Sophia Hess
| Character | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Sophia Hess (Shadow Stalker) |
| Occupation: | Vigilante, Hero |
| Relationships: | Friendship with Emma Barnes, adversarial relationship with Taylor Hebert |
| Fandom: | Worm |
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Sophia Hess is a secondary character in the superhero web serial Worm. She is a black teenage girl who has the ability to phase through solid objects. In canon, she is first introduced as the leader of a trio of vicious bullies who target Taylor Hebert, Worm's protagonist. Later, she develops a very reluctant alliance with Taylor.
Canon
Sophia works together with Emma Barnes and Madison Clements to bully Taylor in increasingly brutal ways, including locking her in a locker of rotting garbage and destroying an instrument from her dead mother. Early in canon, Taylor finds out that Sophia is Shadow Stalker, a member of the junior superhero team in Brockton Bay, the Wards. This leads to Taylor settling in her identity as a supervillain. Sophia tries to slit Taylor's throat (when Taylor is in costume as Skitter). One of Taylor's villainous teammates commits an elaborate act of revenge on Taylor's behalf, resulting in Sophia's imprisonment for most of the serial.
Sophia has an unique view on morality, viewing the world as a competition between hunters (or predators) and victims (or prey), which is implied to be a side-effect of her superpowers and triggering.
After the apocalypse, Taylor reaches out to Sophia and secures her release from prison in exchange for fighting Scion. In the final chapters of the serial, it is revealed that she hasn't largely changed her view of the world or Taylor.
Fandom
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Sophia is often paired with Taylor or Emma Barnes.
Example Fanworks
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Fanfiction
- Vindex Reborn: The Whole World Blind by AwesomeJon - a Taylor/Sophia AU fic with alternating viewpoints of both characters
- The Wonderful Adventures of Sophia Hess, Babysitter Extraordinaire by YseultNott, canon divergence where Sophia isn't psychologically altered by her shard.
Fanart
- Shadow Stalker, Archived version by Ionsheep, Sophia in costume (2016)
- sophia hess, Archived version by somnolentSlumber (2017)
- Sophia Hess, Archived version by MonsterLover12 (2018)
Archives & Fannish Links
Archives
- Shadow Stalker character filter on fanfiction.net
- Works tagged Sophia Hess | Shadow Stalker on AO3
Other
References