#her arc could have been more prominent which is a critique i have for souda and owari as well

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

idk why ppl rag on sonia nevermind for being useless in sdr2? like she was useful during most investigations. she had more agrees during the trials than anyone except maybe nanami and komaeda. she contributes to investigations and even does her own investigative work? like in chapter 5 with the ruins.

and even outside of that she's running around trying to get everyone to get along after twogami died. like with her beach party and how she was checking up on saionji in chapter 3. shes one of the more extroverted members of the cast holding everyone else together

and aside from her usefulness she's not bland either? she does have a character arc? sonia attaches to ppl in the cast very quickly. she tries for three chapters to make everyone get along. and the one time she stops focusing on that the guy she likes ends up killing someone. initially she sees all the murders as a betrayal of her friendship with the killers but tanaka shows her that to survive they sometimes have to resort to ruthlessness means aka getting someone killed.

and like, she talks about this EVERY chapter. she's in denial that ppl shes friends with can ever betray her for 5 chapters straight. even though it happens again and again. so by trial 5 she's had enough of suspecting any friend and breaks down on the stand from 5 chapters of that. and by the end of that she has to follow through with what tanaka told her, and let nanami sacrifice herself for the others.

previously in the game, the ppl sonia cared about were killed by monokuma against her will. but in chapter 5 she lets nanami make her choice because she trusts in her friend's care for them. like this is sonia's chapter! it's hinata's and nanami's and komaeda's chapter as well but this is where sonia's character arc hits its peak! at least until chapter 6 where everyone learns a life lesson about living for the future and whatnot.

and it's like, sonia's character arc is one of the more subtle ones in the game. when kuzuryu's doing seppuku over peko you're probably going to miss sonia's laments about feeling betrayed and whatnot. the game puts the most attention on her when exploring the sonia-tanaka-souda love triangle and ppl (me) find it annoying. her arc can be hit or miss, her humor is subjective, and she looks like the most basic bitch on the planet so i understand why she gets overlooked.

but like. she's not a static character? she does things in the plot? like the notion that she's not an active agent in the story is just not true lmao i think ppl who think that just weren't paying attention.