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OOC INFO
Name: Madi
Contact: runawayballista

IC INFO
Character Name: Princess Sonia Vorbarra
Canon Name: The Vorkosigan Saga
Canon Point: Endgame event at forbarrayar
OC, AU, or CRAU Info: Sonia is a CRAU & previously an NPC at forbarrayar. Here's a brief setting overview, and here is Sonia's NPC info for more details.
Abridged history of Sonia's life prior to the events of the game:

• Sonia is the youngest child of Prince Xav Vorbarra, the half-brother to Crown Prince Yuri and second son of Emperor Dorca of Barrayar. HERE'S A FAMILY TREE. Xav became the Barrayaran ambassador to Beta Colony and married a Betan woman, so Sonia is half-Barrayaran and half-Betan. Due to their father's position, Sonia and her siblings mostly grew up in Silica, the capital of Beta Colony. But they spent a considerable amount of time on Barrayar when Xav's duties brought him back to his home planet, and so they have the benefit of education on both planets.
  
• Being the youngest and the most demanding of attention, Sonia was an absolute terror when she was a child. Playing pranks with either silly tricks or flat-out lies quickly became a favorite hobby of hers, and her parents learned early on to take all of her claims with a bucket of salt.
  
• Despite the 5-year age gap and Sonia's remarkable talent for being bratty and obnoxious, she was attached to her older sister Olivia at an early age, and the two of them grew to be very close.
  
• When Sonia was 13, she, her father, and her older sister Olivia traveled to Barrayar ahead of her brother and mother for a family visit. Soon after, Barrayar was suddenly invaded by the Cetagandan Empire, an eight-planet empire looking to annex what they thought would be an easy target with inferior defenses. They may have miscalculated.
  
• Sonia and Olivia were immediately sent away from the main action in the planet's capital to Vorkosigan's District to seek Count Vorkosigan's protection. Thrust into a tumultuous and dangerous time at a young age and surrounded by soldiers, Sonia had only her sister to cling to, and coming of age in the middle of a war zone has been tough on her. A lot of her acting out in her teenage years has been out of frustration and loneliness, and the only reason the war hasn't pressed that out of her is that Olivia spent the last ten years shielding her sister from the emotional terrors of war as much as she could, taking the brunt instead.
  
• She and Olivia spent the first two years of the war in Vorkosigan's District before returning to their home in Vorbarra's District. Three years after that, they came back to Vorkosigan's District, her sister married Count Vorkosigan, and Sonia, ever reluctant to leave her sister's side, stayed put with her.

CRAU history:

• It's been ten years since the war started, and Sonia is now in her early 20s. A bunch of folks from other worlds pour in through what was thought to be a collapsed wormhole now going rogue, taken up by both sides of the war.
  
• The war raged on despite the strange happenings, and though both sides had their own motives, the Cetagandans were ultimately much more interested in the outsiders' unique properties and the potential of harnessing the power to travel between worlds.
  
• Sonia was kidnapped and held hostage by the Cetagandans for about a month, at which point she met a bunch of outsiders on the other side. Tarn was the one who was directly responsible for her capture. He pistol whipped her in the head with a stunner. Not cool, bro.
  
• Sonia became close friends with many of the outsiders over the course of their stay, and when it came time to hijack the wormhole device from the Cetagandan base and send the outsiders home, Sonia snuck her way into the ranks so she could join the effort, against all good judgment. A couple of the outsiders died in the raid, one of them a close friend of hers, which hit Sonia hard and left her reeling.
  
• They made it off planet in the ship housing the device and headed for the collapsed wormhole, where they could operate the device, and Sonia said her goodbyes to the friends she still had left standing before they departed. This is more or less the last thing she remembers. Man, being on the other side of that whole getting yanked from your own world thing is gonna be really weird.

Personality:

• Sonia is the bratty little sister ten years advanced. Mischievous and easily bored when she's not getting attention, she began playing tricks on her older siblings at a young age -- at first for attention, and then just because she could and because it was fun. She delights in starting (mostly harmless) rumors, and she's good at it, too.
  
• She has a remarkable talent for making up outrageous lies on the spot with a totally straight face. Telling increasingly absurd lies, especially about and to her family, was one of her favorite childhood hobbies, one that persisted even long after her family became wise to it. Which didn't take long.
  
• That never stopped her from telling the most outrageous lies to all of her older sister's Betan boyfriends just to see if she could scare them off. She's about 50/50 on that count.
  
• All mischief and manipulation aside, Sonia's really a sweet and good-natured person, and her demeanor tends toward girlish and cheeky. She's just a fun-lover at heart, and likes to laugh and have a good time, and while she's not the most Vorish Princess, she still holds honor high as a virtue. She's also a little bit vain. What girl doesn't like to be told she's pretty, eh?
  
• That her impish streak has persisted this long through the war is a testament to how hard her older sister Olivia has worked to shield her from the nastier parts of the war. She isn't oblivious by any means, but she's had the luxury of not having to deal with some of the harsher emotional aspects of the war. She's more conscious of it than Olivia might realize.
  
• That isn't to say she hasn't been shaped by the war at all. Ten years in guerrilla camps among fierce and increasingly desperate soldiers has matured her more than she generally shows. She might pout and stamp her feet from time to time, but she's well aware of the realities of the situation, and for the most part she elects only to pitch small fits over things of little consequence.
  
• Sonia's behavior mellowed out some as she got older, although she still pouts when she doesn’t get her way. Mostly, she's learned subtler ways of getting her way, and if anything, her talent for outrageous lies and pot-stirring has only become more refined as she's gotten older. She's much more discretionary about how she uses it these days, though.
  
• While she always enjoyed the attention of being a Princess growing up, the older she gets, the less she enjoys it, at least in the war. She's lonely for any friends other than her sister, now married, and she's developed a talent for ditching her bodyguard in favor of seeking out any soldiers who might not know her by face for a little conversation. And maybe a little something else. Look, hitting puberty at the onset of a war is no treat, okay.
  
• She did some growing up with the outsiders, too. Although she's always felt useless in the war effort, her new friends helped her realize that boosting morale was no small deed, and she finally learned what it was like to have a bunch of friends for the first time since her childhood. She was a little heartbroken to say goodbye to them, even knowing she couldn't stay in her world.
  
• That, and her grief over Tucker, will still be fresh when she arrives, and she'll be disoriented as hell to suddenly be on the other side of the weird jamjar phenomenon. She'll be worried about being gone from home and miss her sister, but Sonia is pretty quick to adapt.

Sample: TDM top level