SamSwap

## Description

SamSwap was a lore event that took place during March 2021. It primarily revolves around Taylor and Mind, also known as Good Sam and Bad Sam. The SamSwap Event, in short, was a multiversal restructure that swapped all roles. For example, Samrule became Damrule while Prosecutor and Cake swapped gimmicks.

## Taylor and Mind

Taylor, also known as Good Sam, is the central protagonist of SamSwap. She’s the older sister of Sam Two, and was born during the 1970s. Taylor is mostly good-natured and gleeful, but uses this as a front to hide her traumatic experience of her family’s death.

This trauma manifests itself in Mind, also known as Bad Sam. Mind is the mental personification of Taylor’s grief and depression, and constantly torments her regarding the incident. Though he’s only a hallucination, Mind represents Taylor’s emotional state and is the driving force behind the events of SamSwap.

## Pre-Shift

During the 1970s, Prosecutor warps to the past and meets with a young Sam Two. After talking with him briefly, Prosecutor wanders off and Two goes to play in the street. His parents notice this, and rush out to get Two. Before anybody can react though, a coffin rips through time and causes a large explosion; killing everyone.

Dammy steps out of the coffin and sees the dead bodies, more specifically noticing Two. Feeling bad, he takes Two’s body and travels back through time into the Underwhere with him. Taylor, hearing the explosion, wakes up and wanders outside. She sees Prosecutor for a moment before he disappears, but ignores this. Taylor rushes to the street, only to see her parents deceased on the road. She hesitates for a moment in denial, and then cries out.

Timeskip forward several decades, and Taylor joins Samtwt on March 9th, 2021. She initially introduces herself as simply another Sam, and learns about the group. Taylor says that she heard Sam Two was in the group, though the other Sams tell her that Two has infortunately been long gone, much to Taylor’s grief.

Taylor tries to reside in Samtwt normally, but she is persistently confronted by Mind who reminds her of “the incident”. Taylor also has daily nightmares of her re-experiencing that day, which slowly makes her more anxious and depressed throughout the month.

Meanwhile, Mind tells Taylor about his “solution”. With the sheer amount of grief and emptiness Taylor feels from losing her family, Mind’s power exponentially increases to the point of him becoming one, if not the, most powerful force in the multiverse. Mind suggests to Taylor that they use this extraordinary power to alter reality itself in order to bring back her parents and Two.

Taylor initially ignores Mind’s suggestion due to it potentially hurting everyone else in the process, but the idea lurks in the back of her conscious. This tears away at her emotional state even further, bringing Taylor down to her lowest point. Here, Mind sees an opportunity to fully enwrap Taylor in grief and convince her to go through with the multiversal shifting plan.

Mind tells Taylor to speak with several other Sams consisting of Dammy, Prosecutor, and Cake. He suggests this under the guise of Taylor “confronting” her traumatic experiences, but really it only fuels her anxiety and regrets. Taylor agrees to this, and begins conversing with the three of them each about various topics.

With Dammy, Taylor asks him about Two and the Underwhere. He says that he rules over the latter, and Two stays there with him. Taylor’s a little relieved knowing that Two still technically exists, but he’s dead and in the Underwhere.

With Prosecutor, Taylor asks him about his involvement on the day her parents died. Prosecutor simply talks about the Temporal Arc, and him travelling across time and space. He warped in the past and then met Two. Taylor is slightly frustrated with the answer, and then goes to the last person she needs to talk to.

Mind suggests to Taylor that she asks Cake for a “memory projection” device, in order for Taylor to re-experience the events of that day and come to terms with it. She follows through, and asks Cake if his company can develop a technology like that. Cake sees what he can do.

Samiverse: Shattered Destinies then takes place, which you can read about on Cake Sam’s wiki. At the end of the arc, Cake talks about his newly finished memory device which somebody asked him to build, that being Taylor. She takes the device, wears it, and then turns it on.

Taylor experiences a flashback of her complete memory from that day. She watches as she sees her mom, dad, and Two all die in front of her from Dammy’s explosion. She relives running up to their bodies, as Prosecutor warps away. Taylor then awakes in a cold sweat. She looks back to Mind, and then agrees to the multiverse shift.

## Shift

Mind begins manifesting energy around himself, and then speaks a single word. “Shift”. The dark energy blasts from Mind, stretching across the multiverse and restructuring the foundation of reality itself. The concepts of the world are swapped, as the multiverse turns dark. This is the Damiverse, and the start of SamSwap.

Taylor awakes from the shift, seeing the rest of reality completely shifted and Mind gone. Hesitantly, she walks back to her childhood house. Nobody is there, which leaves her speechless. However, a knock on the door is heard. Taylor slowly opens it up, seeing her family standing at the porch.

With the multiverse restructured, the Samiverse (or, the Damiverse) is now fundamentally swapped. Sams had their roles switched with other Sams, losing almost all of their memories before the shift and now acting as their current roles. Though all Sams were swapped, the following is a list of Sams which actively participated in the SamSwap event or were shown / depicted as swapped during the lore.

• Sammy swapped with Dammy

• Prosecutor swapped with Cake

• Deception swapped with Impostor

• Edgelord swapped with Comedian

• Otherly swapped with Sus

• Ikea swapped with Doctor

• MicrowaveTree swapped with Clanka

• Spectator swapped with Developer

While they were all initially fine as their new roles, they experienced vague recollections and deja vu from the old Samiverse; such as Cake recognizing Sus despite not meeting him in this new reality. This was due to the restructured multiverse being unstable, which was no more prevalent than with Taylor and her family.

Taylor’s first few days with her family were great. She spent time with her mom, reconnected with her dad, and finally reunited with Two. However, the unstable reality messed some things up. Every now and then, Taylor’s mom or dad would die briefly and become a corpse, then returning back to normal in a few seconds while acting like nothing had happened.

Taylor tried to disregard these incidents, but Mind returned which indicated her unease and anxiety. Eventually, this culminated in Two permanently dying again and not waking up. The other Sams, slowly losing their minds from the unstable reality, began to ridicule and torment Taylor as well as she ran away.

Taylor then finally confronted Mind once again. He said that this reality was still better than the previous, stating that this world still had her family. Mind told Taylor that Two would get up eventually, but she was having none of it. Taylor finally realized in that moment that she needed to move on from her past, and turn to who she had now; Samtwt. Her friends. The new Damtwt was an imperfect version, being kept up by desires which have only tormented Taylor.

Mind, representing Taylor’s desires, tried desperately to keep the Damiverse in tact. But with Taylor’s new outlook on life, Mind’s own personified being couldn’t be sustained and he obliged to Taylor’s demands. With a snap of their fingers, Taylor and Mind restored the multiverse. The SamSwap reality had been reversed.

## Post-Shift

The Damiverse reverted back into the Samiverse, as everyone’s roles changed back to normal. Nobody was really sure what happened, since only small remnants of the swapped reality remained. Taylor returned to her home, and found that her family was gone once again.

However, she wasn’t crying. For the first time in years, Taylor had truly come to terms with her past and regrets. Mind was no more, and Taylor could start a new life in Samrule. She entered her home and sighed of relief. Taylor had changed, and she was finally happy.

This is the end of the SamSwap event, and the conclusion of Taylor’s story. For information on how other Sams participated in this event, check out their individual wikis and read about their personal stories during the Damiverse.

## Notes

• While Mind is treated like a separate entity, him and Taylor are effectively the same conscious. Mind and Taylor share the same aspirations and logical workings, but Mind represents Taylor’s sub-conscious and is thus symbolic of Taylor’s inner beliefs and thoughts clashing.

• This also explains that Mind’s power is really Taylor’s power, although he is depicted as the reality shifting one due to Taylor’s power being directly linked to her emotions and trauma.