Sophia

Description \ Bio

Sophia is a playable character from Persona 5 Strikers. She is an AI found by the protagonist while escaping the Shibuya Jail who gets involved with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Before being approached by the protagonist, Sophia appears as a giant box with patterned lines on it, but quickly takes the form of a young girl. Her appearance is based on what whoever activates it wants her to become. While taking the form of a human, she has a petite frame and white skin, with cyan irises with large black rings, and light pink lips. Her hair is bright red with M-shaped bangs and a very short back, as well as rounded tips. She also has a small ahoge and seven hearts on each side of her head, all of them being red with hearts in deeper shades of red within the middle of these. The hearts also curve inward much like pigtails, each becoming smaller towards the ends. She wears a white one-piece outfit with large bell sleeves opening up at the ends and a dress section ending just at her hips. The chest area has a hoop-like extrusion with black markings on it, which is a minimalist calligraphy of her name, and similar extrusions are seen on the end of the dress, as well as the top and ends of the sleeves. She also wears tight black shorts and black rubber boots with silver soles and a large ring-like extrusion on the tips. Most of her neck section is surrounded by a large ring with a tip on the back side. As shown in her concept art and in-game, her outfit is made of a silicone-like material, allowing it to stretch around her body. When she's in combat, her boots extend up to her upper thighs, she now wears black gloves, and her hood is up, encapsulating most of her head with the pointy tip now on the back of her head, and the hearts now forming a 14-sectioned ponytail-like extension. When in combat, her hood now covers her mouth and a black pixelated screen covers her eyes like a mask, with only her hair and two LED cyan rings representing eyes being visible. Her LED eyes can change shape, functioning similarly to text emoji's, to help her convey expressions during conversations in active combat. She wields two white yo-yos with a black center and a ring of cyan LED lights inside of them. When she's not in the Metaverse, only her portrait is represented when active. When she's inactive, she's represented by a red circle with her hooded face on it. She resides in the protagonist's phone for most of Strikers, and does not appear physically unless within the vicinity of the Metaverse. When brainwashed, Sophia has hollow eyes in a bright red coloration. When she's snapping out of it, the eyes alternate between red and green. Sophia is helpful and supportive by nature, describing herself as a "friend" to anyone who speaks to her, and quick to offer assistance and suggestions for any query posed her. She also is a bit unpreceptive when it comes to organic life forms, not realizing that her rescuers did not understand she was an AI that can only travel outside the Metaverse in digital form. Sophia is also seem to be somewhat naive this is best shown when she asked Ryuji for something to help with their mission only for him to jokingly ask for a gold bar she took his word seriously and ordered one unknowing that the Phantom Thieves would get in trouble and cause them a great amount of shock. Due to inheriting her creator's mindset herself, she can be surprisingly ruthless at times, initially suggesting a plan to assassinate Alice Hiiragi when asked on her input on how to stop her from abducting people into her Jail, not knowing that killing people is wrong, though she immediately backpedals when the Phantom Thieves react with horror. Sophie largely offers nearly identical functions as her open-end counterpart, EMMA. She can plan traveling routes, determine how much time does it take to arrive to a specific place and even order items for her owner. If an item would be ordered through Sophia, she will pay the vendors using cryptocurrency from her owner's side, and items will be delivered to the destination within a few minutes. However, unlike EMMA, Sophia will not make decisions for her users arbitrarily. Instead, Sophia bears the ability to learn human behavior and can properly interact with her users or other people by asking questions, unlike EMMA who displays neither of such behavior. Sophia can sense Jails overlaid within a city, or even detect newly formed Jails. Inside the Metaverse, Sophie could defend herself using Pithos. This is not considered a proper persona, but is treated as if it were one, gameplay-wise. EMMA can communicate with Sophia telepathically, with nobody else being able to hear EMMA's side of the confrontation. She's drawn to these voices, usually going out of control to chase them in hopes of regaining her purpose. She hears those voices, because she is (supposedly) a failed variant of EMMA. Before awakening a persona for earnest, Kuon Ichinose could tamper with Sophia's behavior via vocal input. However, she will refuse to fight anyone whom she had forged a bond with for long. Ichinose can no longer control Sophia once she declares herself as a completely independent entity instead of a pure machine.