Sonnie, voiced by Helen Sadler, is a character in LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS, appearing as the titular main protagonist in the first season episode titled "Sonnie's Edge".
Backstory[]
Sonnie is a "beastie-baiter" - a combatant in futuristic gladiator matches between bio-engineered animals, which only end with the death of the losing beast. The beasts are controlled by an "affinity link" that enables a human to control an animal as if it was an extension of their own body. She is the only known "baiter" to have never lost a match.
Her teammates claim that she developed a vicious case of misandry after an "estate gang" brutally raped, tortured and left her for dead, and that this is the reason for her unbroken winning streak as the cybernetic pilot of her team's beast, Khanivore.
The truth is that she was fatally injured by the gang, which gave her teammates the idea of transplanting her brain into their beast to save her life. Although her body was eventually repaired through the same technology they used to create their beast, Sonnie decided that purposefully - and secretly - risking her own life in the matches drove her to fight harder out of fear of her own death; where every other "baiter" is a human who remote-controls a beast in combat, she is a beast that controls a human body when not in combat.
History[]
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Trivia[]
- Sonnie's mascot is a snake, as shown by her light-up tattoos, her team's hologram in the arena, and the snake icon in the episode's opening sequence.
- In the original short story, it is revealed that the estate gang attack is a complete lie; her colleagues transplanted her brain after she crashed their van and they made up the estate men story to hide her edge.
- According to Noshir Dalal, one of the pre-viz crew members of the episode, "Dave Wilson's (the writer/director) original script did have mention of the accident. The changes may have come at the request of higher-ups, or it may have simply been an issue of not enough time."[1]
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