#monad sisters

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I absolutely love how Lea and Sophia sport similar hairstyles.

Imagine them doing each other’s hair growing up while gossiping about their family or the other residents of the Rose Estate.

Sophia would definitely be the better stylist between the two.

[vampimich]

Sophia and her reaction to seeing Gemini with P

Hi all! I'm already in my new place but I still have so much to unpack, and organize, but I still wanted to take some time to write something about the game, so here we are!

I’ve been thinking about the Monad sisters a lot (I’m even making a fic about them), and I started wondering what Sophia must have thought when she first saw that P had Gemini.

Gemini is “The Monad’s Lamp.” Whether he was created in this generation or a past one, he’s clearly been with the Monad family for a long time.

And more than that, we know the last bearer of the lamp was her sister, Lea.

We don’t know what their relationship was like after Lea cut ties with the Monads, but they probably grew apart, mostly because of the distance. Then, after the Rose Estate Tragedy happened and Sophia was taken prisoner by Simon, she completely lost contact with her sister.

Sophia knew their parents were killed, but how could she possibly know what happened to her dear Lea?

I imagine that as she searched for anyone who could help her, she must have desperately looked for her too. But she never found anything; not her body, not her ergo, not even a puppet resembling her.

No one spoke of Lea again. And while Sophia probably understood what that silence could mean… I don’t think she ever truly lost hope.

So when P came to her and she saw Gemini at his side, and in such a battered state, what could she have thought?

This lamp had been Lea’s, just like the Rose Sword. Two possessions she had kept close even after cutting ties with the Monads. And now Gemini was here, broken and barely functioning.

Who had done this? What had happened to her sister? Was she really gone? And if so… what exactly had occurred?

Her sister was the strongest person she knew. Sophia must have prayed that if Lea had died, it had been a peaceful passing.

But given the circumstances? That hope must have completely disappeared.

I think when she saw P, she was horrified and hurt, but she couldn’t let it show. P, who looked so much like dear Carlo Geppetto, had no memories and barely understood the world around him. What good would it do to burden him with her distress?

Not that he could have understood her pain anyway, not at first, at least.

It’s also worth noting that Sophia is the one who sends us to Geppetto early in the game, saying we might have questions and that he might have answers. I wonder if, deep down, she was also hoping to learn something about Lea, and about how he had come into possession of Gemini (oh gods, if she only knew).

But as much as she might have wanted to know her sister’s fate, the truth was… she had to focus on herself.

She was agonizing, dying,  and painfully so. She needed the puppet’s help. If Lea was truly gone, Sophia knew she wouldn’t be far behind. Maybe they could finally both be at peace, free of burdens.

So even if she wanted to cry when she saw Gemini, she kept her composure. And maybe she even thought it best for him to remain with P. Carlo was gone too, but his ergo lived on, so of course his spiritual successor was the best one to carry the Monad’s lamp, the companion that had once been Lea’s now watching over her dear apprentice.

And with that, the shock turned into acceptance. From then on, she could see Gemini — and P — as her sister’s legacy, still living on.

But anyway, that’s just my interpretation from trying to flesh out the relationship between the sisters, since Neowiz barely gave us anything about them 🫠

And as always, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!

[vmpmch-writes]

A tale of two sisters - Chapter I

Read on AO3 here!

Hi everyone! I still have no self-control, so the Lies of P brainrot is still possessing me. This time I am working on a fic related to the Monad sisters, because I needed so much more of their relationship and neowiz gave us nothing :')

Anyways I hope you like it! And if you do, please give it a like and share! ^^