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Sofi Rosenberg is a half-angel and 12th-year student at Offetstine Secondary School. She is a flautist and aspires to pursue a career in art, especially in music. Despite her demi-human nature, she remains unaware of the existence of magic and believes she is human.
Background
Sofi was born in 1982 to a human father, Björn, and angel mother, Charlotte. At her mother’s insistence, her demi-human nature was explained to her at a young age, but she never understood it at the time.
While she was often called an “angel” by her parents in an attempt to explain, she usually understood it in a figurative sense, rather than literally referring to her inhuman nature. Despite this, she wore the complement proudly and from a young age, resolved to exemplify traits that she saw becoming of a real-life angel. During her primary-school years, she was frequently lauded for her compassionate and mutualistic nature, and her positive outlook on life.
Sofi was a somewhat weak and sickly child, and suffered from frequent colds as well as numerous more serious infections. While she never experienced any life-threatening conditions during her youth, the experience did lead her to miss school rather frequently. When she did attend, she was frequently distracted or overwhelmed, and developed an introverted personality, making friends with a few similarly quiet but loyal individuals. To compensate for her incomplete education, Sofi studied diligently at home and with her friends.
Early life and Charlotte’s death
During the weeks leading up to Sofi’s eighth birthday, Charlotte was fatally injured in a car accident, and fell into a coma which she never recovered from, dying after four months. Unlike her previous birthdays, Sofi decided not to celebrate her eighth in an attempt to mourn and offer solidarity to her dying mother. Björn thought little of it at the time, acknowledging it was an anxious period for him as well and that it was reasonable to postpone any festivities.
During the interim, however, Sofi noted one of the few displays of her inhuman nature, messages she received psychically from her mother to guide her in life. While at the time, Sofi dismissed it as a consequence of her own imagination, she found solace in the messages she received from her comatose mother. On the night before her passing, Sofi dreamt of being with her mother once more, where she recited a memoir she had written in life, suggesting to Sofi that if she were ever to die, her death should not be mourned, but her life should be celebrated. She bade goodbye to her daughter, and Sofi awoke in the morning to the news that Charlotte had passed overnight.
When Charlotte’s belongings were collected after her death, the real-life version of the memoir was eventually discovered in her desk in a sealed envelope. Sofi recited the contents of the note to Björn before he read the paper, leaving both parties surprised. The morning Charlotte had passed was a week before her birthday, and Sofi adamantly insisted to her father that the day ought to be celebrated. After much negotiation, and in accordance with the memoir’s wishes, Björn arranged a funeral intended to posthumously celebrate Charlotte’s birthday and life.
While none of the attendees knew exactly why, most people who came to mourn acknowledged they felt strangely at peace that day, and remained unburdened by sorrow, even if they had attended funerals before and were typically weighed down by regrets.
Secondary education
As Sofi grew older, she never quite determined the truth about her nature. While Charlotte, a full angel, had a handful of overt powers such as limited telepathy and healing magic, due to her human lineage, Sofi only had certain passive powers.
The half-angel exuded a naturally calming aura, and was innately predisposed to kindness. Together, these traits helped her naturally draw out the good in people, even less scrupulous individuals who otherwise would have little sympathy for her. Through this, Sofi was led to believe in humanism and the inherent good of humanity as core tenets of her ideology.
Despite this, her nature also led her to a natural aversion from archetypically evil demi-humans, such as vampires and demons, typically those which were classified under the Infernalis taxon of the Émile Standard for species taxonomy. As demi-human encounters were still exceptionally rare for her, Sofi never understood the precise phenomenon behind her aversion, and never found it in her to distrust the people her nature warned her against.
Sofi never learned about the specifics of her nature. While Björn always knew Charlotte was an angel, he never quite understood what angels were, and never learned any more about the magical or demi-human worlds. To that extent, Björn was never able to clarify Sofi’s nature to her in her mother’s absence. As such, Sofi is fairly convinced that she herself is a human, and in lieu of any understanding of the fantastical truth of Offetstine, lives a spiritual, though religiously agnostic, life.
When she was 12, Sofi started to learn the flute. By age 14, she began to compose songs and expressed interest in career in art, especially but not necessarily music. Sofi noted her admiration of the artistic effort involved in productions such as movies the two frequently watched, and noted how she dreamt of participating in a large-scale production when she grew up. In addition to music, Sofi has a passing interest in theater, especially in writing.