#webs thoughts

Some of these are purely speculation, based on me knowing people with similar history to her and thinking what would be an interesting to have as tidbits. I think its fun to think about a character you like and flesh out details of them.

That being said:

Before she did track she went through a few other hobbies in an attempt by her mother to keep her busy and curb some of her excess energy. She played soccer and was an aggressive defender. Tried softball but didn't have the patience. Ended up doing Ballet for a little while, and she liked that for the repetition and how hard it was. Stephen pulled her out of every extracurricular to isolate her. Track was the result by the end of it because it matched with her cape activity the best. Plus, beating someone in a literal race got her competitive spirit burning.

Her power was probably more tuned to act like a haunting spirit than the stalking aggression she uses it for. When Missy got under her skin and her control slipped, we saw how it is when shes aggravated; making her look more corpse like, akin to a ghost. She's had it for years, and I think her current use is a result of finely tuned control and a splash of her power accommodating her.

Additionally to this, some people like to credit Sophia's aggression purely to her power. I think this is untrue, or at least partially. From Wildbows comments on her origin story and clearly how the point in which they claim is the reasoning is from Taylor, a biased source on the subject, I think the real answer is she was always a little testy, a child screaming for attention who never got it and took that wailing to become her entire personality.

Aisha harasses Sophia after Golden Morning because she finds it funny, send tweet

Post-Worm speculation about Sophia is an entire other post. I have a few fic concepts I like to spin on about the subject, somewhat because I think there's some neat ideas to explore, partially because its interesting to me how she just ups and vanishes like Taylor did. But I want to say she hates the Gold Morning pins and badges people have, and refuses to ever get one and treats anyone who does have one harshly.

I think she's lonely. I think she latched onto Emma not because of a crush, or some mutual feelings the two of them had. I think Sophia sees herself as someone different than others, and wanted to find someone who could get it. That's where her vision of 'survivors' comes from—she wants to know there are people like here out there. That will claw and fight and bleed for themselves. Emma was someone her age that fought back. That tried to be like her and failed, and Sophia stuck around because she didn't want to admit to herself that Emma wasn't like her. Her first impressions are hard to shake.

Scars are probably a complicated subject for her. On one hand, they're a showcase that someone fought and survived, that they made it out of something so bad their body left a permanent mark on them. On the other hand they're a sign that they got injured in the first place, a weakness to be hit at all. I think she has scars on her hands, little knicks and cuts from learning the crossbow and knives down the line. She doesn't like to think about them.