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Personality-wise, Sonia is pretty much the best. Lets even set aside the fact that she loves reading about serial killers, which is an interest I also share (I actually like reading about bizarre crimes, but serial killers fall into that broad category), and bad horror movies, which I love (little aside, Ive seen every Friday the 13th except the one where Jason is a slug, which I had to turn off because it was just unbearable). Lets also set aside how, as I said earlier, she has all the cool attributes of princesses, but doesnt imply the annoying divide between them and normal people that the rest of them do. Just looking at Sonia as a normal person irrespective of her princessness, shes just a cool person with easily relatable interests. She likes occult stuff, but she likes the kind of weird dark gothic murder-y occult stuff, and not astrology and tarot cards (my sister is into those things, so I know just enough about them to be annoyed). And as a princess, shes really good at just issuing commands and having them obeyed, which is great. Really, if I was going to criticize her in any significant way, it would be that she went on a fun roller coaster ride where she screamed in joy less than a day after three of her friends died.

Its also important that Sonia is written to have the perfect kind of I dont quite speak the language perfectly, so all of my dialogue is written slightly cutely kind of demeanor. Cute girls innocently saying horrible things because they dont quite have command of the language is always great. The important thing about Sonia is that shes a rare perfect fusion between adorable waifus and regal waifus, and unlike other princesses who try to do that, Sonia is very consistently both of those things, as opposed to a normally regal princess who occasionally slips up. Although, part of that is just because she imperfectly speaks Japanese and keeps saying silly things.

And as for Girlfriendness, again, I already covered this a bit, but Ill say it again: all the advantages of princesses, none of the disadvantages. A lot of this comes down to the fact that shes not the princess of a giant empire or anything, shes merely from a small country. How small? The game never says, but she mentions that its left off of maps a lot, so Im imagining like a Lichtenstein or something. I basically always just assumed that Novoselic wasnt particularly important on the grand stage, and is just sort of riding around, being a weird little place. And thats perfect, because it minimizes the inherent difference in class between the two of you. Also, really, can you imagine talking to your friends, and they ask what your girlfriend does for a living, and you say that shes a literal princess? The conversation is just over at that point. Youve won any girlfriend discussions forever, unless you have a friend whos dating an astronaut, and even then, you still have the advantage. And thats before you get into how Sonia is amazed and thrilled by extremely normal things like building sandcastles, or specifically wants to see what its like to have someone rest their head in her lap. Point is, despite being a princess, its not going to be some horribly complicated thing to get on her good side.

I actually deducted a few points from Sonia because she mentions that as a princess, shes occasionally kidnapped by terrorists, and hey, thats just a thing you have to deal with. Honestly, I want to know, how many times in history has a princess been kidnapped? It has to be pretty low, right? Because it comes up nonstop in fiction.

Anyway, one of her FTEs involves telling you that her husband legally needs to speak thirty foreign languages and understand economics, international law, and diagnostic medicine, and capture a legendary animal thats impossible to find, so that sounds like a lot of work. I hope she wont mind me padding the ol resume by saying that my knowledge of Spanish also lets me communicate in Portuguese and Italian. And even then, she says that even a legendary hero can only establish something resembling order and prosperity, so even in the worst case scenario, it sounds like her people will be satisfied if Im just sort of vaguely competent at what I do, rather than being actually worthy of being a king. Do you become a king if you marry a queen? I know in Britain, the husband of a queen is still just a prince. Is that a Britain thing or a Monarchy thing? Im too lazy to check. And if you marry a princess, do you have to live in her country? I ask because no matter what, it sounds like Novoselic is much smaller than Los Angeles. Its fine, though. Assuming its part of the EU, itll be super easy to go to other European countries as a tourist, right? Everything is so compact over there. The only country you can just go on a daytrip to here is Mexico, and to be perfectly blunt with you, Tijuana is worth visiting a maximum of one time. Its probably not even worth that.

All of that, and I didnt even mention that I assume princesses are super rich. I mean, she never states how wealthy her country is, but I have to believe that money is never an issue, right?

Okay, so basically, to sum it all up: Sonias one of the best waifus ever. Part of that might just be the result of being a side character, which means that she can basically have whatever wacky attributes the writer wants to give her, as opposed to actually important characters who need to have important elements that contribute to the story, and she just happened to get all of the great ones that make her a ridiculously solid waifu. I guess what it comes down to is that if you can nullify all of the negative elements of being a princess and master being cute and innocent while saying obscene things, then you really just cannot be reasonably beaten in a waifu ranking.


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Started: July 6, 2005