Sommer Fulton

**Sommer Fulton** is one of the main characters of *Xrosism*. She is an eleventh-grader at Mirage Senior High School, and initially the leader and co-founder of the Nightowls before falling under the influence of the Clockwork. After being brought back to reality, she strives to atone for her mistakes and becomes one of the strongest generals of the Talons United Army, distant from her former friends but still participating. She tends to close herself off from friends and wishes to specialize in astronautics. She keeps up with all current popular memes, her interest in memes adapting to trends. As a General, Sommer possesses a navy-blue Xros Loader, which allows her soldiers to “DigiXros,” allowing them to fuse together.

Sommer is a rather subdued heroine, and because of her frequent dreams revolving around reality, as well as her self-destructive tendencies, she has problems with discerning fiction from reality. As the book progresses, she gains feelings for a fellow General, Jayce Niles. His death completely devastates her, and the effects still linger in *Anamorphism*. Though her teammates appear vastly different from her, they have many similarities at heart and were initially able to work as a team. After her fall to the Clockwork, she becomes more self-destructive and wishes to escape reality. In Anamorphism, she remains distant from her former friends.

## Biography

### Early Life

Sommer Fulton was born in Norworth, Virginia on April 30, 1999. She comes from a middle-class family. She grew up and is currently being educated at Mirage Senior High School.

Her parents, *Sal Marchand* (Sal Fulton at the time) and *Sonny Fulton* were a happy, content family with three daughters, *Maple Fulton*, Sommer, and *Bea Fulton*. However, they fought often, only to make up soon after. Soon after Bea was born, they decided to divorce, sharing custody and allowing the three to visit each parent whenever they wanted to. Even after Sal remarried with *Cole Marchand* when Sommer was six, the family remained quite close, the three now growing up with Cole’s two children, *Barret* and *Tanya Marchand*.

Unfortunately, when Sommer was nine, disaster struck. Barret suffered a severe allergic reaction from cocaine when he was out partying with his friends and died shortly after. Following his death, the family began to drift apart. Although Sommer still visits Sal’s house, she’s no longer close to Tanya. She prefers to stay at Sonny’s house, still on good terms with Sal even though she doesn’t visit as often.

Sal is a retired professional volleyball player and taught her children all she knows. However, Tanya never took a liking to it, but Maple, Sommer, and Bea play often. Maple plays volleyball at her college, Sommer plays libero on the Mirage Owls, and Bea plays setter on the Mirage Owls.

## Personality

Outside of life as a General, Sommer lives the life of a normal 16-year-old high school student. She often complains about being single and touch-starved, making self-destructive jokes and worrying about her personality and appearance. She tends to “go with the flow,” not speaking up about discomforts she may have when it comes to decision-making. She feels that the more she speaks up, the more the situation is worsened so she doesn’t bother. Sommer’s dreams are vivid and are replicates of her normal days, only with different events, causing her to have trouble discerning between reality and fiction. Additionally, she struggles with sleep paralysis problems.

She has many problems with being a General, such as the responsibility and danger. She enjoys the company of Digmon but dislikes putting herself in danger and fighting a war she was never present at the beginning for. As such, it didn’t take long for Sommer’s perception to be manipulated by the Clockwork, eventually sacrificing her freedom so she and the other Generals can return home. As time passes, she realizes how destructive the Clockwork is, but they continue to manipulate her and her Digimon. She becomes compliant and accepts defeat and her simple role of fusing her Digimon to send into battle. She befriends Jayce, a fellow General being manipulated, and they remain close.

Sommer’s dreams’ subjects continue to be about normal life before being transported to the Digital World. Because of this, she’s desperate to sleep but is never allowed to. After being freed, she remains distant, unwilling to fight. Even with encouragement revolving around revenge, she doesn’t care. Sommer just wants to sleep forever, where life is her definition of perfect. Jayce’s sacrifice shakes her back to reality, and she falls into another dangerous routine - diverting all of her time and energy into being “a worthy human, worthy enough to be alive.” This mindset is still in effect in Anamorphism, where she’s now distant from her friends and the star libero of the Mirage Owls volleyball team. Her grades are high but she remains lonely, not speaking unless needed - this earns her her NPC nickname.

Sommer’s vocabulary often revolves around modern slang and adapts according to which memes are popular. When angry, she stumbles on her words. When entering a room, she lets out a drunken-sounding “heyyy.” She fears densely-filled areas, not sure what’s lurking and where. Sommer daydreams constantly. She's an atheist. She likes watching YouTube videos and attending museums, mostly astronautic museums. Her favorite food is chocolate cake.

Sommer’s shown to be left-handed and dislikes labeling her sexuality.

## Appearance

Sommer is a tall teenage girl. She has a well-built build with a decent amount of muscle, brown eyes, neck-length, wavy, light-brown hair with curly bangs, and tanned skin. She has a sun-shaped birthmark on the right side of her neck, which her parents named her after, as well as various headbands.

At the time she is transported to the Digital World, she wears a tight, magenta, long-sleeved shirt, a blue spaghetti-strap dress, magenta leggings, a red headband, a red winter coat, and plain black and white shoes that zip on the side.

## Equipment

* **Xros Loader**: The Digivice used by human characters partnered to Digimon in the Digimon Xros Wars universe. Sommer’s is a navy color.
	+ Can temporarily combine Digimon together through "DigiXros"
	+ Can temporarily evolve Digimon through "Super Evolution"
	+ Can generate a viewscreen to track Digimon in the Real World

## Facilities

* **Fulton Residence**: The Fulton Residence is a two-story house in Norworth, Virginia, home to Sommer, Maple, Bea, and Sonny Fulton.
* **Mirage Senior High School**: The school that Sommer and Damian Valdez attend. It is a public high school that has the highest-ranked volleyball team in the area, as well as other decent sports programs. The mascot is an owl.

## Etymologies

* **Sommer**: A modern English name and a variant of Summer, coinciding with the German word for summer. It’s from the name of the season, ultimately from Old English *sumor*, and has been in use as a given name since the 1970s.
	+ She was named after the season due to the sun-shaped birthmark on her neck. This ironically contrasts with her downcast, self-destructive personality.
* **Fulton**: A Scottish surname of locational origin, from an old village of the name in the parish of Bedrule, Roxburghshire, so-called from the old English pre 7th Century *fugol*, bird, plus *tun*, an enclosure or settlement.

## Relationships

### Family

* Sal Marchand - Mother
* Sonny Fulton - Father
* Cole Marchand - Stepfather
* Barret Marchand † - Older half-brother (shared mother)
* Tanya Marchand - Older half-sister (shared mother)
* Maple Fulton - Older sister
* Bea Fulton - Younger sister

### Allies

* Jayce Niles † - Former love interest, teammate, friend
* Damian Valdez - Best friend, teammate
* Linda Samberg - Former best friend, teammate

## Trivia

* Originally named *Sofi Furontia* and was formerly a self-insert in a discontinued Xros Wars fanfiction, *Digital Union*.