Samantha Keys

> Sleeping on a counter is equivalent to being a barbarian?
>
> Sam Keys

**Samantha Keys** is a survivor of the Outbreak in The Walking Dead. She was a train conductor.

## Overview

Samantha Keys is a fairly energetic young lady, who finds strange things people say funny. She is also able to take certain things seriously, like when she talks about her parents and girlfriend’s deaths.

She also happens to be fairly empathetic, as evidenced when she felt really terrible about Sake Ikeda.

## Pre-Apocalypse

Very little is known about Sam pre-apocalypse. Outside of the fact she was a train conductor and had parents and a girlfriend.

## Post-Apocalypse

Early on in the apocalypse, Sam was not that careful and her parents died to save her and her girlfriend.

she and her girlfriend were trying to survive for the next two months, until her girlfriend sacrificed herself to save her. The crowbar Sam wields was her girlfriend’s weapon.

A month later, she new Seinosuke Ikeda’s who’s logic was kinda funny to her, so she decided to tag along with Seinosuke to the city of Naporia.

While in Naporia, Sam went to the bar where she met Sake Ikeda, Kiyoshi Akiyama, and Officer Smith. And after attempting to flirt with Sake, felt terrible when she realized that she had brought Suke to the same town as Sake, and not only that, they share the same house, inadvertently bringing a lot of stress to Sake.

Later, she met Samuel Wellington and asked him to make sure that Suke did not find out about the bar, and learned that Maira Jagirani and Simon Williamson were in the process of attempting a cure. So she left the town of Naporia.

While heading to Macon, she learned she was followed by Officer Smith, who refused to let her go alone. The two then went to the bar, and collected a lot of alcohol for Sake, while also clearing out the bar of walkers.

Whike heading to the van, Sam and Officer Smith discovered the zombified Matilda, who was Sam’s girlfriend and the person she hoped to save in a cure. But Matilda’s walker was too decayed, and Sam realized she was too late. With a heavy heart and many tears, Sam put down Matilda, and returned to Macon.

When she returned she met Melodie Dubois and the two went to the drugstore together to find Andrew Walker on the ground, having been pushed by the Walker Sabina Jagirani. Sam and Melodie then tried to save Andrew while not killing the walker.

Samantha was sent to the small hospital to let Simon Williamson know that Sabina had been contained, which gave him the opportunity to tell Maira to send people to bring the walker to the containment unit

Samantha was not seen again until the Raid on Naporia where she had minimal involvement, as she was hiding in the bar until Saundra Sanders saved the bar group and now Samantha currently reisdes at Palm Bay with the other Naporia refugees.

Samantha is still alive in the timeskip, and was seen talking to Valentine Thompson about going on a supply run to South Carolina. Val accepted this suggestion.

## Killed Victims

* Numerous counts of zombies

* Matilda (zombified)

## Relationships

### Seinosuke Ikeda

Seinosuke and Sam have a decent relationship. While they initial seemed to dislike each other, with Sam sleeping on a counter, which was not normal, she and Seinosuke decided to stick together as they hadn’t seen other people in over a month, the two decided to head to the city of Naporia.

### Sake Ikeda

Sam and Sake have a slightly rocky relationship. Sam did initially try to flirt with Sake, and drank some whiskey, but quickly felt terrible when she realized that Sake was Seinosuke’s sister, and learning how bad their relationship was. Sam felt terrible that she was accidentally bringing some inadvertent stress to Sake, and offering to get more alcohol for Sake to make up for it

## Trivia

* Samantha is one of five characters with a nickname, in her case being Sam, the other four being Seinosuke Ikeda, Richard Spencer, Rhett Slicers Casket, and Samuel Wellington.
* Sam is so far the only person with a named weapon, that being her crowbar, who she named “**Matilda**”