about sonia!

sonia magnolia is a character introduced in the game pokemon sword and shield! she's the granddaughter + assistant of professor magnolia who through the story gains the title of professor herself. she participated in the gym challenge when she was younger, having formerly been champion leon's rival, but eventually dropped out, leading to where we see her in sword and shield, and what happens with her arc in that game!

she appears in multiple other forms of pokemon media, such as the manga and the anime, but with less prominent roles (never forgiving the anime for not having more of a galar focus but whatever -__-). i do appreciate that her driving is absolutely atrocious in the anime though

i connect with sonia as a character a lot as someone who's currently stuck in their life and doesn't know what they want to do. i was stuck working at a job that i hated and then the place shut down and now i'm struggling to look for something because i know i'll just hate whatever i end up doing. i already know what i want to do to an extent, being art, but i don't have the means to get there yet. i keep hoping that someday something will come along for me that i'm truly passionate about, the same way sonia was when she was studying the history of galar.

my friends!
i have a lot of unique takes about sonia + who i consider to be friends with her! idc if these don't line up with canon btw these are literally real.

leon
this one was obviously going to be here being that...leon and sonia are canonically childhood friends. i love this dynamic a lot and even if i don't talk about them as much, dnsn both platonic and romantic are very important to me! it's sad to see how they've drifted apart in various pieces of media though :( leon my friend leon

nessa
also obvious that it was going to be here for the same reasons! it's sweet that while they struggle to, they still make time for each other despite both having their own jobs, and their friendship is just as strong as it was when doing the gym challenge! also. i have a huge crush on nessa so for obvious reasons of their dynamic being literally the best combined with that of course i ship these two

raihan
participated in the gym challenge at the same time!! history buddies!! i like to read him flirting with her in the anime as a playful joking thing that they'd do with each other in gameverse! i wish we got to see them interacting more, because i think their dynamic could be really fun if it was explored more.

hop
at the end of swsh hop becomes sonia's assistant while he studies to become a pokemon professor himself! i don't really have much to say about this one, it's in a similar place to the protag where i'd mainly just be talking about how they helped each other throughout the story, however i do like to think that in the past maybe sonia used to babysit hop if leon and the rest of his family were busy!

sordward
ok this is where my takes on her relationships become a lot more personal than just how things were in canon because how i see them is totally different. it's a bit hard to explain their relationship, if you know me you know i ship them, with them being one of my main ships from any media in general. what can i say, i'm not immune to enemies to lovers. but the way i see it it's a bit more complex than that. to me, i feel like there surprisingly isn't much of a grudge held between the two for the events of the postgame. obviously sonia still finds him annoying and doesn't have the greatest opinion of him, and vice versa, but i can see them hanging out and actually forming a friendship. part of the reason this one means so much to me is because of that potential for development. i view them as having a rivalry, except it can't really fully be described as a rivalry given that there's not really any specific thing they're competing for, though they definitely would try to one-up each other at various things at any given opportunity. now if you want my takes on them from a romantic standpoint it somehow gets even more complicated. as much as i tend to portray it as a mutual relationship when i draw them to an extent i kind of see it being a one sided crush on sordward's end.
tldr: video of them beating the shit out of each other captioned "best friends" with a heart emoji

special costume sonia!
a.k.a, queen sonia

released for the curious tea party costume event, the first alt sonia in masters after her introduction...or as i personally like to call it: unintentional sordsoni pandering. like come on, you cannot give me an alt where sonia is dressed as a queen and not expect me to go "omg guys sordsoni real canon holy shit no way thats crazy!?!?!"
although at the same time it is kind of a punch in the face to sordward and i absolutely love that. first sonia releases a book that essentially calls out his entire family for their bs and then she has the nerve to go around dressing up as a queen afterwards? absolutely fucking hilarious.

i love this alt so much..the design is absolutely amazing (as they typically are in pokemon masters) and she looks absolutely beautiful! i was really salty over the event when it first released (for dumb reasons) bc of lillie getting another alt + various other factors (dena giving another set of twins 2 pokemon that i had come up w sygna suit ideas for sordward and shielbert before + also the fact it came like. a month after i had made a fan design for palentines sordward with polteageist that was sort of similar to lillie's outfit, but there's only so much you can do with certain pokemon designs lmao) but i loved the event so much. everyone shone in the event and i think the alice in wonderland theme was really fun! i wish they'd free the striaton brothers from npc hell after their introduction in this event. but this isn't about them, this is about sonia!
where do i start with sonia? you can tell she's really having a lot of fun playing the queen role for the tea party! the fact that she's acting queenly to grow closer with tsareena and to better understand her partner is very sweet. there's something so charming about the fact she's taking it as far as to start laughing like "ohohohoho"...overall it was a very fun event, and as much as i think everyone was great in it sonia really stood out to me (however. i am biased bc i like sonia)

also, sonia's battle prep story with nessa was SO gay. sonia putting a "dash of love" into the curry she used to make for nessa because she made it while thinking of her? i know what you are.

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