#samiposting

-Borne (Jeff Vandermeer)

SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG WE LOVE CASTING SPELLS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SAMI LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

she honestly needs no introduction at this point but for the poor unfortunate souls who are just now hearing about her: this is sami (full name samidare), a carnivorous succubus who works very closely with the queen of harlots in her pursuit of bloodshed and takes care of her paperwork in the daytime. she's...quirked up you might say.

if you're unfamiliar she needs to eat flesh and blood to survive. oops (more on that here)

she's been around for just about as long as desire, and the two met before the advent of demonic scholars and timekeeping so we don't have any exact dates from before then. sami is her equal socially and in physical prowess, so perhaps that’s why they instantly took a liking to one another. that and they love bloodshed teehee ^_^ sami is a little less calculated in her approach than desire is but also considers violence an art form. she’s also dedicated to her work and loves logic puzzles you’ll find a ton of those on her desk

made immortal for the queen’s selfish whims, they have been made inseparable by circumstance and by choice. she has already long outlived others of her kind, the only person she knows will stick around is the queen obviously. they were forcibly bonded once the first apocalypse shook hell, with sami losing her last living relatives and desire having her family abandon her amidst the destruction to save themselves. left alone in a flooded and decaying wasteland for days, they had only themselves to rely on to stay alive. quite romantic innit

they spent their time post-reconstruction doing what warlords do i suppose; fighting separate battles and slaughtering in parallel, cleaning up and telling each other their tales at dinner. they got romantically involved with one another, sort of the logical next step; so intertwined in one another’s lives that leaving would be a fate worse than death.

one day desire just...woke up with the self-awareness that she was a fucking awful person. sami was willing to sacrifice a lot of her own desires to help her in getting better, but after a hundred years or so it was apparent that she didn’t want to change. she never wanted to. she wanted to masquerade as someone who knew better, someone who absolved themself of their previous sins. she gave up trying to help and instead tried convincing desire to stop lying to herself, and has been doing that ever since.