Songbird

"I'm glad to see you're drinking more water." - Sam, talking to Maggie Ostenberg, Season 5 Chargen

## Biographical information

### Relatives

Samuel Haden - FatherBernadine Haden - Mother

Sam "Nightingale" Haden - Future Self

## Appearance

Sam is tall and lithe with naturally dark brown eyes, which shift when they use their powers, which is often. He has shoulder length curly black hair and a birth mark under their left eye. She always has headphones and some sort of music player on her.

She usually wears whatever was saved of her old wardrobe from the 80s, but most of it had been disposed of or donated years ago. He's been forced to update his wardrobe and looks to his parents and teammates for advice.

Their costume is a burgundy shirt with gold pinstripes, black pants with gold stitching, and black suspenders with gold hearts. They draw a heart on their cheek below their domino mask, both to cover their birthmark and because it's cute.

## Powers

Sam has sound control, which they have frequently used to crate sonic blasts, dampen noise, and amp up or modify the music they listen to.

## Background

### Pre-Big Team

Sam grew up with both of his parents in the town of Cape Vincent, which is a small town about 30 minutes away from Halcyon on the shore of a great lake. Sam loved living there, even if it was a bit odd (what with missing people showing up randomly sometimes).. They had a nearly idyllic life. Of course there were the average growing pains of small town life, but Sam was always a good kid.

Sam met his girlfriend freshman year of high school. They were best friends for over a year before they decided to try being heroes with some of their other friends. It wasn’t long after that Sam asked Kathrin out. They were happy together for over a year. Sam’s life couldn’t have been more perfect. Then, the summer before senior year, Sam was transported to the future.

### Post-Big Team

Sam still (or again) lives with her parents. She's new to Big Team, but likes having such a big community and looks forward to meeting everyone.

## Relationships

### Family

Samuel Haden

Sam's father, who she was named after. Born in 1942, he is now 78 years old. They were very close when Sam was younger and are trying to rediscover that bond. They would play games together while listening to music, and Samuel would often help Sam with her homework when she was young.

Bernadine "Bernie" Haden

Sam's mother. Born in 1944, she is now 76 years old. Sam was always very close with his mother. She would read him to bed as a child and they would spend long days baking and listening to music.

Sam "Nightingale" Haden

Sam's future self. They're very different from who Sam hoped to be 30 years in the future. Sam treats them more like a younger sibling they're trying to guide than an adult.

### Friends

Verve

Doesn't know Verve very well. He saved someone important to Atlanta (Jasper, her little brother); they’re now his biggest defender. He also helped stop Old Sam from stealing something from Verve's girlfriend's house.

Lavish

Lavish is helping Sam understand this weirdo future. She follows their lead. Helped Sam stop Nightingale from stealing from Maggie's house.

Midas

Helped Sam stop Nightingale from stealing from Maggie's house.

Serendipity

Helped Sam stop Nightingale from stealing from Maggie's house.

Infrared

Sam feels a kinship to Ellen since they're both from the past. They have about a million questions for Ellen, and intends on asking all of them.

Overgrowth

They met at the poetry slam at Collected Works. Sam knows Overgrowth doesn't like Nightingale, but doesn't have all the details.They want to make it up to him.

Eclipse

They met at the poetry slam at Collected Works. Sam was very happy with Aman's desire to talk rather than fight. He also thinks Aman is funny.

### Misc

Christopher Crossover

Used to babysit Chris. He was a very timid kid and would often get picked on by Amy. Sam would have to spend quite a bit of time stopping Amy and Chris from fighting.

Maggie Ostenberg

Used to babysit Maggie. She was a handful, but Sam saw a lot of his younger self in her. They're very proud of how awesome she grew up to be.

Amy Mercury

Used to babysit Amy. She was smart as heck, but also headstrong and a bit of a bully. Sam would have to spend quite a bit of time stopping Amy and Chris from fighting.

Saboteur

Sam was friends with them when they were teens. He is sad Saboteur doesn't use their powers anymore.

Crescent

Sam was friends with them when they were teens.

Disaperado

Sam was friends with them back when they were Karma Chameleon. They have invisibility powers.

Seismic

Previously known as Azuite, Kathrin Grimaldi is Old Sam's ex-girlfriend. A little less than two years into their relationship, Kathrin was starting to lash out at villains recklessly and put a lot of people in danger. Not knowing what else to do, Old Sam helped sign her up for G.R.E.Y., which promoted a program for troubled youths. Kathrin came back even worse and deeply resentful. They broke up and have been on steadily worsening terms ever since.

Eddie

Sam thinks Eddie is cool and would love to discuss poetry with him. They also offered to take him to work and watch over him so he could leave the base sometime.

## Additional Scenes

* Time Travel Blues: Songbird and Fearless talk about the past, present, and future in a place they're both familiar with.

## Quotes

"Can you make sure to call mom for her birthday?" - Sam, talking to their future self, Season 5 Chargen