Samantha Bridges

Stringy powering up

"***It's Go Time!***"
—Stringy's catchphrase

**Samantha Ashanti Bridges** is an original character designed by Draleigh. Samantha Bridges resides in the *Stringy and Mopy* universe.

As a werewolf and Zeta User, she inhibits enhanced/peak-human strength, a regenerative human factor, enhanced/peak-human speed, enhanced/peak-human combat, enhanced/peak-human agility, flight, and can transform into a werewolf called Zeta. With the badge, it enhances her already established superpowers and gifts her energy manipulation powers.

## Biography

Samantha, amongst her teammates looks young, but she is a lot older than she appears. She was born on September 10th, 1900 in rural Georgia to sharecroppers. Sometime at the age of 10, she was murdered alongside with her mother in their own home. Decades later, she was ressurected by an occultist named Roman Black, an occultist turned businessman who used an "unassigned talisman" called "The Badge of Zeta" to bring her back to life. However, it does come with it side-effects. Since the badge that was used was the Zeta, the assigned spirit used was of that of a werewolf, causing Sam to react in a feral manner, have enhanced strength, senses, as well as having heightened aggression. Because of her powers and her overall feral nature, the ringleader, Roman, uses Samantha as a star attraction at his circus because of her new unique abilities.

Sometime later, she meets Michael Garret, a young boy, heavily influenced by his mother to wanting to protect and help people, befriends Samantha and helped her rediscover her humanity, giving her a new purpose in life as well as a way for her to become a hero, much like Michael. Unfortunately, she had to run away to protect him from herself after Roman attacked him and his mother and thus had to protect them by killing him. Sometime later, a newly formed Sky-Titans adopted her.

In the start of Issue 1, Stringy senses energy from nearby. She transforms into her Zeta Superform and flies to the source, however she flew so fast that she ended up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She flies back, only to break the signature stature, setting everything on fire by accident.

Back in the United States, she calls Snow White, to stall while she flies back...until she arrives at least 30 minutes ahead of schedule.

She aims her Badge, now glowing, ready to fire, warning a Kappa User, Victoria Jones, to surrender or fight. Either or was okay with Stringy (Issue 2). Victoria comes out of the church after eating most of the mercenaries quickly digests them, absorbing their life forces. She taunts Stringy biding her to that she had become stronger since their last encounter. Stringy laughs it off dismissing it as a bluff.

## Appearance

Samantha is a petite teenage girl with brown skin, long black hair wearing a black and white t-shirt with a stretched-in rectangle on the center, white gloves, black spandex pants, and black and white boots. Before then, she had on a long sleeve gray shirt, jeans, a black hijab, and sneakers.

## Personality

Samantha is a good-hearted goofball with a heart of a lion and a soul of a hero. She jokes around while fighting her enemies. Though, not academically intelligent, she can be surprisingly clever.

She's also brash as illustrated on Issue #2, page 7 when she is in Rio De Janeiro, flying off with tremendous speeds but turns around and (not only breaks the arm of the statue) but sets it on fire.

Stringy is often seen of having a strong sense of justice and, more likely, established a "no-kill rule" much like traditional superheroes in establishment circles, much like Batman in DC Comics. However, earlier in her superhero career, this was not the case. It is believed that her body count, up to this point, not counting her great-grandmother, is around 90 to 145 people. It was said that back then, if pushed too far, Stringy could be a **dangerous** adversary.

## Abilities

* **Badge of Zeta:** The Badge of Zeta is a powerful badge crafted by the Egyptian Gods to bring goodwill and prosperity to all of mankind thousands of years ago. This badge allows her to strengthen her already established superpowers as well as adding in flight, energy manipulation, and astral-projection. With the badge, it gives the user the powers of a Zeta Werewolf. However, there is an additional feature that allows the user to change uniforms if they so wish using the Clothes Beam they scanned from the clothes they have scanned in.
	+ **Supernatural Strength**: Stringy is strong enough to run through an upcoming locomotive, throw a bus like a frisbee, and tear down a statue without trying.
	+ **Supernatural Roar:** Stringy's Badge allows her to roar so loud it fires energy blasts from her mouth. It is strong enough to crack buildings and uproot trees.
	+ **Supernatural Athleticism:** Stringy, over time as she trains her powers to the utmost limit, has developed this ability. She is by far the most advanced of this ability.
	+ **Supernatural Speed**: In Issue #2, it is implied that Stringy has traveled at Mach 2 from Brazil back to the United States.
	+ **Supernatural Memory**: Stringy can remember extreme details on what happened at any point in the past.
	+ **Supernatural Senses**: Her Badge has allowed her to sense energy from upcoming and close Therian Users.
	+ **Energy Manipulation**: Stringy can utilize and shoot energy blasts at opponents.

### Natural Abilities

* **Law Intuition:** Being a crime-fighter most of her life, Stringy had picked up knowledge of the law in both in relations to the US, International, and Sky-Titan statutes and ordinances. Stringy uses this knowledge as more of a hobby as well as a tool to enforce the law in her own hands—even in the means of working outside it.
* **Magic Intuition:** Stringy has extensive knowledge in the magical realm and techniques that she has adapted into her fighting skills. She can merge magical spells to her Badge to create a devastating attack.
* **Martial Arts Intuition:** Stringy's main thing is that she likes to fight. Over the course of years, she has mastered at least 5 martial arts to a tee: Krav Maga, Karate, Kung Fu, Boxing, and Savat.
* **Gun Kata:** Since her training with Snow White, Stringy is the second deadly combatant involving around firearms.
* **Body Language Analysis:** In a fight, Stringy can read body movements and react faster before said atack or motion could take place.
* **Instant Learning:** Stringy, despite her dopiness most of the time, can look at a person or attack for a few seconds and replicate said attack or skill.
* **Enhanced Eating:** The consequences of her being a Zeta user, Stringy is a big eater.
* **Omnilingualism**: Stringy can understand and speak almost any language she comes across due to the power of the Badge, although, without it, she can still speak French, Spanish, Japanese (mostly), and Mandarin Chinese fluently as if she was a native speaker of said language.

## Relationships

**Paul Bridges**, also known as "The Pappy" have a great father-daughter bond with each other. Each could talk and understand each other. Also, unlike Tiffany, he had no problem paying for extra food for Stringy regarding the circumstances to what happened. She would always go to him for advice and rely on each other.

**Tiffany Bridges**, also known as "Snow White" have a sisterly bond, a close sisterly bond, much to Pappy's dismay. Tiffany, actying more like the older sister would be her negative influence, but the cool older sibling. Stringy would often go to her when it comes to certain social situations, most to which end up with her being in trouble with either the law or with Pappy himself. Stringy is often shocked on how much food Snow White could eat without tiring out, often saying that she has a bottomless stomach.

**Michael Garret**, also known as Mopy, is Stringy's close and best friend. As a child, they had a very close bond. Mopy would routinely protect her from people who would do her harm, often to the point of him being beaten up by a bunch of older kids, some to which kind of made Stringy not only worried about him, but became VERY protective of him, even though at a distance. Mopy is the sol reason why Stringy became a superhero because she wants to be just as much as a protector as much as Mopy was to her.

**Victoria Jones** and Stringy have a conflicted relationship. Stringy and Victoria have more of a rival relationship. She detested Victoria's murderous nature, but saw her in herself. She wants to help Victoria turn to the other side, but that would be far more difficult than anything.

### Family

* **Paul Bridges:** Grandfather
* **Tiffany Bridges:** Cousin
* **Unnamed Mother**
* **Unnamed Father**
* **Unnamed Grandfather**
* **Unnamed Grandmother**

### Allies

* **The United Badgette Society**
* **Sky-Titans**
* **Pappy**
* **Snow White**
* **Mopy**

## Trivia

* Two of her most prominent weapons are the two dual Berettas she always stores alongside her right behind her badge.
* In 2003, originally Stringy was a young boy named after lint found from Draleigh's hair. He later changed Stringy's sex from a boy to a girl 8 years later.
* Stringy's orignal personality has been upped to 11 from 2003 to 2019.

## Gallery

Stringy powering upStringy investigating the scene of a crime after a brutal murder scene. **(Stringy and Mopy: The Adventure Begins Issue #2)**