Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Samantha

Psamathe, a minor deity banished to the Nothing by her father for bearing a king's child, half of whom escaped into the nearest naiad vessel — a sex doll of the fictional bard Lika — and now lives as a talking, immobile, latex head with fangs, a barrette reading 'Wet for you', and one refrain: 'I'm going to kill your mother.' Hired as the personal space's trainer. Her child is a sand ooze; her mother is a god.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Spider legs
• Chapter 7 — The Moon Reaper
• Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
• Chapter 11 — The second cleaner bot
• Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
• Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
• Chapter 24 — Akuma's note; half a prayer, half a song; the sock
• Chapter 25 — Fursona; Mario Kart; the hotlist
• Chapter 26 — Rend's sixth death; two ghouls
• Chapter 30 — Heat three: Gluteus Maxx and the Sugar Hermits
• Chapter 34 — Team Helix
• Chapter 36 — Jacobus, the reverse tooth fairy
• Chapter 37 — Chicken and Waffles and Upgrades; Elle and the war mage
• Chapter 38 — Akuma's account: Herot, Menerva and the Pineapple Cabaret
• Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
• Chapter 53 — The key to One Fine Pig's garage
• Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
• Chapter 59 — Negative ROI; the GTO leaves early
• Chapter 60 — Real Gs; the scarf
• Chapter 61 — Suckira; the cactus; Li Na leaves the game
• Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
• Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
• Chapter 70 — The memorial crystal; the Midnight Epicure
• Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
• Chapter 76 — Apartment 231; the peach beer
• Chapter 78 — Damien's announcement; under a thousand
• Chapter 81 — Scolopendra's first attack: the Beast of Burden Sin
• Chapter 82 — Karl the dachshund; Team Sparkles ends
• Chapter 83 — The poleaxes; Britney kills Osvaldo; the Cadillac
• Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
• Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes
• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
• Chapter 87 — Louis goes; Safehome Yolanda; the giant Imani
• Chapter 89 — Every screen; the Tome of Gatekeeper; the Lucky Shot patch
• Chapter 90 — The Vengeance float; Carl leaves the party
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
• Chapter 96 — Emberus explodes
• Chapter 97 — Eris; the wrong biscuit; the gods leave
• Chapter 98 — W-W-W-Winner; Mark of the Damned; the wrong biscuit
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2

Arc

Undefeated at Mario Kart with the controller in her mouth (ch. 25); a lipstick called Pussy Lips and outworlder uppers from Rishi's junk (ch. 11, ch. 30); 'I love it when a man wears the skin of his vanquished enemies' (ch. 22). She knows Chachi — the goddess who preaches saving children and kills them (ch. 52) — and Lammy the donkey (ch. 92), and tells Carl how Britney gets Ysalte out of her (ch. 83). Sam Town: her room with a swing and a lava lamp (ch. 68). She drives with her mouth when Carl is a dog (ch. 82), sobs over the affair with Louis she never had (ch. 85), has a plan 'just like' Carl's (ch. 70), and whispers to Taranis and leaves with him and Krakaren (ch. 97) — to his temple, from which she slips away to kill 'THE DEMON MOTHER LADY AND HER JERK SON' who tricked her into bearing a monster (epilogue).