#sonewt headcanons

[yourkeeperoftherunners]

Sonewt Headcanons (TFC and Post-TFC)

Some headcanons I came up with after reading The Fever Code about Sonya and Newt. If you have NOT read the book yet, please scroll by and ignore this post. Otherwise, spoilers ahead under the cut!

"Why am I getting a new name?” “A new start,” the man said to her, trying to be friendly. “Your life is going to change for the better and you’re going to be safe from the bad things out there.” “But what’s wrong with the name Lizzy?” the girl asked. “We’d like it if you went by your name Sonya,” the man replied. “Now Sonya, are you going to cooperate?” The girl sat up straight and strained her ears, swearing she heard a faint scream somewhere. It made her nervous but she refused to show fear in front of this stranger. “My name is Sonya – I don’t know your name Mr. _____?” she replied with a tilt of her head. “Randall,” the tech replied. “Did you ever go by another name?” A trick – but he won’t get me that easily! she thought. “No I just said my name is Sonya,” she replied, folding her hands in her lap. “I never had another name.”

“I’m Beth,” the dark haired girl with green eyes said as she extended a hand. Just like my old name – except I was called Lizzy, Sonya thought as she shook the other girl’s name. “Sonya – nice to meet you,” Sonya replied. “Where were you from?” “Arizona – my sister was taking care of me when those people showed up and took me away,” Beth recalled, trying to hide her tears. “You got a funny accent – you’re not from here, are you?” Sonya shook her head and mumbled that she was picked up in what used to be the United Kingdom. “Was it just you?” “No...me and...me and my brother,” Sonya replied, stabbing something on her plate.

“Have you seen the boys?” Harriet asked her one day. “What boys? You don’t mean the adults right?” Sonya asked. Harriet scrunched her face up and scowled. “Yeah course I meant those creeps – no! I meant there’s supposed to be boys our age here too. Except, all I’ve seen is one skinny guy with some girl who might be his twin.” Newt, Sonya thought as she pictured her older brother.

“No one’s seen him probably,” Sonya muttered under her breath at lunch. “Seen who? Your secret boyfriend?” Harriet teased as she joined the other girl at the table. Sonya jumped and tried to cover up her comment. “I’m just...whatever I’m just tired – too many tests and sick of all the needles.” “Uh huh, really convincing Sony!” Miyoko jokes as she slid in next to her. “Come out with it – who is this mystery guy you’re babbling about?” Sonya sighed as she ran a hand across her face, groaning as she noticed two pairs of eyes on her. Scratch that – three with Beth joining them. “It’s just my brother,” she huffed with a shrug of her shoulders. “The people grabbed him too but I don’t think he was supposed to come with me.” Both girls nodded to show they understood and Sonya sighed as she looked around the sea of girls seated in the cafeteria. Not a single boy was there. She had heard that the facility they were in was pretty big and guessed that there had to be boys around here somewhere.

“Sony! Hey wake up!” Miyoko hissed as she shook Sonya’s shoulder. “Guess who’s here to see you?” Sonya sprung out of bed and tiptoed around the other beds to the fake closet that led to the girls’ sleeping quarters. The moment she saw her brother, she couldn’t help but feel relieved seeing him still sane and healthy, albeit upset about what was going to transpire within the next few hours. Like Newt, she was sad but she told herself to be strong for him. He needs me more than I thought I needed him, she thought.

Thanks to being surrounded by American teachers and children combined with the Swipe process, Sonya lost her lingering British accent she had before being taken in by WICKED. Until she had her memories restored, she was under the impression that she had come from some US state before being placed in the Maze, having forgotten what her home looked like.

“You see those Sticks from Group A? I swear some of them looked kinda like us!” Harriet remarked after they put down Thomas and tied him to the tree by their campsite. Sonya nodded as she stole another glance over at Thomas, taking a swig from her water bottle. “Yeah I saw some of them. The really mouthy guy kinda reminded me of Miyoko.” “There was a blonde guy who kinda reminded me of you,” Harriet added. “Maybe similar face shape and eyes?” Sonya snapped her head up at that comment and frowned. She bit her lip trying to picture the boy in her mind, but gave up after a few minutes. “I’ll probably see him again...or not...”

Something tells me this might be bad, Sonya thought as she was admitted to a room to under go the Swipe removal procedure. She lay down as instructed and took a deep breath before everything went dark. The memories came flooding back like rapidfire – the last day she saw snow outside her house, her mom falling to ground as a man in a suit shot her parents before grabbing her and...Newt. Newt crying as he held her one last time, sobbing, “I love you Lizzy.” Elizabeth – Lizzy...that was her real name – not Sonya!

“You okay Stick?” Harriet asked her as they gathered edible plants and fruit for lunch in Paradise. “You’ve been awfully quiet since we got here.” Sonya swallowed hard as she stared past Harriet, looking at a flower that reminded her of one her neighbors once had in their garden. “I was immune but...he wasn’t,” Sonya said. “They shot our parents and took both of us – said he was going to be used as a control factor.” “Newt?” “He called me Lizzy,” Sonya continued, tears starting to pool at her eyes. “Before we were sent up into our Mazes he snuck out and said goodbye. He was crying and I had to comfort him, even though he was older! How could I have forgotten about my brother?!” She sank to her knees and let out a broken sob, shoulders shaking and tears flowing freely. She hated them for making her forget her brother. She hated them for taking her name. She hated forgetting that they shot and killed her parents without remorse.

[yourkeeperoftherunners]

Sonewt please! Before the maze, Newt and Sonya were more. Then everything went to shit. But they remembered. They meant something to each other.

I’m guessing you want more headcanons anon? I’m not sure if you saw one of my earlier posts, but I did write a handful with the speculation if they were related as siblings or cousins. You can find that here: Sonewt cousin/sibling HCs

For this, I’m going to focus on them being unrelated but paired off to the respective groups due to similarities in appearance and skill set. Please don’t read the first few if you haven’t read the released snippet of The Fever Code in Newt’s view yet.

Sonya was brought to the WICKED/WCKD facility first. She played and worked with some of the other girls who would eventually become part of Group B and occasionally encountered Thomas or Teresa during tests. Newt came in later (based on the snippet from The Fever Code) with his sister and was isolated from the others, as he was not on WICKED/WCKD’s list of children to remove from their parents. Newt’s sister was introduced to the other girls while Newt was given separate tests to determine his Immune status.

“You haven’t seen ‘im have you?” Newt’s sister asked Sonya one day during meal time. “I’m worried about him Sony, I hope they didn’t hurt him.”“Who?” Sonya asked. “Hurt who?”“My brother,” Newt’s sister explains, “my older brother – his name’s Newt.” She looked down at her plate, playing with a carrot stick for a moment. “I don’t think he was supposed to come with me – those people in the scary suits were arguing about ‘im and one of them said just bring him.”Sonya reached over and squeezed the younger girl’s hand. “I’m sure he’s fine,” Sonya replied. “He must be doing tests on his own – I think they do that sometimes.”

“Newt! Newt!” Newt’s sister yelled when she spotted her brother down the hall. She wove her way through the legs of various WICKED/WCKD techs and crushed her brother’s waist in a tight hug. Sonya smiled as she watched from a distance, the smile fading quickly when she hears shoes squeaking on the floor and someone slamming into the adjacent wall behind her. “Where...is?” an out of breath tech huffs.Sonya rolled her eyes and gestured over to Newt with his sister. “Right there Genius,” she muttered under her breath. When the tech tries to make a grab for Newt’s sister, Sonya steps in front. “Subject B4 – I mean Sonya, please move,” the tech says.“Excuse me, but can’t she have...what 5 minutes with him?” Sonya demanded, crossing her arms over her chest. “She’s his only family and besides, she keeps talking about him nonstop – sheesh I need a break from hearing Newt this and Newt that!” The tech sighed and consulted with another, who agree to let the brother and sister reunite for a few minutes. Newt glances over at Sonya, who shoots him a quick nod before excusing herself to get to some test she’s late for.

“She driving you up the wall about me?” Newt asked during a break time. Sonya shrugged and played it off as if its no big deal. “Oh she clearly thought about you and worried for your sake. I mean, I was okay with it, but I can’t say the same for the others.”“So what embarrassing stuff did she say about me?” Newt asked.Sonya shot him an amused look and replied that his sister has said nothing but kind things about him. “Brave, good head about him, or that’s how I heard her say it,” Sonya ticked off, “kind, and the bestest brother ever. Gotta admit I wasn’t sure if she was telling the true or making stuff up.”“Well, what do you think?” Newt asked, leaning his elbows on the table. Sonya’s face freezes and she shrugs before picking up her tray, giving a lousy excuse about getting to bed early per WICKED/WCKD’s orders.

“You are terrible at lying Sony!” Harriet declares as they’re heading to bed. “I know you aren’t hanging out with his sister because she’s the coolest person here. Just admit it, you’re kind of into his weird accent.”Sonya scowled before shoving her pillow in Harriet’s face, declaring that Harriet’s making things up. “Everyone here sounds weird Harri,” Sonya shot back. “You heard those techs – we’re starting to hit puberty or whatever they called it. Besides, his voice is probably gonna sound weirder.”

[yourkeeperoftherunners]

Romantic Sonewt Movieverse Headcannons??

I’ll admit that there weren’t a ton of moments I could see romance between the pair but I’ll share a few that are plausible. Two are repeats from my earlier list because it could spawn something romantic.

There is a mention of “The True Maze” comic’s setting for the Group B Maze. 

Interesting accent, Sonya thought as she and Harriet crept up behind the abandoned cars as their fellow Right Arm members shot at Group A from above. “How many do you reckon?” Harriet whispered. Sonya shrugged and put up 7 fingers – a guess really.

Because Newt sat in the passenger’s seat for Bertha, he started to head to the front seat for one of the cars owned by The Right Arm. He bypassed the one driven by Harriet and fought with Minho over who had first dibs on the passenger seat. Sonya rolled her eyes as the boys argued and snapped, “Shut it! One of you sit up front and the other take a seat in the back!” before climbing into the driver’s seat. Minho snagged the seat next to Sonya while poor Newt was forced to sit in the back. Privately, Sonya was unhappy that it was Minho sitting next to her, as he refused to shut up about sitting in the front the whole drive up. Newt noticed Sonya’s unhappy look in the rearview mirror when Minho was busy talking about being in control of the passenger seat. At one point their eyes met and Newt shot her a look that said, “I had to deal with him for a long time.” Sonya returned it with a faint smile.

At Mary’s orders, Sonya rounded up new clothes and food for the newcomers, passing out gloves and scarves for the group for night. She handed Newt his stuff towards the end and fingers accidentally touched. Both mumbled apologies and Sonya left to grab food, hoping her embarrassment wasn’t showing. She overheard Frypan commenting, “Looks like you Newt. Except for the accent course.” Harriet couldn’t help but echo Frypan’s comment, making Sonya duck her head as she busied herself with grabbing more clothes and supplies.

When Sonya came back to check on the guys as they ate, Newt offered to help her serve seconds, claiming he wanted to walk around a bit. She shrugged her shoulders and tried to look casual as she led the way to the food tent. “So uh, how’d you find these Shanks?” Newt asked her. Sonya raised a brow at his word and he was quick apologize, mumbling that it was slang in the Glade. “I think we all said weird things in our Mazes,” Sonya said as she put food onto the plates and refilled cups with water. “We were at another WCKD base and all of a sudden, the lights went out and the base was flooded with Right Arm people, loading us into trucks.” Newt listened as she talked about journeying up to the mountains, losing some of the Group B members, called Icers, due to the Scorch conditions or from The Flare. He offered to carry some of the plates and cups back to the group, offering to let her go first, knowing that if they came back together, everyone would make fun of them. Privately, Sonya thanked him before taking the lead again and returning to the Gladers with more food in hand.

“So where are these Right Arm Shanks going tomorrow?” Newt asked Sonya as she began discussing sleeping accommodations for the night. Sonya finished passing out blankets and pillows before looking off into the distance. “It’s a Safe Haven – a real one. Some of the other Immunes are already there. Homes are being built, gardens growing crops...” she trails off. “I...I’m happy that we’ll be far away from WCKD soon but, I miss the Sticks who didn’t make it.” Newt rested a hand on her shoulder and nodded silently as he looked in the same direction. “I know that feeling.”

“It was cold in our Maze – walls were made of ice and you had to dash and skate up them to map the Maze,” Sonya recalled as she described her Maze to Newt as she looked for gloves and scarves for the Group A guys for the cold night. “Much colder than its gonna get tonight.” Newt did a double take and he shook his head, murmuring that the Glade was significantly different – lush grassy land with trees, a wooded area, and fairly warm weather all the time, with some occasional rain. “It’d make sense that they’d put all of us in different Mazes though, specially if they were testing us. Did you see any other Mazes at your base?” Sonya bit her lip and recalled there was one other group, saying that the base seemed small. “They didn’t have a lot of people staffing it – I think that’s why it was so easy for The Right Arm to take control of it. Why, how many groups were at your base?” Newt rubbed the back of his neck and frowned as he tried to recall the number, concluding that there were probably 6-7 other Mazes. “All guys though, with one girl,” Newt added. “Teresa was our girl – gave us a bloody hard time once she came up. I’m telling you, she woke up from a coma, grabs rocks, climbs the highest point in the Glade, and pelts us with this stuff while screaming at us.” Sonya laughs at the thought of it and she shakes her head. Privately she hopes that Newt isn’t with the strangely quiet and somewhat aloof girl with bright blue eyes. “She...must mean a lot to you guys,” she offered. Newt shrugged as he slipped his gloves on. “We stick together – the Gladers I mean. Last thing I want is to be some donor for WCKD.”

[yourkeeperoftherunners]

Sonewt movie verse Headcannons?? Sorry I keep asking for them, but I love your Headcannons so much!!!

No need to apologize anon! I can try my hand at a few of them.

If you have not seen Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials yet, please scroll by – SPOILERS AHEAD!

When Group A, Aris, Brenda, and Jorge wandered into the pass leading to the hideout for The Right Arm, Sonya took charge of ordering Minho, Newt, Teresa, Frypan, Aris, and Brenda to get on their feet while Harriet kept her gun pointed at Jorge and Thomas. Both she and Harriet had been alerted to their presence by the shooters above, as well as Newt yelling, “Where the Hell did those bloody shots come from?!” She took brief notice of the boy that bore a slight resemblance to her but quickly forgot about him when she saw Aris was alive.

Because Newt sat in the passenger’s seat for Bertha, he started to head to the front seat for one of the cars owned by The Right Arm. He bypassed the one driven by Harriet and fought with Minho over who had first dibs on the passenger seat. Sonya rolled her eyes as the boys argued and snapped, “Shut it! One of you sit up front and the other take a seat in the back!” before climbing into the driver’s seat. Minho snagged the seat next to Sonya while poor Newt was forced to sit in the back. Privately, Sonya was unhappy that it was Minho sitting next to her, as he refused to shut up about sitting in the front the whole drive up.

At Mary’s orders, Sonya rounded up new clothes and food for the newcomers, passing out gloves and scarves for the group for night. She handed Newt his stuff towards the end and fingers accidentally touched. Both mumbled apologies and Sonya left to grab food, hoping her embarrassment wasn’t showing. She overheard Frypan commenting, “Looks like you Newt. Except for the accent course.”

Sonya spent most of her time catching up with Aris, asking how they escaped. He described how they got through the ventilation system, broke windows and doors, and fired rogue shots at WCKD people trying to prevent them from getting out. Occasionally she noticed that a certain blonde was looking at them from his place on the hill with the rest of his group. Sometimes she would look up that way and he’d rub the back of his neck before raising a hand in a sort of wave. “That Stick keeps looking at you,” Harriet noted. Sonya shrugged it off while Aris noted the similarities between the pair. “Yeah sure cause we used to be related or something,” Sonya muttered as she finished her food.

Sonya scrambled to pick up a gun when WCKD ambushed the camp, handing off various weapons to the Gladers to protect themselves. She took a position in the front while Newt stayed behind where Vince was trying to load a larger gun with multiple rounds of ammo.

Newt was trying to remain calm when the soldiers started lining them up, making them kneel in straight lines for check in and counting. He bit his tongue when he saw Sonya struggling against the rough hands of one WCKD soldier, who shoved her down, pushed her head down, and scanned her as B4 before letting go. She didn’t look hurt but she looked angry about being handled like cargo.

In the mess after Thomas threatened to detonate the handheld grenade, Newt scrambled to fend off WCKD soldiers while avoiding capture. He caught a glimpse of Sonya and Aris being led into the Berg by soldiers, channeling his emotions into defending the remains of The Right Arm base as Harriet screamed their names.

[yourkeeperoftherunners]

Sonewt Headcannons??

This is Part 1 of 2. This is for sibling or cousin headcanons, since some fans have speculated whether Newt and Sonya were brother and sister or related in someway prior to their Mazes.

SPOILERS BELOW! Do NOT read unless you’ve read The Death Cure!

Newt and Sonya had family members that married and moved prior to The Flare epidemic. Newt and his sister lived with their parents in the UK while Sonya and her parents resided in the US. When the Sun Flares broke out across the world, Newt’s parents took their children to the US in an effort to reconnect with Sonya’s parents.

As their parents succumbed to the Flare, both Newt, Sonya, and Newt’s younger sister were taken to one of the WICKED/WCKD facilities. The two cousins/siblings were separated until both had undergone basic health tests. While they weren’t super close, both found comfort in each other, as they both felt a bit lost in a strange lab surrounded by strangers telling them they were safe but the world out there was bad.

Newt was slower to make friends with the other kids, while Sonya was more outgoing and ended up bonding with Harriet, Beth, and Minho’s counterpart. She did have to defend Newt from Beth who thought little of the scrawny, awkward boy who rarely spoke. While he never acknowledged it out loud, he was grateful for her defending him.

When Sonya was punished for skipping out on a test with Minho’s counterpart, Newt tracked her down and expressed concern and anger at the tech who left Sonya’s arms and cheeks covered in bruises. She tried to dismiss it as nothing but Newt made a mental note to track down the tech who harmed his cousin/sister. To his surprise and luck, the tech succumbed to the Flare a few days later and was forced to leave the base before his condition worsened.

After she is stung/scratched by the “dead” Griever/Shade in her Maze, Sonya has a brief memory of a blonde boy with an accent checking her over for injuries while unconscious. She knows he’s familiar but she thinks its just a dream – something she made up thanks to whatever it was that was coursing through her veins, courtesy of the Griever/Shade.

Behind the stern gaze and aggressive attitude she exhibited while taking Thomas hostage, Sonya noticed Newt among the Group A boys holding their hands up per Teresa’s instructions. She is reminded of her dream from the Maze and thinks about him as the group carries him to their camp.

Privately she consults with Harriet and Minho’s counterpart about their doppelgangers. Harriet notes that Teresa told them that her counterpart died in the Maze, while Sonya and Minho’s counterpart match their respective male versions up. Sonya muses that Newt seems familiar but she wonders if she’s losing it due to the heat from the Scorch or the Flare getting to her head.

Upon being rescued from the Scorch and being taken to the WICKED/WCKD base, Sonya undergoes the Swipe removal process. she is hesitant to do so, but her curiosity wins out as she would like to know more about the dreams and visions she saw while unconscious in the Maze. She remembers Newt’s parents, remembers her relationship to Newt, and the fact that they stuck together before finding new friends at WICKED/WCKD. She remembers hating Brenda for putting her and the others through various tests, especially the incident where she skipped out on a test, only to be caught by Brenda and punished by another tech.

In Paradise, Sonya finds Thomas and asks if Newt made it. Thomas tells her that Newt was not immune and was taken to the Crank Palace. She confides in him her regrets that she never got a chance to talk to Newt, explaining that she remembered Newt from her life before the Maze, and that they used to be family.