Sofiya Callida

Sofiya is a genius inventor who decided that following laws dictating what technologies and materials were too dangerous for her was too boring, and started selling her inventions in exchange for "more interesting" things for her to play with. She and Roni are friends, and Roni convinced her to do the heist so that they could also steal a rare protoype that Sofiya wanted.

## Sofiya Callida

### Aliases

Magpie (because of her tendency to "borrow" things and take them apart to rebuild them)

## Appearance

She's slightly taller than Roni, but she's still on the short side. She has curly brown hair that is pretty much unmanageable. She pulls it back when she's in the lab, but otherwise it's unbound and like a lion's main. She burnt off part of one of her eyebrows and a small section of her hair on her right temple is a lot shorter than the rest because she had to cut the burnt part off. She has brown skin, and light brown eyes, and a round face with dimples. She gives off a lot of mad scientist vibes, and can often be found wearing a lab coat and goggles. She's usually trying out some invention or another, so it's not unusual to run into her doing some pretty strange things.

## Personality

She's very bubbly and sweet, but is also a bit insane and a total mad scientist. She loves inventing things, and always carries a notebook with her so she can jot down an idea or sketch for something new. She loves to figure out how things work, and if you leave her unattended somewhere for too long you'll return to her having taken apart an interesting lamp or even a plumbing system one time, and then putting it back together with slight modifications that usually improve it by a lot but have some random side effect that she put in because she thought it was cool. She likes to pull pranks. Her work is very respected by the underground community, and even has gained some esteem from other scientists, but she just finds all that funny. She's extremely curious.

## History

She was born in 1542, in a fairly middle class family. It quickly became clear that she was a prodigy, and she was sent to a boarding school "for geniuses" before she even turned six. When she was eleven she started at Ellingham University, and graduated by age fourteen. She got an internship under Dr. Mattiase, one of the most well-known scientists at the time, and by sixteen was working as a top scholar and scientist for the government. When she was eighteen, she decided she was bored of working for the government and there was too many restrictions, so she quit and got a grant to start her own lab in the private sector. She quickly became a renowned inventor.

Even with her own private lab, she ran into problems with legality. She wanted to experiment with a certain substance that was illegal, so she ventured into the underground to find some, and quickly realized that she liked the lawlessness. She began to sell her inventions to people, in exchange for illegal technologies, plans, or other things that she couldn't get on her own. She met Roni when Roni purchased a grappling hook from her, and they became friends when Sofiya found out about Roni's envisioning and convinced her to let her study the powers. Roni convinced her to help her with the heist (and get Isolde to help) by bribing her with something else from the collection they were stealing it from - a very rare prototype that Sofiya wanted to get her hands on.