Samhain Spectre Hallow

**Samhain Spectre Hallow** is one of the main characters of *The Alan 10 Campaign*. He debuted in *With Friends Like These...*, and is written by Ghost King.

## Appearance

In his Secondary Skin, Samhain is a blue Ectonurite with a red eye and black tracks around his body for his eye to move around on.

In his True Form, Samhain is a monstrous looking Ectonurite who still has the blue skin and red eye. However, in addition to this his bones and claws are a yellowish brown, giving them the appearance of fossilization or bleaching. His tentacles are lime with plum colored band-like markings around them.

## History

### Prior to the Main Story

At an unknown point in time, Samhain was born. His kind realized he was a mutant when they saw his odd colored features and mostly ostracized him. This caused Samhain to become bitter and bent on universal domination. When he was old enough to fend for himself, Samhain was officially cast out by the High Ecto-Lord which promptly set his mind in stone that he was destined to be alone and that the universe should pay for the abuse he suffered. Samhain stowed away on an unknown spaceship and awaited his chance to land on a planet, occasionally playing nasty "pranks" on the crew such as cutting the power, depleting oxygen or once even lowering the shields during a meteor storm.

Once the terrified and traumatized crew finally landed on a suitable planet, Samhain flew out while invisible and looked for a suitable host. He found the prince of the planet's native species and possessed him against his will, inciting a civil war with false claims while under the guise of the prince and leading the planet to a cruel and vicious ten year struggle. One day the "Prince" was found in a bunker and was shot on sight by resistance soldiers. With his puppet dead Samhain was exposed and was immobilized when he was caught unaware by sunlight, which entered the building after a sudden explosion caved in the bunker's roof. Samhain was subsequently imprisoned in a large cell with bright lights which didn't kill him only because the people wanted him to suffer for his misdeeds. Starbeard eventually caught wind of this wild tale and took Samhain away to Locuss Carceran against the planet's protests to live out the rest of his days in a somewhat more bearable prison while still being locked away for his crimes.

### Prior to "With Friends Like These..."

After Excambalir's escape, Starbeard made the hard decision to form a team of convicts who were capable of hunting him and his accomplices down. He chose Samhain for his tactical thinking and near invulnerability as an Ectonurite, as well as the hopes this mission may show him the error of his ways and possibly redeem him since prison therapy records revealed the reason he went power hungry in the first place. Samhain was one of many candidates who were assigned to the care of Obscero Prohibere and Domum Segmentum on this mission alongside the Earth Lenopan known as Dani Fozzul, the former Gilli-Perambulous Promenade ambassador, and member of the Longum Intervavem species, Jez Alba and the screwball Wadienforsparo known as Argo Beetleburger. The quartet were loaded onto a prison shuttle, with Samhain being rendered weakened by bright lights in his cell...then again, why would he escape? He was being offered a pardon after all.

### Chapter One: With Friends Like These...

Samhain is first seen floating around his cell with his secondary skin on to better suit himself during the long trip. When Obscero goes over the mission details and mentions the possibility of the inmates dying, he scoffs at this by saying it's hard to kill an Ectonurite. When his captors and the other inmates begin arguing amongst themselves, he simply observes their behavior and laughs silently to himself at their childish squabbles. He even fuels the fires of rage by chiming in that their former lives don't matter to the legal system, to the system they're just expendable soldiers. He instantly becomes rivals with Jez and reveals what he did to get locked up, not showing any remorse. However, Samhain shows some sympathy towards Dani, who was freaking out at the fact she was an alien and she never knew it, because she most likely reminded him of himself before he was cast out by his kind. He tries to calm her down and instructs her to breathe and get used to the situation, while also occasionally threatening Jez if he said something stupid to worsen his progress over calming Dani down.

He eventually comments that Argo was asleep since he wouldn't shut up earlier, which wakes him up much to Samhain's chagrin. Suddenly the transport ship is attacked by a Sotoraggian ship and the quartet are freed by their captors. While Jez tried to slow the ship down with his flight and talons clenching the transport, Samhain immediately flew to the Navigation Controls and tried to restart the automatic flight plan. He manages to succeed in this and with Jez's help the ship lands somewhat safely into a cavernous ravine. Samhain instantly notes the ship is rather intact despite the hostile welcome party and suggests the group use it as shelter, only to be ignored by the others who scale a nearby plateau to find civilization. Samhain groaned to himself and followed. He offers to scout ahead to find any sign of civilization but ONLY if Jez begs him. Jez reluctantly humors the Ectonurite and so he does as promised. Samahin finds nothing but a caravan of pop up shops, he also noticed a sandstorm brewing not too far away and flew back to warn his allies. Upon telling the group of what he found the other prisoners don't take the threat of the sandstorm seriously. With some further explanation and upon re-suggesting his earlier idea, Jez, Obscera and Domum agreed to retreat back to the downed transport ship, while Jez threatens to scoop up Dani and Argo in his bill against their consent with Samhain stating they'll "thank them later". When this fails, Samhain reveals his horrifying true form to them despite him knowing the harsh sunlight would hurt them. He quickly put his secondary skin back on and allows Jez to scoop the other two convicts up while trying to fight the urge to kill Argo for trying to steal his idea of taking shelter at the ship. He checks to make sure if his chaperones are coming while openly joking at Domum's expense before making sure they weren't being followed by any natives or predators and eventually taking shelter with the others.

## Personality

Samhain is a bitter, megalominiacal being due to the abuse he suffered throughout his earlier life amongst the other Ectonurites. He generally takes pleasure in other people suffering and he especially enjoys arguments or the thought of people dying. He also greatly enjoys tormenting his rival, Jez Alba and is ecstatic to see him beg the Ectonurite for his help. Samhain especially loves to make wisecracks or grim remarks whenever the opportunity knocks.

If Samhain is angered, he will promptly fly off into a full on rage which will be hard to stop...fortunately, he rarely gets to this point of aggression.

HOWEVER, despite this he does show occasional moments of compassion to beings who remind him of how he used to feel during his early years.

## Powers

Like all Ectonurites, Samhain can do the following:

Samhain can fly since his body isn't affected by gravity.

He can control his body and do things such as make his skull rotate for one example.

He can turn intangible or invisible like a real ghost whenever he desires. He can also survive in space due to him technically being a spirit.

He is capable of possessing another thing, be it living or inanimate.

Samhain can move his eye along his Secondary Skin's track line.

Samahin's claws are razor sharp, perfect for slashing at things.

He has Enhanced Strength and Durability. As well as tentacles within his true form.

## Weaknesses

Samhain is EXTREMEMLY weak to bright lights when not in his Secondary Skin, to the point where he could potentially die from it if exposed to either a large amount of shine or over a long period of relative brightness.

His Secondary Skin significantly reduces his powers.

Samhain isn't the quickest flier in the group.

Samhain surprisingly can't attack intangible foes head on, even if he himself is intangible.

Samhain can be restrained or beaten by magic.

He can't effectively possess mindless or severely unintelligent beings for prolonged periods, usually being kicked out within five minutes max.

## Trivia

General Trivia:

* Samhain is one of the most dangerous beings in the universe simply because he studies things closely and thinks things through as much as he can. This and the fact he strives to achieve his goals no matter the cost.
* Despite being notorious enough to be imprisoned by Starbeard, the other Ectonurites have still disowned him.
* It is currently unknown which planet and species were subjected to his ten year torture since nobody wants to talk about his brutal reign. What is known is that he managed to intimidate several big name intergalactic threats into giving him aid.
* Samhain spent a month studying the royal family closely so he could successfully impersonate the Prince and make his descent into villainy seem natural while in his body.
* While under the Celestialsapien's watch, Samhain was secretly grateful to them for sparing him the fate his former toys resigned him to.
* He watched a lot of educational TV while in Locuss, gaining much more knowledge than he previously had. Then again, this doesn't mean he didn't watch other forms of TV once in awhile.
* One of his favorite cartoon shows was Darkwing Duck due to him sympathizing with the character of Dr. Reginald Bushroot, who was ostracized by society and driven to crime upon his mutation. The only difference between himself and the fictional villain Samhain noted (asides his lack of Chlorokinesis) was that he was born this way and had no friends whatsoever.

As of Chapter One:

* Samhain views Jez Alba as a rival simply because both want to assert dominance over the group, and nothing more.
* Samhain is shown to hate when people steal credit for his ideas, easily sending him flying into a murderous rage.
* Samhain feels sympathy for the first time in his life for a living being when he first sees Dani's initial state of mind after finding out she was a Lenopan.
* He mocks anyone whenever he can simply for the fun of it. However he won't mock Obscero without valid reason since he knows if he makes him mad enough his pardon will most likely be revoked.
* Samhain references Flintheart Glomgold from Ducktales and Captain Vul from the Kirby franchise while insulting Jez throughout the chapter.