Sophie/Fitz, Sophie/Biana, Sophie/Lihn, Sophie/Marella, Sophie/Tam, Sophie/Dex
..it looks like Sophie is popular and loved, but oh, nobody actually cares!!! Sophie is everywhere and nowhere. She is NOT loved, she is NOT considered a friend, she is NOT seen as "one of them." Wow, is this AGAIN the trope of a character from another world who has no place in either the old or the new???
sophie is weird, sophie is boring, sophie still doesnβt understand this world even after several years, sophie is messy, sophie is stupid, sophie is selfish, sophie is overrated β yeayeasure! the girl everyone tolerated because too much depended on her suddenly becomes inconvenient and unpleasant once the enemyβs focus shifts to the whole group.
And now sheβs no longer a victim, not a savior, not a protector, not a martyr β just a simple fool who started bossing everyone around for no reason. OkkKay!
Everyone keeps a meterβs distance from her, everyone looks away, everyone stays silent when she speaks.
Her actions are criticized, and completely random jabs about her personal life and mental state are dragged in out of nowhere.
They talk about her in the third person right in front of her.
And then a bunch of random murderers and criminals turn out to be far more compassionate and empathetic than her own team.
so the theory that elves are soulless idiots with zero understanding of othersβ problems β since they apparently canβt accept any experience beyond their own (meager) one β is confirmed? in elfland, the only ones capable of empathy are those who were tortured as children β and even then, only in a specific way? knocknock??
I donβt know, honestly. By this point, I see Sophie ground down to sand. Her head canβt hold the flood of information, and it definitely canβt handle being responsible for herself and a whole horde of teenagers, plus their families. She has a ton of her own trauma that sheβs had no time to process or even feel, because events keep pushing her forward. And yeah, if before she had her mom hugging her at night and friends bringing her treats β now she has none of that? So? Logically speaking? She should be having the most massive breakdown ever?
She was rejected by her boyfriend, rejected by the whole matchmaking system (heh no place for an experiment in a family), rejected by her friends β one after another. The same elves she begged black swan to help (tam, lihn), the same elves she tried to protect and keep off missions (fitz biana dex), the same elves she worried about even when she was on the run hundreds of kilometers from home (marella!!!! sopthie worried about her!!!!!). Great??? Just great.
run to the humans, sweetheart. grab rainy under your arm. eat bananas and enjoy marshmallows.
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