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''This page is about the [[:Category: Phase 2|Phase 2]] incarnation of the character. For other uses, see [[Sam (disambiguation)]].''
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| name    = Sam Guthrie - Deceased
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| pb = [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0477127/ Ryan Kwanten]
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| name    = Sam Guthrie
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| image  = CannonballWiki.png
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| pb = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3836977/ Louis Hoffman]
 
| codename = Cannonball
 
| codename = Cannonball
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| teams  = [[X-Men - Phase 1|X-Men]], [[Xavier Institute - Phase 1|Xavier Institute]] - Staff
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| teams  = [[X-Factor Investigations]]
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| birthdate = July 18, 1981
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| birthdate = October 17, 1997
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| journal =  [https://x-cannonball.dreamwidth.org/profile x_cannonball]
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| journal =  [https://xp-cannonball.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_cannonball]
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| player = (Former) [[Jeff]]
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| player = [[Mari]]
 
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''"You can't individualize a systemic issue, but you can help individuals that're trapped in systemic issues. It's work worth doin' and I wanna be involved in it." ''
  
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A small-town boy from Kentucky, Sam Guthrie became a teacher at [[Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters - Phase 1|Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters]] and an [[X-Men - Phase 1| X-Man]], acting as second in command to [[Cyclops]]. But he never forgot his roots, retaining strong ties to his family back home. He was killed during [[A Touch Of Brimstone|the attack on Muir Island]] in [[January 2015]].
 
  
  
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== Details ==
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== '''Details''' ==
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'''Character Journal:''' [https://xp-cannonball.dreamwidth.org/ xp_cannonball]
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'''Character Journal:''' [https://x-cannonball.dreamwidth.org/profile x_cannonball]
 
  
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'''Real Name''': Samuel Zachary Guthrie
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'''Real Name''': Samuel "Sam" Zachary Guthrie
  
 
'''Codename''': Cannonball
 
'''Codename''': Cannonball
  
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'''Aliases''': None.
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'''Aliases''': None
  
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'''First Appearance''': [https://x-cannonball.dreamwidth.org/2003/05/12/ May 12, 2003]
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-cannonball.dreamwidth.org/361.html July 28th, 2023]
  
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'''Date of Birth''': July 18, 1981
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'''Date of Birth''': October 17, 1997
  
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'''Place of Birth''': Kentucky, US
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'''Place of Birth''': Cumberland County, Kentucky, USA
  
 
'''Citizenship''':  American
 
'''Citizenship''':  American
  
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'''Relatives''': [[Guthrie Family]]: Lucinda (mother), Thomas (father - deceased), [[Paige Guthrie|Paige]] (younger sister), [[Jay Guthrie|Jay]] (younger brother), Melody (younger sister), Elizabeth (younger sister), Joelle (younger sister), Jebediah (younger brother), Lewis and Meg (younger twins)
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'''Relatives''': [[Guthrie Family]]: Lucinda (mother), Thomas (father-deceased), [[Paige Guthrie|Paige]] (younger sister), [[Jay Guthrie|Jay]] (younger brother), [[Melody Guthrie|Melody]] (younger sister), Elizabeth (younger sister), Joelle (younger sister), Jebediah (younger brother), Lewis (younger brother), Cissie (younger sister)  
  
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'''Education''': Bachelor's degree in political science, New York University.
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The Guthries are a matriarchal Appalachian family, with all children deferring first to their mother and then to Sam as the oldest/father figure. Sam is closest to Paige, but also feels especially fond of Melody and Jay. His relationship is most strained with Jay who took up Sam's role as the "man of the house" following Sam's departure for the institute but with none of the years of preparation that Sam had had before taking up the role. Sam, Paige, Melody, Jay, Elizabeth, Joelle, and Lewis are all musically oriented in one way or another, while Jebediah and Cissie are very much not which leaves them feeling a bit othered from the rest of their siblings. While Sam tends to view Paige fully as his sister, he tends to view the other siblings either as something in between sibling and child (ex. Melody, Jay, Elizabeth) or simply as just his child (ex. Joelle, Jebediah, Lewis, Cissie). Lewis and Cissie are twins.  
  
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'''Relationship Status''': Dating [[Tabitha Smith - Phase 1 | Tabitha Smith]]
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'''Education''': High School Diploma
  
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'''Occupation''': English teacher at Xavier's.
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'''Relationship Status''': Dating [[Clint Barton]]
  
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Men - Phase 1|X-Men]]
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'''Occupation''': formerly a coal miner and union leader; formerly bartender at Kirby's
  
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== Biography ==
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[X-Factor Investigations]]
  
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=== Childhood ===
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== '''Biography''' ==
  
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Sam grew up on a farm in Kentucky, with a multitude of brothers and sisters.  His father died when he was young, and his mother has been running the place alone ever since, though recently her health has been declining and Sam has been returning home on a more regular basis to assist her with the farm and family. Upon the death of his father, Sam took on the 'man of the house' role, leaving school to work in one of the local coal mines.
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
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Sam grew up in a mining town in Kentucky. As the oldest of a large family, he watched his father struggle to hide the extent of his struggle with blacklung and knew long before it was ever asked of him that he had to step up to take care of the family. As his father's illness got worse, Sam's involvement in a fatherly-role for his younger siblings increased and he worked hard at school to graduate early so that he could join the workforce earlier. While Sam had heard about M-Day on the news, the anti-mutant sentiment in his area had already been very present and he didn't really notice much of a change. While the church the Gurthrie's attend had moved a bit away from the fire and brimstone snake-handling of Sam's early childhood, their new pastor was insistent that M-Day was God's punishment for mutantkind's hubris.
  
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Sam first discovered his powers as a teenager when he was trapped in a collapsing mine while working.  He was able to blast out using a burst of thermo-kinetic energy that manifested as a rocket-like propulsion device.  He was discovered by [[Charles Xavier]] after a little incident (about which Cannonball's fairly secretive) and brought to the school.
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====Lila Cheney (TW Grooming)====
  
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When Sam was sixteen he saved up enough money for tickets to a Lila Cheney concert. His mother had driven him to the city for the show but was late picking him up, thus allowing Sam to be in the right place at the right time to step between the upcoming rockstar and a would-be assailant. Lila ignored Sam’s protestations of “it was just the right thing to do,” and “I have work in the morning,” and insisted on paying him back somehow, in a manner that was decidedly flirtatious. Lila insisted on at least buying him a drink, when Sam told her that he wasn’t twenty-one, she said that she didn’t care and neither would a bartender with all that height and muscle. Before Sam left the bar Lila slipped her number into his pocket and kissed him. Sam returned home enjoying how grown-up Lila made him feel, and feeling extremely flattered that out of everyone in the world one of his favorite musicians picked him.
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For Sam’s eighteenth birthday Lila bought him his first smartphone. His younger siblings would try to steal it or get him to take pictures of them with it which made him nauseous for reasons he wouldn’t fully realize until he was twenty-one. In the months leading up to the mine accident (explained below), Sam and Lila’s relationship had become strained as a result of the distance and Lila’s penchant for thievery and substance use. After the mine collapse when Sam was 19, he broke it off with Lila because he didn’t think she’d like him anymore due to his injuries and because his life was so different now.
  
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=== Living At The X-Mansion ===
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Lila Cheney (currently 29) is a London-born rock musician with the power of intergalactic teleportation which she would use to aid in her habit of thievery. After having gained fame from her rock career with her band, Cats Laughing, Lila became involved with an intergalactic human trafficking ring (with the goal of supplying them with Earth's entire population). Lila's relationship with Sam was built not just on the fact that she was four years older than him, but also in the power imbalance created by her fame and wealth. During their relationship Lila would write a song, "Sam," about Sam and would promise him that the song was just for him, but recorded it in secret- it became an overnight sensation.
  
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Sam attended Xavier's as a graduate student and TA, acting as a bridge between the older staff and graduates and the younger students. His easy-going nature and love of children were especial assets in that regard. He experimented with his bisexuality in the form of a tentative flirtation with [[Piotr Rasputin]], but then began a relationship with [[Alison Blaire - Phase 1 | Alison Blaire]]. They drifted apart, however, under the demands of Sam's loyalty to his family and the team. He was away frequently in 2003 and 2004, either returning to the family farm to assist his mother or completing his pilot's training as part of his X-Man duties. When Alison later began dating [[Haroun al-Rashid]], Sam suffered pangs of jealousy and regret, recognizing he had let a chance slip him by.
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===Thomas Guthrie's Death and Manifestation of Powers===
  
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The arrival of his sister [[Paige Guthrie|Paige]] at the school, whilst a happy event, led to tension between the siblings. Paige blamed him for abandoning her and the family, for which Sam felt guilty, and Sam disapproved of Paige's romantic choices, especially when she began dating both [[Jonothon Starsmore]] and [[Angelo Espinosa]] at the same time. They fought about this, and the relationship never really was the same again. Sam was marginally more successful with his brother [[Jay Guthrie|Jay]], despite the latter's hostility and persecution complex - the brothers eventually were able to work past mutual misunderstandings about lifestyle choices and became closer than they had previously.
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Within three months of M-Day, Thomas Guthrie would die. Following his father's death Sam would officially take up Thomas' job at the mine when it was offered to him out of courtesy due to Sam having "filled in" for his father for a little over a year at this point. Sam became heavily involved in the union, like his father before him, and would work long hours- sometimes unnecessarily so. While Sam wanted to take care of his siblings and help his mother as much as possible, he was also a young man who viewed family as a burden and something to run from and would try to find ways to do so while still providing for them- he was extremely grateful for his father's best friend, Lewis, who also worked in the mines and stepped up to act as a father figure for him. At the age of 19, Sam had taken a weekend shift at the mine with Lewis, when an improperly set explosive resulted in a tunnel collapse. During the collapse Sam realized that not only had he seriously injured his left shoulder but Lewis was non-responsive. He was wracked with guilt over having been the one to improperly set the explosive and thus having caused Lewis' injuries. His powers manifested as he tried to dig them out of the rubble- and he was able to blast them out of the collapsed mine shaft.
  
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=== '''Arrival at the Mansion''' ===
  
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=== Crisis of Faith ===
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The whole town was mystified when Sam and Lewis were able to escape the collapsed mine. Sam remained close-lipped about the experience fearing the experience of having the entire community turn their backs on not just him but his family. Once Lewis was conscious again he would tell everyone about Sam's quick thinking with a second blast to clear a way out for them, and how brave he was to ensure Lewis' safety as well during the escape. Sam would only tell his mother the truth in secret while he thought his siblings were sleeping, and things were tense between them for a few days until she came to the conclusion that anything that kept her son alive couldn't be that bad.  While recovering from his injuries, Sam was approached by Charles Xavier and asked to come back to the institute. Despite feeling guilty over leaving his family, Sam took the chance to have a life of his own and agreed to go with the X-Men.
  
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As Cannonball, Sam participated in numerous X-Men missions over the years proving himself to be capable, ambitious, and calm under pressure. This led him to become second-in-command to [[Cyclops]], a position Sam both reveled in (he had hero-worshiped the older man for some time) and found frustrating, as Cyclops had a tendency to take too much work on himself and not use his XO to his fullest capacity.
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==='''Muir Island and Adulthood'''===
  
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Sam taught Flight, Government, and American History at the school. He shared a suite with [[Kurt Sefton|Kurt Wagner]], with whom he shared a sense of religious faith and family loyalty.  
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Once at Muir Island Sam elected to focus on learning to use and control his powers, and to try to have a normal life unburdened by the responsibility of caring for his family. He was naturally disheartened when many of his letters to his siblings (especially to younger brother Jay) went unanswered, but was also overjoyed at the possibility of getting to exist as a young person for the first time in his life. Once he felt comfortable in the knowledge that he wouldn't accidentally destroy anything if he returned to the states, he moved to New York to try to start his adult life. Because he did not join a team or attend university, Sam found work bartending at Kirby's in District X- he sends about a third of his paycheck back to his mother to help care for his siblings still, and tries to visit his family whenever possible. He lives in a small one bedroom apartment within District X. Sam has been considering pursuing a degree in sociology but is torn between going back to Kentucky or staying in New York to achieve that goal. He began volunteering at the community center in August 2023.  
  
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In [[September 2007]] Sam received news that his mother had taken a bad fall and injured herself.  After some argument, he was able to convince her that he would come home and help around the house since she was unable to move around. This lasted until [[June 2008]] when Lucinda recovered enough to become mobile again. Sam returned to the school with her blessing to teach History and resume his place with the X-Men. Almost immediately he found himself involved in several missions, including saving his brother Jay's life when a [[Sulaco| medical experiment]] went horribly wrong and nearly resulted in his death. He became more protective of his brother but he often had demands on his time which proved to be a sore point for Jay who was both resentful of feeling smothered and angry about Sam's frequent absences causing many arguments between the siblings and Jay's [[Mechanisms of Revenge| disappearance and apparent death]] in [[November 2008]] hit Sam hard, exacerbating his feelings of guilt in relation to his family.
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=== '''A Haven to Call Home and X-Factor Investigations''' ===
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During the events of [[A Haven to Call Home]], [[District X]] flooded. Having grown up around flooding in the hollers of Kentucky, Sam was quick to rush to the aid of his community along with newfound friend [[Alani Ryan]]. He spent most of the next two weeks rescuing people, moving supplies, and sleeping in the community center. He moved to the mansion in November of 2023 and almost immediately gained employment at [[X-Factor Investigations]].
  
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When Jay returned in [[January 2009]], drastically changed, Sam tried his best to be supportive however Jay was moody and often violent as he dealt with the blood lust that had been programmed into him. Sam's new relationship with [[Vanessa Carlysle|Morgan/Vanessa]] was a comfort during several difficult months but her role in [[X-Force - Phase 1|X-Force]] and Sam's difficulty in understanding his brother's new characteristics led to him feeling he appeared weak in comparison to his team-mates and friends because of his pacifism. This new obsession eventually lead to their split five months later, leading to an uncharacteristic display of anger from the X-Man. He saw the principles he felt X-Force embodied as responsible for the break up and went to the [[The Brownstone|Brownstone]] to challenge anyone there to a fight; the challenge was met with amusement and ridicule from the X-Forcers and confusion from those in the mansion when the news broke on the journals, only serving to exacerbate Sam's feelings of impotence. A [[Danger Room]] 'test' of his ability to kill someone was interrupted by [[Kyle Gibney]] and resulted in an altercation and several broken ribs for the feral. Sam was suspended from the team and from teaching for a time while seeking anger management counseling with [[Charles Xavier]] to help address his difficulty with Jay's new condition.
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== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
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Sam Guthrie is tall and lanky, never having outgrown the gangliness that comes with growing too tall too fast. He keeps his hair longer on top and pushes it back with goggles
  
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'''Height''': 6'0"
  
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=== Starting Over ===
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'''Build''': Sam might be lean looking but it's all muscle.
  
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Upon his reinstatement to team and teaching two months later, Sam focused on assisting the new wave of students. With the departures of many X-Men, including Scott and [[Nathan Dayspring]], his expertise in training was needed, especially for the latest crop of trainees. He became something of a hermit, focusing on his teaching and on the team, taking part in several missions including the [[X-Men Mission: Jailbreak|mass break out of mutant criminals]], [[Noise and Confusion| a manhunt for Simon Gutierrez]], an old friend of [[Julian Keller| Julian Keller's,]] and [[Lakshmibai Raj|preventing a war between India and Pakistan]]. He resisted attempts to match him with various mansion residents and while Jay tried sometimes to get him to come out of his shell, even going so far as to set his brother up with [[Clarice Ferguson]], Sam continued to maintain his low profile.
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'''Eyes''': blue/grey
  
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When Jay left for [[Muir Island Research Facility - Phase 1|Muir Island]] in [[February 2010]], Sam was torn between his loyalty to his family and his responsibilities to the team and the school. He joined Jay during the summer vacation of 2010 and when the new school year began, decided that he was of better use, for the time being at least, helping Jay with his issues and remained.
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'''Hair''': blond
  
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'''Other Features''':  (piercings, tattoos, scars, tails, horns, wings etc)
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burn scar on his left shoulder and bicep as a result of the mining incident that caused his powers to manifest, gold hoop earring in left earlobe
  
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=== Welcome Back ===
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== '''Powers''' ==
  
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Sam returned to the school in [[September 2011]], leaving Muir Island as Jay seemed to be doing much better and he didn't need to be there to help looking after his brother 24/7. While away, Sam had taken further steps to look into his previous problems with anger management and obtained further treatment with that. The combination of not being required to stay there constantly with the progress of his treatment lead him to feel like he'd be able to better contribute his time and skills back at Xavier's.
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Cannonball can generate thermo-chemical energy and release it from his skin in energy blasts. He can use these energy blasts to propel his body through the air at great speeds and heights. After much practice he also learned to maneuver himself while in the air. Originally Sam could only release these blasts from his feet, but can now generate them from any part of his body. Not only can this energy be used to propel Sam's body through the air, but he can also create blast fields (a force field that can be used as a shield to protect himself or others and also can be formed around someone to imprison them). As a result of the field of energy surrounding his body when using his powers, Sam possessed superhuman durability.
  
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When he got back he ran into a lot of his former teammates and students, and was assigned to teach English, with [[Adrienne Frost| Adri]] having previously returned and filling the History teacher position. He resumed living together with [[Kurt Wagner| Kurt]] in a suite did his best to try and fit back in.
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When struggling to push down his claustrophobia, Sam often finds himself unable to release energy blasts from anywhere but his feet. Sam can generate blast fields without propelling himself through the air but it takes all of his concentration, leaving him vulnerable to attack. Sam's powers cannot generate breathable air which puts him at a disadvantage underwater and in space. Sam can only sustain himself while flying for two hours at a time, at a top speed of 40mph, and only up to 10,000 feet above sea level.
  
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He eventually found out that his ex-girlfriend, [[Vanessa Carlysle| Vanessa]], had been recently kidnapped and was still missing. Only recently returned himself, and not quite in the same shape he'd been when he left, he still volunteered to help in any way with finding her. Thankfully that wasn't necessary and Vanessa was soon discovered and rescued. He ran into her once she had recovered somewhat and, despite not having talked to or seen each other in months, they got along better than he'd expected.
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== '''Equipment''' ==
  
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Sam was on comms duty during [[What Goes Around, Comes Around| the events of Hallowe'en 2011]] and, with the assistance of [[Nico Minoru| Nico]], helped to bring them to an end and restore things. He also took part in his first active duty as an X-Man [[Sons of Liberty (plot)| with the team]], which went well.
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Aviator's goggles.
  
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2012 started off with [[X-Men Mission: Day Zero, the Movie|investigating an independent film based on Day Zero]], where he worked with [[Tabitha Smith - Phase 1|Tabby]] to foil the plans of the would be [[Friends of Humanity]] terrorists.
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== '''Trivia''' ==
  
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At work he always cards everyone, even his regulars, because he doesn’t want to be complicit in what happened to him. He is constantly looking out for younger mutants.
  
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=== Genosha and Everything After ===
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Sam wants to fix his relationship with his younger siblings but isn’t sure how to explain all of the reasons he left. He knows that he became a father to his younger siblings (especially Jay, Melody, Joelle, Elizabeth, Jebediah, Cissie, and Lewis)- but is unsure on how to communicate to them that he never wanted to be their dad, but that he doesn’t regret it either.
  
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In March 2012, Sam and the rest of the [[X-Men - Phase 1|X-Men]] attempted to capture the kidnappers of potentially dozens of young mutants, using the youngest X-Men as bait, and capturing two persons. Those persons were later rescued by a fellow teammate, leaving the X-Men empty handed and wondering what had happened. Not long after that, while at a protest over the treatment of mutants in Genosha outside of the Genoshan embassy, a bomb went off and in the ensuing chaos the contingent from Xavier's was kidnapped. Those who were captured were beamed to their captors by a strange blue glow which resulted in the captives arriving naked, without any clothing or items they had with them, including cell phones. No one had any idea where they were until Xavier found them via Cerebro, showing them in Genosha shortly before their mutant signatures winked out.
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He has a constant need to prove himself, especially after having moved north where his accent marks him as "other" and is often the reason that others think less of him and his intelligence. He knows that as a result of his upbringing that he has a lot of work to do on himself, and strives not to make that anyone else's problem.
  
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After some research and with the assistance of [[X-Force - Phase 1|X-Force]] - at the cost of Vanessa's disappearance - the X-Men prepared their attack on the Genoshan [[The Citadel|Citadel]]. Sam lead an aerial team which started off on the right foot, much like the other prongs of their attack, until the Genoshans sprung their trap. Sam managed to grab [[John Allerdyce|John]] as the X-Men retreated but many of them were caught as they were forced to scatter.
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Sam operates under the classic Appalachian sentiment of “if I’m not willing to fight you then I don’t respect you,” but most people just assume he’s a hot head.
  
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John and Sam made their way to the safe house in the city, meeting up with the remainder of the X-Men who managed to escape. The regrouped mutants formulate a plan to try and rescue the increased number of captive mutants, with Sam aiding [[Callisto - Phase 1|Callisto]] in an aerial mission to capture video evidence of the mistreatment of mutants in Genosha. Their evidence was later broadcasted once the mutants broke into a broadcasting station and took over the airwaves long enough to get their message out to the rest of the world.
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As a result of the mine collapse, Sam suffers from claustrophobia (which he tries to hide)- this affects him not just in small, dark spaces but also in crowded places like cities.
  
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Once their broadcast is made, the resistance once again attempts to storm the Citadel, discovering a grotesquely changed Thomas Moreau inside. The ensuing battle takes every single one of the mutants working together in order to first disarm, then disable and finally destroy the monster Moreau had become. After the battle the Genoshan government unveils the deceit of their former leader and peace at last arrived in Genosha. The X-Men and the rescued students all made their way back to Xavier's where Charles welcomed them back home and offered help to those that needed it.
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He talks a lot without really saying all that much.
  
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Things were quiet for some time after Genosha, changing in July when Sam helped chaperone a trip to a local [[Renfair|Renaissance fair]]. A young girl there, Elizabeth Rose, inadvertently influences those around her into believing they're actually living in medieval times. Sam became one of those people under her influence until [[Molly Hayes|Molly]] saved the day, breaking the spell  under which he and the others had fallen.
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Sam hasn't told anybody about his relationship with Lila Cheney, not even his family.
  
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Later in the same month, Sam and his fellow X-Men helped X-Factor with a missing persons investigation. The [[Storm Family - Phase 1|Storm Family]] requested their assistance in finding their kidnapped children, [[Susan Storm - Phase 1|Sue]] and Johnny. Sam helped Franklin in his dealings with X-Factor Investigations and then helped lead the rescue effort once they discovered where the children were located. Sue would later stay on as a student at Xavier's.
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=='''External Links'''==
  
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In August, Sam accompanied several persons from the school to a mutant positive music festival called [[X-Men Mission: Joyful Noixe|Joyful Noixe]], where Sam and several others help out with security for the same. [[The Purifiers]] had made threats regarding the concert, and they eventually did attempt to cause trouble. Sam and the other X-Men dealt with the threat, with Sam and Angel rescuing people who were in danger of drowning and falling off of a nearby bridge.
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Links to the tags for each character in xp_communication, xp_logs and xp_journal.
  
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=== What Am I Doing Here? ===
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+sam+guthrie xp_communication]
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After everything that had happened in 2012, Sam went back home in later September, along with several of his friends, at his family's request. While home he had a run-in with a newly formed local chapter of the [[Friends of Humanity]], which lead to him getting arrested. [[Aloysius Reed]], the leader of the chapter, took things personal and attempted to both kill Sam and to destroy the Guthrie homestead. Thanks to the intervention of [[SHIELD - Phase 1|SHIELD]] Agent [[Barbara Morse - Phase 1 | Barbara Morse]] and his friends, Sam escaped relatively unharmed and they were able to avoid any substantial damage to the Guthrie property. The event made Sam rethink his role with Xavier's, however, and to question whether he could be making better use of his abilities than what he was currently doing at the time.
 
  
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===2013-14===
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+sam+guthrie xp_journal posts]
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The year brought with it the usual Xavier-like disasters. In February Sam [[Tropic of Capricorn | accompanied a team to rescue Garrison and Adrienne from]] [[Avalon]], and in December he joined a special team to go into faux-limbo and [[Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart | rescue a group of kidnapped Xavierites and associates]]. February 2014 saw Sam and Tabitha going out on their first for real date. Between all of that though, Sam enjoyed the quiet life.
 
  
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===The End===
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+sam+guthrie xp_logs]
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In January 2015, Muir Island was [[A Touch Of Brimstone | invaded by Magneto and the Brotherhood]], and the X-Men launched a full-on attack to stop them. The battle took a turn for the worst, however, and in the midst of it Sam was killed by Barrage.
 
  
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== Physical Characteristics ==
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== '''Plots''' ==
  
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===2023===
  
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'''Height''': 6' 0"
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'''Weight''': 175 lbs
 
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'''Eyes''': Blue-grey
 
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'''Hair''': Blonde
 
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'''Other Features''':  Tall and gangly build.
 
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==Powers==
 
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Sam's power creates a field of unknown energy approximately four inches from his body and anything he's in contact with of approximately equal mass. This field has a unique property of reacting with oxygen and carbon dioxide to create an exothermic combustion reaction. Sam has enough instinctive control to direct this reaction downwards along the length of the field as thrust, but cannot summon the blast field without the combustion reaction happening.
 
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The external temperature of the field is proportional to the intensity of the combustion reaction. At highest intensity, the blast field is hot enough to melt bullets, thus Sam needs to shut his power off briefly to pick up a passenger in flight without hurting them.
 
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The field is gas-permeable, and maintains a standard air pressure and temperature inside,  allowing Sam to breathe at high speeds and altitudes so long as the field is up. The field is capable of deflecting solids that are not melted by the heat, as well as withstanding extremes of high and low pressure with little discomfort to Sam. Due to the nature of his power, he can even activate his blast field underwater, although he would need an external breathing apparatus, as his power does not generate breathable oxygen.
 
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As a result of his powers, Sam's body has subtle physiological changes such as increased lumbar flexibility, to better direct his flight by twisting his body around in midair.
 
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Sam often wears a pair of old World War Two pilot's goggles, given to him by his sister [[Paige Guthrie | Paige]].
 
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==External Links==
 
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+c:+sam+guthrie xp_communication posts by tag]
 
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/z+p1:+c:+sam+guthrie xp_journal posts by tag]
 
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Sam is indeed a good old boy - he likes line dancing, mudding and has been known to tip cows when younger and still living on the farm.
 
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'''E-mail''': [[IMAGE:MariEmail.png]]
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Sam was introduced to X-Project by Lucy, and then played by [[Twiller]] from [[January 2005]] to [[September 2007]]. Cross picked up Sam in [[June 2008]], and let him go in [[September 2010]] due to time constraints. [[Jeff]] picked Sam up in [[August 2011]].
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I'm excited to be playing Sam because as an Appalachian person let me be the first to tell you that whatever Claremont wrote is not how we talk.  
  
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Latest revision as of 13:58, 12 January 2024

This page is about the Phase 2 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Sam (disambiguation).

Sam Guthrie
CannonballWiki.png
Portrayed by Louis Hoffman
Codename: Cannonball
Affiliations: X-Factor Investigations
Birthdate: October 17, 1997
Journal: xp_cannonball
Player: Mari


"You can't individualize a systemic issue, but you can help individuals that're trapped in systemic issues. It's work worth doin' and I wanna be involved in it."



Details

Character Journal: xp_cannonball


Real Name: Samuel "Sam" Zachary Guthrie

Codename: Cannonball

Aliases: None

First Appearance: July 28th, 2023

Date of Birth: October 17, 1997

Place of Birth: Cumberland County, Kentucky, USA

Citizenship: American

Relatives: Guthrie Family: Lucinda (mother), Thomas (father-deceased), Paige (younger sister), Jay (younger brother), Melody (younger sister), Elizabeth (younger sister), Joelle (younger sister), Jebediah (younger brother), Lewis (younger brother), Cissie (younger sister)

The Guthries are a matriarchal Appalachian family, with all children deferring first to their mother and then to Sam as the oldest/father figure. Sam is closest to Paige, but also feels especially fond of Melody and Jay. His relationship is most strained with Jay who took up Sam's role as the "man of the house" following Sam's departure for the institute but with none of the years of preparation that Sam had had before taking up the role. Sam, Paige, Melody, Jay, Elizabeth, Joelle, and Lewis are all musically oriented in one way or another, while Jebediah and Cissie are very much not which leaves them feeling a bit othered from the rest of their siblings. While Sam tends to view Paige fully as his sister, he tends to view the other siblings either as something in between sibling and child (ex. Melody, Jay, Elizabeth) or simply as just his child (ex. Joelle, Jebediah, Lewis, Cissie). Lewis and Cissie are twins.

Education: High School Diploma

Relationship Status: Dating Clint Barton

Occupation: formerly a coal miner and union leader; formerly bartender at Kirby's

Team Affiliation: X-Factor Investigations

Biography

Childhood

Sam grew up in a mining town in Kentucky. As the oldest of a large family, he watched his father struggle to hide the extent of his struggle with blacklung and knew long before it was ever asked of him that he had to step up to take care of the family. As his father's illness got worse, Sam's involvement in a fatherly-role for his younger siblings increased and he worked hard at school to graduate early so that he could join the workforce earlier. While Sam had heard about M-Day on the news, the anti-mutant sentiment in his area had already been very present and he didn't really notice much of a change. While the church the Gurthrie's attend had moved a bit away from the fire and brimstone snake-handling of Sam's early childhood, their new pastor was insistent that M-Day was God's punishment for mutantkind's hubris.

Lila Cheney (TW Grooming)

When Sam was sixteen he saved up enough money for tickets to a Lila Cheney concert. His mother had driven him to the city for the show but was late picking him up, thus allowing Sam to be in the right place at the right time to step between the upcoming rockstar and a would-be assailant. Lila ignored Sam’s protestations of “it was just the right thing to do,” and “I have work in the morning,” and insisted on paying him back somehow, in a manner that was decidedly flirtatious. Lila insisted on at least buying him a drink, when Sam told her that he wasn’t twenty-one, she said that she didn’t care and neither would a bartender with all that height and muscle. Before Sam left the bar Lila slipped her number into his pocket and kissed him. Sam returned home enjoying how grown-up Lila made him feel, and feeling extremely flattered that out of everyone in the world one of his favorite musicians picked him. For Sam’s eighteenth birthday Lila bought him his first smartphone. His younger siblings would try to steal it or get him to take pictures of them with it which made him nauseous for reasons he wouldn’t fully realize until he was twenty-one. In the months leading up to the mine accident (explained below), Sam and Lila’s relationship had become strained as a result of the distance and Lila’s penchant for thievery and substance use. After the mine collapse when Sam was 19, he broke it off with Lila because he didn’t think she’d like him anymore due to his injuries and because his life was so different now.

Lila Cheney (currently 29) is a London-born rock musician with the power of intergalactic teleportation which she would use to aid in her habit of thievery. After having gained fame from her rock career with her band, Cats Laughing, Lila became involved with an intergalactic human trafficking ring (with the goal of supplying them with Earth's entire population). Lila's relationship with Sam was built not just on the fact that she was four years older than him, but also in the power imbalance created by her fame and wealth. During their relationship Lila would write a song, "Sam," about Sam and would promise him that the song was just for him, but recorded it in secret- it became an overnight sensation.

Thomas Guthrie's Death and Manifestation of Powers

Within three months of M-Day, Thomas Guthrie would die. Following his father's death Sam would officially take up Thomas' job at the mine when it was offered to him out of courtesy due to Sam having "filled in" for his father for a little over a year at this point. Sam became heavily involved in the union, like his father before him, and would work long hours- sometimes unnecessarily so. While Sam wanted to take care of his siblings and help his mother as much as possible, he was also a young man who viewed family as a burden and something to run from and would try to find ways to do so while still providing for them- he was extremely grateful for his father's best friend, Lewis, who also worked in the mines and stepped up to act as a father figure for him. At the age of 19, Sam had taken a weekend shift at the mine with Lewis, when an improperly set explosive resulted in a tunnel collapse. During the collapse Sam realized that not only had he seriously injured his left shoulder but Lewis was non-responsive. He was wracked with guilt over having been the one to improperly set the explosive and thus having caused Lewis' injuries. His powers manifested as he tried to dig them out of the rubble- and he was able to blast them out of the collapsed mine shaft.

Arrival at the Mansion

The whole town was mystified when Sam and Lewis were able to escape the collapsed mine. Sam remained close-lipped about the experience fearing the experience of having the entire community turn their backs on not just him but his family. Once Lewis was conscious again he would tell everyone about Sam's quick thinking with a second blast to clear a way out for them, and how brave he was to ensure Lewis' safety as well during the escape. Sam would only tell his mother the truth in secret while he thought his siblings were sleeping, and things were tense between them for a few days until she came to the conclusion that anything that kept her son alive couldn't be that bad. While recovering from his injuries, Sam was approached by Charles Xavier and asked to come back to the institute. Despite feeling guilty over leaving his family, Sam took the chance to have a life of his own and agreed to go with the X-Men.

Muir Island and Adulthood

Once at Muir Island Sam elected to focus on learning to use and control his powers, and to try to have a normal life unburdened by the responsibility of caring for his family. He was naturally disheartened when many of his letters to his siblings (especially to younger brother Jay) went unanswered, but was also overjoyed at the possibility of getting to exist as a young person for the first time in his life. Once he felt comfortable in the knowledge that he wouldn't accidentally destroy anything if he returned to the states, he moved to New York to try to start his adult life. Because he did not join a team or attend university, Sam found work bartending at Kirby's in District X- he sends about a third of his paycheck back to his mother to help care for his siblings still, and tries to visit his family whenever possible. He lives in a small one bedroom apartment within District X. Sam has been considering pursuing a degree in sociology but is torn between going back to Kentucky or staying in New York to achieve that goal. He began volunteering at the community center in August 2023.

A Haven to Call Home and X-Factor Investigations

During the events of A Haven to Call Home, District X flooded. Having grown up around flooding in the hollers of Kentucky, Sam was quick to rush to the aid of his community along with newfound friend Alani Ryan. He spent most of the next two weeks rescuing people, moving supplies, and sleeping in the community center. He moved to the mansion in November of 2023 and almost immediately gained employment at X-Factor Investigations.

Physical Characteristics

Sam Guthrie is tall and lanky, never having outgrown the gangliness that comes with growing too tall too fast. He keeps his hair longer on top and pushes it back with goggles

Height: 6'0"

Build: Sam might be lean looking but it's all muscle.

Eyes: blue/grey

Hair: blond

Other Features: (piercings, tattoos, scars, tails, horns, wings etc) burn scar on his left shoulder and bicep as a result of the mining incident that caused his powers to manifest, gold hoop earring in left earlobe

Powers

Cannonball can generate thermo-chemical energy and release it from his skin in energy blasts. He can use these energy blasts to propel his body through the air at great speeds and heights. After much practice he also learned to maneuver himself while in the air. Originally Sam could only release these blasts from his feet, but can now generate them from any part of his body. Not only can this energy be used to propel Sam's body through the air, but he can also create blast fields (a force field that can be used as a shield to protect himself or others and also can be formed around someone to imprison them). As a result of the field of energy surrounding his body when using his powers, Sam possessed superhuman durability.

When struggling to push down his claustrophobia, Sam often finds himself unable to release energy blasts from anywhere but his feet. Sam can generate blast fields without propelling himself through the air but it takes all of his concentration, leaving him vulnerable to attack. Sam's powers cannot generate breathable air which puts him at a disadvantage underwater and in space. Sam can only sustain himself while flying for two hours at a time, at a top speed of 40mph, and only up to 10,000 feet above sea level.

Equipment

Aviator's goggles.

Trivia

At work he always cards everyone, even his regulars, because he doesn’t want to be complicit in what happened to him. He is constantly looking out for younger mutants.

Sam wants to fix his relationship with his younger siblings but isn’t sure how to explain all of the reasons he left. He knows that he became a father to his younger siblings (especially Jay, Melody, Joelle, Elizabeth, Jebediah, Cissie, and Lewis)- but is unsure on how to communicate to them that he never wanted to be their dad, but that he doesn’t regret it either.

He has a constant need to prove himself, especially after having moved north where his accent marks him as "other" and is often the reason that others think less of him and his intelligence. He knows that as a result of his upbringing that he has a lot of work to do on himself, and strives not to make that anyone else's problem.

Sam operates under the classic Appalachian sentiment of “if I’m not willing to fight you then I don’t respect you,” but most people just assume he’s a hot head.

As a result of the mine collapse, Sam suffers from claustrophobia (which he tries to hide)- this affects him not just in small, dark spaces but also in crowded places like cities.

He talks a lot without really saying all that much.

Sam hasn't told anybody about his relationship with Lila Cheney, not even his family.

External Links

Links to the tags for each character in xp_communication, xp_logs and xp_journal.

xp_communication

xp_journal posts

xp_logs

Plots

2023

Meta

Player: Mari

E-mail: MariEmail.png

Player Icon Base: Louis Hoffman


Meta Trivia

I'm excited to be playing Sam because as an Appalachian person let me be the first to tell you that whatever Claremont wrote is not how we talk.

I am also excited to get to have Sam process his relationship with Lila in a way he's never been allowed to in the comics, particularly as a CSA survivor myself.

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