Samantha Arias (Reign)

# Reign

## Samantha Arias

Reign

*Description Here ~ Tara*

## History

### Early Life

Samantha was born on the planet of Krypton before its destruction, but this was not known to her. Instead, she believed she was born to father James Arias and mother Patricia Arias. When arriving on Earth as an infant, she never showed any signs of extraordinary abilities. She had a relatively normal childhood up until age twelve where her father was killed in a car accident with a drunk driver. The loss of James hit Patricia hard, though not as hard as it hit their daughter. Although Patricia tried her best as a single mother, Sam became unruly. She started sneaking out at night and made friends with the wrong crowd that introduced her to all the wrong ways to cope. Throughout her teenage years, Sam was experimenting with different drugs from weed to heroin and even getting drunk. She met a boy she really liked named David at age sixteen, though that was when reality hit Sam.

Sam and David became more serious in their relationship when Sam hit seventeen. After a night alone in their hideout at a junkyard on the outskirts of National City, Samantha discovered she was pregnant with David's child. And after she had revealed the news to him, he fled. Sam had to break the news to her mother alone, who then kicked her out for being so irresponsible and having complete disregard for Patricia's rules while living under her roof.

With nowhere else to go, Sam moved into a homeless shelter to give herself a temporary roof over her head so she could figure out what the plan was for herself and her unborn baby. While living at the shelter, she started working any odd-jobs that would hire a pregnant woman. It took several months of exhausting labor before she had a small apartment and the bare necessities to take care of her newborn daughter. The first moment Sam held Ruby in her arms, she knew her life had changed forever. She was going to make certain she was a better single mother to her baby girl than her own mother had been to her. So saving up whatever was left from each paycheck, Samantha started setting up a college fund for herself.

Within just a couple years, Sam was majoring in business and financial management classes. By the time she was twenty-four, she had a master's degree and went on the hunt for a more meaningful career. It was at that time that she submitted an application into LexCorp as a financial officer, and found herself hired within days by the president's younger sister, Lena Luthor.

Lena and Sam hit it off immediately. When Lena learned of Sam's rough upbringing, she admired her for being able to turn her life around for both herself and her daughter. And when meeting Ruby for the first time, Lena was able to see what an amazing little girl she was and how great a mother Sam was despite her personal struggles. Because of this, Lena made sure Sam was well treated. Sam was paid more than she imagined by Lena directly for acting as both a financial officer and personal assistant to Lena Luthor. And when Lena broke off to create LuthorCorp, Sam's salary was nearly doubled for doing half the work, joining the company as the Chief Financial Officer while Lena found a new assistant.

Life was finally going well for Sam. Though, of course, it couldn't last. When Lena was struggling to find new test subjects for her experiments, Sam volunteered under the belief that the effects of each experiment would only be temporary. Lena had stolen all the files from her brother Lex that related to the numerous Kryptonian clones he created. Everything from their genetic makeup to their unique abilities. These were all things Lena studied very closely, in hopes of duplicating the powers given and creating a drug that could allow humans to defend themselves against hostile alien invaders. Because Lena had given her so many opportunities to succeed in life where others had not, Sam felt obligated to take on the challenge. So Sam offered herself as a lab rat to test the new serums being made to duplicate different types of unique superpowers.

To make sure that the new genetic mutations would be accepted by Sam's body, Lena infused the drugs with dark matter to help them temporarily bond with Sam's DNA. At first, everything seemed to go according to plan. The powers faded after a few minutes, and Sam returned to normal. But in reality, the powers didn't fade out. They instead laid dormant, waiting to be awakened again. Each dose of dark matter-filled cocktails began to awaken something darker inside of Sam. Something neither of the geniuses could prepare for. Something not of this world, and evil to its core.

One night, as Sam was asleep, her subconscious mind picked up on cries for help echoing out from the alley outside her apartment complex. Sam's body sat up, but Sam was not in control. Instead, this was a new being. An abomination awakened by all the testing done by Lena Luthor. This new being had taken control of Sam's body and launched itself from the bedroom window, flying towards the victim's screams. Sam remembered nothing from that night, but the person she saved did. The news reports that aired on television the next morning discussed a shadowed vigilante with the powers of a god killing five attackers and allowing the witness to go free. This new entity gave itself the name of Reign, and it was a name National City would come to know well. She would make certain of it.

Reign had always been a part of Sam. From the day her pod was launched off the doomed planet Krypton, Reign had been sent to Earth with a purpose. Her creators, the Children of Juru, believed that she was the cure for another planet that was destined to be destroyed by its ignorant inhabitants. The prophecy foretold that Reign would purify the Earth of sin and set it on a course to eternally flourish under the control of the innocents. Though when her pod was put under stasis on the long journey to the foreign planet, the Purifier personality was forced into a dormant state. So when the pod finally landed on Earth, it was not Reign that awoke to a new family, but rather, the alter ego that came to be named Samantha by her new parents. With decades of her destiny having been delayed, she intends to make up for lost time by removing the Earth's corrupted 'heroes' and achieving her goal of eradicating all sin once and for all.

## Powers and Abilities

### Reign's Skills

* **Bilingualism**
* **Expert combatant and strategist**
* **Voice imitation**
* **Intimidation**

### Sam's Skills

* **High-level intellect**
* **Experienced cook**
* **Maternal Instincts**
* **Able to improvise in stressful situations**

### Powers (When Reign is in Control)

* Dark matter eye lasers
* Superhuman strength,
* Superhuman speed,
* Superhuman durability,
* Flight
* Accelerated healing (not instantaneous, takes several hours to recover rather than seconds or minutes)
* Adaptability to toxic substances, building a resistance through prolonged exposure
* Electrosynthesis, allowing Reign's body to be self sufficient in supplying its own power source
* Extreme heat and cold resistance, but not immunity
* Enhanced hearing and smell
* Accelerated perception
* Sonic scream
* Retractable claws (same manner as Sabertooth, not Wolverine)
* Telepathic resistance, not immunity

### Weaknesses

* **Highly concentrated Kryptonite:** Since a lot of Reign's powers originate from cloned Kryptonian DNA, she also inherited a weakness to Kryptonite. However, the longer she is exposed to it, the less effective it becomes over time. Only highly concentrated doses will be effective enough to kill her.
* **She's half human:** If you're able to get through to Sam's psyche and draw her back into control of her body, the powers are quick to fade and render her entirely human, making her susceptible to normal damage and taking away her combative knowledge. A nearly guaranteed way to exploit this weakness is placing Ruby in a position of danger, immediately triggering Sam's motherly instincts and allowing her to take back control from Reign to protect her daughter.
* **Other heavy hitters:** Reign is not invincible and can still be hurt by other beings as strong or stronger than her. She can be overpowered just like any other foe.
* **Magic or sorcery:** is an element that Reign has no answer to. She will try to outsmart or overpower the magician but she has no way of protecting herself against spells.