Elizabeth Miksch - Week 2 HW

I have always love Samus because she was so strong and powerful. It never mattered that she was a girl. She has a very strong and silent personality that just get things done. Samus Aran lost her parents and her planet at the age of 3. She came from a mining planet that was attacked by space pirates led by Ripley. She was then taken in by birdlike creatures that had lived so long they could not reproduce anymore. Because their planet was in such harsh conditions for humans they spliced their dna with Samus’, They raised her and trained her for combat. Samus joined the Galactic Federation as a soldier. She then would leave because she had disagreements with her commanding Officer and become a bounty hunter. She is frequently called on to fight metroids, life draining organisms. Samus lives in a futuristic sifi world. She would mostly stay on her ship unless she had a mission. Where she would go down to planets that were mostly destroyed or barren. because she would only be called in when the army couldn’t handle it or it was too late. She is basically the clean up crew. What I want to focus on is the time when she leaves being a soldier and becomes a bounty hunter. I basically want to create an origin story for samus. I have this Idea that is works on her power suit alone and keeps it in good condition.Making her kind of a mechanic. This is before she starts making money. It would be her first mission with very few resources at her disposal. As she travels through a planet riddled with Metroids she scavenges for scraps and upgrades her suit. A Couple of inspirations for me are Halo, Dead Space, and The latest Tomb Raiders. The story I chose is Cinderella. It has been hard to find a parallel that I could use. I was thinking about while she was with the federation that would be like her step family. They over use her and don’t give her enough credit for what she does. So she becomes a mercenary. Freeing herself from them. On her first mission she encounters Ridley (the prince haha) and takes something of his. So he is hunting her down to get it back.