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droppinnoeavesUser Name/Nick: Hats
User DW: n/a
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: @thehats.plurk
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Taylor Hebert
Character Name: Samwise Gamgee
Series: Lord of the Rings
Age: 62 (approximate human equivalent: early 40s)
From When?: From during his visit to Gondor in the year 21 (Fourth Age).
Warden Justification:
Sam is a man of service, strength, and hope. While he's always taken pride in the first of these, learning that the second two were true was a long, hard road, one where he's finally on the last downhill slope. He understands the struggle in being taken out of the place you expected to occupy in the world, taught a new way to perceive yourself, and set back down no longer quite fitting. He's also faced temptation, he's killed and he's wanted to kill, and he's overcome those things. He's consciously aware of these struggles as tools, and will use them for any inmate. He's also been a leader of his people, elected precisely because of his dedication to recovery.
Item:
A broach of a green glass leaf, wound around with silver. It shows flickers of vision, and tugs towards his inmate when he's trying to find them.
Abilities/Powers:
Sam has no magic or powers, but his sight and hearing are a little keener than a human's, especially in the dusk, and he's surprisingly good at being silent and discreet. Very good aim throwing rocks. Master of potatoes.
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies:
Sam is older now, and he has steadied in many ways with the tremendous trust that he has been shown by his community, his friends, and his family.
He'll take his role as warden seriously, and treat it the way he did being Frodo's gardener. Cultivation here, ruthless weeding there. Sometimes you have to know which branches to cut to kill the root breaking the foundation, and sometimes you have to plant the right things together so they all grow better. And sometimes there's an awful dangerous quest but that's still part of the duty. The only things he's ever heard about imprisonment or prisons have been vicious, unfair, and terrible, so he understands 'warden' to mean much more of 'caretaker' than 'jailer' anyway. He will love whoever he is ultimately paired with, in the end, because it isn't in Samwise to serve and not love.
That love is one of his strengths – it isn't infatuation, it doesn't blind him from seeing the flaws, but it convinces him irrevocably that the person in question is capable of coming back from any error, outgrowing any stunting. It's faith, and it's the trade of trust for trust. His stubbornness is less weakness than it was before – Sam has grown more able to accept challenges to his preferred order of things, and will only dig his heels in when he thinks something truly important is in jeopardy.
His greatest weakness now as a warden will likely be that he is going to be deeply lonely here. He has a large family at home, and will miss them to distraction. It may make him vulnerable to certain kinds of manipulation, as well as impatient for his Deal.
Inmates who'd be best for him are those who have a lot of internal justifications for why the things they've been doing are the best path for everyone, rather than those who just put themselves first. Active malice is another thing that would be a problem for him – he's less contemptuous than he would have been in his youth, but would struggle to show them the trust that he's sure is the key to their path forward.
Deal: While Sam was in Gondor, he received word of a forest fire in the Shire, one that destroyed many homes and the Brandywine dam, flooding enough farmland that this will be a hard winter for many. He wants that fire undone.
History: Wiki. See also the timeline below at the link.
Sample Network Entry:
Video
[Samwise remembers the comms tablet, and when he finds it in the uncomfortably empty copy of Bag End, he only carries it around for a little while before he sets it up. He sits at his work-worn desk the way he always did to listen to folk's troubles, with his hands folded in front of himself.]
Well, I'm back. I don't hope any of you'll remember me, but I was 'ere a spell ago. More'n twenty years, my count. My name is Samwise the G- Samwise Gamgee.
Don't know 'ow the Admiral knew I was needin', but he's seen fit to let me come back. I'll be workin' in the kitchen if you'll 'ave me, and jus' see if you can stop me workin' in the gardens.
[He starts to reach forward to turn it off, but pauses, and folds his hands again.]
If any of you do know me, a few familiar faces would be right lovely. New ones too, if anyone wants to come by. I'll be havin' a welcome dinner, table's plenty big.
Sample RP:
Sam's been cooking all his life. Never what you call fancy, nothing fine like he's eaten in Gondor or with the elves or even that strange cottage in the old forest, but hearty fare, the sort to fill a belly and let you work all day. As a hobbitling, he did for himself and his old Gaffer after his sisters and brothers all moved away, and cooked sometimes for dear Frodo so he'd be sure he had a hot meal. And then he married Rosie, and found delight in cooking for her and beside her. And then the children came, and it takes two to cook for thirteen. Bag End's kitchen with its long wooden sideboards and the broad common table might be his favorite place in all the world.
The Barge's kitchen, despite its miracles of refrigerator and hot tap, is not. The steel surfaces make him cold just to look at them, and they're no good for kneading bread.
But cooking is cooking, and while Sam stirs stew in the cast iron pot on the hearth tucked into a back corner, he can almost imagine that the soft hum of conversation in the dining room is the chatter of his own family. Pretend that he isn't here alone, again. He clears his throat, and tastes the stew from a spoon. It's fine, but he looks around to see who's near anyway.
“Can you 'and me some of that sumac?” he asks, simply for the sake of cooking with another soul again.
Special Notes: Sam has been here before! Some of this app is copy-pasted, for he has not changed hugely since his last pull point, but I've made sure to highlight where he has. It's been over twenty years, and he's at the midway point of his life. The events of the fire and dam-burst are headcanon, to give him a deal to reach for. Canon touches the broad points of his life after Frodo leaves, but only really births, deaths, and very notable events. I'll be filling it in more as I go.
User DW: n/a
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: @thehats.plurk
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Taylor Hebert
Character Name: Samwise Gamgee
Series: Lord of the Rings
Age: 62 (approximate human equivalent: early 40s)
From When?: From during his visit to Gondor in the year 21 (Fourth Age).
Warden Justification:
Sam is a man of service, strength, and hope. While he's always taken pride in the first of these, learning that the second two were true was a long, hard road, one where he's finally on the last downhill slope. He understands the struggle in being taken out of the place you expected to occupy in the world, taught a new way to perceive yourself, and set back down no longer quite fitting. He's also faced temptation, he's killed and he's wanted to kill, and he's overcome those things. He's consciously aware of these struggles as tools, and will use them for any inmate. He's also been a leader of his people, elected precisely because of his dedication to recovery.
Item:
A broach of a green glass leaf, wound around with silver. It shows flickers of vision, and tugs towards his inmate when he's trying to find them.
Abilities/Powers:
Sam has no magic or powers, but his sight and hearing are a little keener than a human's, especially in the dusk, and he's surprisingly good at being silent and discreet. Very good aim throwing rocks. Master of potatoes.
Wardening Strategies and Philosophies:
Sam is older now, and he has steadied in many ways with the tremendous trust that he has been shown by his community, his friends, and his family.
He'll take his role as warden seriously, and treat it the way he did being Frodo's gardener. Cultivation here, ruthless weeding there. Sometimes you have to know which branches to cut to kill the root breaking the foundation, and sometimes you have to plant the right things together so they all grow better. And sometimes there's an awful dangerous quest but that's still part of the duty. The only things he's ever heard about imprisonment or prisons have been vicious, unfair, and terrible, so he understands 'warden' to mean much more of 'caretaker' than 'jailer' anyway. He will love whoever he is ultimately paired with, in the end, because it isn't in Samwise to serve and not love.
That love is one of his strengths – it isn't infatuation, it doesn't blind him from seeing the flaws, but it convinces him irrevocably that the person in question is capable of coming back from any error, outgrowing any stunting. It's faith, and it's the trade of trust for trust. His stubbornness is less weakness than it was before – Sam has grown more able to accept challenges to his preferred order of things, and will only dig his heels in when he thinks something truly important is in jeopardy.
His greatest weakness now as a warden will likely be that he is going to be deeply lonely here. He has a large family at home, and will miss them to distraction. It may make him vulnerable to certain kinds of manipulation, as well as impatient for his Deal.
Inmates who'd be best for him are those who have a lot of internal justifications for why the things they've been doing are the best path for everyone, rather than those who just put themselves first. Active malice is another thing that would be a problem for him – he's less contemptuous than he would have been in his youth, but would struggle to show them the trust that he's sure is the key to their path forward.
Deal: While Sam was in Gondor, he received word of a forest fire in the Shire, one that destroyed many homes and the Brandywine dam, flooding enough farmland that this will be a hard winter for many. He wants that fire undone.
History: Wiki. See also the timeline below at the link.
Sample Network Entry:
Video
[Samwise remembers the comms tablet, and when he finds it in the uncomfortably empty copy of Bag End, he only carries it around for a little while before he sets it up. He sits at his work-worn desk the way he always did to listen to folk's troubles, with his hands folded in front of himself.]
Well, I'm back. I don't hope any of you'll remember me, but I was 'ere a spell ago. More'n twenty years, my count. My name is Samwise the G- Samwise Gamgee.
Don't know 'ow the Admiral knew I was needin', but he's seen fit to let me come back. I'll be workin' in the kitchen if you'll 'ave me, and jus' see if you can stop me workin' in the gardens.
[He starts to reach forward to turn it off, but pauses, and folds his hands again.]
If any of you do know me, a few familiar faces would be right lovely. New ones too, if anyone wants to come by. I'll be havin' a welcome dinner, table's plenty big.
Sample RP:
Sam's been cooking all his life. Never what you call fancy, nothing fine like he's eaten in Gondor or with the elves or even that strange cottage in the old forest, but hearty fare, the sort to fill a belly and let you work all day. As a hobbitling, he did for himself and his old Gaffer after his sisters and brothers all moved away, and cooked sometimes for dear Frodo so he'd be sure he had a hot meal. And then he married Rosie, and found delight in cooking for her and beside her. And then the children came, and it takes two to cook for thirteen. Bag End's kitchen with its long wooden sideboards and the broad common table might be his favorite place in all the world.
The Barge's kitchen, despite its miracles of refrigerator and hot tap, is not. The steel surfaces make him cold just to look at them, and they're no good for kneading bread.
But cooking is cooking, and while Sam stirs stew in the cast iron pot on the hearth tucked into a back corner, he can almost imagine that the soft hum of conversation in the dining room is the chatter of his own family. Pretend that he isn't here alone, again. He clears his throat, and tastes the stew from a spoon. It's fine, but he looks around to see who's near anyway.
“Can you 'and me some of that sumac?” he asks, simply for the sake of cooking with another soul again.
Special Notes: Sam has been here before! Some of this app is copy-pasted, for he has not changed hugely since his last pull point, but I've made sure to highlight where he has. It's been over twenty years, and he's at the midway point of his life. The events of the fire and dam-burst are headcanon, to give him a deal to reach for. Canon touches the broad points of his life after Frodo leaves, but only really births, deaths, and very notable events. I'll be filling it in more as I go.
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Date: 2024-11-13 07:19 am (UTC)1380 - Samwise Gamgee born
1382 - The birth of Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry).
1389 - Frodo Baggins comes under the guardianship of Bilbo Baggins
1390 - The birth of Peregrin Took (Pippin).
1401 - Bilbo Baggins turns 111 and leaves the Shire. The One Ring passes to Frodo Baggins. Gandalf enlists Aragorn's help in tracking Gollum.
1402 - Bilbo settles in Rivendell.
April 12, 1418 - Gandalf returns to the Shire telling Frodo Baggins he must take the Ring away.
End of June, 1418 - Gandalf leaves the Shire for news in the south.
Mid-year's Day, 1418 - Gandalf writes a letter to Frodo from Bree.
September 23, 1418 - Four Ringwraiths enter the Shire before dawn. The others pursue the Rangers eastward and later return to watch. A Ringwraith arrives in Hobbiton at nightfall. Frodo, Sam, and Pippin leave Bag End.
September 24, 1418 - Hobbits meet and travel with Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod in Green-hill country.
September 25, 1418 - Hobbits spend the night at Crickhollow.
September 26, 1418 - Hobbits enter the Old Forest and find Tom Bombadil.
September 27, 1418 - Second night with Bombadil.
September 28, 1418 - The hobbits are captured by a Barrow-wight.
September 29, 1418 - The hobbits arrive at Bree at nightfall. Gandalf visits the Gaffer. Aragorn meets Frodo in the Inn of the Prancing Pony.
September 30, 1418 - Aragorn leaves Bree with Frodo and company and they pass through the Chetwood.
October 2, 1418 - Aragorn and the hobbits enter the Midgewater Marshes.
October 6, 1418 - The night at Weathertop. The Nazgûl locate Aragorn and the four hobbits. Frodo Baggins is stabbed by a Morgul blade.
October 13, 1418 - Aragorn and the hobbits cross the bridge.
October 18, 1418 - Frodo and company find the trolls that Bilbo met. Glorfindel finds Frodo in the afternoon.
October 20, 1418 - Escape beyond Bruinen.
October 24, 1418 - Frodo awakes in the House of Elrond at Rivendell with Gandalf at his side.
October 25, 1418 - Council of Elrond at Rivendell.
December 25, 1418 - The Fellowship of the Ring sets out in the evening.
January 8, 1419 - The Fellowship arrives in Hollin (Eregion).
January 11, 12, 1419 - Snow above Caradhras.
January 13, 1419 - Attack of wolves in the first hours of the day. The Fellowship arrives at the Doors of Durin by nightfall. Gollum begins to follow the traces of the Ring-bearer.
January 14, 1419 - Night in the Twenty-first Hall of Moria. Samwise kills his first orc.
January 15, 1419 - The Fellowship flees Moria after Gandalf falls from the Bridge of Khazad-dûm while fighting a Balrog.
January 17, 1419 - The Fellowship arrives at Caras Galadhon in the evening.
February 16, 1419 - Farewell to Lórien.
February 25, 1419 - The Fellowship passes by the Argonath and camps in Parth Galen.
February 26, 1419 - The Breaking of the Fellowship of the Ring. Death of Boromir; his horn is heard in Minas Tirith shortly before his death. Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took are captured. Frodo and Sam penetrate the east part of Emyn Muil. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli depart in pursuit of the Orcs by night.
February 29, 1419 - Merry and Pippin escape and find Treebeard. Frodo and Sam find Gollum.
March 1, 1419 - Frodo and Sam begin to cross the Dead Marshes at sunrise. Aragorn finds Gandalf, the White. They depart for Edoras.
March 2, 1419 - Frodo and Sam arrive at the end of the Marshes.
March 6, 1419 - Frodo, Sam and Gollum hide close to the Black Gate, and depart in twilight.
March 7 1419 - Battle of Ithilien, Frodo and Sam are taken by Faramir to Henneth Annûn.
March 8, 1419 - Frodo departs Henneth Annûn.
March 9, 1419 - Gandalf arrives at Minas Tirith. At twilight, Frodo, Sam and Gollum reach the Cross-roads. Arrival of Imrahil and men of the southern fiefs of Gondor in Minas Tirith. The darkness of Mordor begins to spread.
March 10, 1419 - Frodo, Sam and Gollum watch the Army leaving Minas Morgul.
March 11, 1419 - Gollum visits Shelob but, seeing Frodo sleeping, is almost sorry.
March 12, 1419 - Gollum takes Frodo to Shelob's lair.
March 13, 1419 - Frodo, after escaping Shelob's cave, is attacked by Shelob and poisoned. Gollum, who wants the One Ring, attacks Sam. Sam defeats him and Gollum escapes. Sam fights off Shelob, who flees wounded. Sam thinks that Frodo is dead and takes the One Ring. Frodo is captured by Orcs under the command of Shagrat and imprisoned in the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
March 14, 1419 - The Siege of Gondor. Minas Tirith is enclosed by Orc armies, who attack the city using catapults. The Nazgûl, under the command of the Witch-king of Angmar, mounted on their fellbeasts, attack the city from above. By nightfall, the powerful battering ram Grond tries to break the Great Gate of Minas Tirith.
March 15, 1419 - In the first hours of the day, Grond destroys the Gates of the City. Denethor, maddened, tries to burn himself and the wounded Faramir on a pyre. He orders his servants to bring him wood and oil. The horns of the Rohirrim are heard at dawn: Théoden and his army arrive to help Gondor, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields begins. Gandalf and Pippin save Faramir, but Denethor burns himself on the pyre. The Rohirrim break the siege lines, but Gothmog sends in Mordor's reserves. Haradrim legions arrive with Mûmakil, and the Rohirrim start to be pushed back. The Witch-king orders his fell beast to attack Théoden. He falls to the ground and his horse crushes him. Dernhelm (revealed to be Éowyn) attacks the Witch-king's Fellbeast, and slays it in a single strike. The Witch-king is then slain by her and by Meriadoc Brandybuck. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli arrive with men from southern Gondor and Mordor's army is defeated. Samwise rescues Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol. The two finally reach Mordor.
March 16, 1419 - Frodo observes Mount Doom.
March 19, 1419 - Frodo and Sam begin their journey to Mount Doom
March 22, 1419 - Frodo and Sam abandon the road and go directly across Gorgoroth to Mount Doom.
March 23, 1419 - Frodo and Sam get rid of their Orc armor disguise.
March 24, 1419 - Frodo and Samwise make their journey to the roots of Mount Doom.
March 25, 1419 - The Battle of the Morannon. The Army of the West is encircled by the much more numerous Orc army. While they fight, the eight remaining Nazgûl and their fellbeasts arrive, but the Eagles arrive to help, battling the Nazgûl and their fellbeasts. Frodo and Samwise, exhausted and starving, arrive at the Sammath Naur. Gollum, supposedly dead, reappears and attacks Frodo and Sam. Sam fights Gollum, who stays behind while Frodo, who enters the Cracks of Doom. When about to destroy the One Ring, Frodo stops, and puts on the Ring, claiming it as his own, and disappears. Sensing that the Ring is inside Mount Doom, Sauron's Eye looks there, and the surviving Nazgûl fly to Mount Doom. Gollum takes the One Ring, trips and falls into Mount Doom's lava, dying. The One Ring is destroyed. Sauron and his armies are destroyed. Frodo and Samwise are rescued from Mount Doom by Gandalf and the Eagles.
May 1, 1419 - Aragorn is crowned King Elessar of the Reunited Kingdom; Gandalf helps Aragorn to find the sapling of the new White Tree.
November 3, 1419 - Battle of Bywater in the Shire; death of Saruman and Wormtongue; the end of the War of the Ring.
Spring 1420 - Samwise Gamgee marries Rosie Cotton and together they move to Bag End. Sam begins replanting the trees and forests of the Shire.
March 24, 1421 - Birth of Elanor Gamgee, Sam's firstborn (of an eventual 13)
September 22, 1421 - Bilbo Baggins marks his 131st birthday, surpassing the Old Took.
September 29, 1421 - Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo and Bilbo depart from the Grey Havens and go to the Undying Lands. Frodo leaves Sam the Red Book of Westmarch and Bag End.
September 30, 1421 - First Barge visit canon pointOctober 6, 1421 - Samwise returns to Bag End.
1423 Sam's second child, a son named Frodo, was born.
1425 Sam's third child, a daughter named Rose, was born.
1427: Sam's fourth child, a son named Merry, was born.
Sam was named Mayor of Michel Delving.
1429 Sam's fifth child, a son named Pippin, was born.
1431 Sam's sixth child, a daughter named Goldilocks, was born.
1432 Sam's seventh child, a son named Hamfast, was born.
1433 Sam's eighth child, a daughter named Daisy, was born.
1434 King Aragorn named Sam a Counsellor of the North-kingdom.
1435 Sam's ninth child, a daughter named Primrose, was born.
1436 Sam's tenth child, a son named Bilbo, was born.
Aragorn visited Sam and gave him the Star of the Dunedain.
1438 Sam's eleventh child, a daughter named Ruby, was born.
1440 Sam's twelfth child, a son named Robin, was born.
1442 Sam's thirteenth child, a son named Tolman, was born.
Sam and Rosie visited Gondor.
1443 Lightning struck a forest fire in the Shire, damaging the Bywater dam and flooding much of the Shire's heart of farmland. ((Sam's pull point))
Sam and Rosie returned home from Gondor.Pairing Comment 11-25-2024
Date: 2024-11-26 12:17 am (UTC)Character Journal: droppinnoeaves
Status: Warden
Pairing Information:
Sam has been here before, and largely graduated Wu Xie through allowing him to grow where he needed to with gentle encouragement and friendship. But Wu Xie was an exceptionally easy inmate.
Sam is a father of 13, and he'd be the first to tell you that twelve of them are smarter than he is, and the thirteenth probably will be as soon as he's able to hold up his own head. But he's never felt over-matched by them. Sam has his own kind of intelligence, rooted in empathy and the urge to see things grow and flourish. He's also a gardener, and knows that pruning and weeding are needed to keep a thing healthy.
He'll be good for an inmate who needs to learn trust, as Sam is reliable to his bones. When he's handed a commitment, it becomes his whole objective until it can called complete. And to Sam, that commitment is indistinguishable from love.
But there are kinds of evil he cannot abide, and so inmates who seek to harm others not because of their own hurts, but just for greed won't be a good match for him.