Sofia Porter

Sofia Porter is one of the two tritagonists (alongside Masa Shimamoto) of the Glitch Productions web series Meta Runner. 
She is a member of MD-5 and worked for MD-5 as a technician and hacker for the group. Sofia is considered one of the best when it comes to Meta Runner arms, as Lamar said on Aimbot, where she configured Masa and Lamar's meta runner arms. She is believed to be Lucinia's sister, who was revealed in Shutdown and the main reason she joined MD-5. Sofia has great chemistry with MD-5 and has shown her delight in hanging out with her friends while annoying them.
She is voiced by Hayley Nelson.
==Personality==
She has shown to be insecure as well as uneasy, similar to Tari. However, she attempts to to hide it some more but shows to have an emotional side whenever she hears the disclosure of Lucinia's possible death.
She appears to have a strong interest in hacks and mods and has far more understanding about technology than other major characters. Sofia follows a personality stereotype to a degree, as she can be narrated as being a computer geek described, a lot like the other members of MD-5.
==Appearance==
Sofia has fair skin, with blonde hair at the right side, blue eyes, and dark blonde eyebrows. She wears a white undershirt, a pair of goggles around her neck, a silver nose ring, black and brown pants with two brown belts, black rubber boots, and a tied green jacket around her waist. She almost has the same height as Tari.
==Biography==
===Backstory===
She was stated to be raised by Lucinia, and at one point she helped Marco with the Luminous Gaming hack when Marco helped Sofia solve her problems with the Rolling Cartridge gang. She also said that at one point she gave up trying to cut off the Meta Runner's arm as Marco's work, suggesting that her relationship with Marco was more business-oriented. At some point, she is informed of Lucinia's disappearance and suspects that Lucks is behind it, so she joins the MD-5 to take down TASCorp.
===Season 1===
After Theo and Lamar rescue Tari from Lucks, Lamar brings Tari to a Raman shop, where they encounter Sofia working on Masa's Meta Runner arm. She introduces herself and expresses excitement about Tari's ability to enter a video game, commenting that it is unprecedented. Sofia is eager to inspect Tari's arm to understand how she achieved this, but Lamar intervenes, reminding Sofia of their recent ordeal. Tari inquires about their organization, and Sofia explains that they are MD-5 and their mission. She believes that, with Tari and Theo's help, they have a good chance of taking down their enemies. Although Theo is on board, Tari is hesitant. Sofia suggests that since Tari has nowhere else to go and they are not friends of TASCorp, Tari would want to team up. Before Tari and Theo can agree, Masa arrives and insists that they prove themselves. This irritates Sofia, who calls Masa stubborn. Despite this, Masa challenges Tari to a game, which she accepts. As they get ready to participate in the Battle Blaze challenge, Sofia describes Battle Blaze as a first-person shooter game where the objective is to find cover, utilize available weapons, and attempt to outlast the other player. She then starts the countdown for them to begin and initiates the battle. She expresses concern as Tari struggles against Masa in the game. 
After a while, just as Masa was preparing to depart, Tari voiced her dissatisfaction, catching Sofia's attention. Sofia then examined and adjusted Tari's Meta Runner arm, observing that it appeared to be a standard model until she noticed the Project Blue crest. She remarked on its uniqueness before pressing on it, causing Tari to be transported into the game. As Tari entered the game and Masa continued playing, Sofia reassured Tari not to worry, explaining that if she were to be shot in the game, she would simply respawn. Sofia then initiated the countdown for the battle to commence. Following the game, Sofia inquired about Tari's experience inside the game, asking about any pain felt, the appearance of the world, and whether she was asking too many questions. Tari responded that it was enjoyable and expressed confidence that with more practice, she could excel at it. Sofia then praised Theo and questioned how he knew Masa's whereabouts, to which Theo replied that he did not know, but Masa accepted Tari into MD-5. Subsequently, Theo began glitching, leading Sofia to speculate that it was due to him spending too much time outside his cartridge in the real world. MD-5 expressed concern and quickly returned Theo to his cartridge. Despite the confusion caused by Theo and Tari being ejected from the game, Lamar and Masa were informed by Sofia that the issue arose from having two Theos in the game, causing a programming overload and subsequent crash, necessitating the use of Theo's original cartridge. Tari recommends retrieving it from the speed run arena, but Sofia informs Tari that Lucks has likely confiscated it. This news upsets Tari, but Sofia offers some encouraging words to boost MD-5's morale. Masa inquires if Sofia remembers Operation Silent Demon, to which Sofia confirms. Lamar interjects, stating that the plan was to train Tari and recruit her into MD-5, not to embark on a risky mission. Masa questions Lamar's strategy to retrieve Theo's cartridge by recruiting Tari, but Lamar admits he doesn't have a clear plan. Masa argues that with Tari and Theo's abilities, the mission is not impossible. Sofia sides with Masa, much to Lamar's surprise. She emphasizes the urgency of the situation and the need to act quickly. Tari asks about Operation Silent Demon, frustrating Lamar as Masa and Sofia had already planted the idea in her mind. Masa suggests continuing the discussion in the morning and advises everyone to get some rest. 
The following day, Lamar, Tari, and Theo were having their meal when Sofia and Masa arrived to greet everyone. Sofia then surprised Tari and the others by presenting a holographic field to capture their attention. Tari admired the avatars on the holographic field and commented on their cuteness, to which Sofia agreed and then got sidetracked by telling Tari that she had made them herself. After mentioning that she liked Masa’s miniature avatar, she looked over at Masa, who gave her an intimidating expression, prompting her to refocus and explain that it had been a year since she, Masa, and Lamar formed MD-5. They had been tirelessly trying to disrupt and take down TASCorp, but always came out unsuccessful until they came up with operation Silent Demon. Masa explained that the general idea was to hack TASCorp's network and gain access to their private files and records, which would reveal the horrible things TASCorp had done or planned to do. Sofia then explained that the problem was TASCorp’s tight security system, but she had discovered a way to get in, and that's where Tari and Theo would come in. An underground e-sport competition was coming up, not to be broadcasted to the public, and more importantly, TASCorp would be running the game on their servers. Tari asked what that meant, and Masa explained that if the game crashed during the competition, the servers would go down, giving Sofia a small window to hack into TASCorp’s network. Sofia explained about a glitch they had to execute to crash the game. Meanwhile, Lamar, annoyed by the situation, had to work out anyway, so they all went to the gym and started playing Tempest. Sofia takes charge of the game as the hacker and programmer for Tempest, instructing Tari on what to do while guiding her. When Tari falls off the cliff, Sofia intervenes by manipulating the game to change Tari's trajectory and create a glitch. Following the successful glitch, Sofia motivates Tari to attempt it again, leading to an extensive training session with Tari while Sofia relaxes. Despite initial frustration, Tari eventually manages to perform the glitch on her own, awakening with joy. Sofia congratulates Tari, and Masa advises her to continue practicing and preparing for further training. Sofia offers words of encouragement to keep Tari motivated as they continue training until the upcoming event.
Sofia went to great lengths to ensure that Lamar, Masa, Tari, and Theo could participate as competitors, unbeknownst to Luck, as she was at her computer the entire game preparing for Good for to get data. from the TASCorp server in the event of a Tari failure. As soon as Tari's mistake happened, she was hard at work downloading and storing data on her laptop and phone. However, she gives up and succumbs to her luck as Luck holds Masa hostage and prepares to shoot Masa in the head. She then handed the laptop to Luck, yelling for Masa to be spared, and Luck kept his word. It was then later revealed that Sophie just wanted to know what happened to her sister Lucinia Potter and Belle came to show her what happened to Lucinia Porter. This made Sofia break down even more and even wonder why this happened. She has lost all will, especially after seeing Theo disappear and fall into a coma, crying as she is taken to the detention center. That is until Tari makes a deal with Lucks, which separates Tari from Sofia and her friends as they say a heartbreaking goodbye to each other.
It turns out that the rest of the MD-5s are being escorted back to the hideout when Sophie sees Bella on the way holding her phone, looks like she wants to say something, but the TASGuard pushes her and she has to go back to the hideout.
===Season 2===
After six months, Sofia pulls up by an alleyway with Lamar as they navigate Silica's rougher areas in search of Masa. Lamar and Sofia try to approach Masa for a conversation, but he just wants to leave as they are exploring when they come across him. Because of this, Sofia becomes frustrated and decides to call Masa again, adding that there is still hope. By saying that not all hope is lost, she means that the data on her phone was not completely lost. However, he issue was that it was with Belle, so they had to come up with a strategy to get it. As they begin to discuss the strategy, she and Lamar return to Masa's Firewall apartment, which they had previously rented. The neighbor kept bugging them but stopped when he saw Sofia and Lamar, so the three of them started discussing the plan. Lamar and Sofia are thus able to discuss the plan and persuade Masa to join in on it. As for how they come up with their first part of the plan, which is to get Masa a new arm, Sofia tells him how to do it even if they don't have much money.
The Rustworks is where they decide to go after some time has passed, as seen in Unreal Engines when Sofia meets and chats with Marco there. As soon as Masa and Lamar entered the room, Marco was a little dismissive. When Sofia began talking to Marco about the need to enter the competition, Marco dismissed her because she had no entry fee to pay. But after Lamar paid Marco's entry fee, Marco agreed to pay for all three of them in order to compete in the tournament. When Lamar and Masa win, Sofia gets to watch from the sidelines while supporting them. She mostly just observes the action during the match until Masa and Lamar triumph. Then, as Marco was about to question Masa, he becomes enraged for having suspicions that Masa was cheating. However, Sofia climbed the stairs to tell Marco not to make a big deal out of it and to not give him any special treatment. As a result, Marco decides to accept defeat and let the three of them leave the area. 
As Sofia, Lamar, and Masa get back into the car to head to Masa's apartment, they all heave a sigh of relief because they now have the components needed to build a meta runner arm for Masa. In Heart to Heart, it is revealed that Masa's arm has finally been constructed in his apartment. The finishing touches are then added by Sofia as she gives Masa permission to use his arm. She then joins Masa in their discussion of how to defeat TASCorp and free Tari. Sofia begins to listen in and join in on the conversation alongside Lamar after Lamar has had a chance to pick up the Pocket Gakusei notification and speak to Tari for a while. Tari Lamar sets up some smartphones after Masa accepts their apology, and Sofia, who is the second person to enter the classroom, joyfully creates an account with the name GENKIBUNNY3. As soon as Masa arrives, they start discussing the strategy with Tari. Sofia becomes concerned as Tari is taken out of the game, but she remains much calmer than Lamar despite being right there with them. She then feels relieved that Tari was able to reconnect but is also a little taken aback to learn that Tari was speaking with Belle alongside the others. After discussing it, she starts to warm up to the notion of including Belle in the plan. As a result, Tari persuades Masa to accept Belle, who is then included in the team after everyone hears about Tari and Evelyn's plan to compete in a show match.
On the day of the show match, as shown in Hack and Slash, it was shown through various methods that Sofia was able to hack and gain access to Horizon Stadium's security system when she began to signal her teammates to proceed, specifically to change the cartridge. So when the Hidden Heroes game starts, she also starts the countdown and waits for the data to be completely transferred from the phone. Throughout the game, she carefully monitors her communication with Sofia, just in case. As the match continued, Tari was eventually knocked out by Evelyn when she told Lucks. This causes Lucks to start trying to get Lamar and Masa out of the crowd while they ask Sofia for help. Sofia then hijacked the message bot and Lucks' communications and forced him to answer. Fortunately, Sofia threatens him and tells him all the shady things he's been doing there, and if he goes ahead, Sophia will destroy him. So she had Lucks stand in the middle waving to the crowd and then she gave in to the crowd because Lucks brought them the show today. This raises the stakes of the show match as it ends with Tari winning and her being able to transfer the data to the tape.
Then, she started walking away from there, waiting for Tari and the others to come to her at a certain place and time. Some time passed and when she was talking to Lamar about what happened she was finally met by Lamar's car and then she saw Tari and was so relieved to go up to her and hug her after leaving her 6 months of excitement. Sofia asks about the cartridge, is also happy to see it and asks for it to be given to her so she can leak information about TASCorp and destroy Lucks. But Tari says that's not a good idea because Theo, Masa and Belle are now being held hostage under Lucks' control. Masa, Theo and Belle are being held hostage, worrying Sofia as she feels hopeless and doesn't know what to do now as she believes they are now at a dead end. But when Sofia and Lamar fall into despair together, Tari formulates a plan, which she tells Sofia and Lamar because she gives them hope. Sofia is on the phone with Lucks, she tries to bargain and threaten Lucks, but Lucks intercepts her and grabs her, he pulls the cartridge from her and looks at Sofia with strong and angry eyes. Sofia also looked at him with confidence and smiled smugly as the cassette had no data on his server. As Lucks panicked and despaired, Sofia began to laugh at Lucks for being arrogant, as Lucks became very angry and threw her where Masa and Belle were being held. After a friendly reunion talk with Masa and Bella, she continues to taunt Lucks as he and the others pick her up while he tries to get to TASCorp as quickly as possible.
During in the middle of the van ride, Tari has apparently beaten Evelyn and settled the game, causing Lucks to panic as he doesn't know what to do now. As soon as his car crashed, he got out of the car and took Masa out as Sofia and Belle expressed their concern that Masa was being treated rudely. Lucks threatens everyone as Sofia looks genuinely worried up there until all the TASCorp data is leaked there. Masa and Lucks fight and eventually Masa gets the gun and makes Belle and Sofia run out to where Lamar and Tari are. Sofia went to Lamar to make sure he was okay passing out from the shock of the car crash. While she was there taking care of Lamar, Lucks started talking about what was really going on with Project Blue as he gave everyone a lot of information and when he said that Lucinia was alive, Sofia was confused and curious as to how she was doing. alive there. This allows her to hear Lucks' full story as he reveals that Tari is an artificial intelligence in a human-made organism. Processing Information Sofia fully supports Tari as she will not be swayed by talk of bringing Lucinia back to life. Although they were from the heart, the police voice shocked everything, trying to escape with others. However, Masa remained behind and wondered if he should pull the trigger. She and everyone talked him out of pulling the trigger because she was there too. Masa was relieved after Sheridan slashed his arm and then pulled the trigger, shooting Lucks as he fell to the ground. This surprised everyone, especially Sofia, who couldn't believe Masa shot Lucks. Everyone is panicking as they don't know what to do as Tari wants to help Masa and everyone else has to run from the police. In the end, Sofia and Theo were the first to escape, followed by Tari and Lamar. While trying to escape from Sofia and the others, they ran into Marco, who said he would give them a ride while Sofia and the others stood in shock.
===Season 3===
A week later, Sofia, Tari, Lamar and Theo are locked in Marco's cell. Marco goes to the cell, takes them out and tries to figure out what to do with them. After negotiations, it was agreed that Sofia would play Turbo Crash 9 against Marco with Tari, Lamar and Theo to make up for Masa's cheating. Just as they are about to meet Marco together, something seems to be wrong with the warp because Tari is not in the game. This prompts Sofia to ask for Marco's computer, and she opens the backdoor to her computer. But when Tari finally entered the Skybreakers, only Theo returned to the portal. Theo tells Sofia and the others about the problem and what happened to Tari. Sofia, Lamar, Theo and Marco then triangulate where Tari might be and they go to help Tari in Skybreakers. When they rescued Tari from the Skybreaker, Sofia watched from the computer and gave directions to Tari, Lamar, Theo, and Marco.
As the others arrive at Vagabond's Landing, Sofia is still mostly watching and monitoring them. But when Lucinia shows up, Sofia is shocked to see what has happened to her sister. Sofia was panicked that her sister was attacking Tari as her voice was able to momentarily bring Lucinia back to consciousness before Tari cut Lucinia to retrieve some of her pieces. This gave Tari a chance to escape, and as Tari escaped with the others, Sofia congratulated Tari on their escape from Evelyn and Lucinia's attack. When Tari opened the treasure chest that Theo fished out and the treasure was a Scherbach coffee mug, Sophie was thrilled to discover Sheridan's footprints, but she was also angry that Sheridan turned her sister into a ruthless killer. As Tari and her gang make their way through ScrapBeard's fortress and wander through the dungeon, Sofia is still watching, though a screenshot of a group of mermaids posing at one point. After some time, when Tari and the others arrived at a chief named Angler, Sofia learned that Evelyn and Lucinia had entered the fortress. Lamar goes to distract Evelyn and Lucinia as Tari wants to make a mistake, after a while Tari succeeds but when Evelyn corrects her, Lamar disappears somewhere. It turns out that he's actually involuntarily warped, as Sofia freaks out as she checks Lamar's condition, seeking help to stabilize him.
==Trivia==
*Sofia originally had black/blue glasses as seen in the Meta Runner trailer, but the color of the glasses may have been changed to brown to match the color of the lenses.
*A police report on Sofia revealed that one of her crimes was possession of illegal enhancements.
*The police report also charged Sophia with more crimes than Masa or Lamar.
*She and Tari are the only characters who cry in every season finale.
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