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Sophie was one of the many compelled human servants that unwillingly work in the Faerieland.
Physical Description[]
She has cracked lips which are thin and bruised eyes. Her movements are described as slow, as if the air were as thick as water. She has a pattern of moles on her skin and blonde hair with split ends. She also has roughness on her knees, from doing forced labor.
Personality[]
Sophie is mentally unstable due to her compelled life as a human in the Faerie realm. Her trauma prompts her to take her own life when Jude Duarte and Vivienne try to bring her back to the mortal realm. She is unable to accept that Faerieland is real and can't accept what has happened to her.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Sophie grew up in the human realm not knowing about the Faerie realm. She always wanted there to be magic in the world, like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Tinker Bell.
Sophie attended Burning Man and there was a guy who said he had this gig passing hors d'oeuvres for a rich weirdo in one of the air-conditioned tents. He told her not to take anything otherwise she would have to serve him for a thousand years. Assuming the warning was a joke, Sophie took something and ended up in Elfhame at Hollow Hall where she was enchanted to work as a servant.
Jude meets Sophie when she is sneaking around Hollow Hall, on a mansion for Prince Dain and notices how poorly treated Sophie is. Jude feels unable to leave Sophie in Prince Balekin's control. She makes her eat salt which breaks the effects of the faerie fruit that she had been forced to consume. She begs Sophie to let her rescue her and brings her to Madoc's Stronghold.
Jude then enlists the help of Vivienne to help return Sophie safely to the human realm. However, by this point, Sophie finds it hard to cope with what's happened to her, and how she has been a mindless slave in the Faerie realm for years. She keeps begging Jude to tell her “it’s not real” and says, “I don’t think I can live with any of this being real.”
Vivi magics a bouquet of ragwort stalks into steeds to take Sophie to the human realm. However, everything has become too much for Sophie to handle. As they are flying over the sea, Sophie closes her eyes, tilts to one side, lets go of the steed's mane, and lets herself fall. Vivi tries to grab her but it's too late. Sophie soundlessly plunges through the night sky toward the sea. When she hits the water there is barely even a splash.
Jude recalls Sophie filling her pockets with stones, implying that Sophie was planning to kill herself all along. Jude feels guilty for Sophie’s death, because she believes if she hadn’t helped Sophie, she would still be alive. Jude and Vivienne searched for Sophie‘s body for hours but couldn’t find it.
At the coronation ceremony, Jude thinks she sees Sophie with the delegation from the Undersea. Only now Sophie has gray skin and blue lips with her hair hanging around her sunken-eyed face. This reminds Jude of the stories she has heard about the mere-folk of the Undersea keeping drowned sailors. Jude convinces herself that she imagined seeing Sophie.