Sonya

**Sonya Sanchez** is one of the main 8 characters in *Road 96.* She works as a reporter and newscaster for Petria's national news-channel, GNN, in her own show called “**The Sonya Show**”. Her show and political opinions are Pro-Tyrak since the current government benefits her greatly : The Sonya Show is funded by the state, and her news depict the Black Brigades as terrorists. She glorifies the president and its police, even asking her viewers not to vote for Senator Florres. She often reports on missing teens.

While the star carries a mean demeanor off camera, often getting her anger on her driver and bodyguard, Adam, she has a dark past. During one of her broadcasts, she saw a young girl named Lola die during The Peak Collapse of 1986. As a result, the girl's dad, Jarod, stalks **Sonya** and plans on ending her life.

**Sonya** gives you the Lucky Star ability.

## Appearance

**Sonya** has tanned skin and brown hair and eyes. She has a light purple eye-shadow and pink lipstick. Her outfit consists of a pink short dress and pink heels.

## Personality

**Sonya** is shown to have a rude and snarky personality most of the time especially towards Adam, and risking other people's lives for fame (as seen in the [[]] encounter). She is often seen drinking to her trauma from 1986, and shows survivors guilt. She may have had some selflessness due to her attempting to save Lola during the collapse.

## Role

### *Road 96: Mile 0*

**Sonya** lives in Oasis Villas, a private neighborhood of White Sands, right next to the Minister of Oil who she despises. She loves to throw parties at night and invites everyone but him. She can be seen multiple times reporting about Tyrak's announcement or about sandstorm Sonya (which she named after herself).

**Sonya** interviews Kaito right before Tyrak's speech. She meets Adam for the first time when, reporting during the sandstorm against every warning, he saves her from getting hit by a flying trashcan, and she immediately hires him as her bodyguard and driver.

### *Road 96*

The reporter is almost never seen without her limo and its driver, especially since she receives death threats so frequently.
Before becoming so famous, she tells the players she used to be a poor and afraid little girl, and that she never wants to go back to those times. So she drinks and parties a lot, to forget her trauma and past self.

She praises Tyrak anytime she can, since he is her piggy bank, and mostly talks about the upcoming election and the 10 year anniversary of the collapse.
She sometimes takes missing teens in her limo, and all she seems to care about is having fun.
She cut ties with her brothers for years and regrets it.

She will be at the Border on election day, reporting the demonstrations.

## Encounters

Sonya may be seen in the following encounters:

### I've Seen That Face Before

You arrive at a hotel, where **Sonya**'s limo can be seen parked out front. Upon walking in the front door to reception, the hotel owner can be seen frantically pacing back and forth. They are excited to see you, and ask for you to take a bottle of champagne up to **Sonya**'s room, giving you the hotel employee card, and saying they'll discount a stay in the hotel if you do. Once up in **Sonya**'s room, she will have you take the camera and take photos of a meeting between her assistant Adam and the Black Brigade. Eventually, they will discover it's a ruse, and you will be given a choice to either keep the camera with the incriminating evidence, or save Adam's life.

* After picking up the employee hotel card, you can use it to enter the employee room
* There is a rotten burger by the trash out in front of reception.

## Quotes

*"I'm here at our nation's border, the site of the Black Brigade terrorist attack in '86."*

*"I haven't been so kind to the ones I love lately."*

*"Now come on. Ain't got all day. I'm goddamn Sonya Sanchez!"*

*"You can't live your life in fear. That's a motto of mine."*

*"It's a lucky charm. It's helped me. Maybe it'll help you too."*

*"It's just sometimes I wish I had died, and she'd lived."*

## Trivia

* In the Burnin’ encounter, if the player asks why **Sonya** sounds different, she reveals to you that her “news reporter” voice is fake while her southern accent is real. She comments how she was forced to change her voice as GNN thinks she “sounds smarter without her accent” which in her words is “B.S”.
* **Sonya** is the younger sister of Stan and Mitch.
* In the credits, **Sonya** is seen sharing a drink with Adam in a diner with him holding a wedding ring box.
	+ She's also seen going to the beach with Stan and Mitch.
* **Sonya** has been receiving threats from Jarod for ten years (based on her statement in *Cruisin'* when you read her fan letters).
* **Sonya** copes with drinking.
* **Sonya** knows jujitsu.