Samantha Ribaldi

== General ==
Samantha Ribaldi is a former member of the Black Magic Club and daughter of Smokescreen. She is currently the leader of the Thaumaturgy Club, which split from the Black Magic Club run by her abusive ex boyfriend, Vic Toxic. The club’s name changed to the Thaumaturgy Club to avoid confusion with Vic’s club. She’s a senior at Big High for the 2020-2021 school year. 
Samantha takes no shit from anyone and won’t hesitate to let anyone know. “Sharp” and “cold” are words often used to describe her. Personal boundaries are a thing she’s learned and enforced since her break-up. She tries to stay distant from most people to protect herself. However, she has started softening up some recently, at least in part due to her friendships with some members of Big Team. 
Samantha works at the Niccals Family Community Center, and sometimes helps out at the Drummond Home For Disadvantaged Teens. 
Samantha took on a curse to save her uncle Kenneth’s life in 2015. There was a bad lab accident in his AEGIS lab, and she used dark magic to make a pact in order to save her life, because he’s so important to her that she couldn’t lose him. She didn’t understand that in five years her own life would be forfeit, but she, Tiago, Greta, and Cambria found the being who Samantha made the pact with (a manticore named Locus in charge of an optical illusion dimension) and beat it in a game of tag to get rid of the curse.
== Appearance ==
Samantha usually wears black clothes; she’s a goth, what do you want? She has a spiderweb tattoo on her hand and uses really dark purple eyeshadow. She used to wear her hair in a bob cut, black with green streaks, but grew it out with magic after her breakup with Vic Toxic. Now she rocks goth bangs. 
== Powers ==
Samantha has an affinity for magic, and has been learning it since she was a kid. Her first spell was a scrying spell to find a lost teddy bear, and it was successful. Scrying within a relatively close distance of herself is one of the easiest spells for her to do. Her magic manifests dark red. 
== Relationships  ==
Her father is the villain Smokescreen. Their relationship is tenuous. Samantha hates his villainous past, and how he dragged her whole family into it. While she does appreciate him as a dad -- his whole mafia like 'anything for the family' bit -- there isn’t a lot of love there. He's just her father, and Samantha has her own path now to follow (specifically, not being a villain and doing magic). There is a relationship there, and Smokescreen is making efforts to return to her life, but Samantha is hesitant, though hasn’t outright rejected the possibility. She comes to see him when he goes for medical treatment at the hospital. 
Kenneth Ribaldi, AKA the villain-turned AEGIS agent-turned hero (it’s complicated) Smoke, is her uncle. However, he’s been the prominent father figure in her life, so the two were very close, at least before he was revealed to be Smoke and sent to AEGIS prison. She felt incredibly betrayed by another close family member turning out to be a supervillain. However, Kenneth is also everything Smokescreen wasn't: there for her, supportive, kind, caring. Much more her dad than her actual dad. And Kenneth understands how much he hurt her, and is working to mend their relationship. Samantha has been slow to forgive, but it’s getting there. 
Samantha and her mom are close, especially after Kenneth’s arrest. Being the only two non-supervillains in the family does that. 
Aside from her several friends on Big Team (and ex-members of Big Team), Samantha is good friends with Joy. 
Tiago and Samantha almost dated during Season 4, but that never came to fruition after he got lost in time and forgot about their relationship. Saying she resents him for this might be an understatement. 
Samantha hates everyone involved with Vic Toxic and his club, but has an especially antagonistic relationship with Cambria. In her view, everyone who has been involved since she left is complicit in his abuse and villainy. This is a simplistic and not totally accurate view, but she’s not currently willing to budge on it. 
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