Sophie

Drinking (something, possibly champain)

'*"Sophie" **is the title character in the ARG/web-series '***i am sophie', **and is a main character in the series.**

## Description

Sophie is the daughter of a millionaire businessman, who in February 2020 began posting about her lifestyle on Instagram, Twitter and her YouTube channel. While on a journey to find her true self, she shows off her family's wealth through their mansion/hall, Lamborghini, private jet, yacht, and their Greek villa.

Little is currently known about Sophie or her family. She suggests that she is a well known model, but has no outside proof. She vapes, and her face is obscured by the smoke on multiple occasions. Sophie shows a picture of her and her father, whose wealth comes from an undisclosed source. They are on poor terms, allegedly due to the creation of her YouTube channel, and it's hinted in one of the binary messages that her father is always distant. Her mother is called a fit former super-model, which Ben agrees with in the 2nd video, but is rarely mentioned again. Sophie says she is a sister in the original trailer, although no siblings have been shown or identified. She has a close friend, named Plum, who appears in multiple videos.

Sophie has appeared in most of the videos to date either as the human version of herself or an avatar version from the 'i am sophie' video game played by Lara, including having Sophie's voice used on several occasions to communicate with Lara directly.

## Brand

Sophie owns the brand YRP (Young, Rich and Powerful). On her online shop, she sells T-shirts, Premium T-shirts and Hoodies with the brand's logo on them. Throughout her videos, we see Sophie and her friends wearing and promoting her merch, and the third video was a 41-second promotional ad. You can't purchase this merch as it all "sold out" moments after release and only exists in the ARG.

## History

### Pre-series

The twitter and Instagram pages start updating on Feb 5, 2020, with most of the main items posted on both of them. Sophie's initial entries are focused on business meetings, shopping, and a trip to Greece. Images from shoots that will are in the original trailer are posted including shots at the photo studio and the yacht. Ben is introduced as filming her for a new project. After the trailer for the new series is posted in You Tube on Feb 13, Sophie has a girls night out, then flies to Los Angeles for a weekend, as she's bored. A promotion for the 1st full vlog is posted on Feb 18, and is uploaded on Feb 20.

### **Series**

####  **The NEW QUEEN OF YOUTUBE -channel trailer (Feb 13)**

The trailer for Sophie's new channel shows a series of images that will be seen again in later vlogs on screen. Sophie does a voiceover calling herself Young, Popular, and Talented. She also calls herself a friend, a daughter, and a sister. While talking about the amazing things in her life, she asks, "Am I happy?", talks about being in the middle of a hurricane where she can't stop to look around, then asks "Am I being real?", and as the makeup she's wearing is removed, "Am I being... me?". Promos for the 1st video and the upcoming YRP collection are also shown.

##### **THE GUIDE to being YOUNG, RICH, & POWERFUL (Feb 20)**

The channel trailer is rerun, and Sophie appears in a set of shots around the hall. She is then sitting inside, and after an open she thinks is really cringe, says she hasn't uploaded a vlog before, but with her videographer friend Ben's help, wants to show people "what it's like to be me". She calls herself primarily a businesswoman, and that she's really smart at it. Sophie says she's a model, "as you know". A phone download makes her respond "Oh no, she's uploaded it. That's so tragic". She mentions her life as a millennial. Sophie tours the house, which she calls a mansion, but her dad calls a hall. The library has things from ancestors, and she mentions Cicero and Homer when looking at books. In the entertainment living room, she says her dad entertains friends there, and plays the piano after saying someone's usually playing. She shows us the fireplace, and likes to drink tea in front of it while cuddling with a boy. Sophie calls the conservatory a favorite part of the hall, and it gives off "super wholesome, and like country living vibes". The garden makes her chill, and meditative, while she looks at plants, grass, and pigeons. She walks to the private jet past the Lamborghini, then gets in the jet. Sophie shows us a picture of her and her dad, and has no idea how he grew his empire. The planes has cream cow leather seats, and window shades that are a bit stiff. She says her "mom is fit", like she is literally on fire". Ben agrees, and Sophie tells him not to be a pervert. Her mom was a supermodel, which she was glad to learn from her. For safety reasons, Sophie insisted on quality seat belts, so she's not going anywhere while buckled up. Sophie goes to the gym to box, saying "if you can be powerful in your body, you can be powerful at anything". She brings in Lewis, her trainer, but Sophie wants to talk about the celebrities he trains, which he can't mention. As he talks about giving free training to kids, she interrupts him to ask about how she's doing. She complains the cameras wont see her as well if she keeps her head down. As Lewis demonstrates the coolest punch she can do, she takes selfies. Sophie then wraps up the vlog, mentioning exciting things to come.

###### **YRP COLLECTION - AVAILABLE NOW (Feb 23)**

Sophie appears in the vlog along with a model later identified as Edward wearing YRP merch to promote her fashion line. There's no dialogue. https://www.shopiamsophie.com/

###### **RICH GIRL lives on £10 FOR A DAY (failed) (Feb 27)**

The vlog opens with shots of Sophie and Plum, mainly in Greece. Sophie calls herself "daughter of a millionaire businessman", and talks about how hard it is to tell what's real, true and good in a fake, digital world, and trying to stay grounded. She calls the vlogs a journey of the self, and that material things are distractions keeping us from knowing what we actually want. Sophie is mad when Ben films her with a facial mask on because she has eye bogies. She's trying to only spend £10 for the day, saying "it'll be easy because it's like 10,000 pennies". The YRP label was being launched that day, and Sophie talks about how important the message behind the clothes is to her. While riding to a photo shoot, Plum is introduced as one of Sophie's oldest friends, and she talks about Sophie's designs. Sophie says she's inspired by spirituality, and that Plum's color is orange, while hers is pink. She feels that she can juggle business and design due to the different genes from her parents. At the studio, she complains that her manager booked them into the small room and not the big one. Sophie says "it's about how you express yourself, not who you are that really matters". The model Edward, is in several shots of YRP promos with Sophie. She notes that "Positivity breeds success, and success is power". Positivity is important to her, and she takes a spiritual approach to life. She spends £100 instead of £10, failing the money challenge, and promises to do better next time. As Sophie and Plum board the jet to head off to Greece, the first Lara glitch occurs. The vlog ends with shots of them in and around the villa pool, doing more merch promotion.

###### **responding to leon lush... (March 1)**

The vlog opens with a Sophie voiceover saying that she's the daughter of a millionaire businessman. She then notes that it's not about the cards you're dealt in life, but what you do with them. She says that experts don't know why a poor man in a small house can be happier than a rich man in a big house. She sits at the piano, and is upset that people think she can't talk about normal things because she's rich. A clip from youtuber Leon Lush's vlog about that is shown. Sophie insists that money's never changed her as a person, or affected her decisions. She wants the viewers to "feel seen", so she's doing a comparison of her and Plum at a normal night club and a high end one to show she's the same at both. They are shown getting ready to go out wearing sponsored glitter and jewels makeup (DO NOT CALL! they're not part of the ARG). They go to the clubs, and while showing the footage, more glitches start to appear showing Lara and the run down house. Sophie and Plum argue over Sophie going to a guy's hotel room, and Sophie says she needs to know how many Instagram followers he has first. The vlog ends with another Lara clip.

###### **my #1 super CRAZY fan!! (March 5)**

Sophie and Ben don't know where the extra footage in 'responding to leon lush...' came from, as they didn't shoot it and it wasn't uploaded. She thanks people with positive comments and curses out people with negative ones. Sophie learns that Lara was the girl in the glitches, but has no idea how it happened. Sophie is curious, and changes her plans to go to Lara's house. In a post visit clip, Sophie says things got crazy, and that's what happens when someone (Lara) "doesn't stay grounded and true to themselves", calling Lara mad. Riding to the house, Sophie and Plum pretend to be detectives, with her manager Chloe along to babysit her. They arrive at the house to find Lara dressed like Sophie in a YRP t-shirt. During a house tour, we see a a copy of a t-shirt Sophie has worn saying Positivity Breeds. While in Lara's bedroom, Sophie finds a toy house that plays Pop goes the Weasel, which Sophie says is twisted, but can't say why. They find a locked room and try to enter it, but Lara stops them. Back downstairs, Sophie notices the cat food, but Lara doesn't know why it's there. Mark arrives, and is called Sophie's nerdy friend from school, while he didn't think she knew who he was. Everyone reacts to noises from upstairs, but Lara says it's water pipes. Sophie's reactions cause Mark to ask if she's ok. After Mark finds an audio file saying "I can see you Sophie" , there's a cut to the run down house with a clearer sound. As Chloe tells Sophie that they need to leave, more noises cause Plum to go upstairs. After a confrontation, everyone but Plum leaves. Back at the hall, Sophie says they blocked Lara from their social media. She asks Ben if Plum went home, as she didn't say bye, and he verifies that the doors are double locked. As Sophie ends the vlog, she looks back at the bedroom door.

On March 10, a tweet from Sophie is posted apologizing for the delay in uploading a new vlog, because she needed a break. She says that she hasn't seen her dad in ages, and Plum hasn't been responding to her.

###### **11271518920813.mp4 (March 11)**

Unlike the prior vlogs, there's no preview before the vlog starts, just a short glitch. Sophie, who has problems staying on track throughout the vlog, is trying to do the intro but struggling when they hear a door close, and she leaves with Ben to see if it's her dad. They return and start over. Under the theme of needing to feel good on the outside just as much as the inside, she's doing a makeup tutorial, or an "external body positivity seminar". They go to the bedroom, but someone damaged the room and wrote C..t on the mirror, which Ben denies doing. Sophie says that the damage was completely her fault. She restarts by trying to turn a t-shirt into a headband, but ignores a sound that Ben reacts to. As she continues, another sound makes her stop, and she and Ben find Mark in a bathroom where they had just looked. Sophie tries to talk to Mark, but he talks about worms in his head until he says to Sophie "until you're just a worm laying eggs", and walks away. Sophie and Ben try to flee, but keep going into rooms where Mark and Hate both are, then end up in the run down house. As Sophie tries to avoid panicking, Plum appears and throws Sophie into Ben. She tells Sophie that she left her to rot over a shot of Plum at Lara's house. Plum says Sophie is F...cked, then Mark kills her. As Sophie and Ben look for a way out, she says goodbye, then they get separated, and Ben finds her tied to a chair and gagged. As she screams, Ben is killed by Mark. Sophie quietly cries during the rest of the vlog as Mark and Lara join her, pose for pictures, and Lara kisses her. At the end, there are alternating shots of Sophie tied to the chair while Lara is sitting in the chair with Hate behind her.

###### **reliarT lennahC - EBUTUOY fO NEEUQ WEN ehT (March 17)**

There are multiple shots of bloodied Sophie in the Run down house cut into the last half of the vlog, and a modulated version of her narration from the original channel trailer is played in the background along with Lara's version.

###### **THE GUIDE to being YOUNG, RICH & POWERFUL (Lara's version) (March 20)**

In addition to Lara recreating much of the original vlog, several shots from the original Sophie version are used. The original shots in and around the hall, some shots of her intro including her narration, and much of her version of the jet footage along with the audio. One exception is new footage from the jet where she says "Business is a massive word for me. It's off in my genetics that I've loads of great examples to work from". Her full face is either blurred out or partially hidden in all shots, and several have critical messages included with them. There are also several shots of bloodied Sophie from the run down house.

###### YR**P COLLECTION - AVAILABLE NOW!! (Lara's version) (March 24)**

A shot of Sophie from the start of her version alternates with a shot of Lara until it stops with Lara.

###### **thegame1.mp4 (April 14)**

While human Sophie only appears in some glitches from the run down house, mainly at the start of the game, an avatar representing her is played by Lara throughout the vlog. The early 80s style graphics game plays the Sophie version of 'THE GUIDE to being YOUNG, RICH & POWERFUL', but with changes to the dialogue that give it a theme of death. The picture uploaded that Sophie calls tragic is of a decapitated horse. During the shot in front of the hall, Sophie says "You don't want to go there" while Lara looks for an entrance. The reference to Homer from the library includes a passage from The Odyssey describing Scylla. The fireplace she drinks tea in front of has wet and rotting wood and hasn't been used in decades. The flowers in the conservatory smell like rancid meat and stomach acid. The pigeons in the garden are dead. The leather seats in the jet are made from Human skin. The picture she says is her dad shows sinners burning at the stake. The window shades are stiff like a corpse. When she talks about her mom, she calls her literally on fire, and Ben looks behind Sophie in horror. The seat belts are strong, so she wont be going anywhere ever again.

###### **who are you? (April 28)**

The vlog is a continuation of the prior one, this time featuring the events from the Sophie version of RICH GIRL lives on £10 FOR A DAY (failed). Dialogue changes include the Sophie avatar telling Ben to not film her because she has no eyes. When Sophie talks about the money challenge, she insists that Lara choose if it's going to fail or not before continuing. While talking to Plum, she says her color is black, then beginning with this question addresses Lara by name and says her color would be black too. When Sophie is in the small photo studio, she asks Lara if they should use it. She asks Lara "Who are you", but no answer is heard. During the photo shoot, "Sophie looks behind Ben in horror as he stares through her at the nothingness behind her". Sophie then asks Lara where she is. When Lara says at home, she asks where is her home, but we don't hear a reply. Sophie asks Lara if she takes a spiritual approach to life, and when she says not everything, asks if Lara if she will take a spiritual approach, with the answer being OK. After saying Lara was right about failing the money challenge, a new version of the Sophie recording from the end of the original vlog tells Lara that she'll do it better next time. The video is distorted. Also, more shots of Sophie from the run down house appear. Sophie says Plum is a corpse in the villa pool. After Sophie asks Lara how she likes the place, she asks Lara if she's bored waiting for her father to come home. She then recognizes that Lara is scared, and reminds her that Positivity Breeds. Just after Sophie asks Lara who she is, the vlogs cuts out to Simon's call.

On May 9, an Instagram post has a code that when solved has the personal information that Lara gave out on her intro vlog, but now saying it's Sophie's information.

###### **are you being you? (May 16)**

There are several shots of different characters, including bloody Sophie, the early vlogs Sophie, and the Sophie avatar. Lara is called to her computer by Sophie's voice, and Sophie starts the voiceover from the original trailer. When Lara wants to know what she wants, the reply is "what do *you* want?". As Sophie continues the voiceover about her things, Lara says she doesn't want any of it. Just after the Sophie voice stops talking, Lara hears the hallway scene from 'my #1 super CRAZY fan!!' from outside her door, featuring Sophie, Plum, and the other Lara, but sees nothing when she opens the door.

###### **Continue.mp4**

While a series of shots from prior vlogs are shown including several of Sophie, a voiceover by Sophie thanks Lara for her beauty, innocence, eyes, voice, time, memories, future, hate, love, and life. Sophie then asks Lara if she feels her head swelling and oozing. Sophie says "We're nearly there now Lara. While everyone is watching." After several quick shots of Youtubers blogging about IAS, Lara's shown asleep while several cuts between Sophie and Hate wearing similar outfits are shown.

###### **POOR GIRL lives on £10 FOR A DAY (failed) (June 4)**

Sophie's voice wakes Lara up from sleep, and asks her if she wants to continue while playing a mobile version of the game. When Lara says yes, the Sophie avatar with Sophie's voice comes up. She tells Lara to steal £10 from her dad, and whenever Lara objects, tells her "No, it'll be fine. £10 isn't a lot of money. It's like 10,000 pennies". As the voice repeats the dialogue about the importance of the message Sophie's designs represent, Lara steals the money, and is told by Sophie to burn it.

###### **POP goes the WEASEL (June 25)**

A distorted version of Sophie's voice says she's uploaded it, then sings the song Pop goes the weasel. Later, she says "Hello David, it's time to tune in." At the end, human Sophie is shown from behind in the conservatory, but as she turns around, the video cuts out before we see her face.

###### **i can see you all (July 19)**

Simon talks to Chloe about creating something, and wants it to have same features as Sophie along with her name. There are shots of a modern Sophie avatar, and when he says he has a reference photo, a picture of Sophie appears on screen. As he talks about wanting her to say key phrases, more Sophie shots come up with her speaking, but there's no sound. An updated version of the game opening with much better graphics of Sophie is shown, then her avatar is included in a mix of shots of human Sophie and Hate sitting in the chair where she opened the 2nd vlog.