannot stand, it is the ‘goody two-shoes’ and ‘ass kisser’ types, the ones that go way above and beyond the call of duty to impress those higher than they are in hopes of moving up faster then they should. In Sam’s eyes, a person should be judged and promoted based on merit and not how quickly you get your boss’s coffee or tea. Sam wasn't the sort to kiss anyone’s ass and will set you straight if you either ever suggested that she did or that she should. Even to a boss, she would be straight forward in the sense that she would not be that sort of person so they shouldn’t expect her to be.

STRENGTHS !

( CLEVER ) Being the smart witch that she is, Samantha is very good at figuring things out and coming up with things on the fly; she is really quick when it comes to having to improvise and she has shown her abilities many times over when she has been ‘backed into a corner with no tell-tale signs of there being any way out of it’ and has earned a reputation for being very resourceful and flexible when it comes to doing anything that she puts her mind to. She reads a lot as well, so she has a very vivid and wild imagination.

( RESOURCEFUL ) Having been on her own pretty much her entire life, Sam has gotten used to doing everything on her own. this may also be considered a weakness at times, as she doesn’t know how to really work well with others as a direct result of this, but she knows how to get down to the nitty-gritty and get what she has to get done, done. This worked well for her when she had worked as a reporter for the local paper in the Bay area and was looking up things for stories that she was writing. she isn’t afraid to ask questions and she is even less afraid about poking her nose around in places it shouldn’t be to get the information, the story, that she seeks. She also is driven to the point where she will do whatever she ahs to do in order to succeed; she isn’t the sort to use sex and a means to an end, but she knows what a sway of her hips and a puckered set of lips can do to most guys.

WEAKNESSES !

( HER EMOTIONS ) While she tries to hide them as best as she possibly can, Samantha is still subject to her emotions that run through her mind and body. She doesn’t express them, but she still has them, they go into her notebooks, that is her release so that she doesn’t explode. When she gets a chance, she tries to find a place where she can literally just scream until she can’t scream any longer. It lets her just get it all out so that her mind doesn’t end up making her do something that would be unthinkable. In her second year, she ended up knocking some kid straight in the face - which knocked him over because he hadn’t expected it to happen - when he tried to flirt with her and she didn’t want him to. She had received detention for that and that pretty much warned off all guys from her, not that she minded, the lot of them were just about one thing and she had yet to find a real man that was about other things. She wasn’t holding her breath for it either as most were intimidated by her anyway.

( CERTAIN SCENTS ) She has yet to figure out why, but for some reason she gets slightly queasy whenever she smells something musky or ‘spicy’ like. Whenever she smells it, her face wrinkles up and she feels slightly off in her stomach. She doesn’t feel queasy in the sense that she is going to be sick; no, she is queasy in the sense that she gets these strange butterflies feeling in the pit of her stomach and she has no idea why. She hates it when she feels like this for no reason, it finds it plaguing her thoughts o why she feels this way. She doesn’t normally feel like this around people, so this is all new to her; well, it’s been going on for the last few years, since she left the Magic school.

GOAL !

Her goal is to obtain all that she can and, one day, have what she never had growing up. she had never felt wanted, not since the day she was born when she was left on the doorstep of the orphanage in the Bay area. The people at the orphanage were never told of her abilities and they tried to get rid of her many times to several families, but no one wanted her. She had been in and out of so many foster homes by the time she got accepted to go to the Magic School, that they had paid an older couple to take her for the four years through school until she would be too old to be at the orphanage anymore. one day she wanted to feel like she actually belonged somewhere, with someone. She didn’t want to feel like she was a waste of space any longer.

FEAR !

Her biggest fear would have to be, coupled with her biggest secret and her goal, would be to never know love in any way. she has never been loved by a single hand that ahs ever touched her – wow I am quoting lyrics of a song and wasn't trying to – and she knows it. sure she has ‘loved’ more than her fair share of men, but that wasn’t the sort of love she was afraid she’d never get; she got that, and pretty much whenever she wanted it, so that wasn't ever a problem for her. no, she was afraid that she would one day die and never know what it feels like to be loved or to love another. She doesn’t care for love, don’t let this fool you, but to never know it at all… kind of depressing if you ask me.

SECRET !

Her biggest secret would have to be that she actually does want a ma in her life. She ahs always thought that a man was a mere physical tool than an emotional rock and never wanted to get close to someone in such a way. Yet she longed to have someone to spend her lonely days with. She liked being alone, don’t get her wrong, but she didn’t like being alone all the time. For so long she’s been pushed away by everyone that was supposed to care about her; even the Sullivan’s, who took her in for the short time that she was a student at the Magic School, though Samantha found out later on that it was only because they had been paid by the orphanage that she had been staying in to take her for those four years so they didn’t have to deal with her anymore. After she was out of the Magic School, she was considered an adult and was put out on her own; no money, no job, no food, shelter… no anything.

HAPPIEST MEMORY !

This would probably have to be after she had left the Magic School, the Sullivan home and the orphanage and was on her own. Sure, she started with nothing at first, nothing except for the few belongings that she had managed to collect over the years, but she was determined to get herself on her feet and just do her like she pretty much has always done. She managed to find a shelter in the city and then got herself a job as a cashier in the market around the corner from the shelter to give her some money for her pocket. From there, she had managed to get herself situated and eventually made the decision to go back to school. she was able to get a full scholarship and enrolled herself the fall after leaving the Magic School in the Bay area’s community college. She took a journalism class for fun and found that she really liked it, not to mention that she had a knack for it. she found a vacant spot on a local paper, along with a recommendation from her journalism professor, and landed the job. she left the market, of course, and then began to focus on school and her new job. well that new job eventually brought on another new job (after she finished the journalism program at the community college) in a local bookstore and publishing company City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. She has been there for the last two years and has made quite a name for herself there; she started in the bookstore, but moved into the publishing part of it all after about nine months there and has been enjoying her life since. She still writes for the paper too, but she does random articles when she has time from her main job at City Lights.

WORST MEMORY !

One of the worst memories that Sam has is when she was just out of her freshman year of the Magic School. She had been home for about a week, and in her room doing some of her summer reading and writing homework, when she heard Marissa and Ryan arguing downstairs. Now, it wasn't like she had purposely tried to eavesdrop on them or anything, she had that unfortunate ability from her enhanced senses to hear things even said somewhat quietly. They were arguing about her, as it was, which of course caused for her to stop doing her work and listen very carefully to what they were saying. Apparently Ryan didn’t want her in the house anymore, afraid of what she could do to them, but Marissa kept on telling him that they had no choice as they have been half of their money prior to her being taken in there for school and that they would get the second half of it one she was done with her schooling and no longer needed them or the orphanage. Sam had been crushed by her words and how simple and fair they sounded. That year so far, Sam had actually believed that the Sullivans actually cared about her and really wanted to give her a try and not send her back almost immediately after taking her in because she was different than most other kids. Now she knew that there really wasn’t anyone that would or could ever love her… how heartbreaking.

OVERALL PERSONALITY !

( SOCIALLY AWKWARD ) Not many friends outside of her house and select few that she has probably known her entire life or close to it because she isn’t one for new people. Sure there are some exceptions, but not usually for her as she likes consistency in her life and prefers to know that she has loyal people surrounding her. and when it comes to one on one situations with people she is unsure about, she finds herself to be awkward and then the situation becomes awkward – even if there is no need for their to be any awkwardness at all – and then she gets irritated with the situation and then becomes pregnant dogy. …

( CLAUSTROPHOBIA ) She doesn’t like small and confined places, as it makes her feel like she is too closed in and she will begin to go insane if she doesn’t get to ‘fresh air’ or just a more wide open space. She hates close proximity to just about anything, except her cat, and she is a big fan of the personal space bubble. She isn’t one of those germ freaks though, don’t get her wrong, she just don’t like being too close to people in a physical sense – though in an emotional sense too – and will usually shy away from hugs and such; there are always certain exceptions like when she is enjoying the physical pleasures of a man, but not many.

( WRITING ) As one to be alone most of the time, and preferably that way, Samantha does a lot of writing. She puts a lot of her inner thoughts and feelings into them, things that she feels she cannot tell another soul. Each notebook that she has written in and filled has been charmed so that anyone besides her cannot read it. Hard spells to do indeed, but that’s why she was one of the top students in her class. But yeah, she writes everything in them, everything she would tell a best friend; kind of pathetic that her ‘best friend’ consists of thousands of filled notebooks stowed away in her room; all locked away where no one will ever know that they exist or what they contain.

( ARTISTIC ) Not only does she love to frequent the galleries and look upon the works that are showcased or to the museums to see the new exhibits when they are unveiled. Her job on the paper also gave her a reason to frequent them, since she worked for the arts section of the paper. She did all of the articles on the upcoming and opening galleries and exhibits going on around the Bay area and she always had an inside scoop on the shows and often got to preview them before the rest o the unwashed masses. And while most do not know this about her, Sam is rather inclined when it comes to art. She can draw rather well and actually has some of her own paintings hung in her apartment. She uses the second bedroom in her apartment for a studio, she had it painted white and then eventually covered it with pretty much anything and everything. Some o it was shaded with colored pencils while other parts of it were painted with oils, some charcoals. She used all sorts of different techniques through the entire mural that she has placed on her walls and every day adds a bit more color to it. And when she finally finished it, she will then take pictures of it and the paint it white again and start over fresh.

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FAVORITE CLASS !

Her favorite class had to have been English lit. While most would say their ‘powers’ classes, Sam’s was English. She loved to read and especially write so she took to the class quite fondly. She had always enjoyed reading the tales that were assigned to them and then writing either about them or her own thing; sometimes she would just write, even when it wasn’t assigned, or sometimes even more than the required amount. She had done very well in it and has won praise form her teacher as well as a glowing recommendation when she asked for one when she was both trying to get into school an then again when she was going for the job at the publishing house.

LEAST FAVORITE CLASS !

Her Enhanced Senses class was brutal for her and she hated it more than anything. she wasn't very proficient with them and she couldn’t really get a handle on them so she couldn’t control when they turned on and off. She’d get awoken from a dead sleep at a cat meowing down the street to scream randomly I class when she’d hear a high frequency which was like nails on a chalkboard. Even with the four years plus additional tutelage in the subject, she could not get a handle on her senses and she hated it. She still tries to work on it, even after being out of school and working full time. she has yet to get her senses under control, but hopefully one day she will.

SUBJECT BEST AT !

Please see the explanation above for favorite class as they are one in the same. If you would like for me to actually write it out, let me know and I will.

SUBJECT WORST AT !

Please see the explanation above for least favorite class as they are one in the same. If you would like for me to actually write it out, let me know and I will.

FINAL GPA !

Samantha’s final gpa was a 3.85

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I'MGONNACALLTHISHOME
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HOMETOWN ! in and out of foster homes until she went to Magic School. no real home town to speak of
MOTHER ! Sara [Matthews] Gallagher, 65, human unknown to her
FATHER ! Daniel Gallagher, 68, human unknown to her
SIBLINGS ! n/a
SPOUSE ! n/a
CHILDREN ! n/a
OTHER SIGNIFICANT FAMILY !
Former Guardian: Marissa [Evangelisto] Sullivan, age, human
Former Guardian: Ryan Sullivan, age, human
Maternal Grandmother: Constance Matthews, 84, witch, astral projection, clairvoyance, photographic memory unknown to her

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I'LLTELLYOUMYSTORY
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She doesn’t know anything of her parents, how they met, when they met, where they went on their first date, when they got married, who her family is or anything about what her life could have been like had her parents not have left her on the doorstep of the orphanage days old, wrapped in a blanket and in a basket with a note explaining that she may one day manifest powers and abilities. Her birth certificate was enclosed, but her parents’ names were removed from it, leaving only her birth name and date for records purposes. She would grow up calling the ladies of the orphanage miss or missus whatever their last name was. She never would call them just by their first name or even miss or missus whatever their first name was; it was a formal thing to her, as she felt no real attachment to the women. Perhaps it was the way they always seemed to look at her or distance themselves from her, treating her like an outsider. It was no wonder that the kids at the orphanage treated her the way they did.

She hated her time at the orphanage and it was partly because of her enhanced senses that she had heard everything that the other kids and adults said about her when they thought she couldn’t hear. She never told any of them that she had enhanced senses, finding that more of a need to know sort of thing. And, quite frankly, she never thought that any of them needed to really know about it. She doesn’t broadcast any of her abilities, though all of the kids know that there is something ‘weird’ about her and many of them had been present for when she first learned of her telekinesis abilities. That scared a bunch of them, but it didn’t end their hushed whispers about her behind closed doors. She grew to hate everyone at the orphanage and did her best to put on a good show for when anyone ever came to look at the kids to possibly bring them home. The first eight years of her life were hectic, constantly going in and out of foster homes and the people just didn’t seem to think that her ‘weirdness’ was something they could look or get past.

Between the ages of eight and thirteen, Sam remained at the orphanage. They didn’t even bother ‘showing her’ when prospective parents came by because they knew better than to get their hopes up that anyone would come and take her permanently. Her life would remain hectic and full of hate and discontent until she would turn thirteen years old, having to constantly put up with the maltreatment she received from everyone at the orphanage and even when she was in her primary schooling years because she attended with a lot of the other orphanage kids and they just helped make her life a living hell. She would soon get accepted to the Magi school and the orphanage heads decided that they didn’t want to put up with her any longer, especially if she would be attending a magic school of any kind, and managed to find an older couple that needed the money and offered them a large sum to take the girl for the time she had to go to this special school and that they would receive half of the money before and half of it after she left school and no longer needed the system to look after her.

The Magic School was all that she hoped for, though she still didn’t have many friends while in attendance. It got her away from the orphanage, one of her happiest moments without a doubt, and she didn’t have to worry about any of the other kids from the orphanage to ruin her time there. She found herself to be quite fond of a few of her classes, English and history being her more preferred of her classes, though she did find her telekinesis class to be rather enjoyable. Her senses classes, yeah not so much, but she was glad that she had learned how to control it, too bad she still couldn’t actually do it. Her school days were spent with her nose in books and pouring over her writing; she had even sent in a few anonymous letters to the school paper that had been talked about quite often, though no one ever knew who had written them… no one but her that is.

She loved her time at the Magic School, sad that it was no longer a current in her life, but she was where she wanted to be now, living on her own and working in a place where she was actually respected and her work was appreciated. She had even started doing some freelance writing of her own, but nothing that she would ever consider showing to the publishers that she worked for. She didn’t want them to ever think that she was trying to use her position within their company to get herself noticed so she could quit the job there. No, she loved her job, part of her goal in lie was now complete and she wasn't going to let that go. Not even with her being so young, partly why she didn’t want to jeopardize what she had managed to make her happy at such a young age.

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noooooooooo thanks!

and i know her history is only five paragraphs long, but i figure anything else that i would include here has already been written in the other sections throughout the app (happy/worst memory, fear/goal) and you know how i am not a fan of having to rewrite something if i don’t have to… i hate extra work. lol