Lara/Sam Forever

I took an almost 3-week break due to our failed attempt at Tweet day.

I know a lot of you don’t have an account, but to sum up, barely half of the people who said they would participate actually did and it was a fail…

I was and still am disappointed so I’m back, but only part-time for now because I’m still not convinced this is all worth it, seeing how little people care about our efforts and events…

I love reboot Lara Croft, so much, but I don’t want to stay around and watch her turn into a bloodthirsty sociopath. To me, one of the solutions to Lara’s troubles is reaching out for help, and especially to the person who understands her the most: Sam Nishimura. Se/Cd once said we should forget everything we knew, that it was a new story, a clean slate, so why going back to a lone wolf story when Lara had a few sidekicks/employees/friends in the latest games…

So here’s my deal, I’ll be around until Shadow in September. If Sam isn’t back and especially if Lara has no agency and is all about her daddy’s issues, I’m done with the new TR series, no more group, no more tweets and posts. 

This isn’t a tantrum (I stopped supporting shows and movies because of bad representation and writing. I believe that if we take everything the industry is giving us with open arms, even when it’s bad, we’ll never get anything better), this is just me refusing to stay when I don’t agree with the direction SE & CD are taking, going backward and rewriting all the canons to fit Classic Lara.

It doesn’t make sense, especially in the comics, I’m sorry but female character should be written by women because the lack of character development and agency is so strong right now. Maybe I’m biased because I’m such a fan of Rhianna and Gail’s work but I’m definitely not the only to complain so maybe there is a part of truth…

So this is our last chance to try something, to try to draw Cd’s attention about our Love for Sam, in hope for a last minute addition… 

We’re more than a 100 here on Tumblr and on Twitter, I’m sure more than a dozen of you can help if they actually commit a bit. I’m not trying to be rude or condescending but I won’t go through another failed event because people don’t understand the point of the group… I’m really trying to organize stuff but If you’re done just say so, frankly, I’m halfway there after the spoilers we got, 

But I don’t know, I guess if you really love Sam and want to try one last time to do something for her character, it’s now or never, because in a few months, there’ll probably be nothing left and everyone will go back to miss Sam in their own corner…

It seems Crystal Dynamics, like many others thought that the loyalty garnered from their first entry would keep people coming back, regardless of the stupid shit they insist on doing going forward

I bought and finished the first Tomb Raider easily, as it had my love and attention.

But if you say it’s a fresh start, and it works, cause TR2013 was a success, you stick to your narrative, you just don’t ignore stuff you made canon in game and comics!

I felt the same with Rise, I couldn’t get behind the story, couldn’t really care about the people I was supposed to help and when Lara kept saying “dad this, dad that” as if all she was was Richard ‘s daughter I was soooo annoyed. Like I loooovvveee Camilla’s voice but damn, it was painful to keep listening as if she didn’t have a brain on her own. Her dad is dead, it sucks, I’m sorry for her but it’s been like a decade, dead father trope is dead, the franchise is called Lara Croft, not richard’s ghost and the girl who happen to be pretty and his daughter doing his work.

Lara is her own person, she’s better than him and she’s supposed to set her mark, and fighting 20h in TR to save Sam just for her to be MIA and never mentioned again as if there’s only Jonah, mhhh double annoyance. He was useless in Rise! And he’s supposed to be a former soldier but can’t kill a dude? And people give Sam shit for being defenseless when without training, she did some badass stuff.

So yeah, Shadow will be the make it or break it game here, and I hope before September people will help me, help us voice not only the fact that we want Lara to have her agency back but that Sam is still loved and we want her. For the game it’s over but maybe last minute addition in Inferno?

Writing tip: when finishing a fic late at night, cause it suddenly got 900 words longer than it was supposed to, your brain might not be operating at full capacity, and you might accidentally just press save and close your computer without actually posting said fic on tumblr/AO3 with that out of the way:

Read on AO3

Normally I hated having to pull out daddy’s credit card, but when your best friend goes through hell and high waters to save you from a murderous island cult like something out of an 80’s b-movie, it deserves a proper get-well gift.

And a proper gift she was going to get, even if I had to upend every single candy store in the greater Tokyo area to find some fucking Jaffa cakes.

At least all that time spend on shopping sprees finally paid off when I had to carry the leaning tower of sweets up a bazillion flights of stairs to the recovery ward.

by Sasha272

Day Five: Time Travel

A dig in India took an unexpected turn when Sam and Lara touched some magic stones…

Words: 5254, Chapters:1/7, Language: English

Fandoms:  Tomb Raider (Video Games)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Lara Croft, Samantha Nishimura,

Relationships: Lara Croft/Samantha Nishimura, a bit of Jonah and Lara’s parents

Additional Tags: A Bit of Fluff, a bit of angst, Happy Ending, they’re gay, Nothing can keep them apart

Another article about Sam Nishimura and how her absence is felt in the new movie.

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Sam  Nishimura to Lara

Thank you for voting. After a week, here are the themes for the S.S Endurance Week 2018 (We had 5 equally ranked themes with 10 votes, so we had to find a solution):

Day 1: Inappropriate flirting

Day 2: Rewriting a scene / Fixing canon

Day 3: Wooing

Day 4: Soulmates AU

Day 5: Road trip, time travel

Day 6: Jealous, Dealing with notoriety, Aristocratic rivalry

Day 7: Free Day