Samson Arkhewer

Biography: The youngest surviving son of Solomon of Clan Netzer, the self-styled Sorcerer King, Sam was raised with violence and pain. Though Solomon took his blindness to be a sign of Sam’s uselessness, Sam was allowed to explore his interests in torture and harm as he grew up, learning what he could of magic from his father and siblings, and figuring the rest out for himself. Sam had a complicated relationship with his surviving siblings, and when they were all sent away, he found himself alone with his father and rapidly realized that the two of them couldn’t coexist for long. With the help of a prisoner, Sam usurped his father and became the Sorcerer King himself, binding himself to a magical stone that amplifies his power in the process. Now he’s inherited an empire of schemes and plots, not to mention a world where roads and taxes matter more than he thought, and he’d really rather just go back to skinning people alive and feeding them to bears.

Notes:


 * Sam has lived in Ech’kent since he was three years old, but doesn’t consider himself as being from there, and nor does he speak the native language of Chez’n
 * Sam knows that other families don’t work like his did, but he believes that’s because he and his family are the only ones who were honest about what they were like
 * Sam never knew his mother; the closet referent he has to that is his oldest sister Sylvia
 * Sam is aware of the possibility—likelihood—that Solomon had other children in his sojourns out of the castle, but won’t seriously consider the potential ramifications of it
 * Sam’s past relationship with his siblings wasn’t as negative as he remembers; they fought and hurt each other, but they also loved each other. But Sam’s memory is dominated by negatives
 * Sam has never intentionally hurt an animal. He doesn’t believe animals have feelings or feel pain like humans do, and doesn’t see the point of hurting something that can’t understand it is being hurt
 * Sam cannot conceive of the way Solomon treated him as abuse, because abuse happens to people who are weak. Similarly, he won’t think of himself as the recipient of sexual abuse or assault, because his father only ever threatened to have him raped by guards (but did not follow through), and because the girls he was expected to have sex with were servants and prisoners, weaker than Sam
 * Sam believes that people are lying to him, mocking him or plotting against him by default
 * Sam is easily overwhelmed by crowds of people, noise, new information and sudden changes in his life, and often needs to take breaks to process information
 * Sam doesn’t believe himself to be capable of emotions like joy or love

Quotes:


 * “I’m not going to hurt you, if that makes it less frightening.”
 * “I break everything I touch, Henry. I will destroy you. I will take everything that you are and I will grind it into nothing, until you are nothing but what I want you to be. I was planning to do that anyway, but you’ve made it easier. You can use me and it won’t hurt me, but me using you will be the end of you, because I will use you until you fall to pieces.”
 * “I raped him, if you want to be pedantic.”
 * “It’s a day for celebration. You know what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.”
 * “If I torture and maim all my subjects in the first week of my reign, who am I going to torture and maim next week?”
 * “Maybe I’m hurting you to make myself less afraid. Maybe that’s why I’ve always hurt people.”
 * “No!”
 * “A knife? Why?”
 * “I remember when you used to think I was a monster.”
 * “Can you…will you take the collar off? Please?”
 * “What’s her name?”
 * “If you’re going to make idle threats, at least don’t make stupid ones.”
 * “Some people like gardening. I like hurting people.”

Trivia:


 * Sam’s earliest memory is Sylvia singing to him
 * Sam first killed someone when he was five years old and throwing a tantrum. He threw his maid out a window without realizing it
 * Sam used to be quite close with some of his no-longer-living siblings. He barely remembers them now
 * Sam’s sexual education outside of dry details about procreation from his tutor came entirely from his brother Saul and a few things he was told by the girls his father sent to have sex with him. He therefore trusts very little of what he knows
 * The only trait Solomon ever really encouraged in Sam was his propensity for violence, which is now one of the only things Sam genuinely enjoys
 * Sam started torturing people seriously at the age of eight, beginning with a servant boy named Riley
 * The first time Sam masturbated to completion was a full-day event of touching himself for a few minutes at a time, culminating in him eventually making a mess on his own face and accidentally breaking his window
 * Sam used to enjoy having Sarah read him books as a child
 * When he had nightmares as a boy, Sam would often sleep in Saul’s bed. Neither of them ever spoke about it after
 * Sam used to steal the castle guards’ swords and hide them in his room. He still has a few lying around

Modern AU: Modern Sam is the son of a mob boss who has recently inherited both the mob and the pharmaceutical company that fronts it, and has discovered that though he thought he hated his tutors, he hates his board of directors more. Despite having also inherited a series of conflicts and plans that he previously knew nothing about, Sam is doing quite well at running the city’s organized crime, thanks in no small measure to his surprisingly competent partner. When he’s not dealing with company crap, having people quietly murdered, appearing on TV to salvage his family’s good name, raping or torturing someone for fun and/or profit or complaining to Henry about how hard his day was, Sam is usually either asleep, having an unnecessary bath, or plotting ways to make the people around him miserable.