Sam Drake

**Samuel "Sam"** or **"Sammy" Drake** is one of the main characters from Brookley.

## Biography

Sam was born Samuel August Drake on November 18, 2000. in New York, USA. His parents had a rocky marriage and were mostly unhappy with each other as his father often avoided the family home by staying late at work and his mother was a drunk who was often negligent towards Sam, they divorced when Sam had just turned five.

Sam's childhood as a result of his family problems wasn't very good. He was particularly unhappy with his father's decision to remarry and seemed suspicious of his new mother and sisters. At first Sam thought it would be nice to finally have a few siblings but he found something to dislike in all of them, the way Meredith was always mean to him, the fact that Irene never wanted to play with him and Clarice only being a baby. He quickly found out that his new family were vampires and attempted to warn his father who waved his statements away as stories, he kept their secret to himself after that.

His father's death didn't affect him as much as it should have, he felt as though he never knew his father and that he didn't like him very much. Sam, however, was more suspicious that Helena had something his death as his heart attack was random and would have been unlikely, although he never mentioned it. With his father gone, he refused to join the Ainsworths as they returned to England and was left in the care of his mother. His mother, now a druggie, wasn't happy with this and ran out on him when he turned thirteen and left him with his aunt and uncle.

After his aunt and uncle got into a car crash in 2018 leaving them severely injured and unable to take care of him, due to his age he still needed to be under an adult's care and his only legal guardian was Helena. He had to move to Brookley to live with them despite disliking the idea of being surrounded by supernaturals.

### Season One

Sam arrives at Brookley in the most sour of moods, hating everything supernatural and the idea of having to adjust to a completely new country. He sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the magical and his height doesn’t help either, he was almost ready to give up and run away back to New York or at least London until he meets Lilah on his first day of college. It was almost love at first sight for Sam and not only was he attracted to her but he assumed she was the only “normal” one just like him, not helped by her lying on the subject.

Sam is quickly infatuated with Lilah, almost never leaving her side, mostly to avoid his family and the residents of the town. In doing so, Sam inadvertently angers Lilah’s mother and mayor of the town, Dee George.

One day, Sam starts to ask why Lilah never takes him to her house, and of course she can’t tell him the real reason because he is so obvious with his hatred, this starts to lead him to sneaking about and spying on Lilah. Eventually, through the begrudging help of Phoebe, he comes to realise that Lilah has been lying to him as, not only is she a werewolf, she is also the daughter of one of the most influential members of Brookley. Blinded by rage, Sam starts to shout at his sisters, Helena and Lilah and runs off far from the Ainsworth manor. Despite everything, Helena still cares for him as a son and searches for him, panicked when she can’t find him.

It takes April accidentally using her powers of clairvoyance to find Sam who has been knocked out by Trinity Lane and nearly eaten by a few rogue vampires. There is a small debate as to wether the town should let Sam be killed by the (obviously illegal) vampires but it is quickly dismissed by Helena and Lilah and they eventually save him from his grim fate. Sam, now having been saved by supernaturals, as he reveals twice, has to apologise and explain why he feels the way he does.

Through a tough and almost traumatic heart-to-heart, Sam reveals that the reason he despises supernaturals so much is that amongst believing that Helena killed his father his mother slowly abandoned him for a toxic supernatural gang back in New York who would often feed from him without his consent and would target and bully him as a child, he later watched his mother turn into a vampire in front of him, stating that she would “rather an undead life than a living one with him”. Helena is quick to comfort Sam, saying that she loves him as if he were her own and that his father did die, just not the way he thought he did. The family learn to accept each other and all apologise together, hoping to be closer now that everything has been cleared.

After leaving the hospital, Sam makes a public apology to the citizens of Brookley and vows to do better by them. He also apologises profusely to Lilah, whom forgives him and the two go on a real date at the end of the season.

### Season Two

By the time 2019 rolls around Sam has become much more friendly with the locals, now dating Lilah and taking up a bartending job at the local nightclub. Sam now has to decide whether he wants to stay in Brookley, now over eighteen and graduating for university, or to leave. Throughout the season this is his main struggle and he grapples with the idea of finally having a real family in Brookley, despite now getting the chance to be the independent individual he’s been wanting to be all along.

On a stupid drunk night out after college, Sam and Lilah decide to get engaged, despite having only been dating for about a year. The two rationalise the decision to their families by saying that they love each other and know that this is what they want, however, their families reactions were less than pleasant. After proposing to Lilah, Sam received to offers for placements in his top universities, psychology at both King’s College and Brookley.

In late July, Lilah reveals to Sam that she is pregnant and is less than happy at the idea. Whilst puzzled, Sam in generally enthusiastic about the idea and doesn’t take lightly to the matter that Lilah doesn’t want to keep it. The two start to argue over the course of a few days and the two decide that they aren’t ready to be married, let alone parents, and that it would’ve never worked out with Lilah sure that she was moving on from Brookley and Sam deciding that he wants to stay. He accompanied her to her abortion appointment and the two mutually, yet tearfully, broke up. Sam and Lilah parted ways for the last time at the end of the season as they say goodbye to each other when Lilah leaves for Manchester.

## Physical Description

### Appearance

Sam is a 20 year-old human with dark skin, brown eyes and black hair cropped into a buzzcut. He stands at 6'2” (198 cm) which makes him the tallest member of his family. Sam stands out majorly from the rest of his family due to relatively normal human traits next to their vampiric ones.

## Relationships

### Relationships

#### Lilah

Sam and Lilah first met at the Brookley college on their first day, instantly there was a connection between the two and they could not stop hanging out with each other. Sam was about to ask Lilah out properly until he found out she was a werewolf, extremely hurt by this, Sam argues with her and runs off.

The two stopped talking after he apologised for his behaviour, seeing that he was too volatile for Lilah to deal with at that time. Sam makes several attempts to rekindle their relationship, eventually succeeding and the two start to date for real by the end of season one.

## Trivia

* His appearance is loosely based on Han Hyunmin.
* Sam is half Black on his father’s side and half Korean on his mother’s side.
* Sam is resentful of the fact that he does not know how to speak Korean as his mother never taught him.
* He is currently taking the Psychology with education course at Brookley university.
* Sam was created on 15/01/18.