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Samara Morgan | The Ring
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Samara Morgan | The Ring
Fandom: The Ring
Character Notes:
History:
Even before her birth, Samara's life was really freaking screwed up. Her birth mother was mentally ill herself and suffered from extreme postpartum depression, during which she attempted to drown Samara. She claimed that the baby herself had told her to; that she was possessed by an evil spirit and that death was the only way to save her. Whether this is actually true or not is, like many other things surrounding Samara, never definitively determined-- personally, my guess is that she wasn't (because, after all, death ended up making her WORSE rather than better) and that she was just a severely mentally ill little girl, no demons or possessions involved.
Of course, as anyone who's ever seen the film knows, her mental illness was far from the only problem. Samara possessed the ability of projected thermography, meaning that she could project or record images from her own mind onto other surfaces (such as paper, or a videotape), or into other peoples' minds. It's never fully clear whether or not she can control her powers, though evidence leans toward "no". When asked by a psychiatrist how she made some unsettling pictures, she answered, "I don't make them, I see them-- and then they just... are". This ability caused her adoptive mother (Anna) a great deal of distress, because she would see disturbing visions whenever she was near Samara. Her adoptive father (Richard Morgan) moved Samara into a little room above the family's horse barn in hopes that not being around her so much would stop Anna's visions, but unfortunately, it had the same affect on the horses-- they were driven insane, and would jump into the water and drown themselves. Eventually, Richard had both Samara and his wife committed to a mental hospital, in the hopes that the doctors there would be able to help them.
Neither distance nor doctors were able to help the family's problems. Soon after her eighth birthday, while on vacation in Washington state, Samara was killed by her mother. First she attempted to smother her with a plastic bag, but when Samara struggled, she hit her over the head with a brick and threw her into a well. There Samara survived for seven days, all the while attempting to climb out. After her death, a vacation cabin was built over the well where she died, and her spirit used her projective thermography to create a cursed videotape that kills anyone who watches it after seven days unless they spread her story and her message by showing it to someone else.
Personality:
First off, Samara is WEIRD. Her voice and mannerisms are flat and expressionless, and she rarely, rarely, RARELY shows any sort of emotion. This doesn't just appear to be due to an attempt to hide her feelings, either-- either the emotions themselves or the means of expressing them just aren't really there. Despite her many issues, however, she is still a child, and she shows some bursts of affection here and there (she's quoted a few times talking about how she "loves [her] mommy"). Still, while these sentiments aren't unnecessarily insincere, they're subject to the same lack of expression and enthusiasm as everything else in her life.
After her death, she's a bit different. She becomes incredibly angry and vengeful, seeking to cause as much suffering as possible because of the extremely unhappy way in which she lived and died. While in life she doesn't seem particularly malicious (her powers are, of course, but again, it's never indicated that she has much control over them), her spirit definitely is after she's killed. She also very much wants her voice to be heard, which is where the idea of the cursed videotape comes in.
Samara Morgan | The Ring
If accepted, I'll use information from The Ring 2 (the sequel) for background and additional information purposes, but (at least at first) the actual storyline itself won't come into play because I'll take her from before her death. I'll also be having her keep the memories and experiences from the last time I played her here, which means her timeline will be pretty much borked because the Joker broke her out of the institution she was being kept in. If it ever gets back on track enough for her to end up dying in the same way that she did in canon, then I'll start moving through the movie(s).
A lot of fans of the film(s) like to refer to her as a sociopath, though I personally think she fits the criteria of someone with Schizoid personality disorder much better. IDK THAT WAS KIND OF RANDOM and probably wouldn't actually crop up ICly, but I'm an ~*amateur psychology*~ buff and thought I'd throw it in there. Sob.
Additional Links:
Wikipedia's article on The Ring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_%282002_film%29)
Samara Morgan | The Ring
My nose was bleeding again today. Too many shocks. They said it's going to make me better and it doesn't hurt, but it feels funny. Tingly. Now there's blood on my gown.
The doctors always want to talk. They ask stupid questions. I don't like to answer stupid questions. They took away my paper because they don't like my pictures. I don't like the doctors. Does that mean someone's going to take them away?
I want to see my mommy. I know she's here. Daddy put us both here, but he only wants to take her back.
The doctors think they can make it stop, but Daddy doesn't. Daddy knows it won't ever stop.
Third Person:
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Samara had been watching the clock for two hours and fifty-nine minutes.
There wasn't much else to do in her small, bare little room at the hospital, but she didn't mind. She liked it better when she was alone with the camera that they didn't think she knew about, the bed that she never slept in, and the clock that she'd watch for hours on end. When the doctors came to get her for interviews, or sponge baths, or electroshock therapy, they asked her all kinds of questions but never answered her own-- at least, not very well. They didn't know how to give the right answers. And it was always the same, day after day after day. Samara didn't get bored or lonely in the same way at most people did, but even she wasn't always fond of such mindless repetition.
The clock was different, though. The clock was interesting. It didn't ask questions, or shout and yell, or get upset when she thought about not-so-pretty things. It was repetitive, but in a nice way. Samara liked that.
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Hour three.
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