Sonya "Thundercunt" Ariadae Thorne

"The safeword is apricot!"

### Titles

Second in Command of the Roses, Cityspeaker, Hero of the Rift, Guardian of the Gate, Director of Security

### Occupation

Independent musican/lead singer of Siren's Kiss (UA1), Director of Security for Mirrorside Initiative (UA2)

### Relations

Thorn (wife), Vitaliya Winchell (twin), Nella (Siren sister), Celine (sorority sister), Carlie Kaine (sorority sister), Erzsebet (mother), Cadelen (mother), Wynter Woods (Siren "sister?")

### Datable?

No

**Sonya "Thundercunt" Ariadae Thorne**: half Siren, half Vampire, all play, little work. Though a living Denizen of Harrisburg, as well as both an ex Hero of the Rift and current Guardian of the Gate, her overly friendly and exuberant personality tends to result in people underestimating her.

Impulsive, stubborn, headstrong, and empathetic to a certain degree, Sonya doesn't hesitate to get her hands dirty to get the job done. Whether it's by murder or determination, Sonya keeps on swimming no matter what obstacles get tossed in her way.

Although a natural flirt, Sonya is dedicated heart, body, and soul to the vampire going by the name of 'Thorn', legally her wife. She has a growing Sorority that she adores and tends to be a bit overprotective of, to some degree, and attracts friends like bears to honey.

## **Pre-UA**

Sonya, along with her twin Vitaliya, and many other unknown Sirens, came through a Rift somewhere in the ocean many hundreds of years ago. Naturally assuming a Sorority with her sisters, she traveled the world on both land and sea aimlessly, collecting information and the slumbering 'Song' of many inhuman races, along with humans. Sonya was as dreaded as many Sirens at the time, luring sailors to their doom for no other reason than sating her own curiosity, and on occasion, to collect her revenge against those who may have captured her.

At some point, Vitaliya was captured and spirited away; Sonya searched for her twin until she, too, was kidnapped as she drifted too close into the Gulf of Mexico. She was placed inside a glass cage full of seawater and paraded around as a freakshow attraction. This continued for many years until she was rescued by a then-human Thorn, who pushed her cage over and freed the captive Siren.

Moved by the human's generosity, Sonya swore to repay her lifedebt to Thorn. She searched for many more years yet before coming upon Thorn, chained underwater, and having been turned into a vampire. Sonya 'rescued' the vampire, and remained by her side for decades. The two of them were infamous, though unknown; Thorn needed blood and power and Sonya could sing their victims to sleep, and easily dispose of the bodies. Unknown to Sonya, she had fallen deeply in love with Thorn at this time. It wasn't until an attack by three different Hunter families one horrific night nearly cost Thorn her life. In the heat of the moment, Sonya realized her feelings, and from then on knew that though the 'life for a life' debt had been paid, she had no desire to leave Thorn for good.

This did not stop her from eventually wandering across the country, especially as Thorn settled in Harrisburg to craft a formidable company and mafia empire to reign over.  Sonya toured the nation as the lead guitarist and vocalist of the band known as <i>Siren's Kiss</i>, alongside the were-panther Ember and the moon domain witch Celine.

## **UA 1**

### **The Weeds Among Us**

After a brief imprisonment from the vampire Carson along with Thorn, Carlie Kaine, and Tylin Asad, Sonya decided to stick around Harrisburg to spend some more time with Thorn, and to give herself and the band a bit of a break.

Soon, however, major problems began to arise. A faction known as the Weedkillers began to target Thorn, and an accident involving a forbidden and magical box unleashed the spirits of ancient Fae spirits, all connected to the Tarot Arcana. Determined to help her new friends and her girlfriend, Sonya went on many missions to corral these spirits. One mission in particular, after a very rough start, gave her a new 'friend'; the Empress arcana's Fae spirit. Instead of resealing the Fae into card's form, Sonya instead allowed the spirit to inhabit the choker around her neck, and befriended her.

After many attacks and attempts to kidnap Carlie, one succeeded as Sonya and Carlie--who possessed the Death spirit within her cane--were taken to the lair of Honey Graham. Knowing that Honey was a demon, Sonya devised a plan as fast as she could; using her natural ability to lock away memories and her ally Empress, Sonya stripped herself of as much power as she could and tricked Honey into making an impossible deal to weaken her. Thanks to the trick, as well as Empress guiding a temporarily mind-wiped Sonya away from doing more in the battle, Honey was defeated and killed...but not without leaving her mark both physically and mentally.

Sonya was traumatized from the incident and heavily scarred on top of it. She still chose to become a Denizen knowing that Carlie had been hurt twice as badly from the encounter with Honey.

### **Buttercup**

While working as a Denizen for the city's spirit, called Rose, Sonya was killed in action. Upon arriving at Listr's Gate, she was given the choice; to lost part of her soul, and become half a Vampire, to lose her Siren nature and be completely reborn as a human, or to pass on peacefully. Sonya chose the former, and after a harrowing night, became half vampire in nature.

However, her previous encounter with Honey, as well as her brief death, had alerted her twin Vitaliya, who had already been on her way alongside Celia Tryamon and Grainne Smith. Upon the tearful reunion, Sonya realized that Celia was abusing Vitaliya and had conditioned her twin into forcefully forgetting patches of memory by using the trigger word 'buttercup'. Furious, Sonya convinced Vitaliya to stay with her in Thorne Corp tower knowing that she would need to turn Vitaliya as well, to keep her deal with Listr.

Things did not stop going downhill there. While dealing with Celia and Vitaliya and all that entailed, Sonya was called away by a hysterical Celine. The reason became clear as soon as Sonya rushed to her Sorority sister's side; a Weedkiller elite, nicknamed "Bee" had kidnapped Celine and killed Ember as retribution against the ones who killed and broke up the Weedkillers.

After delivering Bee to a messy end, Sonya decided to get back into the swing of Tarot spirit hunting, while the tangled web with Celia started to unfold. After discovering Piper's Row, embracing Empress as a true Sorority sister, working on her relationship with Rose as well as her own new status as a Hero of the Rift, Sonya participated in the Founder's Festival along with the other Heroes of the Rift. During the long night, Sonya traveled through the Rift to discover and "rescue" (really kidnap) Wynter Woods back into the magical realm of Harrisburg.

Once Vitaliya and Grainne had been convinced of Celia's true wickedness and the oncoming storm of SUCC, the Heroes devised a plan to take Celia and SUCC's forces on. Part of it included using the power of the summoned Fae and stripping Celia of her magic when the time came. After which, the Fae would all become Fairies, or remain in card form.

While the main body of SUCC was taken on at Thorne Corp, Celia was tracked to Club Bloodstain, where the Heroes were too late to stop Caminy's death. Celia was stripped of her magic successfully, and was to be sent back to SUCC with her failure to overtake Thorne Corp. However, Tylin intervened and killed Celia, to Sonya's fury.

### **Rainy Days**

In the many months after Celia's defeat (and death) Sonya and Thorn married and continued to both their work to manage and better the city as necessary. Sonya, especially, wanted to show goodwill toward the people of Piper's Row in order to gain allies.

It was during a trip out with Carlie and Celine that they came across Mal, a witch from the coven called the Ancestresses. Though holding a bit of suspicion to the young witch, Sonya thought of her as seemingly harmless...which was disproved upon a later visit to Piper's Row. A mysterious sickness had swept through the town, infecting only inhumans. Although not Piper's chosen Denizen, Sonya saw that many of her friends as well as Vitaliya was sick, and so resolved to solve it as fast as she could.

Mal had turned out to be the patient zero, and Sonya suspected that, though she was innocent of motive, had been used by the Ancestresses as a way to weaken Thorn's hold on the city for an upcoming takeover.

While a carrier of the plague, Sonya managed to keep from infecting anyone else with some careful discretion from Zerie and Hunter. Sonya and Thorn learned of a possible cure to the plague from one of Hunter's old stories, and worked together to procure as many ingredients as possible. Working together with the other Heroes of the Rift, the sickness was cured, and the Ancestresses plans, hopefully, foiled.

### **Viceroy**

Although Sonya was not present for most of the investigation into Esther, the ancient vampire who turned Thorn, she did help to put down the terrible creature. She also reconnected with Nella, a Siren who had abandoned and been abandoned by her Sorority due to love. Sonya has since adopted Nella into her own.

### **Mirrorside**

Immediately after defeated Esther, the Riftbeast and the Mirrorside came into light. Sonya traveled with the other Heroes into the void, and she was confronted by Belinda Ambrose...before she ever became Honey Graham. Though she could not truly forgive Honey, Sonya found herself liking and looking past the sins of the present to the startlingly similar past. While never truly being friends with the spirit of the fallen Hero, Sonya found some form of healing and closure, and was able to move on from what was done to her.

Along with the others, Sonya decided to free the Riftbeast along with Olivia, proposing instead that a monitored 'gate' be able to exist, so long as Guardians were there to serve it.

## **Post UA 1**

Sonya and Thorn took off to the Bahamas for a well deserved vacation after doing a bit of immediate clean up.

## **Powers, Traits, Abilities, Equipment**

Like all Sirens, Sonya is able to mimic the voice of anyone she's heard for a sufficient amount of time, animals included, as well as being able recognize people from voice alone. She can also pitch her voice perfectly to send others into sleep by simply talking, even without needing an actual song.

However, thanks to her Vampiric side, Sonya can also survive even when submerged in freshwater, as she no longer needs to breathe, and has gained a bit more durability due to the limited ways to truly kill a vampire.

Sonya is also an accomplished musician, thanks to a very long lifespan of singing and performing. She has also spent quite a long time learning how to play the crowd, and individuals to an extent. She has extensive knowledge of the Magical World and inhumans, thanks to her travels.

Since she became a Denizen, Sonya has an innate sense of direction when in Harrisburg, and routinely talks to Rose.

Sonya usually carries a magical ukulele she has nicknamed T.J., and can command it to play mariachi music on its own by uttering the command word of 'fiesta'. Sonya is also a fairly good fencer and scrappy in a fight, and her go to the Grey Spear can transform into whatever weapon she desires.

## **Trivia**

* The safeword isn't actually apricot.
* Sonya can speak many languages conversationally, but is only really fluent in Greek, English, and French. She does know how to speak German, *ancient* Greek, Spanish, and Latin.
* Although she knows Wynter was 'made' in response to her desire for a child of her own, Sonya considers Wynter as much more of a "sister". Unknown to Thorn, she has been looking to adopt.