Sonja (Nordlys)

Sonja is the main character of the Norwegian graphic novel series Nordlys by Malin Falch.
== Biography ==
Sonja is a 14-year old girl living in Røros, Norway. She lives with her mother and father, as well as her cat Kaos and horse Stjerna. She is a bit of a loner, not wanting to participate in her confirmation. When not riding Stjerna and exploring, she likes reading and is implied to like gaming and football/soccer as well, this due to sketches by Falch. Sonja never talks about school, so one can assume she doesn't like it very much. This being said, she gets along with younger children really well, quickly befriending the troll children and Lotta, as well as waving to some young children on her way home.
== Appearance ==
Sonja is a young girl of normal height, with blonde hair she usually has in a braid and violet eyes. She for the first 2 novels wears a white nightgown and a magenta jumper with a heart pattern. From novel 3 on she wears a white Sami-like dress, Sami shoes, with still her magenta jumper on top.
== Call to adventure ==
One day out riding she senses something in the forest but doesn't see anything. She returns home, just hours before her confirmation. Her mother scolds her as they prepare. After a tiring confirmation she meets uncle Henrik who gives her a strange looking pin as a confirmation gift much to her disapointment. But that night she hears strange sounds in her house. Downstairs she meets a boy, who seems familiar somehow. He wonders if she can give him the pin and he asks her if she wants to come with him to Jotundalen, a magical version of Norway you have to travel over the nothern lights to get to.
== Trivia ==
* Nordlys was known as the webcomic Fjordsøn from from 10.06.2015 to around 07.03.2016, but was canceled as Egmont bought publishing rights which fitted Falch just fine as she wanted to move back to Norway anyway. While the Fjordsøncomic.com website is now defunct, is it still available through the Wayback Machine. Although the stories difer.
* In Fjordsøn Sonja shares surname with conservative politician Erna Solberg, who was prime minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021. It's unknown if this is a coincidence or not, but as the surname hasn't been used in Nordlys it probably was and is ignored to avoid comparisons beteen the two.
* Sonja's shares her first name with the queen of Norway.
* According to Falch has she not met a single adult in person who likes Sonja while children like her just fine. Some adults site Sonja being a horse girl as their reason.
* When asked if there was going to be romance between Sonja and Espen did Falch let out a disgusted "No", her reasons were that Sonja is only 14 while Espen is hundreds of years old.
* She was inspired by Wendy Darling from Peter Pan.
* Given that the series takes place in ca. 2017, was she born in 2003, 10 years after Falch.
== Links ==
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* Information in English
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* Author's Twitter
* Official Facebook Page
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