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==Life==
 
==Life==

Revision as of 20:24, 7 August 2015

Samantha Nishimura
Tr9 samantha nishimura 1.png
Born 1991 (Age: 22)[1]
Nationality Portuguese

Japanese citizenship[2]

Education Cinematography studies at college[3]
Occupation Member of the Endurance's expedition

Filmmaker
Documentary Producer/Translator[4]

Game(s) Tomb Raider (2013)
Comic(s) Tomb Raider: The Beginning
Voice Arden Cho

Chieko Hidaka

Samantha Nishimura, or short Sam, is a character in the Reboot Tomb Raider (2013).

She is one of the survivors of the Endurance's shipwreck and a close friend of Lara's.

Samantha is a playable character in the multiplayer.


Samantha loves oranges. [5]

Life

Early Life

Due to her parents' status, Samantha moved often as a child, even from a continent to another. This resulted in Samantha being often the outsider in school, and she gained attention by being a bit of a wild child.[6]

Time at College

Samantha went to college together with Lara[7] and she studied cinematography there.[8] However, her passion for filmmaking wasn't regarded as a positive thing at college, as the academics there dismissed it as nonsense.[9]

Samantha has gained lots of filming experience at different locations: in the Arctic, the Congo and the Red Desert.[10]

Early Adventures with Lara

Samantha and Lara have been on adventures together before their expedition to Yamatai. They've been on a backpacking trip in Bulgaria and a hiking trip on the south face of Kilimanjaro. On their adventures Lara has been more interested in exploring ruins and Samantha on the other hand has been more interested in visiting the local clubs and running into cute guys.[11]

Yamatai Expedition (2013)

Samantha sparked up Lara's interest in Himiko years ago before the actual expedition to Yamatai by telling her the story of the Sun Queen that was told to Samantha by her grandmother, like the story was a memory.[12]

Before being part of Endurance's crew, Samantha is topping up her tan on board of the Endurance as Whitman arrives to interview his new crew for his documentary.[13]

Samantha eventually got on board of the Endurance when the funding for the expedition to Yamatai was cut off from the network, and Whitman wanted to do the documentary by using his own money. Whitman's funds weren't enough, so Lara suggests that Samantha would ask for her uncle to help financing the expedition. Samantha's uncle agrees to do so, but under two conditions: he'll get 60% of the sale price of anything that'll be brough back from the expedition and that Samantha will be the new camera person.[14]

Right away after getting on board Samantha starts to film the crew as they prepare to set out to Yamatai.[15] Feeling of finally setting out to sea, towards Yamatai, is unbelieveable to Samantha.[16] Samantha wants to make sure that Lara gets the credit she deserves from the expedition, and that's why Samantha has secretly shot footage of her too during the expedition.[17]

However, Samantha wasn't all happy about sailing to Yamatai: she started to feel nervous and nauseous as they got closer and closer to the Dragon's Triangle - and not in the excited kind of way.[18]

After the shipwreck of the Endurance Lara and Sam get separated. While Lara is captured and strung up in the Scavenger Den Sam roams the island and finds Mathias, a seemingly friendly islander. But soon after Lara finds them he turns out to be in league with the scavengers and he kidnaps her.

Sam is a central piece in the storyline of the new Tomb Raider game. A main part of Lara's adventure on the island revolves around finding and rescuing her friend, who is being held hostage by Mathias and his Solarii. On the Endurance she could be seen shooting some scenes with her HD camcorder, which Lara finds later on. She also is involved in the funding of the Endurance's expedition and has committed almost all of her families money to it.

Mathias' ultimate goal is to restore Himiko's soul into Sam's body, so she can stop the storms that prevent everyone from leaving the island of Yamatai.

Characterization

Samantha is more of a party bee comapred to Lara, as during their advetures she's always going to clubs and even dragging Lara with her. Samantha thinks that she just helps Lara to unlock her inner party girl.[19]

Lara describes Samantha as "a camera nut" when she goes and interrupts the cameraman working on the interviews of the Endurance crew with Whitman.[20] Samantha's affection to her filmcamera is indeed strong, as she refers to it as her baby.[21] She is also so interested in filming and filmcameras that she spots camera brands while sunbathing.[22]

Family

Samantha's ancestors are from Yamatai, and the tale of the Sun Queen was like a memory to Samantha's grandmother.[23]

Samantha's mother is a Portugese model and his father is Japanese. Her parents and family are rich, giving regularly money to Samantha.[24]

Samantha's uncle is apparently a wealthy man, as he has funded Conrad Roth's expeditions even before Yamatai.[25] Conrad Roth describes Samantha's uncle in the following way after he hears Samantha's uncle's conditions for funding:

Yeah. That sounds like him. The bastard always drives a hard bargain.
Conrad Roth[26]


Samantha could be linked to either Hoshi or Himiko or to other Priestesses of the Sun through her ancestors, which would explain why she exactly was needed to complete the once corrupted Ritual of transferring Himiko's soul and stopping the storms.

Friends

Samantha is a close friend of Lara's.

Further Infromation

Samantha
  • Real Name: Samantha Nishimura
  • Age: 22
  • Nationality: Portuguese, Japanese citizenship. English and Japanese speaking
  • Occupation: Documentary Producer/Translator, but receives regular money from her rich family.
  • Interests: High living, clubbing, spending money, travel and adventure

Samantha’s mother is a Portuguese model who was working in LA when she met Sam’s father, a media mogul from Japan. Growing up she moved a lot, not just down the street, but between continents. As a result Samantha was often the outsider in school, and gained attention by being a bit of a wild child.

Samantha is a budding documentary filmmaker and like Lara has a passion for uncovering the untold stories of the world. Despite her rebellious streak, Samantha has extremely expensive taste in clothes. Sam really can’t understand why Lara refuses to touch her fortune, and sometimes ribs her about it, but she doesn’t let it get in the way of their friendship.

Samantha and Lara share a feeling of being out of place in the world and feed on each other’s thirst for adventure.
Endurance Week: Meet the Crew[27]

See Also

Gallery

References

  1. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151332505316158&set=a.10151329355521158.459933.287378891157&type=3&theater Retrieved on Aug 13th 2013.
  2. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151332505316158&set=a.10151329355521158.459933.287378891157&type=3&theater Retrieved on Aug 13th 2013.
  3. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic p. 48
  4. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151332505316158&set=a.10151329355521158.459933.287378891157&type=3&theater Retrieved on Aug 13th 2013.
  5. Brian Horton during the Cosplay dinner at Gamescom 2015
  6. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151332505316158&set=a.10151329355521158.459933.287378891157&type=3&theater Retrieved on Aug 13th 2013.
  7. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic p. 9
  8. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic p. 48
  9. In-game document Sam: Adventures With Lara
  10. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic p. 48
  11. In-game document: Sam: Adventures With Lara
  12. In-game document Sam: Family Story
  13. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 8-9
  14. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 45-48
  15. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 50-51
  16. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 51
  17. In-game document Sam: Filmmaker
  18. In-game document Sam: Feelings of Unease
  19. In-game document Sam: Adventures With Lara
  20. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 8
  21. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 46
  22. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 8
  23. In-game document Sam: Family Story
  24. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151332505316158&set=a.10151329355521158.459933.287378891157&type=3&theater Retrieved on Aug 13th 2013.
  25. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 45
  26. Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic, p. 48
  27. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151332505316158&set=a.10151329355521158.459933.287378891157&type=3&theater Retrieved on Aug 13th 2013.