Sora Jingu

**Sora Jingu** is a character in *Monark*.

## Background

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A beautiful woman in her prime who presides over Shin Mikado Academy as its dean. Upon learning the protagonist is the Pactbearer of Vanity, she informs him how to defeat the Pactbearers and their Authorities that are causing the anomalies.

She is knowledgeable about the Daemon and the Otherworld. For generations her family has taken it as their duty to protect the world from Monarks and their distortions. While coming across as harsh in multiple parts of the story, she genuinely loves Sora and Yugo.

It is revealed later in the game that the *real* Sora Jingu died years prior to the events of the game. The Sora Jingu the Protagonist meets in the game is instead Tristia, the Monark of Woe. Tristia takes the form and name of Sora Jingu as her Pactbearer, Yugo, wished for the return of his wife who suddenly died one day after collapsing.

In their first official meeting, Vanitas calls Sora the "Woeful Overseer". His way of letting players know he is aware of her true nature, much like he did with the Protegonist.

The original Sora was implied to be absolutely ruthless in her task of safeguarding humanity, going so far as to make any Pactbearer's or potential ones mysteriously disappear, Tristia is considered worse in this regard. Tristia herself confirms herself to have killed hundreds of innocents when she felt her efforts were not working.

Tristia couldn't bring back the dead, so instead replaced her to fulfil Yugo's wish. This replacement of Sora Jingu was far from perfect, resulting in Tristia using her authority to erase Yugo's memory of the Otherworld, Daemons and the real Sora Jingu's death so she better fulfil his wish. It is implied that she has had to repeatedly erase Yugo's memory whenever he came across something that reminded him of the truth or recalled it on his own.

Sora's authority as a Monark is Essokinesis, the manipulation of reality. It is Sora who created the barrier around the school using this authority to essentially make the school into it's own pocket dimension so nothing outside could effect it or vice versa. If Hugo Cromwell's notes are to be believed, Tristia is rather immature and childish which is chalked up to her not having much experience with human Pactbearers.

Tristia may have originally been granting Yugo's wish by pretending to be Sora, but even after timelines where he is killed she is desperate to continue being Sora. During her time as Sora she came to genuinely love Yugo and Sora, which results in a mental breakdown in the timelines where Yugo is killed and she lives (two out of the four Act 2 routes). Her genuinely loving Yugo may have contributed to the creation of Yoru, an alternate personality to Tristia. Yoru says that she was created to safe Sora from the suffering her own nature created, probably meaning her being a Monark despite hunting all the others down.

In Ryotaro's Act 2 route after Yoru kills Yugo, Sora comes to the conclusion that all humans are threats. She blames humanity's Ego to be the root of all distortions and decides to kill anyone with a strong Ego, regardless of how miniscule their potential of becoming a Pactbearer is. In this route she also effectively kills Shinya herself, out of fear of him becoming a Pactbearer. Before the fight with her in this route, she says she has killed 201 people and is willingly to kill many more.

In Kokoro's route after Yuro kills Yugo, Sora decides to absorb everyone in the academy into herself in order to save them, including Shinya. Sora describes this as creating a new world inside herself where everyone will be content and, using Kokoro's own words, are completely "safe and secure". After Kokoro refuses the offer, Sora reveals that she plans to absorb the entire world, and any who refused will be killed.

In the True Ending route, after being shown the Protagonist's memories, she separates herself from Yoru early so she cannot harm her or Yugo. She confronts the Protagonist and his party alongside Yoru and Yugo, who is revealed to actually be Hugo Cromwell. After her defeat by the party she disappears alongside Yoru.

## Profile

From the in-game smartphone profile:

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> The dean of Shin Mikado Academy and mother of Shinya Yuda.
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> A beautiful woman in her prime who serves as the head of the Jingu family. Her husband, Yugo, took her surname when they married.
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