Appearance

Physical Description

Thin and waifish, Sofia is a physically underwhelming specimen. She does not even make up for her lack of strength with agility, and tends to keep her distance from physical confrontation due to this.

Body Features

Sofia bears lightning scars on the front of her right shoulder, from where she was caught by the full force of Zitonai's breath.

Physical quirks

Sofia has a small birthmark in the shape of the constellation Astellis behind her right ear.

Apparel & Accessories

Sofia wears a great deal of unique apparel, and her artifacts come primarily in the form of small accessories. She wears a small black choker with embroidered silver eyes and no clasp, a large collection of rings, and a black robe with many pockets both inside and out.

Special abilities

While she cannot control it, Sofia's physical form has reached some degree of mutability. When deeply affected by the influence of the eldritch, other minds and bodies come forward in the forms of former investigators of the occult.

Mentality

Mental Trauma

Alisa's ailment has taken a severe psychological toll on Sofia, and left her with a deep-seated fear of losing those close to her, especially to illness or disease. When her friends' lives are in danger, she often becomes desperate and acts irrationally, trying to protect or save them even if it leaves herself at risk.
 
Additionally, her lonely upbringing and lack of friends beyond her sister have left her deeply self-conscious and anxious when it comes to maintaining relationships with others. She is quick to blame herself when conflicts in interpersonal relationships arise, and often tries to change her behaviour to avoid pushing others away. Perhaps her desire to change in order to please others has something to do with her strange shift in biology...

person.sexuality

Sofia is not entirely sure what her sexuality is. She has never been all that interested in romance and knows for certain she has no interest in men. Though has not found the words for it herself, the most accurate label would be demiromantic and grey-asexual, with an attraction only to women and feminine-identifying non-binary people.

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Sofia fully identifies with her assigned sex at birth, female. The other minds that occasionally usurp her own follow a wide array of identities, though she herself has no recollection of what happens when the other researchers are in control.

Known Languages

Sofia is fluent in Common, Deep Speech, Abyssal, Infernal, Celestial, Primordial, Draconic, Undercommon, and Minor Eldyrion. She has also found herself able to read any and all writings since her research began. Additionally, she has created several ciphers for various languages, and uses them to encrypt her records of those secrets too dangerous to fall into the wrong hands.

Personality

Motivation

Sofia's deepest and most driving goal is her desperate hopes of saving Alisa. Sofia's sister means more to her than anything else, and she has vowed to leave no stone unturned in the search for a cure to the malign ailment with which Alisa has been struck.

Quotes & Catchphrases

"If there's one thing I've learned from my studies, it's that... I'm sure there's a better way for me to phrase this that will come across as less ominous and creepy, but you're never truly alone."
"I was a prisoner!"
"I say, my chap, are you alright good fellow? You seem to be a bit addled in the head, and uh... made of wood." - Sir Varengoss Von Valenheim
"I'm sorry." - Sofia, moments before dropping her own defenses to move Phaes to safety.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Sofia has an intricate and deep understanding of the occult from her research, but her other attempts at finding a cure have also educated her well in medicine, history, religion, arcana, and several other fields.
 
Aside from her physical and social shortcomings, Sofia is also rather inept when it comes to cooking. While Alisa had a love and talent for baking, Sofia never quite got the hang of it, instead sticking to brewing tea and coffee.

Likes & Dislikes

Favourite Scents: Fresh pine needles and Alysa's baking.

Personality Quirks

Sofia often talks to herself under her breath, seemingly to things that aren't there. Since joining the Wildcards, she has done her best to suppress this habit, worrying they might not like her if they discovered the true depths of her strangeness.
 
She also has a few small cultural superstitions from the Triumvirate she follows, such as always giving some amount of payment for a gift, and refusing to turn back for something she forgot unless absolutely necessary (and even then, she always sits in silence for a moment before leaving again).

Hygiene

Sofia keeps good personal hygiene, in part a habit leftover from her medical research. While on the road, when proper bathing is not an option, she uses the minor power stored within one of her trinkets to keep herself and her clothes clean.

Social

Birthplace

Mamensky

Current Residence

N/A

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Torgovetsia - Feminine form of Torgovetsi, a title for a member of a mercantile family elevated to status roughly equal to a Baron or Baroness who is not one of the family heads. The titles for the house heads are the masculine Torgovets and the feminine Torgovetsa.

Wealth & Financial state

The Morozov Mercantile Company are incredibly widespread, and as such her family have great funds at their disposal. In addition to the family home in Mamensky, they have a small summer estate just south of Tor Efrun, overlooking the Efruni Valley.
 
While Sofia is technically the heir since her parents gave up on saving Alisa, she has not been involved with her parents for several years, and as such lacks any way to easily access the family and company's funds or assets.

Social Aptitude

Unfortunately for Sofia, she has never made friends easily. Not only does she lack any great depths of charisma, but something about her is faintly unnerving. She often speaks to herself or to things that no one else sees, and as such people tend to avoid her. After meeting the Wildcards and travelling with them for some time, she began to open up and thought she had at last found close friends. However, after Morthak informed her she talks to much her budding confidence has been crushed, and she has fallen back into the quiet loneliness that she is so used to.
 
Since that incident, Morthak has spoken with her about it, and Sofia's confidence has begun to return.

Hobbies & Pets

Sofia has a great love for properly brewed teas and coffees, and before Alisa fell ill she had procured a rather impressive collection. She would often insist on brewing it herself, rather than allowing servants to prepare it for her. On the road, however, she has not had any time to properly enjoy the simpler pleasures of life.

Speech

Sofia's speech is typically rather formal, though on her travels it has roughened up slightly. She carries a moderate Triumvirate accent, though only when speaking common. When speaking in the other languages she has a talent for, her her accent is very neutral, though her pronunciation can be stiff at times.