Sophia Wilson (from Driving to School)

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Sophia Wilson (87)

Project: Web series (Driving to school)

Known as: Soph

Real name: Sophia Wilson

Group affiliation: Her carpool

Physical description: Sophia is 16 and has smooth, dark brown skin. She dresses in jeans a typically a band t-shirt (most of the time you haven’t heard of the band).

Personality: Sophia is smart and practical. She has her own car to drive to school because she worked and saved and she is among the most responsible teenagers you will ever meet. Level-headed and patient, she strikes some as a little straight-laced and boring. Her friendship with Alejandro seems counter intuitive on the surface.

History: Sophia is the kind of person every parent would want as their offspring. Good student, dutiful, calm and with purpose (she plans to be a neurosurgeon). She has a very responsible and mature boyfriend (James; another child every parent would want). In addition to high school, she does charity work and has a job at a local record store (she is very much into music; she just isn’t the rebellious cliché as a result). She saved up and has her own (humble) car and gives her two best friends (Alejandro and Tange) a ride to school every day.

During their drive to school, they have interesting and sometimes bizarre conversations (usually Alejandro gets them started). These conversations range from the trivial (how much one should pay for shoes) to the important (drugs and politics) to the unclassifiable (Alejandro once asked if ancient Greeks would been offended by the expression “By Zeus’s balls”). Sophia tends to be the reasonable/rational one; Alejandro the provocateur, and Tange usually has a conversation all to herself in the back seat.

Role in the narrative: Sophia is our level-headed character in an ongoing series of scenes..

Abilities: Sophia is very smart, very responsible, and an excellent driver.

Inspirations: Not sure on this one. I just have an idea for a group of teenagers chatting on a car. I’m sure that the Breakfast Club likely laid the mental groundwork for this one.